Trouble with the warp core

Posted on Sun Jun 29th, 2025 @ 8:10pm by Captain Maia Sterling & Lieutenant Paisley P'Rar & Lieutenant Commander Havri Belbre & Lieutenant Commander Rick Gibbs

Mission: Pandemic
Location: Along the Thorion Border
Timeline: 239605.30

Captain's Log Stardate 239605.30

The Leto sustained more damage than we had originally thought. It seems there is structural damage to the warp core, which limits us to warp 2. There was structural damage to the core when it was ejected. We will need repairs at a Starfleet shipyard. We have altered course to Thorion space. It has taken much longer to get here than anticipated, almost a full month. The Thorions have reported an uptick in pirate activity in the area. No sign of Captain Arwella's battleship, or our missing crewmembers.

Log Out.

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Maia was on the bridge; her engineering crew had done everything they could to keep the warp core from blowing, and the pressure in the dilithium matrix was at less than 2 percent of capacity. No cracks have formed, and the temperature is stable. We are approaching the Thorion border. I have sent a subspace message to Thorion control requesting assistance. They have sent out a small flotilla of ballistas to escort us.

Commander Blake has received word that his wife died in childbirth; both she and the child perished. The intelligence section has credible information indicating that Commander Belbre had been captured by Toda. She will probably be sold into slavery if we don't find and rescue her.

The Command codes for the leto have been changed.


-----The Lady Luck--------

Belbre began thinking, she needed to develop a plan to aid in her escape. Everything had to be kept totally secret and had to work precisely. If she made so much as one mistake, she would be blown away and killed immediately. She can buy, figuring she would need rations to survive on for a few days. So she started eating only 2/3 of her rations every day. And hid the other third away in a place where it would not be found. She had been putting aside her ration portion for several days. Then she had to figure out another way to work the next phase of her plan to escape.

She did as she was told by her captors, which gave her some trust from them because she was not causing any trouble. And this good grace she was earning worked to her plan exactly. She had been a prisoner for about a month. And was gaining more trust as things went on. Then one day, she got a break that she did not plan on. One of the Orions had left a disruptor unattended. She moved quickly and got the disruptor. She turned it off, so it would not cause any kind of signals to be trackable. She did hide it away in a place where no one would look for it or suspect it was there. She hid it in a place that, if found, they would not connect it to her. Once this was done, she returned to her duties and kept doing what she was told to do. She had gained the trust of the Orion’s and was allowed to be in the flight deck to clean it up. And they did not monitor her actions that much. This was a big break for her.

She continued to monitor what the Orion‘s and others were doing on the flight deck. Soon, she had the exact schedules up when they changed their flat guards around the Lady Luck. And then she knew the duty roster as well. Her plan was coming together. She still needed a little more time to implement her plan. They had no idea how capable or skilled she was in security procedures. They also had no idea how resistant she was to the neural device they had attached to her.

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Arwella had left the ship, She was on her way to Corridan 6 to negotiate new deals. She had left instructions for the new slaves to be trained but not harmed. This included Belbre, the Betazoid. She was to be conditioned as a pleasure slave and taught to dance, entertain, and serve. She had assigned Bode to train her.

Bode (Bodie) was a large Male Orion slave trainer. He was over 8 ft tall and well-muscled. He was teaching Belbre, whom he had renamed Tita, to dance. At first, Tita was not very good, but she learned quickly and had a natural grace about her. Fortunately, Tita was in excellent physical shape. Bode didn't mind that Tita was sneaking food as long as she improved. He was almost affectionate to her and extremely gentle and patient with her, not cruel at all. After all, he saw her as a potential asset, not a prisoner.

Belbre saw her chance, with Arwella gone, the Orions dropped their guard. They had a lapse with Security, and this opened the door for her plan to be able to be launched. Bode would go to sleep when she played the slow music that she danced to. So that evening, she began to hatch her plan. She decided to practice her dancing at 2 o’clock in the morning. As planned, he went to sleep. She carefully danced around the hangar bay section where she normally practiced. Once it was just two of them in there, she went and got the disruptors she had hidden. She placed it on heavy stun and zapped him with it. This knocked him out completely.

