Orbit Above Angel One

Beneath the Enterprise, the lavender expanse of Angel One spins in lazy majesty—a planet that has just birthed its nightmare. This orbital perch clings like a memory the ship cannot shake, a curved line of departure that doubles as hunting ground. Silver auroras ghost across the upper atmosphere, mirroring the phantom energy sphere that now erupts from those same cloud layers, chasing the starship with predatory grace. The cold void here breathes with strange sentience; sensors flicker warnings that vanish into normal readings, leaving Data's certainty suspended between what his android logic records and what human reassurance dismisses. The Enterprise breaks this orbital embrace with engines roaring toward plague-stricken urgency, but the orbit themselves seem reluctant to release them—a gravitational memory that follows the ship even as they accelerate toward distant Aucdet IX.