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Captain's Log - 10401.14 Supplemental

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:54 The USS Hercules has passed over into the mirror universe. With an away team stranded on the ISS Aries, a Constitution-class starship from the mirror universe, and the Captain and Counselor taken hostage by members of the Terran Resistance who have somehow captured a pair of Romulan ships, the Hercules has retreated to a nebula where they can make necessary repairs to the weapons systems, warp drive, and transporters while hidden from any attack by their mirror counterparts or the Romulan ships that crossed over with them. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net Post Edited (07-21-04 17:55)

USS HERCULES - USS 83549

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:55 =/\=

ISS ARIES

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:56 = T =

LORD KRAMER'S ROMULAN WARBIRD

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:56 =/\=

T'SALLE'S ROMULAN WARBIRD

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:57 =/\=

Bridge

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:57 =/\=

Ready Room

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:59 =/\=

Conference Room

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 17:59 =/\=

Officer's Quarters

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 18:00 =/\=

Transporter Room

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 18:00 =/\=

Main Engineering

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 18:01 =/\=

Security / Tactical

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 18:02 =/\=

Counselor's Office

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 18:02 =/\=

Sickbay

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-21-04 18:03 =/\=

Bridge

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Bridge

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Transporter Room

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Bridge

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CNS Ens. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   07-23-04 16:32 [Bochema in Lord Kramer's Romulan Warbird's Transporter Room] Nudara felt herself materialize and thought, "I was supposed to knock him out of the beam not get caught in it myself." Her mind scrambled through alternatives. They had obviously wanted the Captain, not her. She was extra baggage but whatever happened she had to keep them from injuring the Captain. He knew these people so he was their way back to the Hercules and then home. When the beam stopped, she looked around. A very heavy feeling hit her. There was something here that she would remember for a very long time. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-25-04 00:32 [LtJG Tor, Sickbay] Havik looked up form he first of the newest wave of patients. Straightening up, he tapped a PADD clearing the woman for duty. She had only had a hairline fracture of her tibia, a quick fix, but it did prevent her form walking herself to Sickbay. Just over the top of The PADD, Havik saw wisps of a nebula. Taking a closer look, he saw that they had dropped out of warp and had apparently entered a nebula, presumably to initiate repairs. Wondering what the hell was going on up on the Bridge, he set the PADD back down on his desk and started on the severe burns that had just came in under the assistance of one of his teams he had sent out. Over the next few hours, patients trickled in, and soon, once his staff had confirmed the locations of all the crew, Sickbay was buzzing with activity, making the work go all that much faster. In between patients, Havik thought about what to do once they had everybody stable. He had already left once with only his staff to look after the patients, and while they were competent, his staff were not the same as him personally being there. He decided to wait until everyone in his Sickbay had left before worrying out other departments, or the rest of the ship. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-25-04 01:57 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight's first chance at command wasn't really going the way he wanted it to. He would have never imagined that the first time he took command, the captain was captured by Romulans and the XO was on a century old starship. John tried to keep his head clear, but he was still wondering if he had done the right thing. It was true that they were safer here in the nebula rather than being out there where anybody could be more than what them seem. This way, he at least knew that none of the bridge staff were their mirror counterparts. John hoped that the XO had gotten their message. Well since, they were in the nebula and were conducting repairs, John decided it that he will conduct a staff briefing very soon. McKnight walked over to his console and grabbed a PADD. He then entered some few notes while observing the actions of the bridge crew. ----------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   07-25-04 15:35 [Devereux on ISS Aries] "We'll have to play a lot of this by ear I'm afraid... Well 'Number 1', what do you think?" said Robinson Devereux grinned "I think I'd better get down to the shuttlebay and check the condition of the shuttlecraft." With that, Devereux started to suit up ready for the long trek through the guts of the ship to reach the shuttle hanger. ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-26-04 11:38 [Materializing in the Transporter Room] Kramer materialized on the transporter pad of what appeared to be a Romulan Warbird. To his surprise, Counselor Bochema was with them...she had apparantly tried to save himfrom abduction. "A nice try, Counselor, though it seems now you're stuck with me..." Kramer said with a half smile and a hint of humor. "Shut up!" the mirror Robinson yelled as he left the room, undoubtedly to tell his leader that they had suceeded. At this point, the mirror Devereux came over and began patting Kramer down, looking for the hand phaser he kept as a member of the bridge crew. "Just what the hell happened to your head, anyway?" Kramer asked with heavy sarcasm. "Huh? Shut..." Devereux said just as Kramer's knee went crashing into the mirror Devereux's midsection. As the mirror counterpart of Kramer's CEO went ceashing to the ground, Kramer grabbed Devereux's phaser...one of Romulan vintage...and pointed it at the bald, scarred man. "Don't move." Kramer said, then turning to Counselor Bochema. "Go get on the transporter controls while I hold him." Kramer then sneered at the man lying on the floor, holding his stomach in pain, "My own Devereux would never had made such an amature mistake." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   07-26-04 12:08 [Bochema in the warbird's transporter room] "A nice try, Counselor, though it seems now you're stuck with me..." Kramer said with a half smile and a hint of humor. Bochema opened her mouth to answer when the mirror Robinson yelled at them to shut up and then left the room. Within moments, the Captain had the bald Devereux on the floor with a phaser aimed at him. "Don't move." Kramer said, then turning to Counselor Bochema. "Go get on the transporter controls while I hold him." She quickly crossed the room to the controls and began searching for their ship on the sensors. Kramer then sneered at the man lying on the floor, holding his stomach in pain, "My own Devereux would never had made such an amature mistake." "No," she told the Captain, "But I bet this one wouldn't leave their Captain behind like the Hercules just did." She couldn't believe her eyes when a ship who's call beacon matched the Herc disappeared from sensors. "They are heading back to where we were before we got pulled into this universe. I'm trying to find the other ship. If we can beam to where our Robinson is, at least we'll have a fighting chance." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   07-26-04 13:12 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge] Vyxx leaned back in his chair and stretched when the ship entered the nebula. “Sensors are offline, we have entered the nebula.” He announced to Lt McKnight, letting him know their status. He turned in his seat and leaned forward, speaking as he did so, “Sir, we are blind out here, the good news is any ship coming to look for us will also be blind. I have an idea, if we have the time and resources on board we might be able to turn that into an advantage. I should be able to link a series of probes together, communications are not out, so we can link them to us, alerting us if anyone comes looking. If a ship enters and goes between any probes, breaking the signal, we would know about it. I should be able to set up a probe or two an hour, by myself. I am useless up here anyway with all the sensors out.” Vyxx looked at Lt McKnight waiting for his reply. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-26-04 16:59 [In the Transporter Room] Kramer held the mirror Devereux while Counselor Bochema accessed the sensors at the Transporter Controls. "No," Bochema began, "But I bet this one wouldn't leave their Captain behind like the Hercules just did." She couldn't believe her eyes when a ship who's call beacon matched the Herc disappeared from sensors. "They are heading back to where we were before we got pulled into this universe. I'm trying to find the other ship. If we can beam to where our Robinson is, at least we'll have a fighting chance." Kramer replied, "We'll be taking a gambel by beaming over there...I don't know if they've established life support...but its got to be better than here. Set it up." Kramer said, just as the door began to open. Kramer aimed his phaser at the door controls and fired, hoping that would hold the people outside off for awhile. "And hurry, Counselor." Kramer said as he moved his phaser back to Devereux. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   07-26-04 17:55 [Bochema, preparing to beam out] Kramer replied, "We'll be taking a gambel by beaming over there...I don't know if they've established life support...but its got to be better than here. Set it up." Kramer said, just as the door began to open. Nudara began to program the strange transporter console. As she worked, she focused hard on the strange language displays. She heard the transporter door start to open and jumped. Kramer aimed his phaser at the door controls and fired, hoping that would hold the people outside off for awhile. "And hurry, Counselor." Kramer said as he moved his phaser back to Devereux. Noddine, Nudara went back to work on the console. A few moments later, she activated the program and headed back to the transporter pad. "I have it Sir. At least I hope I do." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

