Mission 13: "The Heist"

[Morgan Freeman]

Running into Ensign T'kar in the shuttlebay Morgan ordered him to the bridge to man the engineering console there while he went to engineering itself.  Upon arriving he found his crew in disarray not knowing what to do with themselves.  

"People, listen up, we need to do whatever we can to shore up the shield grid and keep the jump drive operational.  Alpha team you have the responsibility of the shield grid, beta team you have the jump drive."  The officers began to work around engineering with the precision Morgan had come to expect of them.

Tapping his combadge

=A= Freeman to Bridge =A=
Multi vector assault mode is online and standing by if needed. We are shoring up shields and the jump drive.
=A= Engineering out =A=

[Taurik]

"Thurokiir," the captain said in response, "your timing is impeccable."

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar turned to face Aeryn Kae nearly losing her temper.
"Of course not Aeryn, but turbolasers are not going to do much against those capital Ships and I also have my passengers to consider. I've been watching the battle tentatively and so far they are safe, good pilots these Starfleet..."

"...Oh Frack!" stated Chaya after sensing two of the shuttles were in danger.

"Now instead of insulting my integrity *Chaya Sar stated calmly* do you think you can handle a turret? You and Odona man the main guns please."

Swiveling back in her chair to face the front, mumbling to herself. One thing she couldn't stand more than the sith, was self-righteous subordinates.

Chaya gunned the engines of the Blue Harvest, bringing the vessel into the fray, which took a mere two seconds, given that the freighter had an extremely powerful Ion Engine and that they were only One Light-Second from the battle.

@"Begin firing Odona, Aeryn."@

Until Odona and Aeryn could get to the turbolaser batteries, Chaya used the concussion missiles, which were extremely powerful, but finite. The Blue Harvest only had Twenty Five concussion missiles in it's magazine, with an addition of ten proton torpedoes and five sonic charge mines, which had a secreted dropper near the ventral turbolaser battery.

[T'lana]

OOC: There is an OFF-GAME section for these sorts of things.
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[The Heraan]

Three heavy Dechanik class frigates dropped from slipspace into the vicinity of the Rivendell. The lead ship moved closer to the battered Starfleet vessel, it's two escorts flanking close behind.

"Fleet Master," came the telepathy of one of the Heraan bridge officers, "The Starfleet vessel appears disabled. The hull integrity is such that we could launch a salvage party."

"Indeed," came the Fleet Master's response. "Send parties, tell them to go for our data module first, and retrieve theirs while we are there."

The officer got up to go organize the raiding parties, but was stopped by the Fleet Master. "Wait," he said, "I'm going myself."

[THE BORG COLLECTIVE]

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The seven Borg Cubes had destroyed the Heraani Cruisers in a short period of time, but it was apparently long enough for the small fleet to protect lead vessel allowing it to escape.
What was left of the Heraani vessels was then tractor beamed, or transported into the Cubes for recycling and storage.

The seven Borg Cubes then opened a transwarp conduit and returned to the Unicomplex for a resupply of drones. Seven other Borg Cubes, advanced prototypes, entered Quantum Slipstream. The term prototype cubes isn't exactly an accurate statement, as there is more than one, in fact there are one thousand of these new Quantum Slipstream powered vessels. So far they have performed within expected parameters, but the transwarp hubs and vessel mounted transwarp drives have not yet become redundant.

The Borg Collective considered Quantum Slipstream to be the perfect form of faster-than-light travel. But having transwarp technology for so long, it was hard to part with a tried and true method of interstellar travel. But perfection is perfection, so here they are.

The destination of the Cubes, is spacial grid: 4152-6914-1365, the Dantor System, location of Avalon Station.

[T'Kar]

OOC: understood. thanks, I thought i was the only one out here:p

[Tigerlead]

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[Tigerlead]

Ensign Tigerlead turned towards the intercom when he heard the chief of security's message. ~Well time to meet my hologram boss...~ he thought to himself as he turned and walked to the tubolifts door. He entered the turbolift and said "Deck 7 - Security Offices" the turbolift moved and soon the doors opened on Deck 7, he found his way to the security office of the holographic officer adn said:
"Ensign Tigerlead reporting as ordered, sir"

[Taurik]

"That seems to be a sound plan. We can assemble a team to infiltrate the station and get into position, whereafter you begin your diversionary assault, allowing us to mobilize and acquire the datacore. If you dock with the station, we can rendezvous to rescue your Jedi companions."

"I suggest we form two teams, one to capture the datacore, and the other to assist you in rescuing Covell and Kae. We have both the Kelata and the Cardinal Virtue still in the hangar, and both are equipped with cloaking devices. The first team will move in and prepare to secure the core, and will do so once the diversion begins. As soon as the core is secure, the first team will move back to the Cardinal Virtue, and the second team, waiting outside on the Kelata, will dock and quickly retrieve the hostages. Both ships can quickly return to the Rivendell, and we can jump away immediately, having our jump drive pre-spun to exit velocity."

