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Main Simm - Bridge

Posted Dec. 31, 2018, 11:49 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Heather Argeneau (Chief Engineer) (Sara Rastellini)

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Main Simm - Bridge

Posted by Captain John P. Jones (Commanding Officer Incoming) in Main Simm - Bridge

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“Lock onto the pilot of that fighter and prepare for transport. Confirm once lock is made!” With no Command staff on the bridge, Tenkiller leapt into the center seat and pulled up the readouts of the Chimera, and it wasn’t pretty. A single thought occurred to him. He took a deep breath and hit the comms. =/\= Chimera to Hawk Heavy Fighter. Captain, we are almost dead in the water and are rapidly running out of juice, but I have a plan. Set your course for a run at full power at the Orion. Bridge or warp core, your choice. We are gonna pull you out right before impact.... I hope. Otherwise, Captain, one more volley from them and you are on your own anyway. We don’t have much left. =/\=

Tenkiller, CoS

Captain Jones heard the message all to clear, =/\= Understood Chimera standby one =/\= He hit his console and pulled up comms to the USS. Liberty =/\= USS. Liberty this is Captain Jones, return to the surface, scan for any Star Fleet signals and attempt to rendezvous with them on the surface. =/\=

Jones turned the ship tightly and pushed his throttle to full power, =/\= Computer set Phasers and torpedoes to fire on full begining 40 meters from target location, =/\= Jones locked his target onto the Engineering and set the autopilot to engage when the ship no longer had him on board, Jones also deactivated the anti collision safeties. The engines engaged and Jones could feel the power and speed of the little fighter picking up, =/\= Jones to Chimera, we are inbound =/\=

Captain John P. Jones

Heather used her enhanced vision and her skill as an engineer, her fingers moved over the console with grace despite the fact that they were under a lot of stress. “I’ve got a lock on the captain and one shot to beam him aboard.” Heather told Tenkiller.

Heather Argeneau, CE

Gunny Haygen on the USS. Liberty hit the Comms =/\= Aye Aye Sir, go get em =/\=

Gunnery Sergeant Ronald Haygen
Marine

=/\= Copy that, Captain. See you soon. =/\= He then addressed the bridge. “At a 1,000 meters from impact, engage transporter.” and he tapped some commands into the computer. “Torpedo volley will commence when the fighter is 10,000 meters from impact. That should give him some cover.” and then Tenkiller turned and looked at the assembled bridge officers. “Make sure that all non-essential personnel are in emergency shelters and prepare for impact. If this doesn’t stop them, we are gonna get hit. Hard.” and he looked at Argeneau. “All available power to shields immediately after the torpedoes fire, Chief. But make sure we can yank the Captain out.”

Tenkiller, CoS

Heather gave a nod at Tenkiller. She was ready she was relaxed instead of tense otherwise she’d miss the heartbeat she needed to yank the captain out of there before they lost him.

Sheriye took a silent breath of relief as the CE appeared on the bridge and took over the transporter duty. There was enough of the higher ranked officers on the bridge she could return to her normal duties. Her hands flew over her console as she kept scanners on the Orions. She also made sure the viewscreen showed the targets they were aiming at.

Sheriye CSO

The Orion raider suddenly turned from predator to prey. She was running the fighter down, but she seem to figure out fairly quickly that the Kitty Hawk was becoming a kamikaze.

The Orion turned sharply but not sharp enough to keep the Kitty Hawk from ramming the relatively small fighter. The torpedoes that lead the collision weakened the Raiders shields before the small ship slammed into the shields then her hull. The was a gout of flame and exploding hull before the vacuum of space.

The Orion ship didn’t change course and picked up speed until she went to warp. It wouldn’t take long for her to get out of what was the Chimera’s current sensor range unless she did something quickly.

GM

Heather hit the transporter switch sliding it up with one hand to beam the captain over to their ship directly to medical just in case he needed medical attention and with the other hand she put full power, everything she had left to give, to the shields.

Tenkiller ignored the Orion for the moment. It’s not like they could lay chase if they wanted to, anyway. “Tell me we got him out there!” he yelled over to Argeneau. As his fingers flew across the command console, he then said “Damage report. Science, see if we have enough power to launch a probe to track that warp signature. If not, don’t sweat it. But try and see if you can find the Away Team and see what their status is.” he then tapped the comms. =/\= Bridge to Medical. Threat has been driven off, at least temporarily. Medical teams prepare for incoming wounded. =/\= He then looked the comms station “Hail the Liberty.”