EO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   07-26-04 22:19 [Guerin, in main engineering] Sam ran her hand distractedly through her short hair as she looked up and replied to what Corrigan just told her. "The KLS Stablizer? How long?" she asked as she absently flipped the caliper in her hand. Corrigan shrugged his shoulders, "Ten, maybe 12 hours." Sam groaned at the response, although it was about what she expected. She sighed as she answered, "OK, have Williams and Bailey work on it. It's going to take another 15 hours or so to check all the relays and run a diagnostic. Then we'll doublecheck the alignment of the injectors and dilithium and, knock on wood," she said as she playfully tapped Corrigan's head," we should be good to go with the engines." "Hey," Corrigan said as he vainly attempted to get out of the way of Sam's knock, but he grinned, not taking offense. "The transporters should be fixed before then, as should the shields," he said even though he knew Sam already was aware of this. "How about the weapon systems?" Sam shook her head, "I haven't heard from tactical yet, not on a status or for help so I guess they have that under control." Sam put her caliper down as she placed her hands on her knees and stood up. She groaned as she stretched. "Ugh, too long in one position. Two minutes for a cup of tea and then I'm back at it. I have this covered so why don't you help Williams and Bailey. I'm sure the captain wants engines online sooner rather than later." Corrigan nodded. "Will do. Call if you need help." Corrigan moved over to where Williams and Bailey were getting their kits together. "Let's go. Fun-filled times ahead," he said as he walked past the pair. Sam watched it all before she pulled a thermos out of her kit and poured some tea into the lid. She wrinkled her nose at the lukewarm liquid but drank it down anyway. ---------------- EO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net Post Edited (07-28-04 17:31)

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-27-04 01:11 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight was getting his notes ready for a upcoming staff meeting he was planning when Lieutenant Vyxx suggested an idea about using the probes as sensors. McKnight thought about the idea. 'I guess, it'll be a lot safer if we know ahead of time about another ship coming in,' thought McKnight. John looked at Vyxx and said, "Sure, Lieutenant. Go ahead and it's actually a pretty good idea. Get some people to help you out, so that it will be finished faster." McKnight took a deep breath and took another look at his staff meeting notes. 'What the heck am I planning?' thought John. 'A staff meeting will just waste time and resources. It'll probably be faster if I talk to each department individually.' John put the PADDs down on his console and checked the status of his own department. They were doing pretty going and his staff were currently checking the main computer. John quickly checked if power were sufficiently allocated and set his console to run a level 1 diagnostic test. 'There, two departments down and a few more to go' thought John. McKnight then walked over to Chad. "Lieutenant, how long will it till we have weapons back up?" questioned McKnight.

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-27-04 09:34 [In the Transporter Room] Krame was still holding the mirror Devereux at bay with his phaser with one eye on the door when Bochema said, "I have it Sir. At least I hope I do." [Once she reaches the transporter pad] Kramer began to feel the tingling sensation of transport...and just as they began to dematerialize he saw the door open, however, he didn't see who came in, as the image of the Romulan transporter room was replaced with that of an old Constitution-class bridge...but then that vanished as well. Kramer and Bochema materialized back on the Romulan transporter pad...this time surrounded by six armed guards of human and Vulcan ethnicity. Once they materialized, Kramer saw who was standing at the console...his mirror counterpart. The mirror Kramer spoke. "Take the woman to the brig. Leave me with my counterpart from the ghost universe." the mirror Kramer said. "Yes, my Lord." came the reply from one of the guards, a dark-skinned Vulcan. With that, another of the grauds went up on the transporter pad and nudged Bochema with the butt of his phaser rifle. "Move it." he said firmly. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

Brig

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-27-04 09:35 =/\=

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-27-04 23:31 [LtJG Tor, Sickbay] Havik plopped himself into his chair at the office desk, rubbing his face. He was so tired, he didn't care about upholding his Vulcan facade right now. He didn't need to sleep, he just wanted to stop thinking for a bit. Looking aback down at the scattered PADDs on his desk he thought about what to do. All of the crew were accounted for, and all the injured were stable. His staff could take care of the half a dozen patients left. And Havik's curiosity was killing him. Desperately needing to know what was going on, and with no foreseeable danger coming form him leaving Sickbay, he got up and headed for the nearest Turbolift. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-27-04 23:37 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik stared blankly at the doors as he rode up. When they finally did open, he still stood there for a second before realizing what had happened. Jerking back out of his stupor, he walked out onto the Bridge and saw no Captain, and no XO. Now, with his curiosity increased tenfold, he stepped cautiously, as though if he wasn't careful someone else would disappear without any apparent reason. Not really knowing who was next in line, and since the Captain's chair was absent, Havik decided to stand there for a minute to see who noticed him first before asking any questions. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-28-04 01:18 [McKnight, on the bridge] John waited for a report from his friend Chad, when the turbolift doors opened. He doctor came out of it and he seemed to be a little confused. Actually John didn't know how to describe the look on the doctor's face, but McKnight guessed that the doctor would have wanted to know what had happened. "Excuse for a moment, Lieutenant," he said to Chad, "I'll give you some time to prepare your report. Don't make up stuff like you did during our shore leave." John winked at Chad as he turned around and walked to the doctor. "Hello, doctor," greeted John. "What a surprise, I was going to drop by sickbay to let you know what was going on. Since you're here, it'll save me the walk. So far, this is only on a need to know basis. I don't what the crew to think that the person in charage is the same exact person that was classified crazy a few hours ago. Anyway, the captain and the counselor was taken hostage by the mirror counterparts of this world. I ordered to move the ship out of safety, which is why we are currently here in the nebula. It is the best hiding place that we have available to us. Oh, that reminds me. What is the status of sickbay, doctor?" asked John. He needed to get an overview of how the ship was doing and how long repairs will take. After McKnight gets his report from the doctor, he will get a report from engineering as well as from tactical and flight control. John was hesitate to use the comm system because anybody on the ship could be a mirror counterpart that was placed here when the captain transported aboard. 'Oh, shoot. Why didn't I think of that before?' thought John. The doctor standing in front of him could also be a mirror counterpart. The only people that John could trust right now was Lieutenant Vyxx, Iza, and the FCO. However, as soon as Vyxx leaves the bridge, he would not be able to trust him either. Unless, John coded a special comm signal and gives it to Vyxx, Iza, and the FCO, but he can't do it with the doctor in front of him and Vyxx could be leaving any minute. John could give the doctor any indication that McKnight could trust anybody other than the bridge crew. 'Being in command is hard,' thought John, 'So many decisions.'

