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Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Oct 16, 2006, 17:38

Sonak looked around to gauge the damage to her ship. Many of the panels were flickering, and even more seemed to be offline. "Damage reports!" she shouted, as she settled herself into the command chair. Beside her, Nick also pulled himself back into his seat.

(Everyone)

Several crewmembers however, remained lying on the deck, unmoving. The Vulcan tapped her combadge. "Bridge, sickbay! Send a medical team up here!"

(Nack)

Looking around she suddenly noticed someone she actually knew at the operations console. "Claire!" she exclaimed in surprise, "what are you doing here? When did you come aboard?"

(Claire)

At the tactical station however stood not the Kanz she expected to see. "I see you have once more taken it upon yourself to take up a duty you are not trained for Miss Kanz," she told the younger woman, "I am sending you back to Federation space and I am sending you to serve on the USS Nevada as acting ensign. Perhaps then you will learn to conduct yourself properly."

(Lucy Kanz)

"Now, get your....warden up here to do her job!"

(Lucy/L'Ola)

"Fox, where are we! How far are we off course?"

(Fox)

Sonak gazed around as she issued her orders, feeling less and less comfortable with the situation. She tapped her combadge again. "Engineering where is my status report!" she yelled angrily, batting Nick's hand away as he tried to calm her down. "Do not touch me," she snapped at her first officer, "perhaps you could assist the ensign at the navigations console to get the ship back under control?"

(Nick)

Then she felt another hand on her shoulder and she looked up to see Trey's disapproving glance. "Something on your mind lieutenant?" she asked the CNO gone Marine. "Spill it!"

(Trey)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Oct 16, 2006, 22:58


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Looking around she suddenly noticed someone she actually knew at the operations console. "Claire!" she exclaimed in surprise, "what are you doing here? When did you come aboard?"


"Long story Commodore! I'll tell you later, but I'd better get those status reports first."

Claire never thougt that her return to the USS Vesuvius would throw her in th emiddle of action. Well at least it kept her mind away from other things...

She looked at the pannel in front of her and noticed al the lights blinking. She sighed, she had to concentrate. ~I hope I get used to this~ she thought.

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Oct 17, 2006, 14:05

After the big exploding type noise the room started spinning a little. It then started getting darker and eventually faded to pitch black.

As the room came back into focus L'Ola sighed inwardly. The feeling of regaining consciousness was unfortunately all too familiar, although in recent months she'd been luckier. Once she had control of her limbs again she curled up in a ball. Standing up was too much effort. She listened out for what was going on.

"I see you have once more taken it upon yourself to take up a duty you are not trained for Miss Kanz. I am sending you back to Federation space and I am sending you to serve on the USS Nevada as acting ensign. Perhaps then you will learn to conduct yourself properly."

L'Ola waited for Lucy's response, hoping it wouldn't be too volatile.

"I'm sorry, I hadn't realised the Bridge was off limits. But these things happen. I'll leave the ship later today if I can borrow a shuttle."

Sonak appeared to accept this and move on. "Now, get your....warden up here to do her job!"

"Just give me a second"

Lucy's face appeared down at L'Ola's level. "Ready to get up now?"

"The room looks okay so it should be fine" She slowly stood up, leaning on Lucy for support. "Sorry about that, Commodore. Before I blacked out I was explaining to Lucy about the different computer systems we use here on the Bridge." She looked at Lucy *Quick, go somewhere else in case she flips*

It could be a long session on the Bridge, L'Ola thought as she started the procedures for crew count.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Oct 17, 2006, 14:43


Oct 16, 2006, 17:38, Commodore Sonak Reckus wrote:
"Fox, where are we! How far are we off course?"


Not sure what had happend, Fox got up as Sonak gave him an order. He walked back to his station, trying to pinpoint their current location. However the explosion that had send them further into the Beta Quadrant also knocked out several sensor arrays.

He tabbed a few buttons on his console, coming to the conclusion that he couldn't get their exact location. He looked at Sonak. "There are no planets within the range of our short range sensors. The long range sensors seem to be offline. To determine how far we're off course i need those."

Sonak nodded
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Oct 17, 2006, 16:20

Claire overheared Fox about the sensors. Then she got an idea.

"Wait if I temporarily reroute shieldpower to the long range sensors, I can get them online for about two minutes or so. Normally that would be enough to pinpoint our position and look for nearby planets. After those two minutes, shields will be back up. I know it's risky. I'm waiting for your orders, Commodore."

<Sonak, Fox>

Something bleeped at Claire's console. ~Oh, no, that's not good~ she thought when she read the status report that came through.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Lucy Kanz on Oct 17, 2006, 19:06

Lucy was actually quite happy to get off the Bridge. As much as she had been enjoying working out how everything in the ship fitted together, there was only so much of a telling off that she could take without screaming back.

The power fluctuations across the ship told her that Sam would be busy. In fact he'd probably be enjoying it, as all good maintenance engineers do. But it meant that she couldn't pay him a visit. So instead she headed off to the science labs to find Ed.

An educated guess managed to lead her to the right lab straight away. Inside she found Ed practically hitting his head on the consoles in an attempt to get them to work. "Bad time?" She asked.

"No, not at all. This isn't exactly going anywhere." He sat down and started swinging his chair round.

She followed suit, "Where's Jamie? You guys always seem to work together."

Ed nodded, "We do always work together. But he volunteered to go track down an engineer. Normally I'd call Sam but..." he motioned to the flickering lights above him.

Lucy glanced over at the console, "Can I take a look?"

"Be my guest."

She crouched down next to the console and took off the access hatch. She carried on talking as she checked the connections. "So I just got kicked off the ship."

Ed laughed for a second then stopped, "You serious?"

"Yeah. Commodore Hormones just said she wants to pack me off to some random ship to train up." There was a beeping sound as a connection got reset.

"Surely she can't do that though? You're not enlisted."

Lucy shrugged her shoulders, "She can't force me to join that ship, but she does have the power over who's on this one." There was another beep.

This news didn't settle well with Ed. And what made it worse was the knowledge that someone else would take it harder than he had. "Any ideas what you're going to do?"

"Not sure really. Travel back I guess and hope I don't run into any more trouble. Might stop by Belli for a bit and go visit my grandparents or something."

"Yeah, Carrie would put you up for as long as you wanted." He smiled inside thinking of Carrie. He would have loved to visit her himself.

There was another beeping noise from the console. Lucy stood up and started tapping commands on the top. "Do you reckon there's any chance we could get a group of us together later to play some basketball?"

Ed nodded again, "Of course, how about we organise it when I get off duty in half an hour?"

"That sounds good."

Lucy motioned to the console, "Try it now, it's not perfect but I'm pretty sure it will work."

Sure enough it did. At that point Jamie walked in with Sam. Ed turned round to see them, "Sam you're too late, Teri already fixed it!"

Jamie looked a little surprised and went to check it out, "Well this is impressive. Hey did he just call you Teri?"

"Don't ask" Lucy said simply.

Sam rolled his eyes, "Are you trying to do me out of a job?"

"No, I'm just proving that I do listen to what you say. Anyway, not much chance of me getting a job here."

"What do you mean?" Sam asked. Jamie stopped playing and turned round to look.

Lucy glanced at Ed, who nodded encouragingly, "I have to move again."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Oct 17, 2006, 19:44

Claire looked up from her panel.

“Commodore, can I have permission to leave the bridge? I need to go to engineering to confirm the data I’ve received from this status report. It looks like there are some gaps that I could fill in, but the data-transmitter isn’t working too good.”

“Permission granted.”

Claire Steenbergen stood up to take the turbo lift to engineering. As she arrived she immediately looked for the chief of engineering, she hadn’t met before. She looked at his uniform, she found out it was a middle aged man with blonde hair, very busy with shouting orders and running around to get the ship back to normal. She made her move. She swallowed as she saw that he noticed her and didn’t look too happy. ~He’s probably thinking who the hell is gonna bother him now in this chaos~ She sighed, her nose started to itch a bit. ~Don’t scratch, that won’t do any good to a first impression~ she rebuked herself. Instead she started to sniff.

<Logan>

“Commander, according to my readings we're loosing primary life-support, if we don't do something quickly, we'll all be soon suffocating.”

<Logan>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Oct 18, 2006, 2:51

Trey who was now wearing his new marine uniform was seated at the navigation console doing what he does best, flying. When he lost all control of the Vesuvius, she seemed to increase in speed and spiral out of control, and then all of a sudden she was reaped out of warp. The sudden stop sent the crew flying in all direction along with heavy explosions.
As trey slowly picked him self up off the floor and tried to reorient him self he noticed a few crew man lay motion less on the floor. When he was back on his feet he made his way to one of the men who had third degree flash burns, he placed his fingers on his neck to check for a pulse but there was none. He then made his way back to the conn to assess the situation which was getting worst by the second. They had lost more than half of main power and what was left was fluctuating.

He left the conn and made his way to the engineering post on the bridge which too was also heavily damaged. He tried his best to established communication engineering and the rest of the ship. Once he had made connection, Commander Logan’s face appeared on the view screen saying something about gravity the connection was
To bad to hear what he was trying to say clearly. Trey’s attention was averted by the shouting of sonak, s voice. She seemed very agitated, trey placed his hand on her shoulder

"Something on your mind lieutenant?" she asked "Spill it!

“well yeah, yelling and shouting at every one is not going to make things move any faster, the ship is in a very bad way and you should trust and have faith in your crew to do there jobs, after all that’s what we were trained for right” he said with a slight smile on his face

“am going to check on the rest of the ship, see if there is any thing I can do to help them” he said as he headed for the turbo lift not giving her an opportunity to respond to his statement.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Oct 18, 2006, 4:30

Nack told the Commodore that he would be up in a moment. Sickbay had been sent into disarray when the ship was jolted while new patients streamed in steadily. The Ferengi Dr. checked on the mission specialist, Teyno, who's ocular regenerators had circuitry problems earlier due to the Vesuvius entering the rift. Teyno had been lucky that the regenerators didn't do any extra damage when they broke, but the repairs to the burnt lenses in his eyes would be set back by a few extra days.

The sudden burst away from the rift, which was the rumor coming from incoming patients, had caused a lot of minor injuries.

Dr. Nack grabbed a mobile medical transmitter on his way out of sickbay. He didn't forget what he had told Commodore Reckus in the shuttle craft. Which reminded him, he had left one of his medical tricorders on the shuttle. Hopefully the shuttle was still docked on the Vesuvius. He didn't make it a priority to remember these things.

On the bridge, Nack's first priority was Sonak and the baby. Triage medicine would have dictated that he assess everyone's situation first, but Nack's reasoning for picking the CO was partly selfish. He, as the CMO, did not want to enjoy the luxury of helping Commander Gaz administer to a grieving Vulcan if something were to happen to the baby. Another part of Nack felt obligated to help Sonak first due to the baby's innocence, which even a Ferengi has difficulty ignoring.

After the Vulcan relented to Nack's request without any twist of logical statements, Nack went to help the other injured crew. As Nack walked toward Commander Kanz, he felt a burst of strength when he lifted his med-kit which momentarily felt lighter. Nack did a quick up-and-down motion with the kit as a sanity check. It felt normal. Nack continued.

After Nack made his rounds, only needing an occasional dermal regenerator or hyprospray, the Dr. reported to the Commodore.
"Nobody is seriously injured here, sir", Sonak gave a funny glance, "I mean... mam.".

"Thank you Dr.. I'll call you... or ... ", she looked down at the mobile emitter on the side of her abdomen, "you will be called... if I need your assistance again."

Nack made a note to revisit the bridge often. Sitting in sickbay, one has no clue what is going on with the rest of the ship until a red alert knocks you off of your seat.

Nack made his way back to sickbay, making his round of the injured crew members.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Oct 18, 2006, 16:10

As trey made through the corridors the extent of the damage was evident, what ever had coursed this did a good job of making sure that the Vesuvius would not be going any where for at list 24 hours, she was dead in the water. Trey tapped his com badge

=/\= maverick to marine corp. What is your situation down there =/\=

=/\= situations not to good down here sir, it seem we’ve lost gravity and we have a few minor injuries =/\=

=/\= do you guys need a med team sent down? =/\=

=/\=no sir we can take care of this our selves =/\=

=/\= understood, when you are done with the injuries I need you guys to help the rest of the crew with repairs, maverick out =/\=

Reports were now coming in from all over the ship, there were hull birches on decks 6 and 7 and total lost of power on decks 9 and 10

=/\= maverick to Chazz and Gunner meet me on deck 9 we have people stuck in there and we need to get then out before they run out of oxygen trey out=/\=

Trey realized that it would be lot easer for him to get down decking 9 if he went through the Jefferies tubes as he crawled through the tubes Chazz’s voices came up over his comm. Badge

=/\= trey where are you? We don’t have much time left=/\=

=/\= this is trey, understood chazz go on and start with out me, am making my way down as quick as possible. Maverick out =/\=
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Oct 18, 2006, 21:28

Angry that this seemed to happening all over again, Byrne rushed teams to estimate the damage to the ship to update the Commodore. Turning, he saw a new command officer just standing there, snifing. "You have a cold, or you telling I stink right now",barked Logan. "And why are you just standing there?" The LtCommander just stood there shocked, and raised her hand as if to say stop to the Commander.

"I am the COO and I came down here to see if I could be of assistance. The main navigational relays are out and we need to reroute power to restore primary life-support."

"Not to be ungrateful, but we have grids out all over the place. And right now, I have to disengage gravity control on the fore section to compensate for the loss of power. Inform the Commodore that they are gonna have to hold on to something. And we can have the Navigational Dish set up to act as a sonar. I am relaying this information to a portable holo-emitter so the Bridge can 'see' where we are,"stated Byrne.

With that he headed back to the Main System Display to keep track of the repair teams. Tapping the panels, Byrne was able to disengage the gravity generators in the fore section of the ship. Tapping his Comm-badge, Byrne yelled,"All hands brace for zero-G operations, shutting grid off now to reinforce life-support.

'The Commodore is going to love me for this one, hope she has a good grip on that chair.',thought Logan. ;)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Oct 19, 2006, 1:19

Trey finally made his way onto deck 9, the air was thin and gravity was nowhere to be felt. Trey manoeuvred his way through the zero-g corridors of deck 9, it seemed like chazz and gunner was doing a good job of evacuation.

=/\= maverick to chazz, what is your status on evac?=/\=

=/\= we are almost done here sir if I were you I would send some one down to handle evac on deck 10 =/\=

=/\= duly noted, will do that and I to will head down there then, trey out =/\=
=/\= trey to ori, get a team ready to evacuate deck ten and make it
Fast we don't have much time, trey out =/\=

By the time trey had made it down to deck 10 ori and her team had already started the evacuation. Trey came up behind ori,

"Good job lieutenant, how are things going?"

"Thank you sir and things are going smoothly, I know this is not the time or the place but let me the first one to welcome you to the marine corp."

"Not a great start I would say but thank you any way"

"I beg to differ; I mean look how you took control of the situation, it's good to see that you don't fold under pressure, not that you have ever shown that you might." She said with a smile

"Thanks, so who's with you"

"Mace, kel vak and tank sir"

"Cool and pleas don't call me sir it makes me sound old, after all am just 19 onto 20 right." He said with a smile "So how far are with evac"

"We are about 70 to 80% done sir! I mean maverick" answered ori

"What's our e.t.a to complete evac?"

"Maybe another 15 to 20 minutes"

"We don't have 20 minutes; you've got 10 so let's get a move on"

OOC: Trey I've edited out the weird script for you. Apparently your keyboard has issues with special characters like apostrophes (single and double).
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Oct 19, 2006, 13:32

Feeling suddenly weightless, Sonak grabbed the armrests of her chair and held on to them with all her might, to no avail. Like the rest of the officers on duty on the bridge, she started to float helplessly as gravity as disabled. She tapped her combadge. "Bridge to engineering, are you aware that gravity just went out?"

(Logan)

Upon hearing his chuckle, she scowled in answer. Yet, she wasn't too uncomfortable; the pressure on her lower back and abdomen were gone now that she was floating. Yet, she had nowhere to go and nothing to push herself off on to get somewhere.

Glancing over her shoulder, she glanced at L'Ola who was trying to keep hold of the security station to get her job done. "Status commander?" Sonak querried, "how many decks are without gravity?" She didn't feel sorry for sending Lucy away, even though she knew how much the girl meant to her CTSO. She was one of only few people who know the true story behind the girl's parentage. Yet, with the girl's current history, Sonak had felt it was better to send the girl away for some disciplinary training, as she couldn't just go about randomly hacking into computer systems to get in on classified items, and or into the know of things that happened around the ship.

(Kanz)

"Fox, we seem to be in a roll, see if you can use the deflector to stabilize us. And call Claire back to the bridge to assist you!"

(Fox)

This time Sonak glanced sideways at her first officer. "Opinion?" she querried, trying to involve him back into her orders.

(Nick)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Oct 20, 2006, 1:28

Fighting back the snickering, Byrne informed the Bridge that the fore section of the Primary Hull was without gravity, while checking the readings on the life-support systems shipwide. Tapping the MSD board, Logan primed the impuse engines in Minerva module to fire up the RCS jets to get some control of the ship's attitude. Fearing that any sharp impulse pulses in the wrong direction would create a unrecoverable roll, Byrne relayed the specifics to Claire's PADD on the Bridge.

After configuring the Main Deflector Dish as a sonar, Byrne got a few pinpoint blips from the surrounding starcluster. Draw back was, they were too far away even at impulse with all 3 modules running. Even disconnecting the lower module seemed useless to stop the rolling motion of the ship. If only he could come up with a plan of action to take next. Especially since the Commodore and crew needed some way to plant their feet soon.

Heading to a nearby storage locker, Logan grabbed a couple of pairs of mag-boots and headed for the Bridge to how bad things were up there.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Oct 20, 2006, 1:37

Teyno had had enough of being in this place. This ship seemed like a death trap to him; first he'd been given plasma burns, then the equipment that was supposed to be healing him broke down and caused him more problems.

When the Doctor wasn't looking, he got up from the biobed, he had partial sight restored and he assumed that the optical regenerators attached to his temples would work wherever he was on the ship.

He walked out into the corridor and into the nearest turbolift.

"Bridge." He commanded, then added, "If you think you can get me there without killing me."

Halfway along the route to the bridge, however, Teyno felt himself go light and realised that the artificial gravity must have gone offline.

The doors opened and he floated himself out into the bridge.

"This is the worst death trap of a ship I've ever set foot on!" He shouted, to nobody in particular.

<Anyone>

"What the hell is going on here?" He asked, knowing he was a bit out of the loop.

<Anyone>

"Sounds like you could use a hand then." He said.

<Sonak>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Oct 20, 2006, 7:37

Dr. Nack stopped in front of the Jeffries tube, bending over to open the grate. This was becoming too common. Nack already had to bypass the turbolifts in the academy, and now this. Unfortunately for the doctor, his training was on an Intrepid class ship, and this was a bit different. The conduit pathways that were needed to support a multi vector ship seemed to be interlaced throughout the jeffries tube passageway, which only gave the claustrophobic Ferengi more incentive to hurry.

Nack pulled his way through the passage, got stuck once, and pushed himself with out the final time with all his strength. He shot forward and hit the wall across the corridor as the gravity in the tube gave way.

Air swimming his way to sickbay, he made his way through the door, which was opening and closing at regular, slow intervals.

Teyno was missing! Nack slapped his com-badge. Commodore Reckus replied.

Sonak: =/\= "If you are asking about the gravity, Dr. I can assure you..."=/\=
Nack: =/\="That's not it Commodore... but I would like to know what happened... Is it because of the rift? I heard of tho..."=/\=
Sonak interrupted =/\="Then what is it?" =/\=
Nack: =/\="Oh... right, we have a medical emergency down here. I am missing Teyno... He had on... ", Nack looked around for the ocular regenerators but did not find them, " .. or has on, rather, the ocular regenerators. His eyesight is almost back to normal, but he is at great risk. Even the slightest misalignment could cause permanent scar tissue, which even I can't fix." =/\= Nack realized the last part of the statement might have been a little too pompous and wished he could take it back.
Sonak had not seen Teyno enter the bridge.
=/\= Take care of it Dr., we have more pressing issues up here. Reckus out.=/\=

Perhaps he was being a little too quick to call for help, Dr. Nack thought.

He looked at the pulsing doors, still trying to figure out how a sedated body floated through there. He checked the computer console next to where Teyno had lain. It was damaged, and the panel above showed a warning. The warning read "Sedative A42039 failed. Please administer by hypospray."

"Great. He probably woke up and walked out of here," Nack figured. "Computer, please located Mr. Teyno."

The computer in the medical bay forced out a "Mr. Teeeyynnnooo isssssssssssssssssss..." and stopped, sounding like a 20th century phonograph that had just lost its energy source.

Nack strapped down... or up ... -he couldn't tell anymore- some patients that were still requiring treatment, and left his staff to finish the work.

Nack checked the tricorder he was carrying. Mother and baby were doing fine up on the bridge, it showed. Well at least something was going right. It wouldn't be too long before the baby would here, and that will make his job a lot less stressful. If Nack weren't so new to the ship, he probably would have ordered the CO to bed rest for the mission... However, he didn't find it extremely necessary currently. He'd monitor her closely via the emitter instead.

Going out the door, which had been fixed permanently open by a passing engineer, Nack looked like a pinball with ears as he bounced up and down the hall, with horrible form, looking for his lost patient.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Oct 20, 2006, 12:18

=/\= Lt. Steenbergen to the bridge =/\= Claire heared commander Fox over her comm-system.

She left engineering and the not too friendly chief to make her way to the bridge. ~That sniffing didn't do well, she thought. He looked as if he wanted me out of the way as soon as possible, as if I was contageous or something~ Immediately after leaving the turbolift to enter the bridge, she started to float.

"Wow, hey, this gives me a funny feeling in my stomach," she said while she was looking at her belly as if something was there to be seen.

"Get to your panel, Lt. Steenbergen, we need your help right now," the commodore said rather snabbish.

"Heeeey, Commodore, you're floating too..." Then Claire realised she was getting too informal. "Er, aye, aye, ma'am.

She grabbed the wall and pushed herself in the direction of her panel. There she noticed her PADD was missing and she needed it right now. ~must've gone off floating with the rest~ She looked around. There it was: floating in mid-air in front of the turbo lift. She took of. She was already reaching out with her arm, her fingers two centimetres from touching the PADD, when the turbolift opened and a black-haired man came floating in.

"This is the worst death trap of a ship I've ever set foot on!" He shouted, to nobody in particular.

And he bumped right into Claire

"What the hell is going on here?" He asked, knowing he was a bit out of the loop.

"Ouch, watch out. Oh, no you got my PADD floating away." Claire complained.

And indeed, the PADD was rotating in Sonak's direction.

"Commodore...!" Teyno and Claire shouted unisono

But it was too late the PADD bumped against her head.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Oct 20, 2006, 17:40

"Ow!" Sonak exclaimed in surprise as the PADD impacted with her temple, sending her into a gentle spin. She held her breath as she shot a glare towards Claire and Teyno. "Should you not be in sickbay Mister Teyno?" she snapped, "I have just received a call from a very concerned and annoyed Ferengi doctor. You are to return there at once to finish your treatment. Then, and only then shall we discuss your allowance to be on the bridge. Those are my conditions, and they are non-negiotiable."

She cast him another glare as beside her Nick stopped her spin. "Your choice mister," she added as she tapped her combadge. "Sonak to Nack, I believe I have just found the patient you have misplaced. He is here on the bridge, I have told him to return to sickbay at once."

(Teyno/Nack)

Then she cast her first officer a grateful smile. She had started to feel somewhat nauseous before he stopped her, but the impact of the PADD had given her quite a headache. She rubbed her temple then cast a mock-glare at Claire. "Perhaps next time you can hold on to your equipment a little better commander?" she querried.

(Claire)

She tapped her combadge again. "Logan, how about reinstating gravity?" she enquired, "and be gentle about it. Some people cannot handle hard landings right now." She of course was referring to herself in her current physical state. "L'Ola, how are your teams working together with Trey's Marines? Perhaps you two could organize a zero-G training, now that we are at it anyway. Might as well use our time efficiently, might we not?"

(L'Ola/Trey)

Finally she turned towards her counselor. "And I want you to join them and evaluate psychological effects of zero-gravity on my crew. Use any means necessary. I also want your opinion on how L'Ola and Trey are dealing with organisation of these trainings. Understood?"

(Jamey)

"Nick, I want you to join Logan in engineering. You know this vessel better than he does. Perhaps you see things he may have missed?"

(Nick)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Oct 21, 2006, 6:18

Watching the PADD hit the Commodore in the head, Claire realized that there was an incoming message on it. 'Guess Byrne was right when he kidded about the status report floating by her head', thought the LC.

Byrne tried to reach the Bridge to update the CO about what was going on, but kept hitting areas of crew distress. Using a portable mag-sled, he was able to assist groups of crew members floating in the zero-g areas. Checking the power readings on his artificial arm, he was able to keep track of the mission repairs from the engineering teams. But they were still far from fixing the ship. At least 2 days(RPG time), till they could make a dent in the repairs needed to restore gravity and get a start on working on getting a direction going.

By the time he reached his quarters, the boots were killing his feet. Logan tried to sit in his favorite chair, but had to hold onto the boots to keep from floating himself. Looking around, he realized that he never had the time to get it the way he would like to have it like. Reaching out, he moved the coffee table towards the far wall. Unforturely, he pushed it too hard and it shattered against impact. "Commodore's gonna dock me for this one,' he thought. Sliding over to the replicator, he tried to get the system to create a simple cup of java. As it appeared, it slid out from the beam and splashed coffee all over his uniform. He tried again, but caught the cup the second time.

Cleaning himself up, he headed for the Bridge for the reaming of his career. Taking the boots with him, he made his way to the nearest turbolift.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Oct 21, 2006, 19:42


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She rubbed her temple then cast a mock-glare at Claire. "Perhaps next time you can hold on to your equipment a little better commander?" she querried.


"If it wasn't for this mister here..." but Claire interrupted her protest as she saw the commodore lift her left eyebrow as if warning her that going to far would mean she would get a mad look rather than a mock-glare. Then also mockingly she replied:
"Aye, aye ma'am, my equipment shall from now on be kept safe and sound with me, no chances of hurting noble women again."

Then finally, Claire floated back to her station in order to finish the loads of work that had to be done.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Oct 22, 2006, 0:35

Exiting the turbo-lift, Byrne quickly ducked as an unknown officer threw a wild swing backwards at his head. "Hey, working here", he yelled. Teyno pulled back at the last minute, "Someone tell me what the hell is going on here?". Byrne walked over to the Commodore's chair and quietly handed the boots to her. "Commander Byrne, can you explain why I am floating here, with a lump on my head and a damaged vessel?", sternly asked Sonak. "Um, sir, here is my report on the repair teams and planned time for getting the systems back online. Problem is that this is going to take awhile. About 19 hours till we can even restore gravity in the Saucer Section. I have created a sonar beacon from the Deflector Dish and have set up a portable holo-emitter, so the COO can relay coordinates to the Helm. Second problem, we are so far out here, the nearest planet is days from here, even at impulse. And getting the CONN back up is going to hours in itself.", explained Byrne.

<TAG Sonak>

Gruffly, the Commodore slid the boots on and sat in her chair. "By the way, Commander, you are not off the off easily for this little 'freefall. Keep the Bridge infrmed of your progress getting the navigational thrusters online, so that we can regain attitude control, please."

"Aye, sir, have to get back to Engineering. Ah, Lt.Steenbergen, sorry about what happened down there. Keep the ideas and help coming, okay", Byrne replied. Composing himself after having to apologize, he headed back down to where he was in control.

<TAG Claire>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Oct 23, 2006, 5:59

Nack smiled when he heard the Commodore's communique. Teyno would be arriving in sickbay shortly, and if he didn't already screw up his eyes Dr. Nack was going to....

*Ow!* Nack slammed the back of his left ear lobe against the console. Floating in a keeled over position, he clutched it as the pain turned to a dull throb.

Nack collected himself after a short pause, where he allowed himself to drift down the hall in a random fashion.

Upon swimming back to sickbay, he found Teyno. Nack, feeling powerful, demanded that he sit down. Anything that Teyno had in stature against the Lieutenant was lost due to rank, as far as Nack was concerned. Teyno didn't feel the same way.

After arguing with the doctor, at one point making a comment Nack took as an insult, Teyno agreed to lay down... or up... (this zero-g thing is killing my sense of direction!) on the bed under the condition that Nack did only what was necessary. A coy Dr. Nack agreed, and with that, gave Teyno a sedative that knocked him completely out. Nack smiled at the medical assistant, who was hovering slightly above him. "It was necessary!" he said, as if she needed convincing. She gave an understanding smile back.

Nack continued, "I would like this hypospray to be administered every 10 hours, ensign. He needs to be fully sedated so he doesn't pull this stunt again."

The Ferengi Dr. checked the console, which had been repaired in his short absence. Teyno's eyes were healing faster than expected, and had no unintentional complications due to his departure from prescribed treatment.

