Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Bridge- ‘Missing’ Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Cassidy Abrams (Chief of Security) in Bridge- ‘Missing’ Side Sim

Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Bridge- ‘Missing’ Side Sim
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OOC: I’m assuming Marsh is still with them, so I’m just going to write as if he is.
IC:
The journey to the bridge was quiet but Cass knew her mother was just as preoccupied with Adir’s surgery as she was. And they both knew that nothing good would come from dwelling on it. At least the foray to the bridge was a necessary distraction.

The turbolift doors opened and Cass stepped out, moving to the side to allow her mother and Steven to step onto the bridge. She nodded to Dvorak. “Captain,” Cassidy said. “Commander Norene Abrams,” she said, gesturing to her mother. “Commander Abrams, this is Captain Johann Dvorak.”

Dvorak looked away from the Science station, and started paying attention to their new guests.

Norene stepped forward, unworried about how worn out she looked. Her uniform was the worse for wear, and though she had had her radiation inoculation and had the more serious laceration healed, she looked like she could sleep for days. But she was still in command of the TAM’s crew while Captain Massey was down and she didn’t feel she could rest. Not just yet anyway. Reaching out a hand, she gave a small sincere smile. “Thank you, Captain. We’re very grateful anyone was able to find us. I’m glad to know you have such a tenacious and resourceful crew,” she said, casting a side glance at Cassidy and Steven.

~The Abramses

He took her hand and shook it firmly. “They were exceptionally well motivated,” he observed. “This was originally a search we were not going to be assigned to at all, before the two of them managed to look a little more closely at things.” He himself had called in a favor at Fleet Command to get Europa assigned to this search as well, though actually finding the TAM would probably do a lot to pay that favor off just on its own.

“Everything alright so far with your rescue?” he asked.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

Norene gave half a nod. “For the most part. The crew is all board the three ships, and we’re lucky as many people survived that did. The most seriously injured were brought here while the rest were split between the Fermi and the Brahe. We split the department heads between the other two ships so that they can look ofter those there, and I’ll keep an eye on the small group here. I’ll need to contact my team in a bit, but right now we’re just waiting for an update on a couple critical cases that have just gone into surgery.” She said it so effortlessly, but then again, Commander Abrams hadn’t made it to the role of XO without being able to set personal things aside.

Captain Dvorak nodded in acknowledgement, admiring the woman’s professionalism. He’d seen a few people crack a bit after something like this, and that was without any personal element involved.

Cassidy, however, wasn’t buying the matter-of-fact demeanour of her mother, and almost looked amused, though sobered up quickly to address Dvorak. “Captain Massey is apparently in a coma with a massive head injury. They’re doing their best,” she said softly. “The other case is my father,” Cass said softly, but a slight resolved lift of her chin. “We’re just killing time at this point. But permission to assign some VIP quarters, Captain,” she said, gesturing with her head to Norene.”

~The Abramses

“Of course, Lieutenant.”

Cassidy simply gave a nod of acknowledgement back.

As she was doing that, he returned his attention to Commander Abrams. “So… what actually happened that lead to all of this?”

– Johann Dvorak, CO

A weary look appeared on Norene’s face. “Sometimes I’m not even sure,” she said before taking a deep breath.

“We had been doing some scan for Cartography after some upgrades before we were supposed to go into deep space. They detected a large plasma storm A ship came out of nowhere. Not easily identified. They attacked, striking key systems in order to cripple us. We managed a few good shots back before they damaged a nacelle and we lost the ability to use warp and subspace comms. Then they took off,” she said shaking her head.

Abrams continued. “We were hoping to get repairs done before they returned but Engineering then told us we needed to be dockside to repair the nacelle but they could cobble things together enough to get us out of there. Our friends returned before we could finish repairs, took out shields, impulse and warp, and most of life support. At that point we had no choice but to abandon ship because they came overpowered and ready for a fight. They weren’t taking prisoners and aiming to kill. No one ever spoke to us,” she said, her jaw gritting slightly and her eyes flashing momentarily with anger. “Captain Massey was then injured and I made to order to abandon ship. that damn planet was the closest with an even remotely breathable atmosphere, but the radiation obviously was going to be a problem. We didn’t get very long on the surface before our replicators started malfunctioning. Comms were a no-go.

“I was giving us another few days, at most before we started losing more people. As it was, we left a lot of people behind on the ship,” Norene said, her voice heavy but her shoulders still set back.

“The search and rescue fleet said they were going to do recovery. I would imagine that will have happened by now,” Cassidy said sombrely. Her parents had been on the ship for years and through them felt like she knew a lot of the crew. Hell, she had spoken to some of them here and there. They were like a part of her extended family in a weird way. It was all so strange. But she couldn’t focus on that right now. Right before her was someone she loved who was still alive and they were both hoping and praying that Adir survived too.

~The Abramses