Tenkiller, CoS

“Aye sirr!” Sheriye said as her paws flew over the console as she quickly programed a probe to send out after the fleeing Orion ship. There was so much going on she was having a hard time keeping up.
=^=Chimerra to Away Team. Sstatuss rreporrt!=^= She called down to the away team.

Sheriye CSO

=/\=Chimera, Kiernan. Situation; under hostile fire, retreated to marine reinforcements.=/\=

-Lt Cmdr Sara Kiernan, XO

=/\=Medical here, teams are on standby.=/\=

“I transported him directly to medical just in case he needs any medical attention. you never know with these split-second beam outs if someone doesn’t get slightly singed or not.” Heather said letting Tenkiller know she got him out.

Heather Argeneau, CE

OOC: Part of post got cut in error. Correcting.

Ens. Xanrae

OOC: Cross Post, For Sim Ease we are going to go with Captain Allen being slightly injured in Sickbay to explain her absence from the bridge.

IC: =/\= Jones to Bridge, I see Captain Allen is here in sickbay and out of commission, is the XO on the bridge I would like to come to the bridge and meet with the XO immediately =/\=

CO

Tenkiller sighed slightly in relief. =/\= Bridge to Capt. Jones. No, sir. The XO is planetside. This is Lt. JG Tenkiller, Security Chief. If you are cleared by medical, sir, you can come up anyway. I’m sure a few of us wont be sure you actually made it until we see you person, Captain. =/\=

Tenkiller, CoS

=/\= I’ll be there directly =/\= Captain Jones quickly walked out of sickbay and looked to the left and right, he had studied the schematics of the ship, but to actually be on this massive vessel was slightly different. He tapped the console on the wall and pulled a map up, seeing his way to the turbo lift he headed to the right. Reaching the lift he hoped that it would be working. The doors silently slid open as he approached it. “Bridge” the doors slid closed and he felt it begin to move, it was slower than expected but at least it was moving. As the doors slid open Jones stood there taking in the view. he stepped off the Turbo Lift and looked around. Since Ten Killer had taken command he was technically the acting captain. “Captain Tenkiller, permission to enter the bridge”.

Captain Jones
CO

Elsamine looked at Jones and took in his personage for a moment before returning her attention to what she was working on. She was working on concurrent plans.

MCO

Tenkiller looked back over his shoulder and then stood up. “Granted. Welcome aboard, Captain.” and he walked over, extended his hand, and said “Bridge is yours. With your permission, as you are now the ranking officer, I’m going back to the Tactical console. That center chair is a bit outta my league.” His Oklahoma accent gave a friendly drawl to his speech, but his grip was firm and his hands felt as if they were used to doing physical labor. He pulled the Captain forward a bit and asked in a low tone so as not to worry the bridge crew “Any word on Captain Allen, sir?”

Tenkiller, CoS

“Very good Lieutenant, what is the current status of the ship.....” as he asked for the status he heard the Catian on the bridge who be believed was the CSO.

The main screen was remarkably empty with the exception of the fragments of the Kitty Hawk some of which were still sparkling burning out the little oxygen that remained in the shattered pieces before even that escaped into the vastness of space.

Tenkiller dropped Jones’ hand and moved to the tactical console. He said “Sheriye, get me some coordinates on the hostiles. Argeneau, try and get me some power to the phasers and we can try and for an orbital str- …” and then cut himself short and looked at Jones. “Sorry, Captain. Still looking to put out fires, I guess. Recommend we try to divert some power to the phaser and hit the hostiles from orbit, Sir. Might buy them some time.”

Tenkiller, CoS

Phasers even at their reduced power could rain hell from orbit, the problem instead were that without high sensor accuracy they were as likely as to hit friend as they were foe. Further the beam would have a radius of a meter, with the concurrent detonation, unless they had some sort of refinement system.

“Ssirr, the away team is underr enemy firre and rretrreating to the marrine rreinforrcementss.” Sheriye reported as she listened to the sounds of weapons fire over the comms.

Sheriye CSO

Tenkiller dropped Jones’ hand and moved to the tactical console. He said “Sheriye, get me some coordinates on the hostiles. Argeneau, try and get me some power to the phasers and we can try and for an orbital str- …” and then cut himself short and looked at Jones. “Sorry, Captain. Still looking to put out fires, I guess. Recommend we try to divert some power to the phaser and hit the hostiles from orbit, Sir. Might buy them some time.”

