*The cloud of energy peacefully continues to consume the energy of the warp core, slowly growing stronger bit by bit... but never losing sight of the U.S.S. Evolution and U.S.S. Tiberon, and never stopping to listen to the thoughts and words of the humanoids on these ships, who are desperately planning either a defensive or offensive...*
"Na'jigat Lords of the Universe... Tear all energy from warp core.... Becoming stronger... Humanoids want to offer their defense... Listening to their thoughts... Taurik speaking... Now receiving all their mind pathwaves... Now becoming aware of all their plans... Na'jigat Lords of the Universe... None can escape us... None can deceive us..."

*The energy clouds keeps hunting the many Loxian ships. Each time, they catch one, and soon thereafter another Loxian ship explodes.*
"Energy... Energy! Na'jigat growing STRONG! YES!"
*The massive cloud hits some more ships, and the lines of Loxian ships begin to scatter. The ships desperately fire all their weapons onto the cloud, but nothing seems to stop it, and if anything, it hastens their own death. Loxian ships begin to flee in all directions as fast as they can, and everywhere other Loxian ships explode. What was an entire battle fleet only moments ago, is now a scattered remainder of a few ships trying to make their escape in pure horror.*

OFF: the Na'jigat are currently not VERY near. In fact, they're being very busy on the other side of the quantum singularity network. So in fact, they are close (which is why you had sensed them) but they are not near enough to pose a threath... yet. Nor can your scanners possibly penetrate the Quantum Singularity Network to know what goes on at the other side. May I suggest you arrive at Vontak Nor at last? http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

*Meanwhile, at the distant horizon of the Dark Passage, deep inside the Quantum Singularity Network, a power beyond imagination sleeps, rests and licks its wounds... Not too long ago it had concentrated all its might on an attack of ships in a region far beyond the Dark Passage, but some unexpected counter attack from the Gallifreyans had driven them back... wounded and weary... Now they lay hidden, unseen, unknown, in the Quantum Singularity Network where no ship could come... They had lost alot of energy in the last unsuccesfull assault and they were weary... The Na'jigat always needs energy... But as they sleep and rest, they sense energy... strong energy...*
"Reading energy... Coming from inside Dark Passage... Humanoid brain waves... Reading... Loxians, Humans, Cardassians, Romulans... Anger... firepower... much energy! Na'jigat needs energy to recover! Needs it soon!"
"No... Na'jigat must rest and recover..."
"Na'jigat NEEDS ENERGY!"
"No... Na'jigat too weak... If Gallifreyans come again, we cannot fight them..."
"No sign of Gallifreyans..."
"Gallifreyans know how to mask their sign... Gallifreyans can hide their brain path waves from us... We can never be sure..."
"Remain on distance... wait until humanoids are weary... Then attack..."
*And so, the living cloud of energy called the Na'jigat, remains hidden and unknown, deep inside the Quantum Singularity Network, far beyond the reach of any sensors, not that they would be detected if they were nearby... and from a distance, they listen... quietly...*

*As the Loxian ships close in to the Skytoucher and Evolution, their weapons running hot to fire any moment, a small blue tendril suddenly appears on the outer hull of the Skytoucher, so small that nobody notices it, or has the time to notice it. Quietly, it flies away through space, disappearing in the nearby Quantum Singularity Network.*
"Na'jigat needs energy! Found energy! Must be quick!"
"Na'jigat is sleeping... resting... recovering... too weak... Gallifreyans hurt us too much last time..."
"Much energy this time, can recover once again! Must go now! Scout says so!"
"Na'jigat cannot withstand another attack from Gallifreyans now..."
"No Gallifreyans, scout says! But ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY!!!"
*And slowly, a large, dark mass of energy begins to awaken deep within the Quantum Singularity Network, slowly starting to move... then increasing its speed until suddenly... it appears in the Dark Passage, nearby the battle between the Loxian ships and the Federation ships...*
"Much energy! Much energy!"
"Where to go first?"
"Reading minds of humanoids... Skytoucher and Evolution are weak and damaged... too little energy there... Vontak Nor low on energy..."
"THEN WHERE IS ENERGY?http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>"
"Loxian fleet! Many ships, much energy! Weapons running hot, more energy than hoped for! ATTACK!!!!!!!"
*Instantly, the huge massive cloud moves through the Dark Passage, utterly ignoring the Skytoucher, Evolution and Vontak Nor, and surrounding the Loxian ships in an instant. Next, the attack bumps against the hull and shakes the ships around, making its way inside to reach the energy sources...*

