From alton.reich@snet.net Sun Jun 7 12:15:03 1998 Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 06:17:12 -0400 From: Alton and Elizabeth Reich To: distribution:@snet.net; (see end of body) Subject: USS YAMATO: Aftermath Newsgroups: alt.starfleet.rpg SD: 100605.0600 [FMD: 7.1830 USS YAMATO - Bridge] The first few minutes after the destruction of the COUGAR had been chaotic on the bridge of the YAMATO. Systems were off line and damage reports were coming in from all over the ship. Isaac and Alex looked over the status display adjacent to the center seat. "All things considered, we're not in terrible shape," Alex said, "If we had been much closer when that cruiser went up, we wouldn't be having this conversation." Isaac nodded, "And if the explosion had propelled us closer to the center of the system instead of away, the Dalriada would be almost on top of us already. Is LT Wolfe good enough to pull us out of this?" "I'd bet my life on it, Sir." "Let's hope it doesn't get that close XO," Isaac replied with a nod. *** [FMD: 7.1830 YAMATO - Engineering] "Beginning emergency purge of the warp core," ENS Hibiki announced. Chief VanDelsie hopped over the railing around the warp core and on to the short bridge that led to the access hatch. She put the tool kit she carried down on the deck at her feet. "How long has the helium purge been running, ENS?" "About 35 seconds, Chief. We've got about 2.5 minutes to go." "Kids," Rebecca muttered shaking her head, "ENS, I'm going to manually override the purge." "Manually override?" "Yup," Rebecca said. She grasped the releases on the core access hatch. She turned them hard half a turn outward until they stopped. [Warning, warp core purge has not been completed.] "Computer, override and permit manual venting," she said. "Manual venting?" Hibiki asked, "I've never heard of manual venting?" [Acknowledged, purge cycle set for manual venting.] "You aren't likely to, either, ENS," she replied. She turned the latches to their fully outward position and a puff of helium escaped past the access hatch seal. She grasped the handles and pulled the hatch cover off and a cloud of cold helium escaped from the hatch into engineering causing a mist like cloud of condensation to form within it. She turned toward Hibiki and handed him the hatch cover, "Don't loose that ENS, we'll need it again in a few minutes. What's the ETA of those Dalriadan ships?" "About 10 minutes," he replied. "Hopefully this won't take that long," she said as she picked up the tool kit and began to wiggle through the opening into the warp core. Rebecca carefully put her feet on the small platform that ran around the inside of the matter/ anti-matter reaction chamber. She looked up and could clearly see the crack that ran down the length of the anti-matter injector housing. The final two stages on constrictor magnets were clearly out of alignment. "ENS, this is going to take a few minutes," she said, pulling out her tricorder and phaser welder, "How's the cloaking device coming?" "Better, I think," Ryoga replied. "Good." *** [FMD:7.1840 YAMATO - Bridge] Isaac watched the Dalriadan ships close on the YAMATO and felt like turning the bridge over to CMDR Connor so he could go down to engineering and help out. Somehow he resisted. He punched a control on the arm of his chair and said, "Stern to Bal." [Bal here.] "What have you got for weapons, LT?" [I've got a type 3 phaser rifle in case the Dalriada try to board.] "That's not what I meant, Bal." [This ship is in no condition to fight. Phasers are off line because of problems with the EPS conduits. The forward primary torpedo launcher is off line. The pod and aft launchers are still functional, but with shields at 50% I don't think we'll get close enough to do much damage.] "Understood. Hopefully we won't be in a situation where we even have to worry about it. Stern out." > The engineering compartment leapt into action, passing the cables > through the holes and plugging the device in. Morgan opened a channel to > the bridge. > > "Captain, one miracle on the cloak, as ordered." "Good work, LT. LT D'artgnan, recloak the ship," Isaac ordered. The ship recloaked, and Isaac felt a little like cheering. "LT M'gan, best speed away from here," he ordered. "We're limited to about half impulse power because of the power demands of the cloaking device," M'gan replied. "Understood," Isaac turned to Alex, "XO, see how things are progressing in engineering. I want warp speed as soon as possible. Then you can go see how things are in sickbay. You are to assist Dr. Mara in any way she needs help." "CAPT, don't you need me here?" "Not really, XO. LT Bal is right, we need to return to OMEGA for repairs. We've done some damage here and shown that the Dalirada aren't unbeatable. We've got to get that knowledge back to OMEGA." Timeline: FMD: 7.1830 USS YAMATO - Bridge & Engineering, repair efforts begin. Alton FMD:7.1840 YAMATO - Bridge, the ship recloaks and heads away from Burrakis. Alton NRPG: Tough week. I'm trying to finish stuff up at work so I can go to Arizona on Monday. In that regard, please make sure you have my juno address on your mailing lists. Gabrielle: Please send a copy of your character's bio to the mailing list. Gabrielle will be joining us shortly. All: The fleet mailing list is catching up to us. We'll start posting to the list soon. I have a few YAMATO back posts to send to the list, so don't get confused when you see them. If any of you have had problems receiving mail from the list, let me know. I may try to put together a master timeline for you. I'll try at least. Pat: Please send out an updated roster, including NPC's. You can eliminate some of the Marine NPCs if you'd like. The crew has some small amopunt of leisure time now whil we return to OMEGA and the fleet catches up. I will have Isaac report to ADM Brooks in my next post mid-next week. I expect the YAMATO will return to OMEGA at FMD: 9.0000-ish. BTW: One of the players from SB ALIGHIERI wrote the destruction of a Daliradan supply ship in the same way the COUGAR was destroyed. I think someone is reading our posts. Respectfully submitted, CAPT Isaac Stern CO - USS YAMATO (NCC-1705-E) Alton Reich -- Alton & Elizabeth Reich alton.reich@snet.net "Dreams are sometimes catching / Desire goes to my head / Love responds to your invitation / Love responds to imagination / Respond, Vibrate, Feed Back, Resonate" -- Rush, Chain Lightning %%% overflow headers %%% To: Alter Ego , Josh Young , jyoung@nqks.com, Pat Schumacher , Gabrielle Blair , Jeff Uribe , Les Chappelle , Vicke Denniston , vicden1@yahoo.com, Kristine Berg , Karen Fainges , George Harmon , Jeffrey Jenkins , Dana Loeblich %%% end overflow headers %%%