Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Bridge

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Cochrane regained his seat and wiped blood from the cut in his left eyebrow, a result of a piece of the panel catching him. “Damage report! All Damage Control teams to critical areas. Get me a casualty report, and someone get the Event Horizon, Vigilante, and Chisca bay on comms. I want to know how they made out. And someone please figure out how the hell they got all those torpedoes fired from out of nowhere!”

Cochrane, CO

That’s going to leave a nasty bruise, Riali thought to herself, shaking her wrist to attempt relief from the pain of slamming it against the metal base of her console. Pushing herself up, she turned to the ship’s scanners in effort to run a scan searching for heightened neutrino emissions in the vicinity of the Vaadwaur vessel. She had only caught a glimpse but based on previous scans, it had been noted levels had increased following initial weapons’ fire. She wanted to see if that was still the case and if it could, one: point them in the direction of where the onslaught of torpedoes had come from and two: show any correlation to the wormhole’s status.

Lt. Deandres, CSO

Sensors detected no vessels other than their own. There were no ion trails, no unusual tachyon readings. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary beyond the dissipating energy of the many, many torpedoes that had detonated. Chisca Bay was adrift in space, her poor manouvering leaving her particularly vulnerable. Life support was stable aboard her, but main power was offline. Avenger had fared a little better. Impulse and thrusters were active, but she was venting atmosphere from hull breaches across her dorsal side. The station had fared best, her shields being significantly stronger than any of her support ships. Station shields were down to 22% and there were significant energy surges reading across the power grid, but little damage beyond the cosmetic.

SGM

The impact of the torpedos on the ship sent Celina flying to the right. She would have crashed into the wall if Ensign Brian Decker had not been in her way. Celina’s body was thrown into his stopping her from any real injuries. The man was six foot four and full of muscles however compared to a metal wall, it was like falling onto a training mat. Even with Decker’s superior mass, the momentum of Celina’s body sent Decker crashing into the wall instead of her. Instinctively he held on to the CTO so that she would not get flung into something or impact him in a way to cause both of them more injuries. It took the pair a second to gather their sea legs as the rippling impacts from the torpedos slowly subsided and the ship stopped shaking. It was then Celina looked at Brian and Brian looked at his hands.

“Um…uh..I,” he eyes got wide as he watched Celina’s eyes stare back at him with a mild hint of amusement. There was no amusement in his eyes as they flicked to the XO’s seat. Oh god the XO is gonna kill me Brian thought as he shoved Celina to her feet with all the grace of a linebacker trying to stop someone from reaching the end zone. The shove righted her instantly and placed her almost in the exact spot in front of her console. Maybe the XO was to busy doing XO things Brian’s mind raced as he thought about where his hands had landed to break Celina’s fall or where they had gone to push the CTO back to her console.

Looking over Jack braced himself from the hit as he saw the happenings. He thought very little of it to be honest but a small smirk came over his face as he couldn’t help but find a little bit of humor in the situation. “She used to same tactic once to handcuff and arrest me back when we first meet, it was a brilliant first date.” Jack said with a smirk as he looked back to his console as he began reading off the readings to himself checking the systems of the ship and the impact.

“Sir sensors detected no other vessels in the area other than our own. Ion trails and tachyon readings are negative for ships also,” Celina replied as she read the results off her console. Glancing over at Deandres, Celina said in a hurried tone, “you okay?”

Lt. Celina Rodriguez CTO

“Fine. Just a sprained wrist,” she flashed a quick smile. “You?” She genuinely reciprocated, despite her attention drifting between Celina and the scan results in front of her.

“I’m fine. Decker Was soft and squishy,” she gave the CSO a slight smile. Humor and the concern for others was what made the Manhattan crew so close as a team.

“Captain,” Walker said, stopping to cough from the smoke on the bridge, “we are definitely not going to be going anywhere fast.”

Using the console, Walker pulled himself back up as he started trying to get any reports in from the damaged systems. “Environmental controls are down, and we are without main power. Warp engines are down, and no report on when they might be back up. Hopefully we will have some impulse engines, or it will be a long trip back to the starbase.”

While they waited for additional system reports to come in, he tried testing the comm arrays to see if they were even still functional to call Event Horizon, Vigilante, and Chisca Bay .

WO Darach - COO

Comm channels were functional, albeit somewhat patchy and more than a little overloaded with chatter

SGM

=/\=Sir do you need medical teams to the bridge,=/\= Jasmine commed in as she started to triage the causalities starting to be reported in.

Lt. Jasmine Wynter CMO

=/\= I think we are good for now.=/\= Jack replied as he glanced around the bridge. So far no injuries but a few scrapes but that wouldn’t last for long if they kept this up.

Creed, XO

Looking over the system results from the comm arrays he smiled, at least something was working. Tapping a few keys on his console, he hailed Event Horizon, Vigilante and the Chisca Bay. But while he waited, he started to look over what was coming across the open comm channels.

