Attack of the Cardassians
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:57 am
Since no one has yet posted any stories I felt like someone should. Here is something I wrote on the spot. If you like it good, if it's pure garbage well sorry in advance for wasting your time.
Commanders Log:
Our shakedown cruise of the RSS Indomitable, a Venator class starship,has been diverted towards a minor outer rim system under Separatist attack. The transmission we recieved was badly garbled, but the planatry govenor indicated only a single enemy warship. Shortly after that we lost the signal and haven't been able to locate it again. For the record I have reservations about charging foolishly into battle like this. It isn't the clones, all of them are battle hardern veterans, and I trust them to do thier duty to thier fullest ability. Nor is it the human part of the crew, thier as well trained for thier duties as is humanly possible, and what they lack in experiance they make up for in spirit. It's just that I dislike putting my faith in an unweathered ship. Everyship has it's own personalities and quirks. Some good, some bad. Being forced to go into combat without knowing and understanding them sends a shiver down my spine. Still as the closet vessel and as a Republic officer it is my duty to render aid. I just hope our actions bring honor and glory to the Republic, not shame and defeat.
End Commander's Log
Commander Dolrian twisted in his command seat and glanced over at the navigator.
"What is our ETA LT.....Uh"He started as he tried to remember the man's name.
Dolrian could just imagine all of the non-cloned human crew eye's staring at him as he sat thier, his mouth gaping open as he racked his brain for the answer. It was a simple thing, something a good commander should know, but the name eluded him. to be fair there were over seven thousand personel on board, and it was a new crew, having been serving togather for half a week. Still he felt he should know the primary bridge crew by now. Finaly after a few very long seconds the navigator replied.
"Antellies sir. As to our ETA we're still five minutes away."
"Good Lieutenant. Arm all weapons and raise shields to maximum. I want to go in blazing."
"Yes sir." Replied the weapon's officer
Dorlian opened the com to the hanger bay.
"bay, what is your status?"He inquired.
" We have three squadrons, two V-wings one ARC, prepped and waiting for your order." The voice through the speaker answered.
"Okay, for now stay on standby status. We don't know what the Separatist have yet. So thier's no point launching fighers."
"Confirmed"The voice replied.
Dorlian quickly cut the line and turned his attencian back to the streaking space. Staring at the realm of hyperspace as if willing it to go even faster. As much as he had concerns about going into battle, he down right detested the wait before. He had already nearly driven his crew insane by ordering system wide diagnostics every fifteen minutes during thier two hour journey to the system. Everything had checked out fine, but that didn't stop him from demanding that it be checked and rechecked for fear that some minior defect had been overlooked and that it would spell doom for his ship and crew. Soon however the battle would come, and his crew would get to do thier duty as they had been trained to do.
"About to drop out of hyperspace. In three...two...one, dropping!" Stated the navigator.
Rapidly the streaking light was replaced with a deslote, nearly barren system. A place dorlian couldn't imagin anyone wanting let alone fighting over. Over the one M class planet in an otherwise forgettable system dorlian spied the enemy craft sitting in high orbit. He didn't know what he trully expected, maybe a Trade Federation warship, or one of the new destroyer vessels entering CIS service. He did know that what he did see was the last thing he expected. First off it was unlike anyship he had ever seen. Burnt orange in color, it's "head" was a half circle fused to a thin "tail" that ended in a forked point. Rising out of the half circle in a wedge shape Dorlian guessed was it command center. A very unique vessel in all respects. Then thier was it's size. It was small, maybe about light cruiser size, perhaps even smaller. Hardly the sort of vessel sent to attack or invade a planet.
"Is that a Separatist vessel?"Dorlian asked.
"Unkown. It doesn't match anything in our database. I'm reading a few hundred lifeforms, some sort of shielding, and about a dozen or so partical empacments of a type I have never seen before." Answered the Sensor officer.
The vessel in question lazily turned towards them and opened fire. This took dorlian by complete suprise haven almost stopped thinking the ship was a threat. Never the less five red beams lashed out from the ship from various areas and impacted against the Indomitable deflectors unleashing for a few seconds thier volital energies. The ship mildly rocked from the direct hit.
"Status?"Dorlian asked
"Deflectors holding fine. Weapons output about MTL level."
"Decent for a craft it's size, but if that's the best they have this will be over in five minutes. Fire all HTL at it." Dorlian ordered.
In one thunderous instant eight bolts of plasma soared through the vastness of space and slammed into the enemy vessel. Or more accuratly hit the spherical shielding surronding the ship where the bolts blossomed into pryothecnic fireworks display. Leaving the ship otherwise unharmed.
"What in the hell? A full salvo should have blasted such a small ship. Readings?" Dorlian inquired.
"It's deflectors are holding at about 2/3 power."
"Fire again! This time throw everything we got!" Commanded Dorlian feeling his blood start burn with blood lust.
Before his command could be acted on however, the enemy vessel launched four blazing red missiles and with incrediably agility shot away from it's orignal postion. Dorlian's attencian was focused on the missile however, as he watched the point-defense lasers attempt and fail to shoot them down. This time the ship was rocked forcefully, nearly throwing Dorlian from his command seat.
"That attack had the same yeild as one of our full salvos of HTLs. Deflectors holding, but under some strain." The Weapons officer reported.
"Where is that ship. Blast it to kingdom come!"Dorlian shouted.
As if to puncuate his command the ship was shaken, mildly, again.
"I have it on scopes sir! It's performing some impressive manuvers and-"
The rest was cut off as the ship was shaken again as another four missiles impacted the Deflectors. This time Dorlian was thrown out of his seat.
"patch it's wherabouts to the con and follow suit" Dorlian said as he struggled back into his chair."Fire at will!"
Back in his seat he gazed intently at the viewscreen, as his ship attempted to follow the agile threat. Time and time again the ship would appear on screen for a few fleeting seconds as turbolasers tried to rake it, only to see it effortlessly veer away. Few of thier bolts struck home forcing Dorlian to consider other options. swiftly he reopened comunications to the hanger bay.
"launch all fighters! try to disable, slow down or destroy the enemy vessel." Dorlian commanded.
"Yes sir." Came the far to happy reply.
As Dorlian sat helplessly waiting for the fighters to disembark, he hoped they could slow the ship down. Dorlian knew that if he could just get the thing under the hail of his big guns, he could indeed finsih this fight in minutes.
"Fighers launched sir, and they are heading towards the enemy vessel."Stated the sensor officer.
"Good, ease up on our fire, but stay with it. We don't want to miss our chance."
Again the ship shook as for the fourth time four more missile exploded against Indomitable's defenses. Dorian gripped the arms of his chair tighly, and bit his cheek to keep his rage inside.
"That's the third time they hit our forward shielding. Two more salvos like that and it will fail."
Suddenly a panicked voice filled the bridge.
"This is blue squadron leader. Red squadron was just vaporised as we're completing our inital pass! A muliti-tude of those beams just jumped out and sliced them apart. Attempting second pass...Green squadrons being ripped apart! All units abort attack! I repeat abort attack! Those beams! Thier everywhere! Can't doge-"
The bridge grew increadly silent as the transmission jarringly stopped.
"There are no fighters on the scopes sir. Any damage they inflected was minimal."Informed the Sensor officer.
"Forget them, concetrate on that ship!"
For another minute or so the deadly danced continued with the Indomitable lumbering around scoring a few hits, while the enemy ships peppered them with missiles and it's partical weapons. Then as if by magic two HTL bolts and a MTL bolt were lined up right. The first HTL bolt was asborbed by the ships shield effortlessly. The second HTL was held at bay, but the shield visiably flared out. The MTL struck home againt the ship hull, and blasted a chunk out of it. Sensing blood, dorlian pressed the attack, raking the dancing ship with MTL fire. Even as it's hull was blown apart the ship managed one finial salvo ofmissiles, as well as six partical beams. The missiles overloaded the deflectors, allowing the beams to tear into the ships armor and hull with a fury. Dorlian could have cared less. All he wantd was to keep pumping deadly energy into the clearly stricken craft, and when the craft erupted into a minutar supernova he ,along with his bridge crew, let out a loud yell of victory.
"Damage?"Dorian asked after the cheering had stopped.
"Mostly minior. One HTL was blown off, but that's the worst thing. Everything else appears to be armor damage."Answered the weapons's officer.
"Sir, I'm detecting nearly a hundred lifeforms identical to the ones that were abored the enemy ship. The appear to be concetrated in one of the few major cities on the planet."declared the Sensor officer.
"Prep a landing force. Laats and AT-TE. Let's see how these guys handle heavy armor. Oh yeah no captives. Roast them alive."Dorlian said rubbing his hands and grinning evily.
Bloodlust burned in his viens to the point that the image of incenerating these alien devils(whatever they looked like) gave him a feeling of imense pleasuer. He knew they would rue the day they ever crossed paths with Commander Dorlian.
