Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"

[Simon Rajnus]

"I been teaching Dolan here some ole Intel tricks of the trade.  I was also responsible for the rift generator going all wrong and these good people came to my rescue.  The Lothlorien is a good ship, Admiral.  Very good ship, and its crew are VERY! capable.  Dont worry about the ship problem.  Im still recovering from the loss of the USS Newyork B.  I been keeping busy at the academy till they shut the place down.  I was teaching tactical to students.  Ahh the fun of the holodeck." Simon smirked as he returned the Admiral's embrace.

[Raszagal]

Raszagal leaped just in time to intercept the Heraani commander, parrying his blades with her own khala. The force, however, knocked her to the ground, but both herself and Ensign Morganth were alive. She jumped back to her feet in one move, and stared the tall Heraan down, her khala blade burning with psionic energy.

"Face someone who can actually defend themselves, Heraani dog," Raszagal said with a calm expression on her face.

[Simon Rajnus]

<As sparks flew everywhere and consoles continued to explode all around the bridge as the shields were dropped then raised again, the ship continued to dive straight for the planet surface with more velocity then originally expected>

"STATUS!" Simon yelled as bulk heads fell and fires started all over the bridge.

[Aaron Cloud]

Cloud downloads all the medical files and abruptly gets up and goes back to work in the bay.

[Thomas Richards]

"With some fine-tuning of the system, depending on his distance from the ship, yes Sir."

[Raszagal]

"He must be new," the young alien said, exchanging a glance with Dolan. "I'm a Gallifreyan."

Suddenly, the colonel came barging into the chamber, and everyone turned to look. "We think we've got a way out of this," Raszagal offered. "It's down to either two choices. We either break into the primary security subroutines and delete the self-destruct script without causing further security measure to go off, or we manually defuse the charges that control the self-destruct reaction, and then try to restore systems manually."

[Balkazar]

=^= "Yes, Eastwood, hes been out on medical reasons." =^= was all Balkazar said over his commbadge while waiting for Keller to respond.

[Voyager]

Dolan finished reviewing the report on the PADD and rejoined the group.

"Admiral, the ship's status report," said Dolan as he offered Admiral Yates the PADD.

After the Admiral took it, he turned to Simon and asked, "I was just wondering, are the nanites going to stay in the ship's systems permanently or will they be taken out?  I don't think they are any danger, unless  we encounter the Borg, and if the nanites continue to repair any damage the ship might accumulate, repairs might be finished sooner than normal, which would be a great benefit, especially in critical situations."

[Balkazar]

=^= "Acknowledged Raszagal.  I hope everything went as planned." =^= Balkazar said over his commbadge.

<Then he lead his battle wearied marines out of the combat zone and watched the Heraani vessel fly over and settle down near the Lothlorien.  Balkazar marched side by side with his command staff and every now and then helped the marines carry the equipment, about an hour passed and they were at the Lothlorien, the less experienced of the marine Battalions dropped to their knee's and Balkazar went over to talk to Voyager>

"Voyager mind explaining why a half battalion of battle hardened and experienced marines went with you to destroy omega per my orders and only 30 returned back!!!" it was obvious that Balkazar was stressed but it didnt help to see only 30 marines returned from destroying Omega.

[Voyager]

Dolan almost groaned at the sound of the voice speaking again.

=@= Hostile takeover imminent.  Any surviving crew members abandon ship.  Powering down engines.  Emergency protocol systems shutting down.  Non-vital systems shutting down.  Vital systems shutting down.  Self-destruct will commence in 15 minutes, with a one-hour countdown. =@=

Dolan suddenly floating in mid-air as gravitational plating disengaged.  All of the doors to the corridor opened up again and the forcefields were let down.  He was deeply worried.  Vital systems included life support and from what he gleaned from the ship's specifications, it only circulated enough atmosphere for about 2 hours before reaching critical levels of carbon-dioxide and requiring the reactivation of life support.  He pondered on the situation momentarily before coming up with a solution.

"Raszagal, why don't we shut down whatever mechanism that powers the self-destruct?  We could then wipe the computer of this security program."

Dolan managed to balance himself in the zero-gravity environment.  It was somewhat akward, but it would have to do.

"So do you have any clue how the ship self-destructs?"

[William Richerd]

((Sorry, I had finals week and well... I had to make sure I was ready for the tests, my apologies))

Richerd was behind the destroyed top curve area of the once full deflector dish, some of the enemy was trying to come in through this section of the ship and so far they had been holding off, however he didn't know if they were going to get reinforcements on either sides.

He had stopped giving orders due to the nature of the fight and so far... they have been able to hold them from gaining any ground. Alas, they have not been able to push forward and they have already suffered three deaths in the front lines, one of them was one of three Marine medics that he was given... he was really worried that they would try and pick them off, so he was trying hard, he was also ignoring a burn on his shoulder but the pain killer he had been given was starting to lose it's effect, or maybe his adrenaline was flushing it out of his system faster, he was not sure but he was not going to lose any ground to the enemy.

[Quinn]

"Sorry sir, I got knocked out when I went out and followed Richards to aid the marines," He replied quickly, glancing over his shoulder.

[Dar'Nas]

(( OOC: Let the guy have his fun? So you want me to say "could you maybe in your spare time help stop us all from dying?? http://www.expansionfleet.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>))

" Your reprorgamming is complete " Came the response "I am sorry to take up your disembowlment time, and your insults are not effictive when no emotion is present. Now you may help now."

Dar'Nas was examing the self destruct charges and realizes that if the computer dected that the charge was being removed it might increse the security so he set up a dampening field around that section of the drive and reported to his superior.

[Raszagal]

(OFF: Sensors superior to the Puma... you just had to, huh? :P)

"I was under the impression that the crash site was already secured by other members of the crew."

Raszagal pressed a button to open a comm channel, and keyed in "B-4" on the keypad. "This is Recon Sierra to base," she called, "I repeat, Recon Sierra to base. We're detected a large landing force approximately seven-point-four kilometers from the Lothlorien and closing. Be on guard, Sierra out."

[Aaron Cloud]

OFF: Grins, sorry David, had to poke fun, its certainly nostalgic.

IC:

Cloud brushes his uniform off.

"Sir, with all due respect, I am the doctor here. If you are not going to allow examinations, which could possibly squash any chance of an epidemic occuring, then I may have no choice but to pull out an ace."

He pauses, smirking.

"I do have the authority to relieve you of your command if I feel you are...unable to command coherently, or risk the lives of the crew."

Cloud fixes Balkazar a hard stare.

"Sir, do not force my hand. It would be simple if you agreed."