Expansion Fleet - Avalon Archive

*The Comet IMPACTS Avalon Station!
Docking Gate 4 is destroyed. Full damage on the hull. Three shielding nodes are damaged.*
°°°Satisfaction
°°°Invasion begins
*Mother screams!
One Daughter and a full sub-armada rush to the Station*
°°°Informations... Need informations!!!
°°°Drones.... Need drones

*And an other little voice replies*
....Propagation! Propagation! Attackkk!
*Asteroids and spacedrones are speeding to Avalon Station.*

*Station Avalon's defenses became active. Several torpedotubes opened and torpedoes were ready to be fired. Admiral Montrell pushed the fire button, and several spreads of fotontorpedoes flew away.*

"Torpedoes on their way. Engineering teams reporting massive damage to our shields and hull, Admiral. By the way, may I ask what this phenomemon is. I detect asteroides coming our way, but they are send by something. But how can an asteroid be send? Strange things are happening here....."

*In the mean time the spread of fotontorpedoes were on their way to the armada of asteroides and they needed to destroy a big part of the armada, so Avalon was safe again*

(Edited by Montrell at 12:27 pm on June 1, 2003)

In the meantime, at the far horizon in space, of station Avalon, a small ship drops out of warp...  It is a shuttle-type of ship, manned by only one person...  Admiral Vorak.

The Flag Admiral is seated at his conn panels, directing his ship back to his station at last.  The long journey from Vulcan to station Avalon is over, and he would soon be in his daily environment of his office and Ops at the station.
A panel starts beeping and the admiral pushes some buttons.  A closer view of the station appears, though not a viewscreen one, but a schematic one that shows critical damage to the station.
The admiral raises one eyebrow.

"Most unusual.  The station appears to be nearly destroyed."

With full impulse, he directs his vessel right toward the station, and when nearer, he opens a commlink.

"Admiral Vorak to station Avalon, respond please."

"Very good, thank you for the report. May I suggest we set the science department to work on figuring out this 'unknown species'? It is by learning about the unknown alien life form, that we may possibly understand its reasoning, why it attacked us and if it may attack us again, even how we may possibly defeat it."

He leans back in his chair and takes a deep breath, before he continues to work.

"Computer, display a list of names of officers that were killed on Station Avalon due to the entity attack."

The computer displayed the list on the screen in front of him:

Killed during attack:
- Admiral Geordi
- Ambassador Dailik

Missing in action:
- Mike D Rockwell
- Ambassador William Delk
- Senior Admiral Bowis

Captain Sanchez arrives at the station and goes to look for Admiral Montrell, who had ordered him to beam over.

"Admiral, I got your message. I'm here for the debriefing."

*Far from Avalon Station, a Cloud was forming, growing and expanding. Unknown energy was building an endlessly shape of sort of inpenetrable smog.
Inside this Cloud, various space objects were moving; and in the same direction. This was Mother's Main Armada. Exactly at the Center of this huge formation, a red-orange living planet with a little ring around Her Body was scanning her environment.
Mother was enjoying this new Universe.*
°°°Presence of StarShips null
°°°Station similar to Delta Fleet Stations
°°°Weak defenses
°°°°No Zygon Shields and Hull
°°°Weak Armament
°°°°No Zygon Dissocier
°°°High Energy Cannons and Torpedoes
°°°Satisfaction
°°°Mother will grow into Pre-Grand-Mother
°°°Grand-Mother will be pleased
°°°Daughter's Case LATER
°°°Possibilities of New Nests and Drones
°°°Satisfaction....
°°°°ATTTTAAAAACCCCCKKKK!!!!!
°°°°ATTTAAACCCCKKKK!!!!
*And Mother rushes to Avalon Station.

The small smog, far from the Base, now, is warping at full speed. Everyone could see, now, its incredible shape occulting slowly but surely all the horizon and the view of the Galaxy.*

"Heavy damage has been done to our primary hull. Weapons are still online and so are the other keysystems.... dockingport 4 has been destroyed, sir."

*Runs over to the Science Station*

"Admiral, a new wave of asteriods is coming our way. I suggest several spreads of photontorpedo's so that maybe they won't hit us that hard..."

Engage Mr Montrell.