The armband Nack was wearing beeped a high pitched tone, indicating a parameter in the Commodore's medical badge was outside acceptable levels. Psionic energy readings were getting large again, however the meter showed nothing in dangerous levels. Aside from experiencing an increase in emotional outbursts, the Commodore and her child would be fine. Nack reset the warning indicator, and tapped his com-badge."

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commander Marten's =/\=

<Nick>

=/\= Can you be sure to keep an eye on Commodore Reckus for me. Her psionic energy readings are high. She is in no danger currently, but may be emotionally... emotionally challenged, let's say. =/\=

Commander Martens replied in the affirmative.

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commander Byrnes. When will we regain gravity? The inner ear of a Ferengi does not handle weightlessness well, and I could really use some sense of direction while taking care of my patients. =/\=

<Logan>

Nack allowed himself to glide from patient to patient. There was nobody new to take care of, so he pushed his way over to his office, where he found solace in taking a nap.

=/\= Computer, dim lights to 20% intensity. =/\=

Zzzz.....
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Oct 23, 2006, 12:42

Trey’s teams were done with there evacs when he got a message form sonak suggesting putting his team through some 0-g training,

“Not a bad suggestion at all”

“What’s not a bad suggestion” asked Ori

“Oh nothing really, just a lil zero-g training, so what do you think, you guys up for it?”

“Well we have nothing better to do so we might as well” answered Ori

“Okay then have the teams meet on holo-deck 1 A.S.A.P, am going to get the program ready”

Ori watched trey float away with a very sadistic smile on his face

“I have a bad feeling about this”

“About what?” Asked chazz who was now standing next to her

“This zero-g training that the Lieutenant has gone to set up for us”

“Wait you agreed to a training session with him…..”

Orin odds

“I like trey but from what I have heard that kid is crazy when it come to these holo deck trainings”

“What do you mean” asked Ori

“This is going to be hard, that what I mean” said chazz as he floated away

Trey was now on holo deck 1 getting his training program ready for his teams when he was interrupted by his com badge

=/\= Lieutenant the teams are ready, how are things at your end?”=/\=

=/\= give a few minutes, I will get in contact with you when am done, trey out=/\=
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Oct 23, 2006, 14:41

After trey was done with his preparation he got in contact with his team who wasted no time in getting to the holo deck

“Ok teams as you know I was asked by our beloved captain to put you through some zero-G training, why? You ask, after all the percentage of us going into a zero-G confrontation is less that 5% but we should always be ready for that 5% so this is what this session is all about , ok so lets get started” “ our mission is to get from point A to point B”

“Sounds easy” interrupts chazz

“We will be in a zero-G environment there will also be hostiles and we will have to make sure our guest don’t get hurt or killed, oh and one last thing our safety protocols will be down by 60% which means we can get hurt, now lest get this party started”

After trey was done with his introduction he keyed in a few commands and the holodeck was transformed into the shuttle bay of an excelsior class star ship

“Ok team here are our mission parameters, we are to find a very important data file along with the scientist who can decipher it, from my info. It seem that the both of them can be fond in the science lab on deck five, its not going to be an easy trek, as you can see the ship is in a bad way and like I said before we have hostiles to worry about, we will be splitting up into three groups, team 1 will head down to engineering to try and get some semblance of power running, team to will come with me to the bridge were we’ll try to find out what happened here and team 3 will head to the lab to find dr. taka.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Oct 23, 2006, 23:53

<slight backpost>

"We're losing life support on decks 9 and 10, hull breaches on decks 6 and 7" the report came in.

"Kanz to Qualtrough, Keggin, Quayle and Harmon: Get your evacuation teams down to 6, 7, 9 and 10 now." It sounded more like yelling than talking, but under the circumstances she didn't care.

L'Ola then sent messages to the rest of the security team to get them spread out across the other decks. If anything went wrong she needed people there straight away. And at the very least they could reassure everyone and help find injured people.

Five minutes later she heard back, "Keggin to Kanz"

"Go ahead, Rich"

"Slight hiccup with the evacuation, half this deck has been done already by someone."

L'Ola frowned, "Have you checked with the other guys?"

"Yep, we're all on different decks."

"Okay, I'll get it checked out. Kanz out."

She started to look at records for recent personnel activity and also if any messages had gone out.

"Qualtrough to Kanz"

She sighed, suspecting what she was about to be told, "Go ahead, Em"

"My deck's clear now, but half of it was empty. It was a bit of a waste of time us going through it."

"Thanks for letting me know, we seem to have a problem somewhere. Just make sure your team is all safe. Kanz out."

Something was definitely up, it was too much of a coincidence for that much space to be empty. And looking down the personnel activity list she saw what it was. *What on Kronos were the Marines doing down there?* she thought, angrily. Obviously she didn't block her thoughts quite enough for those most connected with her to miss them.

~ What? ~ she heard from 2 completely different directions.

~ Oops, sorry Luce ~ she sent in one reply. Then for the other she thought ~ I've just had marines ruining my evacuation plan. If anything else goes wrong today I will not be happy. ~

Nick stopped himself laughing at this, ~ Well that will make a nice change to have a moody officer on the Bridge ~ he replied as he turned to help Sonak with something.

Quayle and Harmon had obviously got the message from their counterparts not to worry about empty sections on their decks as they did not report anything unusual. And although part of her was just glad to receive the message saying evacuation had been successful, L'Ola couldn't help but think that her officers could have died searching for crewmembers down there.

At the earliest opportunity she would need to have a word with Lt Maverick...
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Oct 24, 2006, 8:58

Fox grabbed his console tight as he felt himself become weightless, trying to get his feet on the ground. Immediately images of his academy time flashed through his mind. He had never liked zero-G environments, since the accident that happened back then. It had him stay in sickbay for several days.

He was brought back to the "real world" as byrne called the bridge to tell about the improvised sonar he made with the deflector dish. Fox looked at his console, finally getting a reading he could pinpoint they're position with.

He immediately looked at sonak. "We're 10.95 lightyear away from the closest planet. Thats journey of 4 days at maximum warp." he continued. Since the warp engines were offline he added "and 43.8 years at full impulse."

Fox kept looking at the readings as he still couldn't beleive it. "We have traveled that far because of that explosion?" he thought. "There has to be more."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Lucy Kanz on Oct 24, 2006, 21:02

As far as Lucy was concerned, losing gravity was a good thing. At least the timing was, as it distracted Sam from the news she had dropped on him. It would give him time to think it over before she approached the subject with him again.

With not a lot else to do, she started propelling herself through the corridors until she reached the ship's library. Once there she grabbed a PADD and started jotting down ideas about what to do and people she could contact.

Putting a brave face on things was essential. Lucy didn't want to admit to anyone how happy she was to be back on the Vesuvius amongst her friends and family. To do so would show that she would be upset leaving the ship, and the last thing she wanted was for people to feel sorry for her. She was more concerned about the others who had worked so hard to ensure her safety.

Sighing a little she started to write a message on her PADD:
"To Commanding Officer of USS Vesuvius-A: Official request for loan of ship property.
"I, Lucy Kanz, request the loan of one shuttle. Loan period to be approximately 6 weeks. Shuttle to be returned in a state better than the one in which it was borrowed.
"Thank you for considering this request."

She sent the message, knowing that Sonak could hardly refuse given the trip was her idea.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Oct 25, 2006, 3:33

=^=Commodore, this is Byrne, I am reading massive life-support failures in the upper sections. I am trying to isolate the cause, but the rerouting of grav. control is only keeping it from going critical. I need Commander Fox down here now. I have a plan to stop most of the issues, but it is going to massively tricky. Byrne out.=^=

Punching buttons on the Main System Display, he was only keeping ahead of the power crashes by moments. Then it hit him, if he cut most of the systems off at the seperation points of the ship, he could try to keep the damage localized. But he would need Fox to handle the dampening field fully functional. Or else, the ship would roll to fast in a any direction, throwing the crew against the bulheads like bricks and possibly locking some crew in some of the crippled areas.

At that moment, Lt. Steenbergen sent a coded message to Logan thru a secure link on the main board.

<TAG Steenbergen> (You wanted in)

Checking the locations of the rescue teams, Byrne began locking off the affected areas with forcefields, hoping to minimize the chance of anyone getting trapped. After checking in with L'Ola, he confirmed the lockdown protocols. After removing the power from the affected systems, Byrne was able to bring the Navigational Dish online for the Bridge and reroute some power to the grav generators in Sickbay. Although Nack was not aware of this attachment, seeing he was taking a nap and kinda dropped a little hard. (Sorry) And was able to cut all systems at the sepeation planes of the vessel.

More later.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Oct 25, 2006, 6:06

As a doctor, there was a multitude of procedures he could perform on Commander Byrne - all legitimate - to retaliate for the sudden reunion with gravity. The nurse reminded the red-eared Dr. that engineering did indeed follow standard procedure. The words fell on deaf ears as Nack was administering a hypospray to himself to ease the pain in his knees and elbows, which slammed into the floor first and took most of the blow.

Sickbay seemed to be in order. "Logan is lucky he didn't hurt anyone in here." Nack thought. The emotion he assigned to Logan was obviously unfair, but tension within the Ferengi had been building since Teyno left sickbay. The lack of respect, or camaraderie, that he has received since he had been aboard was starting to get to him. Counselor Gaz had completely snuffed Nack since he came aboard, and the bridge crew only socialized with him when he was summoned for an on-duty task. Apparently having a Ferengi on board caused some uneasiness. Nack did not want to be treated like an EMH, and found his only consolation in talking with Alice, the nurse working the morning shift.

Alice came by with Sonak's vitals. A false contraction had blipped across the screen, which she had pinpointed for Nack. If it had repeated, she would have awoken Nack.

Teyno's eyes were almost completely regenerated. Nack fancied keeping him longer as punishment, but ethical standards dictated his judgment. He would be released in a day or two if all went well.

Nack left Alice in charge. He was still off duty. He went back to his office, ordered a snail juice (no shells) from the replicator, and sat back disappointed when the computer stated it was offline. Nack lay back in his chair, and went back to sleep.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nick Martens on Oct 25, 2006, 6:51

(oi... bit of a back post here)


The ship slowly balanced out, at least for now. The computer was set to accomidate any rotations caused by their movement. Thank goodness for computers, it meant he only had to sit momentarily at that horrid station for only a moment.

'Standing up' he floated back to the side of Sonak just in time to stop her rotation after a padd impacted the back of her head. Logan plodded over with his boots on and handed her a pair as well.

"Thank you Commander," she said softly. She placed them on the floor and slid them on with Nicks assistance. She nodded in acceptance of her new mobility. She stood up, her arms slightly floating as if she were in a pool. She folded her arms and Nick just smiled.

He pushed off and moved himself to the rear engineering station to begin confering with Logan over the comm. It was going to take more than one brilliant mind to correct the problem this time. Normally he'd do it himself but it seemed he needed the aid of the CEO (not to be too egotistic).


=/\=Commodore, this is Byrne, I am reading massive life-support failures in the upper sections. I am trying to isolate the cause, but the rerouting of grav. control is only keeping it from going critical. I need Commander Fox down here now. I have a plan to stop most of the issues, but it is going to massively tricky. Byrne out.=/\=

"Logan this is Nick. The upper sections are gone. We lost decks 1 through 4 of Minerva to the Falconians," he winced. The loss of Kate hadn't quite sunk in yet. He'd been to focused on the panic mode they'd been in.

"Keep us appraised Commander," Sonak added.

=/\= Aye. Byrne out.=/\=


"We're losing life support on decks 9 and 10, hull breaches on decks 6 and 7" the report came in.

"Kanz to Qualtrough, Keggin, Quayle and Harmon: Get your evacuation teams down to 6, 7, 9 and 10 now," she blurted with sudden volume. Sonak raised an eyebrow, Claire 'spun', more like flailed, to see what was going on. Nick chuckled at the reaction.

Moments later another burst of random emotion spewed from L'Ola.

~ I've just had marines ruining my evacuation plan. If anything else goes wrong today I will not be happy. ~

Nick stopped himself laughing at this, ~ Well that will make a nice change to have a moody officer on the Bridge ~ he chuckled and moved to help the very pregnant Commodore tighten the straps on her boots.

"Thank you," she said softly once again.

Claire piped up from across the bridge.

"So I see things havn't really dulled down around here since I left."

"Never a dull moment," Nick shot back with a laugh. "It's good to see you back Claire."

He turned back to Sonak, who'd been standing with him watching the progress of the repairs. The need of some closure had his mind wandering from the task. She picked up on this.

"You may," she said before he could even ask. He gave a weak smile and pushed off towards the turbo lift.

The doors closed and he ordered the computer to take him to the deck 5 air locks.

~~

Upon arriving he suited up in the newer standard issue mobility suits. They were much sleeker and easier to move in than the previous models. He checked his oxygen and his battery life to make sure they were good. The jefferies tube he needed to access was just down the hall.

Within moments he was standing on the edge of what used to be the main bridge and deck 2. Wreckage and conduit sparked here and there, support struts and deck plates bent and mangled. If anyone were up there they sure wasn't any way of knowing now.
Placing his hand on the scorched bulkhead he let out a sigh.

