S3, Ep2 - Dogma, Truth and the Wheel of Fate

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Buford angles the ship, As Grab Foot has the Shields enhanced on the bottom of the ship "Can't get the Damping Fields Back Sir" he says

Buford increases the Power to the Navigation "3 minutes till impact" he reports, As he attempted to open a ship wide com but it failed"My com is down" he says, as he prepairs to crash land

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

He grumbled a curse as Buford reported that he couldn't restore inertial dampeners, then 3 minutes until impact then again that his comm went down

He shook head head, thinking that what he hoped would not happen is now happening. He tapped a key on the command chair, hoping the comm there is still working. opening a ship wide comm

"All hands, this is the bridge, due to an unforseen event, we will be crash landing upon the menace.. the Asteroid that we have been following. All hands, Brace For impact"!

He looped his tail around his waist, sitting down in the command chair and holding on for dear life. As he wated for impact, he thought that this is the worst scenerio a Captain, a First Officer, or even an Acting First Officer can face: the posible destruction on one's ship and all lives lost, including his own

[de9cpaterrasect]

OOC Joint Post: By Brian Soriente & Karen Benétt

Kate was on the Promenade when she fell on the floor. Flickering in front of her as she looked up was the hologram she left on the Holodeck. She frist thought how the hell she got out let alone here. She ignored it as she looked up at the Skyport above her, she could see the bloody rock getting larger. Kate didn’t need to be told what was going on she ether needed to jump ship.

After leaving Samuel Ann’ headed towards the Promenode where she found her self. She was shocked to see her self it was like looking at a holo mirror. Ann’ began to yell at herself, ”Kate what the frack are you doing with my body. Don’t be pretending to fall on me….you know what your not gonna ignore me I demand you to…” Ann’ started to flicker as the Terrasect’s systems power grid was fluctuating. She uttered, “Fud’Bouts…” Then she looked up and saw what Kate was gawking at with her body. She saw the rock, as they seemed to be hurling towards it. She looked towards her self…rather towards Kate in her body. “Kate we need to help them…never mind us right now. Its them we need to help.”

Help? Are you mad you two bit walking Holodeck. I’m getting off this boat. Kate got up and started to arm the Bio-Metal Armor. She ignored the hologram but thought that she was bloody good in programming it. It acts so much like the real thing if not more annoying.

“Kate Phountain! Can you please stop looking after your self for a change and look at these people? Plus where do you think you would go? Terrasect is home now and don’t say its just my home. Its our home now…” Ann’ said as she flickered off and on as the power grid got weaker. “We need to help. I think if we build a anti-gravity pulse it should reflect us off the rock.”

Kate stopped at her tracks and thought about what Annie was talking about. We don’t have time for that, as you are just a hologram you can’t see that we are moving too fast and we will collide in to that rock in less then 3 minutes. She gave a deep sigh as she knew there would be only one option and this would mess up Ann’Knox’s armor severely.

“What? Kate? Wait your still not gonna leave us!” Ann’ knew her sister even though their not exactly blood related but she knew if there was no time or worth she’d leave their @ss there. “You are just…Your fracking selfish you know that…”

Can you shut up for once! Have some faith in me. Shut up and go to the Command Deck let them know that your doing something since they don’t know I’m here. Shut up and go! Kate left Holo’Ann and headed towards the starship where the impact would be. She phased cloak and stood outside of the hull, there she lay back on to the surface and she dug her claws in to the Terrasect. There she inserted her systems to merge with the Terrasect. She had a plan to where she would merge with the ship. It was something she did with her fighter craft, however since this ship is larger. Kate was afraid it wouldn’t work completely; some parts of the starship will not be fully protected if not at all. It was better then a complete crash-land or if not destruction.

Ann’ tapped in to the holo-emitters or what’s left of them…she then relocated her self on the Command Deck. She reappeared in the middle of everyone, “I have an idea! Hold on!” She watched as the systems on the deck were blowing out. She also saw Grabfoot then a new more random people on the ground… She pondered that wish she could help more but it’s all on Kate now. The power flickered ones more and she along with it. She knew that she might just disappear…so she started to bypass to try to save her program in to the main computer but before sending the final commands. The holo emitters gave out…..

