Rivendell Mission 4: Defend Space Station Avalon

[Montrell]

=A= Priority One Encoded Message for Captain Taurik from Admiral Montrell =A=

"Captain Taurik, good to see you in one piece! I want to inform you about our plans to attack the Loxian flagship. We are about to board the ship with a small assault team and let them place several explosive charges. If they succeed, they will have a second objective. They will then try to gain access to their computers. Maybe we will be able to extract information, if not, we will blow the ship up without any hesitation.
But for this plan to work, we need you and other ships to concentrate their firepower upon their impulse and warpdrive. They may not, I repeat, NOT come closer to the station, or else we won't be able to blow the ship up. The exact point of infiltration and missionbriefing will be sent to you when the assault team is ready to go.
That was all Captain,I wish you good luck in the next couple of hours and I hope we speak again http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>.

             =A= Admiral Montrell out =A=

[belanna]

*enters the room*

sir here's a tactical status off all weapons as well as our own inventory of weapons

[Taurik]

=/\= All hands, prepare for multi-vector separation. I repeat, prepare for separation. =/\=

"Commander Travis, you will once again command the primary stardrive section. Commander Freeman will be busy with battlefield repairs, so Lieutenant Walker, you have command of the secondary stardrive section. I will stay here on the saucer section."

[Taurik]

(OFF: I'm on the station right now. Didn't you have a bar you wanted to start on the ship? That might help a bit.)

[Mitch Walker]

Mitch walks onto the bridge from astrometrics.  He nods to the captain and commander as he takes his seat. Mitch sits and taps a few buttons on his console.  

[Solark Baklavar]

Captain. CAPTAIN!!. The U.S.S. Skytoucher has turned to attack our ships. It's either the ships been shanghaiied or the crew has been taken over. Something is majorly wrong!!! I am setting coordinates for evasive maneuvering to try to evade the skytoucher's firing. I strongly suggest full volley concentrating of the M-4 Photon torpedos to be focused on the flagship to divert the heaviest focus of their ship away from the Avalon base to us until problems can be figured out on what to do with the Skytoucher. Your call Captain. I will fire at your command at the Flagship with a focused volley of the M-4's. Firing phasers currently at the second Loxian ship.

(Another phaser was shot with another direct hit to knock the other small ship out of the atmosphere. )

Blast that is going to hurt. Ick. Awaiting orders. Shields holding at 90%. Weapons systems are holding at 100%. Weapons being reloaded and locked up for targeting. Weapons ready. Energy being diverted from what engineering has spared up coming up now. Shields holding 100% once more.

Scanners indicate Skytoucher crew are STILL on board. Their weapons are fully functional and their shields are holding. That's is what I am getting. Awaiting orders.

[Loxians]

*The Loxian Prime Commander stands at the bridge, looking on the viewscreen at how the battle is progressing. Ships are firing and being fired upon all around his flagship, but it is clear that the Starfleet ships are suffering most damage. They are hopelessly outnumbered. The Prime Commander turns to his second-in-command.*
"Behold this battle. This is why we, the Loxian Government, are great, and people like Starfleet or the Loxian Exiles, are weak."
*At that moment, another officer informs the Prime Commander of an incoming hail from Avalon Station, stating that they want to know why the Loxians attack them, and that they prefer to talk instead of fight. The Prime Commander laughs.*
"Weaklings, that's what they are! Trying to get away with excuses of not knowing why we are attacking them. Open a channel to Avalon Station!"
*The other officer pushes some buttons.*
"Channel open, sir."
"Avalon Station, this is the Prime Commander of the Loxian Government fleet. We did not come all the way here with our fleet, spending our energy resources to fuel our ships and feed our men, just to talk to you! You know why we are here. You have captured some of our men, and we will not accept such an insult. For this insult, you will pay and suffer dearly. There is nothing to be talked about, except perhaps about how we will utterly wipe out your entire existance in the Delta Quadrant! Prepare to be destroyed!"
*Then he cuts the transmission. At that moment, the officer points his attention to the viewscreen, displaying the appearance of the U.S.S. Skytoucher.*
"Sensor readings match perfectly, sir! It is the ship that sent us the information from our spying device."
*The Prime Commander smiles.*
"Good, very good. They will be in for a surprise, when they find out how advanced our technology really is! Do you have the access codes of the Skytoucher?"
*The officer checks his panel.*
"I have them all right here, sir. All access codes of the ship as provided by the device. We can take full control over their ship at any time."
"Good. DO IT!"
*At that moment, the Skytoucher suddenly stops firing at Loxian ships, but remains hanging in space... The crew aboard the ship discovers that they are being locked out of all computer panels, no longer able to control any system of the ship.*
"Control of the ship has been tranferred to our ship, sir."
"Good. Now transmit orders to the ship's main computer, to come about and attack their own Starfleet ships instead! And set a self-destruct countdown for 10 minutes!"
*The officer puts the commands into his computer panel.*
"Aye sir, the ship is responding!"
*The Prime Commander turns back to the viewscreen, and sees how the Skytoucher opens fire on the U.S.S. Venture and U.S.S. Rivendell. Aboard the Skytoucher, the crew is entirely obvlious of what just happened, and hear a 10 minutes countdown of the ship's self-destruct sequence...*

