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AVALON HABITAT => Holosuites => Topic started by: Quinn on June 02, 2007, 05:30:32 PM

Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 02, 2007, 05:30:32 PM
Quinn pulled out his tricorder and scanned the turbolift quickly,

"The closest floor is deck six, engineering is right below that. We can get there through the jeffrey tubes," He reported.

Just than the entire ship shook violently, tossing both the captain and Quinn to the floor.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 07, 2007, 10:28:11 PM
Quinn pressed his combradge, "Bridge to the captain, we're almost within communication range of starfleet headquarters,"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 14, 2007, 05:01:13 PM
OOC:I'll try my best to do more then two lines.

IC:

"Yes sir we can maintain position behind the moon. I beleave that the conoly is on the light side of the moon or more known as the face of the moon. We shall be behind them."

Takio looks at his panel and starts to do a few calculations.

"I could do a fly by from one side of the dark side of the moon to the other, it should take about 5-7 seconds too do that. Good for a quick scan of conoly?"

Takio fingers flick thought his calculations again and finding them all right
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 28, 2007, 09:47:17 AM
Takio gives Beta a quick nod in greeting and returns to his panal, a light starts to flicker, fingers move over the console.

"Captain,everyones aboard and someones asking to speak to you. Message has been sent to the 8472 ship and have just got a replied aknowledge."

Fingers keep on moving over the panal

"Course has been laid in and ...  hmm, strange!!"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 07, 2007, 05:29:03 PM
"I'll consider hiding, but what are the chances that they will catch up to us?" Dolan asked.  "We are already ahead and will likely stay that way.  They will probably stop pursuing us after they realized how far ahead we are," Dolan continued.

Dolan then took out a datapad he had been carrying around.  It was a design for a phaser bank that had its own power source seperate from the main power grid so it would still work if main, auxiliary, and emergency power were to shut down.  It had a targeting system that could lock on to enemies and fire automatically, however a manual firing is usually preferable, and had it's own controls near it.  Since it wasn't connected to the main power grid, a person would have to go to the controls themself to reprogram it to accompany new enemies or for repairs.  Dolan began see if there were any flaws and was going to make an experimental one as soon as he had time.  He began to consider making one in this holoprogram...it would be helpful since more power could be put in the warp drive.

Dolan then asked, "Is there any way we could cut down on the time?  Increasing antimatter injection?  Lowering power on non-essential systems?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on May 29, 2007, 11:32:40 AM
*Dolan arrived at the holodeck, eager to start his friend holoprogram's that was sent from him a few days ago*

"Computer, activate holoprogram 'To my good friend Voyager'"  Dolan said, excited to see the holoprogram.

*Suddenly the room changed, and Dolan was on a starship's bridge wearing a captain's uniform.  He turned toward his first officer*

"Commander, what is going on?" asked Dolan.

"Captain, don't you remember?  We are retreating back to Federation territory.  We were repulsed in the Battle of Cardassia.  The Dominion had reinforcements arrive and they attacked us with it, destroying a good part of the fleet.  We were forced to retreat.  I expect by the time we get back, a treaty would have been signed and the Federation will be forced to give up much of its territory," the officer replied.

"We've lost the Dominion War?" Dolan exclaimed.

"Pretty much sir.  The Dominion will probably be receiving reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant over the years of 'peace' that are coming though normal space.  The Federation will collapse if they do so.  I expect we will be at war in a few years, maybe months if they had sent those reinforcements at the beginning or even before the war," answered the officer.

*Dolan grimanced at the possibility of having to face the Dominion*

"How long until we reach Federation space?" asked Dolan.

"Well Captain, with many parts of the warp drive and core badly damaged, I'd say about two weeks before the USS , possibly more.  What's worse is that our weapons are also damaged so we don't have a chance if a Dominion, Cardassian or Breen ship finds us," the officer answered.

"Let's get to work then.  I'll be in Main Engineering." Dolan said, and headed to the turbolift.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 02, 2007, 11:51:29 AM
After heading down for a minute, the turbolift suddenly stopped, catching Dolan and Quinn off guard and throwing them off their feet.

"Dolan to Bridge, what just happened?  The turbolift just stopped," Dolan said.  After a couple of minutes there was no reply.

"Shoot, the comm system must be down.  We'll have to override the turbolift's controls manually," Dolan said as he bent down to see the controls better and began to press a series of keys on the console.  "Prepare to bring us to the closest floor, we'll have to get to Engineering on foot."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 08, 2007, 12:25:41 AM
Dolan looked up from the sensor logs and replied, "I'm on my way."  He then got up from his desk and went to the bridge from his ready room.  He then sat down in the captain's chair and thought about what he saw from the sensor readings.

Maybe the Federation ships need a new design, an upgrade in technology, a major improvement, Dolan thought as he mused over how so many ships could have been destroyed while only doing minor damage to the enemy's fleet.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 14, 2007, 04:45:51 PM
OOC: I would appreciate it if everyone said more than two lines, just to get the story moving.

IC:

"Can we maintain a position behind the moon?" Dolan asked Ensign Takio.

Dolan then tried to recall where the Lunar colony was to figure out if they could get any information from there.

"Ensigns, can we access information on the other colonies in Sol?"  Dolan asked, wondering if they could get more information.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on June 28, 2007, 07:59:44 PM
Taking the Tactical Station until the Ensign unfroze, Beta spoke to Dolan: "I'll take the security, and yes you may call me Beta; it's a lot easier than my full name." he said smiling.

