Incident: Cardassian Crime?

[VardaSilver]

Cardassian Crime?
Stardate: 180705

Crew:
Lt Commader VardaSilver Spearsong
Captain Kondrad Hyland
Lt Commander RuaelleLionheart

Mission:
One of Pathfinder’s duties is to test ships that come in for refit. This is one of those days, Varda is assigned to do just that, so she grabs two of the best officers from Pathfinder to assist her. Running on a skeleton crew they take the ship out for a test spin. They are on the rim of the Nekritt expanse when they take off.

Mission begins:
Narrator Rumpleteazer: Stardate 180705, we are getting the USS Lexington refitted, when after the work was completed, we were instructed to take it for a test drive, so Varda grabbed the best two officers off the Pathfinder to do just that.

Varda is seated at the captains chair, she eases in gently, feeling the faux leather crunch as she sits. She looks around at the newly refitted ship and asks Kondrad how the ship is flying. He responds, “Since it is the first time flying on this ship, it runs smoothly.” He also adds that he is used to smaller ships, but this will do. Seated next to him in the communication console is Ruaelle, she is wearing two hats today, but prefers her engineering title. She is overseeing the new warp core designs, and newly designed power systems, she suggest that we need a trail test on warp speeds. Kondrad is still talking about his ships experiences and notes that he has never been on a larger ship since the Aviator.

The XO, who is command now looks at Kondrad and says to him “Steady as she goes”, she then turns to Ruaelle to see if they should run a test before they proceed into warp, or just jump right in. Feeling a little easier she leans back into the captains chair and begins to explore what was on the agenda for the day on her pad. She thought about how important it was to make sure the ship was running smoothly, her job depended on it for the sake of the client that was waiting ever so patiently for his refit.

Kondrad responds with an aye mam and get to it, while Ruealle replies back with “We have a stable intermix..all systems running good” this makes Varda decide to ask them to take it out for a real drive now. She askes the helmsman to take her out and speed up to warp 2 so they could stretch out the ships legs. He replies with an “Aye Mam”. As they ease into it he notes that the engines are running on normal parameters.

Ruaelle then says, “Okies, this as still good, I suggest increasing to a higher warp speeds to check on power output”. Varda then tells Kondrad, to take it up to warp 5 and to go someplace scenic, like a cluster of planets on the rim of the Nekritt expanse. He replies with “increasing to warp 5”, and once it kicks in he says, “Reading warp 5, no change in engine status.” Ruaelle watches then says, “All systems still operating good.” Ruaelle was always very studious when it came to checking on the welfare of ships. So was Kondrad, Varda felt confident in her crew and was getting comfortable, when she noticed they were getting close to the sector she requested. “We should be getting close to the planets she said, bring it down to impulse Kondrad, and Ruaelle, check the readings as we slow down.”

Kondrad presses a few buttons then places his hand on the main control and brings it down slowly, “Aye mam, dropping out Of warp, and switching to impulse.” The reading come off saying that the course was safely computed. Kondrad then says, “reading impulse speed.” Ruaelle, then says “smooth dropping out of warp then she gathers all the data to study later. They were in front of a class K planet, it looked peaceful somehow, She tells Kondrad to loop around the planet and then to head back to the point they started to head back home. This was cake, always was, orbiting nice peaceful planets, and enjoying the beautiful views, everything seemed to be running smoothly. Ruaelle was studying the data she gathered as they made an orbit and Kondrad was enjoying the curvature of the planet, by driving and circling it slowly, as in old time they would say, it was like a Sunday drive. Once they are coming around Kondrad says “Full orbit complete, and Ruaelle says, “Warp core stable, power taps set and stable..so far it’s good.”

