Mission 13: "The Heist"

[T'lana]

T'lana had sat at the main Science Station and commenced passive scans of the Hera System. Passive Scans are less efficient and take longer and are less accurate, but are less likely to be picked up than active scans are.

By the time they had reached the Hera System, T'lana had stopped the scans and had enough telemetry data of their insertion point, to safely advise Captain Taurik.

=A=Ship Wide=A=

"This is Commander T'lana, all hands battle stations, as of now we are in silent running mode. All security personnel to be carrying Type 2 Phasers and Type 3 Phaser Compression Rifles at all times."

=A=Bridge out=A=

>>>RED ALERT<<<

[Taurik]

The Cardinal Virtue sped out of the hangar bay, barely fitting out of the space doors. So far, the cloak was holding and the ship was undetected. Taurik guided the large vessel near to the Heraani station, and targeted an annular confinement beam just inside the hull of the station. He then set the ship to auto-pilot, which was very simple as the ship was to simply hover. He walked back out of the door to the cockpit, several meters down the corridor, and into the second hatch on the right, which was the cargo bay and armory.

The captain opened the weapons locker, which had several Federation personal arms inside. He retrieved a phaser rifle for Lieutenant Beta and Ensign T'Kar, and a hand phaser for himself and Lieutenant Stevens. He also made sure both of his khalai were firmly attached to his belt. This was Taurik's first active conflict in which he carried two Gallifreyan blades, a rare practice among Sentinels.

"Is everyone prepared? Once we transport aboard, we have no way back until the mission is complete."

After receiving three affirmative nods, Taurik was satisfied. "Computer," he said, "activate transporters. Four to beam to the preprogrammed destination."

The four Starfleet officers disappeared in an alien shimmer of green light, and were quickly reconstituted onboard the station.

Taurik tapped his commbadge, which had been tuned to a very fine, mission-specific frequency. "Mission clock begins now," he said.

[T'lana]

OOC: Oh get a life Voyager and stop posting these annoying continuity posts. Trust me when I say, I know what I am doing.

[T'lana]

T'lana noticed the Jedi Knight Aeryn Kae, trying to get her attention.

"That is up to you Aeryn. You are quite welcome to stay aboard the Rivendell. You may help us if we require your particular talents, which is quite often. You can try to return to your own galaxy. Or you can do whatever you would like in this galaxy. In order to use your vessels though, you will need starmaps."

T'lana began to talk with no one in particular.

"Computer, make a connection with the Viper and Blue Harvest, their Communications is Tachyon Based. Send all Stellar Cartography data to both ships."

Computer: Acknowledged, connection established. Downloading Stellar Cartography to the Viper and Blue Harvest...Download complete.

It was then that the Rivendell was struck. By the impact dynamics and the audible searing of the hull, T'lana deduced that it was plasma based.

=A=All Bridge Officer report to the Bridge. Security, prepare for possible boarding. All hands red alert."=A=

>>>RED ALERT<<<

As the tactical alert klaxon sounded throughout the Rivendell, T'lana made her way to the bridge at a fast walk.

Behind her T'lana could see that the Hangar crew were already locking down the space door and checking to see if every vessel was magnetically birthed.

On the Bridge, T'lana could see seven Heraani Capital Ships on the main viewer. Captain Taurik was already in his command chair, as T'lana walked onto the Bridge and sat at the Science Station. The only place on a Prometheus Class ship, the Executive Officer could be anyway. T'lana didn't mind, after all she was the Chief Science Officer before her promotion and being a Vulcan, ego doesn't come into play.

Checking sensors, T'lana reported to the Captain.

"Captain, it seems the Heraani were able to triangulate our position by calculating the direction of the spacetime fold. Which is not as simple as it sounds, it seems at least the Heraani vessels are quite advanced, more so than their space station. The technology seems to be Gallifreyan in origin."

[T'Kar]

T'Kar just walked off the turbolift when the ship rocked. He took his station and said," Captain, shields are at twenty four percent! The Gallifreyans should be here soon, but I cannot get the exact time." A console exploded near him. He shielded himself from the blast.

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar heard the evacuation call and ran to the Blue harvest's cockpit, firing up the engines. She then ran down the ramp to look for Aeryn and saving as many of the crew as she could. Finding Aeryn, Chaya Sar sheparded as Aeryn and the crew she could find onto the Blue Harvest.