Hearing Alex's exclamation, Beta asked; "What is it, Ensign?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 07, 2007, 11:14:51 AM
"Good question sir, if they don't catch up to us and start fireing at certain parts of the ship we should be able to get to outrun them, but I'm not hopeful on that"

Fingers move over the console as takio starts some quick calculations

"It should take us about thirty-nine hour to get to the coordinates or we could see about hiding in  an asteroid field or nebula gas field."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on May 29, 2007, 07:59:01 PM
*Dolan walked to Main Engineering rather slowly, considering that he stopped by several control panels along the way to gather information on his ship.  He noted on a PADD he had that he was on an Ambassador class vessel named the USS Bismark and that the ship was recently refit to fight in the Dominion War.  He then arrived at Engineering*

"Where is the Chief Engineer?" asked Dolan.

"Right here sir," said a women that was working on something concerning the warp core, "Just give me another second and...there!" She turned around and asked, "So, what are you here for, Captain?"

"I thought I'd help out.  It can't hurt to have an extra pair of hands, can it?" replied Dolan.

"Well, you can help replace some of the plasma conduits and some other parts over here," she said, pointing toward a Jefferies tube.

"I'll get started." Dolan picks up some materials, heads into the Jefferies tube and begins work.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 02, 2007, 12:08:10 AM
"Aye captain," Quinn quickly followed after Dolan, they entered the Turbolift.

"Engineering," He said promply, the turbolift ingaged.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 06, 2007, 01:06:25 PM
"Aye aye sir" Takio replied

Takio keeps on eye on his panel. Fingers move as he keeps the warp speed at safe enough levels without blowing up the ship.

"I've had to slow down a fraction adding two minutes to arrival time. We will be within range in twenty-two minutes."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on June 27, 2007, 08:54:21 PM
Beta nodded slowly as his subroutines digested the information. His memory banks had no record of the Dominion War other than sketchy details, but he thought it might be interesting to join in with the simulation.

"I think I understand. I am Holographic Officer Beta, sent from Starfleet Command on Earth to Expansion Fleet, initially for field testing, as I am a prototype holographic officer - I display many of the same emotions and characteristics of regular humans. I have a general basic knowledge of most ship systems, so I can take any which you assign to me here, though I would prefer something tactical or security-based."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 08, 2007, 01:43:06 AM
"I would prefer that the Breen, or any of the Dominion or their allies in that case, to know the existance of the fleeing fleet so if detours are required, so be it."

Dolan then beckoned for Beta to come over and look over his independent phaser bank design.

"You're going to be the first one to see this," Dolan said, waving the PADD a little.  "It is a design for a phaser bank with an independent power source, seperate from the main power grid, saving some power for the other ship systems and still providing defense even when there is a power outage or a power shortage.  I want you to look over it for any flaws.  I want to see if we could make an experimental one here in this holoprogram...if something goes wrong, no one will get hurt, though I don't think I would like to lose at this holoprogram...it's pretty fun."  Dolan grinned for a moment before continuing, "I'll explain the specifics if you need to a better explanation, I have some notes on the PADD."

Dolan then handed the PADD to Beta and waited for a response.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on May 30, 2007, 02:15:02 AM
*Soon, Dolan was done and similar work continued in the holoprogram, which gratefully had quicker days for the first hour of the program.  In a real world hour, a week had passed in the holoprogram, greatly advancing the story's plot much faster.  Gradually the time began to slow down enough for Dolan to reintergrate with the program*

Dolan arrived on the bridge from his quarters, took his seat and turned toward his first officer.

"So how has repairs come along?" Dolan asked.

The officer replied, "The warp drive and core have had all the necessary repairs finished an hour ago and we will be jumping to warp in a few minutes.  The rest of the ship has most of the repairs finished also except the weapons array, which is still offline.  With us heading to Federation space at maximum cruising speed, we could reach there in about 3 days, assuming we don't have any mishaps on the ship."

"Why 3 days? It took us 1 and a half to get to Cardassia," Dolan asked.

"We had run out of certain parts to repair the warp drive and core and had to make our own, less efficient ones out of what we have since the replicators are damaged beyond repair."

"Alright.  So we'll be getting back later than I had hoped.  Where are all of the other ships at the battle?" Dolan asked, having wondering where they were for some time now.

The officer's face grew dark but he replied, "Most of the ships were destroyed.  You had been knocked out and I took command.  We had received the order to retreat while you were unconsious and did so almost immediately.  By the time we received the order, a good part of the fleet was destroyed and we didn't stay to see what happened.  We hope the rest of the fleet survived but we won't find out until we reach Starfleet."

"We have to hurry then.  The Federation might have very few ships left, though I would expect them to have been refitting older ships in case we failed.  Let's hope we return before something terrible happens to the Federation."  Dolan had hoped for an exciting holoprogram and he was getting one.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 01, 2007, 10:56:47 PM
"Good work Ensign.  That should be enough, set a course to Earth and go to warp as soon as the coordinates are set. They can't pursuit us with only impulse and we have managed to delay them for at least a couple of hours," Dolan replied.  He was very glad that the safety protocols were online.

"We are at warp to Earth," the helmsman answered.

"As soon as we are within communications range with Earth, contact me," Dolan said, "I'm heading to Engineering to help with repairs.  Ensign, you're with me."  Turning to the helmsman, Dolan said,"Helmsman, you have the deck.  Notify me once we enter communications range with Earth."  Dolan then left for Engineering, expecting Ensign Quinn to follow.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 04, 2007, 08:22:42 PM
"Engineering to Bridge, how long until we are within communications range?"  Dolan said, expecting the new arrival, who appeared to be the helmsman, to answer, since Dolan had left the holographic helmsman in charge of the bridge when he left for engineering.

