Pirates Attack part 2

Posted on Mon Apr 15th, 2024 @ 6:12am by Lieutenant Commander Sayori Summers & Captain Maia Sterling & Lieutenant Commander Ryan Blake & Lieutenant Maximillion Thornehill Junior & Lieutenant Paisley P'Rar & Lieutenant Commander Havri Belbre & Lieutenant Commander Gwendolyn Griffith & Lieutenant JG T'Plana-hath & Lieutenant Steve O'Carroll & 2nd Lieutenant Saul Humphries
Edited on on Mon Apr 15th, 2024 @ 6:50am

Mission: Double Dealing
Location: USS Leto, Ferengi Station Adar
Timeline: 239603.20

Captains Log Stardate 239603.20

The Ferengi Station Adar was full of surprises, the away team found clinging equipment with clones that the Orions had been using to destabilize not only Starfleet but also the the politics of the entire quadrant. they also found a small garrison of Jem'Hadar who were trying to synthesize a cure for Ketracell white. T'Plana'hath was able to tap into the Orion database and came across information that the Orions have a ship with a Romulan cloaking device. I have ordered that the Ferengi station be destroyed, robbing the Orion pirates with a base of operations.
The crew of the Leto was able to ward off multiple attacks by Jem'Hadar insurgents. Lieutenant Summers was able to rig a time delay detonation of the station by sabotaging its cooling system. we have a two-minute delay. The away team has been beamed back to the Leto and I have ordered a red alert.

Maia Sterling A Captain, Commanding Leto

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[ON]

Maia watched the station on the view screen.

"Captain the away team is back aboard."

"Excellent, Mr. Thorehill, back us away from the station and set a course out of here, but not the way we came," the Captain said.

"Aye, Captain," Max said. His hands flew over the console, plotting an almost corkscrew path out of the field, keeping them at random angles from their original course. It wouldn't appear more than random course changes to someone trying to track them, but it would give them the most options to avoid being detected and provide cover, at least as far as the sensors could read.

Captain, sensors are detecting an explosion at 214 Mk 7 it's one of our mines.

"I am also picking up a large number of fighter craft approaching from the same vector." Science officer Bigsby said.

Paisley nodded at her junior. "Excellent, Mr. Bisby," she said.

"I think we've just about worn out our welcome. Get us the hell out of here Mr Thornehill. Try to keep the station between us and them for as long as possible. The best speed you can manage in this field.

"Mr Ryan, what do you recommend as our strategic operations officer?"

Ryan had left the bridge for the bridge conference room once the mines had been placed. He was using the holographic projectors in the room for a three-dimensional rendering to visually study the local space in a real-time simulation. The detonation of the first mine had caused the entire armada of enemy ships and fighters to slow down momentarily, but they were quickly responding to the new tactical situation.

The Leto needed three minutes to get to an open space where it could jump to warp. Ryan ran a few calculations in his head. He tapped his comm badge. "Command detonation for mines 7-alpha, 4-gamma, and 19-beta in that order in one-second intervals on my mark."

It wouldn't destroy any more enemy fighters, but it would slow the advance of any but the most reckless pilots. "Three, two, one, Mark."

"T'Plana'Hath did that flush them out?" Maia asked.

T'Plana had immediately made her way to the Intel Suite and pulled up the tactical map. "It would appear there is a separation occurring with the incoming fleet." Suddenly a sensor came on. It was detecting warp signatures. "Be advised have warp signatures. Signatures match Jem'Hadar." She quickly feeds the information to all pertinent stations.


-------Orion Attack Group 3-------

"Leader the Federation Ship is disengaging from the station, they are leaving. The station's shields are still up, so I am getting sporadic readings. They repaired some of the damage we left. Perhaps we can use it as a base again,"

Send in attack wave one, I was that ship disabled.

Suddenly several explosions rocked the ship,

"What the hell was that,"? Captain Korsmo asked.

"They must have seeded the asteroid field with mines. I can't get a fix on any of them," His technical lead said.

"Clever little monkeys' aren't they?" Captain Korsmo said.

Cloaked mines well that makes our job a lot harder, send in the cloaked ship to follow them.

Adar was one of their more useful bases until the Jem'Hadar came in and took it over. It was a state-of-the-art cloning and replication base and was at their disposal for over 80 years.

The mines had crippled the second squadron, cutting their firepower down by over 50 percent.

Have the second squadron regroup with destroyer Argo2 and send in destroyer Deadly Pursuit.

"Aye, Captain,"

Destroyer Deadly Pursuit moved in and launched fighters. Eight fully equipped Cutpurse class fighters, with reflective armor, now took potshots at the Leto as she made her escape.

The Asteroids themselves provided some cover.

-------------Engineering, USS Leto-----------

Sayori and most of her team (the ones that didn’t go to sickbay) got back to the engine room as disruptor fire from the Orion ships clipped their shields.

“Keep the engines running, team!” Sayori cheered as she reached the “Pool Table” MSD. The shields were taking hits put they seemed stable for the moment. “Be ready for power redistribution as calls come down from the Ops Station.”

She opened a comm line. “Engineering to Bridge, Summers here. One hundred and ten seconds have elapsed, that station should be a fireball in the next handful of moments.”

-------------Bridge, USS Leto-----------
"Acknowledged Commander Sayori, when that station goes up there will be an intense shockwave," Maia replied.

