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| Old Friends; 2374 Just before the battle to retake DS9 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 10 2018, 10:09 PM (1,839 Views) | |
| Nick Ryder | Mar 2 2018, 12:10 PM Post #31 |
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"Yeah, somewhat." Nick admitted. "Although I do know I'd rather be on this ship than the Simon, she's too small and too old and way too under powered for fighting against Jem'Hadar and Cardassian battleships. I got her running and a little more modern but she's best served being here in case the Dominion decides to send a few scout ships to attack." he leaned against the wall. "I missed serving with you. Might be my last chance to, so why not? Now if this does go as Sisko hopes, then I'll probably try to get another ship to work my magic on. That seems to be my role of late, take old ships and turn them into decent fighting units, both the hardware and the crew. In some ways a glorified traveling fix it man and therapist." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 2 2018, 08:01 PM Post #32 |
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"You're good at it," she sighed and leaned on the wall next to him, and leaned in and in a low voice. "Three ships have already dropped out of the fleet, and we are probably going to lose the Cortez. The fleet as a whole is fragile. Many of us are still damaged from the Battle of Vulcanis. If not for you and myself the Dnever would be in the same shape. Nicholas you have a family. I think it's time for you to go." |
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"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776 | |
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 2 2018, 11:30 PM Post #33 |
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"After this battle." Nick said and nudged her shoulder. "Hey I'm with you until the end of the line, you know that. And if that's true, then we need to do what we can. Even if it's to take fire so others can get to DS9 and capture the flag. Because if a Dominion Fleet comes through that wormhole, then it's game over one way or the other, but if there's a chance, I'm going to help. If I just run... then I'm not fit to wear this uniform. Someday the time will come when I'll hang it up but I DOUBT I seriously DOUBT Becca that I'd ever just... stop being who and what I am." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 3 2018, 04:51 AM Post #34 |
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"Well, I tried. When you get killed make sure your mom knows that," she said with a grin and a playful punch to the shoulder. " We probably ought to evacuate non-essential personnel, just to err on the safe side." |
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 3 2018, 08:49 AM Post #35 |
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"Already started that, I've got autonomous drones handling the in fight repairs." Nick said with a smile. "Installed my BECKI Ai system... Tony and I worked a lot of bugs out, not ready for a fleet deployment but she likes being 'my' AI. Thinks any other engineer touching her program is 'nasty'." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 4 2018, 05:05 AM Post #36 |
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“You, Nicholas Ryder are a disgusting pig. But, you can’t help yourself. You were born with two brains, and the one below the belt does most of the decision making.” “Bridge to Commander Sandoval,” the comm broke in. Rebecca pressed her combadge, “Go ahead Mr. Chell.” “We are approaching the Dominion fleet.” The tension on Rebecca’s face ratcheted up another notch. She shook out her right hand, and clenched to steady it. She hugged Nick and kissed him on the cheek. “Hoy es un buen día para morir.” Today is a good day to die. |
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 4 2018, 12:02 PM Post #37 |
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"But an even better day to live." Nick chuckled. "And Becca... you're confusing me with my brother. Tony built Becki to be a 'date' I built her to be an assistant." he smiled and saluted her. "Let's make the Dominion wish they never came out of that wormhole." Turning around he tapped his wrist watch. "Becki... activate repair drones, we're going in." "Drones activating. On standby awaiting what usually happens when we activate them." Becki's voice replied. "And tell Sandoval that she needs to be less pessimistic." "The AI said you need to be less pessimistic. Hey I didn't program her to say that either, she's getting more sentient all the time." Nick said as he followed her to the turbolifts. "I need to hit the bridge before I head to engineering, if those shield mods don't work up there, then I need to manually activate things from main engineering and that's not going to help us." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 6 2018, 06:05 AM Post #38 |
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“Is being a realist a pessimist? The curse of being a pragmatist.” She replied over her shoulder. Rebecca was on the bridge. She had chose not to sit and was standing in the center of the bridge. The Dominion fleet before them loomed ominous and angry like a swarm of hornets. “Charge weapons, prepare to fire quantum torpedoes.” “Sisko to all ships. Cruiser and Galaxy wings drop to one-half impulse.” The comm system crackled open. “Helm you heard him. Half impulse,” Rebecca ordered. “If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall beIn that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.” Her tactical officer recited, and continued with the help of his Bolian friend at operations, Chell. “Okay folks enough of the poetry reading,” Rebecca stated. “We have work to do. Sisko wants us to concentrate our fire on the Cardassians, and we shall. Target the nearest Galor class and fire everything.” “Sir the Cardassian’s are taking the bait. A half dozen squadrons are breaking formation and engaging our fighters,” Chell announced. “A hole in their lines have opened up.” “Relax ensign it’s a trap,” Rebecca said. “We aren’t going anywhere.” “Orders coming in from the Defiant, Commander; Galaxy wings 91 and 93 are to move in to engage the destroyers. The rest of us are to form up on the Defiant and punch through,” Chell announced. “Very well, helm take us in. Sandoval to engineering, it’s going to get rough from here on out.” |
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 7 2018, 01:16 PM Post #39 |