He then turned back to Quinn, who still hasn't answered the question yet, and asked again, "Do we have anything else that needs our attention?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 06, 2007, 10:31:38 PM
*In his ready room, Dolan decided to see what went wrong at the battle.*

"First, something to drink," Dolan said to himself, and turned to the replicator, and ordered, "Coffee, black."  He took the cup that appeared and then sat down at the desk to look over the sensor logs.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 09, 2007, 10:30:15 PM
"Captain I tried hailing starfleet headquarters, there's no response.." He paused for a second.

"Sensors are reading a total of 121,000 life signs on the planet surface, I'm dedecting no federation signature,"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 19, 2007, 11:17:59 AM
"Captain we will be in transporter range within 2 minutes, also dropping speed to half impulse"
Fingers fly over the panel slowing the ship down to half impulse. Takio looks at the top left corner of the console, frowns and quickly enters a command.
"Sir the probe will have to be programmed manually if we want scans of the Luna colony"

A light starts blinking

"Sir sencors have found an unkown object ahead of us, maybe a ship!"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 25, 2007, 04:54:17 AM
OOC:  Of course I don't mind, we could use more people.  Things have been kind of slow here.

IC:

Dolan was unsure who the new arrival was, but didn't think it was a part of the holoprogram, seeing the mobile emitter the new arrival had.  He decided to welcome him and said, "Greetings sir.  I'm Ensign Dolan.  You have just arrived at a holoprogram I have running.  Ensign Takio and Ensign Quinn here have also joined this holoprogram.  I'm the captain of the program's Ambassador-class vessel called the USS Bismark.  If you'll come with me to the ready room, I'll explain more of what is going on in the program."  Dolan then paused to allow the newcomer to comprehend this information.  "I have a feeling you didn't intentionally arrive here but I think we can still have you join us if you want" Dolan remarked.  Dolan then went to his ready room, where he could talk to the new arrival privately.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 28, 2007, 01:11:53 AM
Dolan thought for a moment and said, "Beta-I can call you that, right?-I think you could take over security and maybe share tactical with Ensign Quinn.  He seems to have frozen up at the tactical station.  You could also serve as Chief Engineer since you would probably have a better recall of ship systems than the rest of us.  It's your choice."

After thinking for a moment, Dolan added, "In your free time, you can look up things about the Dominion War and the things that happened around then.  So far in this holoprogram, the Federation and its allies the Romulans and the Klingons have lost the Battle of Cardassia with heavy casualties, which in the real world ended the war with a Federation victory.  This ship is a survivor of the battle and headed back to the Sol system to report the outcome of the battle.  However, Sol was abandoned before the Dominion attacked and destroyed all of the colonies and Earth.  A bioship from Species 8472 happened to be around and drove the Dominion off before they could destroy Jupiter Station.  We are now trying to evacuate the station and catch up with the fleet that had left Sol before the Dominion attack.  We are welcome to any help you can provide for us in this program.  I'll introduce you to Ensign Takio and Ensign Quinn on the bridge now if you want."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 02, 2007, 11:51:02 AM
Takio quickly calculates what would happen if all power was sent to the warp drive

"Captain we would be able to get warp nine point one but only for about four to five hours"

Fingers flick over the console as a message is sent to the bioship out lining what they were going to do.  The ship is then brought about and sent to warp six point three to the predetermined coordinates.

"Sir the bioship is following and matching our speed"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on July 07, 2007, 08:44:19 PM
Linking some Ops functions with his console, Beta checked the ships power systems and altered them slightly.

"Sir, I have rerouted power from a few more non-essentials, but we were mostly running on borrowed power anyway. Our warp speed will only increase by point 13. I would think that we should be safe from being caught by the enemy, but would suggest not making a direct route. Perhaps passing through a nebula or two off course to disrupt our imprint on space itself to throw our pursuers off our tracks?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Julian on July 14, 2007, 05:14:00 PM
*suddenly the power in the station cuts out. Backup power takes over but after about 5 seconds it also kicks out.*

(OFF: this is for a well planned mission a few months in the making pls go along with it. thnx )
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on May 30, 2007, 11:27:27 AM
*Dolan sent a message to the Celtic Corner inviting everyone there to join him before continuing.  Once again, half an hour passed and 3 days in the game flew by before slowing to normal time again.*

"Captain, we have arrived at Deep Space 9," the helmsman announced.

"Open a comm channel with the base, I need to speak with them," Dolan replied, "This is Captain Dolan to Deep Space 9.  Is anyone there?"

The helmsman answered, "Sir, the base seems...abandoned.  All I can find is an encrypted message from the base."

Everyone on the bridge looked shocked, except the few Vulcans there.

"How long before we can have the message decoded?" Dolan asked.

"With something this complex, I'd say about 3 hours, possibly more," the first officer replied.

"Get some people to work on it, in the meantime, set a course for Earth, warp 8," Dolan said.

"Course set," the helmsman said.

"Engage," Dolan ordered.

The ship jumped to warp on course for Earth, with Dolan hoping that this journey doesn't take too bad of a turn.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 04, 2007, 06:59:46 PM
*Takio arrives at the Holosuite doors, as he prepears to go throught he wonders what kind of world he will step out into.*

The doors open

*Takio steps throught and finds himself on the bridge of the USS Bismark*
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 05, 2007, 11:52:46 AM
"I see...keep me up-dated, I'll be in my ready room," Dolan replied, "Ensign Quinn, you have the bridge." Dolan then left for his ready room.  He looked over the ship's reports there and took a break, waiting to be contacted by one of his fellow ensigns.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 11, 2007, 08:10:06 PM
"Just pull us behind the moon so we are out of sight from anyone on Earth and try to keep us there," Dolan said after thinking about it for a moment.

"So do we know who the people are?  Let's hope they aren't the Dominion.  And have we gotten any information on Starfleet, any messages, schematics, plans, anything information we can grab?"  Dolan asked rapidly.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 14, 2007, 05:10:19 PM
OOC: Thanks.