Kate finally links with the ship a bit longer then normal but was able to merge her self as one. She was able to tap her self and her own power to the rest of the starship. Kate then arms the Phase Cloak and she phases her self and it started to phase the Terrasect. From the out side looking at this, you can see the starship disappearing before your eyes. As expected not all of the ship was completely phased and others not. Whatever debris hit those sections they were damaged to whatever degree. Kate then looks up and sees a rock coming towards them it wasn’t the main one but it was still a large piece. She closes her eyes and…

Ann’ opened her eyes and found her self not on the bridge but in her armor. She pondered it felt nice being in her body again…aside from some pain she was feeling. She pondered, ‘pain’… the pain started to flow through the rest of her body as she realized she was out side! At that moment she and the Terrasect was passing through several pieces of the asteroid. She could feel her armor systems melting do to the stress of expanding her self to the rest of the ship. Next she realized where was Kate? As if she was here where was she…as she didn’t hear her or feel her? During this time she pondered, ‘I never have though to use the Phase Cloak. I wouldn't have thought to risk my armor to save them and I called her selfish…’

[ganesaravious]

Ganesa noticed her console going off and tapped away to find out what was going on. She saw that they were getting closer to the asteriod because of the gravity pull and was just about to say something about it when her console suddenly blasted infront of her. She flew back from her console was knocked unconcious from the blast. Before the medical team would even come on board, she slowly started to come to and moved her hand towards her head as she slowly sat up.

Ganesa only had a slight injuries, despite the blast from the ops console and felt that she could continue on with her duties. She looked to see that her console was in bad shape of repair and gotten up from the floor to head towards another unmanned console in order to maintain OPS. As she was linking OPS to the console, she over heard for all hands to brace for impact. She held onto the console as she watched the data on the console come through.

"I'm getting damage reports through out the ship. Inertial dampers, deflector fields and the ship's hull is damaged considerable. Main Engineering gotten hit the hardest.", she reported

[gengrant]

OOC Note:

Okay, I've made my first error, which I'd like to apologize openly about. I used the PMs/Emails I sent out to everyone that was/is on the 'Crew Roster' regarding these changes to know who was still simming and who had 'fadded away'.

It has come to my attention that several people play multiple characters (which is great!), and I think that people only responded with one of their characters instead of all of theirs. However, as I've said before, this isn't my ship nor my crew so I am completely unaware of who is using multiple characters.

If you could please PM or Email me letting me know if you run multiple characters, these errors won't happen again. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and will work to correct it .

Please feel free to PM/Email me with any questions, concerns or comments regarding anything aboard the Terrasect, I'll see you all on the boards.

[Major Duncan Kinsely]

Location: Main Engineering

After Duncan left Sam's quarters some time ago and arrived in main engineering after several consoles exploded with other damages. He already gave orders to his marines to help security with the ship and with medical teams to gather the injuried crewmembers. He began to work on getting the engines back up and working to where they could be used to get away from the asteriod.

"All hands, this is the bridge, due to an unforseen event, we will be crash landing upon the menace.. the Asteroid that we have been following. All hands, Brace For impact"!

Duncan grumbled as he heard the news and held on as he tried to work on the engines, as well as the shields. Smashing into an asteriod like a pancake was not something he was expecting.

[gengrant]

Location: Sickbay

Sam had just entered Sickbay, responding to the Doctor’s request for him, when he felt the ship shutter, if only so slightly. He looked around, noticing that others felt it too, and muttered softly “Oh, this can’t be good…” but before he could finish his thought, the ship shook, violently form side to side. So much on one jolt, Sam found he was lying down on the deck with several tri-corders and other medical instruments.

The Terrasect rocked again, and again, from which he took as ‘impacts’ but he had no idea for what. This was a hell of a time to have the Captain out of commission, regardless of why. Sam found himself pulled in several directions; the Captain’s condition, his Security duties, senior officer currently serving, Ann and Kate… “Damn…” he said aloud. Figuring he should at least know what was going on, he slapped his combadge, hard, and tried to raise the bridge; nothing. He tried security; nothing. Engineering, Operations; nothing. The comms were down.

