Post by -=SaW=-DEFIANCE*AD on Oct 4, 2011 0:01:41 GMT -5
Chapter 3 of Star Trek Hellstorm
Chapter 3 The Search
Kenneth tapped his fingers on the console as he waited impatiently for Admiral Jackson to respond to his emergency hail. No doubt the admiral was busy with numerous reports and commotion that was suddenly stirred up from the recent event that just happened aboard the Pigin and was being held up for his statement of the situation by the officials from Starfleet Command. Kenneth looked out the port window and stared out into the vastness of space and wondered where the Pigin could be at. The console in front of Kenneth beeped and he turned to face it to see the Starfleet insignia switch to Admiral Jacksons stricken face. “Captain Kenneth! Just what the hell is going on out there I got Starfleet Command on my case and the intergalactic press wanting to know details of the situation! Please tell me this is just a setback on Pigins systems!” Kenneth shook his head and frowned “Im afraid its a lot worse than that sir.” “The Pigin is gone, and all crew are aboard escape pods as we speak.” Admiral Jacksons face turned pale. “You abandoned ship!! But under what condition was it to have to take drastic measures? Kenneth paused then replied in a low tone. “Sir, I believe the Pigin was sabotaged by some sort of alien technology that simulated a warp core breech when we reached maximum warp velocity we had no choice but to abandon ship when we did not know at the time that it was all a hoax to get us off the ship.” Admiral Jackson was stunned and gazed down on his desk as if to consider options. “I see. Is the Pigin still with you?” Kenneth looked out the port window to where the Pigin disappeared and then looked back at the screen “No sir, just as we came to a safe distance away from the ship. The pigin rightened herself and went to warp. At the moment we have no idea where she is.”
Admiral Jackson looked past the screen as a crewmember handed him a report pad and then left. “Under the circumstances Captain I say you performed to the best of your knowledge and for the safety of your crew but as of now I have no other choice but to mount a search operation and I want you to be the one to find the Pigin and bring her back home.” “I just received word that the Hellstorm has just completed repairs and has been upgraded to withstand a confrontation with the Pigin if the situation calls for it but may I remind you Captain that the Hellstorm is still no match for the Pigin in some areas. I advise you to take the steps necessary to secure the Pigin safely without further damage to either ship if it can be avoided understood.” Kenneth nooded and replied “ Understood sir.” Admiral looked over the report in his hand and then back at the screen. “The Hellstorm is ready to be launched again and I will dispatch her to your location to pick you up with in the next two hours. You are then to take command of the Hellstorm and begin searching for the Pigin.” Kenneth nodded his head and replied in a determined tone ‘Yes sir .” Admiral Jackson grinned slightly and then replied “God speed Captain.” As the screen switched back to the Starfleet insignia with the words. ‘End Transmission.’
An hour and forty five minutes passed slowly which made the crew in the pods restless. "Captain?" began Peterman as Kenneth moved his gaze from the pods port window to his Lieutenant behind him. "Yes what is it ?" Kenneth asked rather passively as his head was filled with thoughts of how to proceed with the search. "I think I may know who sabatoged the Pigin sir." Kenneth snapped out of his trance and cornered his attention to his lieutenant straightfowardly. "What do you mean you know?" Kenneth asked as he leaned in closer toward Peterman. The leiutenant leaned in toward his captain, and looked around to make sure others werent hearing them talk " As I was programming the computer to annouce the all hands to abandon ship I noticed a slight systems glitch of the the GUID interface panel. The symbols were rather chaotic at first and I couldnt tell what was going on, but then I saw one encrypted symbol that I recognized during my training days at the the academy in alien languages and interspeices communication." Kenneth nodded as he listened his eyes still glued to his leiutenant. "What was the symbol?" he asked. Mr. Peterman shifted in his chair and looked at his captain seriously. "You are not going to like this, but the symbol was Romulan." Kenneth eyes widened slightly as he he leaned back in his chair. Questions were running through his head faster than he could ask them, but he did manage to get one of them out of his mouth. "How?".
