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Posted by Captain Aiden Voss (Commanding Officer) in [DD] - Arrival - Bridge
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As the USS Memorial dropped out of warp, Aiden stood on the bridge, his anticipation palpable. His eyes were fixed on the viewscreen, awaiting the transition back into real space. With a nod, he commanded the helm, “Drop us out of warp.” Aiden’s hands rested lightly on the railing as he awaited the ship’s response. “Full tactical sensor scan,” he ordered, his tone conveying the importance of the task at hand. Then, turning to the tactical officer, he issued another directive, “Deploy the fighter wing. We need to be prepared for any eventuality.” Aiden’s focus remained unwavering as he awaited the results of the scan, ready to take action as necessary.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

John remained seated at his console, gazing through the viewport as the streaks of starlight reverted to mere specks against the void of space. He inhaled deeply, anticipating the forthcoming commands.

Lt. John Tolly
Chief Operations Officer

As the USS Memorial emerged from warp, Sifeda maintained her composed demeanor, her focus sharp and unwavering. Standing at her station, she kept her eyes fixed on the viewscreen as it transitioned back to real space. Her fingers moved with precision across the console, initiating the full tactical sensor scan as ordered by Captain Aiden Voss. Each blip and beep from the sensors was met with a calculated response as she reviewed the data streaming before her.
Sifeda’s gaze returned to Aiden as he turned to address him “Fighter wing deployed, Captain,” she announced.

Commander Itri
(Executive Officer)

“Very good, what are our scans telling us?” He asked.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Science/tactical - Scans would show a Ferengi Merchant vessel, D’Kora-class but older mode with signs of visible battle no signs of life

The Captain’s inquiry about the scans prompted Sifeda to review the data for information. “Scans indicate a Ferengi Merchant vessel, D’Kora-class, but older model,” she reported, her eyes moving back to the viewscreen to confirm the details. “Signs of visible battle, but no signs of life detected.” Despite the absence of life signs, she remained on guard, aware that the situation could shift at any moment.

Commander Itri
(Executive Officer)

Tolly turned around in his chair
” Ferengi pirates have been known to use deception, they could be masking their life signs to try and lure a ship in”

Lt. John Tolly
Chief Operations Officer

Sifeda nodded, acknowledging Tolly’s concern. “Agreed, Lieutenant. We shouldn’t let our guard down. Keep scanning for any fluctuations or anomalies in the area. I don’t want us to fall into a trap.”She glanced at Captain Voss, silently conveying the need for caution in their next moves.

Commander Itri
(Executive Officer)

Tolly gave a quick nod turning back to his console “I also suggest we do a tachyon sweep to search for any cloaked ships.” He said while preparing to do a scan

Lieutenant John Tolly
Chief Operations Officer

“Good idea, flood the area with Tachyons, Commander ready an away team, let’s air in the side of caution and take a shuttle have the fighter squadron escort you and then remain patrolling the system.” He paused allowing his first two orders be acknowledge.

“Open hailing frequencies, let’s see if there’s anyone over there playing hide and seek.” Aiden stood cross armed in the center of the bridge waiting for his ordered to be carried out.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Bump - Comms/Science (Whoever wants to open comms :))

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

ooc: would this be OPPS?

OOC: It can be, but I will take this to get things moving along.

OOC: I am happy for anyone to assume an NE if you’re unsure just do it :) - Jake

Seeing the communications console empty, Aza reached across her security console and input the commands to open the hailing frequencies. As she activated the comms, her voice was steady and clear. “Hailing frequencies open, Captain. Ready to transmit.” She glanced at Captain Voss, waiting for his signal to begin.

Ensign (Aza)
(Security officer)

Aiden nodded in acknowledgment, his expression serious as he leaned forward. With a clear and steady voice, he spoke into the communicator: =^= “This is the USS Memorial. We offer our assistance. Please respond.” =^=

The silence that followed seemed to stretch on forever, heightening the tension on the bridge. Aiden repeated his message, hoping for any sign of life or communication from the vessel. But once again, there was no response.

He took a deep breath and turned to his first officer. “Commander, prepare an away team,” he ordered, his voice firm and resolute. “We need to find out what’s happening over there.”

