Mission 13: "The Heist"

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar, continued with her carnage, mostly in defense as the Heraani usually attacked first. Except for the ones aboard her pride and joy, the Blue Harvest, but then that was for safety reasons.

T'lana did a wonderful job lending a hand where she could, when Chaya was up against too many odds.
Chaya finally got to the Detention Block, killing two of the guards at the door, that were trying to surprise her.
Chaya Sar then moved on the elite that was left, a rather strong Heraani who had obviously been in a lot of battles and had the scars to prove it.
Chaya used force-push and force-pull as well as the Lightsaber, but the Heraani elite was obviously an expert in swordsmanship with his two energy braces.

The style of swordsmanship was different to all the other Heraani, elite or otherwise, that Chaya Sar had come up against.
Whether it was because Chaya was exhausted, or because this one was more experienced than the rest she didn't know, probably both, because her muscles were aching so much.
The only moved she could think of right now, being so tired was something she hoped she would never have to use, but after at least two hundred and fifty Heraani elites and grunts, give or take, she had no choice. This Heraani, probably the commander, was even blocking the pulses of particle beams from T'lana's Compression Rifle.

Chaya Sar deactivated her Lightsaber and hilted it, the Heraani commander lunged as Chaya summoned the last of her strength and force-lightning.

Powerful bolts of force energy arced from her raised hand, passing through and surrounding the Heraani commander. Nothing was safe in the direction of the uncontrollable bolts of destructive energy, whether it be electronic systems, controls, force fields and the Heraani who thought he was about to win and probably was if it wasn't for this last desperate measure.
Chaya Sar finally ceased the force-lightning as the Heraani lay smoldering and scorched on the floor. He was not the only thing smoldering, scorched and melted, everything in the path of the force-lightning bolts was just that.

Chaya Sar looked to T'lana, feeling a little sheepish and then walked over to the controls for the brig holding her fellow Jedi. Strangely enough, these controls were one of the few that were actually still intact, but not for long as Chaya pulled out her Lightsaber, activated it and sliced through the controls. The force field deactivated and Chaya did the same to the Lightsaber, hilting it for hopefully the last time on this mission.
Chaya composed herself and walked into the cell smiling softly to her Apprentice Odona Covell and the Jedi Knight Aeryn Kae. Both were looking up at her with the collars and cuffs still in place.

Chaya Sar thought to herself *figures* as she took the Lightsaber off it's hilt and activated it again, slicing off her fellow Jedi's restraints. Chaya then deactivated the Lightsaber and hilted it again. She then gave her apprentice a helping hand up and then Aeryn Kae.

"Fancy meeting you two here, welcome to the Milkyway Galaxy. This is T'lana, a friend, one of many."

[T'lana]

"Captain, if you do not need me here, I shall go down to Engineering to assist the chief."

Not really waiting for an answer, the casualty reports, spoke for themselves, T'lana took the turbolift to the engineering deck.

Once on the Main Engineering Deck, T'lana walked out of the turbolift, walking quickly and helping crew members on the way.
T'lana burst into engineering, which looked more like a nightmare, than the Main Engineering room of a Prometheus Class Starship.

"Anything I can do to assist Commander freeman?"

[Odona Covell]

Odona ran from the cockpit down the hall and towards the ladder, letting Aeryn Kae go first he climbed down the ladder and sat in the gunnery chair, placing the comm unit around his head, Chaya I am on comms.

He focused his attention on the area of the ship he could protect.  Sensing before seeing he took aim at the first Heraani fighter that came into his sphere, squeezing the trigger he unleashed the energy from the Harvest's weapons resulting in a massive fireball where the Heraani fighter used to be "1 down 1 million to go." he said into the comm.

[T'lana]

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[Larial]

<Stealth-Reconnaissance vessel Kelata>

Even though Larial heard Captain Taurik's message, he was not her Captain and seeing as her creator was still on the Rivendell, that is exactly where she kept the Kelata.

By now Larial new everything about the Kelata thanks mostly to it's extensive user manual into it's operation, necessary for a prototype.

"Computer, if we towed the Rivendell, could we go to Quantum Slipstream?"

Computer: Acknowledged, as long domain five slipstream velocity is maintained.