Moments later the console in front of Kenneth started beeping uncontrollably as he snapped to attention and read the readouts. "Im picking up a slight tachyon surge 20 kilometers off our port side. Whatever is generating it is huge." Lieutenant Peterman and another crewmember took their stations as Kenneth continued to read the sensor readouts from the console. "I cant tell if its a cloaked Romulan ship or Klingon but whatever it is its directly above us." Christopher worked his console and reported "It must be a Romulan warbird sir, they are the only ones besides Starfleet that knows we are out here since this was the last position of the Pigin." He paused as he looked over his console again. "All escape pods are confirming the report sir. They are seeing it too and are moving in to our position." Kenneth weighed the odds in his mind if all escape pods were to attack a Romulan Warbird in a combined effort with each pod that is equipped with a single phaser strip would be enough to buy time until the Hellstorm arrived, but quickly dismissed it since the combined phaser power would be ineffective to penetrate a Warbirds sheilds.
Kenneths console beeped erratically as he read the sensor report outloud "The tachyon emissions are destablizing whatever it is its dropping its cloak. Tell all pods to prepare to take envassive action." The stars ahead wrinkled like fabric as a ghostly image of a huge deflector array dematerilized in front of Kenneths escape pod. Kenneth stood up and looked out of his port window and saw the fully dematerilized saucer section of the Hellstorm looming overhead and sighed a relief. "Lieutenant Maxwell to Captain Kenneth sorry to come up on you like that but we wanted to test Hellstorms new cloaking device." Kenneth hurridly answered it. "Lieutenant Maxwell, you gave us quite a scare here. At first we thought a Romulan Warbird was upon us." "Romulans sir?" came the confused voice of Maxwells on the other end. "I will fill you in once we are safely aboard." "Understood." We are preparing to tractor each pod into shuttlebay one, inform your crew to be tractored in one at a time." came the Lieutenants voice over the comn. "Acknowledged." as he closed the comn channel and turned to Lieutenant Peterman and nodded his head. 'Now we can snake those Romulan bastards and I wont stop hunting them down until I find Pigin again.' thought Kenneth to himself as he felt the lurnch of the podd as it was being pulled by Hellstorms tractor beam.
Back in Hellstorms shuttle bay where the pods were Captain Kenneth, Commander Darron, and Chief Braxon hurried down toward the shuttle bays hatch doors and made way toward the bridge as they walked pass several crew members Kenneth looked over at Braxon "Chief I want you to go down to engineering and do a full diagnostic on all major sytems including warp drive if anything looks out of the ordnary and I dont care if its someones hair foticle on the warp injector assembly report it to me at once Im not having another episode happen again for the second time!!" "Aye sir." came the chiefs reply as he strode down a different corridor that lead to engineering. Kenneth hit his comn badge as he and Commander Darron headed toward a turbolift "Mr. Peterman I want you to access the computer and pull up the symbol you saw on the helm of the Pigin and have it ready in half an hour." "Aye sir." came the lieutenants voice. Kenneth continued "All senior staff report to the conference room in a half an hour."