The ship was being buffeted by disruptor fire coming from an Orion Retribution class destroyer. Fortunately, Mr Thornehill was quite adept at using the asteroid field to deflect incoming fire.

Max was jostling in his seat as he twisted the ship around another rock. He flinched as it exploded from disruptor fire, even though the shrapnel was stopped by their shields. He banked hard to port and angled up as another shot grazed them, then dipped between two asteroids and took the momentary loss of visual contact to swing around another large asteroid, plotting their next series of turns. "Fifty thousand kilometers to the edge, Captain," he said.

"Minor hit to deflector shield 4 Captain, No appreciable damage."

"Thank you, Mr. Bigsby,"

Maia needed room to fight and couldn't maneuver properly in an asteroid field.

Mr Ryan, can we use the tractor beam to hit the destroyer with an asteroid or two?

Ryan studied the holographic model simulation for a moment. Any asteroid they locked a tractor beam on to that they could employ as a weapon and yet small enough to move quickly could be pulverized by a destroyer's weapon systems. It was possible, however, that dragging a larger asteroid behind them could provide a temporary barrier from the pursuit destroyers and the Leto's shields could hold out against the faster and more nimble fighters until they were clear to go to warp and escape.

Ryan spotted a suitable asteroid for the new defense tactic. He touched the holographic image of the asteroid, highlighting it, "Lock on and maintain tractor on this asteroid as we navigate through the field. Try and keep a distance of 250-300 meters behind us. That should shield us from the destroyers in pursuit."

"Acknowledged," Max said, bringing the ship up in front of the asteroid.

"Tractor beam locked on, Sir."

"Lieutenant P'Rar is there any way to further scramble their sensors?" Maia asked

Paisley nodded. "Yes, ma'am, let me just..." she pressed a button. "Send out some mild Tachyon radiation," she said. "Should give us long enough to use the beam," she said.


----------SCIF, USS Leto----------

T'plana began working on hacking the communications of the hostile ships. The Orion ships were easy to crack, the Jem'Hadar on the other hand were proving to be very vexing. Hitting the communications on her console she sent an update =/\=Bridge be advised, that I have tapped the Orion ship's communications. They have launched fighter craft which are using the asteroids for cover. They also have sent a destroyer identified as Argo 2 and another destroyer identified as Deadly Pursuit. The fighter signals match those of Cutpurse class fighters. Bad news the Jem'Hadar ships appear to be holding outside the asteroid field.=/\=

----------Bridge USS Leto------------

As the Leto finally broke free of the asteroid field, the Ferengi station, it angled upwards sharply and shot to full impulse as ADAR went up in a blaze of glory in a 220 Megaton explosion. This caused a radical shift in the asteroids destroying most of the Orion fleet, however sensor readings were jumbled at best.
more dangerously though a level 3 shockwave was approaching the ship rapidly.

"Captain level 3 shockwave approaching from astern,"

"Mr. Thornehill set a course for Triton, it's time we paid them a visit, go to Warp Two," Maia said.

"Aye, Captain," Max said. It would be a short trip, but he was feeling in a hurry, so he charted a swifter course past the regular space lanes and set their speed.

"Mr. Blake you have the bridge," Maia said.

Maia got up and went down to sickbay to check on her wounded.

"Aye Captain, I have the bridge." Ryan closed the holographic simulation down and returned to the bridge as Maia boarded the turbo-lift. He crossed to the center chair and took a seat.
"Mister Thornehill, how long until we reach Triton?"

"ETA four minutes," he said. "No sense wasting time."

---------Sickbay USS Leto-----------

Maia walked into Sickbay where the away team and some clones were being treated.

"Dr Griffith, how are you doing? Do you need anything?" Maia asked.

"Aye, room," Gwen said, not looking at the Captain as Gwen nudged her aside to make room for another wounded security officer being loaded onto a biobed. "Cnych,," she said, looking him over. "Looks like he took the brunt of the shrapnel," she said, then turned to Valla. "Get two units going, and get me a derma-sealer."

"Yes, Doctor," Valla said, handing the doctor the derma-sealer, and rushing off to their blood supply.

Gwen finally looked up at the Captain. "Sorry, Ma'am. No fatalities, but a few people were in recovery from their injuries. Right now, we just need to avoid any more wounded coming in, and this lot will pull through."

"What about Commander Belbre is she alright?" Maia asked.

"Aye, she's right as rain. I'll have her discharged if you need her now," Gwen said, focusing on the shrapnel patient in front of her.

"Very well, thank you."

Maia walks over to Havri, "You alright, I need you on the bridge if you're alright. You might be interested to know that the space station is now, so much space rubble and debris. We blew her up," Tactically the area around the station up to 400, 000 kilometers is vaporized as well," Maia said.

"I am ready Captain just need to change into a clean uniform before I go to the Bridge. And I am glad we were able to destroy the space station. "Replied Belbre.

"I'll see you on the bridge then,"

[OFF]

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A post by:

Captain Maia A Sterling
Commanding Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916

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LCMD Havri Belbre
Chief of Security/Tactical Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916

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Lieutenant JG T'Plana-hath
Intelligence Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916

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Lieutenant Paisley P'rar
Chief Science Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916

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Lieutenant Commander Sayori Summers
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916