Posted by Fleet Captain Drudoc Andone (CO) in Main Sim - Ark Angel - Bridge
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OOC: Still waiting for Sadie’s reply for the simulation results noted below!

“Yes sir,” Sadie muttered, quivering slightly while madly typing and scanning and trying various simulations to see if anything might work to close the rifts. “If we fired a tachyon stream, what would that do?” she wondered quietly to herself, trying it out in a simulation.

The simulation showed that on its own just the tachyon beam would only increase their problems, which wouldnt be a good thing. Maybe running a simulation doing the same with an antitaychon beam would be a possible lead?

Chris was already tapping away at his console, routing power from minor, currently unneeded systems in order to help facilitate the recharge of their shields. It didn’t matter how minor the system to him, any additional power could be the difference between life and death. “Shields holding steady so far Captain; No damage to the hull plating .. though I would recommend not taking any more hits like that.” Nothing had penetrated the shields yet so far, but the several engineering teams were on standby, waiting to repair any damage. He ensured that Tactical had a bit more power than required for the weapons in case they were needed. He paused his routing, allowing the power to slowly start charging as he flexed his hand for a moment to stop it from the slight shake it developed from the attack.

On the tactical read outs the Merrimack’s movements had gotten 8 of the smaller craft to break off, avoiding the returning barrage of the Ark Angel, the smaller ships soon sped up outpacing the larger Starfleet ship, moving in to engage the Merrimack which at just over 80,000km engaged the ships. Their own phaser fire and torpedoes struck out, lancing along one of the ships sending it into a tail spin, while another burst of fire and torpedoes damaged but didn’t destroy another trio.

Tiglath, was watching the smaller ships break off. He hoped to keep them closer together, quickly modified the phaser array’s to fire short bursts. He hoped that by fire shorter, faster bursts at the ships, especially if he aimed for the ships near the edge of their formation, would keep them closer together, which would allow torpedoes to destroy more of them with less shots.

Behind the Ark Angel the larger 800m long mushroom like organic ship ballooned open again at the front launching a barrage of organic like ‘thorns’ again at the Ark Angel. Phaser fire when sent out would take care of 12 of the incoming objects, but another 8 still broke through and struck the length and breadth of the aft shielding knocking it down to 72%.

As Chris began to reroute power he would get an alert by a damage control team on deck 42 that engineering maintenance lab 3 had been sealed off due to a minor hull breach, no reports came in of loss of life thankfully, but NE Ber’cal one of the Romulan refugees that had been serving on the Ark Angel for almost 3 years now was being taken to Sickbay for plasma burns.

Almost as if just reading aloud just to keep the Captain informed of the status he continues to route power to the different positions to their shields depending on their orientation to their enemy. “Minor damage on Deck 42, damage control are already on site. Aft shields holding steady at 72%.” He looked up toward Lt. (jg) Tiglath, “Tactical, how’s your power? Do the phaser array’s require any more?”

“I think we are ok, I’m trying to modify the phasers to fire faster, shorter bursts, I’m trying to force these small fighters closer together. Can you help?” He asked with out looking up from his console. He was working as fast as he could to try and prevent the fighters from spreading out.

OOC: Sorry for my late reply D: Don’t mean to use it as an excuse, but work is literally driving me to wits end.

OOC: I feel your pain :P Job hunting is the same boat for me plus doing volunteer work stuff!!

Chris took a second to glance and assess the current way things were going from an engineering perspective. Shields were still okay for now, minor damage, core systems protected, emergency protocols still in place and, but not active. The ship was holding together, she could spare a bit of energy. “Transferring some from auxiliary. Should shorten the time to charge the arrays for what you need.”

While tactical was busy firing weapons, reports also came in of enemy boarding parties on various decks phasing in by some kind of quantum fissure rather then transporters. Lastly, the smaller enemy ships remaining strafed through the Ark Angel’s dorsal quarter under the saucer bringing down those shields from 100% to 92%.

”..Helm bring us to 017 Mark 229. On my mark -40 degrees Z axis! Tactical arm a burst of quatum torpedoes from the forward tube with full phaser fire…” She said, as the ship began to move she snapped “..Helm mark!” She said.

“Ready Captain.” He armed the torpedoes and put them on a floating lock, until the order to fire is given.

The Ark Angel slightly lurched like a heavy whale to port and then down on an angle, throwing off the smaller enemy ship’s attack pattern, the larger ship even bigger and ungainly then the Ark Angel, shot past exposing its rear sections to the Ark Angel as the ship came back to a forward motion. “..Tactical fire!” she ordered.

Tiglath quickly adjusted to targeting computer and fired.

“Lt. Sadie, figure out how to close those fissures! Lt. Trainor! Scan the ship, find the Serpents and activate the fire suppression foam in those areas. Lock down the security bulkheads and then flood the compartments with Halon 1301. Security! Have all teams engage thermal imaging! It’s about to get really foggy where they are at.” Cochrane said as the Ark Angel banked and launched it’s own barrage at the rear section of the Serpent’s main ship.

“Scanning the ship now, Captain!” Lieutenant Trainor called out. The OPS officer had been coordinating re routing power to the various systems with the CE, and had switched his attention over to scanning for the aliens. He was about to pin point a few locations via the fire fights occurring around the ship, but the Lieutenant would have to rely on internal sensors to find those not engaged with the crew.

OOC: Also waiting for Sadie to work a way to close the rifts :)

As the XO’s orders happened Trainor was thankfully easily enough able to locate the current boarding parties. The first group was near Arboretum 3 while the second was manual launch controls for the fore/aft torpedo launchers handling the red matter modified torpedoes. Could it be the Serpents knew or could detect the threat the Red Matter presented? Though why they were near Arboretum 3 was anyone’s guess!

The XO’s further orders for the fire suppression system also began, the effect was quite immediate the emergency coolant foams washing over the more larger snake like Serpents had them slow to almost a crawl, while the more half humanoid/snake like ones seemed a bit more sluggish in their movements.

Meanwhile on tactical the Merrimack and joined the fight in ernest currently breaking into an evasive pattern fighting several of the smaller ships. Their shields after some exchanges were down to roughly 68% with minor bleed through to their Rodium armor plating along the hull, which for now at least was handling the impacts. In turn the larger mushroom like Serpent ship 10,000km now ahead the Ark Angel had banked slowly to port exposing its port side as it came about. Suddenly several ‘slits’ along its side opened hued a blue-green tone launching a rapid burst of 12 spherical bursts at the Ark Angel.

Drudoc’s eyes seemed to take this in and she gripped her captain’s chair snapping out. “..Temporal shields NOW! Helm emergency evasive to starboard!!” it seems Trainor’s temporal shield charging modifications with engineering earlier to switch from normal to temporal would be put to the test as the deadly devices raced in....

GM CockRoach /

-CTO