Down in engineering Braxon was shocked to see that most of the system upgrades to the Hellstorm where online and primed ready with most in initial standby mode which could be activated promptly if needed . Hellstorm's engineering deck had been reconfigured to handle the new and advanced slipstream drive which was pulsating with raw power and had a slight hum to it as the plasma running through the conduits glowed brightly white that he had to almost sheild his eyes from the intensity of it. The overhead deck that was newly installed to monitor the slipstrem drive from above reminded Braxon of the much newer and advanced Soveriegn class engineering layout . Ensign Vas'sik came up to Braxon with a diagnostic padd. "All system modifications and operation procedures are operating within normal perimeters although I did encounter a slight 2.2 varrience in the slipstreams plasma regulator but thats hardly a cause for concern since the technology is rather new and still in its infant stages however we will be keeping a closer watch for the time being on it operational status and report of anything unusual." the ensign informed. Braxon took the padd and eyed the ensign as he looked over the report. " I see,..Umm excuse my stubborness, but who are you agian?" Ensign Vassik raised a quizzical eyebrow and replied. "Im Ensign Vassik, sir I was assigned to the Hellstorm two days ago from my previous and most intriguiging post on the USS Avenger due to the circumstances that have unfolded in regards to the USS Pigin." Braxon starred at Vassik for a minute and slowy asked "And you are...Vulcan right?" Vassik looked as if he was stunned but replied "Naturally." Braxon nodded slowly and then looked over the report "Well all things considered, the diagnostic shows all systems are working in normal operations. I will foward this to the captain." "Indeed," agreed Vas'sik " I would also suggest advising the captain of the slipstreams current status and recommend that use normal warp drive for the time being." Braxon nodded as he turn away mumbling under his breath "Damn green blooded vulcan."
Maxwell sat at the conference room table with few of the bridge crew as Kenneth and Commander Darron came in with the rest of the senior staff and quicky took their seats at the table as well. There was a long pause as Kenneth looked over toward the bridge crew that seemed eagerto know just what happened "As you may have been already informed by Starfleet command at exactly 1700 hours the USS Pigin had been sabatoged and consequently taken from us by a race we are all to well familiar with. Mr. Peterman here has made a recent discovery in who we are dealing with and why." Kenneth turned to the lieutenant and nodded at him. Christopher got out of his chair and walked over to the overhead viewscreen and tapped a control on the panel. The screen lit up and displayed an alien symbol that made the the crew in the conference room gasp. Peterman stood by the screen and looked over the room "This, is what you call an Conversed Aligorithm in which is a symbol that contains a language characteristic in the form of encryption that only the sender or reciever knows what it is and how it works." This encrypted symbol was found just moments before the All Hands Abandon Ship was ordered." Commander Darron was the first to speak up "Just what does the symbol represent and who sent it?" Peterman looked at Kenneth uneasily which Kenneth slowly nodded. "The symbol acts as an initiation sequence hence startup of a several forms of programs. This symbol however was the one that started up the program that sabatoged the Pigin which blocked computer control and allowed the antimatter contaiment regulators to go offline which caused the warp core to overload but just when the core became too unstable for the program to withstand it shut itself off and allowed the ships computer regain full control of all essential sytems including the warp core and bring everything online within normal perimeters as if nothing had happened." As for the origin of this program..its Romulan."
The conference room got dead quiet not one word was spoken for several seconds as Kenneth was the first to break the silence "As you may know our orders are to search and locate the Pigin and confront any Romulan presence that may be escorting the Pigin in the area which I highly concur that she will be, then we are to try and bring her back to Federation territory." I understand too that although the Hellstorm is fit to confront any hostilitiesincluding the Pigin if she is in command by Romulan forces we are advised to make little of any confrontation and minimize the damage of both ships during this search and retrieval mission." Kenneth looked around and saw his crew nodd their heads "Cheif, what is our status in engineering." Kenneth asked abruptly. Braxon strightened in his chair and cleared his throat. "All systems are primed and ready to go on your command captain we have warp drive to full capacity and all upgrades are operating within normal perimeters however I would advise using the sipstream drive unless we really need it." Kenneth nodded "Agreed, thank you chief" He looked over at the tatical officer "Mr. Richoner I believe you are my new tatical officer what is your assesment on our weapons." Mr. Richoner a snapped to attention "Sir we are currently loaded with four hundered and fifty photon torpedos, two hundered and fifty quantum torpedos and one hundred and twenty transphasic torpedos. Phaser arrays are fully functional as well as tractor beam emiters." Kenneth nodded in approval "Very good looks like we are ready to begin. Mr. Peterman bring us under claok and set set course to the neutral zone." He turned and looked over the room "Lets get to work. Dismissed." with that all memebers of the senior staff left the conference room and headed to the bridge.
