Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Bridge - The Finite War
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On the screen the Klingon D5 Frigates were exchanging disruptor fire with the Orion Wanderers harassing them. Equally engaging the Orions was Andone’s Flying Raptor while the pair of T-5D destroyers quickly faded from view cloaking. Lastly the Avenger was moving to support both groups on evasive flanking maneuvers phaser fire lancing out to port and starboard. For the time being it seems Tha’nos had his hands full with combat, no one had yet moved towards the Merrimack deeper in the system, though it was likely everyone knew where the second Starfleet ship was.

“That could work, either we hide using the planet itself or we could use its magnetic pole to hide ourselves” William suggested finally feeling a bit more useful. That would be enough provided they had not yet detected them, even if they had that could give them some vital minutes alone.

Glen wasn’t so sure, “By my reckoning, there are at least 15 ships in this system now. I’m doubtful that there is anywhere we could hide from all of them. I don’t even think my idea of laying 50 probes as mines would work if a group came for us. To hide then we’d also need to shut down; go radio silent and power down the Warp drive. I want to keep in contact with Tinga’s team and to be ready for a fast getaway, if required. I’m open to trying though. If they are so involved with each other; caught up in fighting among themselves, it is possible that they just won’t notice us during the melee.... …On the other hand, I’m sure that the Romulan Commander Andone will have already clocked us, or specifically me! But given that her daughter will become a Starfleet officer in the future, by some weird turn of events that I still cannot fathom, that might not be such a problem for us.”

With one eye still on the viewscreen feeding live from the planet below Glen made to the landing party, =/\= Tinga, have Jasper ask the stone his question now, ‘how can we repair the planetary defences to protect the stone from the raiders coming to take it away/’ =/\=

An idea occurred to William, perhaps they could have the Creators or themselves use the Stone to fix the ship to ship planet weapons!

=/\= I meant ask the stone-crystal guardian. Sorry, it’s a little hectic up here! =/\= added Glen, though in his slip of the tongue, maybe he had accidentally fallen upon the solution itself?

The idea was a complete surprise to William, only occurring to him as the Captain asked the question as if it had been thrust upon him by an omniscient trickster god “Sir, what about asking the creators to use the stone to repair the planetary defenses, well either that or we use it ourselves if that’s even possible” He chimed in, speaking rather quickly.

“Yes! I mean, it should be possible, shouldn’t it? If it can change Ginger into the size of a Kzin by thought alone, then fixing some faulty wiring ought to be easy!” Glen replied enthusiastically.

Which was immediately tempered by another thought that Glen had. Maybe Glen was not prescient; maybe his thoughts about the arrival of the Klingons and Romulans had actually summoned them to appear? He did not mention this. Even though the arrival had been to their advantage, it may have equally worked against them.

Glen made one further reply to Tinga, =/\= Tinga, William suggests another tack. Ask the crystal guardian if the creators, or yourselves, can use the properties of the stone itself to fix the planetary defences. =/\=

Kord held the ship as he watched the view screen. He powered down the inertial dampers, that helped stabilize the ship to a flight type that many of the young races were accustomed to, and bolstered the inertial compensators that kept the personnel inside form becoming interior coatings whenever the ship changed speed or direction. The only person that might notice the small changes in attitude and position would be the helmsman.

Hal entered the bridge. He went to take over the tactical station. Klingons, Romulans, and Orions, he thought to himself. What is this, a convention?

“Welcome back, Hal,” Glen said, and then added, “And not a moment too late!”

-Glen, CO

On screen the Romulan T-5D destroyers appeared behind Th’anos’s Wanderer and laid out a hail of plasma beam weapons fire. Scans showed the ship rocking under the barrage their shields estimated to be knocked down to 70%. Coming about said Wanderer though unleashed a return surprise probably even to the Romulans! A large red bolt of energy shot out from under Th’anos’s ship, a plasma bolt like that used by the Romulan Bird of Prey that had destroyed Starfleet outposts along the neutral zone in early 2266! The red bolt exploded between both Romulan destroyers rocking them hard off control to port and starboard. Their shields held if barely but the two ships were in rough shape. Their shields were probably down to 30 some percent with likely heavy damage. Following up on this another Wanderer came about breaking off from attacking Andone’s Flying Raptor warbird and moved with intent to likely destroy these two ships. But it seems Andone was not about to let that happen without a fight, her ship quickly accelerated and opened up with a full salvo of plasma and plasma based torpedo fire tearing into this Wanderer from behind which sent it out of control towards one of the nearby small gas giant moons in the system. Swooping in as her namesake the Avenger opened fire finishing off the wounded Wanderer in a burst of three torpedoes.

Meanwhile the Klingons were giving back as good as they got, the D-5 frigates though taking a pounding in straight up nose to nose weapons fire exchanges had their shields well down to 40%, but the harrassing Wanderers there were in equal straights with shields there down to 40% too. Overall the fight could be going better though but it could be going much worse too for the Starfleet ships.

GM CockRoach

William monitored both the battle and conversation with equal interest. Suddenly he wished he had been with Tinga and the others, to be able to see the stone itself or those creators. Those were only his private desires, he knew he was more useful on the Bridge of the ship giving his insight and knowledge directly to the Captain.

CSO