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Sifeda stood at her post, she met Captain Voss’s gaze with a nod, acknowledging the order with a composed demeanor that masked her underlying concern.
“Understood, Captain,” she replied, her voice calm and steady. “I’ll assemble the team immediately.”
She turned to Ensign Aza, who was still manning the security console. “Ensign, you’re with me.”

Commander Itri
(Executive Officer)

Aza nodded and quickly, jumped from her seat and followed Sifeda to the turbolift. As the turbolift doors opened a Communications NE stepped out and went to the communications console to take over.

Ensign (Aza)
(Security officer)

Lieutenant Tolly turned in his seat “Commander you may need some one over there who can get your sensors and other system working over there”

Lt. John Tolly Chief of Operations

Aiden overhead the Chief of Operations and silently agreed with him, looking to his second in command, “Take Lieutenant Tolly with you, his skills will likely be more useful there than monitoring you from here.” He recommended but would leave the decisions to his exec.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Sifeda turned her attention to Lieutenant Tolly, “Very well, Lieutenant Tolly, you’re with us.”
As the group stepped into the turbolift, and it began to hum as it descended, and Sifeda used the moment of quiet to collect her thoughts.

Commander Itri
(Executive Officer)

Tolly stood up and noded “Aye Comander” He said as he followed Sifeda and Aza to the turoblift

Lt. John Tolly Chief of Operations

Aiden watched as their positions were taken over by their replacements, and the departing officers left the bridge. His focus returned to the ship adrift in space, displayed prominently on the viewscreen.

“Do we still have nothing on long-range scanners?” he asked, his tone a mix of concern and determination. “Any signs of weapons fire? Any trace of another ship?”

He leaned forward slightly, eyes fixed on the enigmatic vessel before them, waiting for his crew to uncover any clues that might explain its silent drift.

OOC: Chance for NEs

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Aiden stood on the bridge, trying to mask his nervousness as he stared at the viewscreen. This was the first away team he had sent out as the commanding officer of the USS Memorial, and the weight of responsibility hung heavily on his shoulders. He couldn’t help but feel a knot of anxiety in his stomach as he thought about the dangers they might face.

His fingers drummed lightly against the armrest of his chair as he waited for the away team’s report. He took a deep breath, steadying himself before tapping his comm badge. =^= Commander, what are your initial findings? =^= he asked, striving to keep his tone authoritative yet casual, despite the tension he felt.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

=^=Captain, we’ve reached the storage door. The console is in Ferengi, so it’s taking time to decipher, however there’s no sign of life or struggle. Aza is working on accessing the door now. It’s possible the ship’s crew may have left in a hurry, but it’s too soon to determine why.=^=

Aiden nodded, which was rather silly when his XO wouldn’t be able to see him, =^= Very well XO, we’ll check in again in ten minutes, stay safe Memorial out=^=

“Tactical, inform the fighter squadron they can expand their flying pattern and begin to do-ordinate sensor sweeps with the Memorial. Maybe there will be some clues outside the ship aswell.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

“Aye Captain” he said starting his own set of sensor sweeps.

Jake opened comms he wished he was in the cockpit he was far more comfortable there, but his other officers could handle security on thier own.
=/\= “Orion, Switch to flight pattern Gama 4 wide, ordinate sweeps, watch out for anommilies anything that might be abnormal no atter how small. “. =/\=

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

=^=Switching to flight pattern Gamma 4 wide, now=^=
Came the pilots voice, the ships tactical sensors would show the fighter wing expanding the gaps between them all and flying in a Wide arching motion around the two ships like a arm on an an old earth clock as they started sending data back to the ship.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus “Orion” Reynolds
Pilot
USS Memorial

‘Beep, beep, beep…” came an alter from the ship’s tactical console. The same beeps also reverberated in the fighters… ‘Beep, beep, beep.”

A subspace disturbance resulting from the compression of space associated with a ship’s warp drive was heading toward the Memorial. Three minutes, and it would be right on top of them.

GM Dipper
Gamemaster

Marcus glanced over his instruments, the data relayed to him by his wingman. =^= Memorial, I’m sending you data on a subspace disturbance caused by a ship’s warp drive. It’s on an intercept course with an estimated time to intercept of 3 minutes. What are your orders?=^=

Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus “Orion” Reynolds
Pilot
USS Memorial

Jack saw it as well =/\=” Confirmed Unknown Vessel bearing 224 -034, ETA 3 Mike’s, tighten up defense around the away team” =/\= he called over coms and the bridge. Jack tried to adjust the sensors to see if he could get an ident on the incoming vessel “Sir recommend we go to Red alert until we know what’s going on”, he paused briefly “Launching the alert fighters is recommended as well.” he noted.