Chapter 3 The Search
Kenneth tapped his fingers on the console as he waited impatiently for Admiral Jackson to respond to his emergency hail. No doubt the admiral was busy with numerous reports and commotion that was suddenly stirred up from the recent event that just happened aboard the Pigin and was being held up for his statement of the situation by the officials from Starfleet Command. Kenneth looked out the port window and stared out into the vastness of space and wondered where the Pigin could be at. The console in front of Kenneth beeped and he turned to face it to see the Starfleet insignia switch to Admiral Jacksons stricken face. “Captain Kenneth! Just what the hell is going on out there I got Starfleet Command on my case and the intergalactic press wanting to know details of the situation! Please tell me this is just a setback on Pigins systems!” Kenneth shook his head and frowned “Im afraid its a lot worse than that sir.” “The Pigin is gone, and all crew are aboard escape pods as we speak.” Admiral Jacksons face turned pale. “You abandoned ship!! But under what condition was it to have to take drastic measures? Kenneth paused then replied in a low tone. “Sir, I believe the Pigin was sabotaged by some sort of alien technology that simulated a warp core breech when we reached maximum warp velocity we had no choice but to abandon ship when we did not know at the time that it was all a hoax to get us off the ship.” Admiral Jackson was stunned and gazed down on his desk as if to consider options. “I see. Is the Pigin still with you?” Kenneth looked out the port window to where the Pigin disappeared and then looked back at the screen “No sir, just as we came to a safe distance away from the ship. The pigin rightened herself and went to warp. At the moment we have no idea where she is.”
Admiral Jackson looked past the screen as a crewmember handed him a report pad and then left. “Under the circumstances Captain I say you performed to the best of your knowledge and for the safety of your crew but as of now I have no other choice but to mount a search operation and I want you to be the one to find the Pigin and bring her back home.” “I just received word that the Hellstorm has just completed repairs and has been upgraded to withstand a confrontation with the Pigin if the situation calls for it but may I remind you Captain that the Hellstorm is still no match for the Pigin in some areas. I advise you to take the steps necessary to secure the Pigin safely without further damage to either ship if it can be avoided understood.” Kenneth nooded and replied “ Understood sir.” Admiral looked over the report in his hand and then back at the screen. “The Hellstorm is ready to be launched again and I will dispatch her to your location to pick you up with in the next two hours. You are then to take command of the Hellstorm and begin searching for the Pigin.” Kenneth nodded his head and replied in a determined tone ‘Yes sir .” Admiral Jackson grinned slightly and then replied “God speed Captain.” As the screen switched back to the Starfleet insignia with the words. ‘End Transmission.’
An hour and forty five minutes passed slowly which made the crew in the pods restless. "Captain?" began Peterman as Kenneth moved his gaze from the pods port window to his Lieutenant behind him. "Yes what is it ?" Kenneth asked rather passively as his head was filled with thoughts of how to proceed with the search. "I think I may know who sabatoged the Pigin sir." Kenneth snapped out of his trance and cornered his attention to his lieutenant straightfowardly. "What do you mean you know?" Kenneth asked as he leaned in closer toward Peterman. The leiutenant leaned in toward his captain, and looked around to make sure others werent hearing them talk " As I was programming the computer to annouce the all hands to abandon ship I noticed a slight systems glitch of the the GUID interface panel. The symbols were rather chaotic at first and I couldnt tell what was going on, but then I saw one encrypted symbol that I recognized during my training days at the the academy in alien languages and interspeices communication." Kenneth nodded as he listened his eyes still glued to his leiutenant. "What was the symbol?" he asked. Mr. Peterman shifted in his chair and looked at his captain seriously. "You are not going to like this, but the symbol was Romulan." Kenneth eyes widened slightly as he he leaned back in his chair. Questions were running through his head faster than he could ask them, but he did manage to get one of them out of his mouth. "How?".
