Posted by Gamemaster Matrix (GMT) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Gamemaster Matrix (GMT) in Main Sim - Bridge
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Pretha walked in and her body tightened as she readied her stance for a fight, hand on her phaser before realizing the battle stations call was because of what was outside.

Seeing NE Branson at the ready at the security station, Pretha stepped off to the side to remain out of view of wonder came to the screen as the hail was announced. Something told her right now was not the time for the heads of security to be seen.

Lt JG Pretha Oberon
CoS

The viewscreen lit up an the image of a Romulan woman came to centre. She had the state of a sociopath in her eyes. “I am Commander Suket of the I.R.W. Relos. You have something I want. Give it to me, and I’ll let you keep your band of traitors.” Reval stepped to the centre of the bridge. “Traitors. Traitors. Traitors!? We’re not the ones who abandoned everything Romulus stood for as soon as it was convenient!”
“Reval… you’re insignificant now. I will speak to the Captain of the Federation ship or I will open fire.”

-Matrix

Hamilcar remained seated watching the exchange with curiosity, while at the same time annoyed that the screen came on without his orders.

“Easy Reval, I’ll talk to her.” He said calmly. He stood up and put his hand on the romulans’ shoulder, in a gesture to move out of his way.

Reval stepped aside, but remained next to Jasar.

=^=This is Captain Hamilcar Jasar of the USS Olympic.=^= He put his hands in his pockets, he stood in the center of the bridge casually, his chin slightly up as if he didn’t have a care in the world.

-CO

=/\= Captain Jasar. I suppose I must educate you. Unless you secretly bear Intelligence agents. One of the traitors abandoned his service to the Empire. He is a key asset in an ongoing project. I will have him. By any means necessary.=/\=

-Matrix

These were the security situations Pretha hated. You can’t protect everyone when it’s ships firing against one another. And with everything else she had been doing, this was the first she was hearing about a traitor of any kind.

She shook her head slightly at the other security officer as he started to turn in reaction to the growing pitch of voices. The crew needed to remain calm and let the Captain handle this. Diplomacy wasn’t the Security Chief’s strength and she knew she couldn’t help right now except remain quiet, pay attention, and support her CO.

Pretha
CoS

Reno chewed his lip and split his attention between the viewscreen - he had little chance to actually ‘see’ a real Romulan in the ‘almost flesh’. Being in engineering most of the time limited that opportunity. But the chief was away and a sitting duck in the freighter. With their shields up they’d not be easily able to beam them back. It certainly was a sticky situation. His eyes glanced at the power levels on the ship ensuring that the shields were up and at optimum levels. Romulans were tricky but at least the shields were between them and him.
- Reno, Eng NE

The Olympic’s power levels were at their optimum and shields were at full capacity.

-Matrix

=^=Greetings Commander.”Hamilcar stated simply. “Tell me about this agent. Why is he so important?=^= Hamilcar asked. He studied the Romulan intently as he awaited the reply.

-CO

Suket’s eyes narrowed. =/\=Romulan projects are not yours to know of. Especially after you let our world and people die.=/\= Reval’s every muscle tensed as though he wanted to leap through the viewscreen. =/\=You have five minutes to deliver what I want. After that, I will be forced to take him by whatever means necessary.

-Matrix

Hamilcar ignored the history lesson. =^=Well, who is he, who am I looking for? These people have requested asylum. Why should I just give this one person over to you?=^=

-CO

Suket made a sound almost akin to a growl. =/\=Meinok. He’s government property. His work is important to the regrowth of the Empire. The rest of them, take them or leave them. They’re not my problem.=/\=

As if cued by hearing his name, Dr Meinok sped onto the bridge. He looked at the image of Suket, then to Reval, and he whispered “I’m sorry.” before pulling a detonator out of his pocket. He glared at Suket. “Not one Romulan leaves this ship! Not. One. I will never work for you people again. I would rather die.” He primed his weapon. “Phosgene gas. Crude, but so simple to make. Carefully distributed, it will kill everyone on this ship. Starting here. With me.”

Suket kept her comment simple. =/\=Five minutes. Deliver him.=/\= And she cut off the channel.

-Matrix

Reno froze. Great. Always some crazy guy with a bomb. Since everyone - namely the rebel - was focused on and glaring at Suket Reno used one hand with his body in between them to lightly tap at the engineering controls - to isolate the bridge from the ventilation systems. If anything goes down it will only go down here, he thought. Unless he has more around the ship … Reno didn’t want to die but he’d not let a thousand others die from his cowardice. Site to site transport was too risky. He could easily activate it before the beam took. They had five minutes.
- Reno

The only areas still at risk of spread from Meinok’s device were the turbolift and Captain’s ready room.

Reval snapped out of his trance. He whispered to Jasar “Don’t trust her. She’ll attack this ship as soon as she has what she wants. Meinok… he must’ve left for a reason. Your ship, your call.”

