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Main Sim - Bridge: A Mid-afternoon Anomaly.

Posted Aug. 2, 2020, 1:20 a.m. by Commander R'han (Chief Tactical Officer) (Luke Hung)

Posted by Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (Weaver of Webs) in Main Sim - Bridge: A Mid-afternoon Anomaly.

Posted by Fleet Captain Ghubari Koraia (Captain) in Main Sim - Bridge: A Mid-afternoon Anomaly.

Posted by Commander Luka (Executive Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge: A Mid-afternoon Anomaly.
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Intel came through from the Enterprise and Calhoun’s ship the Excalibur was also moving out of orbit to be a part of their group. All ships were relatively evenly matched. Incoming was 6 ships, 3 Cardassian Galor class, and 3 Klingon Vor’cha, their configuration was heavier on beam weapons than torpedos and their shielding was less than Athena’s battle group favoring power to offense rather than defense. maneuverability was much of a muchness between both groups. The odds were in favor of the Alliance due to numbers.

Barclay looked over the info and made it available to all screens. ” 3 minutes to contact,” he said all business now.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

“We’ll have to plan maneuvers in advance, or one ship should be tactical control. I’d rather that ship be us, so they don’t make us turn an unshielded arc towards the enemy…” R’han plugged in information. “Have we decided that we don’t care about damaging the timeline here by having an pronounced effect in an alternate universe?”

R’han CTO

Picard had been listening in over the open comm line. “We stand ready to assist Athena, Commander Burgoyne on the Excalibur will defer to us in this matter. We are more than happy for you to take point on this”.

Barclay muttered quietly “Less risk to your ship that way…” he looked up “90 seconds to contact”.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

R’han made no effort to hide the fact that he was annoyed by that order. He hoped that Koraia would reject that order, but she probably wouldn’t her duty would control her response even to the cross dimensional Picard.

=^=Bridge to all crew, evacuate the forward decks. This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.=^=

“Get ready to get those shields altered the moment we get the all clear,” Luka looked to R’han. “Alright, three ships against six with weak shields, this is going to be a classic Moira situation. Alpha-42 formation, we need to split them up, possibly use the environment against them.”

Luka, XO

R’han nodded, dividing the enemy using their superior firepower to destroy the enemy in detail. Further spliting the forces would puch the attacks on the flanking ships and away from the Athena. “I concur completely.”

The crew had been ready for this and evacuated swiftly.

Shortly after that was accomplished the six ships came in, forming two triangles, the Galor class from the left and the Vor’cha from the right in a classic pincer movement with the planet behind Athena’s task group.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

=/\=Koraia to Athena. Misisson successful,=/\= she said with unusual softness. =/\=What’s your status?=/\=

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

“We can’t turn into the attackers because that would expose our rear to the enemy unless.....” He looked at the tactical situation. “Use the Excaliber to engage on of the squadron on the port… using circumvental attitude, all the have to do is keep the port attack force off us long enough for us to destroy one or two of the right flanking force. It is a historical tactical flaw to split a force in the face of a superior enemy. The value of flanking maneuver can be easily countered.”

R’han

The pincer movement never happened, at the last second the attackers broke off, and instead of flanking the task force, they dove straight for the planet below.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

R’han didn’t care much for the planet, it was surprisingly difficult to destroy one, unlike ships. People and buildings could be replaced… star-shps were a much more difficult thing.

“Pursuit course?” Chancing them would keep the forward shields to the enemy and minimize counterattack, this fair fight was quickly tilting to their favor.

R’han

“Pursue and fire at will. Just try not to miss,” Luka ordered, looking at R’han and giving him an affimative.

Luka, XO

Finally, R’han thought… he could do what he did best. He expression turned wolf-like and he appeared totally focused not even looking at the main screen instead just using his tactical screen.

The task group wheeled on the six ships, sensors showed that they had targetted the coordinates on Risa where the rest of the crew were currently repairing the Mirror Orb of the Prophets.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

R’han accelerated the ship and re-oriented the ship pivoting without the normal tendency to maneuver the ship like a plane flying through the air. Their weapons didn’t need to be any closer to hit, but he wanted to cut down the time from firing to impact… damage volume was more important than anything else at this point.

He armed and launched quantum torpedoes first as they would take longer to reach the target and he could remotely guide them if they went astray from the quick launch.... “Quantum torpedoes away.” He launched a full volley of five in a star formation at a single ship. That would ruin pretty much anyone’s day.

Phasers would come to bear next… “I’m going to hit the impulse and attitude controls of the second ship, perhaps they will be forced to avoid entering t he atmosphere or burn up trying saving us the aggravation in the first place.

R’han

OOC: Psst! points above Ghubari is still waiting for a status report. ;) ~Linds

Luka pressed the comms and hailed Ghubari. =^=Firefight with a few enemies. Nothing we can’t take care of.=^= to herself, she muttered “i think”

Luka, XO

=/\=Acknowledged. We have injured down here and need to get them up to the ship. Let us know when it’s safe to drop shields, but the sooner the better,” Koraia replied.

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

Athena’s fire rocketed into the second ship of one group overwhelming their aft shielding and sending them spinning into the ship next to them eliminating both, Enterprise and Excalibur went after the other group of three. Enterprise fired transphasic torpedoes that completely ignored the shields of two vessels bringing them to dust, Excalibur took care of the third by neatly placed phasers that destroyed its bridge but the maneuver took both ships further away from Athena and the last ship.

Barclay on sensors yelled out, “Remaining ship is increasing speed and pulling away, they’re doing a suicide run at the planet”.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

A ship at full speed could keep the torpedoes at bay for a long time… perhaps too long. It would have to be the phasers. “You’re not going to like this.” R’han said, as he increased the Athena’s speed. mimicking the suicidal course of the last of the trio. Phasers likely wouldn’t have enough punch to destroy a ship with the time they had. Destroy their ability to do a ‘safe’ atmospheric entry and the planet would do all the hard work. “Targeting the impulse drives.... continuous fire.” R’han locked on and wouldn’t let go of the impulse engines he targeted.... The blue beams lanced out angrily.

“We could lose the ship and… or the phaser banks…” He finally looked up at Luka. It might be his plan but would have to be Luka’s order ultimately. He winced as if the whine of their ship was transmitting directly to him.

R’han


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