Epis­ode Num­ber: 6×11

Writ­ten by: The authors of the Shack­leton Expanse Cam­paign Guide

Dir­ec­ted by: Jon Crew

Trans­mis­sion: 15^th Novem­ber 2025

Guest Stars:

• Keldra Foro: Human sci­ent­ist lead­ing a res­ist­ance cell on Betazed.
• Eilun Suder: Betazoid res­ist­ance member.

Nerves are fray­ing while we wait for Lieu­ten­ant Com­mand­ers Azon­an and Raynor to com­plete their cov­ert board­ing mis­sion. The risk of dis­cov­ery and inter­rup­tion increases with every minute they take…

Cap­tain’s Log: Stard­ate, 51757.6

Plot: A meet­ing with the Resistance.

The ‘A’ Plot: Aboard the defence satel­lite, Raynor is becom­ing wor­ried at how long Azon­an’s data down­load is tak­ing. Although the Andori­an points out that down­load­ing an entire net­work data­base through a sub­space chan­nel is going to take time, Raynor con­tin­ues to glance nervously around the main­ten­ance space. He spots a flash­ing light on the interi­or secur­ity sensor, and real­ises that it means it is act­ive, and that it is pos­sible they are being watched. His sus­pi­cions are con­firmed a moment later as the trans­port­er recep­tion pad in the corner of the space hums into life. Azon­an reacts quickly, dis­con­nect­ing power to the device, and caus­ing it to shut down mid-trans­port, which is ter­min­al for the unfor­tu­nate transportee.

Back on the Robert Scott, Selvek is mon­it­or­ing the sensors for poten­tial danger. He notices move­ment in the shipyards where a newly-com­pleted Jem’Hadar cruis­er is begin­ning to power up. Real­ising it is mov­ing in their gen­er­al dir­ec­tion, he sends a burst mes­sage to the board­ing party to warn them. The data down­load is nearly com­plete, but needs a little more time, so Azon­an tells Raynor to exit the satel­lite interi­or and pre­pare to return to the ship. He will fol­low as soon as he has the data.

As the cruis­er approaches, it appears that the crew is test­ing its weapons, and Selvek con­cludes that it is com­ing to invest­ig­ate the intruders on the satel­lite. Azon­an com­pletes the down­load and kicks him­self straight down the entry pas­sage into space. Raynor launches him­self off the sur­face as he passes, and as both move bey­ond the shields, Selvek beams them back aboard the cloaked ship. Quinn gets them out of the imme­di­ate area just as the cruis­er closes and des­troys the com­prom­ised satel­lite with over­whelm­ing firepower.

Azon­an hands the down­loaded data to Selvek to back up, then asks to speak to Kon­in alone, choos­ing a loc­a­tion away from any weapons. He explains what they dis­covered about Rebekah Kon­in’s involve­ment in the inva­sion. The com­modore is quiet for a moment, as he works out what this means for their mis­sion. Finally, he announces that they must still res­cue her, but will need to put her in secure con­fine­ment for the trip home. They can­’t lock her in a cab­in, as the ship’s sleep­ing berths are all in the same room, so he asks Azon­an to assemble a cell in the hold from mater­i­als on the ship.

On their return to the main cab­in, they find Raynor and Selvek have been able to use the data down­load to loc­ate a num­ber of the people on their res­cue list. They begin plan­ning how to get the vari­ous tar­gets to safety in a coordin­ated fash­ion. Five of them appear to be under house-arrest, but their loc­a­tions are unshiel­ded, mean­ing they can be beamed out eas­ily, and four more, includ­ing Rebekah Kon­in, are in the Reyna Insti­tute. The loc­a­tions of the remain­ing three are unknown, but they might be able to get some inform­a­tion from the loc­al res­ist­ance if they can find them.

At this point, Selvek picks up an encryp­ted mes­sage from the sur­face. Once decoded, it reveals a time index and a loc­a­tion in wood­lands about 70 km out­side Rixx. It looks like this might be for the hoped-for meet­ing with the res­ist­ance, but Kon­in is wary of traps, so he decides to take only a lim­ited team: Raynor, Quinn and him­self. Selvek and Azon­an will remain on the Robert Scott to work on the secure cell.