-Matrix

Reno made sure the shields were up. It was an automatic thing; the last thing he wanted to see was sabotage suddenly there. As he did that he locked out the turbolift to the bridge. As much as it would be nice to see the cavalry charging in that likely wasn’t a very good thing to do in this case with a trigger happy boobie trapped Rommie. One thing that he did do after setting a force field up in the turbolift was to scan to the Romulan ship. He knew that all his tapping might be suspicious but they still had a warbird out there to deal with. If they thought that the ship would attack it would behoove them to keep an eye on it.

The warbird had raised shields and primed weapons.

If he had a chance he’d open up a comms channel to security so they could hear what was going on on the bridge. They might not be able to use the lift but Reno woul dhope they’d be smart enough to know they could beam into the ready room undetected. He wasn’t concerned about that - his concern was to make sure that if anyone died by this one bomb it would only be the bridge people.

Reno

Security was alerted to the events on the bridge.

Pretha scanned the bridge quickly to see if anyone was gonna play hero. Seeing Reno tap the console, she desperately hoped he had called security or medical or had done something equally useful.

She then spoke in a calm voice, but one loud enough to be heard over the din of gasps and whispered shock. “I’m guessing you’re Meinok? I’m Pretha, Chief Security Officer. You’ve asked for asylum and the captain just claimed he’d give it. May I ask why you believe such drastic measures are called for when we have shown you no reason to feel angry or betrayed?”

Meinok’s eyes followed Pretha, but his body did not turn. “It is not that I don’t trust you- to a point. But every person has their limits. Trading one person to save 39 others may seem rather appealing. I will not orphan my son so that I can make bioweapons for the Tal’Shiar. I will not be a part of their murder machine. I am sorry Lt, Captain. But this was the only way to be sure.”

As she spoke, she moved her body sideways along the consoles and wall on the port side. Her cody moving ever closer to the main viewer. She was hoping to turn his gaze to her and focus on her and not the others on the bridge… especially the CO. It flitted briefly thru her mind that she was grateful the XO wasn’t here.

Pretha
CoS

Meinok didn’t move. He seemed genuinely regretful that it had come to this.

-Matrix

A light on the security station console began blinking, indicating an incoming mesage. Ir someone was able to see the meassage, it would read, =^=What kind of bio-weapon is on the bridge? Odinson.=^=

Odinson (XO)

Hamilicar raised his hands up and took a step sideways, slowly walking between the consoles and Meinok, towards the viewscreen. What ever happened, his first command, he had to deal with a suicide bomber, on his bridge no less. Not the start he was looking for. Regardless of what happened, he couldn’t let that bomb go off. He had an idea, he hoped it would work and his staff would understand.

“Tell me more” He said, as calmly as he could, still slowly walking between the consoles. “What do you think will happen if you are returned to her.” he said, gesturing with his head towards the view screen.

-CO

“You don’t understand. This” he gestured with his bomb “is what they want. Bioweapons. Ways of killing large numbers of people. Captain. I don’t want to do this. I don’t like this. I will hand you the device right now if you can assure me that the Tal’Shiar will never kill anyone with the products of my work again.”

-Matrix

“How do you expect me to make that assurance?” He asked, still moving slowly, trying to position Meinok between him and his COS. “I can protect you as best as I can, but I can’t guarantee that they don’t already have some specifications or prototypes of your work.”

-CO

“If they had my formulas, they’d be using them- right now.” Meinok replied. Captain Reval was tired. Tired of running and tired of Meinok’s insanity. He spun on a heel and struck Meinok across the face. The bomb landed at Jasar’s feet. “You brought a monster hunting us. Into Federation space. You endangered everyone else so you could get away! Are you happy now Meinok? Ecurai lives long enough to see a war start for a creature like you.”

Suket hailed the Olympic.

-Matrix

Reno’s eyes followed the bomb and winced as it hit the deck. When it didn’t spew out its toxin he breathed easier but looked for an opening. Could he dive on it? Or perhaps .. with the Romulans so distracted he launched himself to dive on the bomb …
- Reno

Reval back-pedalled and Meinok fell over backwards as Reno dove. Meinok’s face went white. He looked at Reval. “You just orphaned my son.” The Romulan Captain’s face remained unchanged. “And one of your gas attacks killed mine. Call us even.” He turned away.

“Captain Jasar, Cmdr Suket is hailing us.” Comms spoke up.

-Matrix

Pretha took the distraction opportunity to move forward and pull her comm badge off and toss it so it landed close to the chemical canister as she called out to whoever would listen. “Beam that to a level 1 containment field in security! NOW!” If her voice carried, and anyone listened, the canister would phase out quickly and be out of harm’s reach… whoever’s that was.

“Captain,” she turned to her own CO, “I think in light of this, we need to make sure this man is taken back to answer for the crime of attempted murder and attempted destruction of Federation property.” While she spoke, her voice lilted just enough she hoped he would get the hint that he should make it a priority to keep the man aboard and away from the ones who wanted him. And in stating the murder and destruction options, it also gave him a legit reason to not turn the man over. After all, he was now a Federation prisoner.... Right?

She had no idea Odinson was on the comms.

Pretha
CoS