As Sam lifted himself off the ground, his body aching from the surgery, he turn to see medical staff and patients a like, who had been jolted by the ship’s movement. There were also several consoles that had blown out and even a few smaller fires that were being taken care of by the fire systems. Sam ran over to assist several people back to their feet, evening assisting Doctor MacAuley off the floor. “Sorry Doc, I always like to make an entrance.” He said with a smile. It was hard to keep humor about him right now, his first thoughts were that this was somehow Kate related, and if it was he was gonna really have some words with her; but he didn’t know what was going on.

He looked back at the Doctor, as they stood up “I don’t mean to be short, but I have to get to the bridge, but before I go, what’s up with the Captain that you needed to tell me; aside from this ‘monkey-wrench’ we’re currently dealing with.”

Location: Sickbay

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Location: Bridge: Helm

As Buford dose his best avoiding the debris, he hears Ganesa and breaths a sigh of relief as he got ready to speak to her, he hears Ann

Buford never takes his eyes off the Navigation system, but something was wrong, he could hear Ann but could not smell her, Buford quickly turns his head to see Ann disappear

Turning back to the Navigational sensors "I'm glad your OK Ganesa" he says, as he avoids the debris he wonders why Ann was a hologram

Buford See's a large piece of the Asteroid coming at them at a high speed "Brace! Brace!" He yells,Buford just looks at View screen as they pass through it

"What's going on Grab Foot we don't have that tech" he says as he hears smaller debris hitting the ship

He sees another large piece coming at them he angle ships so they pass though it, then he Avoids the large pieces and soon they are clear of the Asteroid it keeping the Asteroid between the ship and plant Buford takes the ship to the dark side of the moon

Once their he puts the ship in standard orbit "Standard Orbit Dark Side of the Moon" he says to Grab Foot

Buford looks around the bridge and sees all the damage, and injured people Buford leans back in his seat " At least were still alive, I need a Drink after that" he says

Location: Bridge: Helm

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

Location: Bridge, Command Center

As he waited for the imminent impact of the crash landing on the asteroid, he saw something flicker into view in front of him. He shot to his feet, with the deck bucking beneath him he was nearly thrown off balance again. His ears tilted toward the front of his head, after flicking back in surprise, once he realized it was Ann, but then again, it wasn't Ann. It looked like a Holographic version of Ann "Ann... what.." he started, He wanted to ask what was she doing on the bridge at this moment in time, but then he also wanted to ask why did she looked like a hologram

Before he could ask either question, he heard her say "I have an Idea, Hold on!" then started to flicker a few times "Ann what are you.. he started to asked before she disappeared completely. His ears flicked back in surprise again "..doing"? he completed the question, knowing she didn't hear it. He stood there a full 2 seconds trying to figure out what was going on before the deck heaved again, threatening to pitch him off balance and into another wall

Another movement cause his attention and he looked over to see Ganessa rising slowly off the deck. He spiraled his tail briefly, pleased to see that she is not injured too badly. She went to another console, one that was working, which at this time, there were very few. He heard her report that Inertial Dampeners, deflector fields, and the ship's hull is damaged considerably. Main Engineering had gotten hit hard but the barrage of rocks coming from the Asteroid. He nodded, knowing the Inertial Dampeners were out. He went to comment on the damage Main Engineering has received. "I was afraid.." Before he could complete that sentence he heard Buford's shout "Incoming! Brace for Impact" His head snapped around in time to see the high speed projectile as it was on a collision course for the bridge

He had only 2 seconds to make preparations to go meet with Sun Fall Of~Ennien. In the next moment, the projectile passed through him and the ship, much to his ultimate surprise. He heard Buford's exclamation of surprise, then his question "What's going on, Grab Foot? We don't have the tech"

He knew this already and it took him a couple seconds to answer. "We don't but I know that Ann does" and perhaps Kate, but he didn't verbalize Kate's name. "She must have linked the systems in her armor to the main computer thus phase cloaking the ship, or at least the most vital areas of the ship. That's the only thing I can think of to explain why we are here now"