"Goodbye," he whispered to the void and turned around to return to habitable sections of the ship.

~~~~~

Yannis floated gracefully around the family quarters. She didn't need to go to the 'sweet spot' anymore for floating fun. Now she had it at home too. She surveyed her surroundings and poised for another launch.

"Ground control to Major Martens. You're cleared for take off," she immitated the deep voice of what she thought a lauch commander would sound like. She pulled her cardboard helmet over her head and wedged herself in the corner.

"3....2....1.... BLAST OFF!!" She pushed with all her might and sailed across the room towads the floating pile of pillows across the room.

Mid-way across the room she passed the doors, wich suddenly opened to reveal her father. Seeing his daughter sailing through the air he grabbed her and pulled her tight.

"Hey no fair!" she giggled and squirmed in his arms as he tickled her. His feet were firmly planted on the deck with a pair of gravity boots.

"Playing space command without me again?" he mock scolded.

"Yep," she gave him a toothless grin. She had lost some of her baby teeth and looked like a space pirate with pigtails.

"Well then continue on. I'll be in the shower."

"If you can get it to work," she chided in a way only a 9 year old can.

"Yeah yeah," he tossed her across the room into the pillow pile. She fought off the floating pillows giggling all the more.

"Love you daddy."

"You too sweet heart." He removed his boots and floated into the shower, hoping to relax some of the tense muscles in his back.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Oct 26, 2006, 19:52

Now with grav-boots on her feet, Sonak had the stability she needed to avoid nausea but it still didn't make her feel comfortable. Sadly, she gazed after her first officer as he departed the bridge. She knew how he felt, and she realised she still needed to have a talk with him soon about what happened.

Though Sonak still deeply hated Kate, and freely admitted to the emotion, she couldn't help but acknowledge that she'd observed a sudden change in the woman. And she also had to acknowledge that Kate had been responsible for saving the crew previously. Her selfless act had saved the senior officers of both the Majesty and the Vesuvius. And, Sonak decided, that was what she would be remembered for. ~provided she is actually dead~ she thought, remembering that the woman had enacted her own death before.

She winced ever so slighty as she remembered, then doubled over as her abdomen cramped up. But as quickly as she'd felt it, it was also gone, and she exhaled in relief, only then realising she'd held her breath. She glanced up and beckoned her counselor, then saw Claire was floating around idly on the bridge still, beckoned her too. Sonak saw no reason she shouldn't benefit from the views of two different counselors. "I would like you to have a chat with Nick, Commander Gaz," she told Jamey, then nodded towards Claire. "Commander Steenbergen knows Nick quite well, perhaps you could benefit from having a talk with her as well."

It'd get them both off the bridge, and give her some peace and quiet. Once the two were gone, only L'Ola remained. Sonak beckoned her old science/first officer. "L'Ola, how are things between you and Nick?" she asked, hoping she wasn't getting too personal, "I mean romantically. Nick seems disdraught over Kate's death, and I have the feeling he is dwelling on it. Has he come to you by any chance to talk? I am worried about him."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Oct 30, 2006, 0:02

*Things to do when get off duty number 38. Go talk to Kat to see if the thing's still happening. Number 39, attempt to play badminton in antigrav. Number 40, nope can't think of another one right now.*

She'd been mentally making a list for the last quarter of an hour which wasn't really a good sign. At least word had got to Lt Keggin that she wasn't exactly concentrating, which meant that ship security wasn't in too much danger.

L'Ola snapped back into reality at the sound of Sonak ordering officers off the bridge. She winced a little at the thought of anyone having two counsellors sent after them. Surely one would be punishment enough?

Oncey Jamey and Claire had left the bridge, she took a look around. It looked so much bigger now it was nearly empty. And she wasn't overly impressed with who she was sharing the space with.


Oct 26, 2006, 19:52, Commodore Sonak Reckus wrote:
"L'Ola, how are things between you and Nick?I mean romantically. Nick seems disdraught over Kate's death, and I have the feeling he is dwelling on it. Has he come to you by any chance to talk? I am worried about him."


L'Ola was a little surprised to hear a display of concern from her CO, especially given the recent mood swings. "Wow, where should I start? Ummm..." She pushed off and floated over to join Sonak. "Well yes, Nick is dwelling on Kate's death. But I think that's normal considering how recently it happened. I mean, you should understand what he's going through, right?"

She hoped that she wasn't being too far out of line, but she figured this was hardly a routine conversation.

"I understand that it is a distressing situation. However I am worried that he is not talking to anyone."

"Point taken. No, he hadn't really talked aout it to be honest. But then there hasn't really been much chance"

Sonak nodded, "Talk about it if you can. Now about my first question..."

The Security Chief grinned, "Well let's just say things are good considering the current circumstances. And now I can keep track of Lucy I'm going to have a lot more free time on my hands."

And with that she pushed herself off the floor, somersaulted across the bridge, and went back to her station.

*Things to do when get off duty number 40, go talk to Nick...*
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Oct 30, 2006, 4:02

Now that Sickbay and the Navigational Dish has been taken care, Byrne sent a communication to Lt. Nack in Sickbay apologizing for the rude awakening. Cyphering the information from the rescue crews, Byrne was able to create a program to alot power systems to get the ship up and running again.

Only thing that kept hitting him, was isolating the ship into three distinct areas. One per section, but this would possibly call for a seperation manuveur. And getting this and a shuttle to EVA to remote power up the RCS thrusters to try to keep the ship from possibly going into a non-recoverable spin.

Checking on the location of the crew, Byrne was able to reroute a small amount of power to the magnetic clamps in the Main Shuttlebay to keep the smaller craft from hitting the hull and causing more damage.

=^= "Byrne to Commander Fox, I need you in the Astrometrics Lab for a possible solution to stopping the ship from going into a flatspin. Byrne out." =^=
<TAG Fox>

It was at that moment that Lt. Steenbergen burst thru and spouted a plan to keep the ship from losing integrity in the forward part of the ship.
<TAG Claire>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Oct 30, 2006, 6:56

Awoken again, this time by Commander Byrne's apologetic communique, Nack gave up on sleep.

Nack walked over to the mirror and sharpened his teeth a bit. He walked out into sickbay, stretching as he did so. Nack did not realize how hard the floor panels under his desk really were until he had to tap his sore knee to wake his leg up.

Teyno's console indicators were flashing, suggesting an update in his condition. Nack walked, dragging his sleeping leg behind him. "Regeneration Complete" the screen displayed. Below it, it gave general statistics, suggesting Teyno's eye sight would be 98.4% of its original. From prior experience, the doctor knew the other 1.6% would correct itself over time.

Nack took the humanoid looking Teyno out of sedation. Immediately he started mumbling "....not necessary... you... said..." which made Nack fetch the nurse to complete the wake-up procedure. He didn't feel like being around to take the brunt of anger from a delirious mission specialist.

Nack retrieved the armband monitoring Sonak, which he had taken off while he slept. The display made mention of a few instances where there were heightened adrenalin. Another instance was occurring, and was slightly growing in levels. "She probably was experiencing some sort of emotion.", he figured. There were not a lot of medical texts indicating how Vulcan physiology is affected by emotions. The Pon Farr would be one of the only times that an offworlder of Vulcan would be witness to such an event, and it was obvious that Sonak wouldn't be due for that for another 6 years and *counts in his head* 4 months... Give or take a month or two. Vulcans were not to eager to share information relating to their emotions, which seemed illogical to Nack. For this reason, he had to assume the Commodore was fine. As for everyone else on the bridge... Nack smiled. For once, he was glad he wasn't up there.

=/\= Lt. Nack to Commander Byrne =/\=

<Byrne>

=/\= Can you get the replicators online? I was trying to order myself a snail juice, and it started to materialize, but then it just faded away. Is that dangerous? You really should send someone down here. What if I need to replicate some medical equipment for someone who is injured... You know, you could probably get back some of your Engin... =/\=

Logan cut Nack off, responding in the affirmative.

<Byrne>

Nack sighed. Well, at least that will be taken care of.

As his leg finally woke up, the indicator on his armband started sounding. The adrenalin levels in the Commodore had peaked at high levels, alongside another contraction. Nack paused and watched the monitor, hoping everything would regulate. A few minutes later, another contraction occurred.

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commodore Reckus =/\=

<Sonak>

=/\= I advise that you come down here immediately. Try not to take the transporter if you can help it. It appears the time has finally come. =/\=

<Sonak>

Nack experienced both relief and nervousness. The baby was a few weeks early, but nothing dangerous. Would there be any complications? The questions piled up as he made a bed for Sonak, waiting for her arrival.

OOC: Could this be it!?! :P Stay tuned to find out!
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Oct 31, 2006, 22:57

Sonak grimaced as she felt the distinct cramping feeling again, then beckoned L'Ola over. "Until Commander Martens gets back to the bridge, you are in command." She raised an eyebrow at her security chief. "And do please try not to further damage my ship this time. That is an order commander."

(L'Ola)

Moving rather awkwardly, Sonak 'walked' towards the turbolift and ordered it to go down to sickbay. "Sonak to Nack, has Jatan been alerted? He ought to be present!" She wasn't entirely certain that she was ready to give birth, even after going through labour twice, it was never the same. However being a doctor herself, she could understand her CMO's concerns, and she knew better than to argue with her CMO, regardless of who at the time held that position.

Several minutes and a contraction later, she finally stumbled into sickbay. "I hate these boots," she complained as the tiny CMO walked up to her, tricorder at the ready. "It is three weeks premature doctor," she answered before he could even ask his question, "I have a history with premature childbirth. Both my twins were premature as well, and this baby is half human at that. I would assume that is normal, but I cannot be cerain."

She actually smiled as Nack and Jatan both helped her up on the biobed. "This might actually be fun to reflect on later," she added, feeling oddly giddy, "giving birth in zero gravity. Have you ever tried this before?"
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Nov 1, 2006, 0:36

"Until Commander Martens gets back to the bridge, you are in command."

L'Ola's face lit up at this, causing a concerned Sonak to continue talking. "And do please try not to further damage my ship this time. That is an order commander."

"I suppose I can try..." she replied, but nodding to make sure her CO knew that the ship would be okay. Or as okay as possible given the current circumstances.

With the whole bridge now entirely to herself, L'Ola started bouncing off various different obstacles (or consoles and chairs as they are more conventionally known) to see where she would end up. After a few minutes of playing she came to her senses and realised that she had to send a very important message.

Message duly sent, she considered going back to zero-g olympics. Instead she decided that improving her recent work record wouldn't be such a bad thing. And she knew just the person to help her out.


=/\= But why? =/\=

"Because it would be amazingly useful and I'd be nice to you forever"

=/\= You're already nice to me =/\=

"Okay, I'll get everyone's shifts switched round so you can have a party."

=/\= Tempting... =/\=

"And I'll get you the good shuttle"

=/\= Sold, be there in a minute =/\=


Sure enough, a minute later Lucy appeared on the Bridge with a toolkit in her hand. "Right, let's get started then. And no, I am not doing all the work, you can learn how to fix this yourself."

L'Ola grinned, "Yes Sir" she replied sarcastically. She started to watch the demonstration just as a ship wide message sounded out over the comm.

=/\= Attention all crew. I have been informed that Commander Kanz is currently in control of the ship. I therefore recommend that all crewmembers locate a crash helmet and their nearest emergency exit. Thank you for listening. =/\=

Lucy looked at L'Ola and shook her head, "You told Jason? How could you?"
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Nov 1, 2006, 13:49


Oct 30, 2006, 4:02, Logan Byrne wrote:

=^= "Byrne to Commander Fox, I need you in the Astrometrics Lab for a possible solution to stopping the ship from going into a flatspin. Byrne out." =^=


"Be right there." Fox responded

Still having a tight grip on his console Fox pushed himself away from it toward to turbolift, bouncing right into the wall next to it. Immediately the door slided open. He pulled himself into the lift. "Deck 4" he ordered, not sure if going by turbolift in zero-G would feel pleasant.

After a short time the doors slided open again, Fox pushed himself off off the wall of the lift and bounced through the corridor toward Astrometrics.

When he entered Astrometrics he saw Byrne near a console with his back toward the door. "Well here i am." Fox said, pushing off a wall to get to the console. When he passed it he grabbed hold of it and looked at Byrne.

"We're still moving further away from our position before the blast." Fox looked at the console which displayed a small chart of the space they were according the recent sensor reading. He then looked at Byrne. "You see that big asteroid? It will be very close to us when we pass it."

Byrne looked back "What's your idea?" he replied.

"You think we have enough energy for a tractorbeam?"
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Nov 1, 2006, 14:28

After trey’s little holo mission with is marines he made his way to the bridge to make report to sonak. The lift doors slid open and trey went flying through.

“Where is every body, was there a party and why was I not invited” trey said jokingly as he came round where l’ola and Lucy was

“You guys or rather ladies need an extra set of hands?”

<Lucy/ l’ola>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Nov 2, 2006, 6:52

Thinking about Fox's idea, Byrne checked the specs of the ship's still functioning systems and figured if he cut the Navigational Dish power, he could reroute to the functioning RCS thrusters. And then, immediately, the life support systems fluxuated in the lower porton of the ship. Tapping into the fusion generators from the Secondary Module, he was able to stabalize the mid-portion of the ship.

"I have an idea, a Holmann transfer manuvuer. Use the asteroids gravity and mass to slingshot us past it. But we need to lessen the mass of the ship and force the RCS thrusters to push us into the correct orbit. You remember the shuttle I showed you? I think if we can create a large enough warp envelope, and drop the bottom section, we could bump it with the shields. Acting like a pinball gallery. With lessened ass, we could recover the Module after the ship is back to nominal status.

<TAG Sonak>
=^= "Commander Byrne to Commodore, we are going to need to perform a seperation mode to save the ship from impacting the asteriod in our path. By your command, I can take my shuttle and use it to save the Discordia from impact as well."

<TAG Steenbergen>
=^="Byrne to Steenbergen, I need you and Lt. Wilson to command the Discordia for a massive dump and bump manuveur. We need to save the ship, Byrne out."=^=

*Per Sonak's permission, of course.*

Using the figures that Commander Fox fed into the database, Logan was able to create a small orbital path for both parts of the vessel to pass without hitting the asteroid. Just left the shuttle to get out without a scratch. But who could he get besides himself to pilot the shuttle, he needed a navigator.......

<TAG anyone interested?>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 2, 2006, 7:45

Sonak walked to the sickbay doors where Nack was waiting with a slightly nervous Jatan. It wasn't his first time being an expected father, but as he put it, "Every time seems like the first time."

"You won't need those in here, Commodore." Nack said pointing to the ridiculously over-sized pair of boots. "Commander Byrne has given me the gift of gravity." The last statement came sarcastically as he rubbed his elbow, now swelled to the size of a tribble. He tagged her with a hypospray as she was taking her boots off.


Oct 31, 2006, 22:57, Commodore Sonak Reckus wrote:
She actually smiled as Nack and Jatan both helped her up on the biobed. "This might actually be fun to reflect on later," she added, feeling oddly giddy, "giving birth in zero gravity. Have you ever tried this before?"


"Unfortunately I have never given birth, Commodore." Nack laughed long enough for the witty remark to overshoot its comedic lifespan.

Jatan looked at Nack, still amused. "The sedative seems to be working, doctor. She thinks she's floating." Nack looked down, stomped his foot on the ground, making a joke of the fact that gravity was on. "Well, the Commanding Officer is always right. Someone told me that once."

Nack gave another short laugh to himself as Sonak became more relaxed. It was not entirely odd, in his short experience, to see the Commodore acting silly. This time, however, the logic of her statements went slightly off-center as the sedative took effect.

Another contraction hit, but this time the Commodore was completely at ease. Jatan awaited by her side.

The indicator on the panel beside Sonak's bed went off. Nack ran over to read it.

Nack turned to Jatan. "Well, I have some good news, and some bad news." Nack struck a dramatic pause in his statement. Jatan, scared, blurted out an emotional, "TELL US!"

"Well, the good news is, the baby is doing fine and is healthy."

Sonak, still relaxed, mumbled something about floating happily. Jatan ignored her.

"......And the bad news?!"

Nack grimaced as if he made the biggest mistake in medical science.

"The bad news is... the contractions she was experiencing..."

"Spit it out doctor!" Jatan was getting really irritated. He was not usually a violent man, but this Ferengi had information that he wanted...needed!

"..well...", Nack winced, "They were false contractions. Unfortunately she will not be giving birth today." Nack held his pose of embarrassment and timidness, to gauge how Jatan would respond.

Sonak, in the meantime, responded positively. "I guess I can get back to work."

"Um... That's the thing... The sedation I gave you will be in affect for another hour. You will have to remain here." Nack waited for the chastisement for making the mistake.

Sonak seemed content, Jatan was perturbed, and the Ferengi was relieved that the Commodore wasn't in control of all her faculties. This was embarrassing, at best, and he'd sooner rather forget this incident than have to rehash it with a Vulcan.

OOC: Commodore, feel free to write yourself out of sickbay for now if you wish. Otherwise, I'll write ya out in a few days.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 3, 2006, 0:19

In the stupor of sedation, Sonak acknowledged Logan's request, not realising that she'd quite likely regret it later. Yet she trusted Logan to confer with L'Ola too, whom she'd entrusted the safety of her ship to while Nick was off duty.

Somewhere distant, she heard Jatan raise his voice over something, but she couldn't quite fathom what. He should be glad he was finally becoming the biological father to one of her children, after adopting the foursome she had from her marriage with Seliv. A frown fell over her features at the memory of her deceased bondmate and she stiffled a sob.

Instantly she felt a comforting hand on her shoulder, and looked up into Jatan's worried face. "You'll be fine honey," he ensured her, "Nack's given you something that'll keep you calm. However it seems you're not quite ready to give birth yet, so you'll have to remain here until this sedative he gave you wears off."

"Sedative?" she wondered aloud in response, her words coming out just a little slurred, "what sedative? I am feeling just fine." She winced as her unborn kicked her. "I just wish she would stop kicking me. One might start to think she likes to play soccer even before she is born!" Her voice carried over the silence that had fallen in sickbay, causing several nurses to chuckle over her innocent comment.

A glare from Jatan made them suddenly very conscious of whatever they had been doing previously, and Jatan moved to close the curtain around the bed to allow for some privacy. "How long before she'll be ready then?" he querried, wanting the new doctor to become comfortable with the situation. It was very obvious to the experienced ex-CMO that Nack was uncomfortable, and uncertain. And Jatan didn't want his seniority to play any part in this situation. "This is your sickbay doctor," he ensured the younger man, "your authority weighs here. Mine used to, but not anymore. She's your patient, I'll follow your suggestions. And every pregancy is different, I just hope everything will go well."

He briefly explained how the last labour had set in, just after she'd been beamed from the holodeck after apparently having been killed. (see mission:cluedo) "And I wasn't there when T'Kimi and Suron were born. I don't know how well that one went."

(Nack)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 3, 2006, 1:33

The room slid into focus. Teyno was disoriented for a moment until he suddenly remembered where he was and what had happened. He was ready to start yelling at the Ferengi toad who had sedated him when he looked up and saw the beautiful face of a young female nurse.

"Welcome back to the world of the living, sleeping beauty." She said, smiling.

"Madam, it is not I who is the beauty. I only regret that you didn't awake me with a kiss." Said Teyno.

The nurse smiled and Teyno took her hand and kissed it.

"Perhaps I'll see you around." He said.

Then, he made his way for the sickbay exit. On his way he met an obviously-drugged Commodore Sonak.

Sonak barely noticed her guest as she was lying on the biobed. When Jatan nudged her to acknowledge the civillian who waved, she giggled and waved back enthusiastically.

"You're certainly...in a different mood from the last time we spoke Commodore." Said Teyno, smirking as he left sickbay and headed for the bridge.

Sonak merely smiled happily, content with just having a bit of rest she normally wouldn't have taken the time for.
---------------

The bridge doors opened and Teyno floated into it. He saw two women working on something.

"Hello ladies, I don't believe we've met, I'm Teyno, a mission specialist, is there anything I can help with?"

<Lucy/L'Ola>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Nov 3, 2006, 22:28


Nov 1, 2006, 14:28, LT.J.G. trey maverick wrote:
“Where is every body, was there a party and why was I not invited? You guys or rather ladies need an extra set of hands?”


Lucy turned round, "Hi! I think we're okay..." she turned to L'Ola for clarification.

"Sure, we're mainly playing around with the consoles to see what we can fix. But I'm sure you have more important things to do, like make sure your marines do their job and not anyone elses."

Trey looked a little confused, "What's that supposed to mean?"

L'Ola half-glared at him, "Deck-by-deck evacuations are security territory. My guys could have got killed looking for people that your guys already evacuated. Next time, maybe read the manual first." She turned back round to concentrate on the circuits she had been shown how to rewire.

"You know what" Lucy said, looking straight at Trey, "I really think we are fine up here. Thanks..." She watched him leave the Bridge, and was about to question the outburst when the doors opened once again.


Nov 3, 2006, 1:33, Teyno wrote:
"Hello ladies, I don't believe we've met, I'm Teyno, a mission specialist, is there anything I can help with?"


For this visitor, L'Ola stopped what she was doing, clipped her tools down onto the floor, and floated round so she was almost standing up. "I believe we've met in passing but not properly. I'm Commander L'Ola Kanz, Chief of Tactical and Security."

"That's takes quite a long time to say."

"I thought it sounded more professional than, "In charge while the bosses are busy." L'Ola surprised herself by saying this. As a general rule she tried to stay formal when talking to new people. But a lot of general rules had been thrown out the window lately.

Lucy looked over too, "Hi I'm Lucy, and I'm pretty sure we haven't met. I'm just helping out with repairs until I leave. Which isn't that long actually..." her voice trailed off a little.

Sensing it was time to take over, L'Ola started talking again, "So, how much experience do you have fixing broken starships?2

<Teyno>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 4, 2006, 1:41

"So, how much experience do you have fixing broken starships?" Asked L'Ola.

Teyno flashed a smile and said, "It's your lucky day, L'Ola, I happen to be quite the engineer. Exactly which part of your starship is broken?"

<L'Ola>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Nov 5, 2006, 20:37

L'Ola motioned her hands all around her. "Most of the ship's messed up. From what I've been told, engineers have been dispatched to fix vital problems first. But we're pretty much running blind up here because the ship can run without the Bridge."

Teyno gave her a strange look when she said that.

She shrugged her shoulders, "Well we are already running without the main bridge. Anyway, if you'd care to give us a hand with the stuff round here for half an hour or so it would be appreciated. After that we have to get going."

<Teyno>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Lucy Kanz on Nov 6, 2006, 0:59

Sam and Ed were wearing grav boots in an attempt to add decorations to the corridor. They were stood near the top of opposite walls hanging banners up off the ceiling. Originally they'd planned a sports party in one of the holodecks, but due to necessary rerouting of power the holodecks had been switched off and were off limits.

So plan B had come into effect, and with the help of contacts higher up the chain of command they had been given full control of a section of corridr, as well as two of the smaller conference rooms on either side. Due to the ship's current status, the whole thing was of course in a zero-g area, but they decided to use their sense of adventure and make the most of it.

With the last banner securely in place, the guys stepped back to admire their handiwork. "Look good" Ed commented.

"It better look good" came the reply. The whole event was obviously still weighing on his mind.

"You should tell her."

Sam had a look of disbelief on his face, "I'm not sure that this is going to be quite the best time to go into it."

Ed looked at him and shook his head, "It never will be a good time. But you won't be okay until you do. Look, I'm going to go get changed and dump these boots. I'll meet you in half an hour. Just consider it, okay?"

A slight nod was the only response he got, but it was enough for now. He just hoped things got better later on.


True to her word, L'Ola had arranged for Lucy's friends to be let off duty for the procedings. In fact, she'd pulled enough strings that anyone genuinely wanting to say goodbye to Lucy could go along, although obviously not all at the same time.

Jamie and Ed were floating near the entrance to the section to welcome people to the festivities. A selection of what they considered to be good music had been piped through the local comm system. And there was a wonderful aroma of cakes and pizza coming from the conference rooms.

Lucy floated round the corner into the corridor and a smile appeared on her face. "Thank you so much" she squealed excitedly to Ed, "This is amazing"

"Glad you like it. You need to thank Sam as well, don't forget. He's put a lot of work in too."

"Yeah I can see you guys have been busy. Guess I'll have to go explore. I'll catch up with you guys later."

She pushed herself off and headed into the room which had been labelled "Fun + Games". Her eyes lit up as she saw a collection of ball games, all modified for zero-g conditions. These included a target on the wall to see how well you could aim a basketball (as well as a warning sign to catch it on the rebound).

Lucy's favourite, however, was a modified version of a very old earth party game. Across one section of the room was a string with doughnuts attached. Normally the aim would have been to stand up tall and bite the doughnut off without using your hands. However present conditions meant that the challenge lay in floating still and close enough to the string for long enough to get your teeth around it.

She had just grabbed her second doughnut when someone tapped her on the shoulder. She spun round to see Katia and Jason, which produced an even bigger grin on the face than the one that was already there. "You guys made it!"

"Of course we did, like I'd miss the opportunity to skive off" Jason laughed.

Katia gave her a hug, "I can't believe you only just came back and now you have to go again. Now I'm going to miss you all over again."

"Aww I'll miss you guys again too" Lucy replied.

"Oh, you wanna know a secret?" Katia asked, lowering her voice. The expected nod of the head was enough response for her to continue. "I'm pregnant" she said simply.

A surprised look appeared on Lucy's face, "Really?"

"Yup" said Jason, happily, "But don't tell anyone. We haven't even told sickbay yet."

"Wouldn't dream of it. Congratulations you guys. Let me know about everything, okay?"

Katia nodded, "Of course we will, now enjoy the rest of your party!"


Acting as temporary barman for the duration of the party, Sam threw an orange back and forth between his hands. He was running out of time to make his decision.



<anyone want to join the party?>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Nov 6, 2006, 4:37

Pulling the old girl out of the Main Shuttle Bay, Byrne coordinated a MVAM with the Discordia Module. By linking the shield systems in the upper two hulls, Commanders Byrne and Fox were able to lessen the stuctural mass of the ship to perform a forced-g roll around the asteroid without damaging the ship. Thus allowing it to pass safely.

Now came the hard part, setting up the course plan to allow the Epsilon Omega shuttle to nudge the Discordia into a parallel orbit to follow the main ship, but without sending it into space or crushing the smaller vessel. Using a pre-set flight plan transmitted from Lt. Steenbergen on the Bridge, they used the warp generators in the shuttle to create a null warp shell to suround both vessels and eased the Discordia past the asteroid, using it's gravity to cath up with the main ship.

Once the managed to successful pull of the manuveur, Fox poked Byrne in the ar and laughed, "Better watch it, mister. The may call this manuveur after you. Congradulations."

Once they were able to 'push' the Discordia back into place, Commander Martens ordered the connection of the lower section back into place.
<TAG Martens>

As the docking procedure was completed, the Red Alert klaxon sounded, there was a massive rush of power drains in the impulse engines in the Impulse Room on Deck 9. Problem was, this were the reactors that were keeping the mid-module powered and was keeping the crew alive.

Rushing to Engineering, Byrne was able to shunt most of the EPS power grid to function for the Main Module and reroute power into the lowest module. This also meant, that L'ola and Trey were now going to have to transport all of the remaining crew to these areas. Tapping his comm-badge, Byrne commanded a small group of transporter specialists to fill in for temporary engineers to set up portable power generators in key sections of the ship.

=^=Commander Bynre to Commodore Sonak, I have only been able to keep Decks 1 thru 8 and 15 thru 19, functional, but only aft ot the Main Computer Core and fore of the Main Warp Core. Only 6 of the key primary command sections are powered fully for now. Medical, Main Bridge, Engineering, Main Shuttlebay, Navigational Dish and the shield generators for the ship. I will have more to report after I can get thru to the rescue teams in the fore of the ship. byrne out.=^=
<TAG Sonak or Nack>

Using his grav-boots, Byrne reversed the polarity to push himself up to the above level to run diagnostics on the warp assembly, praying that all of this had not caused any structural breeches in the M/AM core. Using the prostectics in his right arm, Byrne was able to download the current status of the Core assembly.
<TAG Steenbergen>

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 6, 2006, 7:00

Nack responded to Logan, since the Commodore was currently napping.

=/\= This is Dr. Nack. The Commodore is currently sleeping. I'll advise her of the situation when she wakes. Dr. Nack out =/\=

As he tapped his com-badge to end the reply, a green indicator on the console next to Sonak's bed flashed. Jatan knew instantly what it meant, but had no time to react before the gravity in sickbay went offline.

"I thought Commander Byrne just said we would be fine!" Jatan's words echoed what Nack was thinking.

"Oh well, as long as we have power and our computers are on, we will be OK."

As if on cue, one by one the consoles started turning off in sickbay. The overhead lights flickered, but ultimately remained on. The temperature in the room fluctuated, but Nack couldn't tell if the heat he was feeling was environmental controls going on the fritz, or his nervousness getting the better of him.

Referring to the console that was now off - Jatan asked, "Dr., What are we going to do about what we just saw there?!". Reckus was a doctor, but let Dr. Nack make the decisions.

"Uh, as long as we have lights, and environmental controls are online, then we should be fine here." Nack said as he hit his head on the ceiling. This time he was expecting it, and was able to cushion the blow by putting his hands up early.

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commander Byrne. We have a problem in sickbay. Our gravity is offline, and our consoles are down. =/\=

Byrne's transmission came back filled with static.

=/\= ... secondary power must be off .... main power is still working .... on in a few hours... =/\= and the transmission cut out. Communication was being disrupted.

Jatan looked worried.

"Well, it looks like we are on our own in si...." the lights flickered, "....ck bay."

With that, the lights went out.

"Keep calm," Nack said in an obviously uncalm voice. "We will just have to go where there is power."

"Where would that be? Jatan said, pushing his way off the wall so that he would float closer to his wife, who had awoken from a contraction and was surprised to see herself floating off of the bed. Nack pushed himself to the gravity boots, which he gave back to Sonak. She refused.

"Commodore, we are going to have to do an emergency transport to Engineering. Myself, you, and Jatan will go. Jatan and myself are fully capable of delivering your baby there."

Another contraction hit, establishing a short interval between contractions.

=/\= Computer, three to beam to engineering. =/\=

Nack made the mistake of asking the computer if it was capable of beaming all three. When he rematerialized he found himself and Jatan in sickbay still, with Sonak missing.

Nack looked at Jatan. "What happened?"

=/\= Computer, two to transport to sickbay. =/\=

** Unable to comply. Unable to penetrate interference. **

Jatan cried out. "Computer, locate Commodore Reckus!"

** Unable to comply. Unable to penetrate interference. **

Jatan grabbed the grav boots, frantically. "I need to go find out if she is in Engineering."

Not knowing if it was possible to walk there, Nack deferred to his decision. He had served on this ship. He heard Byrne's explanation. It's his wife. Let him go. In the meantime, Nack alternated between trying to contact Commander Byrne, and asking the computer if the interference had dissipated enough to read if the Commodore was safe.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 6, 2006, 20:17

Sonak had been about to protest about being beamed to engineering, pointing out the dangers as the ship was currently experiencing too many malfunctions to safely condunt intra ship transportations. "Doc-" she started her protest, thinking just clearly enough to start voicing her protest, when she felt the transporter beam catch her. She had felt both Jatan's and Nack's hands on her arms for stabilisation, but when she rematerialised and landed somewhat hard on engineering's floor, the first thing she noticed was the lack of support.

"Doctor?" she called, "Jatan?" She looked around in confusion, accepting the aid of the engineers that had rushed towards their fallen commanding officer.

"Commodore are you all right?" engineer's mate Daniel MaGragge asked as he helped the Vulcan woman to her feet.

"What do you think," Sonak snapped back as she brushed off her dress, then doubled over as another contraction passed. She panted for breath, her eyes wide in sudden distress. "Where is Doctor Nack," she breathed, "I need -" She was cut off as another contraction passed.

