Mission 13: "The Heist"

[T'lana]

T'lana thought for a moment as to who would be the best to assist her in rescuing the Jedi, she came up with an answer quite quickly.

"Aye, Captain. Mr. freeman you are with me and I will also take Voison and Tigerlead."

T'lana looked fully at Commander Freeman, "Commander, spin up the Jump Drive, then meet me at the Keleta.

Tapping her comlink, T'lana ordered, =A="Mr. Voison and Mr. Tigerlead, prepare yourself for an away mission and report to the Keleta in the main Hangar Bay."=A=

[T'lana]

T'lana, as with the rest of the group, had to step over a lot of bodies. The female Vulcan counted at least 250 Heraani bodies, but her assessment was made difficult by the fact that they were not whole bodies. Heads, arms and legs, as well as two halves of the one body, made it difficult to count, even for a Vulcan.

T'lana could see the remorse on Chaya's face and thought there were times the young woman was going to cry. She admired Chaya's ability to maintain her emotions, despite her youth, obviously due to the training Jedi receive, worthy of the Vulcans themselves.

[Odona Covell]

"Thank you Master Sar, your too kind as always.  This ship, the Rivendell, it seems very advanced, what was that thing they did with disappearing like that?  I still sensed them they where just instantly moved from one location to another."

[T'lana]

T'lana checked the engineering station two minutes later, where the status of her Jump Drive was being displayed.

"We are ready to jump Captain."

[Givrillian Sarpedon]

Sarpedon ran down to the shuttlebay, and boarded one of the shuttles, launching it as soon as it had reached maximum crew capacity. He had to dodge a few explosions as he left the bay with EPS Conduits blowing, and swung the small craft around. The damage to the mighty Prometheus starship was extensive.

=/\=All shuttles and escape pods, this is Chief Sarpedon. Form up on me, I'm gonna try and keep us out of this mess.=/\= he said into the comm, planning on keeping the small craft out of the kill zone between the Gallifreyans and the Heraan, while getting the pods to a Gallifreyan ship as soon as possible, allowing the shuttles to jump away to Avalon.



OOC: Seems all the ships are being blown up, you guys trying to destroy the fleet? XD

[T'lana]

T'lana, at least what was left of her, was drifting in and out of consciousness. Bits of words and movement invading her mind, something was going on but she had no idea what. All T'lana could see was darkness and a shaft of whit light in front of her.

T'lana remembered many things she thought she had long forgotten of her 108 years of life, which for a Vulcan was still quite young, but eventful.

She remembered the first time she had met her future husband, they were born the same year and therefore would experience the seven year life cycle together. But that was not the only reason, they were also from two influential and noble families.

She loved her husband, as much as a species that control emotions and thoughts can love anyone and the psychic bond after their first union only strengthened that feeling of familiarity.

Their first and only child came along during the second year of their bonding and T'lana could remember the familiarity, the bond that could only be felt between mother and daughter. She also remembered losing a part of herself when she was informed that her husband and child were killed by a rogue Romulan Scout ship that was working for the Order of the Empty Crown, a group of fanatics that considered the lone shuttle piloted by T'lana's husband with their then six year old daughter as a passenger, was spying on their asteroid base, ten light years from Vulcan.

Trying to avoid the unexpressed pain and anguish of that loss, T'lana's brain moved forward in her memories, to another dark time in her life, working for the intelligence arm of Vulcan Security.

T'lana was tasked with a mission to Romulus. Intelligence reports had indicated that the Romulans had accepted Ambassador Spock's reunification because of an Obelisk that was discovered in an ancient pyramid structure on Romulus.

The second part of her mission was to test the prototype stealth reconnaissance vessel, the Kelata, that she had designed and help build. The first known Vulcan ship to use a Cloaking Field Generator, Quantum Slipstream Drive, Quantum Induction Core, Biosynthetic Computer system, Gravitational Engines and the most powerful weapon system ever designed on Vulcan, the Quantum Discharge Canons; neutron based particle beam weapons at Three Million electron Volts per shot. Ever since, T'lana regretted she had ever invented the damn things.

