Mission 13: "The Heist"

[Taurik]

Taurik kindly left Dechtakar to his command chamber, and made his way to the medical area of the ship. There, he found his first officer in a stasis pod, the Gallifreyans unable to heal her wounds sufficiently. The ancient race possessed great powers of healing, but nothing to the level of regenerating lost limbs in moments, all the time T'lana would have if removed from the stasis pod. This did not stop Taurik from communicating with her, because while her body was in suspended animation, her Vulcan mind was surely racing.

"We will be at spacedock soon," he said, placing his words directly into her mind. Taurik was fully aware that "soon" meant nothing to a mind with no external input. Time did not exist within the confines of one's own consciousness. "Your injuries are grave, but are not unrecoverable."

[Taurik]

(OFF: Well, thanks for at least checking. My suggestion, if you don't have anything to post duty-wise, is to develop your character. After all, what fun is there in just saying "Yes sir" and carrying out orders all the time?)

Taurik fought desperately, along with the Sentinels, to restore T'lana to a manageable level of health, but her body was shutting down faster than they could regenerate it. She had lost too much blood, and her arm was too badly injured to cauterize without causing worse damage.

He could feel T'lana trying to reach out to his mind, but she was unable to convey any sort of thought, as her mind was too fogged. Her consciousness seemed to slip away, only to be replaced by a fain, distant, but constant sound. It took Taurik a moment to realize that the sound was the tone from a Starfleet medical tricorder right next to him. It signaled a complete loss of bodily function.

"Captain," came the somber voice of the Starfleet medic. "We've lost her."

Taurik left the medical bay silently, and made his way to the command chamber. "Master Taurik," came Dechtakar's reverent voice, "the Ascendence has sent word that they have secured and recovered the Rivendell, and with the help of some remaining crew, have repaired the ship enough to sustain slipstream travel under tow. They will arrive at Starbase Avalon within two hours from now. We, however, are closing in on the station as we speak."

"Very well," he said. "Get within transporter range of the station, and the base will begin to transport my people from this ship. I will be taking the Cardinal Virtue back myself."

[Taurik]

(OFF: Oh, you'll have your share of fun in the upcoming mission. http://www.expansionfleet.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> Just read the title...)

[Givrillian Sarpedon]

Sarpedon sat at the Helm on the Bridge of the Rivendell - or more accurately the main bridge, and ran a few diagnostics on the systems. There hadn't been much to do at the helm during shoreleave, and so he had spent most of his time checking up on the shuttle pilots down below. A few of them were a bit cocky, but everyone needs to be cocky at some point in their life. Especially if they're a pilot.

Now he ran a low-level diagnostic on the propulsion systems. He hadn't heard anything official, but he was hoping that they'd be getting under way on another mission. Though he did still need to get used to being called 'Chief' now, rather than 'Petty Officer'.

[Chaya Sar]

While Chaya Sar was not needed she decided to check up on her Padawan and see if she could also find the Jedi Knight Aeryn Kae.

Closing her eyes, she contacted the force and used it to find her fellow Jedi. At first it appeared as a blue swirl with whitish tendrils of energy coursing through it. Then the vision shifted to a tunnel, going through space at a tremendous velocity until the tunnel passed through the walls of a space station, down several decks and into a dungeon like chamber.

The vision cleared so that her disembodied mind could see everything that was in the cell. Her Padawan was asleep thankfully, but stirring awake and to the other side of the chamber was Aeryn Kae who was finally conscious.

Chaya Sar gathered that the Heraani had either just found her, or moved Aeryn in with Odona for some reason.

~"Aeryn Kae, it is Chaya Sar, I am glad to see that you are alright. I am coming as soon as I can to rescue you and Odona, but this galaxy does not use Hyperdrive technology Most use Warp Drives, so it is going to take some time."~

[Taurik]

Taurik locked his console and stood, pointing to T'lana, Freeman, and Chaya Sar, montioning toward the conference room.

Once all four of them had entered, Taurik began. "We need a strategy before we begin, as well as a starting point. We have two primary objectives here, one, to steal a Heraani datacore, and two, to rescue Chaya Sar's companions. These are in two completely separate areas, and will be impossible to deal with at once."