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-28-04 17:03 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik fortunately did not have to wait long for someone to offer him information on the situation, as the OPS officer came up to him and said "Hello, doctor, what a surprise, I was going to drop by sickbay to let you know what was going on. Since you're here, it'll save me the walk. So far, this is only on a need to know basis. I don't what the crew to think that the person in charge is the same exact person that was classified crazy a few hours ago. Anyway, the captain and the counselor was taken hostage by the mirror counterparts of this world. I ordered to move the ship out of safety, which is why we are currently here in the nebula. It is the best hiding place that we have available to us. Oh, that reminds me. What is the status of sickbay, doctor?" asked John. Raising an eyebrow, Havik thought for a minute. Though he did not agree with the decisions made by Mr. McKnight, it was a little late to do anything about it. All they could do was formulate plans for the future. That, and the fact that Havik was out ranked by him, made him hold his tongue. After careful consideration, Havik started, "To answer your question, Sickbay is in working order. I have the entire crew either fixed up and back on duty or stabilized in Sickbay. Now, to pose my own questions. You have explained the Captain's absence, but where is the XO, and his away team? And what was the status of the two remaining Warbirds who came though the anomaly with us, for I assume that the other two ships who were waiting for us were occupied by the Mirror counterparts of our universe?" He finished while trying not to make ihs annoyance at an incomplete answer to obvious. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

Shuttle Bay

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   07-28-04 17:04 = T =

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   07-28-04 17:14 [Devereux on ISS Aries] The first thing Devereux did when he reached the Hanger was to establish life support enabling him to work without his pressure suit. Devereux completed a 15 minute check of the three shuttlecraft in the hanger. All three were similar to the Constitution refit era of Devereux's own universe. And all three were in appaling state. 'I guess regular maintainance isn't high on these guys' list of things to do" thought Devereux. At the end of the check Remy tapped his combadge "Devereux to Robinson. These Shuttles are barely spaceworthy. I can have one operational enough for our requirements in 20 minutes. I can configure one of the others to fly & detonate it's fuel cells by remote as well. Are we still good to go?" Remy waited for Paul to reply... ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   07-28-04 17:15 [Devereux over the comm] "Devereux to Robinson. These Shuttles are barely spaceworthy. I can have one operational enough for our requirements in 20 minutes. I can configure one of the others to fly & detonate it's fuel cells by remote as well. Are we still good to go?" ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-30-04 01:32 "To answer your question, Sickbay is in working order. I have the entire crew either fixed up and back on duty or stabilized in Sickbay. Now, to pose my own questions. You have explained the Captain's absence, but where is the XO, and his away team? And what was the status of the two remaining Warbirds who came though the anomaly with us, for I assume that the other two ships who were waiting for us were occupied by the Mirror counterparts of our universe?" said the doctor. 'Oh shoot he suspects something' thought John. John thought about the doctor's question and he couldn't believe that he had left it out of his previous answer. It made sense that the doctor was mad about that. John was a little irritated when he spent the day in the turbolift and when he came back to the bridge, they were in another universe. "Sorry doctor, I forgot about that part of your question. The XO and the away team were transported to a Constitution Class Starship. I ordered a message to be sent to them, but I'm not sure if it got through. The status of the warbirds is unknown at the moment. We're going back for the captain and the crew as soon as we know more about what is going on in this universe and as soon as we have a battle plan. Again, I'm sorry doctor for leaving out the details." John was really sorry and he guessed that he left out the details because a lot was going through his mind. McKnight still had plenty of things to do.

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   07-30-04 09:31 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge] Vyxx stood as McKnight gave him the go ahead for his idea. Now Vyxx just had to figure out exactly how he could do it, and who could he get to help. Something like this would be better if he had an engineer or two, but he assumed they were all busy repairing the damage to the ship. He was reluctant to ask for someone to be pulled away from that when his idea might not even be feasible. He noticed the doctor enter the bridge and start talking with McKnight. Vyxx headed towards the turbolift, and left the bridge, heading for his lab. He would have to do a quick review of his science team members and see if any of them had the qualifications to help, he should be able to find someone. “Deck four” Vyxx said once the doors closed. ‘Hmmm, I could use the class IV probes, have to see how many we have. They could be set up to emit a tachyon particle beam. If can they be made to emit a wide beam, as opposed to just a single beam. If we can set the sensors to detect if the beam is broken, we know a ship entered the nebula.’ Vyxx continued his thinking as he exited the turbolift and headed to his lab. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   07-30-04 10:11 [On the trnasporter pad in the Romulan transporter room] Kramer heard the comment about going to the brig and erupted in anger. "No! She stays with me or I start shooting...starting with you." Kramer said, pointing the phaser at his counterpart. Lord Kramer replied, but with a coolness to his voice. "You start shooting, or you'll both be dead in seconds. Furthermore, she goes to the brig or dies right now." Lord Kramer looked at the mirror Devereux, who had recovered from Kramer's attack. "Take his phaser." Lord Kramer instructed. The mirror Devereux was hesitant, but Kramer prodded further. "Go ahead. I suspect he won't hurt you know...if I know myself at all." Lord Kramer said as a devilish grin spread across his face. Devereux appraoched Kramer, but rather sheepishly. Kramer turned the phaser around in his hand, handing it to Devereux with the handle out. Devereux took it, then his mood changed totally. He went back to being the arrogant, aggressive person who had captured Kramer and the Counselor in an instant. "Now," Lord Kramer began, "Follow my orders." [Once the guards leave with Bochema, leaving Kramer, and the mirror Kramer and Devereux in the transporter room] "Come down from there, I need to use the transporter." Lord Kramer said to Kramer. Kramer complied, not because he wanted to follow his counetrpart's orders but because he wanted to see what would happen next. As soon as he stepped down, the mirror Robinson entered the room, who stepped on to the transporter pad, along with the mirror Devereux. Lord Kramer operated the controls, first beaming away Robinson, then Devereux, leaving Kramer and his counterpart alone. "There, now..." Lord Kramer began, "They're off to command their ships. My little band of pirates has just completed taking those two Romulan ships you were so kind to bring over with you. Robinson will command the Bird of Prey while Devereux commands the warbird." Kramer thought this curious...from what he had seen of this Devereux, he wouldn't put him in command of anything, let alone a powerful Warbird. "I know what you're thinking," Lord Kramer began, "Why would I put such a bad officer in command of a Warbird? Because I can control him more. I'm sending Robinson and my cursed wife off to look for your ship. They're leaving now....oh, I don't suppose you know thay've abandoned you here? With any luck, perhaps your crew will do them in." Kramer stood silently, knowing McKnight would be in command of his ship and wondering what was going to happen. Lord Kramer spoke again. "Accompany me to the Bridge, would you?" _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CNS Ltjg Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   07-30-04 15:23 [Bochema being drug to the brig] Nudara watched her Captain surrender his weapon. "No," she whispered, "We must get away from here." The hands on her arms tightened then and began pushing her down the hall. She listened carefully to the sounds around her and watched the hall hoping to find a way to escape. "You will not be here long." one of the guards said. "You are right." Nudara answered indignantly, "I won't be." The guard laughed and pushed through the brig door. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   07-30-04 15:59 [Bochema, locked in the brig] When the first guard pushed her through the door, he allowed his grip to slip. The Counselor knew that was her only chance. Cupping her hands together, she twisted and slammed her elbow into the man's neck. She heard the soft crunch as his throat was crushed. A sharp pain jolted through her back from just between her shoulder blades. She had been too slow in turning to face the other guard. Hitting the floor on hands and knees, she took a deep breath against the pain. The second guard kicked her side and forced her into the cell. "You stupid woman. You just signed your death sentence." he said glaring at her. "Mapenzi sisipona," she muttered pushing herself to a standing position. "What?" the man asked her, not understanding the phrase. "We will live." she replied. "You will not." The guard only shook his head as he drug his partner from the brig. Nudara glanced around. Seeing that she was alone, she laid down on the small bed. She grabbed her ribs and groaned. "That was stupid, Dari." she whispered, "The Captain's gonna kill you when he learns about that little stunt." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   07-30-04 18:16 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad was staring at his console and computing the necessary time and repairs that he needed to do. His friend John then walked up to him and ask him for a status report. Chad was about to reply when the doctor entered the bridge and John said, "Excuse for a moment, Lieutenant, I'll give you some time to prepare your report. Don't make up stuff like you did during our shore leave." "Aye, aye captain," joked Chad. He watched John walk over to the doctor. Chad went back to staring at his console. Weapons and shields were a mess and it was going to take his department a while before everything was back up. He already had people working on the torpedos and the phaser array. The last time he checked it was going to take them at least a couple of hours before they were fully functional. Chad, himself was working on the shields and was trying to get the emitters back online from the bridge, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. The computer reported that they were functional, but Chad had trouble accessing them. He guessed that he would probably have to send someone down there or he would have to go himself. Iza gathered all the necessary data to prepare his status report to John. ----------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-30-04 19:01 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik listened to John as he explained the rest of the situation. He raised an eyebrow, but that was the only evidence of his doubt in the Lieutenant's plans. Of course, the only real problem was that they had left everybody at the mercy of the mirror ships. Far be it from him to question his superior officer about decisions already made, Havik replied, "Thank you, Sir. Is there anything you would have me do while we are in the nebula?" XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-30-04 21:55 [McKnight, on the bridge] "Thank you, Sir. Is there anything you would have me do while we are in the nebula?" said the doctor. The doctor seem sincere enough that John dismissed the idea that the doctor could be a mirror counterpart of himself, but John wasn't entirely sure yet, but he had a way to find out. "Doctor, what I'm about to ask next might be a little strange, but I want to make sure of something. What major thing happened to me before we crossed into this universe?" John crossed his figers and hoped really hard that the doctor was not a mirror counterpart of himself. --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

