Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Test Flight - Valkyrja

Posted by Ensign Tellek Bog (Engineer) in Test Flight - Valkyrja
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Casela watched, without flinching as the Breen appeared. She’d seen Bog programming the computer while they talked. She was impressed with the program and it’s adaptability. “Those holograms are impressive and if it can make that look convincing to the sensors, I can’t wait to see what it does in camouflage mode.”

As the shuttle reaches orbit, Casela sets it back into a high orbit. “So Alfred, here’s the important question. How are you as a doctor?” Her missions tended to make her get hurt or others. And she had more than few enimies out there. “Alright, maybe it’s time to go …” The shuttle rocks and red klaxons start going off. “Okay, Alfred that’s..” She looks at the sensor readings and then out the view screen. And just in case she looks at the display screen for the holo emitters. “Ah crap! That’s not fake.” Casela whips Valkyrja around and sets in a return course, while the shuttle gets rocked again. “Alfred! Do you not see this is a real threat. Shields, man Shields!”

=^=This is the Breen Warship Dresna. You have destroyed a Breen scout ship. You will surrender.=^=
Casela looked at Bog, “No.”
=^=Shuttle Valkyrja to Leviathan....we have a problem.=^= The sound of the ship being rocked by phaser fire can be heard and a lot of cussing coming from the counselor. “You just HAD to make the hologram into a Breen ship, didn’t you, Tellek.” =^=Leviathan, prepare for visitors.=^= and the com was shut off. Casela turned the shuttle and engaged the warp drive…
Lt. Synthi-er

The HUI had seen the threat and was launching sensor decoys, angling the overclocked shields wile figuring firing angles to use some of the ice moonlets to provide additional screening. “I am rather busy, Miss Casela. Might I suggest that discretion is the better part of valor.” The little ship shutters as the photon torpedoes began to fire but they wink out of sight as they clear the launchers, to appear just below the visual horizon to streak up and engage the Breen ship.

Huey

Back on the Leviathan, the captain had been about to hand bridge control to Lt McReady, then retreat to his ready room and stare at the latest reports. It could not be denied that Mr Bog had installed some immensely impressive upgrades to the shuttle Valkyrja. As for the test flight that he and Lt Synthi-er were currently undertaking, that was nothing more than a routine operation. But still, Zachariah could not ignore the churning in the pit of his stomach and the vague yet urgent sense of impending doom.

The call from the shuttle itself came at exactly the right…or perhaps it was the wrong…moment.

=^=Shuttle Valkyrja to Leviathan....we have a problem.=^=

Cobb scrambled back to his seat and immediately attempted a reply, although a few seconds of the audible chaos on the Valkyrja broke through before he could speak.
=Ah, Shuttle Valkyrja, this is the Leviathan. What is your situation?=^=

Silence. Punctuated by the staccato cries of phaser fire.
=Shuttle Valkyrja, do you…=^= Zachariah attempted to demand, before being cut off…

=^=Leviathan, prepare for visitors.=^=

At Cobb’s side, McReady pulled up the data they’d managed to gather on the Valkyrja’s surroundings and the unknown vessel making its approach.
“Ah, Captain Cobb? You might want to see this, Sir?”

No. This was not possible. There had to be some kind of mistake.

=^=Valkyrja, just what the hell is going on here?=^= Cobb roared over the comms.

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

=^=I am sorry Mister Cobb, but both Miss Casela and Mister Bog are busy. We seam to have ran afoul of a Breen warship.=^= came the very proper English accent.

Huey

“Great Alfred, stress the capn’ out more.” She maneuvered the shuttle in an elegant turn and dive. “Hold on Tellek,” As the shuttle suddenly shot past, right between the two phaser banks of the Breen ship, and accelerating suddenly, so they shot each other. =^=Leviathan, I’d like to know how all our long range sensors didn’t pick these brutes up earlier. This area was supposed to be clear.=^= The shuttle rocked again as Casela banked a hard left and a torpedo exploded off their starboard bow. “Okay time to go home. Mr. Bog, speed, we need speed.” She turned the shuttle again, trying to get free and hit the warp drive. =^=It’s too small to be a Breen war ship. It’s got to be a scout. But he’s a lot bigger than us.=^=
Lt. Synthi-er,

Bog cut most of the power to the phasers and sent it of it to the shields and warp drives. Engaging both the primary and secondary warp drives. They would need overhaul if they made it back.

“ And why shouldn’t he be concerned? We have kicked the proverbial hornets nest. We are designed to improve your survivability on covert missions Miss Casela. Not to go toe to to with a Breen battle scout.”

Huey