"We have two ways we can proceed," he continued. "We can either retrieve the datacore first, which will be considerably easier before we've alerted the Heraan. Or, we can rescue Chaya's companions, who will be of great help during the rest of the mission, but will also alert the Heraan by the time we make it to the command complex for the datacore."

[T'lana]

OOPS! My Bad.

[Taurik]

"Very well. Tactical, continue to fire until the jump drive is at full power again. Helm, as soon as that occurs, execute an eight-second jump to maximum warp. As soon as we return to sublight speed, initiate a full-range slipspace jump in the opposite direction."

[T'lana]

"As you wish Commander, I am here to serve."

T'lana went to the station dedicated to the Jump Drive.

"You are relieved," T'lana stated to the two crew members already at the station.
Keeping the Jump Drive spooled was a little more complicated than T'lana first expected.

Apparently the Jump Drive came out of free-spin after the last jump, it remained spinning but the dynamo had regained friction.

[Navi]

=A= Navi to T'lana =A=

"Anything left for me to do? or is it really over?" asked Navi over the comm badge while drifting away on an escape pod

[T'Kar]

T'Kar, not being able to go to the academy, tried to learn more about his expertise. He was not very educated on the transporter device, he was reading a PADD on them. "A standard transporter contains ten main components: the chamber, console, controller, energizing coils, phase transition coils, molecular imaging scanners, pattern buffer, biofilter, emmitter pad array, and targeting scanners." he mumbled.

It was a bad habit, he knew, but he couldn't get over it. When he learned enough to become a transporter expert he decided to train his body too. He started practicing the ancient kingon art of Mok'bara when he was a child, and did it religiously like any Klingon.
After that, he very quietly practiced singing Klingon opera. And right in the middle of a crescendo he felt a shudder. It was too big to be ignored, but he couldn't figure out why. It ended bothering him until he figured it out.

[Chaya Sar]

Despite being an old freighter, the Blue Harvest handled like a Starfighter. Chaya handled the pitch, yaw and elevation controls like a profession, which she indeed was, piloting vessels ever since she was ten.

The Inertial Dampers protected the crew from the G-Forces, but only 80% when doing maneuvers of such magnitude. the Inertial Dampers were mainly for the jump in-to and out-of Hyperspace.
Chaya piloted the Blue Harvest in and around the attacking craft and the craft they were protecting. This snaking, barrel rolling maneuver prevented any attacking vessels from locking on to their prey and the vessel doing the protecting. The Blue Harvest's Repulsorlift system - room temperature superconductor coils that manipulate magnetic fields - although replaced many times were still quite capable of handling the G-Forces exerted on the freighter.

[Taurik]

Taurik nodded at the image of the Gallifreyan on his communications panel. "Very well, Thurokiir. However, I would like to begin repairs on my vessel."

Dechtakar looked grim. "Master, the Heraan will surely send reinforcements. There is no time. Your vessel fought well, but it is not worth the lives of your crew."

Taurik could only look with silent and unfortunate agreement. "We will be aboard shortly, Thurokiir. I will secure the datacore."

[The Heraan]

(OFF: Haha, that's harsh. You'd think that telekinesis would qualify a race for assimilation... but I won't complain.)

The Heraan were deep in battle with the Borg, when all of a sudden, every invading drone simultaneously dematerialized. Before they could celebrate their victory in chasing off the Borg, the ship rocked heavily, coming under fire from the Borg cubes.

The Heraan, despite their ruthless campaign against the galaxy, were not without valiancy. The two escort frigates readily maneuvered to absorb the weapons fire, allowing the damaged but operable Adjudicator to escape into a slipstream.

[Tigerlead]

OFF I don't mean to seem rude as i see you ppl have played for years and i'm just a noob but should it be more organized http://www.expansionfleet.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> like where is the ship curently? Who's on the bridge? Who's in charge of the bridge? Can i stumble on the cloak in my security rounds and arrest all of you? http://www.expansionfleet.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'> *joking only* /OFF