Rescuing the Apollo

Posted on Sun May 20th, 2018 @ 1:05am by Captain Taliserra Tigran & Ensign Bracca & Lieutenant Commander Claire Anette & Lieutenant Sika EngD & Lieutenant Kallen Navore & Lieutenant Galatea Polaris & Lieutenant Anthony Edwards Ph. D

2,103 words; about a 11 minute read

Mission: Misson 1 - Rebirth
Location: Various
Timeline: 7th feb 2395

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"Approaching the Apollo's last known position Captain." Bracca reported as the Wolff sped towards the source of the distress call.

"Bring us to impulse speed Bracca."

"Aye sir, slowing to impulse." Bracca's hand flicked across the panel brining the Wolff smoothly out of warp.

"Full sensor sweep, see if you can find any sign of the Apollo or her attackers."

Anthony started his sweep, he hoped for the captain’s sake that he found considering this was the first cruise out of drydock after the refit. He did, and in seconds was relaying the information to the Captain. “Captain the Apollo is at 177 Mark 08 10,000 kilometres Ma’am. She is being fired upon by multiple small craft."

"Helm, course 177 mark 08, full impulse. Ops warn those ships off." Taliserra barked her next set of orders.

Sika responded promptly to the order. "Tail high, teeth barred, and lips curled, Captain. Standard back off now message sent. If they don't response to words, I recommend taking some more aggressive action."

"Tactical, set phasers to full power and lock onto the fighers." Taliserra added.

10,000 kilometers away; a miniscule distance in the vastness of space 6 heavy fighters finished an attack run on the already smoking cargo ship before turning towards the federation ship that had just entered the fray. Forming up into a hexagonal formation they began firing, pulse phasers flared their bolts streaming towards the Wolff.

Elijah whipped the sweat off his brow with the back of his arm and hit the phaser button bringing all banks to full power. In tuned with the view screen as soon as the ships gave even the barest hint of turning he increased the shield rotation. "Phasers locked..." before he could finish the sentence the ship rocked violently from the volley of pulse phasers. Momentarily thrown back Eli scrambled back onto his feet and his eyes devoured the read outs. "Shields holding, minor damage. Phasers loaded."

"Return fire, helm take us straight through the fighters towards the Apollo" Taliserra ordered, she could see two much larger craft near to the Apollo that were busy shooting chunks out of its hull with disruptors.

Elijah's hands strummed the console as if it were a guitar and the phaser banks unloaded it's payload in a dispersal pattern set to give the most cover.

Navore began to readjust the power systems; the main part of this operation would be under the shielding and weapons. Part of his distress is balancing the fact that both demanded high levels of power, if full shielding is used then the residual power will cut the phaser power accordingly. Cutting power from cargo bays and nonessential power demands. The power grid would be able to handle what is demanded of it just having to keep the proper power reserves in the event Medical or some other demand would pull into the power demands.

"Combat configuration achieved." Navore reported.

==Sickbay==

Galatea had been filling up her reports when her desk computer chirped from an incoming bridge signal, an emergency one. She opened the coms link that would allow her to listen in. She heard about the Apollo and sprang to action grateful that she'd added bridge officer to her medics so that she was aware of when things like this happen. She exited her office and called to her staff. "Emergency protocol Charlie Tango 1. We might have incoming wounded both off ship and on ship. Call all hands." She was going to be ready.

She headed to the back panel and entered a code that would transmit the bridge occurrences to the staff in sickbay so they would hear when they should get ready. She also hit the coms. "Bridge this is Doctor Polaris. Sickbay is on speakers monitoring. All medical officers ready if needed and on standby for your orders ma'am."

==Bridge==

"Understood Doctor, prepare a team to board the Apollo when we have driven off these raiders, they may have casualties."

"Understood." Galatea cut the comms and started selecting a team for boarding that included herself and her right hand, Hunter, She distributed packs to all three boarding teams with all that they would need and had a team on standby for emergency transport. This was it. She had known she'd had a bad feeling about this.

With the Wolff speeding towards the seemingly adrift Apollo the pirate corvettes turned their attention to the federation ship, disruptors and several torpedoes bracketed the shields.

"Damage report." Taliserra called out.

The Bajoran at Ops was used to being shot at, be it aboard the confines of a starship or in a shootout out in the open. "We took the brunt of that volley" reported Sika. "They managed to bombard our starboard side. There's was minor disruption to the shield harmonics, but I have rerouted auxiliary power and shields are holding" he added.

She gritted teeth a little, they'd broken through the fighters now it was time to deal with the corvette's "Attack pattern Alpha 2 then straight behind, full spread of torpedoes target the leading ship."

Elijah's hands flew over the controls to lock in the familiar pattern. The ship and helm will take care of the rest he just had to find the opportunity to let the phaser banks fly. He looked at the tactical display and when the red button blinked he hit the fire button.

The rainbow like beams glittered out of the ship and spread through space. Several pulses passed over the little ship with the last one hitting home. It only rocked the little ship. Eli increased the pulse rate and fired again this time all the beams hit their mark.

The ship was wounded. Eli hit the torpedo button and watched as the four torpedoes rushed through space to hit their mark.

A blinding flash of light from the exploding corvette bathed the bridge of the Wolff for a moment until the viewscreen filtered it to an acceptable level.

