Not too many chiefs around here (part 4)
Posted on Sun Jul 13th, 2014 @ 6:02am by Commander Hans Munich & Commodore Samantha York & Lieutenant JG Shannon O'Brian & Ensign Maria Delgado & Lieutenant JG Talia "Phoenix" Richards
668 words; about a 3 minute read
Mission: Revenge
[CONTINUED]
[OLD]
[Engineering]
"O'Brian to Bridge. That 'red line' is moving farther to the left. The Warp Core is still going strong, but venting plasma time is getting close!"
[NEW]
[Fighters]
Phoenix reached the atmosphere, happy to see their sortie was a success. "Bojay, Wedge, good job. Let's head back to base and reload."
However, shortly after they rounded the planet and spotted the Calypso, their plans changed. "Cancel that, Wedge, Bojay. Calypso is under heavy fire. We'll circle around the planet and come at it from the other side. Perhaps we can help take out the hostile."
=^= Darkwing group... =^= The voice of Munich called out. =^= We need to occupy the planetary defenses while we start beaming people out. I want you to engage the target directly, basically keep the automated thing from firing.=^= The voice was authoritative.
"You Heard the man, Phoenix, they want us to keep their heads down." Bojay suggested.
"Let's get Dangerous..." Wedge joked.
"I'd rather not get dangerous," Phoenix countered. "Except to the bogeys. Let's see if we can find a secondary base. If they have one, they have another."
O'Brian heard some of the transmissions. "You crazy fly jockeys." She thought to herself. Then smiled. "Yeah.." She reminded herself.."Crazy.. and 'nice.' "
[Bridge]
Munich had done all that he could, the weapons were dwindling; the warp core would need plasma venting, and the ship could not beam anyone up while the shields protected them from attack.
"Delgato, please confirm the fighters are clearing us some time to drop shields and beam people out and any other of our ships." Munich was remaining calm and his accent was less than before. "Prepare to fire the Cobalt device." It was an order that is needed as much as anything.
"Fighters clear," Maria confirmed. "They've gone to the other side of the planet." She turned to Munich. "If you blow the moon, it'll kill everyone on the planet."
"Get me an automated Shuttle." Munich had a radical idea. "Tell the flight deck to set the core for overload and point it sat the center of that station." HE glanced to Maria. "A shuttle core explosion won't hurt anyone will it?"
"That should be safe enough." Maria nod.
"Instruct the fighters to get clear, the base ignored them as no threat and that should mean a lone shuttle will be of no significance." Munich hoped his idea would work?
"Shuttle launching." The Helm Officer reported.
The ship could only watch as the small shuttle launched, no one on board and her, Munich had to keep a calm head and hope that the Star SHip was a greater theat than the small shuttle.
"I hope it does not care that a power build up heading right at it will affect the systems?" Munich commented. "I should think that the Orions would make the expense of a highly sensitive attack program, more latinum on the weapons."
The shuttle descended as programmed without variation, the small core was reaching the near explosion level. Munich held his breath the last few seconds as the shuttle seemed to land almost on the shielding when it detonated.
Rocking a bit from the shock wave the Moon seemed to emphasize the explosion of the station; well the munitions on the station did most of the work, as a new sizable crater spewed rubble into space , the deflector screens were sufficient to take care of any that actually came around to the Calypso. The fighters had been smart enough to use the planet as cover of their escapes.
There would be a new scar taking up twenty two percent of the visable area of the moon as though some large creature took a bite of 'cheese' but aside from that things were calming.
"Begin Transporting operations." Munich said with a sigh and sat in the Command Chair.
It would be a short time to recover everyone.
Munich sat straight in the chair and would not outwardly show his relief ... yet.
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