He looked a bit shaken by the near death but it didn't last long. He shook it off and watched as Buford do what he could to avoid more debris from the Asteroid. When the rocky shower was over, he piloted the crippled ship to a nearby moon and initiated standard orbit, which he reported

He gave a nod of his head, acknowledging the canine officer, then heard his comment about still being alive

I think we have Ann to thank for that. If not for her quick thinking, we would be nothing but space debris by now" In the back of his mind, the thought that Kate might also have something to do with it, much to his surprise. She was always trying to destroy the terrasect but this time, she had decided to save it, at the risk of her own life, he suspected Now, I think we need to figure out how badly off we are." He turned towards Ganessa "Ganessa, can you raise anyone on ship's intercom?"

He then tapped his own communicator, not hearing it activate, he continued "Lt Commander Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns to Lt Commander Grant, Can you hear me?

He then waited for a response

[Dr Colina MacAuley]

Location: Sickbay

"What I needed to be talking to you about is a minor complication during surgery I have already stabilized him. Then, this ship caused a minor mishap, again I was able to stabilize him. However, he remains unconscious."

"I feel for his own well being we allow him to come out of this on his own. Sometimes a wee bit of old fashion doctoring is the best for what ails ya."

She turned her attention to the medical staff. "Set up Tirade teams stat, moble med teams get your kits."

Returning her attention to Grant. She waited to hear his assessment.

[gengrant]

*** ^^^ Terrasect Story / Action ^^^ ***

Due to quick thinking by the Terrasect’s crew, both Starfleet and Non-aligned personnel, the Terrasect had survived the collision with the Asteroid; for the most part. With the assistance of both members of The Drak, the Terrasect had somehow ‘phased’ through the Asteroid, preventing its destruction, although it had however suffered heavy damage.

With internal communications down, failure of almost 50% of the ships systems, and ‘technically’ a drift, the crew had their work cut out for them. Granted they were safe for the most part behind the moon, they needed to get engines back on-line before they succumbed to even the weak gravity of the moon. As the crew would find out, not the whole ship phased through without damage. There were still heavily damaged sections of the ship and casualties to attend to, not to mention the Captain’s situation.

With each section of the ship isolated within its own area and deck, due to fused bulk heads and the turbo lifts off line, it was going to be a little bit before all of the crew could get together and figure out the full story, as movement was limited to the Jefferies Tubes.

[gengrant]

Location: Sickbay

Sam stood stunned, as he looked at Doctor MacAuley. Only a few hours ago, they had been talking and setting up for a simple Away Mission. Have a little surgery, take some scans, log a few reports and information, and be on their way. Now it had all gone to hell, very quickly. Realization suddenly kicked in, and he had to mentally slap himself to realize it; there was no Executive Officer. Sam had seniority as head of Ship’s Security and time served, but he was a Security Officer; not a command officer.

All he could do was look at the Doctor, as she rallied quickly, much quicker then he had which he shamed himself for, and began to get ready to receive casualties. Sam looked at her, as he rallied himself, “How long?” was all he could ask, referring to the Captain’s condition. He had always toyed with the idea of being in command, but not like this, not like this.

After hearing her answer, Sam's Starfleet training began taking over, a serious look came over him, and he knew what he had to do. “Doctor, please get your teams assigned, make sure some go to the Bridge, and ensure that the Captain is taken care of. Then grab a med-kit and follow me; leave your best nurse in charge of Sickbay with my blessing, you and I need to get to Main Engineering.” He straightened his tunic, checked his phaser and his tri-corder that he carried, and turned to head down the corridor. “Regardless of the damage, and the importance to be on the Bridge, we can’t accomplish much from the Bridge if there is an issue in Engineering; no sense in wasting a trip.” He smiled at the Doctor, and began to head out into the corridor.

Sam tried his communicator, and a wall console, but all he got was ‘white noise’; he was hoping that it was only a technical issue and that they hadn’t suffered catastrophic damage. He was glad to see that both the Security Officers stationed outside of Sickbay were okay, only suffering from minor injuries. “You two, you just became nurses, get in there and see how you can help; the joys of the ‘all other assigned duty’ clause in you enlistment contracts.” Both Officers let out a small laugh, knowing Sam’s infamous humor, and darted into Sickbay.