*Montrell was working on the communications with several lieutenants*

"Lieutenant Geraro, please activate the node...let's hope it won't blow out again"

Geraro: "Yes Sir"

*The lieutenant activated the communications node and there were no explosions following it*

"Well that went ok, for once..."

*Montrell walked to the Comspanel and went over the logs*

"It appears communications are back online, though we only have short range com"

*On that same moment he got two messages. Admiral Nocturnus and Admiral Vorak*

"Oh bloody h*ll, why this moment.....let's hope the admiral is in a good mood"

*He activated the comms and only audio was working*

"Admiral Vorak, welcome back. As you can see, the station has had an attack. There are a lot of casualties and damage. We had no chance against them, they hit us and we tried to hit back....*The admiral stopped for a moment* For the rest, you will get a full report when you arrive her. I don't know were you can dock, internal systems are a bit off....I guess docking port 7 is still available, cause that's an emergency port at the top. Until soon admiral"

*He quickly shifted over to Admiral Nocturnus*

"I don't have a clue either, they gathered a lot of information out our database but I lost track of them because we lost almost every system on the station...we now only have lifesupport running at 70%. By the way, Admiral Vorak is back....."

*Communications were disconnected abruptly. The node exploded again*

"Well....this is nice...Why are you against us dear Avalon. Did we do something to you the past year...well people we need to get that fixed...Admiral Vorak is arriving in the next few minutes so let's get the repairs under way again...Geraro we are going to repair that Comnode again."

*The admiral and lieutenant got underway again*

*There was no communication from Avalon. The comm was dead.*

------Meanwhile on Station Avalon-------

"Ah Admiral Vorak, well I was just writing the report. As you can see we took some damage, but we are trying to get mainsystems back online."

*Gives the PADD to admiral Vorak*

          Status Report on Station Avalon

Cause: Attack on Station Avalon by unknown Alien.

Damage caused
- Communications array heavily damaged
- Hull has sustained heavily damage
- Phaser arrays offline
- Sensorbanks offline
- Secundairy Systems heavily damaged
- Shields offline
- Habitat rings are heavily damaged

Casualties
50 crewmembers are reported missing. 100 Civilians are reported missing.  

Repair crews
Repaircrews are now repairing the most important systems. Their first priority is now Communications and then our shields in case the aliens will return.

                      End of report

"Very good, thank you. That is most appropriate for my current intentions.  It appears that little is known about the entity that has attacked this station during my absence.  But I believe I may find some more information about it.  Quite some time ago, I visited a Corporation station once, and they have allowed me access to their private databanks. That databank included their first discovery - and encounter - with a certain lethal species called Metatraxi.  The Corporation described them to be even more dangerous than the Borg, Dominion and Species 8472 together.  I will endeavor to contact the Corporation about this, and ask for their assistance in this matter.  Let us hope it may reopen the negotiations that were put on a halt when Mr. Winterspoon fell ill."

*He turns to his office and sits behind his desk, activating his computer panel.  It did not work the first time, so he had to push the button again so it would work.  The screen was not yet 100% clear, but the system was at least online.*

"Computer, transmit subspace message directly to the Corporation Generals, priority 1 Urgent."

Computer: "You may now begin to record your message.

"To the officials of the Corporation, this is Flag Admiral Vorak from Starfleet space station Avalon.  There has been little contact between our organisations, since our negotiations were halted with the sudden illness of Mr. Winterspoon.  I hope that he is recovering well, and that his health is better now.
The reason for which I intend to contact you, is a very serious one.  While I was absent on leave, my station has had a severe attack from an unknown entity to be said "as large as a planet".  The station has survived, but suffered critical damage, and that is why you probably get my image unclear with this transmission.  However, I remember well my visit to your station -Keyhole it was called, I believe- quite some time ago, where you showed me databank information on a perilous species called Metatraxi.  It is my belief that it was the Metatraxi who has attacked our station.
Unfortunately, we known little to nothing about the Metatraxi, and we know not if this entity will return or not, and what it wants from us.  Neither do we know, if it returns to attack, how we can fight it.
I hope you can help us in this matter.  Our situation is very critical at this moment.  The station is badly damaged and repairs go slow.  Even if a lesser species such as the Loxians would attack us now, we would have no defense and no option but to surrender.  Obviously, that means that we are even more vulnerable against the Metatraxi, if they should return.  The station would not survive, and million of people would instantly be killed.  You surely understand my concerns on this, as commanding officer of this station and whole fleet.
I hope you are willing to help us in this matter, and that I may receive a reply from you soon.  I also hope that we may reopen negotiations to establish a better communication and activity between the Corporation and Starfleet.
Live long and prosper.
Vorak out."

