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BTW, for those of you who played Wing Command III the Issahi ship | BTW, for those of you who played Wing Command III the Issahi ship | ||
resembles a Terran Confederacy Longbow bomber...just a bit bigger. | resembles a Terran Confederacy Longbow bomber...just a bit bigger. | ||
Respectfully,<br> | |||
Andy<br> | |||
-Captain Zane, Commanding Officer, USS FEYNMAN<br> | |||
-Commodore Nigel Straun, Executive Officer, INDIGO FLEET<br> | |||
-Commander Horatio Sinclair, Fleet Intelligence Officer, BLUE FLEET<br> | |||
<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: Unwanted Answers</h3> | |||
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by | |||
Andrew Catterick 10-28-1996</h4> | |||
SD: 81028.1200<br> | |||
MD: 4.1645<br> | |||
Scene: Readyroom<br> | |||
[Captain, you have two messages coming in.] | |||
"Thank-you ensign." Zane replied as he swung his desk terminal | |||
around to face him. "Pipe them in here." | |||
Powering up the display he noted that the first was a Starfleet | |||
communique from the SILVER JAG office someone had flagged it for him and | |||
forwarded it along. Opening the message he scanned down the text at first | |||
with a scowl and then with a grin that quickly erupted into a laugh. It | |||
seemed his one time blackmailer, Dee, had been picked up by Starfleet | |||
Security for impersonating the daughter of a dignitary from the planet | |||
Dexertos III. He forwarded the message along to the rest of the senior | |||
staff with a flag for both Krysa and Glin'kharr. He wondered which of the | |||
two would be more satisfied with Dee's current fate. | |||
The second message was a video recording from Dee herself. It was | |||
a rather lengthy message which went from her commendnation of the | |||
FEYNMAN's captain to her flattery of him. But one thing was made | |||
perfectly clear, she expected Zane to help her out of this mess or she | |||
would be talking to Krysa soon after. With a laugh he forwarded Dee's | |||
video message along to Krysa. He couldn't wait to get back to EPSILON and | |||
see Dee's face when he told her she could do her worst and he didn't | |||
care. There was nothing quite as satisfying when the wheel turned. | |||
> [Tarrant to Commander Zane... you better come to Holodeck 2.] | |||
> | |||
"On my way." He answered as he stood. So much for his good mood, | |||
Koreth did not sound happy by any stretch of the imagination. | |||
<nowiki>_______________________</nowiki> | |||
MD: 4.1700<br> | |||
Scene:Holodeck 2<br> | |||
Zane strode into the holodeck to find the USS SERAPIS being pulled | |||
apart in slow motion as Meleah and Koreth 'stood' in space quietly | |||
watching. They turned as they heard the Captain enter. | |||
"Reset program." Koreth ordered. The SERAPIS flickered from near | |||
oblivion to its once proud form. In the backgroud the dark mystery ship | |||
approached. | |||
"What have you got?" | |||
"Begin program. Half speed." Koreth ordered. | |||
The scene played itself out as it had done so in the past and 30 | |||
seconds later when it ended Zane could not seen any breakthrough. The | |||
mystery ship arrived fired its weapon and the SERAPIS was gone. The | |||
Captain looked at the two officers. "So?" | |||
"Computer replay program at time index 325.7 1/4 speed." | |||
Again the simulation reconstituted itself but this time it began | |||
with the beam from the marauder hitting the SERAPIS. Slowly the SERAPIS | |||
began to split apart, and then exploded. The simulation ended. "Some | |||
sort of disruptor beam?" | |||
"No sir," Meleah began and she quickly ran down their theories of | |||
the ytterbium and its effect on the structural integrity field. Zane | |||
considered the theory for a few moments. "It sounds plausible and would | |||
certainly explain why so much of the internal effects remained whole. | |||
But even if the ship was moving at only a fraction of impulse the crew | |||
would have been a thin paste on the bulkheads a millisecond after the SIF | |||
failed." | |||
"Thats what we're trying to figure out now." Koreth answered. | |||
"Logically the SERAPIS would have to be at a near stop before the | |||
beam hit. Perhaps it also contained a tractor beam." Meleah added. | |||
"Either way it seems this is a powerful weapon." Koreth frowned, | |||
a weapon the FEYNMAN or any other Starfleet ship could not withstand. | |||
"We are not entirely sure it is a weapon." Meleah continued. "It | |||
could be anyform of beam, perhaps a sensor scan, the only credible theory | |||
so far is that a beam containing ytterbium was responsible for destroying | |||
the SERAPIS. We can not speculate on intention without further evidence." | |||
Zane and Koreth exchanged a silent glance of agreement. It *was* | |||
a weapon. "Continue your tests but I need a write up of your preliminary | |||
findings to send to EPSILON as soon as possible. If you come up with | |||
anything else I'll be on the bridge." | |||
<<<NRPG>>> | |||
Hmmm...I guess when Zane talks with Ross (in one hour) he won't be | |||
as totally forth-coming as I originally thought!;) | |||
Respectfully,<br> | Respectfully,<br> | ||