Her task for the primary part of the mission was to determine the legitimacy of the ancient Obelisk and to record the obelisk for further study.

What she found changed her life, what the intelligence office of the V'Shar ordered her to do afterwards made her join Starfleet.
She discovered that the writing on the Obelisk told of the true story of the split between the Vulcans and the Romulans.

Approximately five thousand years ago there was a battle between two groups, the followers of Surak and those that did not want to suppress their emotions and follow a path of pure logic. This is all well known, it's just the location was wrong. The split occurred on Romulus, not Vulcan as first thought and it was the followers of Surak who left for a new world, T'Khasi, which humans later called Vulcan.

When the V'Shar heard of this they ordered T'lana to destroy the pyramid and Obelisk with the Kelata's Neutron Canons. Like a good little tin soldier T'lana followed her orders, but what she didn't know at the time was that the Romulan Scientists that discovered the Obelisk were tricked by the V'Shar into returning to the dig site, just before T'lana was order to destroy it.

T'lana no longer wanted to remember those times, but she assured herself that all was not lost, for against orders a copy of the recorded writings on Obelisk and the Pyramid are still on file in the Kelata's Biosynthetic Computer.

A sudden pain shot through T'lana's body like a massive electric shock and was gone. She knew she was dying...wanting to scream out for help, wanting to live.

[Morgan Freeman]

Morgan went over to the main console and activated a preprogrammed lock down system.   "Alright, I have locked down the lab and now all we have to do is a little redecorating of some conduits."

Walking over to the wall of the lab Morgan opened the wall and pulled out conduits.  "Now we need to connect the device to the right places, you have the instructions let me know where to install what."

[Chaya Sar]

Without any need to think, Chaya Sar stated, "Be my guest."

Chaya thought for a moment, "This has nothing to do with your request Captain, but as I asked your Admiral, the Viper's navicomputer requires star-maps to make the calculations for hyperspace travel. Any stellar cartographic data you have would be much appreciated. This of course is not a condition in allowing you to download the data, it is just a necessity for the operation of my Viper and the Blue Harvest."

[Taurik]

"Very well, it is settled. I will lead a team onboard the Cardinal Virtue to retrieve the datacore. Commander T'lana will lead those onboard the Kelata, and will liberate the hostages during the commotion caused by my team's egress. I have also instructed Orpheus to prepare the cargo transporters for an emergency beam-out, so that they can transport either the Virtue or the Kelata in their entirety, in case we have trouble getting out."

"As for individual team members," he captain continued, "I'll allow you to choose that for yourself. Remember that our numbers must be small, or we'll never be able to remain hidden."

[Holographic Officer Beta]

The Red Alert started to sound, and so Beta quickly dragged Lieutenant Stevens onto the transporter pad. "It sounds as if it would be smart for that command to be now, Ensign." He said, as the both beamed up to the Cardinal Virtue.

As soon as they were on-board, Beta sat himself at the Helm controls and moved them away from the station before scanning for the Rivendell. After finding the Federation vessel and double-checking that their cargo was on-board, he altered their course to bring them into the shuttlebay.

As soon as they were there, he issued commands to the computer. =/\=Computer: Emergency Site-to-Site transport.  Lieutenant Stevens to sickbay. Site-to-site transport; Captain Taurik's combadge to Cargo Bay 1. Erect a Level 10 forcefield around the cargobay, and only disengage upon my authority or the authority of my superiors.=/\=

Computer:Acknowledged.

Lieutenant Stevens and the computer core dematerialised in the familiar blue light.

"Judging by the sounds back on the station, Ensign, I suggest we do what we can to make the ship ready for immediate departure." he told T'Kar, before heading to the bridge.

