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==USS HOOD: == | ==USS HOOD: Suckerpunch== | ||
===by === | ===by Scott Lusby=== | ||
[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: "Suckerpunch" | |||
Posted by: Scott Lusby (LCDR Gar Th'elenth) | |||
SD: 2260.194 | |||
MD: 9.0013 | |||
Setting: Main Engineering, O-Deck, USS HOOD | |||
Lieutenant Commander Gar Th'elenth was ready. | |||
He just hoped his engineers were as well. | |||
They hadn't had much time to do many additional drills since the first | |||
fiasco that had his engineers running into DeSimms' security guys. They'd | |||
had enough time to iron out the rough spots, and he was well pleased with | |||
the progress...he just hoped it was enough. | |||
He watched the alert status lights flash red on his consoles, and on the | |||
walls, and grit his teeth. | |||
At that moment, the ship shuttered lightly. | |||
"Forward shields grazed- no appreciable damage," called one of his men. | |||
Gar simply nodded. He had the ship's status monitor displayed on one of the | |||
large screens in front of him, but he also had a repeater of a tactical | |||
screen on another of his large monitors. He saw the Klingon ship, its icon | |||
glowing the angry red of a hostile target, let loose a hail of disruptor | |||
fire, and saw the HOOD, with its own icon haloed in the soothing green of an | |||
undamaged ship, simply absorb the blows. | |||
The ship had hardly shaken at all. | |||
On the tactical screen, he saw HOOD fire back; at the same time, he noticed | |||
the ambient background noise of Main Engineering begin to grow louder, some | |||
of it from systems drawing more power from the warp cores, some of it from | |||
the din of combat. | |||
The halo surrounding the Klingon ship on his tactical repeater turned | |||
yellow. | |||
"The Klingon's shields have dropped to 43%!" another of his officers called. | |||
"Forget the Klingon ship!" Gar shouted. "Keep an eye on your boards--" | |||
At that moment, he watched a volley of torpedoes speed away from the Klingon | |||
ship and hit HOOD; the ship shuddered violently around him, knocking several | |||
of his men to the decks. | |||
"That one packed a wallop- forward shields down to 73%; port phaser fire | |||
controls are not responding; #2, 3 and 5 dorsal-port shield generators have | |||
overloaded." | |||
Th'elenth responded immediately. "OK- let's roll out the DamCon teams to | |||
port side, D-deck. Suits for everyone- I don't want anyone dying due to any | |||
sudden decompressions." | |||
Gar knew his DamCon teams should already BE in their suits, but he felt | |||
better reminding them. | |||
Gar could hear still more power being bled away from the warp core, its | |||
rhythmic pulse picking up its pace as a man's heart would during a | |||
long-distance run. He imagined HOOD returning fire, bringing a massive | |||
phaser and photon volley against their foes, first knocking their tortured | |||
shields into submission with the shape-charged antimatter missiles, and then | |||
raking the Klingon's hull with blue-white filaments of phased energy, | |||
punching holes in its skin where no holes should be, destroying their means | |||
to bring destruction upon HOOD. | |||
Then, far quicker than Gar had anticipated (starship combat always WAS | |||
quicker than most people imagine), the HOOD shuddered no more; its warp core | |||
still hummed, but its rhythm slowed some. | |||
Gar looked at his tactical repeater. The enemy ship was moving away from | |||
HOOD quickly, surrounded by the crimson halo of a heavily-damaged ship, HOOD | |||
pursuing and gaining. | |||
And then, suddenly, his tactical repeater changed. | |||
"Uh-oh," Gar muttered. | |||
"It's not over yet! He shouted as two more blips, both colored red by the | |||
ship's tactical computer, appeared from seemingly nowhere. | |||
The HOOD shook violently again. | |||
<<NRPG>> | |||
All- Just giving a little combat perspective from somewhere in the middle of | |||
the ship. | |||
Remember: Gar's in Engineering, and so he's not watching the battle as it | |||
unfolds like the bridge people would be. So there's plenty of room to fill | |||
in with some fancy flying, all sorts of bridge excitement, etc. | |||
I hope that's around what we were thinking, Andy. ;) | |||
I imagine Gar will get quite a bit busier in the next few minutes or so... | |||
;) | |||
Respectfully Submitted, | |||
-- Scott Lusby | |||
/\ LCDR Gar Th'elenth | |||
Chief Engineer | |||
USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
ASR: ORIGINS | |||
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