Commanders Log:
Our shakedown cruise of the RSS Indomitable, a Venator class starship,has been diverted towards a minor outer rim system under Separatist attack. The transmission we recieved was badly garbled, but the planatry govenor indicated only a single enemy warship. Shortly after that we lost the signal and haven't been able to locate it again. For the record I have reservations about charging foolishly into battle like this. It isn't the clones, all of them are battle hardern veterans, and I trust them to do thier duty to thier fullest ability. Nor is it the human part of the crew, thier as well trained for thier duties as is humanly possible, and what they lack in experiance they make up for in spirit. It's just that I dislike putting my faith in an unweathered ship. Everyship has it's own personalities and quirks. Some good, some bad. Being forced to go into combat without knowing and understanding them sends a shiver down my spine. Still as the closet vessel and as a Republic officer it is my duty to render aid. I just hope our actions bring honor and glory to the Republic, not shame and defeat.
End Commander's Log
Commander Dolrian twisted in his command seat and glanced over at the navigator.
"What is our ETA LT.....Uh"He started as he tried to remember the man's name.
Dolrian could just imagine all of the non-cloned human crew eye's staring at him as he sat thier, his mouth gaping open as he racked his brain for the answer. It was a simple thing, something a good commander should know, but the name eluded him. to be fair there were over seven thousand personel on board, and it was a new crew, having been serving togather for half a week. Still he felt he should know the primary bridge crew by now. Finaly after a few very long seconds the navigator replied.
"Antellies sir. As to our ETA we're still five minutes away."
"Good Lieutenant. Arm all weapons and raise shields to maximum. I want to go in blazing."
"Yes sir." Replied the weapon's officer
Dorlian opened the com to the hanger bay.
"bay, what is your status?"He inquired.
" We have three squadrons, two V-wings one ARC, prepped and waiting for your order." The voice through the speaker answered.
"Okay, for now stay on standby status. We don't know what the Separatist have yet. So thier's no point launching fighers."
"Confirmed"The voice replied.
Dorlian quickly cut the line and turned his attencian back to the streaking space. Staring at the realm of hyperspace as if willing it to go even faster. As much as he had concerns about going into battle, he down right detested the wait before. He had already nearly driven his crew insane by ordering system wide diagnostics every fifteen minutes during thier two hour journey to the system. Everything had checked out fine, but that didn't stop him from demanding that it be checked and rechecked for fear that some minior defect had been overlooked and that it would spell doom for his ship and crew. Soon however the battle would come, and his crew would get to do thier duty as they had been trained to do.
"About to drop out of hyperspace. In three...two...one, dropping!" Stated the navigator.
Rapidly the streaking light was replaced with a deslote, nearly barren system. A place dorlian couldn't imagin anyone wanting let alone fighting over. Over the one M class planet in an otherwise forgettable system dorlian spied the enemy craft sitting in high orbit. He didn't know what he trully expected, maybe a Trade Federation warship, or one of the new destroyer vessels entering CIS service. He did know that what he did see was the last thing he expected. First off it was unlike anyship he had ever seen. Burnt orange in color, it's "head" was a half circle fused to a thin "tail" that ended in a forked point. Rising out of the half circle in a wedge shape Dorlian guessed was it command center. A very unique vessel in all respects. Then thier was it's size. It was small, maybe about light cruiser size, perhaps even smaller. Hardly the sort of vessel sent to attack or invade a planet.
"Is that a Separatist vessel?"Dorlian asked.
"Unkown. It doesn't match anything in our database. I'm reading a few hundred lifeforms, some sort of shielding, and about a dozen or so partical empacments of a type I have never seen before." Answered the Sensor officer.
The vessel in question lazily turned towards them and opened fire. This took dorlian by complete suprise haven almost stopped thinking the ship was a threat. Never the less five red beams lashed out from the ship from various areas and impacted against the Indomitable deflectors unleashing for a few seconds thier volital energies. The ship mildly rocked from the direct hit.
"Status?"Dorlian asked
"Deflectors holding fine. Weapons output about MTL level."
"Decent for a craft it's size, but if that's the best they have this will be over in five minutes. Fire all HTL at it." Dorlian ordered.
In one thunderous instant eight bolts of plasma soared through the vastness of space and slammed into the enemy vessel. Or more accuratly hit the spherical shielding surronding the ship where the bolts blossomed into pryothecnic fireworks display. Leaving the ship otherwise unharmed.