Beam­ing down a few kilo­met­ers from the coordin­ates, they find them­selves on a track through thick forest. They approach their ren­dez­vous cau­tiously through a rav­ine, but are sur­prised by half-a-dozen armed indi­vidu­als. As they stop and lower their weapons, a human steps for­ward and asks for their iden­tit­ies. Kon­in responds and she glances over at an unarmed man before relax­ing, wel­com­ing them to the resistance.

She asks them to dis­arm fully, before invit­ing them to join her in a small shel­ter above the rav­ine, which she explains was built for watch­men in the past. Quinn gets involved in an argu­ment with one of the res­ist­ance mem­bers over his sgi­an-dubh, primar­ily because they won’t use its prop­er name.

The res­ist­ance lead­er iden­ti­fies her­self as Keldra Foro, a civil­ian sci­ent­ist, then intro­duces the rest of her team. Kon­in notes that only one of them is Betazoid, and she admits that the nat­ive pop­u­la­tion have proved very reluct­ant to take up arms, a res­ult of Betazed’s paci­fist cul­ture. Raynor recog­nises one of the men as a former sol­dier from the Car­das­si­an Bor­der Wars, and Foro con­firms that many of her people are ex-Starfleet.

Foro is keen to get hold of the sup­plies sent by Star­fleet, so they make arrange­ments to drop them at an isol­ated cave com­plex where they can be hid­den from Domin­ion sensor scans. They also exchange intel­li­gence reports, before Kon­in asks about the three res­cue tar­gets they have been unable to loc­ate. Foro tells them that one of them died dur­ing the inva­sion, while anoth­er, one Luth­er Sloan, dis­ap­peared around the same time. She does not recog­nise the third. Raynor sud­denly real­ises that he has seen Sloan before, in sur­veil­lance foot­age from the time of Helt­in Adred’s disappearance.

Asked about the Reyna Insti­tute, Foro smiles and says she has been wait­ing for that one. Ges­tur­ing to the Betazoid, she intro­duces him as Eilun Suder, and he explains that he knows the Insti­tute well. His broth­er was treated there some years ago, and he made sev­er­al vis­its to the build­ing. He can provide basic plans of the struc­ture and will join them to help plan their raid.

The dis­cus­sion is inter­rup­ted by dis­ruptor fire out­side the shel­ter, and one of the sentries shouts that Jem’Hadar have found them. Kon­in insists that his team should provide cov­er while the loc­als escape. This plan works well, until Quinn twists his ankle as they retreat to the exfiltra­tion site, for­cing the oth­ers to carry him.

Back on the ship, they begin plan­ning for the res­cue mis­sion, paus­ing only to drop off the sup­plies for the resistance.

The Arc: It appears they have a name to invest­ig­ate regard­ing Adred’s disappearance.

Obser­va­tions: The Robert Scott’s interi­or is not lux­uri­ous, boast­ing a nar­row gal­ley, and indi­vidu­al bunk berths recessed into the walls of a com­mon liv­ing area, sim­il­ar to those on a run­about or Cali­for­nia-class ves­sel.

Betazed’s long his­tory of cul­tur­al paci­fism has led to the oddity that the “Betazoid Res­ist­ance” con­sists mostly of humans and oth­er off­world spe­cies. The major­ity of Keldra Foro’s col­leagues are ex-Star­fleet, and fought in the Car­das­si­an Bor­der Wars. Foro is slightly bit­ter about this, feel­ing that the Betazoids should be doing more to res­ist their conquerers.

Dia­logue: Betazoid res­ist­ance mem­ber to Quinn: “Hand over the pig sticker!”

Ref­er­ences: The sole Betazoid mem­ber of Foro’s res­ist­ance cell is one Eilun Suder, who is famil­i­ar with the Reyna Insti­tute from when his broth­er was treated there. Sev­er­al epis­odes of Star Trek: Voy­ager fea­tured Lon Suder, a former mem­ber of the Maquis, who became a pro­vi­sion­al officer on U.S.S. Voy­ager. Giv­en his emo­tion­al issues, it is pos­sible he is the broth­er in question.

Although the Lex­ing­ton crew have no way to know this, Luth­er Sloan will make an appear­ance on sta­tion Deep Space 9 in the new year, so it seems that he got off Betazed alive (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges”).