IKC FHew 7C6110
Re-born – To suffer the slings and bows...
by HoD Ro' Matlh & Soghla' Terri (Tell) Hope & Soghla' Jared & Soghla' HIchop Matlh & Soghla' Marie St. Helene & Ensign Jason Hawk & Sogh Thor'nan Mal'Kor & Sogh Marla Varquis
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Ro' was leaning forward in his chair, staring at the screen as if willing the Borg to relinquish their charge and his away team. Over his right shoulder stood Hawk his hands ready on the helm controls, keeping them from drifting, but with minimal engine exhaust from the RCS. HIchop manned Tactical behind his left shoulder. Behind him Tell managed the Engineering/Damage control station, while opposite her, behind Hawk, Jared was fixed to the sensors.
"The Borg ship is waking again. It is running active scans," Jared suddenly warned.
"Cloak?" Ro' barked the question.
"Stable," HIchop replied. "They are powering their cutting beam, but they are not locking onto us."
A green beam lanced out of the Borg ship and flashed across a medium sized asteroid, shattering it and casting the debris into a hot cloud around it. The ship target a second a little further around from the first.
Jason was confused, "There is nothing in that asteroid that they can assimilate. Why are they wasting..."
"HELM, FULL ABOUT!" Ro' barked suddenly on his feet. "Tell, full power to navigational deflectors. Get the away team back and raise shields!"
As Ro' spoke the rest of the crew realised what the Borg were doing. They must have realised there was a cloaked ship nearby. That means the away team had been discovered. While they may not be able to detect the ship directly they could track the movement of dust particles as they bounced of the hull. Furthermore, since the ship did not have enough power to run shields and cloak, any large bits of shrapnel will hit the hull and tear chunks out of her.
Jared shook his head as Hawk span the FHew almost on the spot, "The Borg have raised a teleport inhibiting field. It s going to take me a while to work a way around it."
The ship leapt away, de-cloaking as the shields came back on line. If the scout ship had been fully operational, they would have been done for, but it lacked the use of its tractor beam and was forced to give chase.
The Bridge shook as a volley of fire hit them. Tell reported, "They are using their shield draining torpedoes. Shields are down to 63%."
"24%," she corrected as the ship shook again.
Ro' stood quickly, "Jared, find a way to get our team back. Hawk, use whatever evasive manoeuvres they taught you to keep us away from their cutting beam. Tell, get to Engineering, and prepare to repel boarders. HIchop, you take decks 1-3, I'll take decks 4-5. No prisoners."
He glanced quickly around the now nearly empty command centre, only the two humans remained, "Marie! You have the Bridge!"
With that he stormed out to meet whatever the Borg would beam across.
And that left Marie. No-one to take charge; no-one else to give orders.
“Hawk. Take us in as close as you can to the Borg.” She could feel every muscle in her body twitch as she gave the order.
Jason had found it was best not to say anything and just do his job Unless the job required him to speak. Nodding once to acknowledge he'd heard the order his hands moved skilfully across the helm controls as he brought the FHew to within 5km of the Borg ship. "Holding position at 5km." He announced once he had stabilized their position.
“They're only partly operational. They have no tractor beam so they can't lock onto us. The cutting beam works at long range; close at hand they can't bring it to bear. Their ship is too big to bring their heavy canons on us. But we...we have an advantage. There was an English captain – Francis Drake. He's best remembered for defeating the Spanish Armada. Actually, bad weather did more harm and....” She was babbling. It was the adrenaline. “Before that he captured a treasure fleet sailing from the New World. The Spanish galleons were the rulers of the seas and Drake only had tiny ships. Know what...he whipped them. He got in under their cannons and blasted them all to hell. Hawk: we're going to do the same! Now get in there and let's give them a taste of their own medicine.”
"Tell, find the site of the transporter inhibitors. We're going to knock them out if I have to ram them to do it!"
Marie didn't have a clue if this would work. Truth be told, she doubted it. But if she could find the inhibitors and disable them there still might be a chance of getting Hope back. From there.... From there she just had to hope they could stay alive and in one piece long enough to do enough serious damage to make the Borg back off.
