[Kalen - Oira]
Orders fly around the oira, like injured officers caught in exploding
computer consoles. A medic drags yet another soldier from the bridge-
Nerik taking up the fallen man's place.
From his Left VR console Raith sees the last of Remleq's fighters go
down and more Galae patrol craft approaching. He is about to command a
mad dash through the mine field, but is cut off as the ship rocks
mercilessly.
"Cruiser decloaked off to port!" Shouts tr`Elq from his sparking com
station. Ghire continues the update. "Outer aft shields down to 22% inner shields weakening!" He re-orientates his targeter on the new arrival and lets loose a volley of disrupter fire. "Its a D`Jarum- we can take her!"
tr`Idran moves over to the empty ops console. "Sir power relays are
going out all over the ship- were taking too many hits." Raith growls
but is again cut off from his command.
"Sketh to Kalen- we're through the field! Coordinates are sent and I'm
launching our fighters" Den t`Kethry's voice shouts over the network.
"COM! understood Den- on our way," Raith turns to the crew, who don't
even need to hear their orders.
Remleq's bomber pulling in ahead as the destroyer pulls around sharply
and dives into the field. Several RSE fighters follow them in but hit
the now relocated mines. The cascading explosion rips across the field,
crippling or destroying all of the pursuing craft. A violet tendril
smashes across the Kalen's aft shields and completely knocks them out.
Their projector relays over loaded, both of the commander's VR displays spark out and dissipate into a harmless energy shower. "All stations status," Raith says as he stands and moves over to the TAC console.
Ghire> Outer shield is gone- inner shield at 32% aft 56% for- armor is
not penetrated...
[Deck 2, Oira]
Raith is standing on his throne trying to fix his vr displays. Kuro
enters the bridge and quickly relieves tr`Ghrie from tacticle. Kuro
curses under his breath as his fingers race across the tac display. Kuro takes a quick glance at the damage report display while reorienting the disruptor array.
"Ku, status on that cruiser?" Raith asks. "Have they got main power
back up yet?"
"She is dead in space- all systems are offline." The erie`Arrain
responds.
Com trafic erupts and Remi's voice is heard. Raith updates him on the
situation- including informing him that the 'storm' was in fact a mine
explosion of some sorts. The CEO is tasked with repairing the outer
shield's generators- and to send some personnel to the fighter bay to
repair Remleq's damaged bomber.
Remi states his lack of spare engineers and Nerik is sent down to check on the bomber.
tr`Kuro reports three Ori assault craft on an intercept coarse. Raith
orders weapons to stand bye- but not to fire unless fired upon.
[ Deck 4, Engineering.]
T'Pranara walked in though the engineering doors briskly from
being called to attend to some injured crewmembers. Ducking under a bulk head she caught a glimpse of a wounded engineer. His face and hands covered with various plasma burns. She quickly walked toward the nearest wall, opens the access panel, retrieves a Med kit, and returns to the burnt officer's side.
She administered 2 cc's of Cordrazine to the patient. Quickly
she follows up by healing the burnt tissue with a dermal regenerator
from the Med Kit. After curing what she can, Pranara helps him up to
his feet, while in search for another.
T'Pranara sees tr'Remi working at his desk. He looks up at her
momentarily, "Hi Pran." The Eredh goes back to his buisness- completely
ignoring a masive explosion of sparks a meter behind him.
"Hi Rekkhai." She said acknowledging his presence and greeting.
"I've been checking the damage after that storm. It really
wreaked a bit of havoc." He explained. T'Pranara listened vacantly till
his voice dissipated under her own thoughts. She sees another wounded
engineering officer lying on the ground behind the port side warp core.
Pranara looks up, distracted by some noise. tr'Vorik ((NPC'd by
pran)) was busily ratteliong about while working on the plasma
injectors. T'Pranara looked back down at the engineer. She has not yet
finished healing the burns when she hears murmuring near by and soon
finds a third patient. She sets a broken leg and heals further damage
with Anabolic Protoplasers.
