All Guns Blazing

Posted on Thu Aug 13th, 2009 @ 1:24am by Captain Vorn Krace & Lieutenant Bradley Openhouse

Mission: Dark Discoveries
Location: USS Iapetus - Bridge
Timeline: Immediately after "Waiting"

William (NPC) looked up from his console as it beeped. "Captain, we're receiving the signal from Commander Walex," he reported.

"OK people, this is it." Vorn said, looking straight ahead. He could tell from the feeling on the bridge that the crew were prepared. They'd been trained well, and he knew they would do the job they had to do well. He keyed the ship-wide intercom.

"This is the Captain. Assume battle stations, red alert. Lock everything non-essential down, and prepare for battle maneouvers."

Taking a deep breath, he looked around at Raging and Bradley, before turning towards the helmsman. "Crewman - take us in, maximum warp. Ensign," He turned his attention to tactical. "Begin firing as soon as we exit warp - make sure we surprise the bastards."

"Yes sir." came the reply from tactical.

As the graceful Luna class ship, originally designed for scientific exploration, turned in a gentle curve in space, she suddenly shot forward into speeds exceeding Warp 9. Less than a second later, she was back into normal space, phaser blasts lancing out from her hull and torpedoes leaving their launchers.

"Bank to port, bring us up on the asteroid." Krace commanded, directing the ship towards the Guared station.

"Ensign; get a reading on the away team's locator beacon - and prepare fire a full spread on my command." He didn't want to take any chances when it came to destroying the R&D facilities the Guarded had been using to create the metreon weapon.

"Aye, Sir." The Andorian tactical officer said, tapping at the controls on his station. "Target locked, torpedoes armed."

"Lieutenant," Krace said to Bradley. "Lock on to the away team's life signs and beam them to transporter room one."

"Aye sir. Locking on." said Bradley as he programed the transporter.

"Sir it seems I have lost one of the signals. I was only able to get a lock on three members of the team." said Bradley.

"Who did we lose?" Vorn said, after a break. Yet another death under his command.

"I am not picking up Reynold's signiture." said Bradley.

"Dammit. Get the rest of the team onboard. Ensign; open fire."

Bradley worked away with the transporter to get the away team back to the Iapetus.

As the Iapetus came in for a long sweep, lining up its forward torpedo launchers with the precise location of the beacon placed by Annalyn and Abigail earlier, it let loose with a full six torpedoes, each glowing a bright red as they traced their deadly path. It wasn't until after the ship began to arc away from it's firing position and the station that the priate ships in the area began to respond to the threat, turning and firing old plasma cannons and phasers at the science vessel.

"Phaser fire incoming. Minimal damage to shields; they're holding, but won't for long if we stay here," Zalea'an reported from the station to the left of the bridge.

"Helm; warp one, engage!" Vorn commanded, standing from his chair as he gave the order. He pointed towards the viewer automatically, as if it had any bearing on the order he was giving. Regardless, it did add impact and urgency to the order.

As the ship streaked away into faster-than-light speeds, the torpedoes struck their target, completely obliterating that entire section of the station.

"Are they persuing?" Vorn asked, looking towards Ops and Flight Control at the front of the bridge.

"No sir. We're clear." William reported.

"Good. Drop out of warp, and set course for Starbase Ronin, engage at warp eight." As Vorn finished giving out the order, he returned to sit in his chair at the centre of the bridge. "We have some business to attend to." He said, so quietly as to be almost impossible for anyone to hear unless they were right next to him.


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Captain Vorn Krace
Commanding Officer
USS Iapetus

Lieutenant JG Bradley Openhouse
Chief Counsellor
USS Iapetus

Lieutenant JG William Biggins (NPC)
Chief Operations Officer
USS Iapetus
Played by Captian Krace

Ensign Zalea'an (NPC)
Tactical Officer
USS Iapetus
Played by Captain Krace

Crewman Tom Cook (NPC)
Flight Control Officer
USS Iapetus
Played by Captain Krace