IC:

"Could we send out a microprobe instead?" Dolan suggested.  "It would decrease the chance of us being spotted and we could still get a scan of the colony."

Dolan realized that the ship had to leave soon and follow the fleeing convoys and wanted to get as much information as he could before leaving.

"How much infomation do we have from Starfleet Headquarters?"  Dolan asked.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 19, 2007, 12:59:17 PM
"Bridge to Engineering, I want someone to program a mircoprobe to scan the Lunar Colonies," said Dolan, before turning to Takio, "The object is either going to be a ship leaving Jupiter Station to help with the evacuations or Jupiter Station itself.  The sensors aren't performing at their best, they were hastily fixed after the battle.  However, scan the object to double check.  And begin transporting the people from the station as soon as we are within transporter range."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on June 24, 2007, 10:32:13 PM
((Hope you don't mind me just jumping in here. My character's a hologram who's just transfered himself off the Rivendell into the wrong Holosuite))

Beta materialised right behind Alex Takio, and realising that he is not in the empty, unused holosuite on the Rivendell he was supposed to be, became quite shocked.

"Wha..? Where am I?
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 29, 2007, 04:56:20 PM
"This couldn't be happening at a worse time!" Dolan exclaimed, "Go to the highest warp that we can manage to the coordinates.  We don't have the power to fight off several ships equipped with Breen weaponary.  Message the bioship, tell them our speed and get them to match it.  I don't want to sacrifice the bioship so we can survive."

"Dolan to Engineering, your highest priority at the moment is the repairing of the warp drive," said Dolan over the comm, "Also give me all the power you can to the warp drive."

Dolan then turned to Beta and said, "Just in case we can't out run them, see how much power we can have transferred to the shields and weapons, after cutting off all non-vital ship systems."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 10, 2007, 04:03:11 PM
Dolan was startled at the news.  "How could the Breen be catching up?" Dolan asked no one in particular.  Then Dolan remembered a maneuver he had learned back at Starfleet Academy.

"According to the scans, there is metreon gas in the nebula.  Head in, collect some with the Bussard Ramscoops, and then continue our course to the coordinates.  I want to have as much time as possible to make the prototype phaser bank but ready for the attack," said Dolan.

After a moment, Dolan continued, "Beta, we'll have to improvise.  We'll go to cargo bay 2.  We can make the controls and the power source and then bring it to a phaser bank so we can hook everything up and then disconnect it from the power grid.  We can make a phaser bank more adapted to the power source and controls when we aren't under about to be attacked."

Dolan then pulled out another PADD with the exact same specifications for the new phaser bank as the one he gave Beta and said, "I have a couple copies with me at all times and a couple in my quarters also.  Ensign Takio, you have the bridge until we return.  Remember my orders.  Notify me once you get the gas and are continuing course."

Dolan then stood up and led the way to the cargo bay.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 16, 2007, 04:04:51 AM
"What the--" Dolan said.  Everything on the holodeck disappeared and Beta was gone too.  The room became extremely dark and the only light came from the slightly red glow of the emergency power.  Dolan realized that the holosuite's matter conversion subsystem and eventually the holosuite's power must have shut down but didn't know how how or why it did.  Beta would have been shut down once the power was offline since he didn't have a mobile emitter with him.  Dolan decided it would be best if everyone else still in the holosuite return to their quarters, since they were all off duty at the moment.

"Alex, Quinn, I think we should get out of here," Dolan suggested as he went to the door.  After struggling to open it using the override, he went and got out the magnets to pull it open.  After a few more minutes of struggling, he got the doors open.  He called out to Alex and the other people still there, "We'll start the program up again once the power comes back online.  For now, I think we should go to our quarters," before turning and leaving the holosuite, heading to his quarters.  He picked up the PADD that Beta dropped once he disappeared before leaving, going through the now dimly lit corridors to his room.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 02, 2007, 06:26:40 PM
"We'll go at warp 9.1 until we are sure they are not pursuing or won't catch up for some time.  If it takes more than four and a half hours, we'll have to prepare to defend ourselves," Dolan decided.  He wanted to survive with this ship intact or at least with only moderate damage.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on May 30, 2007, 11:11:48 PM
OOC: Don't mind if I jump in here, do you?

A tone rang out at the tactical station on the bridge, Quinn quickly looked through the sensor readings from the last scan.
"Captain, sensors are detecting a scout vessel aproxemently two thousand kilometers off our left bow. Warp signature reads Cardassisan, sir." Quinn reported quickly, frowning as he read the readings.

"Our weapons array is still being repaired, but it's funcational at a 72% producivity, shields are at 85%"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 03, 2007, 05:56:45 PM
"Here, I have the consoles fixed.  I'll try my luck with the comm system.  Why don't you go see if there are any other broken systems," Dolan said.

After about 15 minutes, a shout came from Dolan.  "Yes!" he cried as he managed to fix the comm system, "Captain to Bridge, what is our status?"

The helmsman that Dolan had left in charge replied, "We had the comm system down, but it seem that you fixed that.  We luckily haven't lost navigation and we will be within communications range with Earth in about 35 minutes.  There are some other, minor issues, but they can be fixed soon."

Dolan muttered to himself, "Good, good."  Then he turned to Quinn and asked, "So how what do we need to finish fixing?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 05, 2007, 08:57:56 PM
"Aye Captain," Quinn said as he walked to the front of the bridge.

