Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Solomon Kane (Tactical / Medical) in Main Sim: Bridge

Posted by Commander Chris Taggart (XO) in Main Sim: Bridge

Posted by Captain Stovik (Captain) in Main Sim: Bridge
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OOC: This might be useful to you Mrs Stone and Mr Grey. https://youtu.be/4LOPGElgkn8

“The scans seem to show some unknown technology on the ship. So far I can assign what each piece of tech may be used for and nothing seems out of the ordinary.” He said calmly as he looked at the screen.

Ensign Nack al Dul Sci

The doors of the bridge whooshed open to show the Captain striding out. His darkly recessed eyes scanned the bridge as he looked for the XO, hoping that he was still on the bridge. He saw him standing and facing the viewscreen so he too looked toward it. Assuming that his XO would be speaking with the aliens again.

Captain Stovik

Mwezi stood next to the XO, quiet.

Mwezi

William continued working with Stone at his station, he hoped for naught, he truly didn’t understand the Commanders militant idalism.

The console beeped again before the Commander of the aliens came back on the screen. He leaned forward and his words sounded out before becoming clear. “Our Translator has picked apart your primitive language style.” He leaned back in his seat. “I am Gul Manok of the Cardassian vessel Lor’ken. You have violated our space and polluted the area with debris and corpses! You will surrender your ship and crew, to be tried and convicted of trespassing our space.”

-GM

Chris smirked a bit. “First off. Greetings Gul Manok. I am Commander Chris Taggart of the Federation ship USS Chernov. I apologize for being in your space and for “polluting” it but it could not be helped nor prevented. We have every good intention of cleaning up the debris and gathering up our dead. We have already sent out a subspace message informing the Federation of our troubles and clean up crews will be here shortly.” He paused a moment before going on.

“Secondly. And I can’t stress this enough to you Gul Manok. We are not going to surrender and I will not put my crew through your brutish trials. I am sure if the situation was reversed you would either. Where we come from, We have a thing called due process. Where we go up to a court with a judge and a jury of OUR peers decides our fate after listening to both sides and reviewing the evidence. You just said that we WILL be tried and convicted. I don’t see the due process of that. We came in peace and we will leave in peace and inform the Federation that this space belongs to the Cardasians. They will notify every other ship of this and they will steer clear of your precious space. So if you will not aid us in fixing the ship so we can leave peacefully then I suggest that you leave at once and leave us alone. Is that understood Gul Manok?”
Chris had no idea that the Captain was on the bridge.

Commander Chris Taggart XO
OOC: fixed spelling errors.

Gul Makon laughed gently, “Im not sure you comprehend the situation here. We can clearly see that your ship is crippled. Why waste the lives of your crew in a standoff you cannot win?” He gestured to someone offscreen. “You have 10 minutes to comply before I have my weapons officer use your tin can for target practice.” With that, the screen went back to it’s view of space and the ship ahead of them moving to a better firing arc.

-GM

Chris kept a straight face, his best poker face on while the Gul talked. As the screen went back to space view he noticed their ship getting into a better position to fire. This Gul really had the ship and crew in a very serious disadvantage. He kept starring into space for a couple of moments before addressing the crew without turning around and still looking at the view screen.

“Well. At least he has a sense of humor. Mr. Grey and Mrs. Stone, please tell me that you have something or at least will be done in ten minutes? If not, I understand. It is a lot to ask for in a very unreasonable time.”

He turned around and then noticed the Captain standing there. In a calm and solemn voice he addressed him. “Captain. As you no doubt have heard, we have ten minutes before we are space dust. I have ordered awhile ago to have photon torpedoes to be disguised as debris and be remote activated. That’s the best I can think of then. They would push them out into space towards the ship and when they got within range, then boom.”

“But It looks like we will not have enough time to do that. So the other option is to see if they will accept me as a prisoner and let you all go. They think that I am the Captain of the ship. So if they take me then it will leave you to command the Chernov and lead the crew to safety. A very high ranking officer and person of great importance is very enticing bait. Not saying that I am that way of course, but they will hopefully see it that way. If you or any of you here, have a better idea then I am all ears. But let me see Where we are at in engineering before we decide.”