With the good Doctor in tow, they started down the corridor towards Main Engineering. They didn’t get far, only about 30 meters, before they hit their first fused bulk head. Looking back at Colina, he thrust his thumb at the bulk head, “I hope you’re as good with a phaser as you are with a scalpel Doctor, this may take a while.” Sam knew that he could get through a fused door with a standard Type II Hand Phaser in about 5 minutes, with two it should take half that long. But he had no idea how many doors and bulkheads he’d have to cut through. They started working…

Location: Corridor outside Sickbay

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Location: Bridge: Helm

Buford runs a system check on helm, as it's running he looks back a Grab Foot "I'll be sure to thank Ann" he says he then tilts his head "that explains the Hologram,it was to give us a heads up" he says,then concern shows in his eyes "I hope she' OK" he says

Then looking at Ganesa "Y'all sure your OK, Y'all took a powerful hit when your console blew he asks her Concern is heard in his voice

He turns back to his console as the system check finishes " Shakes his head Impulse and Thrusters Only, Short range Navigation sensors is working and everything else is down" he reports "We have 48 hrs before the Moon's gravity pulls us in, so in 38 hrs I'll reestablish standard orbit" he reports as he sets time for 38 hrs

Tapping his com badge all he gets is white noise, he stands up and rubs his neck looking at Grab Foot and Ganesa "Your orders Sir!" he asks

Location: Bridge: Helm

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

Location: Bridge

He heard Buford's comments as he surveyed the worst of the damage, his tail twitching. He wanted to wring his tail but this was no time to be worrying "Yes" he commented back "I shall thank her as well when we are able to see her again" He thought about thanking Kate too, if she wasn't in the mood to fight if and when he confront her "that explains the Hologram,it was to give us a heads up" he also stated. He knew that maybe the case, but there was something else. He didn't think that was the only reason Ann was a Hologram. He thought that was Kate's doing.. somehow. He nodded as Buford said that he hopes that she is alright, with enough concern in his voice for the both of them "I hope so as well, Buford". he commented back. He even hoped Kate was alright, then blinked, wondering where that thought came from

He shook his head as Buford turned to Ganessa and say that he was glad that she wasn't hurt as bad as she looked by the exploding Ops console. He muttered to himself "I never thought I'd be in this situation" His thoughts drifted to Grant and Harsting, hoping that they're both ok. He knew that Harsting was in surgery when this mishap started. Grant, maybe an obnoxious human, but he was still his CO, much to his chagrin

Buford broke into his thoughts with his report: "Impulse and Thrusters Only, Short range Navigation sensors is working and everything else is down. "We have 48 hrs before the Moon's gravity pulls us in, so in 38 hrs I'll reestablish standard orbit" He then asked what his orders where. He blinked, thinking a moment, bringing him back to the fact that he is in command, for the time being, until Grant and/or Harsting returns

"I think the first thing we should do is to re-establish communications and internal sensors, to figure out how badly we're hurt and to re-establish contact with Grant and the other parts of the ship. Another thing is to get Navigational fixed so we don't have the threat of crashing into the moon. If you two have other suggestions, I am willing to listen" He spiraled his tail slightly as he looked to both Buford and Ganessa

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Location: Bridge: Helm

Buford gets down on the floor removes the cover to his console "Well Sir Navigational is fine I can fly this bird, Navigational Senors Long range are down" he says as he sticks his head into the console

"Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a mule" Buford signs as he works

"A mule is an animal with long funny ears
He kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny - and his brain is weak
He's just plain stupid with a - stubborn streak" Buford signs as he shines a light around checking the circuit board

"And by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule" Buford sees the problem "Circuit Board is fused all but the areas that are working" he says

As Buford pulling his head out of the console he hits his head "Ah hit me when I ain't looking" He grows as he sits up on the floor rubbing his head "Good news is maybe if I change the circuit board I'll get Helm back up all but Warp, Bad news is we don't have one" he says as he goes to all the blown consoles and removes their circuit boards "But I can make one out of all these here parts" he says

Buford starts working on getting the Circuit Board up and running

Location: Bridge: Helm