*The massive cloud keeps pursuing the Loxian ships. Some manage to escape, but most ships are caught and don't survive for long.*
"ENERGY! ENERGY! Want more energy! Na'jigat STRONG again! Na'jigat wants more! Na'jigat wants..."
*At that moment, some bright light seems to come from the Evolution, though it has nothing to do with the ship's systems or weapons itself, and seems to radiate naturally.  The bright light starts to concentrate and grow stronger, and move toward the Na'jigat cloud...*
"Na'jigat sense danger! DANGER!"
"No! Na'jigat must feed, Na'jigat strong enough to resist all danger!"
"SENSE DANGER! GALLIFREYANS HAVE COME!"
"Na'jigat strong enough to destroy Gallifreyans now!"
"NO! Gallifreyans attacking! Telephatic power! Gallifreyans hiding on Evolution!"
"IMPOSSIBLE! We know all, we sense all, we know when Gallifreyans come, and we sense nothing now!"
"GALLIFREYANS ARE SHIELDING THEMSELVES FROM OUR TELEPHATIC POWERS! THEY HIDE!"
"THEY ATTACK!"
"Must flee! Must flee now!"
*At that moment, the white flowing energy impacts with the massive cloud, and a huge flash of dark and light illuminates half the Dark Passage.*
"ENERGY DROWNED! GALLIFREYAN ASSAULT! FLEE! FLEE!"
*And instantly, the massive cloud abandons all the remaining Loxian ships, and makes its escape back into the quantum singularity network it came from. In a matter of seconds, it disappears in there, pursued by the bright light. The bright light doesn't enter the singularities, but slows down and fades away at the borders of the quantum singularity network...*

*Meanwhile, in sickbay, the blue tendril starts to move around restless. Nobody is near, and it finds itself alone.*
"Energy... loading lots of energy..."
"Na'jigat needs energy..."
"Na'jigat not here... We are only scout... Na'jigat too weak to attack after what Gallifreyans did..."
"If Na'jigat absorbes all energy, Na'jigat strong again..."
"Na'jigat does not know... we are separated..."
"Then Na'jigat must know! NOW!"
*Instantly, the blue tendril moves at high speed through the room, until it bumps against a wall. Then it holds silent for a moment, and moves through the room at an even faster speed, but instead of bumping against the other wall this time, it moves through it... and through another... and another... as it keeps increasing speed, until it reaches the outer hull of the Skytoucher...*

*The battle becomes more fierce than ever... The Heraan and Na'jigat continue to attack from every corner and the Gallifreyans are no longer strong enough to fight them all... Sentinels such as Taurik do their best as well, but also see they are losing field... All the Starfleet ships continue to fight on the frontlines, but suffer heavy damage and many losses. Several ships had been exploded, and many more Starfleet officers have been killed in the battle... On the viewscreen at ops on Avalon Station, the admirals watch powerless how the battle is turning more and more into their disadvantage, how their fine officers are sacrificing themselves on the frontlines while there is not even the slightest hope for victory... Defeat is apparent, and utter destruction seems unavoidable. But even if Starfleet surrendered, the Heraan and the Na'jigat would not stop their incursions, but continue to ravage everything until they had sucked up the last of the energy and left behind but a hollow graveyard. Was this how it was all supposed to end? The whole Starfleet project at the borders of the Delta Quadrant, that had thrived there for several years? Then, suddenly, the unexpected happened. Just when the Na'jigat and the Heraan was going to launch their final attack, something makes them hesitate... They become restless... What is happening? Are they planning something? Is something else drawing their attention? Or did something happen that stirred their fear? After some long, silent moments of hesitation, they suddenly withdraw in haste, and hurry away deeper into the Delta Quadrant, as if something was chasing them, or had called for them... What could it be? Obviously, a mysterious. But a mysterious that saved Expansion Fleet at the utter brink of destruction! Within minutes, there was no sign of the Na'jigat or Heraan any more, they were entirely gone... The battle was over, but the victory was hollow...*

The U.S.S. Evolution, starship of the Federation and home to more than eighty Starfleet officers, took it's last proverbial breath.

The auto-destruct sequence was initiated, and the charges housed along the impulse reactors ignited. It was slow at first, the fire spewing lazily from the impulse engines, working its way along the saucer and dorsal spine, and reaching the warp core.

The antimatter containment pods were breached, and antimatter particles were released into Engineering, where they promptly reacted with the matter that composed the room. The Evolution twisted and lurched very violently, before splittng in two and vaporizing itself in an expanding plasma fireball.

As the plasma and fusion reached the remnants of the star Loxius Alpha, an amazing thing occurred. The core elements of the star, hydrogen and helium, began to actually fuse once more. The star, a dull grey for many years, began to glow again. It began as a deep red, slowly working it's way up the spectrum until the entire sphere shone a brilliant, bright yellow. The heat began to strike the planet Loxius Prime once more.

The star Loxius Alpha was alive again. But at a cost.

The U.S.S. Evolution, and with it, Commander Bryan Hannah, were no more.