[T'lana]

Because Morgan or T'Kar weren't as yet at their posts, T'lana moved to the Engineering console and activated the Jump Drive start up sequence.

"Spinning up the Jump Drive Captain, two minutes to jump capability. I am setting the Jump Drive so that it remains spinning," T'lana stated.

[The Gallifreyans]

"En Taro Adun, Master Taurik."

Dechtakar cut the communications line, and looked to his helm. "Make haste for the Heraani fleet. They will pounce on the Rivendell before we can reach them, it would be best if Master Taurik was not left on his own for longer than necessary."

The helmsman nodded. "Prepare lines for firing as soon as we are in range," the Thurokiir continued.

[Orpheus]

As an artificial intelligence, without a corporeal, organic body, Orpheus had never felt pain.

Until now.

The explosion damaged so many bio-neural circuits, the infrastructure on which Orpheus was supported, that his programming had no way to express it. In essense, his program had just written a pain subroutine on the fly. In many ways, as much as it hurt, the construct knew it was necessary, as he knew that any computer program, no matter how complex, could not handle an information overload of that size with no way to process or interpret it.

So this is what it was like to feel pain. He gained a slight bond with Commander T'lana just then, because, as she had just lost a limb, in a way, so did Orpheus.

It came as somewhat of a relief, if not a surprise, when the AI was forcibly removed from the Rivendell's infrastructure. That was, until he felt his new surroundings. One of the most rudimentary computer interfaces he'd ever experienced. Not to mention... Orpheus was claustrophobic.

In a loose sense, a computer program judges it's surroundings by their complexity. The bio-neural systems onboard the Rivendell were vast, spanning the entire ship, and they were fast. It was a fitting host, and Orpheus had begun to feel at home. Now, he was trapped, inside a very basic computer system, one that ran on isolinear data traces, which were not only simple but slow, by his standards. It was almost as painful as the explosion to find that the AI could not even access some of his secondary subroutines, as the latency between them was too great. And so, Orpheus was forced into one of an AI's worst nightmares.

Blind and deaf, with only his own sentience to keep him company, he waited.

[T'Kar]

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[Larial]

The Kelata's sensors registered multiple slipspace ruptures, as several Heraani Capital Ships emerged from quantum slipstream.

All her passengers were asleep, not wanting to wake them up, Larial was ready to engage the Kelata's Slipspace Engine at a moments notice.

"Computer, have we been detected at all?"

Computer: Negative.

Larial relaxed a bit, apparently programmed with the ability to panic, as well as all other humanoid emotions.
"Computer, have the Heraani detected my father Morgan Freeman at all."

Computer: Negative, residual theta radiation is masking the Commander's biosigns.

"Maintain a lock on him at all times, please. At the first sign of being detected, beam him aboard."

Computer: Acknowledged, positive lock established, angular confinement at 32 quanta.

Two minutes later, the computer spoke again.

Computer: Attention, Heraani biometrics detected on the USS Rivendell.

"Damn them! Computer, what weapons does the Kelata have."

Computer: The Kelata is equipped with two Quantum Discharge Canons and two micro-quantum torpedo launchers.
Larial thought she new everything about the Kelata, but the little ship seemed to be full of surprises.

"What are Quantum Discharge Canons?"

Computer: Quantum Discharge Canons emit a cohesive, pulsed neutron-based quantum particle beam, at three million electron volts.

"Is there anyway to communicate with Morgan Freeman? Warn him of the Heraani boarding party."

Computer: I...The Kelata is equipped with a subspace transceiver array and a tachyon-beam transceiver system. The subspace transceiver would be detected, but due to the nature of tachyon particles, it is highly unlikely that a message would be detected. But it is also highly unlikely that Commander Freeman would realize that the tachyon particle beam contained a message. At present the Rivendell's sensors and subspace transceiver array is offline.

"Any suggestions then? Hang on, did you just say 'I'? But caught yourself?"

Computer: Affirmative, I am a Synthetic Biological Artificial Intelligence Computer with true sentience, but to facilitate human passengers I maintain the usual Starfleet computer or Artificial Intelligence personality type. I apologize for the slip up.

"No need to apologize, I am pleased to meet another sentient machine. What is Synthetic Biology though?"

Computer: Synthetic Biology is a scientific discipline incorporating biological organisms created by synthetic means. Organic lifeforms that are carbon-based, are constructed of three main components, they are: Sugar, Nitrates and Phosphates. Synthetic Biology has been used by Vulcans for two thousand years, if not more. On Earth, Synthetic Biology began in earnest in the early twenty first century and evolved to maturity in 2019, World War 3 caused most of this technology to be forgotten. Typically organic machines are called Replicants, named after a popular science fiction film of twentieth century earth, entitled Blade Runner. Synthetic Biology is the next logical step from cloning and genetic engineering, which is illegal in the Federation. Replicant technology is not.

"I never new that, oh well back to the task at hand, but if it is alright with you, I would like to continue our discussion some other time."

Computer: That would be acceptable.

"I am glad and you can drop the act you know."