He pressed the toggle on the chair. [O] Engineering this is the bridge. What is your status? How soon can you have warp, shields and weapons online? We have only ten minutes before we surrender or be blown to smithereens.[O]

Commanded Chris Taggart XO

Lorings snark would be the first thing on return comms. =/\=Have you tried turning it off and back on again? Oh wait, your Chief Engineer tried to arrest me before I could stop this fiasco from happening. Try bribing them with some fruit or something while I save this ship.=/\=

-GM

[O] Loring? If that’s you then now is seriously not the time for jokes, personal vendettas or the like. You need to swallow your stupid pride and assist not take charge of engineering. Can you assist Engineering or not?[O]

Commander Chris Taggart XO

The comms crackled and satrted playing a recording, =/\=The number you have reached is no longer in service. Please hang up and try your call again.=/\=

-GM

Chris looked confused and looked around the room to see if anyone got the humor or reference from what was just heard.

XO

“Sir, we can put up a fight, but it doesn’t look good. If they have similar technology level of our weapons and shields, then the few torpedoes being launched manualy won’t be enough to seriously cripple them. It might however be enough as show of force, that we can still fight. Currently they think we can’t defend at all. Escaping on impulse alone is also impossible, we’d have to warp out if we want to escape confrontation.” Stone reported to the CO. She wondered if they could really bluff their way out of this.

Lt. Andrea Stone, COS

“He does seem overly arrogant in his ability to defeat us. There are multiple plans that I believe could work, Captain.” Nack said as he started to scan holoprojectors on the ship.

Ensign Nack al Dul Sci

Willam sighed as he stood up, still holding the tricorder they’d been working on as he walked to his junior officer “Never confuse confidence with arrogance Ensign” He turned to the Captain “While they are indeed arrogant with a fairly obvious superiority complex, now is not the time for false bravado. Unless we get engines in the next few minutes we are going to be at their mercy.” He looked at Stone “We try to manually launch torpedoes they will detect it, back away and blow us up and we only have the two launchers right?.” He looked at the Commander next “And they don’t want to be given just one officer when they can take the entire crew” His mind was working overtime, he was certain that with more stress his less desirable personalities would start showing themselves. “If that was me over there I would have my button hovering over the fire button if we did anything funny.” He looked at the Captain again “We might not be able to disguise the torpedoes as debris but throwing them in a shuttlecraft and flying it directly at them is a possibility, but if Stone thinks that a manual launch could work it’s should be prepared simultaneously in my opinion” Again he spoke fast, as fast as he could given the dire time straits.

Grey - CSO

The Captain frowned as he listened quietly to the crew bandying around their ideas. They were not in a good tactical situation with their ship so damaged and by the brief glance he had of the enemy ship and their claims to know the state of the Chernov told him they had the technical capability to detect and scan any shuttles. He really did not see a logical way out of this situation with them in as bad of shape as they were at the moment.
“Science, scan that enemy ship and tell me what you can about their shields, weapon and scanners. Tactical, scan the immediate area and tell me if there are any spatial bodies or phenomena that we might be able to use to our advantage.” The Captain walked down the ramp to the command well and took his seat in his command chair.

Captain Stovik

Chris felt bad about the captain’s terse response. But unlike the Captain, Chris was recently put in this roll and only knew a little bit of what to do and how. He was glad that the Captain wad here with his vast experience.

Things had become more manageable in Sick Bay, and Kane made his way to the bridge. If his medical skills weren’t needed at the moment, maybe his tactical duties were. As he walked onto the bridge, he immediately felt the tension level had risen significantly. Walking over to the Tactical Console, he looked around and then asked unabashedly to the room “What’d I miss?”

Kane, Tac / Med

“Ah. Mr. Kane. Just before you entered the room the Captain told Tactical to scan the immediate area and tell him if there are any spatial bodies or phenomena that we might be able to use to our advantage. Because the enemy ship has given us just ten minutes to surrender and be tried and convicted in their court or be blown to smithereens. And we have around eight minutes left.

Commander Chris Taggart XO

Science station results would show a nebula nearby with random plasma strikes every 3 to 5 seconds. The next closest spatial body would be an asteroid with an opening to a cavelike structure that might be just large enough to fit the Chernov.