Tell let loose a string of Klingon curses and a few new ones that the crew hadn't heard of before. Most were convinced that she made them up as she went along anyhow. She was about to walk off the bridge when she turned round to those still there.
"I expect to see the damn ship still here when I bloody well get back." She told them in no uncertain terms. "Break it and I'll break your flaming neck Flyboy."
"I won't break your ship." Jason growled at Tell before returning his attention to keeping the hip from hitting the Borg ship.
The door to the bridge only opened a fraction until she kicked it and it obeyed enough to let her thin frame through. Whether or not it would close after her was any ones business but at least she was off the bridge and bouncing off walls on her way to engineering.
Marie waited until Tell was out of earshot. "We're not close enough, Flyboy."
As if to highlight her point another volley of torpedoes smacked into their forward shields.
Tell picked herself off the floor and quite literally fell into engineering. Swearing under her breath, she took in the sight of the engine room. She had seen it much worse and no doubt the minor improvements she had made had helped keep her loved engine together.
She sighed and stripped off her heavy jacket leaving her in her black vest. There was no time to change into the overalls which she preferred to wear. Another explosion rocked the ship as Tell steadied herself over the engineering panel. Lights were flickering on and off and the whole panel felt hot to the touch. But she had seen far worse and thanked the universe for listening to her pleas so far.
Sparks flew from a coupling joint above her head. She only just managed to get out of the way before it went completely filling the engine room with steam. What should have taken seconds to seal took more time than she wanted it too. Though it was no danger to her it proved more of a nuisance to wade through thick fog until she managed to reseal it and clear the engine room.
She had to try and divert more power to the shields. She closed down non-essential systems and reduced others by half in some cases. Life support went down to minimal, if they got a little light headed and a little cold for a while they would be fine. After all, they had been through much worse in the past.
'Tell to Bridge"
"St. Helene here."
"Polish your halo sister because its going to be a rough ride for a while. If they were going to kill us they would have done so by now my guess is that they are going to try and board the FHew. You've got a tad more power to the shields and that's all so don't fritter it away. Tell out."
by HoD Ro' Matlh & Soghla' Terri (Tell) Hope & Soghla' Jared & Soghla' HIchop Matlh & Soghla' Marie St. Helene & Ensign Jason Hawk & Sogh Thor'nan Mal'Kor & Sogh Marla Varquis
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| Title | To suffer the slings and bows... | |
| Mission | Re-born | |
| Author(s) | HoD Ro' Matlh & Soghla' Terri (Tell) Hope & Soghla' Jared & Soghla' HIchop Matlh & Soghla' Marie St. Helene & Ensign Jason Hawk & Sogh Thor'nan Mal'Kor & Sogh Marla Varquis | |
| Posted | Mon Mar 19, 2012 @ 10:17am | |
| Location | FHew Bridge | |
| Timeline | Moments after boarding the Borg |
"The Borg ship is waking again. It is running active scans," Jared suddenly warned.
"Cloak?" Ro' barked the question.
"Stable," HIchop replied. "They are powering their cutting beam, but they are not locking onto us."
A green beam lanced out of the Borg ship and flashed across a medium sized asteroid, shattering it and casting the debris into a hot cloud around it. The ship target a second a little further around from the first.
Jason was confused, "There is nothing in that asteroid that they can assimilate. Why are they wasting..."
"HELM, FULL ABOUT!" Ro' barked suddenly on his feet. "Tell, full power to navigational deflectors. Get the away team back and raise shields!"
As Ro' spoke the rest of the crew realised what the Borg were doing. They must have realised there was a cloaked ship nearby. That means the away team had been discovered. While they may not be able to detect the ship directly they could track the movement of dust particles as they bounced of the hull. Furthermore, since the ship did not have enough power to run shields and cloak, any large bits of shrapnel will hit the hull and tear chunks out of her.
Jared shook his head as Hawk span the FHew almost on the spot, "The Borg have raised a teleport inhibiting field. It s going to take me a while to work a way around it."
The ship leapt away, de-cloaking as the shields came back on line. If the scout ship had been fully operational, they would have been done for, but it lacked the use of its tractor beam and was forced to give chase.
