Artoo's Encounter, Chapter Six (standard:Fan Fiction, 3981 words) [7/7] show all parts
Author: Tanada	Added: Dec 22 2002	Views/Reads: 2711/2053	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The Great Link Destroyed, Luke and Leia have a visitor.

Chapter Six 

"Vice Admiral Pressman, we are ready for the test." 

"Begin." 

And so it did, 30 Cargo shuttles each loaded with an anti-matter storage
pod fully filled with  8 tons of anti-deuterium slush, a phase-cloaking 
device, and a 100 KT nuclear warhead for vaporization. Each shuttle 
flew outward for 30 seconds on Hyperdrive in a sphere around the 
target, Neptune. 

Having spread out in a wide pattern the 30 shuttles aimed themselves at
the core of Neptune. The Hyperdrives all cut out at 1 planetary 
diameter over the cloud tops of the planet and they dove at warp 2. 

The shuttle's were all in phase cloak and passed effortlessly through
the atmosphere of Neptune, coming to rest at the programmed depth 10 
miles above the core of the planet.   When the computers clock's 
counted down to the initiation time they all shut down the phase 
cloaking devices.   If they survived 10 seconds they would detonate 
their 100 KT nuclear warheads.   In nanoseconds the antimatter pods 
rephased into normal space-time, with the very dense core of Neptune 
occupying the same space-time position.  Matter inside the pods was 
mixed throughout the anti-matter contents and reacted.  They were 
heated to several million degrees totally vaporizing them and the 
shuttles into plasma. The 8,000 KG of anti-matter on each shuttle 
turned plasma interacted with the core of Neptune finding all the 
matter it could consume, resulting in detonation.   8,000 kg of 
anti-matter, 3,960 kg of cargo shuttle and 4,040 kg of core material 
were coverted into pure gamma radiation. 

With all 30 pods exploding within moments of one another across the core
of Neptune 48,000 kg  of mass-energy were released. Neptune expanded 
like a hot air balloon, doubling its diameter in the period of less 
than an hour. 

"Success Admiral, exactly as modeled." 

"The Founder's homeworld has been plotted?" 

"Yes Admiral, our scouts have selectively narrowed it down until we got
confirmation. We know where they are." 

"Very well, launch the attack." 

And so it ended, the Galaxy class starship Compaq went into hyperdrive,
traveling first to Deep Space 9, then through the Wormhole and down the 
carefully plotted hyperdrive pathway to 1 LY from the Founder's new 
homeworld. The 60 kamikaze cargo shuttles launched from the three 
shuttle bays and flew to their preplanned start positions. The 60 
shuttles made there suicide runs simultaneously, appearing 1 planetary 
diameter out and diving at warp 2. The phase-cloaking of their 
appearance and the speed of there dives allowed all of them to evade 
the Dominion defenses and reach the core.  The return to normal 
space-time caused the consumption of  96,000 kg  of mass-energy, 
totally shattering the planet and blasting not only the atmosphere but 
the crust and parts of the mantle away from its core at high speed 

Jem Hadar ships in orbit never knew what him them for the most part, the
time from the shuttles leaving hyperdrive to the explosion and the 
destruction of the fleet by the flying fragments of the new great link 
world was minimal. A few dozen Founder's were certain to be located on 
other planets and on the fleets scattered around the Gamma quadrant. 
99% of the race were vaporized though and that was enough, the last few 
all had been exposed to the changeling virus also developed by Section 
31 and would be dead in weeks. 

768 BB, 2768 BC, 22,728 AS filled with Jem Hadar warriors and Vorta
administrators remained in the Gamma quadrant but news of the debacle 
at the wormhole was spreading and they were shifting forces in that 
direction. By this time though the Federation fleets were using 
selective force to eliminate them, the Jem Hadar in dominion space were 
after all spread around the borders of their space, not concentrated 
into fleets. 


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