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'''Star Trek: Echo''' is a Futility's End fiction series written by [[User:Edge|Cath]]. Set during the [[Borg War]], it chronicles the cases and experiences of a pair of [[Starfleet Special Investigation]] officers. It begins in the year [[2392]], at the birth of the department. With the war progressing badly for allies, the Klingon and Romulan Empires pushed back into Federation space, unrest amongst civilians and the military alike is high. SSI has been formed to fight the crimes that would rip apart the defenders before even the Borg could.

SSI's Echo Team is one of the first partnerships of investigators. The two officers are [[Alya Kade]], a seasoned security officer and Joined [[Trill]] whose first host was a veritable Renaissance man, and [[David Jackson]], a starfighter pilot headhunted by SSI when his flight status is revoked. The work of the mismatched pair suffers first from their clashing personalities, but as the threats to the Federation stack up, they prove themselves a strong team with talents to complement each other.

Echo is a serialised piece, most episodes stand-alone cases or incidents, though all tie into a wider storyline of Federation criminals, corrupt Starfleet officers, and the degradation of civilisation, morality, and justice in the face of an implacable foe.

==Episodes==

===Episode 1: Prime===

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4125842/1/Echo_Episode_I_Prime Click here]].

The first episode of Echo. Jackson and Kade are paired together at New Moscow, and sent to investigate how a group of civilian insurgents on Vega Prime have acquired a large amount of Starfleet-issue munitions. But the hunt will take them far from Vega Prime, to the heart of crime, where trusting the wrong person does not just mean losing the case - it means death.


===Episode 2: Beyond Antares===

[[http://forum.futilitysend.org/topic/3645-echo-episode-2-beyond-antares Click here]].

Echo Team are the only SSI near when a supply shipment stopping off at Antares III carrying valuable quantum torpedoes is hijacked and flown into the dangerous, volatile Antares Maelstrom. Jackson and Kade must team up with the USS ''Warden'' to recover the cargo, save the lives of the crew, and discover the truth behind the hijackers' actions.


===Episode 3: Fearless===

A tragedy such as the murder of a senior staff member on the USS ''Fearless'' seems a routine case for Echo Team. Except that the ''Fearless'' is Alya Kade's last assignment, and it becomes quickly apparent that this is a ship of secrets, lies, and a dark, burning desire to never let these come to light - at any cost.


===Episode 4===

An investigation on board the USS ''Stonewall'' becomes quickly forgotten when the ship is ambushed by the Borg. With half of the ship's senior staff dead, Jackson and Kade find themselves no longer SSI, but vital crewmembers as the ''Stonewall'' races against time to save as many civilians on the colony at Castor as possible from the approaching Borg invasion.


==Cast==

===Echo Team===

* Lieutenant [[Alya Kade]]
* Lieutenant Junior Grade [[David Jackson|David 'Smoke' Jackson]]

===Starfleet Special Investigations===

* Captain [[Logan Callahan]]

===Recurring Characters===

* [[Lann]]