‘A Change ‘Gonna Come’.

Posted on Saturday July 16th, 2022 @ 9:01am by Lieutenant Commander Niali Deval Dr

Mission: New Worlds
Location: Rebel Secret Base Vein ll
Timeline: Pre USS Oberon arrival at Vein ll

The heat of the desert on the southern continent of Halacha on the planet Vein ll would have killed anyone unprepared as they walked on the hot sands of the surface. The smooth sand had long covered the freighter that had left DS3 making a cosy but cool base for those that lived in her. Despite the heat several other craft had been added making a larger whole of laboratories and living space and even a small barracks for the rebel soldiers that now lived there.

The six geneticists that had left DS3 had been whittled down to three following several ‘accidents’. Brilliance in the working of science, genetics and the men involved in the trials had provided a platform for success and also failure; as the gene therapy that involved manipulation at the atomic level had had several episodes of extreme violence ending in the murder of two of the scientists and the suicide of the other.

However, at last the ultimate soldier had been produced through gene therapy and manipulation and the rebels had jumped at their transfers into a new type of human. Not only had they become ultimate soldiers with the ability to communicate telepathically with each other, their vision enhanced to see all spectrums of the visual plane and their strength enhanced by sixty per cent, their mutated genes had allowed for physical change into the frame of others using a blood sample taken from the subject, and mixed with the blood of the enhanced soldiers.

The rebel leader Tor had been the first to test this as he was able to change into the body of another. It stopped there however with no ability to understand what the other was thinking it was a purely cosmetic change and lasted only minutes. The geneticists had congratulated each other and discussed what they would do when they received their awards from the various councils of their worlds and then realized this would never happen. The name Khan Noonian Singh had resonated, and still did around the galaxy and many worlds and planetary systems were unwilling to leash that again on the galaxy. So the geneticists had sold their discovery to those who could pay enough and supply the much needed test subjects who would be willing to die in the development of the therapy and many had.

Seventy men and women now waited to hear from their leader Tor who was now on board one of the Federation Starships approaching their world. Six has been chosen to board and take over the USS Oberon once the ship was in orbit and Tor had placed the tech to drop the Oberon’s shields. Once this was done the rebels were going to force the government of Vein ll to share power and end the slavery on this troubled world.

The ‘Elephant in the room’ however was that the ‘enhanced’ rebels suffered from an almost berserker rage which did not allow for the longevity of their victims. Those that died were virtually shredded and there was no quarter. So, the rebels waited secure in their base in the desert. The government of Vein ll had searched in vain for the facility but the reflective sand allowed for anonymity and safety.

So they waited, scientists and rebels, now genetically changed soldiers with super strength and the ability to change shape with a chosen victim; waiting for a sign from their leader Tor.