Once Chaya Sar had as many people as she could find, she closed the ramp of the Blue Harvest and cycled the airlock. Making her way to the cockpit, Chaya piloted the old but powerful Corellian Freighter out of the Rivendell.

Chaya Sar use the quad turreted turbolasers of the Blue Harvest to assist Sarpedon in helping the crew escape from the Rivendell. When nothing else could be down, she piloted the freighter at 80 MGLT away from the target range of the attacking vessels. Then brought the Blue harvest to an all stop, ready to fight if need be, or help people survive.

[T'lana]

===DELETED===

[Taurik]

"Perhaps. I must meditate after recent events, we will speak more in person later."

Taurik left the medical bay and went to a set of guest quarters, where he pulled out a Gallifreyan meditation mat and began his ritual. Aside from regaining one's strength and centering one's mind, this is also the method in which Gallifreyans slept, therefore, there was no bed in his quarters.

[Taurik]

Taurik heard the medical officer's cry and dashed for the medical room. Upon arrival, he found the officer removing T'lana from her pod.

The medic looked grim. "Her higher brain functions were not fully suppressed, Master. It began to resist the effects of stasis and bring her body into animation again."

Taurik looked at the Vulcan officer, her severed arm beginning to release deep green blood once more. "Assemble the Sentinels!" he commanded sternly. "Perhaps we can stabilize her now. We must stabilize her now."

The medic rushed off to gather the most powerful telepaths onboard the Sanctity, and Taurik did his best to slow T'lana's blood pressure, pushing it as low as possible without reaching fatal levels. He also tried to touch her mind, but found her thoughts erratic, incoherent, most likely from blood loss to the brain.

[T'lana]

=A="Aye Captain."=A=

T'lana nodded to Morgan and moved out of the room, but not before turning to Larial.

"Larial, please finish this work, I am quite confident that you can repair any problems we have with the power supply and the Jump Drive."

Larial: "Yes T'lana, I will not let you or father down."

With that said, Larial got straight to work as T'lana and Morgan left the Engineering Lab.

Taking the forward turbolift to the Bridge, they walked directly to the Captain's Ready Room. T'lana then pressed the door chime and awaited permission to enter.

[T'lana]

T'lana referring to the Bridge crew stated, "As you wish Captain."

Referring to the Cloaking Device...

"I understand that sir, I am quite well aware that you would not have requested a cloaking device and you are right, not using such a device when it is available would be quite illogical."

[Taurik]

Taurik stepped from the command chair, and over to the tactical station, where a junior crewman was on duty. "You're dismissed, Crewman," were Taurik's only words. Since Lieutenant Beta was not on bridge duty, and he could not afford to allow junior officers access to the cloaking device, Taurik proceeded to man the tactical station himself.

After taking a moment to reacclimate himself to the Tactical layout (it had been a few years since his tenure on the Evolution), he said "Activating countermeasures," using a generic term for the cloak.

"Mr. Sarpedon," Taurik called from his station, "set a direct course for Hera and increase speed to warp factor nine-point-five."

[Lois]

"I'll be at my rounds.." Luke said to no one in particular as he attempted to steady himself while exiting the ship. He was never good with small crafts, even slow ones. Of course, huge starships shaking from enemies energy weapons wasn't any exception to that.

He reached out and held himself against the hull of the craft, and pushed off it. "Fans.." he mumbled as he ran out of the shuttle bay, heading towards the armory to get the burban of the weapons off him.

[The Gallifreyans]

--Onboard the Gallifreyan cruiser Sanctity--

"Thurokiir," the sensor officer called, "we are receiving the coordinates of the human ship."

Dechtakar was anxious to enter battle with the Heraan after this long, uneventful patrol. "Change our course to match and signal a response."

The Sanctity and her sister patrol cruiser altered course in their slipstream, and the blue corridor seemed to curve ahead of them. They disengaged their slipstream drives, and the two exotic warships dropped back into real space.

"This is Thurokiir Dechtakar of the Gallifreyan battlecruiser Sanctity," he said after opening a communications channel. "We have recieved your distress call, and we stand ready to assist you."

[Aeryn Kae]

Aeryn stepped into the cockpit behind Chaya. "Master Sar, we're not going to just sit here, are we? Shepherd crew away while their ship is destroyed and the slow ones get picked off? These people have helped us so much, and it feels like we're doing nothing."