Slowly Nitus awoke and stood from the floor. The emergency klaxon blared in her ear as she took in the disaster around her. EPS modules across the bridge exploded and almost every console was damaged. She looked around the deck and saw T'Soni lying dormant on the floor. She made her way over to check on her Vulcan first officer.

Enzo slowly began to resume his station. As he grabbed his head feeling the blood dripping from his brow. “What happened?” he said in a whisper so only he heard it. He turned towards the science station as his eyes frantically searched for someone.

“Report,” Nitus said to him, her voice cutting through the chaos on the bridge as she helped T'Soni to her feet.

Enzo regained his composure as he remembered the task at hand and looked at his console."Multiple hull breaches on the decks four through seven and fourteen through sixteen. Internal force fields offline bulkheads are sealed and are holding," he said as he remembered what had happened before everything went black. “Life support has failed completely on those decks and main power is cut off ship-wide but emergency power is holding steady.”

Nitus looked around her now damaged bridge as Enzo read off the damage report, his voice slowly fading out as she became lost in thought about all the crewmembers she had just lost. She wondered how they had found themselves in this unspeakable situation, and how they would find themselves out of it.

 Zahir slowly sat on the floor, the emergency klaxon every present in her ears. A persistent ringing overpowering it. She slowly looked around the room.

“Commander,” Kevil said faintly. Zahir's ears were still ringing but started to subside as the Andorain engineer approached her. “Commander.”

“I'm here Kevil,” she said, her voice hoarse as she tried to signal to him to come to her. She slowly pushed herself off the floor. Then a massive headache started to set in as she moved towards where she heard a voice come from. As she started to move her knees went wobbly and she started to slip.

Kevil reached his hand out to support her as she collapsed in his arms.

“I need-” was all she could say before she went unconscious.

Just then a female Caitian medic came over and took her from his hand. He watched as the medic examined his superior. The realization slowly hit him… he was now in charge.

Slowly he backed up away from Zahir and towards the core as the medic went to work. As he turned around the majority of the engineering officers on deck were standing there staring at him. “Your orders, sir,” one of them said. He recognized the voice as Thomas Hulton, a shift engineer.

Kevil, still not sure of how he was going to proceed, thought of how he would go about it. What she might say. “All warp system engineers get to work in stabilizing the core, damage control teams know what to do, structural engineers make sure the ship isn't going to collapse in on itself and lastly impulse system engineers get to the impulse drive and access the damage report back hereafter. I know you are scared but let's remember what the Commander would say,” he said as they chuckled remembering how unserious Zahir could be to lighten and brighten even the most heaviest and precarious situation. “So let's get to work so we won't have to hear it,” he said as he finished dispatching his orders.

Kevil turned as he began to work on getting the system back online before he realized that everyone else was still staring at him. “Now,” Kevil shouted as they hurried off to execute their orders.