The glow of transport faded as the molecules of the<em>Vanguard</em>'s away team completed reassembly in the large common area of Palmyra Station.<br/><br/>Emptied of life, the Station -- overlooking a vast ravine a short hundred meter jaunt west of the site its team was excavating -- was quite a roomy structure. The main area and mess hall in which the away team materialized would have seated at least forty people at a time in comfort, and the full personnel complement in a pinch. It was already evident here, though, that something had gone terribly wrong: several of the large metallic mess tables had been violently overturned or bore the indents of large objects -- perhaps human bodies? -- having been slammed into them. The food stations were slagged, in all probability by phaser fire. There were gaps in the ceiling that looked like holes created by a phaser on kill setting being fired upwards. Pieces of the dark, clear desert sky looked through.<br/><br/>The lights guttered low. Even the Station's auxiliary power must be nearly drained. The openings of the three hallways leading out from the main hall were dim and forbidding.<br/><br/>Commander Yuuna surveyed the wreckage grimly.<strong>"Let's spread out and do a sweep of the Station,"</strong>she said.<strong>"Keep in contact on your communicators at all times, report <em>anything</em> unusual. Mister Cortez, you're with me."</strong>She pointed at the right-hand hallway, leading to the Station's workshops and research laboratories.<br/><br/>Indicating the middle hallway, she said to the Chief:<strong>"Mister Adams, the Station's reactor core should be through there, on the basement level. Above it should be the main computer banks, please see if you can take a look at them and let me know their status."</strong><br/><br/>Nodding to Tren, she indicated the left-hand hallway:<strong>"Doctor, perhaps you could take Mister Thompson with you and have a look at the living quarters."</strong>The red-shirted security man was nodding smartly as he moved to join the doctor.