The engineer's mate looked upon his CO with growing worry, then he turned and yanked his partner by her sleeve. "Get Byrne," he urged, "he's on the upper level. Get him here, tell him it's urgent. Drag him if you have to!"

The girl nodded and rushed away, dreading the weightlessness that was still effective on the upper levels of engineering. "Commander Byrne, Commander Byrne!" she yelled, trying to get the CEO's attention. When she had it, she pointed towards the lower levels. "Commodore Reckus is here and she needs your assistance." She gasped for breath several times. "Badly sir, she just appeared out of nowhere, and she's in a bad shape sir!"

Meanwhile, MaGragge had helped his CO to sit down and tapped his combadge. "Engineering to sickbay, Doc Nack are you there?"

Static.

"Doctor Nack? Do you copy?" Again, static. The young man wondered how long it'd take for the minute doctor to run from sickbay to engineering, but he hoped it'd be soon. He looked up at the pregnant CO. "Is there anything I can do?" he asked, panic visible in his eyes.

Sonak shook her head, grinding her teeth together and fighting for control. If she'd let it slip now, she'd be in serious trouble; she needed to concentrate, be her own doctor if it was needed. "Get the doctor," she finally breathed, "and my husband. They beamed me here but apparently got left behind."

MaGragge nodded, but feared to leave her. He waved for another mate's attention. "Get the doc here stat!" he snapped, watching the boy rush off in a hurry. He looked up to see Byrne approach. "Sir, she's in trouble. She got beamed here, but the doc's got left behind. And she's in labour sir. What should we do?" He glanced up at Byrne in sheer panic, hoping the experienced chief engineer would be able to help until the doctor would arrive.

(Byrne/Nack/Fox?)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 7, 2006, 3:47

Teyno moved down the Jeffries tube; he didn't trust the turbolifts at the moment. He had been repairing systems on the bridge, but found that he did not have the necessary tools to do so. That was why he was on his way to engineering.

A few moments later, he opened a hatch to find himself in the middle of engineering.

"Hey," he said, to no one in particular, "the bridge is improperly equipped and..."

He stopped as he saw Sonak in pain.

"Is she in labour?" He asked.

"We think so." Said a young officer.

"Where's the Doctor?" Asked Teyno.

"We don't know; systems failures." Said the officer.

Teyno sighed, knowing what he had to do, "Well, I have some experience in the area of delivering babies, I can deliver it if we can't find the doctor."

Everone looked at him in surprise.

Hope flared in the Vulcan's eyes as she glanced from Byrne to Teyno, though she couldn't quite remember who this civillian was again. She had a vague memory of having a mission specialist aboard, but she couldn't remember his name. However, he wasn't a doctor, apparently. "I would prefer the doctor if possible," she breathed.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Nov 7, 2006, 4:51

Reaching the lower level, Byrne got rushed by an engineering mate yelling that the Commodore just materialized in Main Engineering. Taking off his boots, Logan rushed in to the lobby and found a screaming Vulcan command officer lying on the floor holding her stomach. 'Oh crap", thought Byrne,"What the helis going on and where is the Medical staff?". Ordering up a grav-sled, they remaining crew members in the area eased the Commodore onto it.

Tapping the comm-panel on the wall, Logan tried to reach the Sickbay and all he got was a loud screech and dead static.

=^=" Computer, where is the Primary Medical staff?" "Unable to comply, unable to penetrate interference", replied the monotone computer voice.

=^="Computer, locate the source of the interference", commanded Byrne. "The source of the interference is located thru the Primary EPS conduits feeding the gravity generators in the upper level decks."

'Explains why the system reported a small failure in the grav fields on the Med Deck. Just wish I could get the bloddy systems up, because, now I have a pregnant Vulcan and I have no idea how do deliver a baby, especially in Engineering", Byrne thought.

Turning around, Logan ordered the relief crew to escort the Commodore to his office, thank the Gods they had the sled. Grimacing in pain, the Commodore tried very hard to control her emotions, just seemed like something else was trying to make that hard for her, Byrne noticed. And then out of nowhere, Teyno appeared out of a adjacent hallway offering help if the Medical crew didn't appear.

=^="Computer, replicate a ration medical nutrition pre-natal packet. I also need a pre-term med kit."=^= "Lt., I need you to gather a small group to attend to Sonak, while I get that freaking grav system taken care, so I can get the Mediacl staff down here to deliver this baby, I am so not looking forward to playing mid-wife, contact me if her situation changes. I have the emergency transporter band on me to get back quickly", said Logan to a nearby officer.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 7, 2006, 7:58

After a bunch of yelling and screaming, out came a healthy baby boy. He was small for his species, but the birth had been difficult. Nack wrapped the baby in a nearby blanket, while comforting the mother.

"Is he all right?"

Nack nodded "yes", with an apologetic expression. She didn't know it, but she was dying, and Nack didn't have the heart to tell her. Instead, he handed her baby to her, and ran another scan with the tricorder.

Her life signs were fading... but the happiness that eminated from her body overwhelmed the mood of the situation.

"What are you going to name him?" Nack asked.

Quickly responding, showing that she had been ready for this day for a long time, she said, "I'll name him Jeraddo... after the Bajoran moon."

With that, she smiled once more as she passed away.

-------

Nack sat in sickbay, waiting for communications to come online, remembering the first time he had delivered a baby. The experience was sobering. He was only twelve, and his parents had been helping in a different village on Bajor when the woman trickled into the abadoned camp where Nack was left behind because it was safer. She was badly injured, from what appeared to be a phaser wound, but she appeared to be in no pain. Medical supplies in the camp were low. The baby was delivered safe, but there was nothing Nack could do to save the mother. The experience tempered his ego. It was a life experience he hoped he would not have to repeat again. Luckily for him, Sonak was still doing ok, and he still had time to get down to Engineerring... or get her to sickbay.

Jatan walked into sickbay. Nack righted himself in midair, wishing he could have the grav boots back.

"Engineering must have emergency forcefields in place. I went down the corridor, and it appears the intersection with the next corridor has been depressurized. We are pretty much stuck in sickbay. Have you tried the transporters again?"

Nack responded, peaved at the current situation. "Yes.. I can't get through to Engineering. Everytime I think I hear them, all I get is static. However, I was able to do something when the consoles came briefly online. I was about to call you but I didn't have much time." Nack paused to spin himself upright relative to Jatan -- again -- and continued. "I was able to confirm with the computer that Commodore Reckus, " Nack cleared his throat, "..er... your wife... well, the transporter logs verified a pregnant Vulcan transported successfully to Engineering."

Jatan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now, Commander, all we have to do is play the waiting game... I'll keep trying the computer, and you can look for a way out of here."

"Deal." Jatan sounded as if he had been given a second chance at life, and walked out of sickbay. Nack floated back to his office, in the dark, waiting for any sort of communique to make its way through the interference while he pinged the computer for transporter access. All the while, he was thankful that Sonak was ok. It was a risky move to transport her, but with power surges starting to eminate from the biobeds, one resulting in an impressive arc, Nack knew he made the right decision.

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 7, 2006, 21:54

Sonak's eyes snapped open again as her mind registered Logan's words. Her hand shot out and snagged him by his sleeve, yanking him closer. "You are not going anywhere commander." Her hand clamped down on his hand in a vice-like grip, while her other hand nearly crushed Teyno's as another contraction passed.

She glanced from civillian to officer and back to civillian, her eyes narrowing as she took Teyno in. "You have experience in this?" She was panting for breath, dread building up as she wondered what was keeping Nack and Jatan. "You really are a jack of all trades then. I would kiss you if you pull this off."

This earned her an odd look from both men, as it was obvious that their commanding officer wasn't exactly thinking straight right now.

Meanwhile, Commander Mark Harper exited the turbolift and used the wall for leverage, pushing himself off to float onto the bridge. Reaching beneath him, he snagged the security console and came to a halt beside L'Ola Kanz. "Status of the evacuations?" he asked, "any word from Lieutenant Maverick?"

He glanced expectantly at the security chief. "And where are Commodore Reckus and Commander Martens?" Then he turned piercing grey eyes on the Betazoid commander. "And shouldn't you be at the farewell party? I'm here now, so if you'd like to go you'd better do so now. Everything seems to be fairly calm at the moment. I'll know where to find you should I have need of you or your teams."

Then he glanced towards Claire, who'd re-entered the bridge also. "Please take the OPS station commander, and start working on a way to stop our spin. It's making me feel disoriented."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Nov 8, 2006, 5:20

Practically falling back from the pull from the Commodore's grip, his jaw dropped wen he heard her words after that. 'All you, Teyno, I'm not getting on the bad side of her husband. I've seen what an angry Vulcan can do', smirked Byrne to himself.

Releasing himself once the contraction past, Logan stood up and righted himself. "Ma'am, we are able to assist you with this, but we need to get you steady. Once we get this bloddy interference cleared up, we can beam the Medical team here, but I can't say how long it's gonna take. Teyno, you seem to have way more experience with birthing than I do, can you stay with the Commodore until we can touch base with Nack and Jatan? I have to get a team up north to cut off the EPS conduits from vibrating and possibly taking out the grav control down here as well. You up for it," turning to Sonak, "Ma'am, exceptable?"

Sonak nodded, knowing the chief engineer was right in what he just said. However, the angry Vulcan comment stung and she was about to retort when...

Just then, there seemed a burst transmission from the Bridge, trying to relay the location of key personnel in the ship. reading the Main System Display, Byrne followed the line of forcefields cutting thru the ship.
<TAG Steenbergen>

"Aw, crud", he yelled. Turning to Teyno, he motioned the specialist to leave the side of the pregnant Vulcan. Shadowing the board, Byrne pointed to a section of the LCARS display. Teyno's disposition dropped, whispering to Logan, he made several motions to the aft area of the Main Engineering where Commodore Sonak was lying on the grav-sled.
<TAG Teyno>

Grabbing a portable transport emitter, Byrne walked over to the Commodore matter of factly. "Commodore, I need to set up this emitter to isolate you and 3 others to keep you in a quarantined area to keep you and the baby sterile. Teyno will monitior your vitals from the station in my ofice, but I need you to try and focus that Vulcan discipline you are so proud of, right about now. We will have Nack and Jatan here once we bypass the interfrence in the mid-ship. Faster to tranport them here then have them bounce their way down here. We show have back in Sickbay before you have the baby", said Byrne as he cautiously placed his hand on her clenched hand holding her robe in a death-like grip. 'Nack, you better come soon', thought Byrne.
<TAG Nack>

Again the Vulcan nodded, no longer able to muster the effort to speak. All her concentration went into fighting for her control, and the birthing process. Frantically she tried to concentrate on remembering what she had to do, but she needed jatan's support. She gripped her robe tightly with her left hand, grateful for the brief support Logan gave her, while her right still held a crushing grip on Teyno's hand.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Nov 9, 2006, 10:19


Nov 7, 2006, 4:51, Logan Byrne wrote:
Taking off his boots, Logan rushed in to the lobby and found a screaming Vulcan command officer lying on the floor holding her stomach.


Fox had remained on the upper level to monitor sensor readings after the "Byrne manouvre". In de background he could hear all the hustle on the lower level, but couldn't make anything of it.

The readings clearly indicated that they were no longer moving further away from the planet they had pinpointed with the improvised sonar earlier. "The manouvre worked." he thought.

Still wondering what was going on on the lower level he walked to the rail for a brief moment and peered down, but couldn't see anything and walked back to his monitor.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Nov 9, 2006, 21:27

L'Ola nearly laughed as she replied to Commander Harper, "Considering you just asked me 4 questions straight after each other, it is quite calm yes. The evacuations were completed within normal time limits. I haven't heard from Lieutenant Maverick recently, no. Commodore Reckus is somewhere, hopefully sickbay, quite possibly in labour. Commander Martens is also somewhere but presently off duty. And yes I should be at a party."

Luckily she got a smile back. "That's fine, I can definitely take care of things here for now."

"Of course you can. If you need security teams and it's not a dire emergency, then could you possibly call Lieutenant Keggin first?"

"No problem, enjoy the party."


She had a weird feeling as she drifted towards the music. This wasn't going to be the last time that she saw Lucy, that much she was sure of. And it wasn't as if Lucy had been around much lately. But it still felt kind of final. Given Lucy would never be back on board in the same way again it kind of was.

L'Ola was impressed with the decorations that had been put up. Sam and Ed had done a lot in the short space of time available. She contmplated going into the games room to see what was going on, but after working for so long the smell of pizza was irresistable.

Entering the room she grabbed 4 pieces and immediately started to eat one. Looking round the room she noticed Sam at the newly created bar and went to say hi.

"Good work with the decorations"

"It's not too bad is it. Thanks for the space." He didn't sound particularly happy.

L'Ola was a bit concerned, "You not so happy that she's going again?"

Sam shook his head, "She only just got back, why on earth did someone decide to send her away again?"

"Just happened I guess. Don't worry, she'll keep in touch. You know that right?"

He did know that. Lucy had managed to stay in contact with him even when outside contact was forbidden. But he didn't want messages left for him to pick up. He wanted her to stay.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 10, 2006, 0:07

Jatan yelled back to his Ferengi counterpart, "Hey - I think I think I found something." but even with big ears, Nack didn't hear over the sound of the rhythmic pulses the emergency generators were emitting. Jatan ran back to sickbay.

"Did you hear, doctor?", Jatan caught his breath, "I think I found a way!"

Nack grabbed on to the back of Jatan's collar while he walked back to the jeffries tube where he had found the passage. Nack was seriously considering pulling rank to get those grav boots earlier, but now the free ride was welcome.

"I'm quite familiar with this ship, and I'm positive this tube leads to engineering. It was blocked earlier by forcefields, but look at this- " Jatan pulled out his tricorder and took a standard scan of the tube. The forcefield visibly pealed itself back at the point of the scan.

"The forcefield is pretty weak here. And - there is nothing that the scanner can see that would really stop me from getting down there. The forcefield must be only for structural purposes."

Jatan shut the tricorder off. "I don't think opening it up for us to get through will be a big deal."

Nack nodded... it seemed plausible. Nack gave the go-ahead.

Jatan went first. Nack scanned the forcefield, and it pealed back as it did before. This time, a noticeable creaking noise came from the tube as Jatan crawled in. The creak continued to grow until Nack stopped scanning,

Now it was Nack's turn. Jatan aimed the tricorder at the field. In a flash of light, the tricorder burst, pushing Jatan down the tube. Suffering a dislocated shoulder, he yelled up to Nack, "These stupid boots don't help when you want to stop yourself from falling!"

Nack assessed the situation. If he were to try again to get through the forcefield, then he could cause more structural damage. He didn't even know how much he already caused. He made his decision.

Yelling downward, "Commander--- Go to engineering and take care of the Commodore. I'll be there as soon as possible!"

Jatan yelled back.. "I'm not going to be much help in the delivery. You must get down here! My shoulder is dislocated, and my medical tricorder was broken in that explosion."

"Well - at least you'll be there for the delivery. You go to engineering. I'll work on a way to get down there in the mean time without killing myself in the process."

Jatan climbed down to a little landing, and disappeared into one of the many tunnels running through the innards of the ship.

Nack went back to sickbay to resume his constant polling of the communication systems and transporter status, determined to get to Sonak before the delivery started.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Lucy Kanz on Nov 10, 2006, 0:08

<Okay this is going to start at the end of the party, but feel free to backpost your characters dropping in, in fact please do! (and I'll reply to any backtags)>

"Catch" Ed called out as he flung another banner in Lucy's direction. The three of them were wearing grav boots but kept switching them off occasionally to fly through the air. For this particular item though she didn't need to move at all.

"Finally getting the hang of it then!! Well done"

"It's taken me long enough. Okay one more down here and then we'll move into the rooms. Sure you want to be helping with this?"

Lucy nodded, "Definitely. I owe you guys so much. Besides, I leave in a few hours. Who else is there to hang out with?"

Ed grinned, "Glad to hear it. So where are you going to go again?"

"Most likely to Bellicose to visit Carrie and Pete, and then go see my grandparents for a bit."

Sam actually spoke for the first time in about 10 minutes, "I can't believe you actually want to spend time with Vulcans. Assuming you mean those grandparents."

"Well they aren't all like Commodore Hormones. And of course I mean those grandparents, I never met the others." She replied, wondering, not for the first time, what any of her biological grandparents looked like. Maybe that was something she could do when she got back...

"Sounds like a plan" Ed commented, uncharacteristically avoiding a conversation about Lucy's family. Today wasn't the day to go delving into her past. There were more pressing things to worry about.

The three of them began to pack away the games that were set up. "Looks like all the doughnuts went." "You surprised?"

The conversation levels were fluctuating. The sense that they didn't know when the 3 of them would next be together was becoming overwhelming.

Lucy looked thoughtful for a moment. "When you guys do end up nearby you will give me a call won't you so we can meet up?"

Ed moved over and put his hands on her arms, "Lucy, you will be lucky to get rid of us. Seriously. Besides, you'll get so many messages you'll know where we are to the nearest cubic metre."

Lucy laughed but felt very reassured. She'd never had friends as good as those guys and didn't want anything else to go between them.


Half an hour later the rooms were back to normal. "You gotta head up to the Bridge now?" Ed asked.

"Yup. Have to go say goodbye to your esteemed CO first though. If I can find her."

There was a moment's silence as they worked out what to say next. "Oh, we added a few things in to your shuttle" Sam mentioned "We thought you might find them useful to kill the time."

"I'm sure I will" Lucy looked between the two of them and then hugged each of them in turn. "Bye Ed." "See you around, Teri" "Bye Sam" "Take care, Luce"

She left her boots attached to the floor and sprug off into the anti-grav again, waving back until she'd gone round the corner. If she'd been able to see back round to where she had been, she'd have seen one very upset looking guy and another very pensieve one.


Having decided that turbolifts weren't probably that viable an option, Lucy was taking the scenic route of jeffries' tubes between decks and corridors along them to break it up a bit. Plus she got to see more of the ship that way.

As she was passing Main Engineering she heard quite a commotion from inside. She went in to take a look out of curiousity, rationalising that she could hardly be doubly thrown off the ship.

The scene that greeted her nearly made her crack up laughing. Most of the engineers appeared to be stood around Sonak in a state of panic. Still, she didn't really have the time to drop by again later so she walked over anyway *as long as they don't try to get me to help out*.

"Umm, hi Sonak... I just dropped by to say goodbye. I'll be leaving in the next hour or so."

<Sonak>


After the slightly disturbing visit to Engineering, Lucy was quite glad to reach the Bridge. "Hey Lucy, you ready now?" the friendly, familiar voice greeted her.

"Looks like it."

L'Ola nodded in acknowledgement, "Okay, I'll take you back down there. Commander, is it alright if I leave the Bridge for a while."

"Take your time." Harper replied, "Have a good trip, Lucy"

"Thanks, bye everyone!" she called to everyone on the Bridge. The two Kanz girls linked arms and bounced out the room.


The journey to the shuttle bay seemed to go far too quickly. "Well, this one's yours. As promised, you got the new one."

"I can't believe you actually swung that"

L'Ola smiled, "Sonak's been a little busy lately so I sent it through Nick instead."

"That explains it." The pair of them went inside the shuttle and sat down. "Right so the route's already plugged in?!

"Yep, just adjust for any minor alterations you may require on the way."

"Okay and then just send back to you when I get to Bellicose" Lucy was ticking things off her mental checklist.

L'Ola nodded, "The shuttle should recognise the Ves. But I'm sure you can improve the homing beacon by the time it needs to use it."

Lucy sighed, "I guess it's really time to go."

"Say hi to your grandparents for me" She still found it funny that Lucy called them Grandma and Grandad when she'd never called them mum and dad.

"Will do, I'm sure they'll be wondering how you're doing."

Getting up to leave, L'Ola gave Lucy a hug, "Take care of yourself, okay?" "You too. And I mean it."

The elder Kanz left the shuttle and between them they went through the whole takeoff procedure.

Wandering back up through the ship L'Ola felt kind of alone. She really hadn't wanted that part of her to go away again.


"Right, computer, we're going to be stuck together for a while. So we'd better get to know each other. I'm Lucy."

"Voice recognition confirmed, Lucy Kanz. Message outstanding."

Lucy was a little confused by this, "Huh, must be from the guys. Computer, play message."

"Hey Teri. I just thought I'd leave this for you. Really hope it doesn't bother you too much, but it should be a while before it affects you anyway so..."

*Just get on with it already* she thought, suddenly impatient.

"Basically, I get the feeling that Sam's not going to tell you this before you leave. Which is a shame because I think you need to know and that really he wants you to know. Teri, he's been in love with you for over a year now. It tore him apart the last time you left and will probably do the same this time. So please make sure you keep in touch, okay? Hope I haven't wrecked your day or anything. See you sometime."

There was a sudden silence as Ed's voice stopped being piped through the shuttle, and it wasn't broken for a long time. It would take a while for Lucy to process what she'd just heard. She couldn't believe it. Well she kind of could, but she still couldn't.

She'd just have to get the confusion out of her system by the time she got where she was going.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 10, 2006, 9:23

OOC: This is a joint post between Nack and Logan Byrne.



With all of the commotion in Engineering, Byrne's head was now pounding. Watching for any change in the status in the readings from the forcefields, he noticed a small fluctuation in the mid-section of the ship. Tapping the board a few times, he realized that a person had caused a small disturbance in the integrity of the field system. Checking back to the bio-board, he saw that a humanoid had passed through a section of the field causing more distortions in the structure between the upper two modules.

Out of nowhere, there was a thud in the jefferies tube behind him. Whipping around, he saw the crumpled body of a Human who just hit a gravity rich area of the ship. That, and the grav boots, made accelerations in any direction ridiculously large. Attempting to right himself the officer winced at the pain in his arm.

"Lt. Mitchell, I need a medical hypo over here for a possible sprain. Commander, are you OK, your wife is lying in the Engineering office. Follow me."

"I'm fine," replied Jatan... "I just want to see my wife."

Jatan could hardly keep up with the panicky Logan. "I don't think I'm going to be much help, though. It hurts to move either arm, really."

Lt. Mitchell came back empty handed. "I can't find the hyposprays, Commander Byrne."

Jatan swallowed the pain for a bit longer. "Dr. Nack had all of them removed to be refitted before we entered the rift on our last mission. Apparently they weren't up to his 'standards'". Jatan made quotation symbols with his fingers around "standards", and cringed when the pain of doing so kicked in. It was becoming a theme on the Vesuvius to question the new CMO's unique style.

Entering the office, Byrne questioned the Commander about his little ride to the Engineering deck and how he bypassed the forcefields. Stepping aside, he allowed Jatan to sit beside his wife to console her and assist her in a true Vulcan birthing. Only problem was that the CMO was in the other part of the ship and someone had to aid in this moment, especially seeing Jatan was of no use but to aid his wife mentally.

After about 10 minutes, there was a burst communication from the Sickbay.

Nack was upside down above his desk frantically asking if anyone was there, knowing that Sonak was about to pop. As he was about to give up, he heard a response from a terrified Logan. Nack could only make out certain words, due to his hyperactive tone. Sonak, according to Logan, was due any second. It was too late for Nack to get down here, they were going to have to start without him.

"Let's just stay calm, Commander. Jatan is more than capable of delivering a baby."

"He can't move his arms doctor!" Logan exclaimed, as if Nack should have known.

"What's wrong with yours?" Nack said the last statement with a tick of resentment, while rubbing his own swollen elbows.

Silence was heard. It lasted so long, Nack had to confirm that Logan was still in communication with him. "Did you hear me?"

Logan grunted a "yes"

"I'll walk you through it Commander. We'll let Jatan tame the Vulcan emotions that the Commodore is so horrible at hiding."

Jatan tapped his com-badge. "Commander Byrne. You need to get in here if you are going to do this. I think its coming."

"Commander, the first thing you need to do is..." Nack started to walk Commander Byrne through the delivery, laughing a couple of times at Logan's expression of disgust. The delivery went quickly, and no noticeable complications emerged.

At last, a crying noise was heard. Nack received the news that Commodore Sonak Reckus had just given birth to a healthy baby girl.

"You owe me one, doctor" Logan said into his badge.

"Yeah yeah... I'll forget about the incident with the gravity, and we can call it even."

Engineering was filled with onlookers. While someone asked "What are you going to name her?" Commander Byrne immediately retreated to search for a way to get back to sickbay. The delivery went fine, but the baby would need to get a neonatal checkout soon.

<tag anyone>

OOC:
Congratulations Sonak and Jatan, it's a healthy baby girl! I would also like to give a special thanks to Commander Byrne for being in cahoots with me for the better part of this week, in order to pull this off. :P
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 10, 2006, 12:23

The Vulcan commodore barely registered Lucy's brief visit as she was concentrating on delivering her baby. She was extremely grateful for Jatan's support, even though he indicated he was in no shape to physically help her. On her other side still sat Teyno, who'd gone unusually quiet.

Jatan acknowledged the mission specialist and thanked him for his presence, promising to make it up to him at some time in the future. He glanced down at the young man's hand. "Oh dear, that hand's a mess Teyno," he murmured, "we'd better get you to sickbay too once we can get there." He laughed softly. "What a mess we are in, aren't we?"

(teyno)

Meanwhile, Sonak cradled her newborn daughter and glanced up in the direction of where she'd heard a question come from. "Miriya," she whispered, cradling the wailing infant closer to her chest. One of the engineers had taken off his shirt and offered it to her to wrap the newborn in. She'd gratefully taken the offer. If she hadn't already made up her mind on who the godparents would be, she would've asked both Logan and Teyno. Though, to her knowledge there was no limit on how many godparents a child could have. Her first choices had been her closest friends, Elron and MC7of9, and she'd still ask them.

But there was no reason to ask both Logan and Teyno to be 'uncle' to the child as well. She glanced up to civillian and officer. "You two had better be around for when she needs your advice when she grows up," she mock-demanded, waiting expectantly for their answer. "Without your support, and quick thinking, we may not have made it."

(logan/teyno)

Jatan leaned closer to have a look at his newborn daughter. The baby looked up at him with dark blue eyes, and waved her tiny fists at him in protest. "May I?" he asked, holding out his arms as best as possible considering his injury, figuring his wife could do with some rest.

Sonak nodded and handed the baby up to him, watching him wince as he carefully cradled the infant. "Miriya," he repeated, glancind down at his first biological child. Then he pointed at Teyno and Logan in turn. "Miriya Teyno Logan Reckus," he announced, "unless you two can offer a female variant of your names." Then his smile widened. "I have a daughter!" he cried as he placed the infant back into her mother's arms.

(logan/teyno)

He walked over to the nearest console and opened a shipwide communication. "Ladies and gentleman, it's my pleasure to announce that we'll have a party as soon as this ship is functional again. Your commanding officer just gave birth to a beautiful daughter! You'll be able to visit in a couple of hours, after mother and child have had some chance to rest."

(tag all)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Nov 10, 2006, 16:31

Claire listened to Jatan's message. Then she made a dance of joy, or more like a turn and a swing of joy, with gravity still not working. She knew immediately she had to help with the party. It came out very conveniently too, as she just got her job back as councellor.

She liked OPS... for a little while. But it was too stressful a job. All those flickering lights, broken relais, rerouted power, the nagging people that complain about things not working... Now she could do the nagging again or better the listening and commenting. She knew some of the crew considered it as nagging. Besides, the only thing she was really good at, was throwing PADDS around.

She smiled, then frowned as she thought about how she could organize a party in a ship with no gravity. She frowned, then grinned again as a possible solution sprang up in her mind.

"I need to talk to Fox and Kanz about the holodeck," she thought, "maybe there is a way to get gravity back online there."

She touched her combadge.

<Fox, Kanz>

She made her way from her office -with boxes floating everywhere, oh well, tidying up the office was very difficult right now, anyway. She pushed herself trough the door and made her way to see the couple with their newborn child. She just had to congragulate them in person.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 12, 2006, 4:43

As he looked at the tiny bundle, Teyno felt a joy he hadn't experienced in a long time. His face broke into a smile, he almost laughed as he remembered...but then he remembered it all and his expression turned dark again, as did his soul. It was as if a light had briefly shone, but now all was dark once more.

"Miriya Teyno Logan Reckus," Jatan said, beaming, "unless you two can offer a female variant of your names."

"I don't deserve that honour." Said Teyno, "and if you want me to give your daughter advice, here's my first and only piece: she should stay as far away from people like me as possible."

With that, he turned and walked out of engineering, with no particular destination, he just had to get out.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Nov 12, 2006, 5:22

Rushing to Teyno's side, Byrne laid a careful hand on his arm and said, "Buddy, I don't know you, and probably won't, but thank you for what you did back there. I don't know your past, but you had a hell of alot more command of that situation than I did. Guess you and the Commodore really go back. Maybe someday, we could be friends."

Shaking his hand, Byrne returned to his duty to repairing the ship. After getting the structural vibrations under control, he reset the life suport systems aside from the main grav power generators. This allowed him to reactivate the systems in the fore section of the ship, hopefully allowing the Commodore and her child some rest in a gravity based area of the ship.

<TAG Fox>
Checking the charts from OPS, he kept trying to follow the flight, or whatever it was doing, of the ship. Sending the OPS command details about the RCS thrusters, he was able to give the bridge some form of control of the ship.

*More to follow*
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 12, 2006, 9:09

=/\= Dr. to Commander Byrne =/\= Nack was getting tired of being stuck in sickbay. He wanted to make sure the baby was indeed alright. He wanted to go to his quarters and take a sonic shower. Anything but remain here another minute!

The commander responded, affirming that he was indeed trying to get the integrity fields modulated so he could assess any damage and ultimately turn them off.

=/\= Great! =/\=

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commander Steenbergen =/\=

Claire responded in a festively excited voice.

=/\= I would like you to consider giving Commodore Reckus a ful.. *~~~* Pretty good yourself? *~~~* ah, good. *~~~* Yes, I'm new here.*~~~* yeah i know, that's what I'm contacting you about. Anyways, as I was say... *~~~*Yes, but I think we have other pressing issu.. *~~~* Yes, holodeck, got it, but I really thin.. *~~~* I don't know how to replicate that, is that a Vulcan dish? *~~~* ::sighing:: As I was saying, I think she needs a psychological workup. You can do it in sickbay if you'd like, if you can ever get here. *~~~* No, I don't like shells in my snail juice. How did you know I like snail juice? *~~~* Good guess indeed. So do you agree with my recommendation? She has been quite emotional, and I *~~~* ok ok, I'll check the console for the recipe later. I'm pretty good at holodeck programming, you know. Although, all my programming has been done for more... profitable ... endeavors. I'm sure I could whip something up if you need it. =/\=

<Claire>

=/\= Thanks Commander. Nack out =/\=

=/\= Commander Byrne, Dr. Nack again. Let me know when you can get mother and child up here. I'm going to go to sleep for awhile. Please don't drop me this time. =/\=

Nack floated over to the darkened space above his desk and went to sleep.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 15, 2006, 6:01

Nack woke up from his sleep, finding himself floating in the middle of sickbay. Somehow he had floated out of his office, around the bulk head, and in the main triage center.

Forcing himself upright relative to what "down" is when gravity is on, Nack looked asked the computer for the time.

He had slept a full night's sleep in 12 hours.

"I wonder if I can get out of here yet!?" Nack questioned aloud, as if someone was listening. The computer responded.

** Please restate question. **

"Nevermind."

Nack sighed when he walked down the corridor and saw that the structural integrity fields were still in place.

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commander Byrne =/\=

Byrne responded.

=/\= Did you get anything fixed yet? I still can't get out of sickbay =/\=

<Byrne>

=/\= Dr. Nack to Lieutenant Steenbergen... How's the party planning coming along? =/\=

<Steenbergen>

=/\= Well at least someone is doing something around here! I haven't heard a word about anything in the last day! It is getting quite lonely here in sickbay! =/\=

Nack was growing restless in sickbay, and made one final communique.

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commodore Reckus. =/\=

