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SD: 2260.164 | |||
MD: 8.23:45 | |||
Scene: Captain’s Quarters, USS HOOD | |||
[Red Alert! All hands to battle stations! Red Alert! All hands to battle stations! This is not a drill. Captain Steele please report to the bridge.] | |||
Steele looked up from his book and jabbed the white comm button. "Bridge, report." | |||
[Captain Outpost 8 is under attack.] Merrick replied. | |||
"I'm on my way." | |||
When Steele entered the bridge he found Sean standing next to the command chair talking with Outpost 8's commander who's calm visage was on the main viewscreen. She stopped mid sentence as she saw Jack step down towards the center of the bridge. “Report.” | |||
“I’ve turned us back towards the planet, ETA 22 minutes. All stations reported ready for combat.” Merrick began as he turned back to face the outpost commander. “It looks like they were playing possum and we missed them. Sensors show a micro warp burst and they did a crash translation into normal space almost in the planets orbit. They started firing seconds later.] | |||
"That was ballsy." Steele said as he dropped into his chair. That was an aggressive maneuver even for a Klingon and he didn’t like what it meant. “Have you tried hailing them?” | |||
[Repeatedly captain.] Yarith replied mildly annoyed at the question. [No response. Wait one.] She looked to someone off the screen and nodded. [Damn. HOOD, sensors report they've beamed down two large landing parties. I don't think there here for a social call.] | |||
Jack resisted the urge to rub his forehead. Destroying small asteroid outposts was bad but dropping troops on a major installation was an entirely different level. For all intents and purposes the Federation and Klingon Empire were not at war. Unless of course HOOD could stamp it out before it escalated further. "Commander can you patch us in to your sensors." | |||
Again she looked off-screen. [Done.] | |||
HOOD's viewscreen changed to an orbital view and the entire bridge watched in grim fascination as the Klingon cruiser hung above the ground installation reigning down disrupter fire. "Open channel." | |||
"Channel open." | |||
"This is Captain Jack Steele of the Federation Starship Hood to Klingon vessel. You will cease fire and drop your shields immediately. Further you will order your ground troops to lay down their weapons and remain in place. . Once HOOD makes orbit your vessel will be boarded and towed to the nearest Federation starbase. Failure to comply will be met with deadly force." | |||
"No answer captain." | |||
"How's the outpost holding up?" | |||
"Their shields are still at 60%. According to the sensor feed from the outpost the ground troops are approximately two kilometers from the edge of the shield." | |||
"Increase speed to maximum and get Yarith back on. Commander HOOD will make orbit in 20 minutes will your shields hold out that long?" | |||
Yarith nodded. [Easily captain but it is the ground troops that have my attention. We're not equipped to hold them off and we’ve already evacuating my people into the caves.] As your people ‘suggested’ we do Yarith carefully did not say. But everyone heard it nonetheless. | |||
"Understood. I imagine we can help with that. See you soon. HOOD out." Steele turned to Merrick. "When we make orbit we'll stun the assault troops with ship's phasers and then deal with the cruiser." | |||
"I'm afraid that won't work captain." The science officer interjected as she looked up from her scanner. "I was curious as to why the Klingons beamed in so far from the outpost. When the base was built it was placed in a small valley surrounded by ring of small mountains and foot hills. The rock is sprinkled with a sensor absorbing material and it helps camouflage the outpost. At least that was the hope. Looks like the Klingons were aware of the setup. If they weren’t they certainly adapted to it quick enough. They’ve set up some sort of jamming system which interacts with the rock. They haven’t exactly blinded the sensors but they have given us blurry vision. Given the close proximity of the outpost and those already evacuating we won’t be able to target with 100% confidence.” | |||
“We could stun them all and sort it all out later.” Sean suggested. | |||
Jack shook his head. “We couldn’t be sure we got them all and I’d hate to stun some of our own while unstunned Klingons were close by. No, I think we’ll have to do it the old fashioned way.” | |||
"Captain! Klingon ship is breaking orbit and is warping out at high speed!” | |||
“Well that ends the debate. He turned to the science officer. “Can we use transporters?” | |||
“The jamming effect is fairly small. We also have access to the outpost’s transporter enhancers which should mitigate any dampening the Klingons are trying to use. If you want to get closer we could beam into the area just using sensor logs from our earlier orbit but I wouldn’t recommend it.” | |||
Jack turned back to Sean. “Get your teams and get down there as fast as you can.” | |||
Sean leaned closer to Jack and spoke quietly. “Jack what are you going to do?” | |||
“We’re going after the cruiser.” He said with determination. | |||
Sean paused and then nodded. “Captain I concur with that course of action.” The safe play was to have HOOD remain in orbit to provide support. Once they had subdued the planetary assault they could worry about the cruiser. But in that time the Klingon ship could move on to another outpost or even to one of the not to distant colony worlds. They couldn’t let that happen. And given the stakes it was important that the Federation response was decisive and immediate. | |||
“Give ‘em hell commander.” | |||
“You too captain.” | |||
As he watched the turbolift doors close behind Sean he felt a shiver run up his spine. It was playing out just as he, Sean and Admiral Palmer had discussed, but he had a bad feeling about this. Palmer had said AJAX and BRILLIANT were two or three days behind them. He hoped they’d get here sooner he had a feeling they’d be needed. Dropping into the center seat he watched as the bridge officers coordinated a dozen things at the same time all in preparation to drop a defence force and prepare to catch a Klingon battle cruiser. Pride swelled up in him and forced the chill out of his spine. This was a good ship and an outstanding crew. They’d get the job done. | |||
But at what cost? | |||
<<<NRPG>>> | |||
I think I got all the LCDRs out for Yarith…being that Brian overruled me an all! ;-) | |||
So from here those on the surface…with a large NPC contingent… will be defending the base and rooting out the Klingons. HOOD will chase the Klingon cruiser and eventually catch up with her…and encounter a few surprises. I imagine there will be an emphasis on combat both hand to hand and ship to ship but I imagine we’ll see some creativity and twists to make this more then just a summer block buster J. | |||
Respectfully, | |||
Andy | |||
CAPT Jack Steele | |||
CO, USS HOOD NCC 1703 | |||
ASR ORIGINS | |||
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