Computer: Message has been transmitted.

*The admiral sees Captain Sanchez standing behind him*

"Carry on Lieutenant" *He said to the lieutenant beside him*

"Welcome back captain, I had some reports on your mission they were quiet remarkable. But as you can see, Avalon isn't in good shape right now so that will be our primary case. The avalon repairteams are in need of Engineers, Admiral Detrell is still on an away mission so we are doing everything without his expertise about this station. Could you send some of your crews to the station, or is the Evolution heavily damaged?"

*Montrell showed Captain Sanchez the way to a cleaned part of OPS*

"How is the Evolution doing? And ofcourse did you encounter any strange, important situations/objects? Sorry for the confusion, with all this repairing I seem to lose the main subject why you were here for "

°°°No reaction from the Station
°°°Objective weak
°°°Presence of DujYay null
°°°Presence of Ship-of-Death null
°°°°Satisfaction
°°°Preparing attack
°°°NOW!
*A volcano comet speeds from the Cloud. Its target is Avalon Station.

Mother SCREEEEEEAAAAAAMMMMM with delight*

"ADMIRAL, THEY ARE BREACHING OUR HULL!!! I suggest fotontorpedoes, FULL SPREAD!!"

*He is one touch away from the order*

hmm...

Mr Montrell. the computer core and the station is of utmost importance.

The needs of one outweigh the needs of the many.

I'll go.

Prepare shuttle bay 3 for launch.

Engeering.. I want the ship in shuttble bay 3 loaded with explosives.

*Looks confused at the viewscreen*

"Is this happening people....are they just going away...?? They will probably have what they searched for. Well let's first do a damage report!! We need to get all damaged systems up and running before Admiral Vorak comes back...or he will not be very pleased.."

*Other OPS personel were working on the damage report as was Admiral Montrell. He was still unsure about the quick leaving of the "Mother & Daughter"*

"Indeed, it appears that the cleaning personnell was all given shoreleave."

<Corporation Network-Code 777-14-RK
Subspace Transmissions Uncoded to Avalon Station>
---From Senior Brigadier Counsellor Keriadoc.---

Admiral, Ms Winterspoon is still unavailable.
I have just received your message. Alas, you suppose well. It seems as if the Metatraxi has reached a level up. It's trying to ignore the effects of the Diatonic Tunnels and make benefits of these. The Propagation is beginning.

Tough, Ms Winterspoon can't be there now and you need not a War Ship only Repair/Freighter Ship the Gambit (see on the Corp Site --United Freighters--)... I'm sure you have never met a Freighter like this before. Do not approach this Freighter! This Extended Excelsior Prototype does not need to be "attractive". Its teams will help you in re-building your base and add some "Extras", if you need them....
What do you think of Zygons Defenses and Planetary Phase Cloacking device for your Station?

Deska is calm, for the moment. Let's pray it will continue that way. This Planet needs to be preserved.
One Vaste Cloud is approaching Morgernstern... And we have no pilots available and all the Captains have deserted. In fact, all the cowards left the Corporation. Colonels Vtek and Sullivan are still in charge and I pray for them.
We don't know yet where to transfert our HQ. But who cares?

See you soon at Avalon....
I have job!
<Transmissions closed>

Red Alert.

Alll people to battle stations.

Incoming Unknown Object.

All Senior Officers report to OPS immedialty. this is a priority.

Communications hail Mr Winterspoon, if he's still available see if he's willing ot help.

Science... I want scans and information ASAP.

SEcurity.. post teams on weak points of the station and protect the civillians.

Tactical. Do what you can.

Engineering. I WANT SHIELDS.

*breathes hard*

If what I think this is.. where in grave danger.
if it's what it is..... I"ve only seen this once

I got here as quick as I good what is going on??