The Commodore responded in her usual monotone voice. Nack was about to start complaining about the lack of communication among the ship members, but his nurturing side got ahold of him first.

=/\= How are you, Jatan, and... Meer- ee- ya ... is that right? How is everything? =/\=

<Sonak>

In his first communique with Lt. Steenbergen, she had told Nack that the newborn was named Miriya.

Nack ended the transmission. He was happy things were working out for somebody. In the meantime, he gave himself an injection of Dramamine to counter the effects the weightlessness was having on his vertigo.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 15, 2006, 7:48

Sonak was now quietly resting in the chief engineer's office. She was getting stronger by the minute and had just nursed her newborn daughter when the call from sickbay came through. "We are settling in just fine doctor," she answered, "and Miriya seems to be healthy. Jatan has given her a quick check-over but of course we want you to verify her health when we can get to sickbay."

Engineering didn't seem to be cut off from the rest of the ship, as visitors kept pouring in to see the newest addition to their crew. Jatan had gotten very protective and barred anyone but senior staff access. He smiled as he caught sight of Claire Steenbergen, who was wearing a bright purple party hat on her head. "Claire!" he called, waving her over, "how're things up there?" He pointed towards the bridge in a meaningful manner. "L'Ola any happier these days or is she still sulking about her....warden leaving for the Nevada?"

(Claire)

"Fox is up there, if you need him. Poor science chief hasn't had the heart to come down here yet. You'd think since Sonak and him go back a while, he'd be the first to show his face here wouldn't you?"

(Claire/Fox)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by clairesteenbergen on Nov 15, 2006, 19:33

OCC: This post isn't finished yet, I will make additions soon, but I'm quite busy right now...

IC:
Claire entered engineering and a smiling Jatan welcomed her.

"Claire!" he called, waving her over, "how're things up there?" He pointed towards the bridge in a meaningful manner. "L'Ola any happier these days or is she still sulking about her....warden leaving for the Nevada?"

"First let me congratulate you with your newborn daughter!" and Claire gave three kisses on Jatans cheeks. Then she laughed and blew a whistle. Luckily her purple party-hat was attached with an elastic string under her chin or it would've fallen off her head with her enthousiastic movements. Then she looked down to the little bundle of joy in Jatan's arms. "Ow, is this her? She's so cute!!" Claire stroked the cheeks of the baby gently with her finger. Claire noticed she couldn't wipe away the broad smile on her face as she looked at Miriya enjoying her touch.
Then she saw Jatan was looking at her with questions in his eyes.

"Oh yes..., L'Ola, she was kinda... short in her answer to my question about the party on the holodeck. However, by the look in her eyes I can tell she's a little excited about the party. But I'll find a nice task for her soon. Anyways, where's Fox?"

"Fox is up there, if you need him. Poor science chief hasn't had the heart to come down here yet. You'd think since Sonak and him go back a while, he'd be the first to show his face here wouldn't you?"

"You're, then I'll remind him soon to congratulate your wife too. Maybe he's got something on his mind...," Claire wondered. I really need to talk to him, she thought. "Well, I'd better be going. Enjoy yourself, aye, Jatan," and Claire winked at him before she turned around to go to see Sonak.

Claire was already on her way as Jatan was trying to call her back. "Wait Claire, a party, on the holodeck?..." Claire turned around and yelled back as she was walking backward: "Don't worry, leave it to me, you've got a baby to care for."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Nov 16, 2006, 14:20


Nov 15, 2006, 19:33, clairesteenbergen wrote:
Claire was already on her way as Jatan was trying to call her back. "Wait Claire, a party, on the holodeck?..." Claire turned around and yelled back as she was walking backward: "Don't worry, leave it to me, you've got a baby to care for."


Not much later Claire stood behind him. She gave him small hints about why he didn't go down yet to congratulate Sonak and Jatan. He smiled understanding the hints. "Ok, i'll go now, if you want to stay here till i come back." Claire nodded as he headed to the steps to get to the lower level. "And Fox." she called after him. Immediately he climbed up a little again. Only his head was visible. "I want to talk with you about something when you get back." he smiled and nodded. "Okay." and climbed further down again.

On the lower level he walked to Jatan, extending his hand to him, to shake hands. "Congratulations Jatan." he said smiling, who thanked him in responce. "Can i see Sonak? Or is she resting?" He shook his head and said "She's in the CEO's office." Fox nodded and walked to the office.

Looking at Sonak he said smiling "Congratulations Ma'am."

<Sonak>

Some time later after his visit to Sonak, Fox returned to the upper level in engineering. Claire was still there and started about planning a party in the holodeck and if it was possible to get the gravity control to work there again.

He looked at a schematic showing all the emergency fixes that were made to prevent life support from failing. He smiled. "It might be possible." he pointed at the schematic. "Civilian quarters on decks 8 and 9 aren't used right now and Cargo bay 1 doesn't really need gravity. We can reroute power from those to the gravity control for the holodeck. Then we can organize a party there."

He looked at Byrne, seeing if he agreed on this plan.

<Logan>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Nov 17, 2006, 5:36

Checking on the status of the ship, Byrne ran a diagnostic on the integrity of the grav-generators in the effected areas. Nodding to Commander Fox, Byrne agreed that shunting power from the unoccupied areas would work, as long as the power wasn't maxed out.
Tapping up the LCARS panel in front of him, he assisted Lt. Steenbergen thru the grav-generator start-up routines, and kept a stern eye on the EPS conduits feeding the vacant areas. After a few moments, they were successful in restoring gravity to most of the occupied areas, including Sickbay(incoming falling again, Nack!)

Waiting for the medical team to arrive to assist the newborn and her mother to their quarters, Logan counted the minutes till he could have his office back. Quietly smiling, he remembered the look on the Commodore's face when she held her newborn infant in her arms. 'Good thing I'm not Vulcan and female, I don't think I could have restrained my emotions like she did', he thought to himself.

Finally getting the Engineering Deck cleared, Byrne was able to get the Navigational Deflector Array functional and tagged OPS to find their present position. Using the long-range sensors, Logan was able to feed the Bridge with their current location, which by luck was near an entrance to a wormhole to the Alpha Quadrant. Only problem now was, how to take care of the new mother and infant and get the systems running again to make the ship flyable.

Using the data he downloaded into his arm, Byrne was able to create a computer generated scenario which would have the bulk of the vessel functional and establish minimal bursts of warp to get them to the 'doorway' of the wormhole. Once Logan set the parameters, he excused himself from Engineering to join the party in the newly energized holodeck.
<TAG Steenbergen>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 17, 2006, 7:42

Sonak was quite relieved to finally be out of engineering. Supported by two nurses, she walked back to her quarters on her own accord, while Jatan carried their newborn daughter. She knew Nack would be there to check on both of them, and she welcomed the presence of the little Ferengi doctor.

At first, she'd had her doubts about the suitability and capability of the new Ferengi doctor, but she'd had to adjust her opinion of him as he seemed to be adjusting himself to life aboard the Vesuvius quite well. Additionally, he'd proven himself to be quite capable indeed.

When the small group reached the Reckus family quarters, they were met by four small cheering children and a Human nanny. Lily Andrews smiled at her childhood friend, then peered at the small bundle in Jatan's arms. "She's beautiful," the Aboriginal woman smiled, then glanced up at Jatan. "And she looks very much like you, though I imagine she'll have her mother's grace."

Jatan, Sonak and the two nurses entered the quarters upon which the two nurses settled the Vulcan commanding officer comfortably in her bed. "Don't get up too much," one of the nurses admonished her, casting her a stern glance.

Having worked in sickbay herself, Sonak knew these two nurses quite well. The down side was, that they knew her extremely well too, and the warning was not given in vain. "Understood," Sonak replied, somewhat warmly as she motioned for the nurses to leave.

Jatan placed the baby in her arms again, then motioned the two twins to approach. "You four have a baby sister now," he told them as he knelt before them to be at eye-level with the children, "her name is Miriya. Now, I want you all to be very quiet as your mother needs to rest. Soon, you'll be able to see your sister and perhaps hold her."

It wasn't long before Nack arrived, armed with a med-kit and a tricorder. "She's in the bedroom," Jatan motioned, "I'll be going to contact Claire now about that party she's organising."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 18, 2006, 6:51


"It's going to be fun. Claire asked me to bring some Vulcan kreila. From the recipe it looks like it will be some sort of flat bread. Probably bland, we all know how you Vulcans don't care much for taste," Nack nudged Sonak, who responded by pulling her shoulder inward to show she did not wish to be playful at the moment. Nack continued anyway, checking Miriya's vitals. The Vulcan dominance in genetics was a given, and was most noticeable in the pointed ears. Human traits commonly surfaced, however, which was evident to Nack when Miriya tugged on his ear and giggled when Nack winced in pain.

"Well, I see her emotional side is developing."

"Despite the fact that her mother is such a prude." Nack thought to himself. He wished Vulcans weren't so.. so unemotional.

Nack continued his scans, accompanied by his rambling.

"I am also planning on replicating a Tongo set for the party. I would have replicated a Dabo table, however we lack volunteers on the ship to be a Dabo girl. It would have taken me a week to save up enough replicator rations.. and with the ship's power being unreliable, I probably shouldn't be..." Sonak's usual appearance of disinterest was not enough to deter his frank attitude to conversation.

Nack closed the tricorder. "Mother and child seem fine. I would like to check on your daughter every few days for the next couple of weeks. Cross-species physiology commonly experiences problems, and if they do have problems, they are usually found in the first few weeks.

Sonak looked at Nack with a look that was probably the closest to concern a Vulcan could logically muster.

"Any condition that I can possibly think of at this point is maintainable or curable. Don't worry." Nack packed up his gear.

"I'll see you at the party, Commodore."

Dodging two holo-toys, and having another child exclaiming, "You have big ears!", to which Nack replied "You have pointy ears!", Nack made his way to the door and exited.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 19, 2006, 11:55

Dr. Nack was poking around sickbay, unsure of what to do. He wasn't tired, yet he was not on duty.

Alice hurried over at the sight of the Ferengi's arrival.

"So how was she? Is she as cute as everyone is saying?"

Nack didn't know how to respond. The baby was healthy. He didn't inspect its cuteness.

"Sure," he said, figuring it was the answer Alice wanted anyway.

"And she's healthy?"

"As healthy as can be!" Nack attempted to act cheerful, but didn't convince Alice.

"What's wrong?"

"Eh... it's the Commodore. Every time I interact with her, she seems... unemotional."

"Well she is a Vulcan." Alice said in a tone meant to state the obvious.

"Maybe unemotional was the wrong word. I feel like every time I am with her, she treats me as if she doesn't like me." Nack didn't think discussing personal matters between himself and the Commodore with the nurse was appropriate, but he was tired, and appropriateness was thrown out the window when his snail juice replicated without a glass and spilled all over him.

"Nah... I think you're imagining things. I never had problems like that," Alice replied. "What did she do to make you think that?"

"I dunno," Nack said pensively, "... when I was up there checking on her and the baby, I was joking around with her, and she pulled away when I tapped her in jest."

Alice looked dumbfounded. "That's it? That's why you think she doesn't like you?" Alice started laughing. "I've known Cardassians that are less paranoid than you are, doctor."

Nack didn't care what Alice thought.

"In fact, doctor, this just came for you today. I was going to give it to you at the party later on, but it seems prudent that I give it to you now."

Nack unwrapped the package, filled with thoughtful items such as the newest medical tricorder model (not even put into formal rotation yet), a jar of flaked blood fleas, and a gold plated tooth sharpener. A card accompanied the collection of items. Nack read it loud enough for Alice to hear.

-------------
Dr. Nack, thank you for all of your help these last few weeks. We really appreciate all you have done. You are a valued member of my crew.

Commodore Sonak Reckus, and family.
-------------

Alice gave a look at Nack, as if to say "I told you so.", and Nack felt stupid.

"Maybe, since she is a Vulcan, you are expecting her to act negatively toward you. Maybe you are only seeing what you want to see."

Nack supposed she was right. After all, she was raised by humans... so while her emotional side is hidden, she is very capable of showing distaste or happiness.

"And, doctor, I hate to admit it... but..." Alice almost wished she hadn't started the sentence.

"Yes, Alice?"

"well... you do talk a lot." Alice quickly recovered, "... AND, with someone needing a lot of rest like Commodore Reckus, it could get a bit annoying."

Nack agreed, taking the constructive criticism in stride. The Commodore was probably tired, and she was receptive when he first arrived... and then there was the shuttle mission through the rift. The sense of trust she instilled in him must mean something. Perhaps he really WAS perceiving something that wasn't there.

"When the Commodore is better suited for visitors, and you go in there with a more positive outlook on her emotional response toward you, you will find out that she really is a great person... er.. Vulcan." Alice winked.

"Thanks Alice, I owe you one." Nack held out the blood fleas in a gesture asking if she wanted some. Alice made a nasty face, signaling her distaste. They both laughed. Nack stuck around and helped her with some of the sickbay chores, waiting for the party to begin.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 19, 2006, 19:51

Sighing tiredly, Sonak was relieved when the talkative doctor finally left. She leaned back in her pillows, cradling the now sleeping Miriya on her chest. The hybrid baby was pronounced healthy though Sonak could understand Nack's concern. There could be unknown complications, however Sonak sensed none.

She smiled up as Jatan returned. "Would you please take her for now?" she asked, feeling that she was neglecting her other children. "The twins will want to have a good look at her now."

Jatan nodded as he leaned in to cuddle his Vulcan wife. "That and I'll contact Teyno and Logan for you," he grinned, knowing already she was going to ask. "And when you're up to it, there's going to be a party in the holodeck in a few hours. You are rather expected to make an appearance with Miriya."

She sighed again. "Very well, tell Claire that I shall make an appearance with our daughter. But please tell her not to overdo it? Knowing her, she can get carried away. And...please tell Logan well done on restoring most of the gravity. I would like to learn how he pulled it off."

Jatan nodded and left her to rest for as long as she could. "Jatan to Claire. Sonak wishes you to know not to overdo the party and she says she'll make an appearance when you give the word."

(Claire)

The human ex-CMO tapped his combadge again. "Teyno, would you please come to our quarters? Your attendance is required." He knew Teyno didn't particularly like his bondmate, not since she rebuffed him on a particularly sensitive issue. Jatan had taken no insult, but would step in if Teyno would overstep his bounds of decency again. While Sonak tolerated this behaviour towards her, and still tried to gain the man's friendship, Jatan had no such desire.

(Teyno)

Tapping his combadge a final time, Jatan contacted engineering. "Commodore Reckus wishes a report on gravity restoration progress, delivered personally," he told the CEO, making it sound far more grave than it actually was. Jatan liked the CEO, and made it apparent by joking around with him a little. "Right this minute," he added, sounding rather stern. However, a huge smile played around his lips as he said it, while gently swaying the sleeping baby girl on his arm.

(Logan)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 20, 2006, 2:00

Teyno awoke, he was still fully clothed, as he had gone to bed last night. He was surprised he had managed to sleep at all with all the disturbing thoughts that had been racing through his head. Yesterday's events had brought back all the thoughts that he usually kept buried.

He tried to get back to sleep again for ten minutes or so, but it was useless, he couldn't sleep now.

"Teyno, would you please come to our quarters? Your attendance is required." Came the voice of Jatan Reckus.

Teyno rolled his eyes and said, "I'll be there shortly."

He had a quick sonic shower and then made his way to the CO's quarters. He tapped the chime and then entered.

He entered and saw Jatan.

"You requested my presence?" He asked, indifferently.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Nov 22, 2006, 9:54

OOC: Time to get these parties started people!

Since Nack didn't make it to Lucy's goodbye, partially due to the fact that he was stuck in sickbay, and partially since he hadn't had the privilege to meet her yet. He decided to replicate twice as many spore pies as he originally planned, which would bring the count to 2 wedges. Let's face it, Ferengi cuisine was not the best in the alpha quadrant... or beta quadrant... and Nack was pretty much making it for himself. His Vulcan dish replicated at too high of a temperature, and he was waiting for it to cool before he left for Sonak's party. Luckily the bread didn't need to rise, or the lack of gravity in sickbay would have been a problem.

Nack floated his way to the turbolift, which was an interesting endeavor without gravity even though inertial dampers were online.

Arriving to the desired deck with two spore pies that had sandwiched the Vulcan bread into a gelatinous mess, Nack headed toward the holodeck unaware of the disaster he was carrying. Upon entering, he was surprised to see he was the first one there aside from Lieutenant Steenberg. All the ship's power had been shunted, save life support systems, for this party. Where could everyone else be?

The guests of honor had not arrived yet, and only Claire was present, busy programming more decorations at the arch.

"Do you mind if I give you hand? I'm pretty good with holo-programming."

Claire shrugged. It couldn't hurt.

Nack and Claire made the last finishing touches just before everyone started arriving.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Nov 22, 2006, 13:19

Trey and his team of marines left the holo deck and headed to there lockers, as the walked through the halls trey cont not help notice the slight buzz of activity and whispers in the air, he stopped one of the crewmen and asked

“What’s all the excitement about?”

“Where have you been?” the crewman responded but trey just gave him an unknowing look “our CO has given berth to lovely baby girl” he finally answered

“What!?, when did this happen.”

“I think it was last night” the crewman answered

“I thought she still had a few months to go” the crewman gave no answer “thanks for the 411” said trey as he made his way to the turbo –lift

“Deck three”

As the doors to sickbay opened trey walked in only to find mother, child and doctor missing. He turned to one of the nurses

“Excuse me, where is commodore sonak and child?”

“Sorry lt. but they have already been discharged.”

“And doc. Nack, his whereabouts”

“He has already left for the party sir.”

“Thank you” trey then made his way back to the turbo-lift and then quarters. After he had freshen up he made his way to his desk, he took a seat and began work on some new tactics of his team of marines

=/\= gunner to maverick =/\=

=/\= yeah what can I do for you gunner =/\=

=/\= I thought you might want to know that our CO gave ber….=/\=

=/\= berth to a brand new baby girl. I know =/\= he said cutting off gunner

=/\= soooo =/\=

=/\= so what? =/\= he asked gunner

=/\= aren’t you going to the party? =/\=

=/\= I guess not =/\=

=/\= why? =/\= asked gunner a little suspired

=/\= not that it is any of your business but it seems that someone neglected to tell me, so I was not invited, maverick out =/\= and on that note he continued with his work.



Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 22, 2006, 21:12

"There's no need to be rude," Jatan shot back as he beckoned the civillian to follow him. "He's here but in a pesky mood," he told his wife, making sure she was comfortably supported by the pillows behind her back.

Sonak nodded then motioned for him to keep the other children company. "I can handle him," she whispered, a small smile playing at the corners of her mouth, "please do not be worried." She accepted her baby daughter back and shifted the weight on her arm, making herself more comfortable. Then she looked up at Teyno. "Mister Teyno, I am grateful that you have so promtly responded to Jatan's call. I have not yet had the opportunity to properly thank you for your support during my...during childbirth."

She held up the tiny infant for him to see, then motioned for Teyno to please sit in the chair Jatan provided. "How are you settling in aboard the Vesuvius?" she finally asked, after a long and uncomfortable silence. It was quite clear to Sonak that the new civillian had a distinct dislike towards her, and he made no effort to hide it either.

(Teyno)

~somewhat later~
Accompanied by her husband, Sonak gracefully strode into the brightly decorated holodeck. "I see Logan has had to scramble for the power to be able to do this," she commented, "though he seems to have done quite an adequate job of restoring at least minimal gravity to most parts of the ship."

Noticing Nack's sour face, she guessed that his domain was still without gravity. "Doctor," she called, waving him over, then motioned towards Claire, "counselor. I hear that you two have done most of the work to accomplish this. I really do appreciate it, however it was quite unnecesary." Then her smile brightened. "On the other hand, you seem to have made Logan work much harder to fix the ship. Be careful or you will establish a reputation for him as miracle worker. I doubt Nick would appreciate that." She winked at Claire, knowing the counselor knew exactly what she meant.

She smiled at Nack. "Claire and I go back a long way," she explained, then she nodded towards L'Ola who just walked in. "As does L'Ola." Then she looked around, as if searching for someone. "Did anyone remember to invite Lieutenant Maverick?" she finally asked, after not being able to locate the young marine officer. She tapped her combadge. "Lieutenant Maverick, report to the holodeck on the double! I want your rear in here yesterday!" she snapped, though her eyes showed her amusement.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 23, 2006, 2:13

There's no need to be rude," Jatan said in an irritated voice.

"I wasn't aware that I was being rude." Said Teyno, in an equally irritated tone.

"He's here but in a pesky mood," said Jatan to Sonak, adjusting her pillows as he did so.

"You know, some people think it's rude to talk about people behind their backs." He said disdainfully to Jatan.

Sonak nodded then motioned for him to keep the other children company. She accepted her baby daughter back and shifted the weight on her arm, making herself more comfortable. Then she looked up at Teyno. "Mister Teyno, I am grateful that you have so promtly responded to Jatan's call. I have not yet had the opportunity to properly thank you for your support during my...during childbirth."

"Think nothing of it," said Teyno, "I did what I had to, you would've done the same."

She held up the tiny infant for him to see, then motioned for Teyno to please sit in the chair Jatan provided.

He hesitated at first but then sat down with a small sigh.

"How are you settling in aboard the Vesuvius?" she finally asked, after a long and uncomfortable silence.

"Well enough to suit me. I try not to settle too far into places." Said Teyno, wondering what the commodore really wanted by bringing him here.

The Vulcan glanced up at him, raising an eyebrow in response. "Would settling in not help you fit in better with the crew you serve with? I understand that you do not wish to stay in one place too long, but I have the distinct impression you are on your own far too much to have even a limited bonding with my crew. Therefor, I expect you to attend the party that has been arranged in honour of Miriya's birth."

She paused, then reached over and deposited the baby in his arms, whether he liked it or not. "You are her godfather," she informed him, "she bears your name as well. And you are attending the party. With me." Then she smiled softly. "If you will not do it for me, then do it for your god-daughter."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by LT.J.G. trey maverick on Nov 25, 2006, 14:23

After trey was done with his work he sat in his chair leaned it back a bit and put his feet up on the desk. A few minutes later there was a voce over his com badge

=/\="Lieutenant Maverick, report to the holodeck on the double! I want your rear in here yesterday!"=/\=

=/\= on my way ma’am=/\=

As he made his way out the door he realizes that he did not have a gift for the new crewmember, he pondered for a moment on what to get, he had no real idea on what to get for a baby and things were ever more difficult being the gift had to be for a baby girl. Trey looked a round his room for something suitable. He had just about given up when he looked in one of the corners, there it was leaning against the corner wall. He leaned over a picked it up and made his way to the holodeck. Moments later the door to the holodeck slid open and he made his way through he glanced in the direction of a few of the senior staff as he made his way to commodore sonak who was chatting with her husband and Mr. Teyno

“sorry am late my invitation got lost in the mail, this is for the little one” he said as he handed over the gift, sonak eyed it curiously.

“it’s a snowboard ma’am” he said answering her unspoken question “ I hope she’ll make better use of it that me” he added with a smile

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 25, 2006, 17:14

Would settling in not help you fit in better with the crew you serve with? I understand that you do not wish to stay in one place too long, but I have the distinct impression you are on your own far too much to have even a limited bonding with my crew. Therefor, I expect you to attend the party that has been arranged in honour of Miriya's birth."

"In my experience, Commodore, when you form emotional attachments to people, it invariably ends in pain.

She paused, then reached over and deposited the baby in his arms, whether he liked it or not. "You are her godfather," she informed him, "she bears your name as well. And you are attending the party. With me." Then she smiled softly. "If you will not do it for me, then do it for your god-daughter."

"You know nothing about me, Commodore. If you did, I doubt you would want me to be godfather to your child. However, if you insist, I'll attend for a short while."

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Nov 28, 2006, 2:26

Sat in her quarters trying to do paperwork, L'Ola's mind was on overdrive. That was part of the reason she'd asked Emily to take over for her on the Bridge. If anything went wrong again they needed someone who could concentrate. Try as she might she just couldn't stop her mind wandering.

She looked at the next PADD she had to work on and realised she needed more data from the computer. Walking over to the console in her room she entered a few commands... and the readout crashed. "Oh well that's going to help" she said to the otherwise empty room.

The ship was in no state to do anything. The repair teams were working hard, but without the resources of a starbase they would never be able to make any real progress. *Stuck on a piece of junk in the Beta quadrant* she thought *I'd almost be better off with my stupid adoptive family that are practically next door...*

She put down the PADD she was holding as an idea hit her straight in the face. *Now where was that party being held?*


L'Ola was happy for an excuse to join the festivities, in truth. She was trying to avoid a few people, well one in particular, but didn't really want to be mean to anyone. Especially Miriya.

She quickly located Sonak. "Commodore! Congratulations! Umm... can I tak to you about something?" She glanced away and back again to indicate that she wanted to talk away from the main group.

Slightly confused, Sonak nodded in agreement. Once they had moved to the side she spoke, "What did you wish to say?"

"I had this crazy idea. You know how we really need to go to a starbase to get all these repairs done? Well I think I can get us a push there."

"Explain"

L'Ola smiled, "My ex-adoptive sister Mareen just got some new contacts. We've been in touch a lot more in the last few months. Should I ask her?"

<Sonak>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 28, 2006, 7:18

Sonak almost smiled and resisted the urge to pat her former science officer and former first officer now turned security chief on the back. The chief was slowly on her way to redeem herself in the Vulcan's eyes, and she appreciated the fact that for once L'Ola came to her and ran a suggestion by her, instead of implementing it straight away.

"I will join you on the bridge," she suggested, glancing back at the feasting crew, "parties are...not quite for me." She repositioned the sleeping baby against her chest and followed Kanz out of the holodeck. She knew Jatan and the other children would be amusing themselves for a while and she wasn't going to draw anyone away from the party, except Teyno. "Mister Teyno, please come with us," she called him.

Sonak shared a glance with Kanz, and both nodded simultaneously, as if they were in agreement that Teyno could be of assistance. The young man had been around in the universe, and he may be able to persuade the Klingons to get them a tow, should Maureen not be so kind to offer it straight away.

"Please contact Maureen," Sonak suggested, once they entered Mercury's bridge, "and send out a distress call. I believe the Black Tulip is near the Federation/Klingon border. I am quite certain Admiral Elron would be willing to give us a tow back from the border to Bellicose." ~and I will never hear the end of it from him either~ she thought grimly, imagining how Elron would respond upon seeing her poor battered ship.

(Kanz/Teyno)

(everyone else, continue attending the party...or return to your duties)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Nov 29, 2006, 9:41

On the party Fox walked arround smiling with plates with food and drinks. "It had felt a bit like old times." he thought, a bit glad Logan had to take the replicators in the messhall offline as well to assure they had gravity in the holodeck. This meant Fox was picked to prepair the food for the party.

He smiled, thinking back about previous times he had been picked as "cook". Nothing be good memories had remained of those times.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 30, 2006, 0:56

Teyno was glad to have been pulled away from the party, he wasn't fond of social gatherings, well, at least not these sorts of...polite social gatherings.

They entered the bridge and Sonak said to L'Ola, "Please contact Maureen, and send out a distress call. I believe the Black Tulip is near the Federation/Klingon border. I am quite certain Admiral Elron would be willing to give us a tow back from the border to Bellicose."

Teyno accessed a computer console nearby and found out their position.

"I know the Klingon commander for this sector of space. He owes me a favour. I could get him to arrange for a tow for us if you like, but then that would be quite embarrassing for you, and then you'd owe me a favour."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Nov 30, 2006, 7:42

The Vulcan glanced sharply at her mission specialist, knowing that L'Ola was already working on contacting her Klingon adoptive sister. "Do it," she ordered, sighing as she sat down in the command chair. She still tired too easily, and it irked her more than she'd ever acknowledge. ~perhaps we are just due some shoreleave~ she thought as she watched Teyno move to the OPS console and contact his Klingon friend.

Several hours later, two huge Klingon warships appeared right off the port and starboard bow of the crippled Starfleet vessel. And both were hailing the Vesuvius. "On screen," Sonak ordered, watching L'Ola comply with practiced ease. She motioned Teyno forward.

Two Klingons appeared on the screen; a male with a distasteful scowl on his face and a hansome female who looked quite a bit more friendly. "Maureen, I am very grateful for your quick response and for your assistance," Sonak addressed the female, then turned to the male. "My mission specialist has graciously offered to contact you. And I am grateful for your assistance."

This time she looked at both Klingons. "My ship was badly damaged several days ago and the cause is still somewhat of a mystery to us. Before that, we were attacked by Falconians in Klingon vessels, and we had a very bumpy ride through a rift. As you can see, my ship is missing the top two decks and we are mostly without gravity and propulsion. We would appreciate a tow back to the Klingon/Federation border. The Second Fleet Flagship USS Black Tulip will take us home from there."

(Teyno/Maureen/Elron)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Nov 30, 2006, 17:39

"Do it." Ordered Sonak.

Teyno sat down at the ops station and opened a channel. A Klingon man with greying hair and beard appeared on the ops screen. His eyes widened when he saw Teyno and an expression of anger came across his face.

"You!" The Klingon said, "How did you get on this channel?"

"Hello Kratagh." Said Teyno, "Long time no see. Never mind about how I got hold of you. I'm currently on a Federation ship and we need a tow back to the border."

Kratagh laughed a very Klingon laugh, "If you think I am going to help you, then you are a fool."

"Perhaps you've forgotten our deal, Kratagh? After all, it would be a shame if someone found out about..."

"Silence!" Roared Kratagh, "You wouldn't dare."

"Try me Kratagh." Said Teyno, smiling, "I'm sending you our coordinates. Be here in three hours."

He cut off the channel, leaving the Klingon with an outraged expression on his face.

----------------------

"My mission specialist has graciously offered to contact you. And I am grateful for your assistance." Said Sonak.

"Mission specialist?" Kratagh laughed heartily, "Is that what he is nowadays? If I were you, Captain, I would watch that man very carefully, and I would get him off your ship as soon as possible. Personally, I'd throw him out the nearest airlock, but that's not how you do things in Starfleet, is it?"

"Charming, isn't he?" Said Teyno, smiling.

"I never want to hear from or see you again!" Roared Kratagh at Teyno.

"My ship was badly damaged several days ago and the cause is still somewhat of a mystery to us. Before that, we were attacked by Falconians in Klingon vessels, and we had a very bumpy ride through a rift. As you can see, my ship is missing the top two decks and we are mostly without gravity and propulsion. We would appreciate a tow back to the Klingon/Federation border. The Second Fleet Flagship USS Black Tulip will take us home from there." Said Sonak, trying to direct the conversation to a more civilized area.

"Prepare for tow," Said Kratagh, "and may I suggest, Captain, that you not come back out here until you are able to defend yourselves properly."

He laughed and closed the channel.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 1, 2006, 2:35

Several parsecs away, Fleet Admiral Elron was sitting in his ready room on the USS Black Tulip. For the past couple of hours, the crew of the fleet flagship had been conducting sensor sweeps of an anomalous stellar phenomena in the Zeta Eridani system. By now, though, they'd taken all the data that they could; all that was left was routine number-crunching.

As the Admiral sat there, feet on the desk, tossing scrunched-up balls of paper into the replicator and watching them gracefully disintegrate, the comm panel next to him chirruped urgently. He paused, lobbed one last scrap of paper into the replicator, then swung his legs off the desk and tapped the comm panel.

"Commodore!" he exclaimed warmly when Sonak's face appeared on the screen. "To what do I owe this pleasure?"

The Admiral tried to stifle a grin as the Gamma Squadron Commander outlined her humble request...
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 1, 2006, 7:39

Sonak watched her Avari CO's expression carefully and frowned down on him when she discovered he was trying very hard not to laugh. She resettled the now sleeping infant in her lap as she gazed at him. "This is hardly a laughing matter admiral," she answered, more coldly than she had intended, "we do not know how we lost gravity, but Commander Byrne has promised he will find out. We must be grateful to the Klingon Commanders who are giving us a tow back to Federation space, otherwise we could be afloat here for a long time."