Scans of the vessel would reveal comparable shields and weapons to the Chernovs nominal strength. Estimates from power readouts would show Warp 5 as it’s max speed.

-GM

Kane looked at the scan results and said “Well, there we go.” and he indicated the two options. “We can hide in the lighting storm or duck into the hole.” and he paused for a moment. “I would recommend the cave. Random plasma strikes aren’t something we could take much of right now, and the cave looks like a one way in-one way out kind of deal. If we could distract them, blind their sensors long enough to get inside, we’d stand a good chance of living longer than 8 minutes… Of course, that would mean we had the capability of moving.”

Kane, Tac / Med

“I agree, without shields we won’t last long in a nebula even if the Cardasians leave us alone. We’ll be trapped in a cave, but it might just buy us enough time to get shields and engines online. The torpedoes we’re prepairing could buy us a few moments, to make our escape and to make it there, specialy if the Cardasians don’t expect us to have any weapons at our disposal.”

It was of course risky. The Cardasians might go after them in that cave. But they had to try something.

Lt. Andrea Stone, COS

“A tactical retreat is logical in this situation, Taggart work with Engineering to find a way to mask our movement.” Stovik said, his dark hooded eyes on the screen.

“Thank you Mr. Kane and Miss Stone. Those are great suggestions and it looks like it is all we got. Something is better than nothing.” He quickly went to his console and messaged engineering. [O] We have an option. It is a hole in an asteroid. Is there anything that you can give us to not only propel us There but to give us a distraction like a burst of weapons fire to catch them off guard? We have seven minutes left.[O]

He then looked at the Captain. “Captain. What do you think? The cave is promising and if it goes well then we can fix the ship with relative safety and concealment. If it doesn’t then it will be our tomb just like staying right here.”

Commander Chris Taggart XO

Stovik nodded,”The cave would give us a more defensible position then remaining out in the open.”

William looked around “If our deflector dish is still operational it’s possible that we might shoot them with a beam that could disrupt their systems long enough for us to hide, they aren’t as fast as we can be so a play to their arrogance might work” He paused with a sudden realization “If they truly do believe themselves to be our betters doesn’t that work in our favor” He smiled at the Commander “Professing their superior intellect and abilities might be enough to buy us some time.” He paused again “If we make our visor show a young junior officer like me ore the other senior staff begging for our lives as if the senior crew has been immobilised it’s a possibility that they would pause long enough for us to overcharge them and run”

CSO

“If they are that fidgety to want to put us on trial just for being here, maybe shooting at them isn’t such a great idea? What if we masked our run with a huge explosion? In our current state, it’s not like it would be unbelievable. “

Kane, Tac/Med

Captain Stovik

“Kane. Good thinking. The Captain have us the go ahead to get to the asteroid. See what you can given their position and the where the asteroid is and gauge where the best possible explosion should be. Then find the best route to that asteroid. We won’t have much time do we need to get in there and fast.”

Commander Chris Taggart XO

“Yeah. I’m not just eye-candy.” Kane said to no one in particular and began compiling different trajectories to the asteroid. After a few moments, he sent the framework of a plan to the Captain, XO, CSO, and Security Chief. “So here’s my thought. We detonate a large IED right here…” and he indicated a spot on the diagram in front of the Chernov and between them and the Cardassians. “The initial explosion should be big enough to get their attention and then we have several smaller detonations and torpedoes fly off and all around in various directions and explode. A real fireworks show, if you know what I mean.” and then he drew a line from their current position to the asteroid. It wasn’t a straight line, but rather a course debris might take from an explosion. “This is us moving towards the asteroid, propelled ther by the explosion. Not really, but that’s what we want them to think. Once there, we detonate another large IED on the asteroid surface near our course, and pop into the cave. Hopefully, that will make them think we slammed into the rock. We’ll need debris…” and he looked at the screen on his console where bodies could still be seen drifting in the wreckage, “… and bodies. We’ll have to sell it.”

Kane, Tac / Med

O]”Scott to Bridge Loring did something, however I am not sure if it worked Sir.” [O]Tyler trying to figure out what Loring did.