Mission 12: "When It Rains..."

[T'lana]

"Then perhaps the reputation of Starfleet Engineers is secure." As Morgan got up for a drink and asked T'lana if she wanted something, stated."

"A hot chocolate thank you."

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar gestured with her hands as she explained.

"Jedi scholars have tried to come up with that very answer. The closest answer anyone has come up with, is that the force is an energy field, a universal life force of living energy. Life creates it and in turn, it creates life."

Chaya continued, "To many superstitious sapients in my galaxy it is magic. To the Jedi it is a unifying field of living energy. Those like many who are force-sensitive, can manipulate the force, bending it and in turn everything else to our will. But the force also speaks to us, telling us it's will, but in subtle ways."

Chaya Sar looked at a PADD on the desk and a two seater form couch behind her.

"Accessing the force you can achieve feats that are otherwise impossible, from the smallest objects, for instance that data device, to even that couch behind me."

Raising her hand she accessed the force, the atmosphere of the Ready Room seemed to become charged as the PADD lifted off the desk and remained suspended in the air. Further manipulation caused the PADD to fly around the room and settle back down onto the desk.

"Size doesn't matter when it comes to the force."

Chaya stood and accessed the force again, causing the couch to float up off the floor by itself, raising up to the ceiling and then settling back down to the floor.

Chaya Sar sat back down in the chair.

"If the need arose, I could just as simply manipulate this vessel, or even a planet. But that is not our way. Most if not all Force-Users only utilize a small fraction of what the force can do, as the old idiom suggests: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We are trained not to go beyond that which is required to complete certain tasks."

[T'lana]

"With your permission Captain." T'lana made it clear with a gesture that she was going to go down to the Shuttle Bay.

As the Captain nodded, T'lana headed for the turbolift, looking at Morgan as she went.

"Chief, your with me."

T'lana waited in the turbolift as Morgan, herself and Captain Taurik, headed for the Shuttle Bay.

=A=T'lana to Medbay=A=

"Chief Medical Officer to Shuttle Bay One."

=A=T'lana Out=A=

Commander Morgan Freeman, Captain Taurik and Lieutenant Commander T'lana arrived at Shuttle Bay one, meeting the security contingent on the way.

T'lana and Morgan walked up to the vessel, that was clearly some form of highly advanced Starfighter and looked around it. T'lana noticed ladder ingresses in the fuselage and climbed up to a seating position on the forward section near the canopy.

Taking out a Tricorder, T'lana seemed to always keep on her person, she scanned the canopy and it's occupant.

"Captain, the pilot appears to be a female humanoid and definitely in some form of suspended animation. The stasis she is in appears to be congruent with the cockpit, opening the canopy should bring the pilot out of suspended animation."

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar was pleased to be doing something constructive, although a peace keeper by nature, it was a good feeling to be useful.
As the force is in no way telepathy, Chaya used her force sense ability to see the invaders' aura through the door.
Once the Heraani were just outside the door, Chaya activated it and before the invaders could react, one of them was force pushed against the adjacent bulkhead. In one quick and precise action, the Heraani was cleaved in two by Chaya's Lightsaber, leaving the other to Taurik's attack.

[Larial]

Larial and the repair crew assigned to conduit maintenance had finally finished their work. With Larial's help, the repairs took half the time, which the engineering team thanked Larial for exuberantly.

Larial gave them a smile and stated "your welcome", then went back to engineering for another assignment.

"We finished the repairs on the damaged conduits father, if you would like to inspect them. Anything else I can help you with?"

[Taurik]

(OFF: I could have sworn I posted this already. Eh, must have gotten interrupted before submitting.)

"We never knew the Na'jigat were expanding beyond the galactic core. It seems we underestimated them once again."

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar looked at the data and sighed.