"Maintain Yellow Alert, tell me when we are within ten minutes of communication range,"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 11, 2007, 03:32:01 PM
Takio listens to the sounds around him on the bridge while keep an eye on his console ready to warp away from the current heading at any moment

"Captain should I move into orbit around the Earth or hide near the Moon?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 15, 2007, 10:20:41 AM
Takio checks on the status of the microprobes, discovers that theres plenty in stock

"I can sent out a probe as soon as we get behind the moon. How long should I send the probe out for? We wantn't be geting a live feed from it since we want to remain hidden, so I'll have too program it for a timed outing."

Looks at the science officer for any more needed info.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 21, 2007, 01:38:57 PM
"The object appears to be slowing moving towards us. 1 minute to transporter range."

Takio wordks on his console for a serval seconds

"From what I'm getting with the sensors the object appears to be a starship but not a Federation starship.  It's moving at quarter impulse."

Takio frowns as he notices another bit of trouble

"Transporter time range has just increased to 3 minutes, there appears to be something partly blocking our transporter, maybe space particles of some kind."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on July 02, 2007, 05:32:38 PM
"Sir, I predict that if we run at that speed for five hours, it would take an enormous toll on the ship, and it would take longer to restore weapons and shields. I suggest a maximum of four and a half hours."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 23, 2007, 08:17:59 PM
"Bring everyone aboard.  We'll decide who will go on to the bioship later," announced Dolan, "As soon as we are done with the transporting, notify the bioship.  We'll give them the coordinates that we think the fleet is headed to and have them match our warp speed."

Dolan wondered for a moment how Species 8472 had an organic warp drive but pushed that thought aside for later.  He had to rescue as many people as circumstances allowed and get everyone to the fleet.  It seemed like the fleet will need all the help it can get.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on June 29, 2007, 06:06:22 PM
Checking the systems and running various commands on his console, Beta looked up.

"Sir, I can increase weapons and shields to 110% their current capacity. I don't know what you have put the ship through, but that is still not the full operating capacity, so I'm guessing you have some damage. I can alternatively keep the weapons systems at their current capacity, and raise the shields to 120% their current power, which would bring us close to normal operating power." he reported
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 10, 2007, 10:40:04 AM
Takio listens to the captain talk about his new phaser bank whilest keeping an eye on his console.

"Breen ships are following us, infact they show signs of catching up"

Fingers move very fast over the panel

"captain there's a nubular gas field just off course but we could use it"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Givrillian Sarpedon on July 16, 2007, 09:44:49 AM
((Sorry I haven't posted - or changed characters for this - but I've been camping and forgot to let everyone know ;) lol))

Beta: As he followed Dolan to the Cargo bay, he looked over the designs. They had a lot of detail in them and he was impressed. He couldn't see any problems, so any that there were would come up in testing. As they started working on the thing, however, the power was cut, and Beta dissappeared.

Using his subroutines, he manages to gain access to the Communication system in the station, but in the 5 minutes before the backup power cut out also, all he could say to the crew was; "Holographic Officer Beta, in need of Mobile Emit--"

After that, he was trapped in cyberspace
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on May 31, 2007, 01:40:31 AM
OOC: No way, I most certainly don't mind.

IC:
Dolan heaved a sigh of worry and fear.  He realized that with Cardassian ships heading into Federation space that there must be fewer ships left than he had hoped.  The Federation had little hope for survival and will have to sign a peace treaty.

"Can we take out it's engines and subspace communications array?  That will delay them relaying our position at least.  Don't do that yet however, just prepare in case they do so.  Hail them."

"They aren't responding," replied the helmsman.

"We have to get back to Earth as soon as possible to report the situation and to tell them what happened at Cardassia.  Our mission is of highest priority.  Ensign Quinn, prepare to fire on their engines, subspace communications array and, if you still have enough power, their weapons array."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 03, 2007, 03:45:02 PM
"Yes captain," Quinn said as he headed for the communitcation consoles on the other side of the room.

He worked quickly but he didn't have any luck on fixing the communications array, "Captain, this isn't my field, I'm not able to repair our communications,"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 05, 2007, 01:07:35 AM
"Alright, then," replied Dolan.  Dolan and Quinn then headed back to the the bridge via Jefferies tube, not wanting to risk being stuck in the turbolift again.

Soon, they both arrived back on the bridge, where Dolan was surprised to see the new helmsman.

"So, how long until we are within communications range?" Dolan asked.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 08, 2007, 01:59:36 PM
Takio checks his panel

"Four minutes away from communications range to Earth sir"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 14, 2007, 04:21:35 PM
"Right sir, moon it is!"

Takio fingers move over the console for a minute

"Course has been changed for the moon. We'll be coming in from behind the moon so hopefully we'll see them before they see us."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 15, 2007, 11:34:51 AM
OOC: I would suggest not asking the science officer for anything, he/she is a character someone else could fill but I'm just using him/her to advance the plot and to give myself someone to talk to while I'm waiting for you or Quinn to respond.

IC:

"Ensign, I suggest sending it out for 10 seconds and then see if we can call it back after it takes several scans of the colony and transmits it back," said Dolan, "I'm not exactly willing to stay around for the next solar eclipse, so can we move a little faster?  I think we should catch up with the fleet as soon as possible.  Ensign Takio, after you send out the microprobe and attempt to retrieve it, could you try and figure out who is on Earth?  As soon as we figure out who they are and what their intentions are, we will leave, unless they can help us."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 23, 2007, 09:02:04 AM
"We can begin transporting at any time captain"

Takio is releaved that the ship was not dominion as he is not sure on weather they would had be able to fight it off.  Takio checks his console some more.

"It will take sevral minutes to get everyone beamed up"

Takio brings the ship along side the 8472 ship keeping them apart by about twenty-five thround kilometers.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 27, 2007, 02:45:42 PM
Dolan replies, "Notify me when it is complete.  When it is done, send a message to the bioship and set a course to the coordinates of the fleet."

