Get your own Free Home Page================================= USS CHESAPEAKE (NCC-31813) Hood-Class Light Cruiser (CL) Tactical Squadron 33, Green Fleet ================================= The CHESAPEAKE returned to SB DELTA after its engagement against a Romulan threat force at Serrat III, with the assistance of the USS BURKE and USS Tanikaze. Upon arrival, the SFE damage assessment team and the Green Fleet brass decided that she should be put into repair-and-refit early. A new Hiryu-class cruiser would be assigned to TACRON-33, with Romee in command, and at her request, would be named the CHESAPEAKE-A. Twelve days later, a Captain Thomas Martin, of the Epsilon Indi Shipyard, arrived at DELTA on the USS Searcher, soon to be renamed the CHESAPEAKE-A. Martin had been looking forward to commanding the Searcher and overlooking the final trials at the shipyard when he had received the transfer orders. He was disappointed, but had come dutifully to hand the ship over to Romee. In the meantime, Romee had been requested by ch'Rihan that she present testimony regarding Serrat III, and Star Fleet's Diplomatic Corps and JAG assigned some personnel to accompany here there. She was to go for a week, with Martin taking over the shakedown cruise with her crew. Romee left aboard the Shuttlecraft Freeport, with an Ambassador and his attache, two JAG officers, and a very green shuttle pilot named Colt Fleetwood, and soon after, the new CHESAPEAKE left for a week of shakedown under the command of Captain Martin. Martin's temporary crew had just begun tests of the CHESAPEAKE's defense systems when they heard word that the Freeport had gone missing on the other side of the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone. Despite direct orders to continue the shakedown tests, and a suspicious calling-off of a Federation search-and-rescue operation for the Freeport's recovery, CDR Malveo, together with LTjg Justen, took a shuttle into the Neutral Zone, leaving Martin with no choice but to give chase. Although an accident in Engineering slowed her down, the CHESAPEAKE finally managed to catch up with the Shuttlecraft Bounty, but not before she entered the Neutral Zone herself. To make matters even more interesting, Malveo led a mutiny as soon as he returned aboard, insisting that he and Justen had found the key clues to the Freeport's whereabouts. The Freeport had encountered a space anomaly and had drifted, crippled, in Romulan space. Romee and Fleetwood, with some help from one of the JAG officers, managed to cobble together just enough repairs to get them to a Class-M, aquatic planet -- but not before they had to knock the ever-increasingly dangerous Ambassador unconscious. The CHESAPEAKE arrived soon after, and Martin ordered SAR shuttles to the planet. Just as one of the shuttles found the Freeport, they were both swallowed up by a whale-like creature, with communication blocked to and from the CHESAPEAKE. The SAR shuttle and the Freeport manage to establish communication. They decide to abandon the damaged Freeport and get her personnel over to the SAR shuttle. After some challenges trying to align the two shuttles within the increasingly violent whale's belly, they all manage to get aboard -- just in time, as the whale, sickened by the exhaust expelled to steer the two shuttles, chucked them all out into the water. They were all eventually rescued by the CHESAPEAKE, which delivered Romee et al. to ch'Rihan, waited for her to finish her testimony, then sped out of Romulan space at best speed to return to SB Delta.
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