"Yes, I know what happened now. You see, where I am from, all Hyperdrives are programmed to not work within the influence of a significant gravity well like a planet or star. In Hyperspace, if the Hyperdrive detects the same form of gravity well, it is programmed to drop to normal space, in order for recalculation of the Navigation Computer for another jump. So the previous administration of my galaxy, the Galactic Empire created vessels that could simulate a gravity well, making a Hyperspace transitioning vessel drop to normal space, where they can then capture the occupants.
Even though the Empire is no more, pirates and other disreputable beings, including those who wish the Empire to return to power, utilize these installations for their cause. Whatever that may be."

[Givrillian Sarpedon]

"Aye, Ma'am!" Sarpedon said firmly, as he began powering up the new drive. It took slightly longer than a normal Warp drive, since the computer was completely unfamiliar with the thing. Eventually, Sarpedon had it powered up, and the ship jumped forward into Transwarp speeds.

"Course set, Transwarp drive engaged. Drive power fluctuations are stable....BattleGroup Thirteen is following. All systems normal" he reported.

[Chaya Sar]

~"Indeed I do, thank you for the information. The Blue Harvest and I are at your disposal. I take it you do not know who these allies are? Or where they are? I will meditate on this."~

[lpeters]

Peters stepped aboard the Rivendell after being assigned there following completion of his Academy course.

*10 minutes later*

Peters found his quarters and stepped inside to see a rather large room from what he was used to from the academy with all the usual 'features'. He dropped his bag and had a look around, he was actually quite impressed with the view that he had looking out over the area as ships came and went. He thought he might as well go and report in so all he had to do now was find her.

"Computer, locate Lieutenant Commander T'lana," he said, this was 1 of the first thing's he had checked when he was assigned to the Rivendell.

"Lieutenant Command T'lana is in Engineering," the reply was ice cold like all Computer Voices.

He dropped his bag in the middle of the floor, straightened his uniform and left for engineering.

*5 minutes later*

Peters finally stepped into engineering after getting lost a couple of times and headed towards a Commander. He saluted.

"Sir, i'm looking for Lieutenant Commander T'lana. Could you tell me where she is please?" he asked.

[Holographic Officer Beta]

Beta powered the phasers to 50%, and set them to the exit path of a craft flying out of the shuttlebay, just in case, and linked himself to the tactical station's systems, allowing himself limited control while not at the station. He then sent an electronic message to various points throughout the ship:

<center>\\Attention://

Security Team Beta to Shuttlebay

By order of Ensign Beta
Chief Tactical/Security Officer

\\Message Ends//</center>

"Consider it done, Captain." he said, as his holographic image disappeared from the bridge, reappearing at the armoury nearest the shuttlebay. Grabbing a rifle, he walked the rest of the way, setting the weapon to stun.

[Larial]

"Oh I see, I am sorry father."

Larial closed her eyes reconnecting with the Main Computer, she altered the Engineering repair schedule and repaired the corruption to the Computer's Operating System.

Disconnecting, she opened her eyes and looked to her father.

"It is done, I have updated the repair schedule and fixed the corrupted files of the Computer."

[T'lana]

"It is logical to assume that if she were able to return to her own galaxy, she would have mentioned it. It is also logical to assume that if her Starfighter's Navigation Computer was able to lock onto another galaxy, that they would have explored our galaxy as well. I do have an idea of how to get Chaya back to her own galaxy, but it is not without risk and it would require large amounts of energy. More energy than is commonly available with the technology of the known species of this galaxy. It seems that despite Chaya's galaxy's higher technological advancements in the field of propulsion, Hyperspace travel does seem to have some draw backs."

[Taurik]

With his proximity to the central Borg unicomplex, Taurik found it increasingly difficult to shut out the billion-strong voice of the Collective.

"I hope you realize," Taurik said, "that by keeping me hostage, you've attracted not only the attention of Starfleet, but that of the Gallifreyan Order as well. You must be optimistic to believe that your plan will succeed."

[Taurik]

"Very well. Inform the doctor to tell me if there are any significant health issues caused by the jumpdrive."

Taurik sat back in his chair at the center of the bridge. "Engage jump, Petty Officer."