He then turns to the hologram, who had still not answered Dolan's questions or really said anything at all.  The hologram looked extremely baffled.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 29, 2007, 01:14:48 AM
Dolan sat down in the Captain's seat and asked Takio, "What happened?"

Dolan hoped that they didn't encounter some sort of anomaly.  He wanted to get the passengers to the fleet as soon as possible.  The ship wasn't designed to hold more than the crew and sometimes their families.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 06, 2007, 03:02:26 AM
OOC:  Since no one else said anything, I'll continue...

IC:

"So can we outrun them?" Dolan asked, "Or at least give ourselves enough time to evaluate the situation better and find a better field of battle?"  Dolan wanted to have some advantage if he was forced into the battle and he didn't want to be forced to rely on the bioship for all of their defensive needs.  Dolan then asked, "So how long before we can reach the coordinates?  We might be dropping back and forth between maximum warp and maximum cruising speed, but I want to know how fast we can reach the fleet with us heading to them as fast as we can, doing whatever we can without violating Federation ideals and laws."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 17, 2007, 02:54:10 PM
Takio was just starting to enjoy this holo mission. Hums as he walks to the holodeck doors as he works out what he'll do for next time.

"I'm going to the bar."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 01, 2007, 12:36:23 AM
"Aye sir, targeting impulse engines now.."

Just as he was about to fire two photon torpedoes, the entire ship shook violently. Quinn almost fell over, he quickly regained his footing and reported quickly.

"Shields are down to 64% captain, Firing phasers!" He said quickly. On screen a bright orange phaser beam connected with the Cardassian scout ship.

"Direct hit, they have hull breaches on two decks,"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 02, 2007, 11:46:35 PM
"We should hurry, it seems like we're in trouble," Dolan said.  He then finished entering the final sequence of numbers and the turbolift moved slowly down to the floor below, stopping once it reached deck six.  The doors opened and Dolan and Quinn left the turbolift for the Jefferies tube to Engineering.

The ship shook several more times before they finally reached Engineering.  Upon arrival, Dolan saw that Engineering had problems of its own.  It seemed like several consoles have exploded, causing a lack of crewmen since they would have been sent to Sickbay.

"Report!" Dolan demanded.

The Chief Engineering Officer didn't turn from the console she was working on and replied, "There have been overloads on several of the consoles during the battle and they exploded, causing major injuries.  They were beamed to Sickbay, they were so badly wounded.  We have been trying to fix several systems, including communications and turbolifts, but had no luck so far."

"What were those shakes that Ensign Quinn and I felt on our way to here?" Dolan asked.

"It seems like our warp field has almost destablized several times, but we were able to compensate and not drop out of warp.  Also, with some of the engineers out, I need some people to work on helping to fix the systems," said the Chief Engineer.

"Could you begin on communications, Ensign Quinn and I will try to repair the consoles," Dolan said, as he turned to one of the consoles.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 05, 2007, 10:10:08 AM
Takio moves towards the helm and takes the seat. Takio then checks the console, his fingers flying over the panel.

"We should be within communications range in about half an hour sir" Takio replied

"That is if we don't lose warp, we appear to be pushing it as far as possible"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 08, 2007, 08:17:28 PM
Dolan nods in acknowledgement and then takes an PADD offered to him by the first officer.  He looks over it and sees the total damage and casualties on the ship.

"Could we transmit the information on this PADD to Starfleet?" Dolan asked Ensigns Quinn and Takio, "It would probably help them if they knew our status.  We all should prepare to be debriefed also."  Dolan began to wonder if the MIDAS array fully developed yet, thinking that Starfleet might know several things about the battle already though the array.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 14, 2007, 02:28:32 AM
OOC: Since no one seems to be saying anything...

IC:

The science officer spoke up and said, "I can't tell what the lifeforms are at the moment.  I know they are humanoid and that's it so far.  For messages, we have a few coordinates in the Delta Quadrant, a couple appearing to be M class planets there.  It appears the MIDAS array was quickly disassembled and stored on several starships in the fleeing fleet.  All Federation people were placed on board all of the ships, cramming all of them to maximum capacity and for a few more than.  All new prototypes, ship designs, technologies, everything was taken by the fleet and the databases in Starfleet Headquarters and all other areas important to the Federation have been wiped clean except for a message that the data has been moved.  I expect it to be the same on all other planets."

Dolan briefly imagined a scenario similar to the Battle of Dunkirk, a battle early in Earth's history before saying, "When we find out if those lifeforms are hostile or not, we will decide when to leave."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 15, 2007, 08:10:13 PM
A tone rang out from Quinn's console, "Incomming transmission from the Jupiter Station," Quinn said, taking a quick glance.

He almost forgot about the Mars colony and the Jupiter Station in the solar system.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 21, 2007, 05:39:06 PM
The science officer spoke up, "We are being scanned by the ship."  After a moment, she said, "The ship seems...organic.  Almost everything about the ship seems organic.  Our sensors can't penetrate the ship's hul-...outside?  They seem to also be diverting the transporter beam around it, causing a decrease in the time to be withing transporter range of Jupiter Station."

Dolan recognized the ship as one of Species 8472's bioships from his studies at the Academy and said, "Hail them and put them onscreen.  We have to see if they are the cause of this destruction or if they know what is going on."  Dolan highly doubted it since he remembered from the Academy that USS Voyager had resolved many - if not all - issues with Species 8472 during their journey back to Earth.

A visual with the bioship was made and a member of Species 8472 appeared on the screen.  It then morphed into a female human.  She said, "The transformation is necessary for me to communicate with your people due to your impure genetic structure.  I am a member of Species 8472.  What do you need?"