Science/Labs

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   07-30-04 22:42 .

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   07-30-04 22:42 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Science Lab] Vyxx spent about ten minutes going over some info about what the ship had in stock as far as probes went. He didn’t think there would be enough time for a tachyon net as he was originally thinking. It would just take too long to set up the amount of probes he needed. He was also thinking about ways to defend the ship as well as early detection of someone. It made no use to be able to say a ship was approaching if they could do nothing about it. He had a nasty thought about what to do, but was not sure if McKnight would approve it. He figured, it would work as the early warning system, and if McKnight gave the ok, could be used as a defensive weapon as well. Vyxx made his decision, he walked over to the computer and punched in a few commands for the parts he would need. He would not even need help for what he was planning. Vyxx was in his element, he liked nothing better, except for maybe certain foods, than making something from something else. About 40 minutes later, his first unit was ready. He ran it through some quick computer siulations, made some minor corrections and deemed it a success. He was very happy with himself and smiling ear to ear. He placed the unit on an anti-gravity sled and walked it to the closest transporter room. Vyxx entered the transporter room and placed the box on the pad. He walked over to the crewman manning the console, who was gaping open mouthed, and ordered, “You are to transport this box exactly 100 miles dead ahead of the ship. Now!” Vyxx waited until his order was carried out and returned to his lab. He quickly confirmed communication with the unit and ordered it to move to the position in which it could perform its mission. Once on station, and telemetry was still being received with no problems, he ordered it to start. He turned and started back for the bridge. So LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   07-30-04 22:43 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge] Vyxx stepped out of the turbolift a little more than ninety minutes after he left. He walked directly to Lt McKnight to report. “Sir, we have our early warning system.” He said smiling. “I have set up a little surprise. I have deployed modified self-replicating mines, at a safe distance, around the ship. The mines will be fully positioned within 30 minutes. I have altered them to detect and attach themselves to any solid metalic substance that does not maintain a constant distance from them, over a certain mass. I set the mass slightly less than a Romulan bird of prey. They are sending back a signal every ten seconds to a control relay and to us for redundancy. This gives us two advantages, they will move, and tell us they are moving if another ship enters the nebula. We will know the exact location of the ship. Secondly, they will attach themselves and replicate, hence spreading over the surface of a ship with enough time, and we control the detonation. All we have to do is send a signal to the mines or through the control relay for them to destruct and destroy whatever they found.” Vyxx stood there, staring down at McKnight, waiting for him to respond. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-31-04 00:40 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik stared at John for a second before saying, "You were correct; your question is a little ... strange. I hope that by my telling you that you were accused of being mentally unstable because you unexpectedly licked your console will put your mind at ease." He ended, having gone probably way to far into his Vulcan facade. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-31-04 01:36 [McKnight, on the bridge] John was surprised at the doctor's answer and he couldn't help but smile. The doctor's answer almost sounded like a joke. McKnight was then distracted when Lieutenant Vyxx stepped off from the turbolift and gave John his status report, “Sir, we have our early warning system. I have set up a little surprise. I have deployed modified self-replicating mines, at a safe distance, around the ship. The mines will be fully positioned within 30 minutes. I have altered them to detect and attach themselves to any solid metalic substance that does not maintain a constant distance from them, over a certain mass. I set the mass slightly less than a Romulan bird of prey. They are sending back a signal every ten seconds to a control relay and to us for redundancy. This gives us two advantages, they will move, and tell us they are moving if another ship enters the nebula. We will know the exact location of the ship. Secondly, they will attach themselves and replicate, hence spreading over the surface of a ship with enough time, and we control the detonation. All we have to do is send a signal to the mines or through the control relay for them to destruct and destroy whatever they found.” "Very good, gentleman," said John to both of them. "I guess this is a good as time as any for a staff briefing. " In a way John kind of missed doing the hands-on work, but his job now was to delegate them and expects them to be done by the crew. Sometimes it got boring. "I meet you in the conference room in 10 minutes. Last one there is a Cardassian's dog." joked John. McKnight then turned walked towards his console to grab some of his notes. He then turned and face the rest of the bridge crew. "Lieutenant Iza, there's going to be a staff meeting in the conference room in 10 minutes. You can give me your status report there." John knew that he was forgetting someone and then it hit him. McKnight tapped his comm badge and said, "Lt. McKnight to Lt. Guerin, there's going to be a staff meeting in the conference room in 10 minutes." With everything taken care of and the Hercules in safety, John headed for the conference room. ------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   07-31-04 01:37 [McKnight, over the comm] "Lt. McKnight to Lt. Guerin, there's going to be a staff meeting in the conference room in 10 minutes." ------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