*The Borg Cube continued to fire upon the station and starships. The voice of the Collective resounds over the intercom again.*
"Resistance is futile. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctives to our own. You will adapt to service us."
*The Borg cube closes in to attack even more relentlessly. With the U.S.S. Ticonderoga destroyed, the cube now concentrated its attacks on the other ships, causing severe damage where possible.*
"You will be assimilated. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you."
*But while a lightshow of phasers, photon and quantum torpedoes lights up the dark space surrounding Deep Space 12, there is another power, slowly awakening... and hungry for... energy. Hiding in the Quantum Singularity Network, the Na'jigat has been growing ever stronger. The Na'jigat had been gaining strength and energy from other installations it had attacked and destroyed, and drained its energy... But now the Na'jigat was hungry again, and eager for more energy to absorb... The Na'jigat, being a species existing of pure mental energy, thus therefore impossible to destroy or hide from, has the ability to sense all that goes on, all that people think, feel and know... The abilities of the Na'jigat go beyond anything any humanoid species aside from a Q has ever displayed... The Na'jigat can take any form and project any mental image, deceiving both men's eyes and ship's sensors... And now, the Na'jigat was about to do it again... And while the starships and station are too busy defending themselves from the massive Borg cube, they don't notice that their sensors display an emergence of an energy cloud from the not too far off Quantum Singularity Network, rapidly moving toward the battlefield. But while Starfleet ships were preoccupied, the Borg was aware of a new presence, they ignored none of their sensor readings.*
"Detecting energy wave. Wave moving toward our coordinates. Prepare to intercept and assimilate."
*While the Borg cube continues to fire on the Starfleet vessels, part of its attention is now drawn to the Na'jigat cloud...*
"Unable to detect humanoid life forms. Pure energy of mental kind. Higher life form than the Borg. Must assimilate life form to gain perfection. Prepare to attack and assimilate. Classifying life form as Species 19554. Species 19554 closing in rapidply, expected arrival in 7 seconds... Preparation for assimilation is complete. Activate-"
*Suddenly, the Na'jigat energy cloud embraces the Borg cube. It all happens so fast that the Borg cube has no time or chance to react, and everyone on the surrounding starships only realises what is going on, when it has already begun... The Na'jigat is consuming the Borg cube. It seems as if a battle takes place inside, but is rapidly decided... In no time, the Borg cube begins to display smaller explosions, then larger ones... And only seconds later, the entire Borg cube completely explodes violently, less than 30 seconds after the Na'jigat attacked it... The Na'jigat greedily swallows all energy that comes free from the Borg cube's explosion, and only some other debris is thrown into space on all directions, some of them slamming into the shields of the ships and into the station. Seconds later, it almost seems as if the Borg cube had never been there... But looks can deceive, and while the Na'jigat had rid Starfleet of the Borg cube, the Federation starships and station now had to face a far more dangerous foe... The Na'jigat, having swallowed an enormous amount of energy from the Borg cube, had now grown stronger than it had been for many millenia, and yet it was hungry for more... And the energy it wanted, was just there for the taking... All it took, was to attack the little starships and station in front of it... Soon, the Na'jigat would be stronger again than the Gallifreyans, and conquer the galaxy! And thus, the energy cloud now focussed on the Starfleet vessels, and lashed out in an attack.*

OFF: Please read this article at our online database:
http://www.expansionfleet.com/cgi-bin/fleet/ikonboard.cgi?act=Page;p=najigat" target="_blank">http://www.expansionfleet.com/cgi-bin....najigat
It will tell you what the Na'jigat is all about. You can't kill it, nobody can. So as to know what you can and can't do, read the article thoroughly please.

"Energy! More energy!"
*But the Na'jigat is halted in their quest, when a beam of unusual power holds them back... This is not the energy they can consume, this is the mental energy that can push them back... The energy they had always known to come from their opponents... the Gallifreyans.*
"Gallifreyans! Gallifreyans! But I sense no Gallifreyan... there are none... There must be Gallifreyans... Where does mental energy come from... Sense powers almost as strong as Gallifreyans... But they are not Gallifreyans... Must retreat! Must retreat! Must retreat!"
*The Na'jigat cloud retreats instantly from the battlefield, before any more of the opposing energy can weaken it further. The Na'jigat is still strong enough, but chooses to withdraw and consider a new strategy... They return to the Quantum Singularity Network, and disappear in it... for now...*