Tenkiller, CoS

Captain Jones took a deep breath, how he had been thrust into this situation was beyond him. Not the smooth takeover he had hoped for. =/\= Bridge to Engineering, I need phasers up and running as quickly as possible =/\= Jones walked to the middle of the bridge, =/\= USS. Chimera to Away team, we may be able to provide directed phaser strikes on the enemy position, I will need direct targeting coordinates in order for that to happen =/\=

Jones turned around “Science are there any elements in the atmosphere which would react to ship based phaser fire to the surface?” The last thing they needed was to set the atmosphere on fire.

There was nothing in the atmosphere or on the ground (within the target area) that would react unexpectedly to phaser fire… if the sensors could provide an accurate enough lock… which as a question.
Jones tapped a console and pulled up the current configuration of the ship. “It looks like we have 24 Shuttles on board. See if you can launch two Armadillo and two Longevity Class vessels to provide overhead cover for the elements on the ground.”

No reason why you can not launch the shuttles.
Jones agian hit the comms =/\=Bridge to Sickbay, status report on injuries, I also want a status on Captain Allen =/\=

There were only bumps and bruises from the Orion attack with the exception of the Captain.

=/\=Sickbay here, we have a few bruises and scrapes from the attack, nothing that is going to be anything more than a nusiance. However, we are working on stabilizing the Captain.=/\=

Elsa looked up “I can get word to the Marine contingent on the ground to move out and provide cover fire for the away team Captain.” SHe said from her position toward the back of the Bridge.

MCO

Jones realize that the Marine CO was standing by, “Lieuteanant, tell your marines to hold their positions, get the away team together and then fall back to a more defensiable position untill we can figure out what is going on and why.”

Jones then turned back around to the senior officers on the bridge. “Since I decided to literary crash this party, can someone brief me on why we are here and exactly what happened since we arrived. I also need a full damage report.” Turning to the Marine and Chief of Security “Security, since we have been attacked here already I want you to post security officers at all sensitive area’s. 15 minuet status checks on all your positions. Lieutenant, have your Marines ready for boarders, get them outfitted and ready to go. How many marines do we have on board right now?” When he had started there were 30 Marine’s on the Liberty, when he left them there were 24 left, he had to make sure that things were done right.

=/\= Bridge to Chief Engineer, I need a status on when we will have full power back, or if there is even a plan for that yet. =/\=

Captain John Jones
CO

Tenkiller replied “Security is already posted, Sir. I will relay the status checks. Chief Engineer Argeneau is right there, Captain. She’d be the best to bring you up to speed on the situation with regards to how we find ourselves.” he added, pointing to Argeneau.

Tenkiller, CoS

Heather was concentrating on the power transfers that Tenkiller had requested to squeeze as much unused power into the weapons and transporters as she could get and waved to the Captain as Tenkiller pointed to her to show the Captain she was there. “Sorry just been a little focused on keeping weapons and transporters with power.” She smiled realizing she’d been given the floor so to speak and gave a scowl to the Security chief. “I can give a full damage report, but why we’re here and have a team on the surface, I’m not sure I can brief you on that. There’s more wrong than right at the moment. Damage is: Suspected sabotage that Tenkiller and I were investigating when we the attack started, Main power is offline, we’re running on emergency power only, There’s a hole in the ship, thankfully bulkheads and emergency forcefields are holding. Shields and Phasers are damaged but online, we have maneuvering thrusters only at the moment and I have damage teams doing what they can to make repairs while we’re still moving.” Heather explained, “Other than that I’m sure Tenkiller knows why we have a team on the surface of the planet.” She smirked back at her friend giving him the floor back.

Heather Argeneau, CE

Apparently there is a hull breach from the Orion attack run, that is stabilized. No other critical damage from the attacks either at this point The loss of power comes from the loss of dilithum crystals and the damage to the antimatter chamber from the sabotage earlier in the the mission.

GM

Dr. Xanrae

Elsa continued working on the best way to disable the ship. She wasn’t sure exactly what they were trying to do.