EO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   07-31-04 14:09 [Guerin, in engineering] Sam frowned as she heard the comm from Lieutenant McKnight. "A staff meeting?" she said quietly, "Ugh." Sam caught Stron's eye and waved her over. "Take over for me, Chris. Staff meeting. Don't hesitate to comm if I'm needed." As Stron nodded, Sam gathered her kit. "I shouldn't be too long," Sam said in parting. Sam walked immediately over to the master system display, dropping her kit at her feet next to the console. She quickly tapped the updated information from the display into her PADD. When she finished, she checked the chronometer and found she had less than four minutes to get to the briefing. She sighed as she held tighter to her PADD and sprinted out of engineering. -------------------- EO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   07-31-04 19:15 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik listened to and watched John, and at his last statement, turned to the Science Officer and said, "Perhaps you can explain to me how one's being late to a meeting suddenly transforms them into canine? On the Turbolift though." At that, he turned towards the door and stepped inside while he waited for anyone else who was going with him to the meeting. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-01-04 11:58 [Heading to the Bridge with Lodr Kramer] Kramer made his way to the Bridge of this Romulan Warbird with his counterpart in silence. People seemed to get out of his way when Lord Kramer made his way down the corridor, not unlike Kramer on the Hercules...but different in a way. These people were afraid, not moving out of respect of rank. In all, Lord Kramer seemed to revel in it all...very much unlike Captain Kramer, who disliked and was uncomfortable with the reverance of command. Kramer saw many faces he recognized from his own ship, but many he did not. Everyone who saw him, however, seemed to stare, but then avert their eyes at the last second to avoid eye contact. When they stepped into the turbolift, Kramer finally asked a question. "Back in the transporter room, you said, 'With any luck, ther Hercules will do your wife and Robinson in...' what does that mean?" Lord Kramer chuckled. "I was merely being sarcastic...you, of all perople, should know that. T'Salle has tried to kill me three different times since we were married. Each time, she was trying to obtain command. As for Robinson, he's loyal to her. He only follows my orders because he has to. You'll understand all of this in due time. Why, was T'Salle different in your universe?" Lord Kramer concluded with a question. Kramer didn't want to reveal too much information, so he lied. "If she exists in my universe, I've never crossed her path." Lord Kramer must have knew he was witholding something, but didn't directly address it. "That would explain your reaction when she spoke with you over the comm, eh? Don't think I don't monitor her transmissions and have spies on her ship...I don't trust her as far as I can throw her, even though she's my wife." This Kramer seemed to be more paranoid, Kramer thought as the Bridge doors opened, revealing the viewer showing a Romulan Warbird and Bird of Prey going to warp, undoubtedly to look for the vanished Hercules. Lord Kramer spoke again. "An Antican commander I used to have would say, 'The hunt begins...'" he mused as he sat in the center seat, gesturing for Kramer to sit in the XO's slot. Kramer did, saying, "Kaanis." "Yes." came the answer from Lord Kramer. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-01-04 13:11 [SO LtJg Vyxx, bridge] Vyxx turned and followed the doctor into the turbolift for the meeting. “That was supposed to be a joke…..I think. Although if the last person to arrive does turn into a dog, I am going to eat it. I am starving.” Vyxx said to the doctor. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-03-04 10:19 [ISS Aries, Bridge] "Devereux to Robinson. These Shuttles are barely spaceworthy. I can have one operational enough for our requirements in 20 minutes. I can configure one of the others to fly & detonate its fuel cells by remote as well. Are we still good to go?" Paul tapped his commbadge to respond. "Aye Lieutenant. Get on it; I'll be with you shortly. Robinson out." Paul turned to the others. "Right Gentleman, looks like you're staying here. You're to prepare for our return with the Captain, and try to figure out a way for us to get home..." Paul nodded, suiting up once again (Paul found one could never be to sure about these things) and began making his way back down to the Shuttlebay. Pausing at the doors, he turned a slight smile on his face. "Smoke me a kipper; I'll be back for breakfast." Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com Post Edited (08-03-04 10:29)

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-03-04 22:00 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik couldn't help but let the smallest of smiles through. The concept of the Klingon SO eating a crew-mate who had turned into a dog was just too humorous, simply out of its impossibility. Shaking his head slightly to clear his mind, and said, "Conference Room". For a second, the Lift didn't start. Then Havik remembered that it needed commands form all occupants of the Turbolift. Turning to his companion, he asked, "The same for you?" XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-04-04 00:03 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad saw the doctor and the SO enter the turbolift and Iza jogged after them. "Hold up, " said Chad as he slip into the turbolift. "Thought you guys can dodge me huh?" ------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

