It'll never be the same again

1. So it begins...

Prologue: In the galaxy of star wars the second death star has been destroyed and the Imperial task force decimated, however the dark emperor palpatine was not on the death star, neither was Luke Skywalker or his father Vader, who turned back to the path of the jedi and helped him escape to assist the rebels, but Leia was separated from the others during the firefight on endor and was captured by the empire, and even now is bound towards correscant and a fate far worse than death...

In the galaxy where the universe's best, last hope for peace resides, the insterstellar alliance flourishes, earth is clear of the bio-plague, thanks to sheer luck, and the drakh have been driven to the edge of known space, while the centari and narns go back to the norm...

And in the galaxy where being go on 'star treks', the federation, klingons, romulans, cardassians, breen, dominion, krazzle, tholians and the inter-dimensional race known only by their borg designation of species 8472 now stand upon the brink of complete and utter victory against the enemy of all sentient and independent life, 36 years after wolf 359...

It will never be the same again...

Chapter 1

''We are the borg, life as you know it is over, you will be assimilated into our collective... Resistance is futile''

''Borg homeworld, I am Admiral Argteck Latar commanding the united fleet of the major powers who bear grudges against a certain collective... you will sever all subspace links on every single drone on your ships or we will destroy you... 'resistance is futile' ''. Suddenly the ship rocked violently as the borg response, in the form of a tractor beam hit the outer forward shields.

''Outer shields are holding, the borg are attempting to beam drones onboard... shield auto-modulation and anti-transporter upgrades are working... for once'' came the prompt report from tactical officer, Commander Vaal.

''You'd think they'd have realised by now they can't win'' commented a young andorian science officer at the rear of the bridge.

''Oh come on, this is the borg, the same borg who claimed to have beaten US'', a voice rang through the minds of everyone assembled on the bridge as the 8472 ambassador stepped forwards. Ever since the events of the crab nebula where the romulans attempted to capture a bioship until being driven off by task force 22 of bravo fleet, the federation and 8472 had become very close allies along with the others. The bridge went deathly quiet as the admiral turned round.

''Open a channel to the fleet... This is Admiral Latar, all vessels decloak, go to battlestations and prepare to engage the borg''. Space around the huge devourer class battleship shimmered as the entire assult fleet decloaked. Shields were raised and ablative armour deployed along the hulls of the ships. Singularities at the edge of the fleet opened amd hundreds of bioships poured through.

The fleet paused, weapons systems powering up, warp drives on standby. The end of the borg was at hand. Six months after their first strike against unimatrix 409, the borg had been pushed back, unable to adapt. The once seemingly weak annoyance in the alpha quadrant was now even more of a threat than 8472.
Suddenly subspace was full of fear, as the borg finally realised how, and why, they had lost contact with so many borg. Why they were about to be wiped out from the face of the universe. Then... there was silence. Not a single borg voice among the dark of subspace.

Only static...

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''We HAVE to go after them... Luke, please, tell them we have to go after them!''

''I'm sorry Han, but it would be suicide...''

''Oh right and going up against the first death star Wasn't?''

''Luke is right'', everyone in the main chamber fell silent as Admiral Akbar stepped forwards, towards an unusually emotional Han, ''the emperor has pulled back over half the Imperial fleet, the twelve super star destroyers alone have more firepower than this entire fleet... we need time to regroup and...''

''I don't care!, they have Leia, we can't just leave her to be killed...''

''It is most likely she will not be killed'', everyone's eyes fell nervously on the tall figure of Vader, everyone thought the same thing about him joining them, but he didn't care, ''You are all aware that I am Luke's father, but I am also Leia's... the emperor will probably try and seduce her to the dark side of the force... and if that happens... life will become very difficult...''

No one spoke... the thought of Leia becoming a sith was to bad to even contemplate... she knew where every base was, every world that supported them, if she became a sith it would probably signal the end of the rebellion. Suddenly the silence was shattered as alarms sounded, sending everyone in the room hurrying to the bridge of the fleets new flagship, a captured super star destroyer renamed the Freedom, captured simply because the captain panicked and ordered the signal to abandon ship without overloading the reactor as a fail-safe...

''Report!'' the admiral bellowed right into the ear of an unfortunate tech officer.

''Sir we have just detected a fleet of ships coming out of some kind of singularity at the edge of the system'' the watch offiecr reported.