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

Apologies for the mistake. Here’s the revised version:

Aiden accepted the advice from his chief tactical and security officer, knowing he always prioritized the ship and its crew. However, being part of Starfleet also meant a responsibility to avoid unnecessary aggression. “Let’s not jump the gun,” he decided, “let’s stay at yellow alert with shields raised. Have the alert fighters on standby and ready to disembark, with the fighters already out taking a defensive posture in tight formation between us and the ferengi vessel. Inform the away team of the situation and open hailing frequencies Unknown Vessel this is Captain Voss of the Federation vessel Memorial, we are responding an emergency distress call please identify yourself, repeat that message and inform me if they respond, science do we have anything on scanners, when did we pick up the vessel?”

“Aye Captain, Yellow and Shields” he repeated the order back. Given the damage to the Ferengi vessel he did not want to get caught off guard. His hands danced across the console making sure the shields were in fact on. and that they were sounding yellow. “Be advised Captain current trajectory and rate of speed decay, she’s going to drop out of warp right on top of us.” he said keeping his eyes on the scanners hoping to identify the ship. He tightened up the scan as it closed range hoping to get better resolution on the craft.
Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

“Thank you Lieutenant, steady as she goes be ready for anything, continue hailing.” He reaffirmed.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Tapping his console he made sure the message was indeed repeating. “Aye Captain, signal is on cycle awaiting a response” He said. I don’t like this he thought too many things could go wrong. This was the job though so he kept his composure and maintained his attempted to identify this craft.

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

=/\= “Alert fighters are ready,” John reported. “We can be out the door in ten seconds.” =/\=

Major John “Firefly” Arlen
Commander, Air Group

Jack shifted slightly at his consol. =/\=”Copy Alert one standing by” =/\= he aknowladged shifting his efforts back to identifying the ship. “Captain alert fighters are up and ready on lauch one and two Sir”

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

“Thank you Lieutenant, let’s hope they’re not needed but it’s good to have them up our sleeve. Any response to our hails?” He asked his mind drifting to the away team hoping they were ok.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

There had been no response to their hails. The incoming ship was now close enough for the ships sensors to identify it… except that they couldn’t. It simply didn’t match any known configuration.

GM Dipper
Gamemaster

Shaking his head in confusion Jack checked over the sensor readings once again making sure he was not missing something . “Captain we should have an Ident on this vessels but it like.” he paused for a moment “The ship class does not exist in our database.”

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

“Send a priority one message to starfleet informing them of our situation, raise the away team and tell them their time is up and they’re to return to the ship as soon as they have the ships logs we’ll” Aiden ordered his gut feeling telling him that this wasn’t going to be a positive first contact.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Jack keyed up his console, created the message explaining their situation in brief. “Priority one message sent Sir” he noted letting the captain know.

=^=Away team, the Captain is requesting you to finish what you’re doing and beam back to the ship=^= Ande said sending the message as ordered.

Ensign Andromeda Lykaios
Scientist
USS Memorial

Jack awaited the away teams response before moving the fighters position. He was on edge now very alert on where his team was an what was going on, on his screens.

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

Still having not heard anything from the away team “Lieutneant can we see the away team’s comm badge signature? Send them another message.”

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Shifting over to the left side of his console he ran quickly initiated a sequence check pinging the badges to makes sure the connection and the location was active, he also scanned for their physical presence. “Checking now Captain.”

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

Having heard the yellow alert, and not knowing what it meant and where he should go, he did the only thing he could think of doing. He grabbed his padd, and his recording device and followed crew members as they rushed around with purpose. It wasn’t his fault that they were on their way to the bridge, was it? And that he was essentially just swept along with them, his adrenalin rushing, his heart in his mouth. He saw various officers at different stations, including the Captain he recognised from the buffet meal earlier. Jeremy though didn’t approach the captain, instead he just stood at the back of the bridge, hoping not to get in anyone’s way.

