Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Reira Akaba (Chief Science Officer) in Re-Intro: Escaping the Lion’s Den
OOC: Not sure if this is a part of the Main Sim or a Side Sim but regardless, this is Reira coming back. I was also adding the shuttle in case the GM wanted more off-ship missions.

IC: “Come on, where are you reserve power…” The purple-haired ex-Drone muttered to himself, tapping at the controls of his small vessel still inside the cargo bay starship. The weapons of his shuttle could blast the forcefield down, he’d made a few upgrades to his shuttlecraft. Reira had bought it off a Ferengi Trader who wanted some of his nanoprobes which caused trouble because Reira self-destructed them once he was out of the system. A few thousand Borg Nanoprobes were more valuable than a 7 year old shuttlecraft. The state of the ship was also questionable, he had to make a lot of repairs and upgrades, he even renamed it. It was just a ship, but for Reira Akaba it had been his home for quite a while.

Those black uniforms made his skin crawl, the men began issuing their demands that he surrender. Normally he’d feel bad about this but they were the worst of humanity, traitors and murderers and conspirators. Firing his weapon, the forcefield ruptured and those still in the cargo bay were ejected into space. Firing the impulse engines, he soon switched to transwarp and was off. The question was, his destination. Where the hell would he be safe, he needed to lie low. His vessel was damaged and his escape had left him badly hurt in a way that neither nanoprobes nor the medical kit could fix… Where else would he go? Finding the co-ordinates in the database, Reira adjusted course and put the throttle to maximum as he coughed hard, scarlet blood dripping onto the floor. All the ex-Drone had was his soul and his technology and once upon a time, that was enough.

“Captain… We were unable to apprehend the prisoner, he escaped. But he is injured?” The Security Officer sounded fearful, almost terrified as his superior stood up to his full height and stared down at him like an angry parent. “I suggest, Lieutenant DeLaurio… That if you don’t want to be dropped down to Ensign, that you come up with a strategy to recapture him and fast. I do not tolerate incompetence on my vessel.” Those same dark blue eyes Reira had burned into the Italian Officer who nodded and walked away as fast as possible. The captain of the ressing a button in the armrest of the chair, he waited for an answer. “Science Laboratory, begin scanning for a recently activated Transwarp Conduit, once you find the conduit, set course for it.” Taking a deep breath as the rage inside simmered down, he stared at the blank viewscreen with anger simmering in the indigo staring back at him. “Understood, scans commencing.” The Chief Science Officer replied. “You might have escaped for now… But I’ll always make sure you come back to me, Reira.”

It had been about 3 hours… Reluctantly taking another bite of the rations bar, Reira stared at the readout on the screen. “I forget how fast you are sometimes.” Patting the tritanium plating affectionately, he slowly exited transwarp since doing it too quickly or too harshly would cause feedback in the coils. Powering down weapons and turning off the shields, he stared through the window at the Viking. He wasn’t sure if he’d see her again and his stomach had butterflies in it again. That weird mix of nostalgia and fear was setting in. Hovering over the hail button, the drone opened a channel. “This is the Amaterasu calling USS Viking, this is Ensign Reira Akaba speaking. I’m requesting permission to board.” He asked calmly, hoping someone might recognize him.

To the sensors on the Viking, the shuttlecraft would register as an SC-4 Type that had been altered by Borg technology, indicated by the vessel having a transwarp signature and visually by the fact that the warp nacelles glowed green instead of red and blue and although the hull was predominantely Starfleet Standard, sections of it were taken over by Borg hull plating. Many of the systems had been upgraded or replaced entirely, the shield generator had turned into an adaptive shield matrix and the warp core had turned into 3 transwarp coils. For a shuttle, it was surprisingly heavily armed with 6 phaser banks and 4 torpedo launchers. Whatever Reira had been doing, he’d clearly been expecting a fight and the damage to the hull was proof, it still had phaser burns on it.

Ensign Reira Akaba (Science Officer)