*Meanwhile, at Starphoenix Base, the energy cloud is drawn to a particular concentration of power at the station, and heads toward it fast, casting a dark shadow on the buildings below it... As it came within range, the inverse energy phasers were fired...*
"Energy... absorb energy..."
"What is this? Inverse energy! They try to trick us!"
"Ignore their tricks, they cannot weaken us..."
"They are annoying us!"
"We are being delayed! Gallifreyans may come soon, must hurry..."
"We will trick them back..."
"And we will take all energy at once..."
*At that moment, the dark energy cloud seems to expand as if to cover the entire landbase... but in fact it is moving toward the nearby ocean.*
"Water... water makes energy stream easier..."
"We will be able to assemble all energy and take it at once..."
*At that moment, what seems to be some sort of heavy lightning strikes into the ocean, several kilometers away from the station. The lightning seems to pierce into the depths of the oceans, and for an instant there appears to be a hole in the water... then the water begins to react and a huge wave begins to form. The large wave of water grows higher and more massive, as it sets for Starphoenix Base... In a matter of moments, the immense and high wave reaches the coastal area nearby Starphoenix Base, and the people on the base can see how the waves are taller than themselves... even taller than the highest buildings of Starphoenix base... and then the wave comes crashing down on top of the first buildings, and tons of water flows into the base, flooding the streets so much that only the highest buildings barely come above the water. The violent ocean water keeps flooding into the base, even tearing apart some of the smaller buildings and taking them with the stream, as the cloud hangs above the flooded areas, and begins to concentrate its power on an open area... The power of the energy field seems to look like a tornado coming down from it, heading for the water... and when it strikes the water, it begins to whirl with a heavy wind, as the Na'jigat cloud begins to extract all energy that is being flown through the water...*
"Energy... energy... Want more energy!"
"We still have part in space attacking ships..."
"They must make ships pay for this trick as well, and make sure they no longer delay us again!"
*And at that moment, in space, the separated part of the Na'jigat cloud turns aggressive, attacking all ships with what also seems to be a surge of energy lightning. The ships suffer a heavy shock, upsetting their systems as the ship is pulled back, away from planet Dantor.*

OFF: this is the last post I can make before I go on vacation. I won't be able to post until september again. Now you can continue the storyline and admins could post with Event Horizon, if they want. The idea is that the Na'jigat is about to destroy everything and everyone, when again the Gallifreyan cavalry appears. Gallifreyans are humanoid people, and the only species in the universe that is strong enough to fight the Na'jigat through mental energy. Even they can't defeat or destroy the Na'jigat, but they can force them to retreat - for now. I will ask Montrell to post as Legudon (main chief of the Gallifreyans) when he returns from his vacation soon. The Gallifreyans will use no weapons except pure concentration on telephatic energy. They are a species that does not like to interact with other species and will be short in answers, if they tell you anything at all. Little is known about them, and nobody really knows yet where they are from and who they are. But the war between the Na'jigat and the Gallifreyans has been going on from the beginning of time and will never end.
As for the Na'jigat, remember they can NOT be destroyed. You can delay them, confuse them a bit (but remember they CAN read your minds, they are the purest form of telephatic power as well) and besides trying to win some time, there's little you can do - but that doesn't mean you can make it spectacular, like I now just gave you some material to work with for some time http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

*The darkness that the energy cloud casts over the base, seems to keep growing stronger and more intense, as the Na'jigat feeds from the station's energy source almost first hand through the water. But then suddenly... there is a momentary faltering, and for a moment the cloud looks like a sky of thunderstorm clouds that are beginning to clear just a little, and leaving just one ray of the sun through... some bright white light appears to be shine through the vast darkness of the energy cloud, so bright and clear that it does not seem to come from the Na'jigat cloud itself, and neither can be undone by the Na'jigat... The bright ray of light grows slightly wider and stronger, shining brightly upon one of the buildings of Starphoenix Base... even so strong that the light almost seems to easily go THROUGH the thick walls of the building, making it look a bit brighter in its surrounding darkness... and then gently, the light fades away again... The Na'jigat cloud seems to become restless, and even more eager to feed itself from the energy as fast and as much as it can...*

*As the vessels receive orders from Admiral Parker to set course to Avalon, the cloud divides into a few smaller masses. The Lothlorien takes off instantly, and one of the smaller masses tries to catch it, but to no avail, while the remaining vessels are enveloped in the energy-draining storm. The ships caught begin to experience severe draining of power to all of their systems.*

"Yes! Energy! We need more energy to rid of those mental pesks! One ship has escaped! ...These others provide plenty! Absorb it all!"

*The energy continues to deplete until light and life support begin to fail as well.*

"Energy...receiving lots of energy!.."
"Gallifreyans are trying to fight us....But we have lots of energy.."
"They are becoming weaker...we must overwhelm them..we shall oppose them.."
*Then the storm on Dantor increases and several buildings of the Starphoenix base collaps by the power of nature.
"..We still need energy...Dantor is almost depleted...to oppose the Gallifreyans we need more energy..."
"..Searching...Searching...Energy coming to us...ships are entering this part of space..."
At that moment the energycloud in space went away from planet Dantor and set course for the incoming vessels.