Post by Lt. Commander Alyssa Jenison on Sept 19, 2015 19:40:14 GMT -8
"Well done. It's a start. Can we strengthen that shockwave?"
"I'll get--" Alyssa started before a call from Tekison came in. Why was he calling the Bridge? That question, however, was set aside the moment the aliens hailed them again with disturbing news.
//"Captain Monroe, you are charged with the deaths of our children. You...and your crew, are now forfeit. Destroy them, and then the smaller ship. Leave no survivors."//
In the blink of an eye, a moment of satisfying victory turned into a chilling one. Oh, she had done damage. Significant damage from the reactions of the alien commander, but it wasn’t his distress that sent the shiver through her body. It was the sight of their unborn offspring slaughtered. Fury burned towards them. What were they possibly thinking by initiating an act of war with offspring aboard—on the Bridge of their ship no less?!? What fools would knowing place such valuable life in harm’s way?!
Alyssa’s eyes fell towards her hand as it relaxed from a balled fist into natural rest. There was no denying that her anger was also for her own actions. As responsible as they were for placing these offspring in danger, she was the one who had fired the shots extinguishing their life. How many had died? How many had she killed She could have taken Commander Riemann’s “Ethics in Tactical Choices” course fifty times, and he never would have prepared her for situations like these. She looked at the glow of her hand and wondered if it showed the true color of her hands, or if the truth were still hidden underneath.
Regardless of how she felt, this was not over. The fallout from this day would have to be dealt with later when the life of the crew did not depend upon her focus and attention. And so they received.
"You put the lives of your children at stake when you attacked us. Look to yourself for the blame. Cease your hostilities and no further harm will come to them. Star, get us between that ship and the shuttle immediately. The rest of you, I need a way to get the upper hand."
More solutions. Not an easy ask, as it seemed. But she would obey all the same. Midway through her thought process, her eyes turned upwards to meet with Henri’s as she spoke up.
"Captain? I think I've found it. Thanks to some fancy shooting. I believe the ships stabilizers are located right near our last point of attack. Focusing all fire there would likely short out their own inertial dampeners. I can't promise it'll do much damage to the ship itself, but... they'd be in for a bumpy ride over there."
Brushing the compliment aside, Alyssa gazed back over towards her sensor readings. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint where the stabilizers were, but they didn’t resolve the bigger issue. They could live without their stabilizers. As it appeared, their offspring could not. She wondered if doing might prompt them to withdraw to save the life of their remaining offspring, though she had her doubts considering they had already risked said lives and their response to the recent deaths had prompted wrath rather than fear. She feared their course was set. Their aggressors seemed bent on revenge, and that fact alone made death seem as the inevitable conclusion.
There had to be another way, another path. What were they missing? Alyssa thought back to what had drawn them in the first place. The transmission? Quiet likely, but did it mean anything? Had they come chasing after a random transmission or had they known what it was they were hearing. A thought struck her as Alyssa turned to the internal sensor array, she attempted to turn it on their device in Engineering only to find that the internal sensor array had been damaged. It wouldn’t allow her to pinpoint a location. She cursed before adapting her idea. Instead, she began a shipwide scan for any readings that matched what they had scanned of the alien vessel.
She got a hit, but not the one she had anticipated. “Captain…I’m reading one of them aboard the Talon.” She looked over the data to identify location. “Sickbay.” An intruder? When? Why hadn’t the internal sensors tipped them off? Then it occurred to her: Vargas had mentioned that the biological residue in that lab had reanimated and developed into an organism. And she had left to collect more from the asteroids.
“If Commander Vargas is right, then there are more of those lifeforms in the asteroids.” What did it all mean? A transmission from an alien weapon that possibly destroyed a planet whose remnants were coated with the biological residue of species drawn by that same transmission. Then their was the fact they were able to fling one of the asteroids towards the Talon. Could that mean--?”
“What if that asteroid field was once their planet?”