There was a slight hiss followed by a muffled gasp as Claire belatedly tried to cover her exposed albino face with her hands. The damage was done though. It took less than a third of a second for the screen to compensate the sensor filters to prevent any undue damage to anyone's retinas from the matter-antimatter explosion it was displaying but that was long enough to turn her into a lightly toasted marshmallow from overexposure. While the rest of the bridge crew might have a bit of a sunspot in their vision and maybe a bit of a heat flush on their face, Claire's eyes were scorched through to the optic nerves and her pristine ceramic white flesh was now as red as a boiled lobster. This led her to pass out from the pain. Alive, but in severe need of high level medical attention.

Anthony moved quietly and his replacement took over for the short time he would be away from the science consoles until the doctor arrived he found the bridge first aid kit and got it out what he needed. He made a cold compresses for Commander Anette’s exposed skin. He knew there was little he could do for any damage to her sight not that he would as there are better trained people for that task, but he would do anything he could to ease a compatriot.

"Commander!" Navore noted the woman drop on the Bridge; all but vaulting over the railing he made his way to her side. "Medical Emergency, Commander Anette site to site Sick Bay immediate!"

Taliserra looked down at Claire, she wanted to go to her aid but Kallen and Anthony were already there, plus she had a job to do, it wasn't the first person she'd seen injured even killed right in front of her and it probably wasn't going to be the last. She watched as Claire dematerialised then turned to Elijah at tactical. "Keep firing, try and clear the fighters."

Eli gave a nod. His hands keyed in the code and the volley of fire continued. He looked at the helms officer and through an unspoken conversation he saw the helm readouts flow to his consol. He could monitor the motions and then keep firing.

Sika had his 'sights' locked onto that corvette. The energy reading he was anticipating caused his console to illuminate, flash, and chirp up a storm. It was a chorus of alerts. "Detecting a imbalance of power signatures, a rerouting to their warp core. They are preparing to warp, Captain" he announced as he stood by.

"Pursuit course." Taliserra called out, she wasn't going to let this ship escape.

A moment before the pirate corvette and the last of its fighters jumped to warp speed a small bouy like object dropped from the bottom of the ship.

"What is that?" Taliserra asked.

Anthony worked his hands over the science console. “Working on it Commander.” After a few seconds he turned from the console and was about to say something when the device suddenly exploded, it was only a small explosion and the shields easily absorbed the damage but on the bridge the viewscreen was filled with static distortion and alarms blared from several of the stations. Taliserra looked at her officers for an explanation.

"It's blinded us, Captain" said Sika shaking his head and slamming his fist down upon his console. "I can't see shit, Captain!" shouted the frustrated Chief Operations Officer. "It's completely knocked out our sensors and rendered them useless" reported Sika.

"All stop." Taliserra ordered, without sensors even thinking of trying to pursue the corvette was out of the question. "Can you clear the interference and get sensors back online?"

Sika looked around his station and just shook his head before replying. He did not have good news. "Not without time and resources" he said after assessing the situation.

Taliserra gripped the arm rests of her chair in frustration. "Damm, stand down weapons, do we have communications?"

“I maybe able to get you visual communications Commander, but it may have a little bit white noisy as well, the sensors being integral to the ship to ship communications Ma’am.” Anthony said.

"Then hail the Apollo" She ordered.


"I can make myself useful on that front" grunted the Bajoran. Sika did as the Captain of the starship ordered.

A somewhat fuzzy image appeared on the viewscreen. "Apollo this is Commander Tigran of the USS Wolff, what's your status?"

"Commander, I'm glad you showed up when you did." The Apollo's Captain an elderly human responded. "We need assistance, our warp and impulse engines are down, several hull breaches and I've too many wounded to fix them ourselves."

"Understood, we have medical teams ready to beam over and I will send a team of engineers as well." Taliserra said, she hoped that the disruption to their sensors hadn't messed with the transporters sensors or it might take a while to get them over.

"Thank you Commander, they will be a great help."

"When you are back up and running I would like to have you come aboard the Wolff so we can discuss your situation."

She turned to Kallen. "Lieutenant, check on our transporters then get a team onto the Apollo and get them up and running again, take as many as you need."

"Transporters areaady to go Ma'am."Navore was just making some texts for the personnel he needed to cross over. "Just making the list of personnel."

Taliserra then tapped a button on her arm console. "Lt Polaris, send your team across to the Apollo alongside Lt Navore"

Galatea acknowledged the hail and the teams started towards the transporter rooms. Hunter and she hit Transporter room one with a small team. She took her place on the platform and glared the Chief down when he suggested that she stay here as CMO. As the ship shimmered out of existence she wondered what they would encounter.

"Lieutenant Sika, you have the bridge, check on our damage and keep an eye out in case more raiders show up." With that Taliserra got up from the centre chair and headed for the ready room to begin a report on what had happened.

"Aye Captain" replied Sika. "I will keep you apprised of anything significant" he added on her way out.


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Commander Taliserra Tigran
Commanding Officer

Lt. Galatea Polaris
Chief Medical and Counseling Officer.

LT. (jg) Anthony Edwards (PhD)
Chief Science Officer

LT. Sika Eng.D
Chief Operations Officer

Lt Kallen Navore
Chief Engineer.

Ensign Bracca
Helmsman
npc Taliserra

 

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