Commander Conrad A. Enderby

of visible light in either direction.*

that were stronger and more sensitive, respectively, than his organic ones. The doctors had also discovered that his left eye had suffered damage that would have left him blind in that eye if left unchecked; thus, they replaced his eye with an ocular implant capable of seeing beyond the range -->

*Enderby walked out of the hospital on Luna under his own power. The doctors had set his leg back into place and regenerated most of his burned skin except for a few spots on his face that the full-body dermal regenerator couldn't reach. His arm and ear had been replaced with cybernetic ones -->

at the sight.*

That bitch is going to pay for this...She. Will. Pay...

*He turned and hobbled down the hall and out the door. His first priority before doing anything was getting his knee fixed and a new prosthetic right forearm and left ear fitted.*

the corpses of Admirals Vasily Zeitsev and Jhun Kulkarno. Zeitsev's body was covered in his own blood, his esophagus and other upper entrails pulled out through his mouth. Kulkarno's body was bloody and headless, his crudely torn-off head lying next to it. Enderby struggled to keep from vomiting -->

Damn, this is worse than I thought...

*He started to hobble around, trying to identify some of the dead agents. He could recognize a few but most were burned beyond recognition. However, it was the sight he saw when he hobbled behind the podium that turned his stomach the most. There, he saw -->

around the crosspiece. He pulled the crosspiece under his arm and pulled himself upright with a little bit of a struggle. He looked around again, this time with a better view of all the destruction. He could smell the blood, the burning flesh, and the acrid scent of the plasma residue.* -->

He set them on the ground and used his phaser to cut them to the appropriate sizes. After forming a T with a long piece and a short piece, he reset his phaser to a welding beam and welded them together. When the weld had cooled sufficiently, he wrapped a strip of upholstery torn from a chair -->

Chairs and benches and pieces of railing and wall were thrown helter-skelter around the hall.*

What the fuck...

*He said as he surveyed the destruction caused by O'Grady's plasma charges. Realizing he couldn't walk, he reached for a couple of pieces of railing that happened to be lying nearby. -->

his left knee, which had been dislocated when he was thrown by the explosion. Despite all the pain he felt, he managed to sit up to get a look around. The sight he saw was horrific. Burnt and mangled corpses were scattered throughout the Great Hall, most of them burned beyond recognition. -->

his head as best as he could and pressed the trigger to begin cutting off the part of his arm that was pinned. He winced in pain but there wasn't much blood as the beam also cauterized his arm. Soon, he had cut all the way through and could roll onto his back. He felt more pain as he wrenched -->

He tried to sit up but realized he couldn't because his right arm was still pinned to the ground by a piece of the wall he couldn't move. After several failed attempts to move the chunk, he reached with his left hand for his phaser and set it to a cutting/cauterizing beam. He reached around -->

*Enderby awakened from his coma hours after the Gathering had ended in a literal blowout. It took him several minutes to fully regain consciousness and remember what had happened. The trial of O'Grady and Pressman...the verdict...the explosions...the gore...All of it slowly came back to him. -->

His right hand and part of his forearm were crushed by a chunk of the wall that had been blown off in the explosion, and his left knee was dislocated from the force of his landing. Third-degree burns covered his skin. He lay on the floor, next to unconscious due to all the pain.*

*Enderby, like the three admirals on the podium in the previous explosion, was burned from head to toe in this explosion, which also threw him several meters. All of his hair was burned off his head and exposed skin and he could feel throbbing where his left ear should have been. -->

Strong words. Too bad you won't be able to carry them out.

Well, I see Travis destroyed one annoyance to the Federation all by himself.