NPC Lord Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-04-04 11:25 [On the Bridge, in the XO's seat] Kramer sat silently, waiting for his counterpart to make the first move. Lord Kramer eventually did. "Don't worry about your companion...she'll be fine. I wouldn't want to really harm any of wour people anyway...they're to valuable of assets." Lord Kramer said as he toggled a control, shifting the screen so that the ISS Aries was in view. "What do you think of my old ship, eh? About a hundred years old, she is. I've fought in this revolt against the Klingons and Cardassians in it for years. Never made any progress, but stayed alive. Was a bee stinging a bull...a pinprick to the opposition. But now...I have a fleet." Lord Kramer said. Kramer merely turned to listen...his counterpart had illusions of granduer. Lord Kramer began again. "Awhile back, this Romulan ship and the one my wife is commanding just appeared on our sensors, hanging dead in space. We went to the scene...in this universe the Romulans have been quiet players for decades, we never see them. Anyway, we got there and the ships were hanging dead in space, so we took them." "What happened to the crews?" Kramer asked. "I took care of them." Lord Kramer said. "You killed them." Kramer replied. "I did what I had to do advance my cause. Over here, our kind are slaves. Earth is a wasteland, a dead planet. I beamed the crews into space. They didn't feel a thing, well, the ones I didn't put in an agony booth didn't feel a thing, anyway. They're all gone now, including the Romulans who came over with you. Had your overzealous away team not used my old ship to destroy one of the Romulan Birds of Prey, I'd have another ship in my arsenal now." Lord Kramer said. "You're a murderer, no different than a dictator on Earth in the 1940s. Did you have a Hitler over here?" Kramer asked. Lord Kramer didn't answer the question. "I did what was necessary! If you were over here, saw what they had done, you'd have done the same! Besides, I spared one of them. Rwhen, come here and let me introduce you to my shadow." Lord Kramer said. From behind them, a female Romulan...the one who Bochema had identified as a Romulan spy from the real universe, came to face the Kramers. "We've met, my Lord, though this is the first time in person." Rwhen said with a slight smile. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-04-04 15:33 [ISS Aries, Shuttlebay] The doors opened and the XO apeared, slightly flustured from the trek, through the hatchway. "Remy? What have you go for me?" Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-04-04 22:25 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Turbolift] Vyxx listened to the Doctor and Said "Yes, conference room." Then watched the CTO dash into the turbolift and try to make a joke. Vyxx just looked at him, smiled, and said "I wouldn't try to dodge you. I would just let you bounce off me." SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-05-04 14:20 [Devereux on ISS Aries] Devereux turned as he heard the XO's voice "Remy? What have you go for me?". Devereux began to outline the plan "We'll launch the remote shuttle first, and we'll follow in it's shadow. I've fixed it, not that it took much the state it was in, so that the remote shuttle will be leaking plasma. That should mask our emissions. We'll then slam it into the shields disrupting them enough for us to slip through and attach to the hull." Devereux began the start up sequence of the shuttle "All we have to do then is space walk to the nearest airlock, bypass the alarms, rescue the Captain, find the transporter room and escape in a 90 year old knackered shuttle. What could go wrong?" grinned Devereux ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-05-04 14:25 [ISS Aries, Shuttlebay] Paul grinned back. "Piece of cake." Paul glanced back at Remy, his face becoming deadly serious as he climbed into the cockpit of the second, repaired shuttle. "What do you rate our chances as being?" Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-05-04 14:35 [Devereux on ISS Aries] Devereux scratched his goatee "I'd have to say between slim & none." Devereux turned and opened a hard case that was resting on the deck of the shuttle. "We do however have these" pulling out 2 old style pistol grip phasers "Two for you and two for me. I think we should save our standard issue phasers until these babies run dry. Getting latched on to the ship will be the easy part. Getting off is going to be the trick." said Devereux clipping his helmet back into place an lifting the face plate. "You ready Paul?" ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-05-04 14:43 [ISS Aries, Shuttlebay] Paul took the two phasers, nodding in agreement. "Nice work Remy." Checking the door was secure, he turned back to the CEO, who was finishing his assessment. "You ready Paul?" Paul nodded, taking in a deep breath. "C'mon, let’s go get the Captain and be back in time for tea and medals..." Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-05-04 15:00 [Bochema, in the Lord's brig] Nudara slowly paced the small brig cell. To the guard watchin her, she looked bored. On the contrary however, she was slowly doing a mental scan the walls, floor, and ceiling. If there was a way out, she had to find it. That was when she saw it. A crack in the wall just below the edge of her bed. She stretched and laid down with her back to the guard. Her head was near the crack and she looked at it closely. It appeared that the panel had been broken at some point and hastily shoved back together. The CNS reached a hand up and began running a finger nonchalantly down the wall. Within a minute, her finger was running the length of the crack. She pushed a little and felt the panel give slightly under pressure. She had no way of knowing yet what was behind that panel. But, she felt certain it would lead to a way out. Pulling her hand back to her side, she began to cough. She tightened her stomach to make the cough deeper. Rolling over she looked up at the guard. "Water? Please?" she asked him. He glared at her and shook his head no. She forced herself to cough harder. "Please." she begged. "I don't think Kramer..." she coughed again, "would be happy if I choked to death." She continued her coughing until the guard finally agreed and left to get her a drink. She watched the door carefully. When it closed and she was left alone, the coughing turned into a grin. "Sucker for a lady." she told herself. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-05-04 16:40 [On the Bridge, with Lord Kramer and Whren] Kramer listened to the Romulan woman speak, then replied in turn. "You have shamed your people, helping this mass murderer." Kramer said cooly to her. "You're going to help him, too." Whren said as she slowly moved away, back to her station. "She's right," Lord Kramer piped in. "At this point, becaise I do not wish to make you, I ask that you join my cause. Help me...help what's left of the tattered Terran Empire rise again." "You've got to be kidding me. My governemnt doesn't even want us over here, let alone helping your cause. Besides, you're just a small-time pirate with an old Conny ship who lucked out and had a small fleet drop in your lap. Because of that, now you want to rule the Empire, don't ya?" Kramer asked rethorically. Lord Kramer smiled. "I think we're done here. Whren, take him to the agony booth, I'll be along in a minute to administer the treatment. When I'm done with him, he'll either be helping my cause...and convinving his people to do so...or brainwashed." In a moment, the Romulan woman Whren came up behind Kramer, pointing a Romulan phaser at him. "Let's go." she simply said. Kramer cast a narrow-eyed look in his counterpart's direction and began walking...hoping that this Romulan was in fact a Federation spy. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-05-04 17:26 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Conference room] Vyxx took a seat at the table and waited for the rest of the crew to file in. After a few minutes, Vyxx felt the small device in his pocket start to vibrate. The box was to alert him, when he was away from his console, that the mines detected something. He stood and went over to the console in the room and brought up the info for the mine field. Five mines were moving, two had already attached to something. From the pattern it looked like the ship was moving perpendicular to the Hercules, they were safe from being discovered for a little while, or at least until the ship turned around on another leg of their search. Vyxx sent a brief command to the remaining mines to hold their position and wait for another contact. Vyxx thought with five mines, they should replicate and cover enough of the hull to completely destroy the ship in about an hour. Vyxx sent a command to the mines to stop relaying a constant stream of data. He did this as a precaution against them detecting the signal form the mine, Vyxx would have to prompt the mines for their location. Vyxx hit his comm. badge, “Vyxx to McKnight, a ship has entered the mine field. It is moving off to our starboard, in what I would assume is a search pattern. Do you want us to wait in the conference room or come back to the bridge?” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-05-04 17:26 [Comm from LtJg Vyxx] “Vyxx to McKnight, a ship has entered the mine field. It is moving off to our starboard, in what I would assume is a search pattern. Do you want us to wait in the conference room or come back to the bridge?” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-05-04 21:31 John saw the Vyxx, Tor, and Iza filed into the turbolift that was heading for the conference room. McKnight wanted to join them in the same turbolift, but he couldn't. He had some things to finish up before he starts the meeting. John lingered around the bridge for a few more minutes taking note of who wasn't among their crew anymore. John sighed, the question 'what would the captain do' keep crossing through his mind. McKnight told himself to get a hold. 'You're the captain now, John,' he kept reminding himself. McKnight quickly fixed his composure and remained himself that a commanding officer should always look prepared for anything even though he doesn't feel the same way. John gathered his notes and headed for the turbolift, but he stopped dead in his tracks when a comm came from Vyxx. "Vyxx to McKnight, a ship has entered the mine field. It is moving off to our starboard, in what I would assume is a search pattern. Do you want us to wait in the conference room or come back to the bridge?" John was caught off surprise. He didn't expect them to find the Hercules so quickly. It was always in the back of John's mind that they were coming after them, but it never occurred to him that it was so soon. If it did, John would have never scheduled a staff meeting. McKnight tapped his comm badge, "Of course, I want you guys to come back to the bridge. We have work to do. Tell Iza and the doctor the same thing." "Yellow alert," said John. He didn't want to charge weapons yet in case whoever is out there will pick up their signal. McKnight really hoped that Chad was able to get at least some weapons back online. John quickly formulated plans while he waited for the rest of the bridge crew to get up here. "Bridge to Engineering. What is the status of the engines?" asked John. ----------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-05-04 21:32 [McKnight, over the comm] "Of course, I want you guys to come back to the bridge. We have work to do. Tell Iza and the doctor the same thing." -------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-05-04 21:33 [McKnight, over the comm] "Bridge to Engineering. What is the status of the engines?" asked John. ----------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC EO Ens Stron

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-06-04 01:28 [Stron, in engineering] Stron looked around, hoping someone else would answer the call from the bridge. She wasn't keen on being noticed and answering as the senior officer in engineering might just get her noticed. It was for this reason that Stron was still an ensign, although she graduated from the academy almost four years before. The others in engineering, knowing who was in charge at the moment, continued with their repairs, and Stron grimaced as she tapped her commbadge. "Bridge, this is engineering," Stron's voice cracked just a bit as she spoke. "Lieutenant Guerin's not here right now. She's in a meeting in the conference room." Stron stopped speaking, too nervous to continue. ------------------- NPC EO Ens Stron terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

NPC EO Ens Stron

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-06-04 01:28 [Stron, over the comm system] "Bridge, this is engineering," came an obviously nervous female voice, which cracked as she spoke. "Lieutenant Guerin's not here right now. She's in a meeting in the conference room." The caller stopped speaking abruptly. ------------- NPC EO Ens Stron terry gruber terryg40@adelpia.net

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-06-04 14:02 [Devereux on ISS Aries] Devereux pressed the control that opened the shuttle bay doors. Slowly the huge doors opened to reveal space, and off to one side, the romulan ship. Remy activated the dummy shuttle and it shot out of the shuttle bay. Devereux said "Here we go" and headed out into space, keeping the damaged shuttle between them and the romulans ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

VINTAGE SHUTTLE

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-06-04 14:05 =/\=

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-06-04 14:10 [Devereux on Shuttle] Devereux struggled to maintain control of the shuttle as it bumped shimmied around. "Sorry about the rough ride Paul, but that dummy shuttle is putting out a fair amount of radiation. It's effecting all our systems. I also should have warned you. We'd better see Dr Tor when we get back if we want to keep our hair & teeth" Grinned Devereux. The two shuttles arced towards the romulan ship on their final approach at full impulse.... ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-06-04 14:48 [Shuttle] Paul rolled his eyes and slapped his hand onto his face, dragging it down slowly. "NOW you tell me... Join Starfleet! See the universe! Lose you're hair and teeth in the process! Fantastic." Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

