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#31
Docking Bay & Shipyard / The Wanderer
February 13, 2008, 09:23:55 PM
Tom heard the call for the crew of the Lothlorien - now the crew of the Normandy - to proceed to their ship, and he looked over towards it. An Ambassador-refit class. Certainly different than the New Orleans, even if it did seem to have more thought put into odd aesthetics than purpose.

Tom sighed, and then held his head high and began to make his way to the Normandy.
#32
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 24, 2007, 01:28:59 AM
Tom nodded silently. He'd run a sensor sweep after the briefing, double-check the computer's initial readings. For now, he sat back and listened quietly to the rest of the briefing.
#33
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 17, 2007, 09:08:07 PM
Tom had been working hard on the ship's systems, trying to find something that he could get operating that would help them. Phasers were almost completely out of the question, as they were either all buried, powerless, or just not there, sheared off in their descent and crash landing. They had also been the first thing the Heraan had aimed for in their attack.

"GOT YA!" he yelled, as a small section of his screen started to show some fluctuating power readings.

"Sir!" he cried out to the Admiral. "I can get the deflector working for one short pulse. It'll fry out most of the circuits for the dish, but I can use it like a shock wave, and push the Heraan back. It'll take four minutes to charge the dish sufficiently for the pulse!"

The uncharacteristic outburst shocked him. Normally he was calm and collected, even in battle. He'd have to take some time out as soon as he could and calm his emotions. Though that would probably be quite a while.

=/\="Bridge to all Starfleet and Marine forces outside of the ship. Begin moving back towards the ship immediately. Try and get inside, or as close to the hull as you can. Bridge out."=/\=

He hoped that his trick would cause enough of a lull in the Heraan's offensive to allow the Marines to strike back. He noticed on the sensors though some life signals near the deflector dish. Anyone that close when the pulse went of would likely be killed.

=/\="Major. You'll have to start moving your Marines inside the ship, that close to the deflector dish on the outside of the ship......wouldn't be pleasant."=/\= he  said. He knew there was a large hole in the dish, hopefully they could hold them off from just in there until he could initiate the pulse.

He began the painstaking process of charging the dish, ready for when the Admiral gave his approval, if he was concious enough to do so. He had taken a pretty bad strike to the head.
#34
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 01, 2007, 09:45:15 AM
Tom pulled himself up on his console. He had a gash on his head, a nosebleed, and he could feel some blood trickling down his right leg.

The console in front of him was only barely functioning, the controls flickering on and off. "Shields....offline. Life Support out on all decks minus Decks 1, 3 and Deck 5, Section 1. Hull Breaches on all decks. Transporters...have a minute amount of power but are not functional. Weapons systems are either offline or destroyed. The lower three decks and the forward section of the main hull are.......gone, Sir."
#35
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 02, 2007, 08:50:40 PM
=/\="Richards to Bridge. I'm at the EPS Conduits *static* Deck Fou*****Sensors fif*****cent operational. Trying to repair**********nications."=/\=

Tom began rewiring the systems behind the panel he was working at, trying to get at least internal communications working temporarily. He had to hot-wire the thing to send his last message, and got a few burns on his hands and face from sparks for his troubles. Finally, he managed to replace the completely wrecked systems with some workable ones from other, now useless systems. =/\="Captain. Internal Communications are back online, though there are sections of the ship where the signal won't reach due to the damaged systems. I'm going to head over to the long range communications and subspace relay, I may be able to get them functional, as I believe some new parts were stowed in Cargo Bay Four before our departure for various systems.

"Also, Sir I found out something while trying to get sensors operational. Some of the systems such as internal force fields read as working on our consoles when they actually don't. If we can, we need to get an engineer on them right away. Richards out"=/\=

Tom stood up quickly, and then grasped his head. He needed to remember to take it slower until he could find a doctor to patch him up, else his head will feel like it is now - his brain trying to escape through his forehead and temples. Leaning on the wall for support, Tom waited for the pain to die down.

Then he moved off towards the jeffreys tube.
#36
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 26, 2007, 09:52:29 PM
"That would depend entirely on the situation, Sir. If it was for the good of the Federation, or you were going completely rogue, then yes, I would shoot you."
#37
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 19, 2007, 07:34:37 PM
As the battered deflector dish began charging in it's damaged state, if began to glow. At first just a subtle light, but it gradually built up to a brilliantly bright blue glow. A slight humming could be heard from anyone close enough to it.

As soon as his sensors showed all the Marines inside, the ones right near the dish among them, Tom's eyes flicked back to the readings on the panel infront of him. "Ten seconds!" he warned, as a few sparks shot out from the dish outside as it strained to hold less power than it would have for normal operating.

When he knew that the deflector had charged as much as it was capable, he ran the commands to run an override in it's systems, putting all of that power into the currently inactive shields at once.

There was sudden silence outside for a split second. Then a thunderous wave of blue energy expanded rapidly out from the ship, pushing everything with it - Heraan soldiers, corpses - both Heraan and Federation - rocks, discarded weapons, wreckage from the ship itself. Each and every one of them was thrown back, with no chance of resisting, until the deflectors burnt out, completely inoperable now. The Heraan, however, were now on the floor - disorientated, and without the charge, momentum and advantage they had only moments ago.
#38
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 05, 2007, 01:23:24 PM
Tom walked back onto the Bridge after his trek to and from the long-range communications and sub-space relay controls. He had various burns and cuts on his arms and face, but looked pleased with himself.

