Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"

[Simon Rajnus]

<The helmsmen called out reporting that they will reach the lower atmosphere of the planet in several minutes, they soon started to rapidly descend as the Heerani fighters closed in and fired on the Lothlorien.  Soon her warp nacelle's were hit forcing them to go down even quicker>

=^= "Col, get to the planet ASAP.  We wont beable to hold this altitude for long." =^= Simon said as the ship shook and consoles exploded sending crewmen literally flying in the air.

[Aariya Sayuri]

She couldn't help but laugh a little. "Well, you're quite correct. My father was a diplomat. He specialized in trade agreements between governments, factions, and alliances. At times he got himself into things that weren't entirely above board, even if he didn't realize it until it was.. too late. I'm sure you arleady knew that much, though.." She trailed off for a moment. "My mother.. was a casualty of one such incident, and her file has been classified due to the gritty details. I'm sure you already knew that, too.."

"As for your last question.." she paused once more, choosing her words carefully. "well, let's just say that I've been keeping a low profile and keep it at that, shall we?" She laughed once more. "Even someone who loves her job as much as I do needs a break once in a while. I'm sure you can understand.."

[Quinn]

"Damn," Quinn muttered to himself as he picked up a phaser rifle and followed Brown, he wanted to just stay there and relax but that didn't seem to be an option anymore.

As they exited the ship he got into a crouching position and fired a few blind bursts at a group of Heraani, it didn't matter if he killed any- it was just meant to slow them down. Quinn got to his feet and tried his best to keep up behind Brown, while firing at what ever he can.

[Voyager]

Dolan was surprised that the ship's counselor was going to be briefed on the situation.  He stood up, extended his hand and said, "Lieutenant Dolan, Chief Science Officer and temporary Chief Engineer of this ship.  You arrived just in time -- the briefing is about to start."

((OOC: The briefing is about to start, right?))

[Voyager]

OOC: How about if I make it more difficult http://www.expansionfleet.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

IC:
As Dar'Nas's translation program was being uploaded to all of the tricorders, updates pending, there was a sudden lockout by the ship's computer when the first person tried to use it.  A strange voice started speaking over the ship's comm.  Fortunately, the Universal Translator could do verbal translations and Dolan grew worried at the message.

=@= Stage 3 security breach detected.  Hostiles have seized control of critcal areas.  Initiating Emergency Protocol 53 Alpha.  Lockout commencing. =@=

After several minutes, the lockout appeared complete, as the voice spoke up again.

=@= Lockout complete.  Subspace distress call initiated.  Emergency forcefields and bulkheads engaged.  Communications dampening field activated.  Clearance Passwords now encrypted and upgraded to Level 3 and above. =@=

The doors to engineering suddenly closed and were unreachable due to the forcefields that now surrounded them.  Dolan felt he could safely assume the same thing was happening throughout the ship.  He began working on compensating his combadge signal for the dampening field.  However, once he was successful, the voice suddenly came back.

=@= Stage 4 security breach detected.  Hostiles have bypassed several safety measures.  Initiating Initiating Emergency Protocol 53 Gamma.  Ship wide lockout initiated.  Clearance Passwords have been upgraded to Level 4 and above. =@=

Dolan was now extremely worried.  He turned to Raszagal and said, "Now we have to fight a ship...these Heraan really know how to make other people's lives tough, even if they're dead.  So do you have any idea how to get a level 4 or above clearance password?"

[John Moore]

"Colonel, General; My team is ready. We going to be guard duty, or we going with the General?"

~I keep hearing them say the word 'Omega', what does that mean?~

~It's part of the ancient Greek alphabet on Earth~

~Greek? Are they they same as Salmons?~

~No, they are not the same as Salmon! They....ah, just shut up.~

[Nathen Keller]

*Nate was worreid he would n ot catch up with Hk in time to assist in any strik he might be tring to conduct but about 30 minutes of hard trudging through dense forest he saw the droid and his companion in front of him on a mountain ledge scouting ahead at the Heeran landing parties. He approached silently to prevent detection from the enemy.*

"Hk47? I am Lt. Colonel Nate, I am going to assum command of this unit under Colonel Balkazars authority. What do you have to report as of thus far?"