Dolan asked, "What is going on?  Do you know what caused the destruction in this system?"

She replied, "There appears to have been an attack by who your people call the Dominion several days ago.  They headed straight for the planet and destroyed all colonies on all of the planets.  They then left the system to destroy other Federation worlds.  A fleet from the third planet left with almost all of the people in the system.  A meager assortment of vessels were left to fight the Dominion off.  They failed.  My ship arrived at the conclusion of  the battle but was not detected.  I then destroyed several Dominion vessels.  The Dominion left in haste after I drove them off.  They left some of their people on the planet."

Dolan decided to ask for assistance.  "Could you help us bring the people from the station to the fleet that left here?"
The female answered, "My vessel is not designed to be a transport.  However, I will take several of your species onto my vessel and will defend your vessel from harm."

"Thank you," Dolan replied and then turned to Ensign Takio, "How long until transporter range now?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 27, 2007, 12:52:41 PM
Takio quickly glances at the newcomer and then goes back to his consoule. A finger moves to sent a command to the transporter room to start beaming everyone aboard from Jupiter Station. Takio then coms the captain in his ready room

"Captain, personal beaming has started should be done in about five minutes."

Takio gets a message ready for the8472 ship
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 29, 2007, 11:52:45 AM
"Sensors have found serval ships heading this way. Also our top warp speed at the moment is six point three."
Takio continues to look at his console reading what ever information he can get before he hands it over to Beta
"They have powered up weapons that sensors say are Breen weaponry"
A frown appears on Takio's face at that, fingers move very quickly over the panal
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 04, 2007, 12:02:03 PM
"Going to warp nine point one"

Takio sets a timer on his panel for four and half hours

"Timer set from now"

Takio watchs the timer start it's long tick down to zero
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 01, 2007, 02:46:51 AM
"It is likely that won't stop them.  We have to hit anything that could transmit messages or that allows them move so they could relay the message," Dolan said.  Suddenly the ship shook and many people lost their balance, with the exception of anyone sitting, Dolan included.

"We have to stop them from getting the message out to their allies that we survived!" exclaimed Dolan, "Target their engines and their communications, if we can get those offline, we will at least delay them from transmitting their message."

The ship shuddered again and Dolan was almost thrown out of his seat.  After he regained his balance, he shouted, "Report!"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 09, 2007, 11:23:28 AM
"We'll send the battle log and then our status report once we are within communications range.  At least they will know what happened..." Dolan still couldn't figure out what was different from the actual battle that caused the Federation to lose.  He decided to look though the logs more throughly later.  Dolan then realized that with a majority of the Federation fleet gone, it is likely Earth and other Federation worlds and colonies would have to evacuate to a distant world since it is likely the Dominion will strike back with greater force.

"Ensigns, check the number of vacant rooms we have.  I have a feeling we might have people staying for a while,"  Dolan said, wondering how the Federation was going to survive.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 15, 2007, 09:14:58 PM
OOC: As I said earlier, put more, since there is only the three of us at the moment and I want to get the story moving a little faster.

IC:

"Let's hear it Quinn," said Dolan.  Dolan suddenly began to worry if Dr. Zimmerman dies in the program, after realizing that the Doctor wouldn't be transmitted via MIDAS array to cure him of his illness.  He also realized that the USS Voyager would take about 16 years longer to return to Earth than in the real world, assuming the ship doesn't meet up with the fleeing ships in a few years.  Unfortunately, unless the MIDAS array is rebuilt to transmit the lost ship a message of Starfleet's situation, Voyager is unlikely to know about the situation of the Dominion War from the last contact with them.

Dolan rubbed his forehead as a headache came on from all of the new information.

"So what does the Jupiter Station's message say?" Dolan asked, "And what do we have from the Mars Colony?"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Julian on June 26, 2007, 01:07:29 PM
=^=Admiral Julian to the crew of the U.S.S Iroquois. Repairs of your ship have been completed are you are all requested to meet in the conference room on SS Avalon as soon as possible for your next mission breifing.. Julian out. =^=
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 12, 2007, 12:22:34 PM
Sweat starts to trickle down Takio's face as the Breen ships continue to catch up.  Fingers move over the panel changing the course of the ship.

"Captain the 8472 ship is still following us but they're asking if they should hang back and defend our back."

Takio starts typing on his panel.

"I've just sent them a negative and that we have a plan and that they should fly ahead of me thought the nebular gas field coming up"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 01, 2007, 09:24:30 PM
Quinn covered his head as sparks flew from above. "Hull breaches on deck four! size casualties reported!" He shouted as the ship shook again.

"We managed to destroy their communications array and warp drive, but their impulse engines are still functional, captain,"

The ship shook once more and Quinn was thrown over, he landed hard on his shoulder and scrambled to get back on his feet. This holodeck simulation was more intense that he first thought.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on June 09, 2007, 09:53:20 AM
Takio thinks about this as he keeps an eye on his console

"It might help sir, but I think the best thing to send would be the log of the battle we were in."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Quinn on June 15, 2007, 11:42:18 PM
A image appears on screen of a man wearing a starfleet uniform, he seemed tired and flustered. Sparks flew from behind and there were many federation officers running around in the background.

"I'm Commander Torent Lackner, it's nice to see a friendly face," He said in a rough voice.