The Bridge shook as a volley of fire hit them. Tell reported, "They are using their shield draining torpedoes. Shields are down to 63%."
"24%," she corrected as the ship shook again.
Ro' stood quickly, "Jared, find a way to get our team back. Hawk, use whatever evasive manoeuvres they taught you to keep us away from their cutting beam. Tell, get to Engineering, and prepare to repel boarders. HIchop, you take decks 1-3, I'll take decks 4-5. No prisoners."
He glanced quickly around the now nearly empty command centre, only the two humans remained, "Marie! You have the Bridge!"
With that he stormed out to meet whatever the Borg would beam across.
And that left Marie. No-one to take charge; no-one else to give orders.
“Hawk. Take us in as close as you can to the Borg.” She could feel every muscle in her body twitch as she gave the order.
Jason had found it was best not to say anything and just do his job Unless the job required him to speak. Nodding once to acknowledge he'd heard the order his hands moved skilfully across the helm controls as he brought the FHew to within 5km of the Borg ship. "Holding position at 5km." He announced once he had stabilized their position.
“They're only partly operational. They have no tractor beam so they can't lock onto us. The cutting beam works at long range; close at hand they can't bring it to bear. Their ship is too big to bring their heavy canons on us. But we...we have an advantage. There was an English captain – Francis Drake. He's best remembered for defeating the Spanish Armada. Actually, bad weather did more harm and....” She was babbling. It was the adrenaline. “Before that he captured a treasure fleet sailing from the New World. The Spanish galleons were the rulers of the seas and Drake only had tiny ships. Know what...he whipped them. He got in under their cannons and blasted them all to hell. Hawk: we're going to do the same! Now get in there and let's give them a taste of their own medicine.”
"Tell, find the site of the transporter inhibitors. We're going to knock them out if I have to ram them to do it!"
Marie didn't have a clue if this would work. Truth be told, she doubted it. But if she could find the inhibitors and disable them there still might be a chance of getting Hope back. From there.... From there she just had to hope they could stay alive and in one piece long enough to do enough serious damage to make the Borg back off.
Tell let loose a string of Klingon curses and a few new ones that the crew hadn't heard of before. Most were convinced that she made them up as she went along anyhow. She was about to walk off the bridge when she turned round to those still there.
"I expect to see the damn ship still here when I bloody well get back." She told them in no uncertain terms. "Break it and I'll break your flaming neck Flyboy."
"I won't break your ship." Jason growled at Tell before returning his attention to keeping the hip from hitting the Borg ship.
The door to the bridge only opened a fraction until she kicked it and it obeyed enough to let her thin frame through. Whether or not it would close after her was any ones business but at least she was off the bridge and bouncing off walls on her way to engineering.
Marie waited until Tell was out of earshot. "We're not close enough, Flyboy."
As if to highlight her point another volley of torpedoes smacked into their forward shields.
Tell picked herself off the floor and quite literally fell into engineering. Swearing under her breath, she took in the sight of the engine room. She had seen it much worse and no doubt the minor improvements she had made had helped keep her loved engine together.
She sighed and stripped off her heavy jacket leaving her in her black vest. There was no time to change into the overalls which she preferred to wear. Another explosion rocked the ship as Tell steadied herself over the engineering panel. Lights were flickering on and off and the whole panel felt hot to the touch. But she had seen far worse and thanked the universe for listening to her pleas so far.
Sparks flew from a coupling joint above her head. She only just managed to get out of the way before it went completely filling the engine room with steam. What should have taken seconds to seal took more time than she wanted it too. Though it was no danger to her it proved more of a nuisance to wade through thick fog until she managed to reseal it and clear the engine room.
She had to try and divert more power to the shields. She closed down non-essential systems and reduced others by half in some cases. Life support went down to minimal, if they got a little light headed and a little cold for a while they would be fine. After all, they had been through much worse in the past.
'Tell to Bridge"
"St. Helene here."
"Polish your halo sister because its going to be a rough ride for a while. If they were going to kill us they would have done so by now my guess is that they are going to try and board the FHew. You've got a tad more power to the shields and that's all so don't fritter it away. Tell out."