The XO was about to congratulate when she saw something horrifying in the distance that quickly meets them, a ship exploding right in front of them not but 10,000KM away. Kondrad says “Oh Smeg” Ruaelle in the meantime, is praying that the shield configuration works, ship hasn’t been ready for battle, she says loudly, “Is it too late to say this ship isn’t battle ready?” Kondrad looks around and yelps out, “Do these seats have belts? Shockwave in 12 seconds”

11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1…. “Kondrad holds onto the console as the ship begins to shake and some damage is present from the consoles they are on. “Everyone man your stations! Ruaelle run scan and see what we pick up? Kondrad, try to avoid this huge mess!” Kondrad yells back “Aye Mam” as he plots a course away from the explosion, “some of the relays has been damaged due to the shock wave!” Just then sparks fly from his console, and he stands up and goes to a backup station. Ruaelle gets major damage reports from all sections, “Ooh we don’t have phasers because the power coupling blew at test, decks 6 through 8, Sheilds down 60%.”

The XO looks up and sees what she can’t believe as they turn around, it is a Cardassian ship a heavy freighter, right in front of their path. Varda had to think quick, their relationship with the Cardassians wasn’t good, a ship was just blown up right in front of them, and they took damage, how to escape this scenario? Kondrad’s jaw dropped a little as he saw this and said, isn’t this a surprise?” He openly hails the ship. Ruaelle is hard at work already scurrying to and fro, “emergency force fields in place, and I stabilized the core...getting the shields back to full is going to take longer, some emitters are damaged.”

Kondrad says, “No reply from the Cardassians.” Varda rubs her jaw with her fingers, Ruaelle see if you can get a good scan of the ship, let’s see if they are armed or disabled, and Kondrad, keep trying to hail them.” Kondrad, sees his station has cooled off and walks across as he says “Aye mam, according to my scans the ship has taken some damage, Ruaelle works on her end but some sensors are still blown, “some sensors and damaged, trying to reconfigure to use available sensors…. Getting something on sensors, it’s a heavy freighter class, their hull is very dense.”

Narrator Rumpleteazer: This is where the crew sits, between a destroyed ship and one they could possibly destroy them! Stay tuned for next week, when we pick up where we left off at “Cardassian Crime?”

[VardaSilver]

Stardate 18/0712

Crew Manifest:

Captain Kondrad Hyland
Lt Commander RuaelleLionheart Resident
Ensign Nems Johari
XO VardaSilver Spearsong

Mission, to take a ship after refit out for a spin to make sure everything was working properly. They did just that and found themselves up against an exploded ship and a Cardassian freighter that had some damage to it. At this point, they had to figure out a way to remove themselves from this situation, since phasers and other parts of their ship were damaged also.

They were wedged between a ship, now debris, and a Cardassian freighter, that had taken some damage. They were not sure what was about to happen to them next when Kondrad, finally boosted some power to communications and they broke through. Nems had scanned the ship and was seeing something was off, but not sure what, Captain Karrisickle of the Cardassian Freighter appeared on the screen.

At first, Varda was alarmed by the sight of the Cardassian, not sure what their intentions were, but they soon explained their situation. Captain Karrisickle, “Captain, we finally get through, What are you doing in these parts of the Nekritt Expanse? We were just headed back to our base when a pirate ship attacked us and tried to steal our cargo, luckily we were well armed and took them down." Varda grabbed the sides of her seat slightly, already not liking what she heard, as she could tell the rest of the crew wasn’t buying it either. "Oh, it that what happened? Well lucky for you that you were, do you know where they hailed from? Did you take aboard any survivors?" Captain Karrisickle "Yes we have a few prisoners to stand trial when we return home, some were not so fortunate, but that is what happened when you try to rob a ship, isn't it?" sighs "Regardless, we are now returning home and very much appreciate you checking in on us." She felt uneasy and decided it was best to mute the comm. “"Kondrad check with the station to see if any Cardassian ships where scheduled to be out in this area, as well as any others at this time, Ruaelle, keep trying to get everything back up, Nems, Please scan the holding cell area and see if they do indeed have prisoner's aboard." She released the mute button and went back to the Captain of the Cardassian Freighter, "Ok Captain, we wish you a safe trip, that's all for now.” she sign out of the command looks at everyone.