[Taurik]

Taurik was in the pure-white place again. He looked around, trying to find anyone or anything else here. He turned around, and behind him, was Sam Lavelle again.

"You have eluded us. This was unexpected. The destruction of Dantor was not supposed to be so difficult."

Taurik raised an eyebrow. "You persist in bringing me here. You were defeated at Dantor, as defeated as a Na'jigat could be. Starfleet has proved it's unwillingness to sumbit several times now."

Lavelle stared at Taurik with cold, unemotional eyes. "Starfleet has done nothing," he said. "The Gallifreyans defeated us. As they have for countless millenia, and vice-versa. And that is how it will continue. Every time the Gallifreyans save you from us, they become weaker. The Gallifreyans are not like us. They can be killed. Destroyed. And when they protect you, they sacrifice many of their own in their shift of priority."

"The Gallifreyans respect life, and willingly sacrifice themselves to save those of other species. The Na'jigat are obsessed by their all-consuming quest for food."

"We help maintain the balance. We are the necessary evil of the galaxy. The Gallifreyans are the Yin, and we are the Yang. Without either, the galaxy would not be complete. Keep this in mind, young corporeal..."

Taurik jolted awake, and extinguished his candle, and replaced it in his drawer. He sat in his chair and began to ponder his latest experience.

[Morgan Freeman]

Addressing Lt. Walker
 Captain Taurik is in the admirals office, if you need anything that I can help you with.  

Addressing Commander Baklavar
 We are docked.  Prepare a damage report on your tactical systems.  So far we have about 27 pages of damage on the list and it keeps growing.  Damage repair teams should be reporting within the hour.  Maybe we can get the ship semi functional.

Freeman wanders around the bridge adding data to his padd.  

[Taurik]

Captain Taurik exits from the turbolift and sits in his Command chair.

=/\= All hands, this is the Captain. Report to battlestations and await further instructions. =/\=

"Helm, begin disengagement procedures. Initiate tactical alert. Raise shields and place all weapons on standby."

[Solark Baklavar]

Tactical Systems in the saucer section will be in near 100% efficiently in the next 24 to 48 hours. Would you like me to do another security round while you do your diagnostics. Miss Belanna.

[Mitch Walker]

Mitch spun around in his chair to face the captian's seat.

"Sir, permission to go to the astrometrics lab, we need to figure out who these ships are, with the astrometric sensors, I can better reference and determine how many ships there are."

[Solark Baklavar]

Off: YOU are a strange one. I JUST brought that forward for a proposal.......................................................LOL. YOU ARE GOOD!!! http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>. It's in the process expect it soon within the next week or so once I am on X-mas vacation.  Excellent and thank you. http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>.)

[belanna]

sir might i sugest deverting power from all non essantial systems to weapons and shields

[Mitch Walker]

Taurik's calm enter's the lietuenant's mind.  He is quieted.  Then he falls unconsious again.