Quietly she began explaining how they had ended up in Klingon space, how they had rescued Nova and sent him home on a test-rig, which she assumed was now safely docked at Bellicose, and how the Majesty had departed them after a treasure hunt of sorts. "We were not under attack since the Falconians fled," she finished, "and I do not recall encountering any storm."

Then her expression softened as she regarded the admiral. "However, I am grateful for a tow back to Bellicose." She glanced sideways at L'Ola and Teyno, then tapped her combadge. "Bridge to engineering, prepare for a swift tow back to Bellicose once the Klingons release us."

She turned back to Elron. "What is your ETA admiral?"
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 1, 2006, 8:20

Nack, embarrassingly, forgot that the holodeck was not replicating synthehol due to the power loss. The drinks he was drinking were real. After five drinks Nack sat back in the chair at the main table. Looking around, he saw Claire, but didn't see the Commodore anymore.

"I hope I didn't say anything to," ::hiccup::, ", offend her" Nack blurted.

Nack looked over at Lieutenant Steenberg. "I think this is the best ship I've ever been on.." Nack swung his arm in gesture to the ship around him. His whole body seemed to follow behind his arm as he made the movement, and he knocked over a glass sitting on the table. The holodeck safety controls dematerialized the glass as it shattered.

Nack couldn't tell if Claire was interested or not. However, at this point, Nack would talk to anyone present.

"Have you ever wondered why we are here?"

Somewhere in the room , somebody was thinking "Oh jeez, here it comes...", rolling their eyes.

"I mean, what if this universe was just a spec, and that spec was on... the fingernail... of a giant.." Nack's head bobbed up and down the last few words of the statement and he passed out.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 1, 2006, 8:21

As Byrne sat at the man engineering panel, he kept trying to follow the cascade failure that caused the gravitational failures that plagued the ship. Tapping a few buttons, he came across a small area of the EPS grid that was damaged during the fold in time event that the Minerva module suffered while linking up with the Epsilon Omega shuttle craft.
Rerouting the command procedures, he was able to create a new pathway for the plasma to regenerate the gravitational generators on all decks.
Much to the ease of the rest the crew.
Easing the other areas into gravity, Logan set about using the existing conduits to allow life-support to be vented into the areas that were once off-limits. Getting the okay from the Bridge, Byrne contacted L'Ola and Trey to send crews into the unoccupied areas to search for survivors or data information that could be have been compromised during the power shutdown.
Relaying the status report to the Bridge, Logan heard that they were on there way back to the Alpha Quadrant for docking with the main Starbase.
Just not to happy that he couldn't do it on his own.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 2, 2006, 5:01

Elron composed himself and listened to the Commodore's story with interest. It was certainly a tale worthy of the USS Vesuvius.

"What is your ETA admiral?" asked Sonak eventually.

"Coincidentally, we're just a few light years from the Klingon border. We're still in the Zeta Eridani system, but we were planning to head back to the Majoris sector later today. We can be waiting for you near the Eridani outpost base along the old Neutral Zone within minutes," Elron replied.

"We look forward to seeing you there. I'm sure our Klingon friends will have no problem taking us as far as the border."

Elron smiled. "We'll keep an eye out for you. Just don't let the ship fall apart any more than it already has." Sonak simply raised an eyebrow. "Elron out."

Despite his initial reaction, there was something about this that troubled the Admiral slightly. The Vesuvius was practically a brand new ship; for her to mysteriously lose her gravitational systems was not a good sign. As for the rest of the damage... Elron could only shudder at the thought of the Second Fleet's maintenance expenditure this year.

He tapped the comm panel again. "Elron to Engineering."

=/\= Singh here. Go ahead, sir. =/\=

"Lieutenant, make sure the QSD's at its optimum calibration. We're going to be giving the USS Vesuvius a tow back to Bellicose, so I don't want us looking slow!"

The CEO laughed inwardly. When you're travelling by slipstream, there's little chance of you looking slow. He knew that the Admiral was hoping to impress the Vesuvius with his prized engine. =/\= I'll make sure she's at her best, sir. =/\=

"Oh, and one more thing," Elron added quickly, "keep an eye on the artificial gravity and engineering systems in general. If anything unusual appears, let me know right away." This confused the Chief Engineer somewhat, since the Tulip hadn't experienced any problems recently, but agreed anyway, of course.

Now that he had something to do, Elron was feeling a bit more lively. He marched onto the bridge and instantly began issuing orders. "Bema, set course for the Klingon border. Today we're Starfleet's official breakdown service."

"Aye, sir," the CNO responded with a baffled frown. "Course entered."

Elron took the centre seat from Disasterman, who moved to his usual position. With an involuntary gesture, he gave the traditional command. "Engage!"
On the view screen, the mesmerising blue vortex opened up before them and the Tulip plunged into slipstream-space.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 2, 2006, 22:10

This time, Sonak smiled at the blue-skinned Fleet Admiral, who happened to be one of her closest friends. "Thank you admiral, we shall be looking forward to meeting up with you. Our Klingon....hosts...shall be doing their utmost best to get us there as soon as possible. Vesuvius out."

Sonak nodded at L'Ola to kill the communication, then turned towards Teyno again. "How much do you know about gravitational systems, and what has happened to my vessel. Can it be prevented from happening again?"

Nodding at his explanation, she motioned for him to take the engineering station. "Brigde to engineering. Logan I need a damage report, and I need it yesterday!" She tapped her combadge again. "All senior staff report to briefingroom two in fifteen minutes. And you all had better have reports to give to me! Party on holodeck will be ending now, we have a lot of work to do!"

(everyone)

Fifteen minutes later, Sonak walked into the briefingroom, noting a very tired looking chief medical officer. Having left Miriya in Jatan's capable hands, Sonak now had her hands free to help out if needed. She knew the CMO would be telling her off soon enough but as he didn't even appear to be sober, she doubted he'd care right now. "Doctor, when is the last time you had any proper rest?" she querried, "or has Doc Caldwell been giving you a hard time? I can assist in sickbay if you need an extra pair of hands, after all I am a qualified medical doctor."

(Nack)

She turned towards the counselor. "How is crew morale counselor, have the two recent parties done anything to improve it?"

(Claire)

"Fox, status on sensors? Have you managed to get internal and external long-range sensors online yet?"

(Fox)

"Maverick, status of marine teams. How are they coping with the strain of being towed by Klingons? Are their training drills running well?"

(Trey)

Her glance shifted from the SMO to her CTSO, knowing full well how low an opinion L'Ola had of marines. "Security drills Commander Kanz, how have they been performing? How well are we able to defend our ship under present conditions? Are weapons and shields operational?"

(Kanz)

Finally, her eyes rested on Logan. "Damage report Commander Byrne," she demanded, "what is the extent of damage on my ship and how are repairs progressing? I need to be able to tell the admiral what needs emergency repairing and where your crews may need the assistance of his maintenance teams."

(Logan)

Sonak hadn't missed the fact that Nick was missing from the meeting. She knew he was still grieving for Kate, and trying to spend time with Yannis, but she couldn't condone his continued absence much longer. She tapped L'Ola on the shoulder. "I have an additional task for you and Lieutenant Steenbergen. I want you both to have a chat with Commander Martens. Claire, I want you in for separate observation after L'Ola has had a chance to talk to him alone. And I expect a report on his well-being."

(L'Ola/Claire)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 4, 2006, 7:06

"Commodore, I have some information that is a little problematic. After running scenarios as to the cascade failure of the grvitational field generators, I was under the assumption that this was caused by fractures in the plasma grid during our last mission, but (Byrne got serious), the extent that this progressed is way beyond strutural failure. I propose that someone, or something caused or influenced this to happen on the scale that it did. I am aware that we are in route to Federation space, but someone hiding a soft spot has let us carry on this long,"stated Byrne, glancing around the table.

Standing up and placing his PADD in front of the CO, Byrne retook his seat and lowered his head.

Tapping the buttons on the PADD, Sonak allowed the following recording to be played.

"This is Commander Logan Byrne, and this is a record of the findings to the USS Vesuvius-A catastrophic failure of the gravitional fields, after checking the structural casings of the EPS feeds to the upper decks, I have found micro-vibrational generators attached to the lower parts of the connecting plates of the larger main modules of the ship. These generators were placed out of sync with the ship's main sensors. Hence, why we could not see them. Using the LCARS net, I could not placed a signature on the harmonics being used. Thus, could not get a trace on the source or tech used in creating it. Personally, I can't assume a reason, and won't. But, one thing, Commodore Sonak, I can tell you one thing, without outside interference, this happened with a reason."

Looking towards Commander Byrne, the CO shot the 'you have gall' look at Byrne. After listening to the reports from the other senoir staff, Byrne stood up and followed the comand staff to the Bridge.
<TAG Sonak>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 4, 2006, 9:02

"I'm fine..."

Nack was well aware of what was going on, and his only wish was for the Commodore to talk quieter.

"I should be alright in sickbay."

A Ferengi has a four lobed brain, and it seemed to Nack that all four lobes were throbbing simultaneously. The hypospray he gave himself on the way to the briefing room was enough to counter the effects of alcohol, but the hangover was unbearable. He tried his best to compose himself as Sonak moved on. Nack fancied she hadn't noticed his irritability, but he was only fooling himself. Sonak continued addressing the rest of the chief officers.

Nack was rubbing his temples when Logan mentioned possible sabotage.

Nack didn't know what to make of it. There was always something going on around here it seemed.

"Commodore, may I be excused? I believe I could use some rest." Nack naturally yawned, but lengthened it to emphasize his sleepiness.


Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 4, 2006, 20:41

Keeping her eyes on Logan, she nodded towards Nack. "You are hereby ordered to take a rest of at least eight hours doctor," she told the Ferengi medical officer, "Doctors Reckus or Caldwell can keep an eye on sickbay in your absence. You may take that rest in sickbay, so that they can keep an eye on you."

She motioned for the rest to leave the briefingroom, but held her hand up when Logan started to follow. "Commander Byrne, please remain. We need to have a talk." She tapped Kanz on the shoulder. "You have the bridge until Commander Martens decides to come back on duty or when I return to the bridge. Please keep the ship on course towards co-ordinates specified by Admiral Elron. Or rather, make sure the Klingons get us there. Teyno, make sure your friend does not abandon us. Claire, start crew evaluations. Start with our dear doctor, and advise him to lessen his use of alcohol? It appears he is unable to hold his liquor."

Once the senior staff had left the briefingroom, Sonak tapped the PADD Logan had given her. "What is the meaning of this commander? Are you serious about the sabotage suggestion?"

Logan merely nodded, presently at a loss for words. It was well known that Sonak tended to single out her chief engineers as a point of dislike. This time was no different. "Have you any evidence to base this on? Any suspects?"

Logan nodded again. "If you think about it, there are several options." He nodded towards the PADD, holding out his hand to get it back. Sonak handed it to him and he accessed a second file, then handed it back to her. "Ma'am," he added, belatedly.

Sonak glanced at the file, her eyes widening in surprise. "Surely you are not serious about this?" She glanced at the list, which read a few names:

Lucy Kanz
Teyno
Nack
Kaylana Cornette
Michael Aarons
Falco
Hawk

Of those names, Logan had highlighted the most likely suspects:

Lucy Kanz
Teyno
Hawk

"You had better be able to explain this to me Commander Byrne," Sonak snapped at her chief engineer as she smacked the PADD down on the table. "I do not believe for one second that Lucy Kanz would sabotage this vessel. We are the only family she has, she would not consciously try to destroy us. I refuse to believe that. Teyno has had no opportunity, nor has he any motive. And I believe it very unlikely that a respectable officer like Commander Hawk would try to sabotage our vessel. He has no motive either."

She shoved the PADD back towards him over the table. "You sit here and think over the consequences of false accusation, should you be wrong," she answered. "I will recommend that Teyno be detained until further notice, and I will also put out a notice to the detaining of Commander Hawk and Acting Ensign Kanz. But if you are wrong about this, it is you who shall be detained. Am I clear?"

Without awaiting his answer, she turned her back on him and marched onto the bridge. "Commander Kanz, please escort Civillian Teyno to the brig. He will remain there until further notice. Allow him limited access to the ship's library, but restrict his access to the outbound communications network." After Kanz had left the bridge, she beckoned Trey Maverick. "Contact the Nevada and the Majesty, and get their respective security forces question Acting Ensign Kanz and Commander Hawk."

off note: at this point we don't know yet that there is no Nevada anymore.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nick Martens on Dec 5, 2006, 19:14

Nick sauntered back up to the bridge. Repairs were coming along nicely, with temporary gravity being restored to the command deck. He discretely sat down in the first officers chair next to L'Ola, who was sitting reading a report in the captains chair.

"So what's going on?" he said softly. L'Ola jumped slightly, surprised by his appearance. She glanced at him.

"Lets see, Sonaks worried about you and Byrne found the problem with the gravity."

She pulled up the sound file Logan had played during the briefing. His brow furrowed.

"Those shouldn't have caused the crash," he muttered. L'Ola looked at him curiously. He pulled up his construction logs from a couple years earlier, only to find the generators in that section were installed installed by him. In fact it was the sweet spot that Yannis and him would relax in.

"I've gotta talk to Sonak," he said closing down the file.

"She's in there with Logan now," L'Ola said pointing at the briefing room.

Like magic Sonak emerged from the briefing room, a dark cloud about her. She blurted some orders to L'Ola who looked like a deer in the headlights.

"Yes Ma'am," she sputtered slightly confused. She got up and went back to her station.

Sonak took the center seat and looked at her first officer, who was dressed in civilian clothes.

"It is good to see you back up here Commander. I take it you're feeling better?"

"Yeah," he said coily, "I've spent the last few days floating in the space over deck 2 thinking and watching the stars go by. Decided it was time to get back to life and move on."

"Well it is good to have you back," she gave him a soft smile.

"Ma'am I may have some information about the failure."

He went on to explain the sweetspot and how he and Yannis would use it as their relaxation center. How it'd been a low gravity section since the ships completion.

"Now Logan is going to look into who installed the units and he's going to find out who installed them," he paused.

"Who would that be?" she inquired.

"Me."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 6, 2006, 3:57

Back at the Klingon-Federation border, sitting on the bridge of the Tulip, FA Elron was monitoring fleet activity. He'd noticed the Vesuvius' request for Cmdr Hawk to be detained on the Majesty, and was obviously concerned.

"Mr Richards, how far away is the Vesuvius?" he asked.

"They're on long-range sensors now, sir. The Klingon ships don't exactly seem to be the fasted in the KDF."

Elron pondered for a moment. "Give me a secure-shell link with the Vesuvius' operational computer logs," he ordered finally.

"It'll need your personal command codes to access the restricted system logs," the Ops Officer answered.

"Thank you, Lieutenant."

Elron's fingers ran quickly across the panel next to him as he accessed the Vesuvius' computer records via encrypted remote link. After entering his authorisation codes, he pressed his thumbprint in the appropriate spot and began scrolling through the engineering system records. Once he got to the gravitational field generators, he scanned the automated logs looking for the first signs of anomalous activity. He soon found the point where the cascade failure had commenced. Surprisingly though, it wasn't a progressive cascade as one would have expected. He wasn't an expert, but it didn't look to Elron as if this was caused by your average 'wear-and-tear' fault at all. The matrix failure appeared to have started a cascade almost instantly, without any compensation from the safety protocols. It was almost as if the cascade had been kick-started by something else. There was no data available in the Vesuvius' records to account for this though.

"Mr Richards, ask Commodore Sonak to contact me at her earliest convenience. Transfer her straight to my ready room when she does. I'd like to ask her for a fuller account of the damage to her ship." With that, Elron stood up and walked back to his ready room. "You have the bridge, DM," he said to his First Officer.

The Admiral was beginning to regret his initially flippant reaction to the Vesuvius' call for help. This didn't seem as insignificant as the Commodore had led him to believe...
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 6, 2006, 4:42

Bursting past Sonak, Logan went straight for to the turbolift. Feeling the glare from the Commodore through the back of his head, as the doors closed, he mumbled the deck he wanted. Entering the Science Lab, he encountered Commander Fox bent over his latest experiment. Lightly tapping him on the shoulder, he motioned him to a nearby office. Showing Fox his PADD, Byrne highlighted the list of names of the people he suspected of sabotaging the ship
<TAG Fox>

Explaining his suspicions, Byrne outlined his plan of attack. He the asked Fox to monitor the movements of the crew during the last days since the mission with the time/space doorway. Heading to Engineering to gather a private team of specialists to help him check the areas where the damaged systems were located. Using forensic techniques, the team was able to obtain 6 sets of DNA traces and fingerprints.

Once gathered, he then relayed this to Fox, who was at this time joined by Jatan, to analyze. Tracing the data, they were able to isolate 4 key persons on the list. Now just a way to isolate the list to people who would have had time and motive.
<TAG Fox and Jatan>

Once Byrne re-established the conduit guides to the primary gravity generators, his arm alert signalled a vibrational distortion coming from a bypass box located behind a false bulkhead. Using his tricorder, he was able to isolate the frequency and record, then jam it. Pulling the box out, Logan severed it's power source, setting off a Red Alert.

Sliding down the ladder, byrne was surrounded by the warning alerts and the rush of crew members. Tapping his commbadge, he called the Bridge, =^="Bridge, this is byrne, what is going on? I found the frequency transponder and pulled. But I don't know what triggered the Red Alert. On my way to the Bridge, Byrne out".
<TAG Bridge crew>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 6, 2006, 7:50

Green eyes stared hard and long at the Tandaran first officer. "You...installed them," Sonak repeated, "and did you ever think to check whether that may compromise ship's security and integrity? You may be the designer of this vessel, you may even have been both security chief and chief engineer, but you do not install anything without my prior consent...is that understood?"

(Nick)

Meanwhile Jatan had joined Fox and Logan with a forensic kit. "Just why exactly am I needed?" Jatan querried, "shouldn't Doctor Nack do the honors on this?" When he started to tap his combadge, Logan snatched his wrist.

"No," Logan answered curtly, "just do your job doctor, all will become clear soon.

Jatan shrugged and set to work, later handing the data to Logan as ordered. He didn't know what was going on, and he felt he shouldn't ask either.

Back on the bridge, the navigator on duty reported that he was getting the Black Tulip on long-range scanners. The Klingon vessels seemed to be speeding up now, clearly wanting to be rid of their status as scow as soon as was possible.

Red alert claxons started blaring without warning and Sonak whirled about to face L'Ola. "Shut that off!" she ordered, while covering her sensitive ears. L'Ola worked swiftly to comply and the noise stopped.

As Sonak sat down in her chair, her disapppointment in her first officer quite evident, Logan hailed the bridge. =^="Bridge, this is byrne, what is going on? I found the frequency transponder and pulled. But I don't know what triggered the Red Alert. On my way to the Bridge, Byrne out".=^=

"I do not know commander, but you had better have some good news. Remember what I told you." Just then, the duty operations officer announced that a message was coming in from the Black Tulip to call at earliest convenience. "I seem to have some time now, hail the Black Tulip."

As soon as contact was confirmed, however, she shimmered out of view right before her crew. To her own surprise she found herself not materialising on a Klingon vessel, as she had half expected, but rather in Elron's readyroom. "Sir?" she querried as she felt her stomach churn. Transporting only a matter of hours after giving birth never was a very sensible idea. And only because Elron caught her in time was she spared the embarassment of collapsing right in front of a senior officer.

"I must apologize for that," she murmured, then glanced up at Elron. "You could have warned me that I was about to get transported, then I would have told you I would be taking a shuttle instead." She looked as angry as she felt. "Why have you beamed me here? I have a situation on my ship...I am needed there."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 6, 2006, 8:40

Nack was on one of the sickbay beds, sleeping, when he was awoken from a red alert. The noise from the red alert siren was never pleasant for a Ferengi. Even more so with this Ferengi, due to the hangover that was almost completely gone.

During the initial confusion, Nack's monitor indicated in incoming encrypted message. The message was from Jatan, who seemed intent on not letting anyone know he was sending it.

"Dr. Nack, I have some fingerprint and DNA samples I am transporting over to you that I want you to look at. They are probably clues to who sabotaged the ship. Commander Byrne insists that I do this myself, but he is acting very perculiar... I would feel much better if you did this. And keep it quiet, I don't want it to go on record that I disobeyed anyone. Thanks Doc"

The communication ended, and a couple standard transport bio-containers materialized on Nack's desk.

Nack started the DNA analysis. He ran the fingerprint analysis immediately after. The results came immediately for the fingerprints, and the results set Nack back. Five of the six prints were similar, and one set was smudged beyond recognition.

Nack invoked the computer. =/\= Encrypt the following message and send to Jatan Reckus, authorization Nack alpha-5-zeta. =/\=

~/\~ Begin Message ~/\~ the computer responded

=/\= Doctor Reckus, it's Doctor Nack. I ran the samples you gave me, and I know who to point the finger at... no pun intended. =/\=

Nack looked over at the DNA analysis which had just finished. The findings reconfirmed Dr. Nack's findings with an 85% accuracy rate.

=/\= It seems that Nick Martens has his bio signature all over this one. =/\=

Jatan acknowledged, but only after a long pause. "Perhaps we should tell Son--- Commodore Reckus..."

=/\= Indeed =/\=

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commodore Reckus =/\=

No answer

=/\= Computer, locate Commodore Reckus =/\=

~/\~ Commodore Reckus is no longer aboard the ship. ~/\~

"GREAT! Now what should I do?" Nack thought. The person naturally in charge is the suspect. Nack reenacted the encrypted communication with Jatan and told him.

=/\= I'm going to go to the bridge to see what's going on. =/\=

Nack ended the transmission and left sickbay, short of his complete rest.

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Dec 7, 2006, 2:29

"Commander Kanz, please escort Civillian Teyno to the brig. He will remain there until further notice. Allow him limited access to the ship's library, but restrict his access to the outbound communications network." Ordered Sonak.

Teyno whirled round in surprise. He was no stranger to being incarcerated, but seldom had it been for something he hadn't done.

"What?" Teyno exclaimed, "What have I done?"

Sonak did not answer and Teyno felt Kanz' grip on his arm. Teyno contemplated resisting for a moment, but decided it wouldn't do him much good.

"Commodore, I haven't done anything!" He said as he left the bridge.

After Kanz had left him in the brig, Teyno asked the officer on duty, "Could you please tell me what I am supposed to have done?"

<Officer>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 7, 2006, 4:12

Elron was as startled as Sonak to find the Vulcan officer in his ready room. He saw that she was about to swoon and immediately reached out to catch her.

"You could have warned me that I was about to get transported, then I would have told you I would be taking a shuttle instead," the Commodore muttered angrily. "Why have you beamed me here? I have a situation on my ship...I am needed there."

Elron was at a loss. "Max, what is Commodore Reckus doing here?!" he shouted to the bridge.

"You told me to transfer her to your ready room as soon as she was available," the COO replied innocently.

Elron scowled angrily, but realised that there were more important matters at hand. "Commodore, are you alright? You never mentioned you were injured at all." His concern for his friend was genuine, as was the guilt he felt. He got her settled onto the couch and went to the replicator to fetch her some water. "Is everyone else on your ship ok?" He handed Sonak the glass.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 7, 2006, 14:42

"Could you please tell me what I am supposed to have done?"

The security guard on duty glanced at the civillian who stood only millimeters away from the forcefield. She shrugged in disinterest before answering. "Sabotage this ship, if the reports are true." She gave him a very hard glance. "And for your sake, you'd better hope that the reports are wrong, because the commodore doesn't take very kindly to saboteurs."

She grinned in a non-committed fashion. "Why, she once threw our former chief engineer in the brig for being late on a meeting. Says something doesn't it?"

(Teyno)

Black Tulip

"Commodore, are you alright? You never mentioned you were injured at all."

"I am not injured admiral," the Vulcan answered as she was guided to a very comfortable couch, "I have just been pregnant if you recall that. My daughter was born only a few hours ago, and under very dire circumstances." She frowned upon the memory. "I was fortunate that at least engineering had gravity, but my chief engineer was forced to play midwife because my chief medical officer was stuck in sickbay."

Sonak accepted the glass of water with a smile and sipped it. The nausea from the sudden transport was starting to fade, and some colour came back to her face. She looked up at Elron, who sat across from her and noted the concerned expression on his face.

"Is everyone else on your ship ok?

"As far as I can tell they are," she answered truthfully, "Engineering is working very hard on restoring gravity. Commander Byrne has discovered that there is or was a saboteur aboard. Gravity failed shortly after the Majesty departed back to Federation space."

Quietly, she continued to report what Byrne had found. "We have a list of suspects. Unfortunately Miss Lucy Kanz and Commander first class Hawk are among our suspects. Civillian Teyno has been detained for the moment as he too had time and motive. However, before I was unceremoniously beamed here, I believe Commander Byrne was about to report something."

She glanced at Elron expectantly. "Perhaps we should contact my ship and find out? I am certain my crew is now wondering what is going on."

(Elron/Vesuvius crew)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Fox on Dec 7, 2006, 15:49


Dec 6, 2006, 4:42, Logan Byrne wrote:
Entering the Science Lab, he encountered Commander Fox bent over his latest experiment. Lightly tapping him on the shoulder, he motioned him to a nearby office. Showing Fox his PADD, Byrne highlighted the list of names of the people he suspected of sabotaging the ship."


Fox gazed at the list of names Byrne had highlighted and let Byrne explain his plan. Fox looked at him. "I hope you're wrong about you list of most likely suspects commander." Fox said "Both Lucy and Hawk wouldn't do anthing like this, im sure of that. And Teyno..." Fox paused for a little while "Well i don't beleive he would either."

Byrne nodded "They all might just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time." Fox nodded. "Ok, i'll monitor them on internal sensors, cause this has to be resolved, but i don't like it. It feels like spying on someone."
"Thank you commander." Byrne said with a faint smile and walked out of the Science lab.


Dec 6, 2006, 4:42, Logan Byrne wrote:
Using forensic techniques, the team was able to obtain 6 sets of DNA traces and fingerprints.

Once gathered, he then relayed this to Fox, who was at this time joined by Jatan, to analyze.


In the mean time Jatan and Fox had set up some equipment to analyse Byrne's findings. After a while Byrne came back to the lab with the samples he had found. There was no exact match found. But they could take a few people perminently off the list.

Fox looked at Byrne "About the rest, i still don't see what motive either of them could have. But according to personel records they call have the skills to temper the systems affected and according to the sensor readings they've been in the right place. But i'm missing the motive, i see none."

<Byrne>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 8, 2006, 9:31

As Logan gathered the last bit of information from the Medical team, he went to see Commander Fox in the Science Lab. Questioning the Commander, he came to a conclusion for the immediate situation. Asking Fox to join him, Byrne headed for the bridge, tapping his badge and thanking the medical staff for their assistance.

Reaching the Bridge, Logan called out for the CO. The First Officer utrned and stated that she had been beamed off the ship against her will. With that, Byrne pulled out a portable phaser and stunned the FO. At that moment. Trey turned around with a phaser assault rifle pointed at the CEO.

Dropping the phaser, Logan proceeded to elaborate what he had found out about the device found in the Jefferies Tube. Pleading with Trey, he kept asking for the Commodore. L'ola turned and stated that Sonak was removed from the ship by the crew of the Black Tulip.

=^=Computer, with the CO and FO incapacitated, who is the next in command?, asked Byrne,=^= "The Chief Enginner would succeed followed by the Chief Medical Officer", stated the computer.

"As standing commander of the ship, I am requesting the following actions be taken. I have been given proof that someone on the senior staff had been directly involved with the device that I found that caused the gravition failure. As such, I am now instituting a state of emergency."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 8, 2006, 10:22

Nack heard phaser fire outside of the turbolift as it halted. The doors opened. Commander Martens had just finalized his fall with a thud, and lay motionless. Trey was now holding a phaser at Logan, who just heard confirmation of who was the current acting Captain now that the First Officer was incapacitated. Nack noticed Fox next to the Engineering console, slightly out of view from the Marine.

Slowly moving, Nack reverse-stepped into the turbolift before anyone took notice of him. The next few quick and inaccurate judgments would prove costly, but the Ferengi hamster wheel started turning in his enlarged skull and showed no signs of slowing. "Why would Trey shoot Commander Martens?" was the common thought. "Maybe this is a conspiracy going deeper than I thought." ... "Where is the Commodore?!"

Nack made it back to sickbay. His immediate mission: to contact the Commodore... if she wasn't gone for good. He opened a subspace channel, and transmitted the following to open space:

"Commodore Reckus, I am sorry to bother you, but recent events aboard the Vesuvius make this necessary. It seems Commander Martens is responsible for the ship problems we were having... and Trey went berserk on the bridge and shot him. I think he's dead! Logan is being held hostage. I assume the rest of the bridge crew is too. I am taking charge of the ship. I don't know who I can trust, so I am going to wait until I find out more before proceeding. Nack out."

The doctor closed the channel hoping that the Commodore was safe and would be back soon.

=/\= Computer, please transfer control of the ship to Chief Medical Officer Nack =/\=

~/\~ Security Override Required ~/\~

=/\= Security Override Alpha-5-Zeta =/\=

~/\~ Transfer of Control Authorized. Transfer Completed ~/\~

Nack hadn't the foggiest idea of what to do. He grabbed a hypospray, thinking he would sedate or stun Trey first. After, Logan and he could try to find the Commodore.

Nack left the room, only to double back to retrieve a phaser hidden behind one of the panels in the bay, and made his way cautiously out the door.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Dec 8, 2006, 14:08

The security guard glanced at Teyno. She shrugged in disinterest before answering. "Sabotage this ship, if the reports are true." She gave him a very hard glance. "And for your sake, you'd better hope that the reports are wrong, because the commodore doesn't take very kindly to saboteurs."

Teyno laughed out loud, "My dear, if I had wanted to sabotage the ship, the commodore wouldn't know about it. Anyway, you don't normally throw suspects into the brig, any sane and reasonable captain would have confined me to quarters."

She grinned in a non-committed fashion. "Why, she once threw our former chief engineer in the brig for being late on a meeting. Says something doesn't it?"

"What, that she's an unstable and deranged psycho?" Said Teyno, "You noticed that too, huh?"

The guard didn't respond and Teyno moved over to the bed and lay down on it, looking up at the ceiling, waiting...
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 8, 2006, 22:22

Brig

"Yeah yeah," the woman replied impatiently, "now just sit back and be quiet and overthink your sins. Once the Commodore has regained her common sense she'll probably let you out. In the mean time, just sit tight hm?"

She smiled then winked. "Who knows, perhaps I'll take a hansome guy like you out to dinner..." Her smile vanished just as quickly as it appeared. "Now, I have work to do."

Bridge

L'Ola was stood at the security console, watching the scene unfold before her with rising astonishment. Her mouth fell open when Logan shot the first officer without warning or accusation, then made it seem as though Trey did the shooting.

Since she never spoke a word, nobody really paid heed to her presence, and certainly never noticed when she switched a lever and made secure contact to the Black Tulip. A live feed was send to the BT, along with an encrypted message from the security chief, expressing her worries.

Black Tulip

Young Max Richards came storming into the readyroom, surprising both commodore and admiral and disrupting their earnest conversation. "Sir, ma'am, priority coded messages coming in from the Vesuvius. Live video feed also."

Exchanging a surprised glance, Vulcan and Avari rose as one and headed for the readyroom doors. Elron motioned for Sonak to go first. "Ladies first," he smiled, though Sonak could tell it wasn't as earnest a smile as earlier. Both stood watching the live feed that came from the Vesuvius and Sonak stood transfixed in horror as she watched a reply of Logan entering the bridge, shooting Nick and then taking command of the ship.

"I trusted him," she said sadly, "now I see I have to rethink on who is loyal to me."

"Ma'am?" Richards waved for her attention. "The video feed is sent by a Commander L'Ola Kanz, and I have an encrypted message from a Lieutenant Commander Nack, MD."

"Patch it through," she told the young officer, exchanging yet another worried look with Elron.

