This one was me going off on sort of a tangent.... The Solanae Dyson Sphere is a setting in the game, and it is sort of briefly important - it figures strongly in one story arc, and then gets left behind as the players go off to the Delta Quadrant to do other things.
I felt that was kind of a shame. The Dyson Sphere is big, and there is plenty of room in it for stories. And there is a fair amount of in-game backstory about it, and there's room to develop that, too. So I set out to do just that.
The characters I chose were a couple of undeveloped ones, too. My Starfleet science officers, T'Pia and M'eioi - well, they've appeared before, but not as often as some of the others. Since they're both sort of serious, straight-arrow, Starfleet types, I though it might be interesting to put them in a situation where those ideals came under a bit of pressure - from enemies such as the Voth, and from another source entirely. (If you've ever wondered how Ronnie Grau gets, or keeps, anyone in her crew at all - well, there are worse choices than Ronnie to work for.)
So, this story's something of a detour, off into under-explored territory. I had some fun writing it, though. If nothing else, it is always interesting to write T'Pia, and try and fix things so that her natural Vulcan flat affect comes across as deadpan cool, instead....
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