ACTION

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-06-04 16:59 The two shuttles sped towards the Romulan cruiser. The first shuttle slammed into the crusiers shields, exploding in a huge ball of energy. The Romulans shields flickered and the shuttle containing Robinson & Devereux passed through before the shields re-established themselves.... ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-06-04 17:41 [Devereux on Shuttle] As soon as the shuttle cleared the shields, Devereux cut all power. They drifted in towards the hull. A little too fast. "Hang on boys, I can't use the thrusters in case they pick us up. We're going to hit. Hard. Hopefully they'll think it's wreckage." The shuttle bounced across the hull once before Devereux activated the docking clamp. The shuttle creaked but remained in place. Devereux looked around the dark interior of the shuttle. Next to him was Commander Robinson. Aft of him was the Betazoid Security officer who had escorted Devereux to the shuttle bay. As they were now in a combat situation, Remy returned to being formal with Paul. "Ok Sir, we had better check that our suits are sealed and that our phasers are charged." Devereux checked the suit seals on both Robinson & the Security officer. What was his name? Devereux knew it but couldn't recall it. Next Devereux checked that the two pistol phasers all three of them had were fully charged, as well as the standard phaser they had brought with them to the Aries. "You OK Ensign...Hagen?" asked Devereux finally recalling his name. "Right Commander we are all set." said Remy clipping an Engineering kit to the front of his space suit "What's the plan?" ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-06-04 17:46 [Hagen on the Aries] Tom looked around, thinking to himself 'well I guess this is it, I hope I survive.' He then followed Remy into the shuttle and prepared himself for the task at hand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net Post Edited (08-07-04 16:35)

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-06-04 17:50 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik watched the CTO dash in between the doors of the Turbolift just as the closed behind him. Havik replied, "Why would I try to dodge you? As far as I could tell, you never were, nor have you ever been aimed in my direction." He raised an eyebrow inquisitively as the Turbolift reached its destination. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-06-04 17:57 [LtJG Tor, Conference Room] Havik entered the Conference Room and saw that only the SO was there. Wondering what was going on, he walked over to him and asked, "Has something happened?" XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-06-04 17:59 [Hagen on Shuttle] Hagen sat still while Remy checked on his suit and phasers. Then just to be sure, he did a double check. He looked at Remy, "I'm as well can be expected Sir." He then waited to hear the plan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net Post Edited (08-07-04 16:35)

EO ENS John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-06-04 18:55 [Entering Engineering] John entered Engineering to find his fellow Engineers working to get systems back online. John look for an officer to report to when an Engineer approched him and said "Ensign, who are you?" "Ensign John Whitney reporting for duty, sir!" He said as he snapped so hard he heard his back crack. "At ease Ensign, take this spanner" the officer said as he handed John a spanner, "Use this to get the relays ready so we can have warp capibility. Understood?" he asked as he handed John a PADD which listed which relays still needed to be fixed. "Aye sir!" John said as left Engineering and headed to relay 145-alpha and began his work. John crawled into a jeffries tube near the relay 'These jeffries tube are a bit tight' he said as he began to feel clausterphobic. Joh spotted the relay and began working. 'Hopefully this ship can replicate a good cup of Green Tea, i'm gonna need some after this.' -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-06-04 20:18 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight thought that the message from engineering was kind of strange. First of all, why couldn't this person tell John the status of the engines and second what meeting. Then it hit John. 'Oh, that meeting,' thought John. His mind was all over the place now that he didn't really know what to do. He told himself to calm down and remember all the things they taught back at the academy about basic command. John took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Acknowledged, I'll contact Lieutenant Guerin. Bridge out." John was tempted to ask the ensign that responded about the status about the warp engines, but he decided against it. It would just waste time and Lieutenant Guerin probably knows a lot more about the status of the engines than the ensign. "McKnight to Guerin. Slight change of plans. Every senior officer already knows what had happened in the last couple of hours except for you. Here's a short-hand version of it. The captain and the counselor were kidnapped by the Mirror counterparts of this universe and the CEO, XO, and TO are aboard a Constitution class starship. The Hercules warped away to this nebula to conduct repairs. I wanted to tell you this at the staff meeting, but we're detecting something coming towards us. Could you tell me what is the status of the engines?" --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-06-04 20:19 [McKnight, over the comm] "McKnight to Guerin. Slight change of plans. Every senior officer already knows what had happened in the last couple of hours except for you. Here's a short-hand version of it. The captain and the counselor were kidnapped by the Mirror counterparts of this universe and the CEO, XO, and TO are aboard a Constitution class starship. The Hercules warped away to this nebula to conduct repairs. I wanted to tell you this at the staff meeting, but we're detecting something coming towards us. Could you tell me what is the status of the engines?" --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-06-04 20:20 [McKnight, over the comm] "Acknowledged, I'll contact Lieutenant Guerin. Bridge out." [OOC: Edited post because I put the wrong subject line. Sorry] --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com ------------------------------ CO Captain John McKnight SM USS Perseus 7th Fleet Manager Newsfleet Division Manager Player - Mike Yan myfreakylittlefriend@gmail.com Post Edited (08-06-04 20:40)

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-06-04 20:42 [Iza, in the conference room] Chad walked into the room and could sense that something had changed. He looked around and said, "What?" ------------------------------------------------ CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

EO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-06-04 20:59 [Guerin, entering the conference room] Sam was running into the conference room, hoping she wasn't late, when the comm from McKnight came through. Her mind whirled at everything McKnight was telling her. Mirror universe. Kidnappings. Shaking her head to clear it, Sam focused on the last thing McKnight said. "It will take about 12 to get the KLS stabilizer back on line and another 3 to finish checking all the relays and run a diagnostic." Sam paused, nodded to the others in the conference room, and headed back to the turbolift. Telling it to take her to Deck 7, she continued speaking to McKnight. "15 hours should get us the warp engines, transporters, and shields." ---------------- EO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

EO Ens Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-06-04 21:01 [Guerin, over the comm system] "It will take about 12 to get the KLS stabilizer back on line and another 3 to finish checking all the relays and run a diagnostic." There was a slight pause, in which doors opening and closing, and Guerin's voice quietly saying Deck 7 could be heard. Then more loudly, "15 hours should get us the warp engines, transporters, and shields." ------------------- EO Ens Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

NPC EO Ens Stron

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-06-04 21:08 [Stron, in engineering] Chris watched the exchange between one of the engineers and someone she hadn't met before, barely aware that her comm to the bridge had been acknowledged. As the ensign left, Chris approached Parks. "John, who was that? I haven't seen him before." Parks shrugged. "Some new ensign. I sent him off to check the relays. It's the simplest job that needs doing at the moment. I figured Sam could talk to him whenever she gets back." Chris nodded. "OK, thanks. I'll let her know." ------------ NPC EO Ens Stron terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

CSO Lt. Tim Hunter

Author: mjohnson  Date:   08-06-04 21:36 [ Tim Hunter ISS Aries, Bridge ] Hunter was the last soul on the Aries Bridge now. Knowing this he thought of himself as not very defensible. He moves around the Bridge looking for an operations console or something that looked like it might be able to implement security measures. He knew he could not do much all by himself in such a large ship. So Hunter searched for away to divert power from all other uninhabited decks and non essential systems and made an attempt to fortify himself on the bridge with sealing the bulkheads and all know exits he could find. { If Hunter was able to fortify his position and lock it down } "Well, if I do get boarded it should take them some time to break the doors down." With this said Tim went back over to the Science console and diverted all other available power to the sensors and directed his scans back at where the rift in their two universes has developed. { If data steams back from the Sensors } Hunter begins the painstaking process of reviewing the incoming sensor logs. "God, I will never forsake my Science staff this is going to take time to investigate I sure could use some help." {If some or none of the Conditions are successful } "Well, I'm a sitting duck what do I do now. I suppose I should go down and see if this ship has working transporters maybe." ------------------------------------------------- Mike Johnson Network Ops Forums Admin