Commodore Reckus, I am sorry to bother you, but recent events aboard the Vesuvius make this necessary. It seems Commander Martens is responsible for the ship problems we were having... and Trey went berserk on the bridge and shot him. I think he's dead! Logan is being held hostage. I assume the rest of the bridge crew is too. I am taking charge of the ship. I don't know who I can trust, so I am going to wait until I find out more before proceeding. Nack out."

"He is sorry?" Sonak gazed around at the Black Tulip senior staff. Bema Saberwyn was sat in the first officer's seat, looking thoughtful, but equally shocked. "I was already aware of the fact that Martens was responsible, but he did not cause the sabotage. He was negligent, it was someone else's tampering that caused his negligence to end up in this cascade disaster. He confessed to me just before I was so unelegantly beamed here."

The Vulcan fixed her mock-glare on Richards, who seemed to shrink back in embarassment. "Nick is not dead, I can still sense him. He is merely unconscious. "Lieutenant Richards, please patch me through to Doctor Nack, priority one, encrypted. Make sure only Doctor Nack can intercept and decrypt this message."

At Richard's nod, she steeled herself for the inevitable. "Doctor, Commander Martens is not dead, and thinks are not as you believe they are. You can trust Commander Kanz, she has just shown me what transpired on the bridge. It is Logan who needs to be subdued, not Lieutenant Maverick. Please be careful in your actions. Also, release Teyno from the brig, he may be of assistance. You are in command of this vessel until I return." She turned to Richards. "Send message."

Then Sonak tapped Elron on the arm. "We need to retake my ship. Are you game for a little action?" She wasn't certain she was ready, she still didn't feel like her old self. But her worry for her crewmembers and her family gave her strength. "I want my ship back."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 9, 2006, 5:36

After shouting the situation to Maverick, Logan kept his hands up pleading not to get shot by the Security officer.

=^="Computer command protocol, epsilon alpha Byrne 13, allow commands to be accessed from my personal transponder, and if in the event, I am capacitated, then only under the direct orders of Commodore Sonak. Confirm." "Complied", stated the computer.

"Now that I have disabled the computers, will you please drop the rifle, Lt.? I have something to tell you, but only aftr Commander Fox finishes what he is doing on the Enginneering console", Byrne said calmly as he moved to sit in the command chair. "And can we have Dr. Nack come up here to recover the FO? I have so much explaining to do."

As Dr. Nack came to the Bridge, he was a little shocked to see the crew there acting differently then moments ago. Motioning his nurse to monitor the bio-metrics of the Bridge crew, he leaned down to find the Commander stunned, not dead. Breathing a relief breath, he looked at Trey and asked what he had done and why he shot Martens. Trey immediately shot back the statement that it was Commander Byrne who shot the FO. Nodding his head, the new CO acknowledged this statement. Using common knowledge, Nack stabilized the Commander until his medical team could be called.

From the communication console came an incoming message alert. L'ola stood up and pushed the button for two-way communication. At that moment, the Main view screen came alive with a large Soveriegn class ship heading for them.

'Oh, darn, here comes the Commodore and backup, and I still haven't been able to questions Martens about the alterations to the gravitional field generators', thought Byrne.

"Fox, pull up the data we collected and have a site to site transport for yourself, me, Dr. Nack and Commander Martens. You know where we are going, make it so", yelled Byrne.
<TAG Nack>

Mouths agape, the Bridge crew could do nothing but answer the incoming message from the Black Tulip. Offering no answers, Trey relayed to the Commodore what really happened on the Bridge after Sonak told him what Nack sent to her. He, then told her how Logan was able to overlock the command systems using his implants, and that he and the Commodore were the only ones able to regain control of the ship.

Turning to the Admiral, Sonak nodded for the go-ahead of the plan to invade the Vesuvius under extreme conditions. But unknown to her, was that while Fox was at the enginneering station, he clouded any sensors from detecting the whereabouts of the renegade crew till they completed thier mission to find the sabatore.
<TAG Fox>
<TAG Sonak>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 9, 2006, 16:08

"I am not injured admiral," replied Sonak as Elron guided her to the ready room's couch, "I have just been pregnant if you recall that. My daughter was born only a few hours ago, and under very dire circumstances."

Elron groaned inwardly but visibly. He looked at the Commodore again and felt a complete moron. He hadn't seen his friend for quite some time, and with all the recent excitement he had completely forgotten about her pregnancy. Looking at her now, though, he instantly recognised the fact that she'd just given birth.

"Perhaps we should contact my ship and find out? I am certain my crew is now wondering what is going on," the Commodore suggested.

Before Elron could respond, however, his Operations Officer burst into the room. 'You're skating on very thin ice, mister,' the Admiral thought with narrowed eyes. This thought vanished instantly when Max explained his reasons though.

"Sir, ma'am, priority coded messages coming in from the Vesuvius. Live video feed also!"

Standing on the bridge of the Tulip, the two flag officers were amazed by the events unfolding in high definition beauty on the viewscreen. After listening to Dr Nack's priority message, and replying with some encrypted instructions for him, Commodore Reckus turned to her immediate superior.

"We need to retake my ship. Are you game for a little action?"
Elron was pleased to see some determination return to her face. He thought there was even a little more colour too, for a Vulcan anyway. "I want my ship back," she said in a firm voice. It was clear she meant business.

"Elron to Fennell," said the Admiral, tapping his comm badge.
=/\= Fennell here, =/\= came the immediate reply.
"Protocol 32, Lieutenant."
=/\= Aye, sir. Fennell out. =/\=

The message was short and simple, but conveyed everything the Senior Marine Officer needed to know. "Colonel," said Elron, turning to his Tactical Officer, "you know what to do." Burgess nodded curtly in response.

Sonak gave the Admiral a curious glance. "Don't worry, Commodore. They'll use minimal force as far as possible. We have full details on the Somma class, but if there's anything you think we should know before going in, now would be a good time to inform my men." Elron was looking surprisingly determined himself. He was always keen to use force only as a last resort, but there was clearly a lot of confusion on the Vesuvius. There was no way he was going to risk losing officers from his fleet to misunderstandings and gushing adrenaline levels. Worse, yet, if the Klingons got wind of what was happening before the Tulip could arrive, who knew what their reaction might be.

"Bema, intercept the USS Vesuvius."
The CNO had returned to his position at the helm. "Course already laid in, sir."
"Engage!"

Elron sat down in the centre seat, motioning for Sonak to sit on his left. "Well, Commodore, it's your ship. How would you like to proceed first?"

[Sonak]


As the Black Tulip bore down on the approaching Klingon vessels, Elron made sure to contact them in plenty time. Burgess had ensured that weapons and shields were not online, but that they could be raised in an instant at the first sign of trouble.

"Captain Kratagh," Elron greeted the Klingon commander with a serious but politely measured tone. "This is Fleet Admiral Elron of the USS Black Tulip. We are extremely grateful to you for your assistance. We can take the Vesuvius from here; there's no need for you to be delayed any further on our account."

The Klingon scowled aggressively. "Perhaps you should take better care of your ships, Fleet Admiral. Only a fool allows defenceless ships to drift in Klingon space."

"Thank you for the advice, Captain." Elron frowned sternly. "What kind of warrior would prey on a defenceless ship, though?" Before the Klingon could respond, Elron continued. "As you can see, the Black Tulip is far from defenceless, and more than willing to fight for its comrades." The implications of the Admiral's statement were clear.

The Klingon commander then laughed boisterously.
"Take your ship, Admiral. And tell that t'gla you call 'mission specialist' that if I ever find him in Klingon space again, he'll wish he'd never crawled out the slime pit he came from!"

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 9, 2006, 17:47

"Firstly I would like to sit down somewhere," Sonak answered neutrally, though she cast a small smile at er friend, "and then we shall discuss tactics."

Elron motioned towards his comfortable command chair, but the Vulcan commodore shook her head, and sat down in the seat on the left. It was vacant and didn't require booting anyone out of his seat and it looked equally comfortable. She leaned in towards Elron, whispering something to him which made him smile. "You do realise that you are going to be godfather to my daughter, do you not?" she whispered, then her expression turned neutral again.

She beckoned Commander Disasterman to lean in as she described her ship in detail to them. "Commander Burgess, you may wish to make use of my shield frequencies, if you deem it necesary to fire on my ship." She cast him a stern glance. "However I would prefer it if you can refrain from damaging my ship any further."

Burgess grinned. "Yes ma'am, I shall endeavour to do so."

"In time of need, Vesuvius will split up in three compartiments. My crew is well trained in multi-vector assault modes, so you may want to anticipate that and disable the docking ports for the three modules, so that she cannot split up."

"On it," Burgess answered cheerfully, almost too cheerfully. "Docking clamps disabled, the Vesuvius is now unable to enter MVA."

"Good," Sonak nodded, then continued to show Elron and Disasterman the key positions on her ship. "Also be aware that they may sacrifice every bit of power to engage the cloaking device. With this, you can track her even when cloaked."

However after she'd informed them of all they needed to know, the Vesuvius suddenly dropped her shields. But only after the Klingons had departed the area. Sonak raised her eyebrow at Elron. "This is....interesting. Perhaps we should beam over? I do recommend taking along a security detail for our protection."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nick Martens on Dec 9, 2006, 18:57


~When I wake up I'm going to stick his head in a plasma conduit~ Nick thought as he hit the deck. Seemingly he was somewhat aware of what was going on around him despite being 'unconscious'.

L'Ola looked at the fallen Nick, she'd heard his thought and smiled inwardly.

~He's going to suffer long and hard for this one. Shooting a commanding officer without provocation is going to be a hard charge to bounce,~ he kept saying.

~Well, at least there are witnesses,~ L'Ola thought back.

Nick smiled inwardly.

~At least we can still communicate. My body doesn't seem to want to move.~

~Stun will do that,~ she responded.

Nack arrived and stabilized Nick. The world started to focus and sounds started to become clearer. As he started to sit up the transporter beam grabbed hold of him and deposited him in an unfamiliar setting.

"You son of a!!" He blurted at whomever. He tried to move his hands but they seemed to be immobilized.

"Damn it Logan! What's the meaning of this!?"

Logan walked over and looked at the first officer.

"You're our saboteur," he said bluntly.

"You're insane," Nick blurted back.

"Your DNA is all over the generators. You're also the last person who did maintenance on them."

"I installed them when the ship was built, which was also the last time I did maintenance on them."

{Logan}
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 9, 2006, 19:12

When the Vesuvius' shields dropped, Elron tapped his commbadge. "Lt Fennell, are your Marines ready for transport?"

=/\= Fully equipped and ready to beam over, sir, =/\= the SMO replied instantly.

"Maybe we should be cautious," Elron said warily. "I wasn't expecting them to drop their shields so readily."

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Teyno on Dec 10, 2006, 2:58

After what seemed an eternity of boredom, the attractive brig officer dropped the forcefield and said, "You're free to go."

Teyno said, "Thanks." Then he winked, "I'll give you a call about that date."

He then promptly exited the brig. As he walked down the corridor, the red alert klaxon sounded and the lights started flashing red. Wondering what could possibly have gone wrong now, Teyno headed for the nearest turbolift.

"Bridge." He commanded, and the turbolift started moving.

A few moments later, the lift stopped, the doors opened and Teyno's eyes were greeted with an odd scene. Maverick was pointing a phaser at Byrne, Nack was crouched by an unconscious Martens and the other officers were staring at them, bemused.

As he entered, Nack, Martens, Byrne and Fox dematerialised.

"What's going on?" He asked.

L'Ola explained.

"Then who's in command?"

"I suppose I am." Said L'Ola.

"Then it's your orders..." Said Teyno, waiting expectantly.

<L'Ola>
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 10, 2006, 3:40

Nack received Logan's request for medical assistance for Commander Martens with a certain suspicion. Logan explained further Nack's misinterpretation of the situation. Nack consulted the computer to see who had fired their weapon; something he should have done from the start. It was, indeed, Logan. Nack transfered Command of the ship back to Logan and made his way to the bridge.

On his way, the computer indicated that there was an incoming subspace message for him. He ducked into a lab and took the message. Commodore Reckus wanted Logan subdued... "Oh no! Nack thought... I just gave him back command!"

Worried Nack contacted the computer.

~/\~ Computer access is offline ~/\~

=/\= Who authorized that? =/\= Nack screamed. Realizing his loudness, he quieted.

Silence

"Duh" Nack hit himself. Computer access is offline.

Once on the bridge, the doctor medicated Marten's via hypospray. "The tingling in your arms is normal.". Nack relayed the message to release Teyno. Logan confirmed that the phaser was on the lowest stun setting, and continued to explain the events in more detail. Nack didn't know what to believe anymore, but he feigned his positive attitude toward Logan until he could sedate him.

"By the way, Commander... Why is the computer locked out?"

Instead of answering, Logan gave a command which caused a blue glow around Nack. He was being transported.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 11, 2006, 0:55

Watching the dropped jaws of the Bridge crew as the CMO and FO were beamed off the Bridge. Gathering Fox, he transmitted a coded message with his intentions to the Commodore aboard the Black Tulip.

Tapping the CONN panel, L'ola tried to reach the marines on the lower deck, because of all the confusion in last few moments and suspecting mutiny aboard the ship. Frustrated, she then realized that all of the command fuctions were locked out.

Beaming himself and Fox to a seperate loction within the ship and set up the monitoring equipment to follow the crew movements after the ruckus with the Red Alert and the attack on the Bridge.

Using the relay systems in his arm, Byrne created a encrypted link to Dr. Jatan in the Science lab to monitor the bio-signatures of the crew and create a data program to isolate the sabatour.

Coming into solidity, Nack fell over when the transport cycle was over. Grabbing Martens, he checked for any complications of the wounded man being transported afetr coming to from being stunned. Giving him a clean bill of health, he then realised that they had been beamed into a holding cell against their will.

Then it hit him, only one person would have known whom was repsonsible for installing the units in front of the booby trapped box, that caused the gravitational disaster aboard the ship. And he tinks the Commodore knew also. Sending a secret transmission to Lt. Maverick, stating the location of the senior crew that was missing and that he had proof of who actually sabatoured the ship.
<TAG Trey>
<TAG Fox>

Puzzled, Fox turned to Logan and dropped his PADD. "You mean that this was all a waste and you are willing to get court-martialed for shotting the First Officer?", yelled Fox.

"No, I had to plan this to show that Commander Martens had something to do with this, but didn't know that that information was going to be corrupted. And this little scenario, will prove that. The Commodore asked for me to be dead on with the investigation and not have it be lame accusations. This little experiment will justify all of that.", calmly stated Byrne.
<TAG Sonak / Martens>

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 14, 2006, 7:24

"Home in on Logan Byrne's co-ordinates," Sonak ordered the Black Tulip's transporter chief, after receiving a nod from Elron. The two flag officers stepped onto the transporter pads, surrounded by Elron's marine detail and were transported towards the Vesuvius. Just prior to transport, Fennell had insisted she'd take a phaser also, and Sonak had reluctantly taken it. It was well known in second fleet that the Vesuvius commanding officer rarely wore any type of weapon if she could avoid doing so.

Now, she couldn't and when she materialised right in front of Byrne, she raised her phaser at him. "Do not move commander," she said coldly, raising an eyebrow at Fox, Nack and Nick. Beside her, Elron too kept his weapon trained on the chief engineer. "You had better have a very good explanation for shooting my first officer, other than this little ploy of yours."

She motioned her phaser towards Nack. "How is commander Martens?" She never looked at her chief medical officer, keeping her eyes only on the chief engineer. "What is this box you keep referring to? I know it does not belong where you said it was found. I may not be an engineer but even I know a few very basic elements about engineering, and I certainly know my ship, and my first officer. Commander Martens, despite recent absence and actions, would not consciously sabotage something of his own design. If he is guilty of anything, it is neglect."

The Vulcan motioned towards the marines to keep an eye on Logan and Fox, while she knelt down besides Martens. "I do not believe you guilty of sabotage," she repeated as she reached out to him. "There is a way to know...with your permission?"

(Nick)

She heard Elron cough behind her, and she turned to look up at him. "A mind touch will verify that he is not guilty," she explained, "admiral perhaps you wish to question Mr Byrne about this box he mentioned?" She turned back to Nick, ignoring the doctor's protests about the commander being weak after being stunned. And she completely ignored Fox, whose siding with Byrne disappointed her immensely; she'd thought him loyal to her, and yet here he was, seemingly conspiring with Byrne. "Commander?"

(Nick/Elron/Nack/Fox/Byrne........someone wrap this sabotage end up please! Nick, Byrne, you know who to point the finger at...who's accidental mistake it was...go on and point it out please!)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 14, 2006, 9:19

Pulling the box from his pack, He dropped it like a sack of bricks. It hit the deck and resounded thru the Jefferies tube. It was at that point, the Commmodore motioned with her other arm, that Commander Fox was to be escorted from the area as a collaborator, but not directly involved.

It was at that moment the Commodore's other half, Dr. Jatan, yelld thru the comm-relay that Commander's Byrne and Fox were exonerated, thru the tests completed by the Medical staff. And that the sabaotage was internal.

(Umm Nick and Nack arent with me).......

Throwing his arms up, when the new away team arrived, Logan pulled the isolinear chip from his arm and waved it it in front of Commodore Sonak. "I have the proof, I am keeping my end of the deal.", yelled Byrne.

A little confused, Admiral Elron looked at the CO of the Vesuvius confused. She returned the statement, without removing her eyes from the targets at hand, and stated, "Admiral, I was told that this ship was not put in the scenarios prior to the birth of my child but mistake. There was a deliberate interferance aboard this vessel, and I told Logan that he had to be absolute in his assumptions that is was so. I can not, for any logic. understand why he fely it nessecary to stun the First Officer. I am asking you to assume a background-like judgement as to handle a crew member that would attack another, to create a point to justify this type of situation.."
<TAG Elron>
<TAG Sonak>

Leaning back against the bulhead, Byrne was resolute in what he did. And knew this would have reprocussions in the future aboard this ship.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Dec 14, 2006, 23:55

<little bit of a backpost, front post later...>

L'Ola looked down the list of people who had to be confined while inquiries were carried out. Some of them would be easier to arrest than others. And some of them would feel more comfortable than others. Not unhappily, she escorted Teyno to the Brig. But once that was over she started the message to send out.
'To: Starfleet Security
From: Commander L'Ola Kanz, CTSO, USS Vesuvius A
Please locate Lucy Kanz, former resident of Starbase Conqueror, and take necessary steps to keep her detained pending an internal investigation aboard USS Vesuvius A. No further disciplinary measures will be required at this time. Thank you'

She sighed and instructed the computer to send it, making sure it got logged as proof. This was not a good day.


*Oh great, just what we need to go with a broken ship, a mutiny* L'Ola thought, sarcastically.

Preferring to stay out of any mutinies that she hadn't helped to plan, the security chief stepped back behind her console. She even stayed calm after watching Logan shoot Nick. But enough was enough. Trying to keep out of the spotlight, she contacted the Black Tulip and set up a video feed of events on the Bridge, including a summary of recent history for good measure.

As the situation on the ship went from bad to worse, she started to discreetly contact her security teams. As a precaution (and mostly just for fun) all the team leaders had been given beepers to keep in contact. She messaged the others, instructing most of them to spread round the ship and keep things under control, and requesting that Emily gather up her team and head straight for the Bridge. She also gave explicit instructions to tell any marines they came across to go hide and practice shooting. This situation was FAR too delicate for their gung-ho tastes.

Although a shock at first, the sight of watching people beam away actually calmed L'Ola a little. At least they could start to pick up the pieces on board and get ready to find the mutinous few.

Teyno asked her for orders. She shrugged in reply, "Your orders are to let me be and stay out of my sight so that I don't remember you're supposed to be confined to quarters."

With the hint obviously taken, Teyno disappeared back into the turbolift.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Meylor Paht on Dec 15, 2006, 22:20

*meanwhile, back at the starbase*

The brilliant lights of Starbase Bellicose gleamed ever larger in the porthole through which Field Colonel Meylor Paht stared with eager eyes. Today was the day he would resume Starfleet duty once more, and he was looking forward to rejoining his old comrades on the Vesuvius more than ever. His exploits during his extended leave on a special tour of duty with the Bajoran Militia had been a exciting, challenging time; the New Sahving colony, the first permanent Bajoran settlement in the Gamma Quadrant had been established in memory of those who fell at New Bajor, its predecessor. A Militia squadron had been detached to escort the transfer of equipment and personnel, ensuring round-the-clock protection for this fledging community, hoping to avoid a repeat of historical tragedy. Additionally, Militia Engineers Corps teams had been recruited to provide special expertise into life-support and defensive systems being used to construct innovative habitats in many different climate zones on a what was found to be an incredibly varied planetary environment.

Meylor, with his experience both at his native bio-domes on Andros as well as several other engineered habitats on three different Federation worlds, was ordered to join the teams, an opportunity that proved too enticing to pass up. In the end, after six months of hard work, taxing conditions, logistical headaches, personnel conflicts, and design compromises, their ultimate goal of establishing one of the largest and most advanced Bajoran colonies yet had come to fruition in record time. And it was all done in a considerably more isolated location than any previous colony, on the other side of the great Celestial Temple, the ever awe-striking Wormhole.

Everyone involved in the ambitious project received their due honors from the authorities and dignitaries, who had overseen the ceremonial activation of the first air recycler, one of the few remaining pieces of equipment recovered from the ruins of New Bajor. It had been the sacred duty of one lucky engineer (not Meylor, to his regret) to reconstruct and put the unit into working order just for the big moment; the hum of its machinery was the only sound to be heard, along with the crackling flame of the duranja lamp, as all present at the ceremony fell silent for thirty minutes in memoriam to their departed forebears.

That was all three weeks ago, and despite its vivid feeling persisting in his memory, Meylor anticipated his return to Starfleet duty with emotions just as strong. Things couldn't look better, although his old instinct for security measures whispered in some small yet insistent voice to look out lest he find himself wandering in a fool's paradise. As the transport Akorem Laan slid smoothly into the docking clamps of the starbase, Meylor kept all these thoughts in conscious presence, admonishing himself to be prepared for anything, just as both the Bajoran Militia and Starfleet had taught him to since academy days.

Turning a corner off the gangway tunnel and onto the main arcade of the docking terminal, he caught sight of a breaking news report detailing the imminent arrival of the Starship Vesuvius under emergency conditions, but with few other specifics. Meylor smiled sardonically, but his cynicism quickly passed into genuine concern for his mates aboard ship. He whispered a heartfelt prayer to the Prophets, then started making for the station security office to report in and find out just what was going on...
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 15, 2006, 22:20

Sonak sighed as she watched the now severely dented box that lay on the deck. Carefully she picked it up then tapped her combadge. "Two to beam to Mercury's bridge," she instructed the computer, upon which Elron and Sonak materialised on the secondary bridge. She held the box out to L'Ola. "Commander Byrne claimed this is the cause for our cascade failure," she explained, "and though the commander was so kind to explain what this box does, I want you and Commander Martens to have a look at this."

She glanced at her chief of security. "Nick's only guilt is negligence as he failed to see to malfunctions that were present since launch. This was a failure waiting to happen, but something tipped the scales." She handed L'Ola the isolinear chip she'd taken from Logan. "Commander Byrne claims he has proof. Verify it." ~and do not dare twist information commander~ she thought, gazing intently at the other woman ~I will know when you have~

This time, she glanced up at Elron. "I believe it is time I took back control of my ship." She tapped her combadge. "All senior staff report to Emergency Control room for briefing. All departments, I want answers! No more excuses, I want conclusions."

(all)
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nick Martens on Dec 16, 2006, 0:04

Nick sat in the briefing room glowering at the CEO. His fingers were still tingling from the blast he'd recieved earlier in the day.

"Answers people! I want answers!" Sonak stated from head of the briefing table.

"As far as we can tell Nick did install the gravity generators. But we don't have any leads on when the mystery unit was installed," L'Ola stated. "However ma'am we have no way of knowing if Nick is responsible for the collapse or if Lucy's intrusion into the computer system was the final straw."

"The other thing we need to look at is if this were possibly associated with Kate in any way," Nick suddenly spewed out. The late mrs. Martens hadn't really been mentioned as a possibility as she was long dead.

"Logan, was there any way to tell when this device was installed?" Sonak asked.

<Logan>

OOC: This next part is to move us on to the next missions. Keep in mind the briefing is still going on.

L'Ola was about to say something when the comm beeped.

=/\= Commodore incoming message from Starfleet command.=/\=

"Patch it through," Sonak replied. She look just as confused as the rest of her crew.
The UFP crest appeared on screen followed by the image of Admiral Nakamura.

=/\=Commodore, staff,=/\= he started his address to the staff.

"Admiral," Sonak replied.

=/\=Commodore I've been reviewing the logs of your crew from the last few missions and I'm quite disturbed. Certain events and actions have not gone unnoticed by command and they want answers. Once Vesuvius is repaired and drills are completed you're all to report to Earth for an independent review. You and your crew are to be interviewed by an Arbiter assigned to this investigation.=/\= he paused.
=/\= Any questions?=/\=

"No sir. We'll notify you when we arrive," Sonak replied.

=/\= Good. Nakamura out.=/\=

The screen went dark and all around the table went silent. It seemed a lot of things were going to be changing.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 16, 2006, 4:14

Standing beside the Commodore, Elron looked around the secondary bridge. This was the first time he'd seen the Mercury bridge, and he was mighty impressed. He was almost developing a taste for the Somma class. Then again, she did seem to suffer a lot of damage. Elron wondered whether that was down to the ship or the crew.

He roused from his meandering thoughts as Sonak started issuing orders. Since he was new to the proceedings, Elron still wasn't entirely sure what had been happening on the Vesuvius and who, if anyone, was responsible. He got the feeling that many of the others were similarly in the dark. Sonak was handling the situation well though, so he decided not to cramp her style. He was the guest now, after all.

"I believe it is time I took back control of my ship," said Sonak with a glance towards Elron. As she ordered her senior staff to assemble, Elron tapped his own commbadge.

"Elron to J'Ka," he said.
=/\= J'Ka here. The Vesuvius seems secure. There has been no resistance. =/\=
"Thank you, Lieutenant," replied Elron. "I'm not expecting any more trouble, but please send a couple of your men to the Emergency Control Room. Once Commodore Sonak is satisfied she has complete control of the ship, the rest of your troop can return to the Black Tulip."
=/\= Acknowledged, sir. My men are on their way. =/\=


Later, during the briefing, Elron was surprised to hear that a communication from Starfleet Command was being patched through. His heart sank, as he had reason to believe this wasn't going to be good news. When Admiral Nakamura's face appeared on screen, his suspicions were confirmed. He had only met the man a couple of times at the annual Starfleet Admirals' banquet, but Elron found him to be rather stuffy and irritating. He lived up to every preconception that Elron used to have about Starfleet Admirals (until he became one himself, of course).

=/\= Commodore, staff, =/\= began Nakamura.
"Admiral," Sonak replied.
"Admiral," added Elron casually.
=/\= Fleet Admiral Elron! =/\= said Nakamura with a look of surprise. =/\= I didn't know you were on the Vesuvius. =/\=
Elron smiled wryly. "I'm just helping them out for a little while. Please... continue." Elron sat back and folded his arms, a reminder to Admiral Nakamura that the Vesuvius was under Elron's direct command, not his.

As the Admiral outlined his instruction to the Vesuvius' crew, Elron frowned. He hadn't been informed of any of this. As a member of Starfleet Command, Admiral Nakamura was of course not overstepping his authority, but it was just good manners to inform the Fleet CO beforehand. He decided not to say anything though. It wouldn't do that have that discussion in front of the Vesuvius crew.

=/\= Nakamura out. =/\=
As the screen returned to its previous blankness, Elron turned to Sonak. He was curious about her reaction to this request, but there were more pressing questions that needed answering first...

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 16, 2006, 5:38

Commodore Reckus's phaser twitched in his direction, motioning for Nack to respond.

"The Commander is doing alright. He just needs rest.... and no more transports for awhile." Nack shot an angry glance at Logan, who didn't take his eyes off of the Commodore.

"I suggest we bring him to sickbay, Commo..." Before Nack finished, Admiral Elron materialized behind Sonak.

Nick protested quietly, wanting to join the others in the briefing room.

"Well, if you have any problems, you know where I'll be. Permission, Commodore, to return to sickbay." Permission was granted.


In sickbay, Nack returned to the five fingerprint samples he originally matched; four of which were Commander Marten's. The fifth... was smudged so badly that the Dr. was unable to decipher anyone's print out of it... and the DNA sample... it was only accurate to 85%. The evidence left a 3% chance that Martens could be exonerated- and from the orders of his Commanding Officer, that is what he was going to set out to try and do.

Dr. Jatan joined him in hypothesizing. "You know, we did not determine the sex of the perpetrator. We know the subject is human, but we were unable to get a good fix on chromosome 23. After all, 85% accuracy is only good enough to tell that the DNA is not human, Vulcan, or.." Jatan pointed to a list of a bunch of other races, some not even found on the Vesuvius. "... and maybe good enough to indicate some physical traits commonly found in humanoids."

"But the fingerprints." Nack said. "They point right back to Nick every time. If only we could analyze the smudged print. It would be very helpful."

Nack got an idea.

"We are going about this all wrong. Last time we were looking for who did this. This time, we want to show who didn't... mainly Nick."

Nack went over to the console and pulled up the image of the smudge, and compared it to a well formed print of Nick's.

"See. This is way too small to be Commander Marten's."

=/\= Computer, please run an analysis of the smudged print's size, and cross reference that to those aboard the ship since the Vesuvius last left base. =/\=

The computer scrolled a list of about 20 officers and 10 civilians, the civilians being mostly children.

"There it is. I would have never believed it." Jatan said, sure of himself. He quickly ran over the the DNA analysis console, and started pounding away at the lit keys. Nack took a look at what surprised Jatan. It was Lucy Kanz.

"Lucy? Was that the girl leaving while I was stuck here in sickbay earlier?"

Jatan didn't answer the question, but called Nack over to the console he was attending. "Here is graphical representation of the found DNA." A double helix figure sped across the screen at an incredible rate. "And this is Commander Martens DNA." The previous DNA strand moved to the bottom of the screen, and Nick's faded in above it. Slowly they moved together, and the unsure pieces were highlighted. "The computer gives an 85% certainty. Now, if we try Lucy's..." The graphical model reset itself, showing the original sample, with Lucy's above it. They moved together, and the differences were indicated brighter than the rest. To the right flashed a 98%."

=/\= Dr. Nack to Commodore Reckus. =/\=

=/\= Do you have anything, Doctor? =/\=

=/\= Indeed we do. I'll be there in a moment. =/\=

Jatan, still shaking his head in disbelief, came with.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 17, 2006, 5:21

After being escorted to the briefing by the angry Commodore and bewildered Admiral, Byrne kept concentrated on the team ahead of him. Wondering if the theory he was working on was with Jatan and Fox was going the way he planned. Hearing the murmered conversation behind him, he strained to catch some it from the senior staff. Feeling a small nudge on his right shoulder from the phaser pointed at him, he headed into the briefing dreading what he expected to see next. The guy he just shot and had originally accused of being the sabatour.

Trying to get a seat away from the officer, Trey bumped him into a chair across from Martens. Sitting there patiently awaiting the good news from the Medical Bay, he kept his eyes on the CO as she ranted about what happened since her dissapearance to the Black Tulip.

As she kept asking him why, Byrne just replied with the same statement, "You have to proof, and the box. Now we just need verification from Lt. Nack." And looking at the Admiral shaking his head, he wasn't feeling to special right now.

It was at that moment that a message came across the Comm from StarFleet. Breathing a small sigh, Logan finally had a chance to look around the room. Small wonder to see Commander Martens glaring at him, rubbing his arm. Not much better from the security team at the end of the room.

Tapping his PADD, Byrne was looking for news from Jatan and Nack about the results.Hoping that if it came now, Commodore Sonak would have an ace to pass onto Admiral Elron to ease the concern of Starfleet Command watching their vessel.
<TAG Nack and Jatan>

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 17, 2006, 20:43