She did not have time to change clothes into a flight suit, so she decided to go as she was dressed. She quickly ran over and got things set up. She didn’t turn and stunned him an additional time just to be sure he did not wake up till she was ready to go. She positioned him in a way that it looked like he was asleep. She then got inside one of the fighters, tossed the ladder off to the side. And began to close to hatch, and then fired up the engines. Once they were fired up and ready to go, she quickly moved toward the opening in the hangar deck. As the alarms started to sound, she quickly pushed a stick forward and blew out the hanger door at .9 warp. Once in space, she pushed the throttle forward and went to maximum warp. Once in maximum warp, she began to maneuver and change her direction several times. This caused the Orions and the Lady Luck to lose track of where she was. She placed the autopilot on and removed the tracking device from her neck, and ejected it into space. Now there was no way they could find out where she was.

She then checked her coordinates and found she was not far from the Thornion section of space and laid in her coordinates to go there. She cloaked the fighter so it would not show up on any tracking systems as well. And of course, watch her equipment and scanners to be sure that no Orion or other ships other than Federation were in the area. Her plan was working perfectly, and soon she would be safely back with the Federation.

She picked up a federation signature on her scanners that was approximately 2.5 hours away. She quickly said the coordinates and turned in that direction. As she approached, she reduced her speed to .9 impulse and moved slowly toward the ship.

She reduced her speed and matched the speed of the ship. It was the Blackstone. She decloaked the fighter and made radio contact.

*/\* Blackstone, this is LCMD Havri Belbre of the USS Leto. I am on board the Orion fighter off your port side. I request permission to land on your flight deck. I mean no harm to your ship or crew.=/\=

They replied, =/\=Orion fighter, do not power up your weapons or you will be destroyed. We are going to use a tractor beam to pull your fighter into the hangar Bay. Do not resist or you will be destroyed.=/\=

=/|=Understood Blackstone =/\=

After a few minutes, the fighter was on board the Blackstone. There was a security detail standing by to greet her. This was normal protocol. She had no problems with this as she was happy to be back on a Federation ship.

Security told her, “Come with us and we will take you to sick Bay. The captain will meet you there to debrief you after Medical has taken care of and cleared you to be debriefed.”

Belbre replied, “Understood, I am glad to be home again on a Federation ship.”

She followed him to sick bay, where the doctor took care of the cut on her neck. And also check out her other problems that might have occurred to her. Soon, the captain arrived, and she debriefed the captain on what had happened with her. The captain informed her he was en route to the Thorion space and that the Leto was there undergoing repairs. And he would make arrangements to drop me off with them when they arrived.

She was taken into a private area of sick Bay and allowed to use a replicator to get a fresh uniform and put it on so she could feel like she was back home. The doctor informed her she would be moved to temporary quarters to recover until they arrived at their destination. Captain Davison also informed her he would contact the Leto and let them know of her escape from the Lady Luck.

Captain Davison returned to the bridge. As the doors opened, he went toward his command chair.

Communications, send a message to Leto. Tell Captain Sterling that we have recovered a member of her crew who was captured. Informed her that the crew member's name is Commander Havri Belbre. Inform her that the crew member is in good condition and we will rendezvous with them in. Thornton space. To drop her off then.”

Communications replied, “Aye, Captain. “

"Captain, we are receiving a subspace message from the Federation starship Blackstone. They advise that they have recovered Havri Belbre. She is alive and well in their sickbay."

" Please advise that we are grateful for the recovery and that we are at Thoria, having our warp core repaired. and to please dispatch Commander Belbre back to the Leto here as soon as possible. Sterling out, "

The Blackstone replied, =/\= understood we will be in your area in 1.5 days. We will arrange to have her beam over to you on your ship when we arrive. We are carrying some supplies to drop off there.=/\=

Belbre was informed that she would be dropped off at the Leto. When they arrived at.Thoria. This really made her feel good to know that she would soon be back. It had been a long time since she was home on the Leto.