Larial was fascinated by the Kelata, it was a highly advanced vessel, that seemed too advanced even for Vulcans.
But that was for another time, when Larial's creator wasn't in danger, but what to do?

Until she was told otherwise, Larial decided the best course of action would be to cloak the Kelata and wait for further instructions, which is exactly what she did.

[Will Karelia]

---===Important Message from Expansion Fleet Administration===---

We are beginning the final mission of the current Expansion Fleet story arc, and this mission will conclude the events that have been building for the past few years, some of which began at the launch of Expansion Fleet. This mission will yield an end to the Heraan War, and will be concluding the events of the entire game.

This gives us a unique opportunity, one that we've not explored before, nor have most of the Star Trek RPG's out there. We are going to be starting a new "series" of sorts, in much the same way a new Star Trek series precedes the last. This will give everyone the opportunity to start fresh, with all new characters, new backstories, and new sub-plots. We will even be introducing a new region of space, a new Starfleet space station, and an entirely new fleet.

For the duration of the final mission, due to the extremely cooperative nature of such a finale, we will be combining the posts of all four ships, as well as those of the Starbase Avalon personnel, into a single forum, to alleviate the need to read several forums at once. This mission is to be contained in it's own forum, located at the top of the list of Expansion Fleet vessels we are all familiar with. The new forum will move no one from their previous situations, but will direct them toward the goings-on of this finale. I will be posting a list of guidelines necessary in such a forum, please read those first before posting.

The new forum for the finale is located here: http://www.expansionfleet.com/cgi-bin/fleet/ikonboard.cgi?act=SF;f=308" target='_blank'>http://www.expansionfleet.com/cgi-bin....F;f=308

Thanks,
EF Admins

[T'lana]

T'lana was dismayed and utterly disappointed in the events that just transpired on Rivendell. But having thought that, it was her duty to carry out her Captain's wishes, but not before making a formal protest.

"I must admit captain, I find this illegal action to be questionable at best. Having said that, I will carryout your orders, but I wish it to be noted that I do so under duress and against my better judgment."

T'lana sat back in the chair, crossed her legs and continued.

"I suggest using the Jump Drive to take us to a secure location first. This will insure privacy and make it difficult for sensors to trace our location. Apart from myself, Mr. Freeman and yourself, there should be no bridge crew during the initial jump. We can not hide the fact from the crew that we are jumping, given the inevitable effect Wormhole Induction Propulsion has on the ship, but it should minimize the questions the crew might have. If any questions asked, we can simply say that we are testing the Jump Drive because of the new core and the loss of power experienced. This is not a lie, Larial is currently working on this problem."

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar had been working on her Viper for the good part of two hours now and had overhauled the electromagnetic turbines, several power couplings, had cleaned out the exhaust and had repaired the polarity controller for the repulsorlift - powerful room temperature superconductor coils that manipulate magnetic fields for vertical take off and landing.

Finally feeling better about herself, Chaya packed up her tools and closed the propulsion system's access panels. Placing the tool box back into it's holder behind the seat in the Viper's cockpit, she cleaned her hands with Bacta-Wash and hopped into the cockpit.

Placing her key into the ignition system, Chaya fired up the power converter and started Ion Engines in reduced power mode, specifically used for engine start-up tests. With a slight sputter expected when the exhaust is cleaned the Ion Engines fired up as they should. The three Ion Turbine Engines kicked the Viper forward slightly even with the repulsorlift adjusted to counter any forward movement. Satisfied Chaya shut down the engines, took out the key and placed it back into one of her robes hidden pockets.

Even though it is called a key, that really isn't an accurate description. Yes it allows you to start the engines, but it is mainly part of the security system, DNA encoded to the user.
Chaya Sar suddenly realized she was quite tired, due mostly to the fact that she hadn't slept in 48 standard hours. Closing the powered cockpit canopy for some portion of privacy and quiet, Chaya made herself comfortable and fell asleep.

Chaya could never sleep properly though, the force would never allow her the comfort of oblivion in sleep. No, the force showed her things, visions of events that are yet to come. It was the yet to come that gave Chaya nightmares; for a darkness is coming. She had some comfort though, because her training specifically states that the future is always changing. Events that occur in precognitive visions are mere possible outcomes and even her own experience has shown that that is quite true, that didn't make the visions any less frightening though, because they could just as easily come to pass. With any possibility, other possibilities are also true.