[Voyager]

((OOC: As I said earlier, I only changed my avatar so I won't have to do it 5 minutes before I headed to my bus stop for school.  I haven't been officially promoted yet.  And I didn't know the New Orleans class has seats at the station on the bridge.))

Dolan was confused about Rajnus's statement and said, "Sir, I'm an Ensign, not a Lt."

[Balkazar]

<Balkazar pushes the Lt. Commander aside roughly as several marines were rushing about to carry supplies and wounded in, then tugged on his Collar to pull him back as Richerds was ordering the surviving Puma's into the ship, then forced the Unfortunate Commander to duck his head as several marines were carrying heavy artillery and mortar equipment onboard>

"Med.......No, we have wounded to take care of so why dont you go take care of them to make yourself useful." Balkazar said as he rushed to help a Private carry a rather heavy box containing Quantum rockets.

[Thomas Richards]

"Of course you were aware, Sir. The resourceful can bypass the security of even Starfleet Intelligence if their mind is set to it and they have the right tools. I know that there is more than meets the eye to you, Sir, and I know that your access goes a lot higher than a mere Starfleet Captain."

[Voyager]

Dolan was shocked at the attack by Heraani soldiers.  Fortunately for him, he had his phaser rifle off his back and in his hands moments after Powell sounded the alarm.  He opened fire on the charging Heraani and was even more shocked when they didn't falter after being hit several times on the stun setting.  He raised it to kill and was a little relieved when they dropped to the floor, but only unconscious.  He continued to fire continuously at the remaining Heraan along with the marines.  Several of the marines were critically injured but the Heraan attacking them were knocked unconscious before more damage could be done.

[Voyager]

Suddenly, the ship violently shuddered.  Dolan managed to keep his footing and saw the fighters and the carrier had started firing torpedoes at the Lothlorien.  One of the fighters then seemed to lose helm control as it crashed into another of the fighters after being hit by a phaser burst from the Lothlorien.

"Captain, the Heraani carrier seems to be preparing to deploy more fighters.  And they have a lot more to deploy...I suggest we hurry."

[Raszagal]

Raszagal kicked off of the Heraan's armor, flipping in the air and landing perfectly in a battle stance. She saw the damaged bracer on the ground and pulled it to her. Noticing it was still fully functional, she tore the rest of the mounting bracket from it, and held it as a sword. It contained a weaker form of Validium inside it as a focus, and produced a vibrant green blade, swirling with subtle psionic ribbons and weaves.

"Colonel," she called, "thank you for the effort, but this one is beyond you. Concentrate on keeping the others off of us. This one and I have our own fight."

[Voyager]

"Well, I'm still tinkering with a holographic prototype, but I don't see why I can't construct one now.  I'll get on it right away.  Thank you for your input."

Dolan left the bridge and headed for Cargo Bay 1.  Once there, he started constructing his prototype, starting with the basics.  He constantly referred back to his plans, which he had adjusted to allow for a small shield generator and for several other adjustments later on.  After about an hour and a half, he had finished with the simpler components of the phaser bank.  Fortunately, the prototype didn't really require any specially designed equipment.  The computer used for interface with the prototype and ran most of the phaser's processes was just a modified desktop monitor.  The other materials -- phaser emitters, isolinear chips, casing -- weren't too difficult to find.  He had to replicate most of the materials for the fusion reactor, the sensors, and the shield generator, since the spare parts on the ship were too large to be used for the phaser bank.  He decided to program the necessary algorithms and subroutines later, as they would be very time-intensive.

After finishing with the replications, Dolan stored everything away and headed back to the bridge, as they had almost arrived at the planet.  However, after a few minutes of watching the ship's sensors, a shockwave hit the ship, knocking everyone on the bridge who wasn't sitting off their feet.  The ship suddenly cut engines and all of the bridge consoles locked themselves down.  A symbol which Dolan recognized as the Greek letter Omega was displayed on the consoles.  He tried to override the lockout but nothing he did worked.  He glanced over at Admiral Yates and Rajnus, both of which had an alarmed look on their faces as several of the bridge officers reported the same problem Dolan had.

[John Moore]

"Raszagal, we have a few Betazoids here like myself. Is there any way that you could teach us to detect their thoughts? Or at least block them from making themselves unnoticeable to us?"