*The three first Asteroids in front line crashes on the Station, causing average damage and lowly weakening shields. And when they break, they liberate flow of seekers spacedrones. They immediately grab the Hull of the station and start to open a hole in the Hull, knowing that they will die in their effort.
Daughter is approaching, her stone skin ready for the battle and for gaining informations from the computers communications of the Station.*
....Faster! Faster!
*And the rest of the sub-armada increases speed in direction of Avalon Base.*

°°°Satisfaction
°°°Station opening fire
°°°Satisfaction
°°°DAUGHTER
°°°Attack now!
*The Daughter of Mother's armada makes a last effort and crashes on the hull of the Station. And stay glued to the Hull, destroying the Shields node around and opening a hole in the hull.
Then.....*
....Activating Matrix
...300 human beings around
...Beam eggs
*Full pain for the StarFleet personal running in the corridors. They are immediately caught by a ray and an egg is beamed inside their body. A small instant later and new drones are added in the Daughter's womb.*
...Found communications nodes in hull
...Mother?
*Strong vibration from Mother*
°°°SCAN
°°°NOW!!!
...scanning........

"We are not going to hold them off with our defenses, I've just send an SOS to the Evolution we may have help on our hand soon. But first let's get these bastards away from the Computer core"

*Montrell activated all weapons and quantum torpedoes were launched at "Daughter" which harmed the creature in several ways, but was it enough?*

*acknowledged*

Nocturnus to Engeering begin emergency transport to shuttlebay 3.

Mr montrell clear the dock schedule

"energise"

Nocturnus to Montrell, What the #### just happened.

it's like they just left in some great hurry.. or excitement.

*Evolution drops out of warp in the sector, haling the Station and the Admiral´s ship*

=A=Evolution to Avalon=A=

This is Lt. Commander Zephram Lagos, chief engineer of the USS Evolution, acting command officer. What is going on Sir, and we can do to help you?

*comes running in*

ooo whoops

*salutes Vorak* welcome back sir.

under normal circumstances the station would look alot cleaner *grins*

"Most unusual, everything. It appears my absence has not benefited the station. I will have to establish my presence again to turn chaos into order here once more."

"Yes, that sounds like a logical idea, Mr. Nocturnus. I have sent a subspace message to the Corporation, but it may take some time for them to receive it, or for us to receive their reply. I still await a word from them.
Mr. Montrell, give the repairs primary attention regarding the defense systems and sensors. That way, we will be able to know when another entity is on its way to us, and have some defenses available for in case it does."

"Good news.  The Corporation has sent word that they will come to our help.  I hope we may face this perilous threat together and beat it."

*runs from one console to the other*

"What a good time to have a battle...we have NO starships and more high ranked officers are on away missions..."

*Runs over to the engineering console*

"Shields are up and running sir, weapons are charching in case we need them. I shall try to contact Mr Winterspoon on a coded channel"

*Daughter is increasing her matrix speed. Already 600 people have become new Drones. But it's not enough for her. And her transport rays are flashing on every available decks by waves at full speed per second.
In the same time, she finds a way to enter the Computers of the StarFleet Station. With a great satisfaction, she inform Mother of her progress.*
...Connection to Computers now
...Scanning in DataBases...
°°°SATISFACTION!!!
°°°Priority
°°°Search for Reports about Zygon Technology
...Your Priority my priority
....800 Seekers in womb
°°°Satisfaction
*One more scream and Mother adds an other sub-armada of 5 Asteroids and 10 000 Seekers Drones*

*Activates the transporterbeam and Admiral Nocturnus was beamed away*

"Allright, activating shields around OPS again and now let's clear the dock schedule and make room for the admiral"

*Admiral Montrell was busy, he fired at the daughter again so Admiral Nocturnus had a free passage out of the dockingbay. Montrell hoped everything went fine, he couldn't contact the admiral because communications were down and they were not to be repaired from the inside*

hey montrell why u were busy.. I took the liberty of overriding your quarters lock..

you seem to have bought a tribble.

He shuts down the computer and leaves his office to make his "round" through the station and inform the necessary departments of the people that worked there and were killed or missing in action.

"Sir, our tractorcontrol has just been damaged. Shots have been fired upon it and I can see a small shuttle leaving our spacesector.
Engineers are on their way to repair the damage"

"I think the same thing as we are doing now, sir"

*Montrell activated OPS Defenses*

"Well we ar safe for now, but we need to get the being away from the station. Maybe we can lure it to space again, by flying a shuttle to her vicinity?
I am volunteering for the job admiral, I could transport back to the station before I detonate the shuttle. I would ofcourse be carrying more explosives so that the creature is heavily damaged"

*With those last words the station began to shiver again*

"We have to act quickly admiral....."

