Posted by Commander Adam Chryst (Executive Officer) in Bridge- Main Sim on USS Athena

Posted by Christopher Bennett in Bridge- Main Sim on USS Athena Posted by Ensign Jayden Bennett (Engineer) in Bridge - Main Sim : Posted by Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT) in Bridge - Main Sim : : Posted by Fleet Captain Ghubari Koraia (CO) in Bridge - Main Sim : : : Posted by Lt. Cmdr. R'han (Chief Tactical Officer) in Bridge - Main Sim : : : : Posted by Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT) in Bridge - Main Sim

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: : : : “Find me a chroniton defense, or we won’t be in the wrong time line for very long.”
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: : : : : Pierce looked at the advancing Caitian and gave a giggle that was both chilling and disturbing. Swift as thought Stark hurtled at the man only to be brought up short by the man’s cylindrical servo. Stark, stunned, fell into the madman’s waiting arms where both vanished through a null portal in the wall carried through by Stark’s own momentum. The ship rocked again as another salvo scored a glancing blow as the Athena ducked under a blow that could have crippled them.
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: : : Ghubari read over the message as it came in. She was familiar with the method of communication through some of impromptu tactical training during the war, but it was the language that the morse code was communicating in that surprised her. And then when she got the messaged, she cursed in her native tongue., aware that everyone on the bridge would know that something was up.
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: : : A couple years ago, she would not have trusted the sender. But Michail Reese had proven himself, and this alternate version was one she had a good instinct about. Others would not have the same confidence, but in this case, they only had to follow her orders and Koraia was pretty confident about her crew’s loyalty.
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Distracted by the message, she only caught Stark’s disappearance out of the corner of her eye, but Ghubari understood what was happening… sort of. And she accepted how things were going to play out.

>: : : : R’han discerned the defensive pattern of the alien ship ‘protecting the planet’. “Set a course towards the planet and then move off it. Use their defensive instincts against them. Fire at point 2 off their bow… they should run right into it.” >: : : : >: : : “Belay that,” Koraia said simply. >: : : >: : : : =^=We can only play duck and run for so long captain.=^= >R’han raised an eyebrow. >: : : : >: : : : R’han >: : : >: : : “Don’t worry, we’re not going to,” Ghubari replied. Eyeing R’han and then Laraan for a moment she wondered if they were aware how serious things just got. But she brushed the thought away as she reached out and hit the ship-wide com button. =/\=Attention all hands, this is the Captain speaking. All hands abandon ship. I repeat, abandon ship. This is not a drill. You have ten minutes.=/\= >: : : >”But Captain, I was winning.” R’han deadpanned as he looked at the screen. They would be sitting ducks if there wasn’t a second part of this plan. >: : : They had to trust her and that was all there was to it. But she wasn’t done just yet. “Helm, aim us for a direct intercept with the other ship. Full impulse and shift the control to auto-navigation.” At this point she hadn’t even addressed Pierce. >: : : >: : : Fl. Captain Koraia, CO >: : >: : OOC Just pointing out that Pierce is gone through a null portal in the wall kidnapping Stark in the process. :-) >: : IC >: : Another salvo hit and the discharge blasted through the stricken ship. The Lady Athena was fighting for her life and now a plasma discharge shot through the ship’s pathways inexorably finding it’s way to engineering and the weakened power relays protecting the warp core. Athena seemed to groan in desperation as her heart was torn with need to save the precious lives she carried. It was just a matter of time before she gave her life in one last desperate attempt to disable the other ship at ramming speed. Other wise the Counterstrike ship would allow none to pass, escape pod or not… >: : >: : Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT) >: >: Jayden watched, shocked and stunned by everything. He had just seen the CTO disappear through some sort of portal and now the captain just gave the order to abandon ship. >: >: “Wait what?” he stammered as a plasma discharged rocked the ship. “Maybe we can....Maybe we can redirect the plasma discharges through the main deflector using the shield grid? I don’t know, we are just giving up?” He was still staring at the spot where R’han had disappeared. >: >: -Jay >OOC: It wasn’t me… it was Stark. CIO. >”We’re abandoning Mr. Bennett. Take what you need.” R’han armed himself with a phaser and a tricorder, he would get a emergency kit on his way to an escape pod. >R’han > >Jayden returned to his station, “I’ll see if I can get more power to the impulse engines. I can divert phaser and the holodeck systems to the secondary plasma manifolds of the impulse drive.” He said calmly, suddenly feeling focused. He knew what he he had to do. What his father would have wanted him to do. ” I can also open the fuel flow from the secondary tanks to the main deuterium tanks. It will get bumpy, and will overload the engines after certain amount of time, but at this point.” He said, his voice now robotic. “If you want, I can also set a power surge in the impulse reactors too. Should give us a good boost to a big bang.” Jayden suggested, but he started the modifications anything, not waiting for permission. >-Jay OOC: It wasn’t me… it was Stark. CIO. :

“Do it,” Koraia ordered. “But then we’re getting out of here.”

: “I’m not abandoning ship!” Laraan said. “First I’ll figure out where Stark went. You there!” she pushed her voice through to the NE at the science station. “Give me the scans of internal sensors of the bridge at the time when this portal opened and closed.” she commanded, something she rarely did. The portal had been very similar to the portal that Michail had created. She had to kick of all possibilities for a rescue at once, no time to waste.
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: Standing in front of the spot, she closed her eyes, tried with all her might to calm her mind, her fears and her anger and to concentrate on feeling the residual energy of the place. She had gone through a portal to the parallel universe before, she knew how that felt. She knew how time shifts in the energy felt and she knew how Michail’s energy felt. Maybe she could feel what had happened. And then there was the bond she now shared with Stark.
: Yes he was no Heleen, but if she tried real hard, there was a chance she could feel him and his location, maybe even his sensations… she just had to try. And she would not stop trying. Not ever.
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: - Laraan, CNS

Laraan picked up Stark’s energy, it wasn’t hard because even in his semiconscious state he was mad enough to rip the hide off a Gorn. It was receding fast, sensors showed that he was in an escape pod, and he wan’t the one piloting it. It was taking a circuitous route to the planet below, suddenly it blinked out as if someone had made it invisible somehow. The energy was still there and he had picked up the fact that they were connected. Now she could feel fear, fear that she was still on the ship.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT)

Ghubari moved swiftly over to Laraan and put her hands on her friend’s shoulder, her pale amber eyes gazing at the Heleen, whose eyes were closed. “Laraan, he’s okay. There’s nothing we can do about it at the moment, but I’m certain he will survive. But we won’t if we don’t get out of here now.”

“I’ve given you an order and I need you to trust me and follow it. We’re heading for the planet, but we have to get into escape pods now, because the Athena is about to ram that other ship and I know Stark would be devastated if you were still aboard when it happened.”

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO