NationStates Jolt Archive

Captain Hughes looked over the reports coming into his ready room onbard the U.S.S. Hood,the newest Sovereign class ship in the fleet, he sighed, stood and walked to the replicator
"Coffee, black, hot" he said shortly to the computer, in a sudden burst of bright blue light a cup appeared on the small pad in front of him, he took it by the handle and went back to his desk, before he could sit down however a priority message came through, he put the cup down and sat in front of the comms screen, the image of admiral Grier appeared,
" Admiral, what's the matter?" he asked quickly, Grier's eyes darkened,
" Hughes we have a problem, seems that the crew of the reliant has pulled off a mutiny and are heading towards the romulen empire's space,earlier today they sent a message to command informing them that they are going to attack the nearest romulen settlement, they won't answer any hails, you're the closest ship to them intercept them and bring them back home, by any means necessary, we're diverting the fleet to you, do your job hughes."said the admiral as the image flicked off the screen, Hughes sat back in his chair and sighed heavily, then stood and went to the bridge
"Commander, is the Reliant in sensor range?" he asked quickly, moving to his chair and sitting down
" Yes sir, why?" asked commander Miller
" Set an intercept course for the reliant, maximum warp, theiy're moving on the romulens, Engage!"

OOC: if the romulen empire wants to get involved that's cool,

OOC: RPing as the crew of the Reliant with TGed permission from -Starfleet-...

IC: Aboard the Reliant things had settled into a relative state of order after the temporary chaos that characterized the rebellion. The captain was dead, along with the dozen or so loyal officers. Several of the rebels were dead too, but the first officer was still alive. The porky, middle aged man with a well-shaven face sat on the bridge cheerfully, reading the hourly report like nothing was wrong. "How long to romulen empire space ensign?"
The ensign at helm looks back at his new commanding officer. His eyes drift momentarily to the bloodstain still on the carpet by the chair, the last remenant of the ship's former captain, now floating in space several million kilometers behind them, before his eyes snap back to the new commander. "One hour, Sir."
"Good... Keep an eye out for pursuit, remember that Wilson got a distress call out to Starfleet before we killed him."
"Yes Sir."
The Reliant speeds on through space towards the romulen empire's territory.

Captain Hughes had been hailing the Reliant for thirty mintues, still no response
" Commander Miller, how soon till weapons range?" he asked anxiously, Miller looked up from the navigations console hesitantly,
" five mintues sir. Sir? Are we actually going to open fire on a federation ship?" he asked quietly, most of the crew had beend reading the possiblity for the entire pursuit, now Hughes had to tell them
" That is no longer a federation ship, it is a rogue ship headed for an ally, it must be stopped at all costs, as soon as we enter weapons range, i want the Reliant disabled, prepare a boarding party. Commander Miller, see me in my ready room." he commanded brusquely, he stalked off the bridge. Ensign Tan looked up uncertainly at Miller
" Sir, i don't think i could fire on the Reliant." he said shakily, voicing the entire crew's feelings on the matter, miller looked at him compassionatly,
" Just do your job son, hopefully they'll listen to reason." he said, his voice clearly audible to the entire bridge crew, Miller walked into Hughes' ready room
" Commander, i want you to get a message to the fleet, have the excelsior, the ramses, and the Prometheus go directly to the romulen border." he said shortly, not noticing the look of grave concern on Millers face
" Sir i think we should reevaluate our position on this, do we really have to open fire on a federation ship?" he asked, his concern sinking into his voice
" Dammit number one! We cannot allow them to begin a war with one of our allies, we have to stop them." he said, not looking up into the commander's face,
" Yes sir, but two prometheus's and an excelsior? isn't that overkill sir?" he asked hesitantly
" they are our last resort, if the Reliant moves out of our range, than it is up to them to stop a war. You have your orders, carry them out."

bump

we are moving the fleet to our borders, if we encounter any starfleet ships we will destroy them

"Federation ship on sensors Sir. It's the Hood. Sovereign class."
"Damn. We can't fight a ship like that... Okay, I have a plan. Cut all engines and blow out plasma relays nine and eleven. Now listen up, this will be tricky..."

" sir, they've dropped out of warp, sensors are reading a few plasma blowouts on their plasma relays, looks like their disabled." repoted miller quietly
" Good move in and get a tractor beam on them."

The Reliant hails the Hood, a picture of a lieutenant holding a phaser to the first officer's head apears onscreen. The lieutenant looks at the captain of the Hood and grins. "Sir. Good to see you. We have reclaimed the vessel in the name of the Federation, but some of us were jettisoned by the traitors. There are two in a life pod disabled a kilometer from here. Hurry and pick them up before they run out of air, we'll hold down the fort until you get back! You can take the escape pod into your shuttlebay, it should be big enough."

" an escape pod is no improtant piece of equipment, we'll send a shuttle to transport your men aboard, number one, see to it." says captain hughes,

"It's up to you, but we don't recommend it. The escape pod is damaged, as I said. Transport may be risky. It should be docked internally or externally to the Hood for retrieval to ensure the safety of the occupants."
The first officer resists the urge to smile. This was working better than he had hoped. The Hood was falling into his trap even as they were trying to avoid it. His captain had taught him to always have a backup plan. He had two.

" Not to worry, the Odyssey is en route, i'll divert them to retrieve the pod, but the Defiant, and the Enterprise will be coming straight here" replied Hughes blandly, he was fairly certain there was something not quite right going on here, Miller looked at him uncertainly from across the bridge, Hughes nodded slowly, Miller dispatched the shuttle

OOC; a kilometer? i could use the Hood's main transporter for that

Suddenly, three crewmen burst onto the bridge and begin firing. The lieutenant hits the deck and screams out. "Hood, this is the Reliant! The rebels are trying to retake the ship! Send reinforcements, now! Our shields are down!"

hughes orders ten men armed with heavy tactical phasers to the reliant, the security officers board the reliant expecting a firefight...

OOC: By shuttle or transporter?

sorry, transporter, shuttles too cumbersome

OOC: Good.

IC: The transporter beams are reversed suddenly, and the guards materialize back on the Hood, along with live torpedos that detonate on the transporter pads.

OOC: Normally the buffers would filter something like that out, but since the beam was reversed back toward you and the buffer had already operated on it, the safeties would be unable to operate.

OOC: newest model, advanced security

IC: the ships security sensors, making a periodic sweep detect the torpedos just before they go off, two are transported off the ship, security force fields are inplace when the others explode, the Hood is not able to pursue for now, but it is repairable,

Hughes was thrown to the deck of the ship, the screen flickered off, and he got to his feet,
" What the hell happened?" he asked his forst officer looked up fromt eh damage control console
" They reversed the transporter and sent some torpedoes back wit it, looks like we'll be ok, but we're not going anywere." replied Miller
" Have we got any weapons?" demanded hughespushing the hair back out of his eyes
" we have one tubes open but there's only 3 torpedoes in it sir," miller looked uncertainly at Hughes
" Fire whatever we can!" he yelled back, walking to his chair and sinking heavily into it,
" Notify the closest ship to intercept and destroy the reliant on sight!"


U.S.S. Hood= out of action

The commander of the Reliant pumps his fist in celebration. "Take that, you Starfleet bastards. Good show, men."
A Lieutenant at tactical cries out. "Sir! They are firing!"
"Get us out of here, maximum warp."
The Reliant takes two torpedo hits on her shields, then jumps to warp.
"We have escaped Sir."
"Good. Mask our signature, then execute some course changes once we're out of range so they can't track us. The Hood may be crippled for now, but she's a ship of the line. Her crew will be on our heels again soon enough, and they won't wait to fire next time; so let's make it hard for them to find us at least. If we do a good job, they won't pick us up again until we're in romulen space."
"Yes Sir."
"Are there any more Starfleet ships in range that could be tracking us?"
"No Sir, the Hood is on her own. Based on the last data we had on the fleet's positions before Starfleet got wind of the rebellion, it will take at least another three hours until the Hood is reinforced."
Another Ensign speaks up. "Do you think they'll wait?"
The commander's face hardens. "I met Hughes once. He won't wait, especially since he has the more powerful ship. Our best bet is to make it to the romulen border before they do. If they find us before then, we'll have to play our ace early."
"Our... Ace, Sir?"
"That's right, you don't know why the Reliant was sent on this mission, do you? We're here to test a new technology. Ensign, we were sent out here to test a phased cloaking device."

OOC: Dun-dun-DUNNNNNN!!!!

The LRRSV Don Henley coasts along in space, doing nothing in particular, like most of the LRRSF. It is one of the new Bangor class light cruisers. While still classified as "Cruiser," they were not built like the Camden destroyers and Frederick Douglass class battlecruisers, which are complete beasts. The Bangor class was crewed by an unusual 140 sailors, unusual because the larger ships like the Frederick Douglass battlecruisers have crews of around 70, and the largest LRR ships, the Michael Strogoff battlecarriers, have crews of around 120. And the Bangors still had room for 50 marines and their craft. The extra crew, however, is used as backups for the on-duty 60 in these mostly human-crewed ships, as humans are not as well-suited to space travel as other LRR species.

"Picking up a Star Trek type vessel up ahead. It appears to have hull damage."
"Looks like a Soveriegn to me. Soverigen class starship, what is your status, over?"

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A Bangor class light cruiser.

"This is Captain Hughes of the Hood, we have received heavy damage and are currently unable to move under impulse or warp power, other than that all systems appear..functional, we have been attempting to track another starfleet ship, the Reliant, having found them we sent a boarding party aboard, they reversed the beam with some old torpedoes and crippled us, we have sent distress calls out to the fleet though, we do not require assistance,


Meanwhile


Admiral Grier sat on the command chair of the Sovereign, his eyes dark and his face angry
" Captain, order the prometheus's ahead, they're the fastest ships in the fleet, and find out the Hood's status, now!" he commanded with unusual intensity, he glared at the viewscreen ahead of him, watchng as the prometheus's moved into highest warp,
" Sir, the Hood reports all engines offline, we've just received transmission from excelsior, defiant and britannia, they report that they have arrived at the romulen border, Cpatain Hughes must have sent them ahead sir." reported the vessels Captain, Capt. Adesco
" Good man Hughes, Good man, have the Excelsior and her group begin active scans, look for an artificial gravity field being generated, get HQ on the line and find out how to bring down the experimental cloak the reliant is carrying, see to it!"
" Sir, U.S.S. Nova is requesting permission to join the fleet."
" The new ship? give them permission, and jump to warp when ready"...


OOC: did you draw that yourself?

"Roger that, Hood. We will be in the area. Do you need any help tracking the Reliant, over?"

OCC: Nope, I didn't draw it meself. Its nice, though.

IC: " if you can we'd be much obliged"


OOC: yeah it does

"Ok, then. Do you know where they might have gone?"

The Reliant, having executed a number of significant course changes, is several light years off of its original course. It approaches the romulen border in stealth mode, still masking its warp trail and keeping power usage to a minimum to make them harder to detect.

OOC-If you don't want me in this RP, then just ignore this post and say so.

IC-

"If you don't want to be here Jones then why didn't you leave?" A man appeared from the shadow cast by his blue bunk bed. Half of his body was still held by the darkness, but he could be seen. His blonde hair shook as he moved his head, and his Commanders jacket hung from his body.
"I had no choice Darwin, I was packing my bags when they told us about this wholse Starfleet thing. If they..."
He was interupted mid sentence, with an allmost sarcastic tone;
"If they reach the Romulons then any peace that we have in space will be broken. We'v all heard it before Charley, but its essential for you to captain us into them"
"You make it sound like you don't want me here Mr Franks?" laughed the commander.
"You know thats not true Charley, we all want you here, its just I certainly don't want you staying against your will. You know what happened with Captain Yardley"
"Say no more Darwin, I'm here atleast untill this Starfleet versus the Romulans is over. Then I'l review"

Darwin was a tall man wearing a black pinstripe suit. He had brown eyes, which were mostly covered by his over-grown brown hair. Before he could reply the pair were interupted by the woosh of a sliding door.
"Commander Jones, message from the bridge is that we are approaching the Mutanied vessel. Radars detect atleast 2 other vessels in the area"

"Very well continue at speed and course, pull to the side of the Mutanied ship and begin charging"

"Affirmitive Sir"

Pablicosta: OOC: I don't object to your participation, but you cannot simply claim to "pull to the side" of the Reliant. Remember, at their last check there were no ships on sensors and they are running in stealthy mode while masking their trail. You'll need to do better than just finding them suddenly.

OOC- i didn't say I had pulled up to them... What I meant was that I was approaching their last noted position. My cock up, sorry.

OOC: I see. Very well then. -Starfleet-, I request that you close this RP now that Pablicosta has joined. My roleplaying skills are at their worst when I'm dealing with more than three or four other players at once.

Xanthal: i would really rather not, this is starting to get good, so if you'd stick around it'd be great

Pablicosta: i have no problem with your participation

LRR: IC: " they were last headed to the romulen border, and were attempting to cross it."

"Roger that. What are the technical specifications on the Reliant?"

Captain Jones was summoned to the bridge where he stared through the glass into space.

"Continue on preset course, we need to intercept that ship ASAP. Increase speed to 5."


The Defiant shook for a few second and then picked up speed, heading towards a large planet in the distance.

LRR:
Dimensions:
Length: 254 m
Width: 148 m
Height: 62 m
Propulsion
Warp: 2 First Generation Linear Warp Drive
Impulse: 1 Dual Impulse Deck
Performance
Max safe cruising: Warp 6.2
Emergency Speed: Warp 8.4
Max Speed: Warp 9.20
Weaponry
Phasers: 6 banks of 2 (2 fore,2 port,2 starboard,1 aft,2 lower), 2 Heavy Phaser cannons
Torpedo Tubes: 2 fore, 2 aft
Auxiliary Craft:
Shuttlebays: 2 Large Bay
Shuttlecraft: 20 Standard shuttles Compliment

OOC: By "close the RP" I don't mean end it, I mean close it to any more people. That way I don't need to deal with more players than we have now.

IC: The Reliant cuts the romulen border without incident and enters an area of complete sensor blind around a secret romulen base. Just before it enters the sensor blind it stops masking its trail and comes out of stealth mode, creating a momentary blip on the sensors of every ship in the area before disappearing again.

Hughes sat angrily on the bridge of the hood, they had just finished repairs, and were ready to get under way, a sensor blip pinged on the console next to him, he looked at it eagerly, it was only there for a moment, then it was gone,
" Sir should we set course?" asked his first officer, Hughes thought for a moment
" Get permission from the romulens, inform them that they have a ship in their space, and ask if we can enter, then set course 2-5-7-3 for remus."
" Sir? that'll take us away from their target, shouldn't we..."
" I met the commander of the Reliant once, he's a chagey one, i think he'll go were we least expect him and wait until we've given up. the he'll come out, just do it number 1."

Meanwhile, on the romulen station, commander Christopher Roth (yes, you finally have a name to work with; sorry for the delay) is speaking with the station commander, a high-ranking Tal Shiar. The plan was working perfectly. Now there was only one more step left before the plan was complete. The commander is granted asylum and his ship is locked down. In another docking bay, a crude replica of the Reliant sits.

OOC: Since the romulen empire isn't RPing here this won't be a part of their official history anyway, so I'm taking some artistic liberty with a defection. Roth is giving the romulens Starfleet's experimental phased cloaking technology.

After recieving the transmission, the Don Henley hyperspaces out to the romulan border.

OOC: actually i have been RPing but i haven't been able to really do anything

IC:commander Repin looked at the burly man ahead of him with obvious contempt, Repin didn't quite beleive the defection, he thought it a ruse by starfleet, some attack, and he'd ordered the Valdore and the D'Deridex to remain by the outpost

The romulen empire: OOC: Ah, well that's even better then.

Commander Roth smiles disarmingly at the romulen. "I recommend that you launch the replica of the Reliant as soon as possible. Starfleet will not be happy if they know what we have done here today. It is best if they think that we were destroyed along with our vessel. You can use the technology we have brought you to maintain the balance of power in the galaxy secretly, without compromising your relations with the Federation.

The vessel appraoches the Romulon boarder and slows to an allmost stop.

This is the Pablicostan Space Fleet vessel Nomad, we are giving chase to an intruding vessel within your' territory. Permision to pass the border?

After permision is granted the vessel psses through the border and regains speed and course towards the position of the Reliant.

The Don Henley arrives at the Romulan border after a short hyperspace flight.

"Do we cross or ask?"
"Let's ask."

Romulan border control, this is the LRRSV Don Henley. We are pursuing a dangerous vessel which has most likely crossed your border. We would like to cross it, over."

Hughes stared out at the space before him, glancing everynow and then at the planetoid of Remus, his ship was hiding in the planet's shadow, almost as good as cloaked
" Captain, Admiral Grier has requested our position, we need your code to authorize the transmission." said Miller quietly, ghosting into the room, Hughes held up his hand for silence, and turned
" We will not be transmitting for sometime number 1, we need to keep complete silence or we'll be found, do not transmit, or you'll be putting us in terrible danger, understood?" Miller nodded slowly, "Very well then, you may go."

Back aboard the romulen station, the dummy Reliant has been launched. Transmitting a false signal that makes it indistinguishable from the real thing, it leaves the sensor blind and heads for Remus.

"let us come to the point Commander Roth, i don't trust you, i don't believe your defection is genuine, i think that you and your crew are up to something, which is why i have ordered a romulen beacon be placed aboard your ship, the D'Deridex and the Valdore will escort to wherever you may be going inside of romulen space, and if you attempt to flee or dismantle the beacon we will open fire on you, i will not tolerate foolishness in my space, and i will most certainly not allow any action which may lead us to war with -starfleet-, understood?"

"The decoy is operating by remote, Sir. I'm not going anywhere. Your government promised me asylum, so here I am. Once the decoy Reliant is destroyed, our problems will be over, and you'll have a new technology to play with."

as i said roth, i don't trust you, you and any of your men will be scorted to and from werever you go and a guard will be posted aroung the phase cloak device to prevent any...tampering

"Indeed. You should never trust anyone who would defect from his own government. I'll be in my quarters, try not to bother my people too much. Remember, trust us or not we're still the reason you've got your newest toy."

"quite so commander, quite so."

OOC: so i'll just remain ignorant shall i?

IC: this is Admiral Grier of -Starfleet-, i am requesting roulen permission to enter your space and conduct a search for a missing starship, the Reliant, we beleive that the ship suffered a mutiny and we would very much like to get it back

The Nomad contnues on course toward the decoy vessel. Of course, the crew don't know its a decoy yet. Yet.

As the speed increases a young cadet enters the bridge.

Sir, solid info that a romulan vessel is heading towards our position, awaitg orders Sir.

The captain pondered for a moment and then issed the command to slow down, ready to intercept any vessel coming to close.

The Nomad also began sending out hail signals to the romulan vessel, (Really the real -Starfleet- vessel with a Romulan signal).

The decoy Reliant changes course toward a black hole.

-starfleet-: you have permission for 3 ships to enter our space, that is all
pablicosta:whuh?

very well, we'll send the Prometheus, the Dragoon, and the Sovereign to investigate

bump

"put it on screen" ordered hughes shortly, the image popped up, the reliant charging towards a black hole, in only a few moments they'd be too far gone to get out
"It's not them" hughes murmered to himself, the rest of the bridge crew stared in awe at the massive group suicide
" Sir?" asked Miller
" it's a decoy, lieutenant, raise shields go to red alert, arm all weapons, load forward topedo bays, make ready for combat operations."

The Reliant is destroyed in the black hole.

OOC: I can't do anything more unless someone goes to the romulen station.

OOC: as in who?

As in whoever is smart enough (or dumb enough) to intrude on a top secret romulen installation. Of course, if you want to wrap the RP up you could do it now by having Starfleet recall your ships or something. You're the driving force here, and as long as you're on it, I won't leave. If you come to the station you'll need to retrieve the romulen empire first though, since it's his outpost.

"Lieutenant set a cours to the nearest romulen station, downgrade status to yellow alert, have all personnel on the ready."
" Sir? Why are we going to a romulen station?"
" we're going to need their help sometime number one, now is as good a time as any to get it. Lieutenant, engage"