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"When has it been anything but?" Nick replied. "Shield mods are holding, let's just try not to take too many hits huh?" he held onto a console as the ship took fire. "Seriously, after I just said it?!" |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 7 2018, 04:29 PM Post #40 |
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"That's easier said than done Nicholas, " Rebecca quipped. "The Dominion doesn't have a whole lot of targets out here. Helm, keep us close to the Defiant. Maybe she'll pull some of the fire off of us." The Denver lumbered after the nimble Defiant. A Maranda blew up next to them shaking the deck platijng as if the Denver had been hit herself." "The Majestic has been destroyed," Ops announced. "I didn't read any escape pods." "Keep fireing!" She shouted. There would be time to mourn later. The Defiant slipped under a Dominian battleship separating the Denver from her escort. They were on their own. "Evasive mauver Kirk-epsilon-theta." The enemy's phasers glanced off the shields rather than a direct impact. "Quantum torpedoes! Full spread!" Five blue flashes of light launched from the neck of the Galaxy class and ached across space slamming into the enemy ship. The shields flickered, but the battleship wasn't going to go down without a fight. Torpedoes, and phaser energy slammed into the Denver. The violent attack ripped into to the ship sending Rebecca flying off her feet, and consoles exploding all over the bridge, and the super structure groaning in complaint. "Report!" Rebecca demanded picking herself off the deck, and finding her way to the center seat. "Sheids are down to 48%. Warp engines are off line. The core went into emergency shut-down. The Dominion ship is in worse shape. Sheilds are down and engines are destroyed." Chalk reported "Finish them." She stated coldly |
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 8 2018, 12:52 AM Post #41 |
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"Wait!" Nick's voice said over the comm. "Give me five seconds!" he said as his fingers practically flew across a console. "Locking onto their computer core, I'll be damned if we don't get something we can use to beat these bastards out of this... " he glanced at the dormant warp core. "It's going to take me a while to get warp engines online, divert all remaining power from engines to the shields and structural integrity fields." "You're nuts... sir." one of the engineers said as the Jem'Hadar battleship's core appeared in engineering. "But that worked." "Alright Captain... blow 'er to hell." Nick said with a smile. |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 12 2018, 12:20 PM Post #42 |
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Rebecca nodded to Chell, and the Denver’s weapons lanced out the Jem’hadar ship disintegrated into a ball of flame. “Helm, bring us about 181 mark 23. Close in on the Defiant. The little ship had a trio of Jem’hadar fighters on its tail and was taking heavy fire. The Denver closed in, and coming in from behind a derelict Galaxy class ship, Denver lanced out with phasers taking two of the fighters in quick succession. The final fighter banked sharply. Knowing that it was no match for the much larger ship it started for them. It seemed like slow motion as Rebecca went through the thoughts in her head. “Phasers! Phasers!” “They’re still recharging,” Chell replied frantically. In desperation he launched torpedoes, but they sailed past the enemy ship. “Hard to port!” She was glad that she had evacuated non-essential personnel. The Denver and the fighter closed in. BAM! The Denver groaned and creaked with the sundering of metal. Consoles blared out their angry alarms. The fighter had struck the leading edge of the starboard saucer with a glancing blow. It gouged a nasty hole into the hull before pin wheeling away and exploding harmlessly away from the Denver. “Report!” “Shields are off line. There are hull breeches are decks seven through 10. Emergency bulkheads are in place. No casualties.” “Small blessings. Helm set course off the front line best possible speed,” Rebecca ordered. “I’ll be in engineering. Rebecca entered the engine room. Her normally immaculate hair was loose with crimson strands hanging down in odd places, with the few odd ones here and there poking straight out of her head. Her uniform was in similar disorder with smudges of black, and a tear down the right leg showing dark red blood running down the length of leg exposed by the tear. “How’s it going?” she asked Nick. Edited by Rebecca Talon, Mar 13 2018, 05:26 PM.
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 13 2018, 01:26 AM Post #43 |
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"Oh... the same." Nick said as he held up his left hand which was charred and bits of metal poking out, then he looked at her leg. "Hold still..." he opened up the flap on his cargo pants and pulled out a small hypospray. "There... I'm not making a bionic one for you this close to swimsuit season." he said in that half sarcastic half totally serious tone of his. "I've got good news and bad news, good news is... I can get shields online but it's going to take a half hour provided we can get our transporters online and I can beam out the bad emitters. Bad news is... we're sitting ducks, especially missing a good chunk of our saucer section." Nick pulled on a pair of work gloves and looked around. "We take any more hits... Denver isn't going to make the Bajor system." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Mar 14 2018, 03:29 PM Post #44 |
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"I'm fine," she said. "It's just a scratch. Both me and the hull. I could have been worse. I saw the Rio Grande's sensor logs when the Jem'hadar destroyed the Odyssey." She patted him on the shoulder, "Then let's make sure someone else makes it there. We aren't going there any time soon. Warp drive is down. The repair ship Davidson should be here any minute." |
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| Nick Ryder | Mar 14 2018, 11:51 PM Post #45 |
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"With any luck the core we got will help the war effort." Nick said with a sigh. "Well I don't mind being towed to DS9... I kinda want to see it, never had the chance to really go there before, such an out of the way place, but apparently the most important installation in the Quadrant now. Still kind of agree with the brass, Earth is going to be hit. Just a matter of when and where and how bad. Julie keeps saying it's going to happen too and she's privvy to a lot more than I am." |
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