Moments later the console in front of Kenneth started beeping uncontrollably as he snapped to attention and read the readouts. "Im picking up a slight tachyon surge 20 kilometers off our port side. Whatever is generating it is huge." Lieutenant Peterman and another crewmember took their stations as Kenneth continued to read the sensor readouts from the console. "I cant tell if its a cloaked Romulan ship or Klingon but whatever it is its directly above us." Christopher worked his console and reported "It must be a Romulan warbird sir, they are the only ones besides Starfleet that knows we are out here since this was the last position of the Pigin." He paused as he looked over his console again. "All escape pods are confirming the report sir. They are seeing it too and are moving in to our position." Kenneth weighed the odds in his mind if all escape pods were to attack a Romulan Warbird in a combined effort with each pod that is equipped with a single phaser strip would be enough to buy time until the Hellstorm arrived, but quickly dismissed it since the combined phaser power would be ineffective to penetrate a Warbirds sheilds.
Kenneths console beeped erratically as he read the sensor report outloud "The tachyon emissions are destablizing whatever it is its dropping its cloak. Tell all pods to prepare to take envassive action." The stars ahead wrinkled like fabric as a ghostly image of a huge deflector array dematerilized in front of Kenneths escape pod. Kenneth stood up and looked out of his port window and saw the fully dematerilized saucer section of the Hellstorm looming overhead and sighed a relief. "Lieutenant Maxwell to Captain Kenneth sorry to come up on you like that but we wanted to test Hellstorms new cloaking device." Kenneth hurridly answered it. "Lieutenant Maxwell, you gave us quite a scare here. At first we thought a Romulan Warbird was upon us." "Romulans sir?" came the confused voice of Maxwells on the other end. "I will fill you in once we are safely aboard." "Understood." We are preparing to tractor each pod into shuttlebay one, inform your crew to be tractored in one at a time." came the Lieutenants voice over the comn. "Acknowledged." as he closed the comn channel and turned to Lieutenant Peterman and nodded his head. 'Now we can snake those Romulan bastards and I wont stop hunting them down until I find Pigin again.' thought Kenneth to himself as he felt the lurnch of the podd as it was being pulled by Hellstorms tractor beam.
Back in Hellstorms shuttle bay where the pods were Captain Kenneth, Commander Darron, and Chief Braxon hurried down toward the shuttle bays hatch doors and made way toward the bridge as they walked pass several crew members Kenneth looked over at Braxon "Chief I want you to go down to engineering and do a full diagnostic on all major sytems including warp drive if anything looks out of the ordnary and I dont care if its someones hair foticle on the warp injector assembly report it to me at once Im not having another episode happen again for the second time!!" "Aye sir." came the chiefs reply as he strode down a different corridor that lead to engineering. Kenneth hit his comn badge as he and Commander Darron headed toward a turbolift "Mr. Peterman I want you to access the computer and pull up the symbol you saw on the helm of the Pigin and have it ready in half an hour." "Aye sir." came the lieutenants voice. Kenneth continued "All senior staff report to the conference room in a half an hour."
