Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in Test Flight - Valkyrja

Posted by Ensign Tellek Bog (Engineer) in Test Flight - Valkyrja

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) 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

=^=That is impossible, Mr…whoever the hell this is I am speaking to!=^= the captain’s words driven by an anger borne of disbelief, forged by a terror borne of truth. =^=The Breen have not been seen in these quadrants since ‘75. Believe me, I would know!=^=

“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

Back on the Leviathan, Lt McReady was nervous. He’d never seen the captain like this before. Sure, the old man could be a fireball. But when he’d retreated to his ready room following the call from Valkyrja, just for a brief second McReady had seen the depths of terror in Cobb’s eyes.
Since that moment, the captain had answered no hails, had ignored the delivery of his afternoon drink and, as far as McReady could tell, had switched off both his commbadge and the ready room’s channel completely. And whatever he was choosing to focus his attention on instead, it came with the cacophonous sound of pure, unmitigated destruction. As if he were tearing the room apart with his bare hands…

• Lt McReady

“Hey Alfred tell me when that torpedo is about to explode!” She hits the impulse a little harder, “Bog I need some decoys! I want it to hit that torpedo instead of us. Alfred count down from 5.”

“Ms Casela, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..” Casela hit the warp drive and they disappeared in a fired shower of sparks as the torpedo hit the decoy. They dropped out of warp outside of the system and she landed the shuttle on an asteroid. “Alright Bog, show me how to camouflage this thing. We need to hide the power signature too. We can’t out run them. We’ll have to wait for the Levi. Hopefully we’ve bought some time.”
Lt. Synthi-er