*Scrreeeeaaaaaaaammmmm!!!!
Daughter 1 feels the impacts on her skin and the damages of her shape.*
...Sa-tis-fac-tion!!!!
...Energy! ENERRRGGGYYYY!!!
*In an instant, she swallows the kinetic energy of the explosions and the rais of the Phasers. And....
Daughter 1's skin repairs itself quasi immediately and the spheric Shape of the small libing planet is increasing of 22%*
....Satisfactionnnnnnnnnn
°°°SATISFACTION
...1200 Drones in womb
...Increasing matrix speed
...Now, 2000 drones
...Question
...Question
...Mother
°°°Share informations
.....Databases found in StaFleet Computers
°°°Give informations
...Ship-Of-Death Whallalah
...Localisation : Morgenstern Planet Sector 989-det-223-145
...DujYay Revanche
....Localisation : ....... same location
°°°PLANET MORGENSTERN
°°°CONFIRMATION!!!
°°°NOW!!!
....Confirmation
*You could hear Mother screams with rage and fury!!!*
°°°Decision
°°°Ignore Avalon Station
....Drones creation uncompleeeeeeete!!!
....Motherrrrrr
°°°DECISION TAKEN!!!
*A new strong scream from Mother...
And all the Armada retreats from the Avalon Station to reintegrate the Cloud of Mother, even the Seekers with their preys ready to be transformed in new Drones.
With a little *sigh* scream, Daughter 1 leaves the Avalon Station Hull and joins the Cloud.*
...Configuration Shape 122%
...Drones number 3458
...Propagation not accomplished
°°°°Informations Mission fully accomplished
...Question
°°°40 000 Drones possibilities on Morgenstern
*Daughter 1 screams with delight.
A rumbeling vibration, a new orientation and the Cloud of Mother speeds in the black horizon of the Delta Quadrant, in direction of the Borders of the Nebula.*
°°°Corporation............
*A flash and the Cloud disappears*

*Puts a smile on his face*

"Well I thought that Adm. Nocturnus volunteerd for that job, while you were away Adm. Vorak "

*Goes back to work again and doesn't want to hear the admirals response...*

"Ow...Admiral I contacted the science departement and I am awaiting their reply"

*Repaircrews were working around the clock to get everything in order again*

"Well we've now got the comms back online...let's get to the defenses systems..Lieutenant"

*Montrell and the Lieutenant scanned and tried to repair the defensive systems*

°°°Comet approaching Station.
°°°Impact : 10 seconds
°°°Scanning and anticipation
°°°Question : strengh of Shields?
°°°°Stand-by
*10, 9, 8,....... And the Vulcano Comet is in range of Avalon Station*
°°°Observation

Mr Montrell. Seal off Ops.. standby emergency Transport.

arghh.. what would Master Vorak do.

"Yes Sir, Engineering sais they have a shuttle waiting for you in shuttlebay 3...explosives are on their way. It's best if you transported directly to the shuttlebay sir, then this room can stay secured with those closed doors...I can drop the shielding around this chamber for some seconds..."

*Begins tapping his controls*

"Ow and for I forget....the Evolution is probably on it's way. I had the chance to reach them before the communications went offline....let's hope they reach us on time. Admiral...transporters are ready and your shuttle is too..."

"It would be illogical to dock to the only operational bay that should remain available for emergencies.  I will use my shuttelcraft's transporters to beam over to the station. I do not believe it is necessary to ask if your shields are up.  Vorak out."

A moment later, Vorak's shuttle goes into orbit around the station and the admiral materializes next to Montrell at the station's ops.

"Very well.  So you had a report, you said?"

"Sir, communications are almost online. Then we can communicate with our ships...."

*Montrell and a couple of Lieutenants were busy with the communications node*

"Done sir...you can use the comm again, I hope "

Sir.. reports from security personell indicate  that there are quiet a few peope missing on the station. Some are dead sir.

Would u like me to prepare a report and a letter of apology to their loved ones sir/?