Pranara stands up from the floor, walks to Remi's desk, and
places her med kit on a lcars display out of the way. Quickly glancing
at Vorik before returning her gaze to the lcars in front of her she
notes:"The injured are healed. Is there anything you would like me to
do?"
Remi looks past her- too busy barking orders to notice, "You get those
configs set! You in the jeffries tube- yes you! What's your name?" He
shouts.
Remi has a short exchange with an idle officer- and gets a Rhenish in
the process. He is making confirmations over the com link to the oira.
"Good man." he said thanking the Engineering officer from the
Jefferies tube. "Fine choice of rhennish."
T'Pranara was standing there distantly looking at what was going oon though not quiet absorbing it all in, when her comm badge sounded. [Oira to any available medical officer-could use some help up here.]
"I'll be right there," she acknowledge while grabbing the med
kit. The Eredh walks out of Engineering to the nearest Turbo lift.
"Deck 2." she ordered.
[ Deck 2, Oira]
Kuro> They're closing on our position...
Raith> :: turns to Elq:: set up a hail- give them a friendly message-
what ever you want
Elq> ::looks baffeled:: ..ie
Raith> +taps+ Engineering.. hate to rush you Remi... but we arent alone. Might be good to have the aux sheild generators running soon
tr'Elq> ::opens a frequency:: Ori vessels, this is the SNR Kalen,
welcome to the war...
Tr Remi>E>+taps+I'm working on it
Raith goes to stand next to the tac console and orders torps on hot
stand bye. Kuro complies but finds the panel dead and the display
fading. He runs over to the empty science console and transfers
operations there, while Raith rips out the panel below the dead
terminal.
The science console reforms- its vr displays all shift in shape and
size to match that of a tac console. Raith continues to rip out damaged pieces from bellow the console. Remi Reports aux shield's are back on line and is called to the oira to help the commander repair the console.
The Ori ships maintain there position and await further communication.
Kuro keeps all available weapons passively locked on them, and Remi and
Pranra arrive on the bridge.
When the turbo reaches the Oira Pranra gets out and heads to the
tactical station where Kuro was sitting.
Kuro, though smiling, still made her uneasy- being over a meter
taller than her. "Good timing, just when I'm getting busy," He
remarked while T'Pranara opened her med kit.
"Sorry for the wait" she apologizes. The Eredh administers a
cordrazine shot, "This will help with the pain." she replaces the hypo
into the med kit and simultaneously withdrawing the dermal regenerator
and healing his burned arms. "There, how's that?" She asks.
trRaith> ::to elq:: Tell them we wish to have a meeting with General
Tomalak of the Argada space force
Elq> ::sends com:: They recieved message and request why we are in search of him
Tr Remi:> ::notices Ku's console is on the oposite side of the oira from where it normally is::
trKuro> ::looks over at remi for a moment, then taps away at his panel::
trKuro>::still working furiosly:: Remi, how are things going with au?
Tr Remi> not too bad... I almost wish i'd get injured. The med bay seems to be the happinin' place
trKuro> Yeah I bet t'Kethry and Pranara are having a ball
trRaith: ::hand moves softly to his arm rest and activates the com from
there:: +com+ this is sub commander Raith of the SNR Kalen... we wish to discuss an alignce....
Com traffic kept going back and forth. Though he could lightly skim
across Elq's mind, Raith wasn't sure if Elq himself knew what was going
on. Apparently Tomalak had been contacted but was too busy to discuss
things directly. He had apparently jumped at the opportunity to talk to
Den though, and was now clearing her and her ship access all the way to
Argada. Ragarok and another person had been beamed back to the Kalen and the ship was being ordered to with draw from Argada space by the Ori assault ships. Not wanting any trouble the commander Brings the Kalen about and heads back to NRR space.
A meeting is called and all senior staff report to the briefing room.
Raith asks his officers their opinions- do they think their personnel
can handle any engagements now or should they return to the outpost
first?
Raith brings the meeting to a close and goes back to his quarters to
interview a new and strange addition to the crew... tr`Riam.
sir...'
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