Down in engineering Braxon was shocked to see that most of the system upgrades to the Hellstorm where online and primed ready with most in initial standby mode which could be activated promptly if needed . Hellstorm's engineering deck had been reconfigured to handle the new and advanced slipstream drive which was pulsating with raw power and had a slight hum to it as the plasma running through the conduits glowed brightly white that he had to almost sheild his eyes from the intensity of it. The overhead deck that was newly installed to monitor the slipstrem drive from above reminded Braxon of the much newer and advanced Soveriegn class engineering layout . Ensign Vas'sik came up to Braxon with a diagnostic padd. "All system modifications and operation procedures are operating within normal perimeters although I did encounter a slight 2.2 varrience in the slipstreams plasma regulator but thats hardly a cause for concern since the technology is rather new and still in its infant stages however we will be keeping a closer watch for the time being on it operational status and report of anything unusual." the ensign informed. Braxon took the padd and eyed the ensign as he looked over the report. " I see,..Umm excuse my stubborness, but who are you agian?" Ensign Vassik raised a quizzical eyebrow and replied. "Im Ensign Vassik, sir I was assigned to the Hellstorm two days ago from my previous and most intriguiging post on the USS Avenger due to the circumstances that have unfolded in regards to the USS Pigin." Braxon starred at Vassik for a minute and slowy asked "And you are...Vulcan right?" Vassik looked as if he was stunned but replied "Naturally." Braxon nodded slowly and then looked over the report "Well all things considered, the diagnostic shows all systems are working in normal operations. I will foward this to the captain." "Indeed," agreed Vas'sik " I would also suggest advising the captain of the slipstreams current status and recommend that use normal warp drive for the time being." Braxon nodded as he turn away mumbling under his breath "Damn green blooded vulcan."
Maxwell sat at the conference room table with few of the bridge crew as Kenneth and Commander Darron came in with the rest of the senior staff and quicky took their seats at the table as well. There was a long pause as Kenneth looked over toward the bridge crew that seemed eagerto know just what happened "As you may have been already informed by Starfleet command at exactly 1700 hours the USS Pigin had been sabatoged and consequently taken from us by a race we are all to well familiar with. Mr. Peterman here has made a recent discovery in who we are dealing with and why." Kenneth turned to the lieutenant and nodded at him. Christopher got out of his chair and walked over to the overhead viewscreen and tapped a control on the panel. The screen lit up and displayed an alien symbol that made the the crew in the conference room gasp. Peterman stood by the screen and looked over the room "This, is what you call an Conversed Aligorithm in which is a symbol that contains a language characteristic in the form of encryption that only the sender or reciever knows what it is and how it works." This encrypted symbol was found just moments before the All Hands Abandon Ship was ordered." Commander Darron was the first to speak up "Just what does the symbol represent and who sent it?" Peterman looked at Kenneth uneasily which Kenneth slowly nodded. "The symbol acts as an initiation sequence hence startup of a several forms of programs. This symbol however was the one that started up the program that sabatoged the Pigin which blocked computer control and allowed the antimatter contaiment regulators to go offline which caused the warp core to overload but just when the core became too unstable for the program to withstand it shut itself off and allowed the ships computer regain full control of all essential sytems including the warp core and bring everything online within normal perimeters as if nothing had happened." As for the origin of this program..its Romulan."
The conference room got dead quiet not one word was spoken for several seconds as Kenneth was the first to break the silence "As you may know our orders are to search and locate the Pigin and confront any Romulan presence that may be escorting the Pigin in the area which I highly concur that she will be, then we are to try and bring her back to Federation territory." I understand too that although the Hellstorm is fit to confront any hostilitiesincluding the Pigin if she is in command by Romulan forces we are advised to make little of any confrontation and minimize the damage of both ships during this search and retrieval mission." Kenneth looked around and saw his crew nodd their heads "Cheif, what is our status in engineering." Kenneth asked abruptly. Braxon strightened in his chair and cleared his throat. "All systems are primed and ready to go on your command captain we have warp drive to full capacity and all upgrades are operating within normal perimeters however I would advise using the sipstream drive unless we really need it." Kenneth nodded "Agreed, thank you chief" He looked over at the tatical officer "Mr. Richoner I believe you are my new tatical officer what is your assesment on our weapons." Mr. Richoner a snapped to attention "Sir we are currently loaded with four hundered and fifty photon torpedos, two hundered and fifty quantum torpedos and one hundred and twenty transphasic torpedos. Phaser arrays are fully functional as well as tractor beam emiters." Kenneth nodded in approval "Very good looks like we are ready to begin. Mr. Peterman bring us under claok and set set course to the neutral zone." He turned and looked over the room "Lets get to work. Dismissed." with that all memebers of the senior staff left the conference room and headed to the bridge.
