The Chase
Posted on Mon Mar 31st, 2025 @ 9:13am by Lieutenant Commander Rick Gibbs & Captain Maia Sterling & Commander Ryan Blake & Lieutenant Commander Havri Belbre
Edited on on Tue Apr 15th, 2025 @ 5:29am
Mission:
Pandemic
Location: USS Leto NCC-80916
Timeline: 239602.28
Captain's Log Stardate 239602.28
Due to some timely investigating by our Chief Science Officer Paisley P'Rar. We have managed to track a clocked ship in the middle of a cargo fleet. they are moving at warp four on a course of 120 Mk 43. Strangely, if they stay on this course they will come very close to the Thorion space. One of the first missions of the Leto was to free the Thorions from the dominion of the Orion pirates and to prepare them for membership in the United Federation of Planets. My suspicions are becoming more worrisome as this indicates to me that the Orions are more involved than we thought. We have not moved in for an attack and are out of their sensor range but well within ours. for now we will plan and observe.
Sterling Maia A, Captain, Commanding USS Leto.
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[On]
Maia sat in her command chair, carefully watching the tactical viewer and taking whatever updates Lieutenant P'Rar was thinking.
She turned to Commander Blake.
"Ryan, I've been giving this a lot of thought. We never found Arwella's body in our last encounter in Thorion Space. Do you think she could still be alive, and that this is all some elaborate plan to sow strife between the Federation and the Thorians?"
Ryan took a deep breath as he considered his words. "I don't know. She may be alive. What would be her long game, though?"
Rick finally managed to get to the Bridge, avoiding Medical advice. His shoulder didn't look particularly good, as far as looking at his uniform. It was peppered as if he'd been shot with birdshot from a 20th-century shotgun. "Sorry, I'm a little late."
"Mr Gibbs, you look terrible. How badly are you hurt?" Maia asked.
"It hurts, but I'll live. The console exploded next to me." Gibbs replied.
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"Get up, Havri, it's time for more torture on the mind sifter," Toda said.
I get up and I’ll go laugh at her,” you know you can’t hurt me, Toda. You know you’re not strong enough to destroy me. And I’m too important for you to destroy. You know you’ve got some leverage on the. Betazed council, if you tried to use it. And you know the Federation is hot on your course right now. Not only was the Leto in the area of Camus II, but there were two Betazed cruisers there to.
And they are hot on your heels, coming to get me back from you. The best thing you can do is surrender to me. And then surrender your ship and crew. Because if you don’t surrender your shipping crew, they will destroy it. And if you survive, you will go to a Federation prison.”
Has to guard, draw nearer to me, I throat punch one and kick the other one in the knee, taking him down. And then I lunged toward. “Toda you are mine, I will take you down myself. And you know I can do it because I was the one who led to your capture before.”
We will see about that.
Belbre is taken to another room with the mind sifter in it and locked into the chair, electrodes are placed on her head. And the machine is turned on. Immediately, you can feel your control slipping.
I don't need to kill you to destroy you, Havri.
"I want you to tell me the Prefix code for the Leto."
Toda turned up the device 2 levels, to sync in.
“You know I will never disclose that information. I struggle against the restraints. “The best thing you can do is surrender now. Because in the end, you will be my prisoner. And you will go to the Federation prison, maximum security. And never see the outside of that prison again.
You know, I will win, and you will lose.”
Belbre struggled against the mind shifter, and though it was difficult, she was able to fight against the facts. Hav'ri looks into the mind of a guard at the other end of the room. She concentrated her mind on Orion’s mind. This causes him to drop to his knees with an extreme headache. She knows she can counter the effects of the mind machine by messing with weaker people's minds
"Oh no, you don't, Hav'ri! Toda turned it up to level six, neutralizing your mind powers. Your inability to concentrate leaves you almost zombie-like.
Havri knew that Toda would not kill her as long as she resisted. Even though she is in a zombie state. She continues to fight the effects of the machine. It weakens her to the point that she finally passes completely out. In this state, the machine is worthless to her.
Sooner or later, she will have to turn the machine off. Because there is nothing she can do to force me to give her the information she needs in this state. I am useless to her unless she can bring me to her state, where she can interrogate me.
You can take her back to her cage, Toda said, we have the information we were looking for. Prepare to set a course for the Orion sector, maximum warp.
Belbre finally regained consciousness. After a few minutes of resting, she was able to get to her feet and begin to look around. She noticed that she was in a cell with only one door. Things were very secure, but she was still looking for a way to possibly get out.
She had to figure out a way to let Leto know she was OK. She entered a state of mindful thought and began to try and send a telepathic message to one of the other Betazoids on the ship. It was a long shot that it would work because she wasn’t sure how close the. Leto was to them. And she did not expect it to work.
Ryan had stepped over to the science station to assist Paisley in the analysis of the sensor data.
"Captain, we are receiving a signal from the lead ships."
Someone is gaining access to our main functions, and an order has been sent to eject our warp core using our prefix code.
Our prefix code? How did they get that?
"Emergency shutdown," the captain ordered.
"Too late," the reply came from the conn.
Outside of the Leto, the warp core ejected from the tube.
As soon as that happened, the enemy ships vanished into warp.
Mr. Ryan, get an engineering and damage control team to retrieve the warp core and get it reinstalled
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A post by:
Captain Maia A. Sterling
Commanding Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916
&
Lt. Commander Havri Belbre
Chief strategic officer
USS Leto NCC-80916
&
Lt. Commander Rick Gibbs
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916