''Imperials?, What kind of singularity?''

''Unknown on both sir, we have no match on the singularity or their IFF codes in either our database or the Imperials. It's possible someone heard of what we did and thought they'd join in.''

''Or'', Lando stepped forward through the crowd gathered, ''the Imperials called for allies.'' The admiral looked around at the faces of everyone present. There was still hundreds of systems in the galaxy unexplored...

''Watch officer, signal the fleet to be ready for the jump to hyperspace at a moments notice, power delfector grids and bring weapons online. But don't launch fighters, have them ready to fly if needed, but do not launch them unless I say otherwise, understood?''

''Yes sir, completely.''

''How long until they get here?''

''5 minutes sir, oh, and sir.''

''Yes?''

''Sensors can't get a lock on them nor get anykind of readings, all we got was this.'' All eyes followed his hand as he pointed to a holographic silhouette being projected, all eyes looked warily at the strangely fish like ship that approaching, taller than it was long. ''We believe they're jamming us, but we can't be sure...''

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Static... all there was, was static in the dark of subspace... a stark contrast to the screams that filled the borg vessels in orbit around unimatrix 001 and the homeworld of the borg. Helpless, the borg vessels took the punishment being delievered to them. But the destruction caused by the fleet was mild compared to the death the devourer's were unleasing.

Long had the federation realised they needed a ship capable of taking the borg on a one to one basis, in the devourer, they had found that ship. 2500m long, it is the largest vessel ever consturcted in the alpha, beta and gamma quadrants, heavily armed and armoured, but with a seemingly fragile array stretching out for 200m from the primary deflector array.

That seemingly pointless construct of struts and arrays is the devourer's namesake, a devourer of worlds... the antimatter cannon... capable of of taking out a planet... reducing worlds to mere space dust within a few minutes. The most powerful weapon ever concieved by the federation.

''Vaal tell that blasted dominion fighter squadron 212 to STOP ramming the cubes and to start beaming on the demolition crews!''

''Aye sir... wait, Sir!, sensors have detected 3 cubes MOVING... they are headed away from the battle... I'm unable to tell exactly what was happened... either they found a counter measure for... it... or the borg queens on each ship went and took direct control over the ships main computer's.''

''WHAT!!!... signal all capable vessels to calibrate they're transphasic torpedoes to hit the borg vessels they are ingaged with at the cores, lay us in an intercept course on those cubes and inform alpha squadron to back us up NOW!!''

''Aye sir'', Vaal turned round to the romulan engineer Balat Tarkner, ''they ain't paying us enough to put up with this bas... Ah! Commander Smith sir, err didn't see you there.''

''Indeed you didn't, have you sent the message yet?''

''Aye, alpha squadron are right behind us, we will be in range of the cubes in... what the heck?... Admiral i'm detecting power surges in the cubes... it... it appears that they're trying to open some kind of wormhole'', space in front of the cubes clouded as they arranged in a triangle formation...

''Are we in range?'', energy beams shot out from the cubes towards the triangles centre...

''Torpedoes will be in range in 10 seconds'', all light from the cubes went and they slowed...

''They won't be here in 10...'', suddenly gigantic proportions of energy shot out from the cubes to the centre... and then out to space...

''Wormhole opening Sir...'', space opened reveiling a huge dark blue wormhole, 4 time's the size of the bajoran one, ''... we're in torpedo range!''

''Take them out... NOW!!''

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''Ah princess Leia, you're awake... good, very... good.''

''What the... Where's Han?''

''Oh, I'm afraid your friend was unable to join us, however i'm sure you will see him again... very soon'' the small form of the emperor emerged from the dark of the shadows. The room appeared empty. ''Oh do, please, but attempting to escape would be futile, you...'' At that moment a young admiral stepped forward and bowed, much to the emperor's clear annoyance, ''What is it!''

''My lord, sensors have detected a wormhole of unknown origin being formed at the edge of the system, a pair of super star destroyers and fourteen star destroyers have been dispatched to investigate, they should reach it just as it opens in two minutes milord.''

''Hmm, have the ships secure the wormhole and send back whatever comes through... if it's ships... I want them disabled and the crews brought in for interrogation... intact... understood admiral?''

''Perfectly milord.''

''Good... now then princess, where were we?''