"Captain, Long-range communications are operational, and should cover the majority of the planet, though the further the recipient, the more distorted the audio." Looking up, he saw the sensors on the main view screen and walked over to the operations console.

He rerouted power from a few systems, shut off the power going to the now-destroyed sensor panels and shunted it to the functional ones. The image on-screen distorted, and then showed a slightly larger radius, showing 5 green dots with a reading next to them of 3, though the closest dot showed only two - a total now of 14 friendly life signs. There were also three red dots, moving much faster - Heraani fighters. One was within the previous range of the sensors, while the other two were just out.
#39
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 26, 2007, 10:44:43 PM
"Of course you were aware, Sir. The resourceful can bypass the security of even Starfleet Intelligence if their mind is set to it and they have the right tools. I know that there is more than meets the eye to you, Sir, and I know that your access goes a lot higher than a mere Starfleet Captain."
#40
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
February 05, 2008, 01:42:02 PM
Thomas decided to report to his quarters on Avalon station, leaving the young Lieutenant Dolan to the station's medical team. In his mind, Dolan had been poking his head where he shouldn't have, and so his health wasn't his problem.

=/\=Richards to Avalon. One to beam over.=/\= he said into his combadge, as he dematerialised in a blue glow.
#41
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 05, 2007, 11:59:26 PM
"With some fine-tuning of the system, depending on his distance from the ship, yes Sir."
#42
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 26, 2007, 08:07:58 PM
Tom sat down calmly and silently, his face blank. "What would you like to know, Captain?" he asked.
#43
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 27, 2007, 07:58:51 PM
Tom simply nodded at the Director, as the klaxons began wailing a red alert. As the Captain moved out of his ready room onto the Bridge, Tom silently moved towards the operations console, and began accessing functions. His station was secluded enough so that non of the other bridge officers could see what he was doing without standing next to him.

He began running a few programs he developed in his early years. They were a few of the programs he used whenever he hacked a system, though he never used the same on constantly, else a block would be developed for it. He had about ten different programs that he alternated between with each time he hacked a system, and this time he used his Echo set.

His screen showed the addresses of each of the consoles on the entire ship, and some parameters Tom had built into his program - ways of narrowing his search. He first selected consoles only on the bridge. He then cross-referenced which consoles were designated for each department, and then who was logged onto them, quickly finding the one he wanted. Console #452345-009, User: Dolan, William, Department: Science.

He soon accessed the system without any notifications appearing on any screen, anywhere, and without even any logs in the computer cores. He set his program to copy every shred of data that passed through the Lieutenant's terminal, and display it on a small section in the bottom-left of his own screen, and send copies to three separate storage locations in his quarters, and again to another data store he had hidden in an area of the ship previously. Sure, he might be paranoid, but it might save his life one day.

Double-checking that the computer cores had no evidence of his hack, he began running his scans on the Heraani vessels.

"Operations; ready." he stated, in reply to the Captain's call for reports. He began analysing the readings he was getting from the various vessels, and thought he would comment on Lieutenant Brown's idea.

"We can modulate the phasers to fire two bursts, one timed precisely after the other, and at different power ratings. The first can be programmed to overload their shields, and the second to disable and/or destroy any part of the ship in our line of fire. The ships can either be destroyed, or disabled ready for capture."

He then transferred the calibration data to the Tactical Console, ready for the tactical officer to enter in if the Captain took up on his suggestion. His hack tool confirmed they arrived at the console.

"As for the larger vessel, it seems to have multiple shield generators. If one is overloaded, then it will only leave us a minute gap, and precision manoeuvring would be needed to be able to his a critical point in the vessel through the points where the shields would have a gap. If, however, we overload two generators simultaneously, then a larger gap would be created, and a better shot would be opened."


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#44
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
January 24, 2008, 09:25:48 PM
"Well, it's Heraan for one." He said, jokingly. More seriously, he said; "It's database has a huge amount of information. Terrabyte after Terrabyte of the stuff. Some of the crew may have accessed parts of it before I could lock it all. There's information on species in the galaxy older than humans, Sir. My guess is the Heraan have been around a lot longer than I thought, or they have been given some of the knowledge of the Najigat."

"This ship doesn't have any special purpose other than to try and wipe the annoyance called the Federation off the face of the Galaxy. That would lead to suggest that this is the more standard end of their knowledge, and that larger facilities dedicated to information would have more. That's just a guess though."
#45
U.S.S Lothlorien / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 25, 2007, 11:49:16 PM
After leaving the briefing. Tom ran the sensor sweep as he had planned, and confirmed the computer's readings as to the location of the Omega Molecule exactly. At least they had put some decent sensor systems in the Lothlorien.

As the ship shook, Tom quietly regained his posture, redirecting power to ensure the efficiency of the ship's systems. Dolan seemed to work efficiently, and saw him order the DC teams to the damaged areas. A competent crew, as well as systems, then.

"Mr. Richards?" Aariya said quietly, walking up to the man. "The Captain would like to see you in his Ready Room."

"Aye." was all Tom said, as he nodded and moved away, allowing the relief officer to take his post.

Stepping into the ready room, Tom stood straight as the door hissed shut behind him. "Sir."
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