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Bridge - Vendetta! - Main Sim

Posted Aug. 21, 2021, 9:55 p.m. by Chief Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) (Steve Johnson)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Counter-Intelligence Officer) in Bridge - Vendetta! - Main Sim

Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Bridge - Vendetta! - Main Sim

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Senior Gamemaster) in Bridge - Vendetta! - Main Sim
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Apart from an increase in communication, there was effectively little more ‘action’, though Faye would see that there was an attempted use of weapons fire.

“That will definitely help. The last place I want to be is in the middle of a fire fight, shields down, trying to rescue survivors…”

As Walker talked, he was still working to get whatever emergency power they had to both shields and weapons, in case they still had to fight there way out.

CWO Darach - COO

There was an eerie silence in space. Three ships remained including the disabled one they pulled back from the brink of the planet’s atmosphere. Debris floated about. Small explosions from debris either decompressing or something within having overloaded or simply reacted to the damages involved.

Rerouting power was not difficult; they were not at warp and any power from the reactors and impulse engines were available. There was still that ‘soft’ spot where they had been struck, though that was not fully a matter of power but coverage.
- Wookiee

Seeing a message coming in from Pretha and knowing she was needed in both places, Faye knew it was Alex’s call. “Captain, Oberon wants me on CRIT. It looks like my gamble paid off on the Kazon ship. Do you still want me here?”

~Faye Calloway, Counter-Intelligence

“Stick around, Commander. We may have need of your services again on short notice.” Cochrane replied.

Her eyes still locked on the sensor readings, Kiama listened to everything her fellow officers said. Right now there was nothing else for her to report, so she herself kept her silence. Hopefully they’d be able to intervene and help to deescalate the situation before more people got hurt or lost their lives.

~Lt. Cmdr. Naim, CSO

There were effectively only two Kazon ships left, with the last remaining third having warped out of orbit toward the end of the battle. Scans would show the other two Kazon ships were themselves damaged. One had significant engine damage, though their power core was intact. It’s life support was fluctuating; something was evidently not well there. The second looked to have light damage all around, but principally with its shields. The tractor beam ‘rescued’ section drifted and was not in any immediate danger of the gravity well of the planet below. Space was dotted with debris and the spatial dust from the dwarf stars.

Naim would note that below on the planet, which was a sizeable world with highly active volcanic activity. The atmosphere was murky. Here and there where the cloud cover was thinner could be see trails of lava and lakes of the same peeking through. Scanners could pick out the ‘city’ below - it was not on the world but above it, hovering not far from the surface. The atmosphere was hot and toxic; this was not a resort world by any stretch of the imagination.
- Wookiee

“All right… Mr. Darach, get me an update on the damage as soon as the Damage Control Teams have assessed and coordinate with Engineering to get repairs underway. Tactical, keep us updated on ship positions and weapon status. Science, scan for survivors and start prioritizing evacuation, coordinate with Security and Medical on getting them safely on board and locked down and tending to. And comms… see if we can get everyone on the line, please. I think it’s time everyone and us has a chat.”

Cochrane, CO

“Aye Sir. I’m on it,” Naim replied with a nod and without actually looking up at the Captain as she started to scan for survivours and plan the evacuation. “Also, our sensors show that the planet has a lot of highly active volcanic activity. The atmosphere is hot and toxic and I’m detecting a city. Though not on the surface but hovering a relatively short distance above the ground.”

~Lt. Cmdr. Naim, CSO

“On it Captain,” Walker said as he sent requests for update to the engineering teams.

Mal’athar stood and moved back to the science station and Cmdr Naim. “Can we get any readings on the pattern of volcanic activity? Timing, intensity, locations? Any readings on tectonic plate movement? Can we get any reading on the number of life signs, structural soundness of the floating city? Are they at risk of atmospheric contamination or crashing to the surface?”

Initial planetary scans indicated that the world was in a significant volcanic state. Being in an orbital pattern that looked to be a loose figure 8 around the two dwarf stars the gravitational influence from both was wreaking havoc over the surface of the world. It wasn’t that there was volcanic and plate activity, it was more like where ‘wasn’t’ there some kind of tectonic and volcanic activity. The city, on another quick scan, had a force field around it, though it was low enough to be in a thermally affective zone, not to mention a poisonous atmosphere around it. Power levels, however, appeared to be fluctuating but not critically.

While systems were working on the ship to get information up to the bridge, it was mostly variations on the theme of what was reported already with greater detail and projected time for repairs. Damage control teams were in place, and drones were being prepped to get a visual inspection outside the ship on hull damages.

Medical was reporting several injuries were coming in from minor to moderate injury.

Almost as though to break the silence, transmissions came from both the planet and one of the Kazon vessels nearly at the same time.
- Wookiee

“On screen.” Cochrane said and then eased back in his chair. A relaxed demeanor could do more to ease tensions at the beginning.

Cochrane, CO

The split screen came up again, though at the moment they were on separate channels and muted. The images could not have been more starkly contrasted - a clean bright room with a vase of some kind of crimson flowering plant in the background, the Trabe woman in the foreground - with a smoky, dark, bridge with reddish backlighting. A Kazon with a nasty gash along one cheek dominated the foreground.

At the sound of an incoming transmission Mal’athar returned to her chair to have a clear view of whoever was on the other side of the transmission.

Revna, still standing to the side of the bridge was taking in all the activity and then few brief Kazon transmissions. She approved of Cochrane’s relaxed demeanor, allowing him to control the feel and pacing of whatever interaction was about to happen. Revna turned her attention back to the screen, anything she could learn from observation would allow her to advise Cochrane.

Mal’athar, XO
McKenzie, DA

Pretha’s voice came over the comms just then. Albeit a bit flustered, she sounded like she had things under control. =^=This is transporter room one, medical emergency. We have a Kazon presenting with siezures. Transporting him to medical now!=^=

Pretha
CRIT Ldr
(crossed from transp thread)
Wookiee

Cochrane motioned for the channels to be opened and stood up. Clasping his hands behind his back he said “This is Captain Cochrane of the Federation Science vessel Manhattan. We are responding to the distress call emanating from the planet below. We are also conducting Rescue operations for those in jeopardy in orbit above. We have several of the Kazon contingent on board already, and they are being seen to by our medical staff. Now before we begin, I want to be clear here: We are conducting operations of mercy… we are not here to take sides in your dispute which we are aware is a long-standing one. We are, however, open to acting as mediator between the two groups in order to seek out a peaceful, if temporary, resolution that will get everyone to a safe position. Am I understood?”

Cochrane, CO

Meanwhile, Faye was monitoring the communications between the other ships (if there were any) to keep tabs on any sudden shift in the situation.

~Faye Calloway, Counter-Intelligence

With Pretha’s comm coming through the bridge, Walker lowered the volume of the rest of the comm chatter, so as to, A, not distract the Captain, but B, limit what information they were giving away about the status of the ship. Checking the damage reports, he highlighted the report of the hull fragment still lodged in the Manhattan. That was the priority right now, because until it was dislodged, they were still going to have a large weak point to try and protect.

CWO Darach - COO


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