While waiting for the time to get there and rendezvous with the Leto. Havri kept herself busy doing things. She went and got a couple of tablets and downloaded all the information stored on the fighter's computer systems. The intelligence that would be on there to come in real handy. Because it had a lot of information about where the. Lady Luck had been going on a regular basis. Plus, it also had information on how Toda was able to get supplies and other weapons that she needed for her sustainability in the fight.

Her own experience was proof that Toda was stealing the captives to Captain Arwella in exchange for weapons and supplies. Plus, it also proved what was going on involving Lady Luck and how she was getting supplies that she could deal to others.

The information that Havri was downloading would give us an advantage when we ran across either of them again. This helped her to pass the time waiting to get back to the Leto. And before long, she was in her temporary quarters, going over the information when a call came over the intercom for her to report to the bridge. She figured this was to inform her that she would be transferred over to the Leto soon. She arrived on the bridge.

“ Commander Belbre reporting, Captain.

Captain Davison replied, “ we have arrived at destination, and are ready when you are to transfer you back to the Leto. Hope you had a chance to get a little bit of rest before returning to your duties on your ship. “

“Belbre replied, I did get some rest and I thank you very much for your hospitality captain as well as your crew. But I will be honest. I’m looking forward to getting back home. I missed my fellow crew members on the. Leto. I’ll go get my gear and report to transporter room one to transfer over to the Leto in a little while.”

She returned to her quarters and got a few things. She had there along with the tablets she had downloaded the information on. Going to transporter room one she went in and the chief engineer made arrangements for the transfer to take place. As she rematerialized on Leto. The chief engineer smiled and said welcome back commander. She said, thanks and move through the door. And went to the turbo lift, allowing her to go immediately to the bridge. She stepped off.

“ Lieutenant Commander Belbre reporting for duty captain Sterling.”

Belbre walked over to the command chair where Captain Sterling was sitting. she passed off one tablet,” Captain, this tablet contains information that I downloaded from the fighter that I stole from the hanger Bay on the Lady Luck. If you look, this particular fighter did not close down his tracking devices on his navigation system. As a result, I was able to download a lot of information showing where the.Lady Luck has been operating in. And also shows where they have been doing rendezvous’s with.Toda’s ships as well.

Toda has been taking all her captives to Captain Arwella so she could trade them for supplies and weapons. Then.Arwella has been selling the captives to be slaves to the highest bidder. I made arrangements and they are going to bring the fighter that I swiped from her ship to our hanger Bay. So that we can get our science teams to go over it and download any further information we can to give to Starfleet about the operations they are doing

Belbre passed copies of both tablets to Paisley at the science station so she could continue going over the information and helping gather the extra information we need. With a little bit of luck we can capture Toda And maybe get Captain Arwella as well.

Welcome back, Commander. You are a sight for sore eyes.

At the Science console, Paisley was bent over, studying the atmosphere as the data came in. "I am bringing the probes in and looping the information to your viewscreen, Ma'am," she said to Sterling. "Good morning, Commander Belbre," she said, and then returned to her task. She wasn't one to chatter too much on the bridge, though she was always friendly. "Any further orders?" She asked.

“Good morning, Paisley. So nice to be back home on the Leto,” replied Belbre.

"Yes, Paisley please coordinate with Thorion Space Command, to project an approach course to their drydock facilities."

Rick had finally gotten off leave and stepped onto the Bridge. Giving a smile seeing Havri back. Moving over and quietly, without a word, gave her a hug. Saying with it, 'welcome back and we're glad you're okay.' Moving over to his station.

Mr. Gibbs, please give me a pre-approach scan of the area.

Welcome back. Maia said.

[Off]

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A post by:

Captain Maia A Sterling
Commanding Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916

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Lt. Commander Havri Belbre
USS Leto NCC-80916
Chief of Strategy and Tactics

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Lt Commander Rick Gibbs
USS Leto NCC-80916
Chief Security Officer

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