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar didn't speak the whole time Taurik and herself walked to the turbolift, that took them to the bridge. On the bridge Chaya stood between the Science Station and the Command Chair, where she stayed as Taurik approached the Command chair. It was only then that Chaya decided to speak.

"I must admit, this bridge is designed for comfort. Most of the bridges on starships in my galaxy are designed for practicality. Apart from very expensive luxury models of course, I prefer it this way I think." She told the Captain.

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar left the Conference Room after everyone else did and took the next turbolift car that had arrived once Morgan and T'lana had left.

"Um...computer, where is the Hangar Bay where my Viper is?"

Computer: The Main Hangar Bay is on Deck 13, section D, aft.

"Then take me there please."

Once the turbolift car arrived where it said her Viper was, Chaya Sar exited and made her way to the Hangar Bay's double bulkhead door.

In the Hangar Bay, Chaya Sar made her way to the space-doors control and activated it, making sure that the electromagnetic force field was in place first.
Making her way to her Viper, Chaya activated the Canopy and climbed in, closing the canopy behind her.
Chaya fired up the Power Converter, then the Ion Turbine Engines and the Repulsorlift. The Hangar Bay was filled with an audible noise akin to a jet engine, building to a crescendo.
The Viper lifted off the tarmac as the Ion Turbine Engines ignited, with blue-white flames ejecting out of the three thruster pods exhausts. In truth they weren't flames, they were actually highly agitated ionized hydrogen particles being electromagnetically accelerated out of the engines' exhausts.

@@Viper to Cardinal Virtue and Kelata@@

"Taurik, T'lana, I am ready to proceed."

@@Viper Out@@

[Givrillian Sarpedon]

As soon as the three smaller vessels were out of the hangar bay, Sarpedon plotted the course of ten lightyears that T'lana had ordered. He was amazed at how the Rivendell had gone undetected by the Heraan. Normally, a Federation starship the size of the Prometheus class would be like a giant zit to them, a glowing beacon for attack, but the vessel had been left completely alone.

~Perhaps the Heraan are just getting stupid~ he thought to himself jokingly.

[Morgan Freeman]

Main engineering had quickly turned into a mess quickly after the enemy warships had opened fire.  consoles became smoking ruins and over half his engineering staff had been hauled away to sickbay.  Morgan himself looked about as bad as the room itself, his uniform was covered by who knows what as he and the remaining staff struggled to keep the Rivendell from blowing itself apart.  "Listen to me, don't worry about the life support systems right now, it won't do us any good if the ship blows up.  Focus on the drive system, we need to keep the jump drive online as long as possible."  

The ship shook violently again and after a moment reviewing the latest damage report he made a choice that would either save or destroy the Rivendell, "Jones, Macarthy, Willaims lets shunt power from the warp drive system into the shield grid.  Its gonna fry the hell out of the grid eventually but if we survive, I will take it."  

=A= Engineering to bridge =A=
I've taken the warp drive system offline and shunted the power into the shield grid, you should have almost 100% shields again.  We still have the jump drive available but I can't say how long it will stay that way.

[Taurik]

An ensign from Stellar Cartography came and interrupted Taurik, who was in the midst of treating Commander T'lana's wound. "Sir," he said, "there's enemy fighters, trying to pick off the shuttles!"

Taurik called for a medic, and was relieved of his medical duties temporarily whilst he manned the helm. The captain slid into the forward seat in the cockpit, and the helm controls lit up. Considering that the Cardinal Virtue was once a smuggler's vessel, one of the previous owners had installed a set of flight sticks to augment the helm agility. Taurik grasped those joysticks now, as he needed perfect agility to combat starfighters.

The Virtue handled expertly, and Taurik found it no difficult feat to line up behind one of the Heraani fighters, and squeezing the trigger, fire the tetryon disruptors. The green bolts of energy struck the fighter, overloaded it's shields, and boiled the hull away almost effortlessly.

[kloek8]

kloek8 reroutit powerto lifesuport and all seandary systems to keep th ship running for now and try to get the ship redy for battle

[kloek8]

kloek8 as fixt the warp drive up to warp 6.4 and is hailling the captain "Sir i got warp back up i think we can make it back home now whit the ship"