As the others had not returned yet, and he was the senior officer on the bridge, Beta sat in the command chair. "Mr. Sarpedon. Prepare for immediate departure the moment the Captain and the Commander's away team are onboard."

[Holographic Officer Beta]

Beta started activating the various weapons attached to the Rivendell's hull. Red beams of deadly energy lanced out from the phasor arrays, and pulsing torpedoes soared towards their intended targets, creating large, bright explosions as the Rivendell's shields shimmered blue. The ship rocked badly from the assault of the Heraan. "Captain, we're taking heavy fire. If there is anyway to speed up the jump drive warm up cycle, I suggest we do it."

[Aeryn Kae]

Aeryn found her way through the sterile corridors to what seemed to be a lift. "Um... computer?" she asked.

The LCARS vocal interface chimed in response. Confident it was listening, Aeryn continued. "Where is the commander of this vessel?"

"Captain Taurik is on the main bridge," it replied.

"Take me there." With that, the lift began to move. Aeryn noticed another interesting amenity, in that the lift was obviously moving but provided no inertial feeling. This ship was one of the most luxurious she had ever seen, and the most fascinating part was that it was as if it was on accident. All of the luxury ships she had seen before were intentionally spacious and luxurious. But the Rivendell had a clean, scientific feel to it, while providing comfort at the same time.

The doors slid open and revealed a circular, white bridge, bathed in red bars of light from above. It appeared the ship was on high alert. Being careful not to interfere, she moved as close to the forward viewport as she could without stepping into the view of the captain in the central seat.

She found it odd that, while in her galaxy, starship commanders stood at an observation window issuing commands to their officers behind them, the commanders in this galaxy, or at least this particular group, sat in the center of their bridges, with their subordinates controlling panels along the walls.

Not an important observation, she realized, but vastly different all the same. It appeared to Aeryn that she really had some learning to do about these people. Despite the fact that she had certainly missed the conference on Naboo, she was hopeful that the Jedi Council would be equally pleased to hear of these new people.

(OFF: Aeryn doesn't yet know that return to her galaxy is all but impossible.)

[Morgan Freeman]

OOC:  Time to be heroic
IC: Before the captain left Morgan nodded at him to take T'lana with him.  "Live long and prosper Captain, I will keep the enemy's busy while you finish the evacuation of the Rivendell."
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Morgan knew the Rivendell had no hope of surviving but he was sure as hell going to make sure that his ship would go out with a bang.  So when the other officers left the bridge Morgan intentionally stayed.  

=A= Larial get to the Kelata and evacuate as many people as you can.  Be ready to beam me off the Rivendell when I tell you to. =A=

Knowing the drive system was offline Morgan decided to provide the enemy a little incentive not to fire on the Rivendell any further, well at least that's what he thought would happen.  Accessing what was left of the drive system controls and began rotating the ship with RCS thruster packs.  After the Rivendell gained sufficient rotational velocity he began venting the highly charged plasma into space around the ship.  This spread the plasma further out that it should of providing the escape craft with enough cover to leave the area.  

"Damn" Morgan said to an empty bridge as he remembered the ships AI had not been evacuated with the rest of the crew.  Plugging his tricorder into the engineering console he quickly downloaded the AI program.  Turning back to an empty bridge he gave his ship one final look before leaving.  Morgan had always been sentimental and it once again proved to be a problem for the engineer, the helm console in front of him exploded sending Morgan flying towards the back of the bridge.  As he slipped into unconsciousness the last thought he had was what happened to my communicator?

[Tigerlead]

OOC: Sorry for my noobiness :P but where am i curently located so i know what to post LOL

[Taurik]

--Bridge--

"Very well. We will be commencing the jump now. Taurik out."

The captain looked at his anxious flight controller. "Chief," he said, "begin disengagement sequences and take us out. Once we are in open space, initiate the jump drive. Take us twenty light years closer to Heraani space, target coordinates are at your discretion."