Quinn did a quick scan of Mars, "Captain, I'm detecting metallic derbies, I believe the Mars Colony has been totally destroyed,"
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 26, 2007, 11:41:13 AM
Dolan turned to face the officer and said, "This might be confusing but I am Ensign Dolan in the real world and Captain Dolan here in this holoprogram.  Right now you are in a holoprogram that takes place on an Ambassador-class starship called the USS Bismark, several weeks after the battle at Cardassia Prime.  The Federation lost the battle in this holoprogram, though in the real world this battle ended the Dominion War in the Federation's favor.  The ship we are on now survived the battle and went back to the Sol system.  When we arrived, we found the system almost completely deserted.  A fleet of ships had left Sol to protect the rest of humanity from an inevitable attack by the Dominion.  The Dominion attack came and every colony was destroyed and Earth is now occupied by the Dominion.  We found the Jupiter Station still occupied and are evacuating the station now.  A member of Species 8472 and her bioship apparently drove the Dominion from Jupiter Station.  We have coordinates that probably are where the fleet that left here went in case any Federation vessels came back to Earth where we will go to join up with the fleet.  We are going to go to the Delta Quadrant."

Dolan paused for a moment to check if what he was saying made sense and decided it was actually very confusing but chose to move forward, reasoning that the hologram would probably want information, however confusing it is.
He then continued, "However, we should get back to you...I think the program added a mobile emitter to you because you are a hologram on a starship that isn't equipped with holographic projectors in every room on every deck, though that still makes no sense because mobile emitters weren't brought back from USS Voyager yet.  It must be in case any holograms chose to use this program."
Dolan then realized he was getting off topic again and asked, "Did you get all of that? So who are you?"

Dolan then stopped and waited for the hologram to say something.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on July 12, 2007, 01:23:50 PM
Dolan, as he was working on the prototype phaser bank, then remembered the nebula on the border of the Delta Quadrant blocked communications and scanners and asked Takio over the comm system, "How long before we enter the Delta Quadrant?  Maybe we could get off their scanners in the bordering nebula."

Dolan then continued to work on the prototype, hoping it will work since he spent more than a year working on the plans.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Lois on June 04, 2007, 10:07:40 PM
OOC: I'm in a rush right now so I I hope you don't mind if I don't change my characters for this one.

IC: Quinn glanced at Takio, "Well Captain, we repaired any major damage right now, the engineerings can handle the rest. I suggest we get back to the bridge where we'll be more useful."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 10, 2007, 12:14:56 AM
"Who are they?  While you are figuring out who they are, see if Starfleet left some sort of message for any ships that returned, by buoy, some device, anything." Dolan worried the Dominion had arrived before they did and that Earth was taken over.  He then reasoned that Earth might have been abandoned once they learned the results of the battle and knew that even Earth's defenses couldn't stand up to the Dominion's full force.

Dolan realized he couldn't make an intelligent decision without more information and asked, "Could someone access Starfleet's logs and see what happened here?  I want to know the status of the Federation, its colonies, any information you can get your hands on.  We need to know if they left us coordinates, a destination point, something."

The science officer turned and said, "I have access some information, it seems that Starfleet had taken all ships available and carried as many civilians as possible on a course to the...Delta Quadrant.  I'm transfering the rest of the information to Ensign Quinn, he is the Security Officer of the ship, he should be able to decode the rest of the information."

"Thank you, officer," Dolan said as he turned back to the screen, "Computer, transfer the information accessed be the Science Officer to Ensign Quinn,"

"Information transfered," the computer responded.

"Quinn, after you find out who is on Earth, decode the information and see if you can find any information concerning the location of Starfleet and Earth's inhabitants.  If you find any information concerning location, give them to Ensign Takio.  If you find any information on new ships, weapons, anything, store them in the ship's database and we can look at it more throughly later."  Dolan began to speculate what the life signs might be and wondered if Starfleet had any prototype technology or ships that he could use.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 16, 2007, 12:10:19 AM
Dolan was glad he had gotten everybody to make room for more people earlier.

"Find as many people as we can and evacuate them to the ship.  Send the unwounded to empty quarters, we might have to cram a few people in.  Send any injured to sickbay, critically injured first.  We can have a makeshift hospital in Cargo Bay 1 if we run out of in sickbay.  Someone has to activate the EMH," ordered Dolan before he turned to the screen.

"Commander Lackner, I am going to get as many people as I can onto my ship.  You have to get any ships you still have moving and get as many people as you can on the ships too.  Starfleet Command and everyone on Earth has left the system for the Delta Quadrant.  We should follow them as soon as we can.  Any information you have will be appreciated, especially about who is on Earth at the moment.  They appear humanoid, but aren't a species in the Federation," Dolan said rapidly, still worried that the humanoid creatures on Earth were hostile and would attack any moment, "I suggest we move quickly Commander, the Dominion fleet could arrive soon and I don't know if the humanoids on Earth are hostile or not."
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Holographic Officer Beta on June 25, 2007, 05:59:53 PM
Looking a bit confused, Beta followed Dolan to his ready room. Part of his confusion, was that for some reason, the program had changed his appearance only by the addition of a mobile emitter, as he had left his real one back on the Rivendell. Other than that, he looked exactly the same as he did two minutes ago. But the biggest thing occupying his sub-routines relating to confusion, was still where he was and what was going on. And what to call this 'Dolan' person, Ensign, or Captain?
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Voyager on June 29, 2007, 08:27:02 PM
"How much more would we get from the warp drive if we shift that same power to the warp drive?"  Dolan asked.  He wanted to see all of his options and chosing the best one.

"Can we outrun them if we put all of the energy in the warp drive?" Dolan asked, preferring to not engage the Breen.
Title: The Dominion War
Post by: Alex Takio on July 14, 2007, 11:48:33 AM
Takio looks at hi console and starts to do a bit of typing, then he presses his combadge

"We should be entering the Delta Quadrant within one to two hours depending on what happens after we ignite the metreon gas trail we'll be leaving behind us within five minutes"

Fingers move as Takio plots the ship ever closer towards and thought the gas field.

"In gas field now, better start taking up some metreon gas"