You could feel the tension in the air it was so thick, no one believed him, Nems had scanned the ship and said, "Mam I am not seeing any prisoners in the holding cell at all." Kondrad checked his logs and found that according to the station logs no other ship was scheduled out here. She was about to turn the ship around, gather info to report, but she had this gut feeling something was wrong, so she asked the crew. What would they do? Kondrad and Nems both agreed we should investigate it further, Ruaelle from engineering adviced no fancy play, because we still had no phasers, just a few torpedoes. She leaned back from her console and added, “Captain warp power is still down you have full impulse the shield emitters are tricky wouldn't recommend more than full impulse.” What to do, she knew they had to stay and investigate, but as Kondrad had pointed out, if they rang them again, they may suspect we were onto them. Sure they couldn't defend themselves properly, but they didn’t need to know that. Ruealle then stressed a good point, "Captain we appear to be both damaged ships, they're hull/hide is thicker than ours, we have no warp power as of yet, the shields are 50% down, we have full impulse but dare not use it with the condition the emitters, and since that explosion it knocked out the lateral sensors." Kondrad had been keeping tabs on them all this time while we were discussing, and noted that they did not lock weapons on us yet, so far everything seemed safe.

Nems, picked up something from the ship all of the sudden like they were about to do something, she then suggested we go into yellow alert. Varda agreed with her and said to Ruaelle, “I need phasers and shields back up!” Nems said then “Our tactical teams are on standby Captain. on your command to fire at any time we need too.”

So there is where they stood, what to do next was a mystery at this point, how do they investigate without letting on their up to something? Find out next time on Cardassian Crime?

[VardaSilver]

Mission Logs
Stardate: 180802

Crew Manifest:

Lt Commander Lei Hanfoi
Commander Ruaelle Lionheart
XO VardaSilver Spearsong

Recently:
The ship that was supposed to be out for a quick refit test is also partially disabled due to an explosion created by the Carrdassian freighter. The engineer was working on restoring system and try to get phasers, but all they are armed with is torpedoes. They need torpedoes, because the Cardassian freight gave some shifty excuse why they blew up the ship and no one was in their holding cell after a scan like they said they were. So now the crew is faced with another problem, turn tail and head back to base where they can say they saw this incident, or stay and try to figure out what happened.


Varda was sitting rather uncomfortably in her chair. Now she was face with a conundrum. So she turned to her crew, to see what their thoughts were. “Well what do you suggest we do now? here we are up against a huge freighter that is damaged and their story don't quite shake out. Do we proceed and continue to scan for survivors from the previous ship? Or do we run tail and run, they may take offense to our presence for a long while here just sitting.”

Lt Commander Lei seemed puzzled and replied, “Sir surely you jest, we out power and out arm them easily, we should continue to search for survivors.” Ruaelle runs and checks reports coming in thru engineering channels, "Phasers are still offline n' we have few torpedoes, shields still at 75%." Varda scrunched up in her seat trying to get comfortable, just like when your driving for a long time and then you feel yourself almost sliding off the seat so you got to scoot back suddenly. “Well it is better than it was before. I'm glad, then lets run another scan Lei see if we can find these survivors from the wreckage they said they took in, or if they blew them up with that blast. Also Ruaelle, keep trying to get me some phasers, it would help if we have to go up against them, Cardassians are known for firing without warning.” Lei was doing some research and then inquired to the XO, “We have no phasers either Sir? do we know what type of race the prisoners are? would they have gone to the nearest M-class planet if they reached escape pods?” Then RuaelleLionheart reminds the captain of the phaser problem also the condition of transporter, " Captain the Phaser power couplin' are non functional in shakedowns they blew n' took part of the deck with it. The transporters are workin', n' some of the forward sensors got damaged beyond repair when the explosion hit." Varda covered her chin for a moment with the lower part of her hand and then said, “Very well, if we cannot then it is what it is going to be. Lei that is a good question there is a Planet near here, how would we distinguish them from everyone else on the planet, we could only hope it is deserted, and they were they only ones aboard the planet which isn't likely. If you have a better idea, then enlighten me, we scanned the ship, didn't find them, but never though about the nearby planet. Just a better way to scan the problem would be good. I'm trying to think....” Lei replied to her, “Yes, good point captain, but the enemy would also have the same problem trying to tell the difference also.”