MCO

OOC: The Orion ship went to warp and seems to be on the run…

Heather was coordinating with Engineering, but the power loss from the sabotaged matrix was hurting them more than she had originally thought it would. “Excuse me, Captain Jones, Lieutenant Tenkiller, I need to get to engineering, the dilithium matrix was sabotaged earlier in our mission and its practically hemorrhaging power, if I can get down there and repair it I can probably get back up power back online instead of emergency power,” Heather said even as she was starting towards the Lift. because of her Atlantean blood she could handle whatever happened in engineering as long as there wasn’t a coolant leak.

Heather Argeneau, CE

GM
Jones nodded his head “Very good Chief, I need power up and running ASAP. Who knows how long untill that ship returns.”

Captain Jones stood taking in the information. Looking over at Ten Killer, “Lietenant, what is the status of the shuttles, will they be able to provide support to the away team?” Turning to the Intelligence Officer “Intelligence, I need you to work with security and engineering and find out who did this to the ship, we have to find them or this entire ship will be at risk.”

CO
(see above you can launch at any time)

Tenkiller pulled up the information he and Argeneau had compiled and sent it to the Intelligence officer and Jones. “This is what we found before all hell broke loose. At least we limited the pool of suspects. If you can be of assistance, we can probably figure it out faster. “

Tenkiller, CoS
The pool of suspects had shrunk during the investigation, particularly after correlating the location of each engineer relative to the time frame of the sabotage. Grigor Ivanovic, Emma Holzer, Tito Coeman were the of the highest probability of wrongdoing but even then they were not hard connected to the sabotage.

Elsa spoke up from her station at the back of the Bridge “Captain, I can have teams placed at strategic locations to assist security.” She said as she started to open a comm link to the marines aboard the ship to deploy them.

MCO

Sheriye stood by continuing to monitor the away team. Idly her tail flicked back and forth as she calmed herself after all the action. It looked like the Orions were running so perhaps they could complete what they had come here to do.

Sheriye CSO

Their original mission was to determine, if there were pirates in the system, and if so why they were in such a relatively minor and unimportant trade lane.

“I haven’t exactly involved Engineering in the actual investigation into the sabotage, because I wasn’t sure who to trust other than Ens whatshisname,” Heather admitted.

Heather Argeneau, CE.

Captain Jones let out a breath, “Alright first order of business I need power restored. Engineering get on that and make it happen. Tell me what you will need. The second issue is finding out who cripled this ship and why. Just as important, what is the status on the support for the ground units?”

CO

“Aye, sir,” Heather said she was already coordinating with Engineering to get things fixed and power back online as best they could with the dilithium crystal issues that would prevent them from bringing full power back online. But back up power was possible.

Heather Argeneau, Ce

Currently the partial warp drive power was greater than the emergency or impulse power.

There was no easy long term solutions to the warp drive issue. Four of the six dilithum crystals were a complete loss. They were forcing the antimatter through two crystals, one of which they suspected was cracked, hence the remarkably low power. The only obvious recourse was to get new crystals… which could be delivered by starship from a base two weeks away.

Other engineering issues of lower priority was the unexplained automatic opening of comm lines…

GM

The Captain looked to the Security Chief, “Lieutenant, since the XO is gone right now your my 2nd Officer, Oversee a evacuation of non essential area’s. Clear them and shut down life support and all power to those area’s. Put your best investigator you have on figuring out who is on this ship that damaged our systems, or how they damaged our systems.”

The Captain then turned to the comms station “Comms, Tranmitt the following on Star Fleet Emergency Channel.” This was not the way to start a command…

=/\= USS. Chimera to Star Fleet Vessels, We have been attacked by Orion’s, we have personnel on the ground in combat. We are running on low power and require immediate assistance. Requesting any available vessel respond =/\=

Looking back to Tenkiller, ‘Number two whats the status on sending shuttles as fire support?”

CO

OOC: Is a player going to pilot those ships…

Transporters can be one or two at time to surface locations. Shuttles are operational. The crew is healthy, all options with those parameters are open.

-^-This is the USS Yorktown, we are 17 light years away from your last known position. We can alter course now, but… that still puts us over four days away. Captain Noble is coming to the bridge now, if you’d like to speak to him. -^-

GM

OOC: I don’t think we have a pilot at the moment though Heather has some piloting experience with shuttles if you want her to take the helm?

Heather was working at her console trusting her engineers to coordinate with her and follow her orders even when she wasn’t there. Even though she didn’t know them well all she could do was hope that it hadn’t been anyone in her engineering bay that had caused the sabotage earlier.

Heather Argeneau, CE


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