From: Lord Ihcalam (swiften_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 23:44:09 PDT
"130"
Location: USS Mataco
Scene: Main Bridge
Stardate: 2.80622
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"Status Report"
"Shields are available at 47%. Repair to the shield generators is ongoing, completion in 12 hours. Impulse drives are available, Phaser cannon is online, phaser arrays 1,,4 are destroyed. Array 2 is functional but at 50% capacity. All other systems are operational."
"Well its something. Status of the Dominion?"
"They are still out there. Haven't given up yet. I'm reading two assault ships, and a tug. Apparently they are still hoping to bring us back intact."
"Well it would be a prize, us being the flagship and all. Ok maintain red alert, but start rotating the crew off shift. Looks like we will be here a while."
"Commodore, we're receiving a hail from the USS Commendation, Secure Channel."
"On screen" The forward viewer sprang to life and portrayed the bridge of a century class starship captained by a female trill. The picture was fairly distorted, and ghost images kept coming up. "Can you clear that up?"
"Negative sir, the nebula is interfering with visual."
"This is the USS Mataco, or what's left of her. Report captain."
{{Commodore, Commendation and Chantico are chasing a rogue vessel. Their warp trail is leading us right to your area.}}
"The Mataco has just finished a battle with a Dominion Battleship. The stardrive was destroyed, and the saucer has taken refuge inside the nebula. Outside there are two Dominion Assault ships looking for us, and a tug waiting to take us home with them. What is your ETA?"
{{We are currently 20 minutes from your position. We are transmitting all available information over to you on the ship we are chasing.}}
"Very well" he responded after taking an assurance they were receiving the data "We will look for this ship within the nebula while you are still enroute." The channel closed, leaving behind the static filled visual of the nebula outside. "Helm, extrapolate from the information the Commendation sent over, and lay in a course for the most probable entry point for the renegade vessel. Engage when ready.
"Aye sir, setting course 211 mark 32, reducing z axis by 300. ETA, 12 minutes."
"Once we arrive, start a search grid that will cover the area that they could have traveled within the time allotted, and spiral inward. We don’t want to miss them."
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23 Minutes Later
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"Commodore, we're being hailed by the commendation."
"On speakers."
[[Mataco, this is Commendation, We have arrived in your sector and will be starting a search for the ship. The Chantico has skirted around the other side of the Nebula and will be joining us from within.]]
"Captain, what of the Dominion ships?"
[[Sensors did not detect Dominion vessels in the area when we arrived. Perhaps they gave up or ran when they saw us coming.]]
"Possible but doubtful. Proceed with your search Captain and keep a look out for the Dominion. T hen perhaps when this is done you could give us a lift home, I know I don’t relish the idea of a 5 year journey back to GS2."
The two and a half Starfleet ships begane searching for the Shiv in a methodical pattern that would prove escape proof. Eventually the Shiv would be located.
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Col Bret Maverick
USS Patriot NCC-5781-A
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V Adm Adam Heyting
Public Relations Office
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V Adm Nathan Hathaway
Chief of Starfleet Engineering
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Maj Hunter Williams
2/5th Regiment Commander USS Vincennes
Task Force 44, Group Shadow
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