Posted on Fri Jan 11th, 2013 @ 2:06am by

360 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Romulan Ale.. I mean Aide

=/\= Colony Tech Facility =/\=

There were only a few Starfleet Engineers down on the planet and they had all found themselves working on various bits of equipment around the colony, most of it was barely functioning and needed alot of repairs, Almar had directed himself to one of the mining systems they had been asked to take a look at, it was beginning to frustrate the Cardassian, his skin was crawling from just being on the planet.

He knew that the Romulans were watching him like a hawk, Starfleet Engineer or not, helping them or not, he was still a Cardassian and to alot of people in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants he was still considered the enemy, his race had sided with the Dominion and bought war to many worlds.

Even though he was never involved and his family opposed the war, people only saw what they wanted to see, a Cardassian.

He reached out from under the piece of machinery he was working on and felt around for his toolbox, his hand grasping at the dirt and finding nothing, slowly he slid himself out and looked around, seeing his tools across the room next to the door.

Swearing slightly, the Cardassian stood up slowly and went to pick them up, he knew he had left them next to him, as most engineers do when they go working on something large, someone must be trying to mess with him, but he took a breath and moved back to the device.

As he carefully slid himself back under the device, something caught his eye, something which he had studied at length while in the academy as part of a graduate thesis on the mechanics of technology not commonplace on Federation ships.

The Cardassian pulled out his tricorder and began recording the dimensions of the component, his eyebrow raised in slight annoyance that he had noticed it, it would need to be reported as soon as he was finished.

Satisfied that it was genuinely being used to control the device, Almar slid his tricorder away and saved the information for later, returning to his work on getting the colony's machinery working again.

 

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