Part Two
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After destroying the ISS Minotaur and capturing its incursion team aboard the Hadriepsis research facility, the Sally Ride was stationed in the system as part of a larger task force to guard against further incursions from the mirror universe. The first order of business was to determine the basis of the Minotaur's interest in the facility.
To that end, a group including personnel from the Sally Ride and the facility attempted to question a prisoner, Jaron Teller, who had been posing as his own parallel self aboard the station for weeks. Between the facts security officer Cor was piecing together from the physical evidence and the background knowledge of this universe's Teller held by a Hadriepsis scientist named Kilani, Orenn hoped to pressure the prisoner into revealing information about his mirror adversaries' plans.
Unfortunately, the interrogation was cut short by Night, who sabotaged the brig's systems to prevent interference and then attempted to beat the information out of Teller, in spite of specific orders to exercise restraint. Unfotunately for that plan, Teller was anything but a pushover, proving to be a perfectly capable match in hand-to-hand combat. The fight only concluded when station security reinitialized the brig's security systems and put both combatants down with a dose of neutrozine gas. For his trouble, Night now has his own cell in the brig, right next door to Teller's, where he awaits a court martial.
However, a shadowy organization within the Federation appears to have dispatched an agent to Hadriepsis, and that agent seems to agree with Night's extreme stance regarding the mirror universe. This puts the Sally Ride crew in a difficult spot, attempting to piece together what they can about the Terran Empire's interest in the research facility while not being entirely sure which of their allies are working toward the same goals.
Cor's investigation of the station's logs has at least revealed that the mirror team got aboard the starbase through a series of secret transports from the surface of Hadriepsis D, the planet around which the station orbits. It seems that agents enter this universe on the surface, transport into their duplicates' quarters during the sleep cycle, and place them into stasis, leaving them free to impersonate them without worrying about any awkward meetings. It's likely that there are still mirror agents on the surface, or that more are on their way.