As the officers spoke to each, Jeremy wished he was anywhere but here. The spit was about to hit the fan, and get real. His hands started trembling and suddenly he wished that he never decided to break out of entertainment for real news stories. Give him Dayboro any day. He was completely out of his depth here, his padd, almost forgotten by him dropped slightly from his hand, but he had enough about him to snatch it before it hit the ground. His mind raced, his anxiety rose, and he began to breathe deeply.

As he breathed, he thought back to the stories of Jake Sisko during the Dominion War, and how young he was when he covered that conflict, and how he even helped take back the station. Then again Jake Sisko had courage and brains, while Jeremy was simply a blowhard with a mouth. And he was out of his depth here, his anxiety rose again and his padd fell from his hands with a clutter to the deck, and Jeremy wished he could be swallowed up. The last thing he wanted was to distract anyone doing their job, especially when them doing their job meant that Jeremy would live a little bit longer. But he was certain he was going to get them all killed. He couldn’t help it, he began shaking, even as he tried to pick up his padd.

Fine reporter he was, couldn’t even keep it together during this … whatever this was.

Civilian Jeremy J Kelly
Reporter USS Memorial

There was no obvious reason why the away team hadn’t responded. The ship was now 30 seconds away.

GM Dipper
Gamemaster

=^=Memorial, Commander Itri, we are ready to beam aboard. We will be bringing some guests aboard, please ensure security is waiting their arrival in the transporter room.=^=

Aiden breathed a sigh of relief, he was going to have to remind everyone to review away team protocols about responding to call. “Lieutenant, dispatch a security team to the transported room and inform the brig we may have guests, also have medical on stand by, Unfortunately I may need you on the bridge”

=^= Understood Commander, Memorial out.=^=

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Jeremy succeeded in picking up his padd and typed in
BREAKING NEWS
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
The USS Memorial has just gone to yellow alert. An away team is returning to the ship with guests. There may even be an injury or two involved as medical and security have been ordered to the transporter room to meet the guests. Hopefully there’ll be lots of blood with a nice clear picture.

Then he looked up at the viewscreen and he returned to being scared … and suddenly he wished he was back covering the entertainment pages.

Civilian Jeremy J Kelly
Reporter USS Memorial

“Aye, Aye Captain” he responded =/\= “Security and Medical to Transporter Room one, Security and Medical to Transporter Room one” =/\= he called over the ship intercom. As he did his fingers danced across the console issuing a silent commands to the brig to be ready for multiple detainees if needed.

Lieutenant Jack ‘Blaze’ Turner
Chief of Security / Tactical Officer

The approaching ship was now 20 seconds away. Whilst unidentified, scans showed that it packed enough firepower to outgun the Memorial.

GM Dipper
Gamemaster

Aiden studied the readouts and reports carefully before making his final decision. “Once the away team is back on board, deploy a warning buoy stating that the vessel is derelict and claimed under the United Federation of Planets’ salvage laws. Then, immediately jump to warp and head back towards the starbase. We are not equipped to handle a ship capable of taking down another vessel and ignoring our hails. There’s no need for heroics today.”

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial

Miz’uki came onto the bridge and was at the Engineering station She was monitoring the Memorials systems while at the same time She would begin a scan of the incoming ship namely looking for any weakpoint they might be able to exploit should they get into a fight

[[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Miz’uki]]
[[Chief Engineer]] [[USS Memorial]]

=^= Transporter room to bridge, the away team is on board! =^= came an animated voice from the transporter room. By this point, the warning buoy had been launched, and so the Ensign at the helm wasted no time.

“Engaging, Warp 8” he said, running his hands along the smooth console. Immediately the Memorial started to bank, before jumping into warp. The Ensign put the aft view on the view screen. Within seconds, a large cylindrical ship appeared, and approached the Ferengi vessel. The Memorial’s sensors registered that the ship was scanning the Ferengi vessel.

Moments later, a large beam struck the Ferengi vessel. However, rather than causing the vessel to explode, the vessel just vanished.

GM

Aidan watched the events unfold, “I guess they didn’t get the message. Ensign send all the data we just collected to Lieutenant Mcleary, have them go over the data and then send it to Starfleet intelligence. Track the unknown vessel along as we can.” He had a bad feeling about what they just witnessed, but he knew one thing they were right to leave.

Captain Aiden Voss
Commanding Officer
USS Memorial