Aboard the HMCS-Magnificent, random power fluctuations and malfunctions began to cripple key systems on the ship:
Comm. Officer : Weve lost contact, sir.
Captain Aldrich: Get me the engineering deck what the hell is going on here?
Chief Engineer Richardson: Engineering to bridge, weve got a massive power falloff.
Captain Aldrich: What caused it?
Chief Engineer Richardson: Power drain appears to be from the Nomad Containment Area.
Captain Aldrich: Can you tell if the NCUs are still operating, we got nearly six hundred Nomads confined down there.
Chief Engineer Richardson: Cant tell from here, but
Suddenly main power fails, silencing the mighty engines of the Magnificent and rendering it dead in space.
Chief Engineer Richardson: Aye, we just lost the main reactor. If the Nomads werent out before, they certainly are now.
Captain Aldrich: Stay put and get main power back online. Ill have additional security sent down to engineering.
Chief Engineer Richardson: Aye.
Captain Aldrich switches the intercom to ship-wide.
Captain Aldrich: To all hands, weve lost main power and the Nomads have escaped their containment units; report to the nearest weapons locker for sidearm distribution. Security, report to the Nomad Containment Area and Engineering.
Security Officer Robinson (over the intercom): Aye sirAnderson, Jared youre with me
Meanwhile inside the containment area, the Nomads were beginning to awaken from their enforced slumber. Filled with a cold hatred, they began to search for a target anything anything to focus their rage and attention two guards happened to be on duty in the containment area.