"What in the hell? A full salvo should have blasted such a small ship. Readings?" Dorlian inquired.
"It's deflectors are holding at about 2/3 power."
"Fire again! This time throw everything we got!" Commanded Dorlian feeling his blood start burn with blood lust.
Before his command could be acted on however, the enemy vessel launched four blazing red missiles and with incrediably agility shot away from it's orignal postion. Dorlian's attencian was focused on the missile however, as he watched the point-defense lasers attempt and fail to shoot them down. This time the ship was rocked forcefully, nearly throwing Dorlian from his command seat.
"That attack had the same yeild as one of our full salvos of HTLs. Deflectors holding, but under some strain." The Weapons officer reported.
"Where is that ship. Blast it to kingdom come!"Dorlian shouted.
As if to puncuate his command the ship was shaken, mildly, again.
"I have it on scopes sir! It's performing some impressive manuvers and-"
The rest was cut off as the ship was shaken again as another four missiles impacted the Deflectors. This time Dorlian was thrown out of his seat.
"patch it's wherabouts to the con and follow suit" Dorlian said as he struggled back into his chair."Fire at will!"
Back in his seat he gazed intently at the viewscreen, as his ship attempted to follow the agile threat. Time and time again the ship would appear on screen for a few fleeting seconds as turbolasers tried to rake it, only to see it effortlessly veer away. Few of thier bolts struck home forcing Dorlian to consider other options. swiftly he reopened comunications to the hanger bay.
"launch all fighters! try to disable, slow down or destroy the enemy vessel." Dorlian commanded.
"Yes sir." Came the far to happy reply.
As Dorlian sat helplessly waiting for the fighters to disembark, he hoped they could slow the ship down. Dorlian knew that if he could just get the thing under the hail of his big guns, he could indeed finsih this fight in minutes.
"Fighers launched sir, and they are heading towards the enemy vessel."Stated the sensor officer.
"Good, ease up on our fire, but stay with it. We don't want to miss our chance."
Again the ship shook as for the fourth time four more missile exploded against Indomitable's defenses. Dorian gripped the arms of his chair tighly, and bit his cheek to keep his rage inside.
"That's the third time they hit our forward shielding. Two more salvos like that and it will fail."
Suddenly a panicked voice filled the bridge.
"This is blue squadron leader. Red squadron was just vaporised as we're completing our inital pass! A muliti-tude of those beams just jumped out and sliced them apart. Attempting second pass...Green squadrons being ripped apart! All units abort attack! I repeat abort attack! Those beams! Thier everywhere! Can't doge-"
The bridge grew increadly silent as the transmission jarringly stopped.
"There are no fighters on the scopes sir. Any damage they inflected was minimal."Informed the Sensor officer.
"Forget them, concetrate on that ship!"
For another minute or so the deadly danced continued with the Indomitable lumbering around scoring a few hits, while the enemy ships peppered them with missiles and it's partical weapons. Then as if by magic two HTL bolts and a MTL bolt were lined up right. The first HTL bolt was asborbed by the ships shield effortlessly. The second HTL was held at bay, but the shield visiably flared out. The MTL struck home againt the ship hull, and blasted a chunk out of it. Sensing blood, dorlian pressed the attack, raking the dancing ship with MTL fire. Even as it's hull was blown apart the ship managed one finial salvo ofmissiles, as well as six partical beams. The missiles overloaded the deflectors, allowing the beams to tear into the ships armor and hull with a fury. Dorlian could have cared less. All he wantd was to keep pumping deadly energy into the clearly stricken craft, and when the craft erupted into a minutar supernova he ,along with his bridge crew, let out a loud yell of victory.
"Damage?"Dorian asked after the cheering had stopped.
"Mostly minior. One HTL was blown off, but that's the worst thing. Everything else appears to be armor damage."Answered the weapons's officer.
"Sir, I'm detecting nearly a hundred lifeforms identical to the ones that were abored the enemy ship. The appear to be concetrated in one of the few major cities on the planet."declared the Sensor officer.
"Prep a landing force. Laats and AT-TE. Let's see how these guys handle heavy armor. Oh yeah no captives. Roast them alive."Dorlian said rubbing his hands and grinning evily.
Bloodlust burned in his viens to the point that the image of incenerating these alien devils(whatever they looked like) gave him a feeling of imense pleasuer. He knew they would rue the day they ever crossed paths with Commander Dorlian.