Tag: @kealan, @jonathanrichards, @henri, Lieutenant Robin Star, Any
"I'll get--" Alyssa started before a call from Tekison came in. Why was he calling the Bridge? That question, however, was set aside the moment the aliens hailed them again with disturbing news.
//"Captain Monroe, you are charged with the deaths of our children. You...and your crew, are now forfeit. Destroy them, and then the smaller ship. Leave no survivors."//
In the blink of an eye, a moment of satisfying victory turned into a chilling one. Oh, she had done damage. Significant damage from the reactions of the alien commander, but it wasn’t his distress that sent the shiver through her body. It was the sight of their unborn offspring slaughtered. Fury burned towards them. What were they possibly thinking by initiating an act of war with offspring aboard—on the Bridge of their ship no less?!? What fools would knowing place such valuable life in harm’s way?!
Alyssa’s eyes fell towards her hand as it relaxed from a balled fist into natural rest. There was no denying that her anger was also for her own actions. As responsible as they were for placing these offspring in danger, she was the one who had fired the shots extinguishing their life. How many had died? How many had she killed She could have taken Commander Riemann’s “Ethics in Tactical Choices” course fifty times, and he never would have prepared her for situations like these. She looked at the glow of her hand and wondered if it showed the true color of her hands, or if the truth were still hidden underneath.
Regardless of how she felt, this was not over. The fallout from this day would have to be dealt with later when the life of the crew did not depend upon her focus and attention. And so they received.
"You put the lives of your children at stake when you attacked us. Look to yourself for the blame. Cease your hostilities and no further harm will come to them. Star, get us between that ship and the shuttle immediately. The rest of you, I need a way to get the upper hand."
More solutions. Not an easy ask, as it seemed. But she would obey all the same. Midway through her thought process, her eyes turned upwards to meet with Henri’s as she spoke up.
"Captain? I think I've found it. Thanks to some fancy shooting. I believe the ships stabilizers are located right near our last point of attack. Focusing all fire there would likely short out their own inertial dampeners. I can't promise it'll do much damage to the ship itself, but... they'd be in for a bumpy ride over there."
Brushing the compliment aside, Alyssa gazed back over towards her sensor readings. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint where the stabilizers were, but they didn’t resolve the bigger issue. They could live without their stabilizers. As it appeared, their offspring could not. She wondered if doing might prompt them to withdraw to save the life of their remaining offspring, though she had her doubts considering they had already risked said lives and their response to the recent deaths had prompted wrath rather than fear. She feared their course was set. Their aggressors seemed bent on revenge, and that fact alone made death seem as the inevitable conclusion.
There had to be another way, another path. What were they missing? Alyssa thought back to what had drawn them in the first place. The transmission? Quiet likely, but did it mean anything? Had they come chasing after a random transmission or had they known what it was they were hearing. A thought struck her as Alyssa turned to the internal sensor array, she attempted to turn it on their device in Engineering only to find that the internal sensor array had been damaged. It wouldn’t allow her to pinpoint a location. She cursed before adapting her idea. Instead, she began a shipwide scan for any readings that matched what they had scanned of the alien vessel.
She got a hit, but not the one she had anticipated. “Captain…I’m reading one of them aboard the Talon.” She looked over the data to identify location. “Sickbay.” An intruder? When? Why hadn’t the internal sensors tipped them off? Then it occurred to her: Vargas had mentioned that the biological residue in that lab had reanimated and developed into an organism. And she had left to collect more from the asteroids.
“If Commander Vargas is right, then there are more of those lifeforms in the asteroids.” What did it all mean? A transmission from an alien weapon that possibly destroyed a planet whose remnants were coated with the biological residue of species drawn by that same transmission. Then their was the fact they were able to fling one of the asteroids towards the Talon. Could that mean--?”
“What if that asteroid field was once their planet?”
Tag: @kealan, @jonathanrichards, @henri, Lieutenant Robin Star, Any