Sonak stood mutely glancing at the now blank screen, her mind racing. ~what is going on~ she wondered as she started to glance around the room. Nick and Logan were glaring at eachother, L'Ola was trying very hard to become inconspicuous, Trey stood threateningly behind Logan and Claire looked as though she was about to cry. Fox looked stunned as well, but seemed the odd one out in his reactions.

She was snapped out of her musings when the doors opened to reveal Nack and Jatan. She was handed a PADD while Nack and her bondmate took their seats. Quietly, she glanced over the results, then nodded. "I find myself in agreement with these results," sne announced, "however..." She glanced at her senior staff once more. "We have rushed into this investigation without clear thinking. Before I make these results public, I want you all to stop thinking about it until we receive new orders. Announcing this too soon may ruin careers which is something I most definately do not wish to be the cause of."

Sonak handed the PADD to Elron. "Admiral, could I ask you to keep these results with you until further notice?" She folded her arms over her chest as she leaned against the bulkhead. "After we dock with Bellicose in a few hours, I want you all to get some rest. We will have a few days until we start with ordered drills, which apparently will not take us far away from Bellicose. Commanders Martens and Byrne, you two will be overseeing the installment of a new bridge module for Minerva. That will hopefully teach you two to work with, instead of against one another."

Things threatened to become too much now, as Sonak had been through too many investigations lately. She vividly remembered the nervous breakdown she'd suffered a year ago now, and she was determined to finally start acting the Vulcan she ought to be. "This briefing is now adjourned," she concluded, "I will be in my readyroom. Admiral, would you please join me?"

Together with the fleet admiral, she walked out of the briefing room, crossed the bridge and entered her readyroom. "Things are not looking good," she sighed, "I feel like I am doing something wrong, but I cannot fathom what that would be. Am I being too soft on them?"

She sat down behind her desk, knowing she should retire soon to feed her baby. She was equally determined to nurse Miriya as long as was possible, but she did need to make the time to have that happen. And time was a luxury at the moment. A nurse came walking in with the baby, assuming that her presence in the readyroom meant it was time to nurse the baby.

Sonak cradled her daughter as she glanced at Elron. "Unless this will not upset you, I would prefer to do this in private," she offered him an excuse to depart. She'd done it before while conducting meetings, and she felt no shame about it herself. However, others might not be so comfortable in talking to a nursing commanding officer. Still, it was something best done in private. "I will make you acquainted with your goddaughter when we have more time," she smiled, glad to see the pleasant surprise on her friend's face.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 18, 2006, 3:52

Elron took the PADD from Sonak. "I'll make sure no-one sees this until you think they're ready," he said with a wink to the Vulcan. He scanned the contents quickly, raised his eyebrows, then placed the PADD in a concealed pocket of his uniform.

Joining Sonak in her ready room, Elron sat back on the comfortable couch. It was a situation that struck the Admiral as an odd mirror image of their meeting on the Black Tulip.
Sonak sighed. "I feel like I am doing something wrong, but I cannot fathom what that would be. Am I being too soft on them?"

Elron shook his head resolutely. "I don't think this is anything to do with discipline. You just need to foster more trust between your senior officers." He leaned forward. "It's not unusual for this kind of thing to happen in times of high pressure, especially if the Commanding Officer is absent. Let's hope they've learned form this experience." He couldn't think of any constructive advice, so he leaned back again. "It might be worth reminding to Logan of how things are conducted when you're gone. He can't go taking unilateral action like that again, even if he does mean well."

At that moment, the child Miriya was brought in by the nurse. As Sonak took her daughter, Elron looked at the girl lovingly. "Unless this will not upset you, I would prefer to do this in private," said Sonak.

Elron smiled. "It doesn't bother me in the slightest. However, there are one or two things I should perhaps do, so this might be a good time for me to take my leave." He stood slowly, still looking at the child.

"I will make you acquainted with your goddaughter when we have more time," smiled Sonak. Reminded of the honour bestowed on him, Elron grinned modestly.
"I'll be back soon," he said quietly.

Walking onto the Mercury bridge, which was the new command centre for the ship, Elron made straight for the operations console. "I'm sorry Commander," he said to the officer stationed there, "but I'm afraid I'll need to take your external sensors offline for a while." His hands moved expertly across the panel, making sure that all sensory records of the Vesuvius' immediate vicinity were disabled. The Ops Officer watched with a frown, but dared not say anything. "Thank you, Commander," said Elron when he was finished. "Don't worry, you'll get them back soon enough. The Black Tulip will let us know if there's anything we need to see."

With this cryptic parting comment, Elron returned to the briefing room, which by this time was empty. He tapped his commbadge. "Elron to Black Tulip." There was a slight pause.

=/\= Disasterman here, =/\= responded the First Officer.
"We're ready to start our journey back to Bellicose, DM. I've disabled the Vesuvius' external sensors, so you can take us through slipstream. From the look on Nakamura's face, I think it would be best to get them back as quickly as possible."
=/\= Admiral Nakamura called? =/\= the commander asked with surprise. Elron ignored the question.
"I'll be staying on the Vesuvius for a while longer. Contact me when we reach Bellicose, or if there's anything else you think I should know."
=/\= Aye, sir. Disasterman out. =/\=

With things in hand, Elron walked back across the bridge towards the Commodore's ready room. Outside the ship, the Black Tulip had engaged a tractor lock on the Somma-class vessel and opened up a slipstream to Bellicose. Within moments, they were riding the stream through the Alpha Quadrant.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 18, 2006, 22:50

The vibration of the deckplates felt different as the Vesuvius jumped to warp with the Black Tulip. Looking out the window, Sonak noted the absence of regular star streaks during warp travel. Instead, the ship seemed to be surrounded by a blueish cocoon. ~slipstream?` she wondered as she finished nursing her baby. She lay the quiet child over her shoulder and gently patted her back.

Just then, Elron came walking back in, his expression a mix of mischief and concern. "I have disengaged your external sensors for now," he informed her.

"I noticed we are not travelling at regular warp speed," Sonak commented dryly, "since when does the Black Tulip possess a transwarp engine? Oh I know about transwarp, I do have a chief engineer gone first officer, remember? And Logan is usually a very capable and talented chief engineer also. And let us not forget Nephi Jacobson, who also knew his way around in classified information."

She smiled ruefully. "my chiefs engineer do seem to have a knack of getting themselves into trouble...much like their commanding officer. At least I can trust my crew to do what is right...eventually."

She sat back, cradling Miriya who was now sleeping fitfully. "I find myself worried for this enquiry, to my knowledge we did not go wrong anywhere, yet we do seem to sustain a fair amount of damage since we crashed on the pole of that oceanic planet a year ago. "Actually, worried is an understatement. I fear for my crew. Especially Nick, he has lost so much. He was just reconciling with Kate and now she sacrificed herself to save my ship. While I can never forgive nor forget what she has done in the past, she will be recognized for her brave and selfless action."

Now, she leaned forward and handed the admiral the baby. "That will leave my hands free for a moment," she used as excuse, while walking over to her replicator. "Since you are going to be sticking around, as the Humans term it, perhaps I can offer you something? How long will it take before we arrive at Bellicose? At this speed, it cannot be more than a few hours at best."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Elron on Dec 20, 2006, 0:41

Elron chuckled. "No pulling the wool over your eyes, eh Commodore?" he said with tongue-in-cheek sarcasm. "I would have gone round the ship pulling down all the blinds, but I just didn't have the time."
He was pleased that Sonak knew better than to follow this up any further. There was a time when he enjoyed using the phrase "If I told you, I'd have to kill you," but now he had so many secrets rolling around in his head that the novelty had worn off.

Sonak sat back in her seat. "I find myself worried for this enquiry, to my knowledge we did not go wrong anywhere, yet we do seem to sustain a fair amount of damage since we crashed on the pole of that oceanic planet a year ago." Elron said nothing, but he too was slightly worried. He thought he had seen the Vesuvius mentioned a few times too often in SFC memos, but he hadn't gotten around to following it up yet. He had assumed it was nothing significant.

He was knocked out of his wistful reverie by the sight of a baby coming towards him. With pleasant surprise, Elron took the child and looked on her fondly as he held her.

"Since you are going to be sticking around, as the Humans term it, perhaps I can offer you something?" asked Sonak from the replicator.

"Please," replied Elron. He paused, trying to figure out what he was in the mood for. "Umm... I'll have a hot chocolate, please. With cream and marshmallows, if you don't mind?"

Sonak gave the Admiral an amused look and ordered the drink for him. "How long will it take before we arrive at Bellicose? At this speed, it cannot be more than a few hours at best." Apparently the Commodore really did know her slipstream technology.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you exactly, but you're about right." They were about 60 lightyears from Starbase Bellicose at the time, so it would in fact take them just over an hour to make the trip. Any other ship would have taken nearly three days. Sonak returned with his drink, placing it on the table beside him. It had been a long time since Elron had last held a baby, but he was rather enjoying himself.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 21, 2006, 1:05

At the expense of being perceived rude, Nack returned to sickbay. Jatan diverged and headed toward his quarters.

Upon arriving, Nack shutdown all displays containing the incriminating evidence of implication. Alice, on staff, asked what was happening.

"If the Commodore wants us to remain quiet, then we are going to remain quiet."

"Quiet about what?", Alice inquired. Nack had forgotten that she was off duty during the entire episode following Nick's incapacitation. Evolution was kind to the Ferengi, in the sense that his brain was well adaptable to working itself out of tight corners. If only it was capable of staying out of the corners in the first place.

"Uh... She said we need to be quiet about Nick accidentally shooting himself with a phaser." The doctor gave a goofy smile. "Yeah .. yeah, because it might lower morale or something." Alice didn't seem to buy it, but she didn't pursue the line of questions either.

"I think I can handle the rest of this Alice. You can go ahead and recalibrate the stasis fields in the back three beds. I did the other ones earlier."

The floor shook as the inertial dampers were unable to absorb the current course plotted by the Vesuvius. Nack figured the warp drive was acting up again.

Alone, Nack systematically encrypted all of the findings Jatan and he had found only a short time ago. Jatan would have to be told the white-lie Alice was told, but it was only a small misstep in a larger picture.

The doctor took it upon himself, at this point, to get his gear ready for security drills, which would occur while the Vesuvius was fixes were underway. Nack wanted to prove to everyone two things: 1) The Vesuvius has a good medical response team, and 2) He, as a Ferengi, was able to do the job as adequate as anyone else.

Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Logan Byrne on Dec 22, 2006, 4:54

Sitting at his desk, Byrne kept going over the schematics of the ship trying to find out ways to possibly protect the vessel from any further acts of assault.

Only problem was that his mind kept flashing back to the look on the Commodore's face as she pointed her phaser point blank in his face. 'I know I went a little to far by shooting the FO, but at least I was right about the sabatoge. now if only I could get Jatan to talk to her for me', he thought as he slumped his head.

Checking the Main Systen Display board, he realized the all of the sensors were being blocked out. Tapping a few buttons, he confirmed they were at slipstream. "That explains the bumping motion, this ship is is no condition to handle these stresses in her condition", he said aloud. The lieutenant next to him looked at him puzzled. Shaking his head, Byrne waved off the statement.

Downloading the readings to the computer, Byrne headed for his quarters, a place he hasn't practically seen since he started on the ship. Grabbing a shower and replicating a new uniform, Logan sat at his desk to work on a game plan for the drills that were going to proceed during the Starbase layover, and an apology to Commander Martens for the situation on the Bridge. Replicating a large cup of coffee, Logan slumped into his couch to read a copy of the Book of the Birds.
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 22, 2006, 16:19

Leaning back in her own seat, Sonak enjoyed watching the scene before her. Baby Miriya seemed delighted at being held by the Avari admiral, and Elron seemed equally delighted to be holding the baby.

Glancing sideways, she remembered a final duty she ought to be tending to, before the two ships would arrive at Bellicose. She rose from her seat then picked up the tiny black box that had been sitting on her desk for several days now. "After I tend to this, will you join me on a tour of the ship? I believe we never got to finish the tour, after our unceremonious landing the last time you were aboard."

At Elron's nod, she tapped her combadge. "Lieutenant Nack, report to my readyroom on the secondary module," she spoke, sounding cold and indifferent. Yet, her expression told Elron that was hardly how she felt. After signing off, she smiled at her friend and superior officer. "Why should I let them believe that they are being ordered here for something fun? I have done it far worse in the past."

This time she grinned as she picked up the box, showing it to Elron. "The good doctor was due his promotion last week, but with all ongoing events, it completely slipped my mind." She was still smiling when a nervous looking Ferengi entered her office. "Ah, Doctor Nack, what a pleasure that you could join us." Sonak continued smiling as she presented him the black box. "Starfleet saw it fit to promote you to the rank of lieutenant commander. My apologies for not attending to it sooner but I believe you will understand why."

(Nack)

Approximately an hour later, Sonak felt the ship's tremor cease as both Vesuvius and Black Tulip slipped out of slipstream and back into normal space. External sensors were reactivated and before them loomed Starbase Bellicose. "All hands this is your captain," she announced, "until we are ordered back on board for our drills, you are all to enjoy shoreleave on Bellicose. Please do not leave the station until specifically granted leave to do so by Admiral Nakamura. This instance not even Admiral Clark's consent will be sufficient."

Sonak faced Elron. "Admiral, I am forever in your debt for towing us back to Bellicose as swiftly as you did. These investigations are far from over but I shall endeavour to see to it that this incident will not happen again in the future."
Re: Mission: Freefall
Post by Nack on Dec 23, 2006, 10:11

Nack finished resetting the screens when his combadge activated, emitting the Commanding Officer's callous voice. When the communique ended, Nack let out a deep sigh. He was not looking forward to this... He was probably in trouble for taking command of the ship. Actually, Nack was a bit surprised that his reprimand hadn't come earlier.

Directions to the secondary module's ready room were retrieved from the computer. Nack couldn't remember if he had been there before or not. With all the problems that have been occurring, he may have only seen the secondary facilities, for all he knew.

Arriving, the Doctor walked in stiffly. If it were possible to straighten himself even more he would have upon seeing Admiral Elron in the room.

The Commodore handed Nack a box. Surely this was going to be a record of his reprimand. Why else would she have called the Admiral in here with him? Nack was about to start explaining the entire episode that occurred while she was missing, but he was preempted when Sonak handed him a black box, straight faced.

Quote:
"Starfleet saw it fit to promote you to the rank of lieutenant commander. My apologies for not attending to it sooner but I believe you will understand why."

Nack glanced at Elron, who broke his solid face into a smile. He looked back at the Commodore, knowing he was fooled. He shook his head side to side and half-laughed to himself. It's not everyday one fools a Ferengi.

Nack opened the box. A single black pip was present, which Nack immediately placed on his lapel on the wrong side of the two golden pips.

"Let me get that for you, Lieutenant Commander." Sonak said, trying to save him from embarrassment. "There you go."

"Lieutenant Commander," Nack thought to himself, and showed the emotion of the thought on his face. He was proud. This was something worth writing home about.

There was an awkward silence in the room when all parties ran out of things to say. Nack usually had something to say, but he was rendered speechless. Finally he mustered something up.

"Well sickbay doesn't run itself!" As soon as it came out of his mouth, Nack regretted it. "I mean, well - Jatan does a great job, but the Chief officer needs to be there sometimes..."

Sonak looked over at Elron and cracked a smile. If it were in her nature to wink to him, she would have. Nack didn't see. He was already a few sentences deep trying to get himself out of another linguistic mishap. The Admiral and Commodore held to their silence, mostly for their own entertainment.

"... and Alice is good too. In fact, I should check to see how she's doing." The Ferengi backed toward the door, which didn't recognize that he wanted to leave. Nack's back hit the door unexpectedly. Trapped, he continued, "... so yeah, tell Jatan that I value his help. He has made my arrival very welcoming." Nack turned quickly. With his front to the door, the computer recognized the doctor's intentions and opened the door. "Permission to leave?" Nack said passively. Sonak gave a slight nod, which was Nack's cue to bolt. Nack could have sworn he heard laughter after he left, but his nervousness was probably just getting the best of him. He made it a priority to get back to sickbay and run a scan on himself to be sure he was going to be OK.


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Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 26, 2006, 23:36

Sonak was relieved when the docking clamps finally engaged, drawing the huge Somma class vessel closer to the umbilical that would connect the ship to the starbase. She sat back in her command seat with a sigh of relief, her fingers curling over the handrails in anticipation. Beside her, occupying the counselor's seat still sat Admiral Elron, while Claire had moved to environmental control.

On her right, as usual, sat Nick Martens, looking equally relieved to have finally made it home in one piece. "Finally home," she sighed, then turned to Elron. "Admiral, once again I thank you for your gracious offer to tow us home. I must apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused you and if there is any way I could possibly make this up to you, you have but to name it and I shall see to it if it is within my power to do so."

While she spoke, she nodded towards Martens to announce that shoreleave could commence, but that he should enforce the order not to leave SBB until after the investigations and the drills were completed.

"Admiral, could I invite you to dinner tonight with my family? I heard the Raven is about too, so I would invite my dear friend Admiral MC7of9 as well. After all, we do have something to celebrate."

(Elron.....and MC if you are catching this post)

A little later, after saying her goodbyes to Elron and making him promise to attend dinner, Sonak finally walked towards the airlock that would lead her towards Bellicose. Jatan would be looking after the children though she was taking T'Kimi and Miriya for a stroll. She needed some time alone to bond with her youngest child, but her eldest daughter had insisted on coming along.

She had just passed on to Bellicose's corridors when she spotted a familiar individual coming their way. "Paht?" she called, not sure whether she'd seen it right, "Meylor Paht is that you?" She smiled as she picked up her pace a little to catch up with the person. "Indeed it is you. What are you doing here on Bellicose? I believe you were assigned to Bajor? That you had left Starfleet?"

(Meylor)

off: this will be our shoreleave until first week of january. enjoy folks!
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Elron on Dec 28, 2006, 1:26

The journey itself had taken no time at all. Now that they were back at Bellicose, Elron could approve the reconstruction of the Vesuvius. Unfortunately he couldn't put the cause of damage in the report, so he'd just have to make something up for now. He was confident Sonak would have the results of a full investigation for him before long.

"Admiral, could I invite you to dinner tonight with my family? I heard the Raven is about too, so I would invite my dear friend Admiral MC7of9 as well. After all, we do have something to celebrate."

Elron smiled widely. "I'd be delighted, Sonak. I haven't seen Mac for ages. I'm sure the Tulip's crew will be able to amuse themselves for a while. Just let me know when you'd like me to be there."

Before he left the ship, the Admiral pulled out a PADD from inside his uniform. He offered it to Sonak. "Would you like these results back, or would you like me to keep a hold of them? I've sent a copy up to my office. Don't worry, they're quite secure. No one will see them until you're ready to make them public, and I include Command in that."

"No that will not be necessary admiral. I am confident that Commander Byrne has saved himself a copy, for me to review later. As for dinner, tonight 1900 in my quarters. I will pass on the message to..Mac." She looked somewhat uncertain upon hearing her best friend's name spoken differently than what she was used to. Ever since meeting him during their academy years, Sonak had never once called him 'Mac', nor had she been asked to do so. It wasn't odd to her as she rarely used contractions, still it stung a bit to observe someone else did.


Later, having walked onto Bellicose, Elron tapped his commbadge. "Elron to Black Tulip, status report."

=/\= We've docked with Bellicose, sir, =/\= responded the First Officer. =/\= We used up a lot of energy extending our integrity field around the Vesuvius in slipstream. We're going to need fuel replenishments, and some minor maintenance. =/\=

"We're due some fine-tuning anyway. How did she hold up?"

=/\= The BT held together fine. There were a couple of moments when the Vesuvius got a bit bumpy, but the system's not used to stabilising the slipstream for two ships. =/\=

"Yeah, I noticed the turbulence. It was a bit ambitious, but I did the calculations and there wasn't any risk to either ship." Elron was approaching his office. "I'm going to be joining Sonak for dinner tonight, so you're in command of the ship until I get back. Make sure they only give us minor maintenance. I want the ship ready to leave ASAP."

=/\= Aye, sir, =/\= Disasterman replied. He understood perfectly.

Elron entered his office and sat down on the long couch. He was looking forward to tonight. He and Mc7 had a history that went back quite a bit now. The Vice Admiral had even been First Officer on the Black Tulip for a while. Elron hoped he could make it to the dinner. After a few minutes, he stood up and walked over to his desk. He had to approve the refit of the Vesuvius so they could be back in action as soon as possible. He hoped they'd be able to hold onto their bridge module this time...
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Nack on Dec 28, 2006, 21:07

Nack had beamed his away-packs ahead to Starbase Bellicose ahead of himself. Commander Byrne had to give a hand with the transporter system when it acted up a few times.

Walking into the docking bay, it finally dawned upon the Ferengi that he had never been here before. Commodore Reckus went trailing by, with husband and children in tow.

Nack held back, waiting for Commander Fox or Byrne... or maybe even Claire, to come show him around. He was in no rush, and was going to enjoy the few days off.
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Meylor Paht on Dec 30, 2006, 6:50


Dec 26, 2006, 23:36, Commodore Sonak Reckus wrote:
Sonak had just passed on to Bellicose's corridors when she spotted a familiar individual coming their way. "Paht?" she called, not sure whether she'd seen it right, "Meylor Paht is that you?" She smiled as she picked up her pace a little to catch up with the person. "Indeed it is you. What are you doing here on Bellicose? I believe you were assigned to Bajor? That you had left Starfleet?"


Meylor smiled warmly in return, and offered his hand in greeting. "Too true! And what an assignment it was; I'll be happy to fill you in on what I've been up to these past months anytime you have a spare moment for conversation and a good stiff drink. Anyway, it's great to be back on Bellicose! Officially, I'm here as a liason officer to review security protocols and exchange intelligence data with the Strategic Operations office here; what with the recent unexplained increase in Tholian belligerency in random sectors, the joint chiefs in the Bajoran Militia wanted to coordinate with Starfleet more closely. Naturally, the security situation in the region is all news to me, since I just got back from Gamma Quadrant, so I volunteered to get involved."

"Turns out, the whole business has been blown way out of proportion, the Tholians were apparently conducting war game maneuvers with the confirmed (though classified) assistance of a Klingon oversight squadron and my `involvement` ended up being little more than glorified courier duty." He paused somewhat nervously, shrugged as if to shake the feeling off, then continued. "I admit, I'm also here to investigate the possibility of resuming Starfleet service. My job here's done, and I'm free to transfer; in the words of General Dapna, my immediate superior in the Militia: `Please consider yourself on detached duty once your mission is complete`. In other words, he finds me a nuisance and wants me to pester someone else for work." Meylor finished with a sardonic grin.
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Commodore Sonak Reckus on Dec 31, 2006, 0:27

"Well..." Sonak looked thoughtful for a few seconds, "would she consider someone like me to be pestered? I have your old position vacant on my ship, it is yours if you want it." She beckoned Meylor to walk with her as she shifted the position of her youngest child on her arm, while T'Kimi slipped her hand in Meylor's.

Quietly, she tugged his arm. "Mister Meylor?" she spoke softly, a smile adorning her small admiring face, "please come back? Perhaps then we'll not get damaged as much...mommy's been really sad since you left and the ship has crashed twice."

Sonak remained oddly silent as she listened to the 6-year old talking. "Well, yes we did crash...and we sustained severe damage only recently..." She didn't know how to explain. "You will have to read the reports, I cannot explain. Besides, lately I have had other things to worry about too." She held up baby Miriya. "My youngest daughter," she said proudly, "now, I am certain you would like to see the ship for yourself and meet up with the senior staff?"
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Nack on Dec 31, 2006, 21:35

Assuming his crew mates had already disembarked, after waiting for what seemed like days, Nack made his way to the temporary quarters aboard Bellicose. "If nobody's going to show me around, I'll just have to do it myself," he said a little peeved.

Passing his Commanding Officer talking to a Bajoran officer, Nack headed to the nearest turbo lift. It was going to be days before the Vesuvius was ready to get back on her feet. He might as well get some rest.

The Doctor opened the doors to a very cramped room, even for a short stature humanoid as himself. These were only temporary, though. He settled in, popped up a console in the small desk next to the bed, and started dictating a subspace message.

"Dear mom and da..." Nack was forced to pause as the door chime to his room rang. He folded the console back into the desk, and shouted "Come in."

<tag anyone>
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by L'Ola Kanz on Jan 1, 2007, 23:41

Nack opened the door to a smiling Bajoran. "Good afternoon Sir"

"Good afternoon, Lieutenant..."

"Johnstone. But please feel free to call me Carrie. Look, you're probably wondering why I'm here. Basically, I work in Ops and I noticed from the crew roster that you've never been here before. So I thought I'd come and see if I could help you out at all?"

Nack had to smile at her enthusiasm. The girl seemed a little crazy but obviously had her heart in the right place. "If it wouldn't be any trouble then I would quite like a tour of the starbase."

Carrie grinned, "No plans just yet. Have to meet up with someone else from your ship later but he's busy at the moment."


"Now this restaurant I wouldn't reccomend particularly, mostly because the owner was a little nasty to a friend of mine, but you can always try it and let me know what the food's actually like."

<Nack>


A while later the tour came to an end in the central Operations. "That's perfect timing actually. Any minute now..." she was interrupted as, right on cue, Ed walked through the door. Carrie ran over to see him, "You're back you're back!"

"Last time I checked, yeah" he smiled.

"Did you get it sorted?"

Ed nodded, "He's with friends, don't worry." He took her hand and guided her out of the room back towards the commercial sector.
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Fox on Jan 2, 2007, 22:02

Fox sat on a chair in his quarters, reading a book, when the Vesuvius docked. This was announced not much later together with a shoreleave notice. He smiled "finally" he thought "we're home again." and put the book on the table next to his chair and got up. Finally he could see some good friends again.

He walked to the door, leaving his quarters. "I hope she's not too busy." he thought as he walked through the corridors. He walked to the turbolift and ordered it to go to the transporter room. Not much later he materialized on a pad on bellicose, stepped off it and left the room. For a while he walked through the corridors of bellicose. He stopped in front of one of the quarters.

Inside he could hear the chime, but the doors didn't open. "Must be working." he thought and left a message for her to meet him at one of the restaurants arround dinner time. Then left again and went to the prominade. There we walked shops in and out, browsing through all kind of stuff.
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Nack on Jan 3, 2007, 6:25

The young Bajoran was skipping from subject to subject, her mind seemingly not able to focus on a single aspect of Starbase Bellicose. Nack rather enjoyed the Ops officer's attitude. He always felt Starfleet was a bit rigid. Carrie was the perfect counter-example.

Ending in Central Operations, Carrie met with her fellow officer. Nack decided he was going to have to brush up on the Vesuvius's crew manifest, because he knew neither Carrie, nor her friend Ed.

"Nice meeting you Ed!" Nack said energetically. As the two left Ops, Nack was making his way back to his quarters. He wished he had left a trail of blood fleas, for he once again was lost.

As he was consulting a computer console of his whereabouts, an unfamiliar voice came over his com-badge requesting his presence in the briefing room aboard the Vesuvius.

A few more keystrokes, and Nack had completed a detailed mental image of how to get back to the ship.

OOC: Continued in the new "Drills!" thread: http://section47.proboards18.com/index.cgi?board=VESUVIUS&action=display&thread=1167766562
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Meylor Paht on Jan 4, 2007, 1:03


Dec 31, 2006, 0:27, Commodore Sonak Reckus wrote:
"Well..." Sonak looked thoughtful for a few seconds, "would she consider someone like me to be pestered? I have your old position vacant on my ship, it is yours if you want it." She beckoned Meylor to walk with her as she shifted the position of her youngest child on her arm, while T'Kimi slipped her hand in Meylor's.

Quietly, she tugged his arm. "Mister Meylor?" she spoke softly, a smile adorning her small admiring face, "please come back? Perhaps then we'll not get damaged as much...mommy's been really sad since you left and the ship has crashed twice."

Sonak remained oddly silent as she listened to the 6-year old talking. "Well, yes we did crash...and we sustained severe damage only recently..." She didn't know how to explain. "You will have to read the reports, I cannot explain. Besides, lately I have had other things to worry about too." She held up baby Miriya. "My youngest daughter," she said proudly, "now, I am certain you would like to see the ship for yourself and meet up with the senior staff?"


Meylor tried to take all of this in with much more concern than he outwardly displayed, and seemed to come to a decision, though only Sonak's keen perception picked up the subtle clues in his otherwise restrained body language. Attempting to lighten up Sonak's noticeably serious mood, he scratched his beard with exaggeration, which young T'Kimi noticed with evident fret. "Well, I don't really know..there are a lot of jobs available here at the base right now..."

T'Kimi pleaded harder in response. "Please...who else can I play kal-toh with? I've already beaten everyone I know...except mom."

Sonak regarded her daughter with admiration and what seemed to be slight wonder. "Indeed...you will need a good teacher for that. If Mister Meylor is as good as I hear..."

"Now, that's a challenge I couldn't pass up." Meylor again offered his hand. "I'd be delighted to serve, Commodore. Although, between you and me, from the reports I've read so far, I just hope my tour of duty doesn't end before it gets started again. I understand Starfleet has recalled the Vesuvius to Earth?"

"That's right. I haven't all the details; Command is being unusually tight-lipped at the moment. As soon as I know more, rest assured, I will inform the entire crew. But until we are all more certain of our standing, I need a good officer in a place where I can count on not only that officer's skills, but also his integrity. Not that I have reason to doubt either in your case, but after this last mission, I need to be certain. Can I count on you?"

Meylor looked at his superior with confidence. "You can. All the crew can...right down to its youngest members." He smiled at T'Kimi, who returned the expression. "It sounds like the ship's systems are in need of a thorough diagnostic; I'd like to coordinate with the Chief Engineer on that as soon as I can."

Sonak nodded as they continued down the Main Arcade of the station.
Re: Freefall Shoreleave
Post by Logan Byrne on Jan 7, 2007, 22:29

After banging out a few dents in Engineering, Logan managed to help a few of the other crew members get the ship semi-functional to dock with StarBase Bellicose.
'Be great to see the Raven and Admiral Clark again', he thought, drumming on his PADD. 'At least the repairs with Commander Martens went kinda smoothly. And he really tried hard to try and not let his arm hurting show', he said to himself mildly smirking.
Reaching the Bridge, he saw the command staff packing up the last of the stowage materials to lock down the Bridge during shoreleave.
Running a final diagnostic for the records, Byrne powered down the Engineering console and headed for the Main Transporter Room to beam down with the rest of the crew. Arriving he saw Lt. Cmdr. Nack stumbling over the transporter controls. Kicking the console a few times, the group transported off the ship.
Once he reached the Starbase, he was escorted to the Admiral'office. After some pleasantries and hand shaking, he promptly sat down in the chair next to him.
"Commander Byrne", stated the Admiral,"This is an inquiry into the events leading up to the catastrophic failure of the gravity generators aboard the USS Vesuvius. As I have not been able to conduct this with Commodore Sonak, I am asking you to report to StarFleet Command Special Operations Division to help train a team of anti-sabotage units to help avoid situations like this from happening again. Do you accept this? I will transmit these orders to Commodre Sonak at the end of this meeting."
"How long will it take, I need to be available for final inspection once all of the repairs are completed on my ship", Byrne asked.
"About 2 weeks, that acceptable", replied the admiral. "Done, sir", replied Byrne.
Leaving the office, he tracked down Commader Fox to ask him to keep an eye on the local techs from the Starbase, because of how overprotective he was of his engines. After that, he headed for the Main Shuttlebay to depart for Earth.