Just then, out of the blew the Cardassian ship fires at the USS Lexington. The ship shakes from the blast as everyone holds onto their positions. "We're being hit, got to red alert!” Lei yells back through all the commotion, “Aye Red Alert!” Ruaelle informs engineering of some ideas and to ready them as soon.. will be needed, "engineerin' reportin' battle ready as they can be, we can't take to many hits!" Varda held on her knuckles growing white clinging to the seat she yelled to Lei and Ruaelle, “We'll we have a few torpedos, keep those shields up! In the meantime try to get Captain Karrisickle back on the screen before we fire, lets send him a warning first!” Operations frantically hits some buttons and the Captain appears on screen. Captain Karrisickle “Why are you still here, we'd thought we fire a friendly reminder that we need time to repair before we move on. It is in your best interest, to move on Captain. We are losing patience with you.” Varda releases the end of the chair rail suddenly becoming col and collected and replied, “Patience? Interesting, why require us to move on? We were just fixing a few things that happened when that ship exploded, now let me warn you, we are fully powered, and have enough torpedoes to bring you down, I assure you if you proceed, it will not end well for your damaged freighter. I advice you to step down.” Captain Karrisickle then said, “Then prepare for a battle, while were sitting her, you could be scanning our ship, looking for something to steal, we will not stand for it!” Varda assured they were not here to steal anything but they were not listening. Captain Karrisickle’s face turned sour, and then yelled back before signing off, “Then we will fire as well till you decide to move on!” The screen went black and the firing proceeded withing a second after. Varda leans back into her chair as sparks start to fly from withing her ship. “Lei are you ready to fire?” Lei responds, “aye Sir ready and willing!” Varda turns and says to her, “Fire!” Lei sais “Fire!” Torpedoes 1,2,and 3 away!” Another blast hits and shakes the ship. Varda says again, “Fire again!” Lei replies, “Fire!, Torpedoes 4,5, and 6 away! All on target!” The firing had suddenly stopped and the ship stood still, a noticeable black hole in their structure now as they silently floated in space. Varda relaxed more and said “good job Lei, they stopped firing, maybe we damaged their weapons systems.” to which Lei responded, “Aye Sir I targeted their weapon and transporter systems so they cant escape other then escape pods.”


Ruaelle watches as the firing goes on and gives the Captain a lil' and shoves a fist into the panel to stop the panel from firing off, "Captain we're being hailed by the Cardassian’s ship." Captain Karrisickle comes to the screen now and says, “Perhaps I was to hasty, how about we settle on better terms. I mis-judged you Captain. We are now more disabled than before, and would need some help getting to the nearest planet for repairs.” Varda briefly looks around to her crew who were intently watching the screen. “I can see that Captain Karrisickle. We would be glad to transport a few of your repair crew to the nearest planet to help you get repairs, but first we must see the survivors transported as well from the previous explosion.” Captain Karrisickle replies, “Very well, they will be the first to be transported along with our crew. Give us some time to ready everyone and we will be back in contact with you later.” Varda respinds, “Very well Captain Karrisickle, and out.” she then looks over to Ruaelle, “Ruaelle, how are our transporters doing? and Lei good job on the firing, you saved our butts!” Ruaelle picks at some buttons and then looks back to the XO, "Engineering reports minor damage to shields only 20% lower than before, Transporters are operational, the test torpedoes in the ships inventory are exhausted, besides that we're good." “That's good news to hear Ruaelle! Ok, this gives us time to prepare, we will really see if they have the survivors aboard their ship, or if they are not telling the whole truth as Lei said.” Varda replied. Lei agreed and then Ruaelle added, orders engineering crews to getworking overtime on getting full impulse back online, "Captain it will take 2 hours to get full impulse online, and damage control is busy patchin' up hull breaches."

**************END MISSION******************