WO Darach - COO

All three responded at once. Chisca Bay reported that the Captain and first officer were injured and receiving treatment. The chief operations officer, Lieutenant Whitney was in command at present. Life support was running at basic levels, the dilythium chamber had ruptured and would take at least a day to replace. They would be down for at least a week before being even vaguely functional in a fight. Vigilante had fared better, though her warp core was also down, a surge having blown the main EPS junction and overloaded the matter/antimatter reaction chamber. She had some minimal weapons and could manouver under impulse, but given that her phasers were run through the warp core for extra power, they were very weak in a fight. Captain Winchester reported that Event Horizon had fared relatively well. Some surface damage and a few blown relays. Shields were compromized, but under repair, and there were minimal injuries.

SGM

Logan gave out the damage reports from the other ships as they came through from what he could tell on his end.

“The enemy plasma torpedoes are surprisingly under powered, Captain,” he said. “Under normal circumstances, we should all be dead. And they don’t seem to have any counter measures to our weapons.”

“I’ve also not seen any ship that could fire more than two of those torpedoes at a time.”

CoS

“Well, at least no one is dead. Chalk one up for Engineering and the shield emitters.” Cochrane said wryly. Looking at Darach, he said “Chief, full status report in five. XO, get me numbers on casualties. Tactical and Science! Keep an eye out for more surprise guests. If you so much as think you see something, tag it and track it. Security, lock down all non-essential areas and let’s try and corral everyone. If we can get some sections empty, seal them off and turn off environmental controls and let’s try and get Mr. Wynter and Mr. Darach some extra power to work with. Whatever defense and offensive systems we have left, keep them charged and on stand by.” and then a thought occurred to him.

“Understood sir.” Jack said, already looking up the information. He was getting Medical teams alerted and moving on as the orders went to the locations he saw the highest level of casualties.

“Aye sir,” Riali gestured her index and pointer fingers to the ceiling in acknowledgement, then sent out another scan of their general vicinity to detect any oncoming vessels.

“Already on it,” Walker said as he turned back to his console. Though with the state they were in, he had no idea how he was going to find any extra power.

“Lt. Rodriguez. Chart the paths of all those torpedoes back to when they were first detected. Let’s see if they came from the same spot. If they did Helm, take us there asap.”

Cochrane, CO

Because of the sheer number of torpedoes and their massive energy profile, sensor records were scattered, but half seemed to have originated at the original probes coordinates and the other half at its second appearance. Now that radiation in the area was starting to settle, the areas they’d received brief subspace readings from were now saturated with subspace energy. The extreme edge of short range sensors were able to detect a subspace tear around the area the torpedoes and probe seemed to have originated. They had already been on their way to the second insertion point as the torpedoes appeared. It was now less than 12 minutes away at warp 6… provided they could reestablish warp power.

SGM

Creed, XO

“I want to know how a couple of ships can fire off three hundred plasma torpedoes,” Logan said. “Even our most fortified space station can fire only a hundred photon torpedoes. And those are staggered in volleys.”

COS

“It seems they compensated strength for quantity. When those torpedoes were fired, they didn’t damage any of the vessels nor the station as much as a normal torpedo would. Perhaps they prefer overwhelming their targets rather than inflicting utmost damage with slower firing rates.”

Deandres, CSO

“Or maybe they were testing us. Why show their entire hand or their strength. Maybe they were just testing us before they want to really try to do more than give us a black eye. This could be some weird form of playing opossum,” Celina said looking at her console. “Sir it seems that half of the torpedoes originated at the original probes coordinates and the other half at its second appearance. The area around that point are saturated with subspace energy. Short range sensors were able to detect a subspace tear around the area the torpedoes and probe seemed to have originated. If Wynter can get us power we are less than 12 minutes away at warp 6. Coordinates are plotted,” Celina reported.

It was then she thought up another idea. “Sir what if the probe was a homing beacon. You know like a way for them to paint a target…from the other side of the sub space tear? It would be a brilliant tactical maneuver. Like when they discovered radar. The Alloea knew where they needed to attack but the Germans were sitting ducks. What if they are doing that with us. They could see their targets but we couldn’t see what we are walking into.”

Lt Celina Rodriguez. CTO

Cochrane’s scowled deepened at the Tactical Officer’s words. Without taking his eyes off of the view screen displaying the various reports coming in , he said “I have no idea, Lieutenant. But I would very much like to go ask them. What’s the status on restoring warp power, Mr. Darach?”

Cochrane, CO

“Still waiting for an updated from engineering Captain. Though we did rupture one of the main coolant lines. With environmental systems still not fully back up, they could be still trying to vent the coolant before starting repairs.” As he was talking Walker sent another message to engineering asking for a status update on warp power and the impulse reactors.

“So you know Captain. Event Horizon took a pounding, but they took minimal damage. They are already repairing their shields. Vigilante has some weapons, but she is not going anywhere fast. Her warp drive is out, but she does have impulse. Chisca Bay is probably going to have to be towed back to the Starbase and dry docked. Her reactor chamber ruptured and is a complete loss.”

WO Darach - COO