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-07-04 07:39 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Conference room] “We’ll be right back.” Vyxx abruptly said and closed the comm. link. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com CO Captain Clarke - USS Broadsword CSO Lt Cmdr Vyxx - USS Hercules Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com Post Edited (08-07-04 07:40)

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-07-04 07:41 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Conference room] “We’ll be right back.” Vyxx abruptly said and closed the comm. link. Looking at the others, including Ens Guerin, Vyxx said, “We all have to get back to our duty post. Meeting cancelled.” Vyxx then turned and headed back to the turbolift for the return trip to the bridge. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-07-04 18:26 [LtJG Tor, Conference Room] Havik nodded to the SO in acknowledgment and followed him back up to the Bridge. Although it may not exactly be his duty post, he was more useful, and more informed, being on the Bridge than in a currently empty Sickbay. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

EO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-07-04 23:47 [Guerin, entering engineering] Sam entered engineering as she had left it a few minutes before, running. "There seems to be a lot going on," she said to no one in particular as she slid to a stop in front of the master display board. "Besides the chief being on the other ship, the captain and our counselor have been kidnapped by mirror universe people." Sam paused to catch her breath. "We have a new engineer," Chris Stron spoke up quickly before Sam could continue. "John sent him off to check some relays." "A new engineer?" Sam tapped quickly on the console in front of her, looking at the engineering crew roster. "Oh, here it is. John Whitney?" Chris nodded, "Yeah, that's him. Tall and thin. Looks like a good wind would blow him over." Sam shook her head at Chris' description and then tapped her commbadge. "Ensign Whitney, this is Lieutenant Guerin. Please report to engineering immediately." ------------- EO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-08-04 03:18 [Iza, in the conference room] Chad was really disappointed that the meeting was cancelled. He was really looking forward to giving his status report. Iza sighed and walked out the door and headed for the turbolift with the others. Chad really hoped that his team got weapons to minimal status at the least. --------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-08-04 04:05 OOC: hahaha about the wind thing :) [In a Jeffries tube] John heard his combadge chirp as he was working on the plasma relay in front of him. "Ensign Whitney, this is Lieutenant Guerin. Please report to engineering immediately." As heard the message his spanner moved too far and some electricty discharged on his hands. As this happened he jumped and hit his head. He tapped his combadge and said, "I'm on my way." He rubbed his head as he walked with his usual limp to engineering. He found the Lt standing, "Reporting as ordered, ma'am!" he said as he tilted his head up to find a nice headache waiting for him. 'Man, hopefully thats the last time I do that...'. [Edited spelling] -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com Post Edited (08-08-04 04:07)

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-08-04 08:14 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge] Vyxx exited the turbolift and went straight for the science console. He had the mines give a quick update and gladly noted that the enemy ship still had not changed course. From the initial scans of the nebula, and the current speed of the ship, Vyxx determined they had about 30-45 minutes before the ship started its return sweep, directly towards the Hercules. That was plenty of time for the mines to cover a significant portion of the ship, probably enough to destroy it completely, or at the very least cause damage that would be irreparable out here in space, and need to be towed to a spacedock. Vyxx turned and reported his findings to Lt McKnight, and then added, “Sir, keep in mind, we can’t just destroy that ship. We need to identify it first. For all we know, it could be the Constitution class looking for us and I really would like to avoid blowing up our away team. We should also try to avoid blowing up the ship the Captain and counselor is on. You are going to need to establish contact with whoever that is first.” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-08-04 13:57 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad got out of the turbolift and headed directly for his console. He did a quick check on the weapons and noticed that the majority of the system were offiline. The only had minial power to the phasers, but that wouldn't do any damage to the other ship at all. Chad contacted his teams and told them to work a little faster. ----------------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-08-04 14:10 [McKnight, on the bridge] "Welcome back gentlemen," greeted John as he saw the others return from the conference room. 'We should really have a conference room adjacent to the bridge' thought John. He turned towards Chad and said, "Iza, you owe me a status report." Vyxx then gave John a status report about the mines situtation and said "Sir, keep in mind, we can’t just destroy that ship. We need to identify it first. For all we know, it could be the Constitution class looking for us and I really would like to avoid blowing up our away team. We should also try to avoid blowing up the ship the Captain and counselor is on. You are going to need to establish contact with whoever that is first." "My thoughts exactly," replied John. "I had no intention in destroying anything right now and no intention in contacting them right now. If the ship turns out to be the mirror counterparts, then they know exactly where we are. Vyxx, can we use a quantum interphasic confinement scanner to try and scan their ship in this nebula? Once we are able to scan the ship, we might have an idea of who is on that ship." John turned towards the doctor. {If doctor does get to the bridge} "Doctor, is there a way to determine if the beings on the ship are from our universe or the mirror universe. I don't like to fall into any of their tricks." ----------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

EO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-08-04 16:50 [Guerin, in main engineering] Sam turned to face Whitney, who indeed looked as if a good wind could blow him over. "Relax, ensign," she said as she extended her hand in greeting. "I'm Sam Guerin and you appear to be my replacement. I was just reading my transfer orders as you walked in." "You picked a great time to join us. In a nutshell, we have somehow travelled to the mirror universe. The chief is on an away mission to another vessel and the captain has been taken prisoner by mirror universe people." Sam paused a moment to let what she had just said sink in. "Warp engines are offline and will be for approximately 15 more hours. That's including 10 hours to fix the KLS stabilizer and then an additional 5 to check all relays and run a diagnostic. The impulse engines are fine. Transporters are offline. Teams estimate those repairs will take another 7 hours. Shields are down, not that they'd do us a lot of good in this nebula, and should be repaired in 2 to 3 hours." Sam closed her eyes and grimaced, trying to remember if there was anything else. Finally, she shook her head. "That should be it. Any questions?" Before Whitney could say anything, she continued. "Oh, and all systems are working at opposite polarity, as we are in the mirror universe." Sam then looked questioningly at Whitney. ------------------- EO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-08-04 22:24 [Main Engineering] As Guerin shook his hand he grimaces at the pain because of his burns. As he listened to what she said he thought 'Atleast I was trying to fix something that needed to be fixed...' When she was done briefing him on the situation, he said "May I go to sickbay and get something to help these electrical burns? When these happened I realized that polarity was opposite. Also which do you think is more of a priority for me to work on, Engines or Transporters?" -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com Post Edited (08-08-04 22:25)

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-08-04 23:47 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik walked out after the SO onto the Bridge and watched the OPS officer take in all the new information and state his plans. He then turned to Havik and asked, "Doctor, is there a way to determine if the beings on the ship are from our universe or the mirror universe. I don't like to fall into any of their tricks." Thinking for a minute, Havik replied, "Without consulting the Computer, I cannot be sure of anyway to do that. Since their DNA would be the same, one person and their counterpart would be exactly the same except for anything that has happened to them during their lifetime. Thus, one would have to compare scans of the counterpart with that of the crew whom we have previously scanned. Any injuries that were never sustained by our Kramer, but instead by theirs, would show up. However, such detail is difficult to do with out sensors, unless I am mistaken." He finished raising an eyebrow and turning the the SO's direction to see if he had any input. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-09-04 00:34 [Bochema in the brig] After making certain the guard was gone, Nudara knelt down next to her bed. She leaned forward then shoved her elbow into the cracked panel with every ounce of strength she could muster. The lower part of the panel fell neatly to the floor. The Counselor smiled as she began to work the top portion loose. Pulling at the tubes in the small space, she removed enough of them to push the panel free on the other side. "Yes!" she whispered. Rather than a jeffries tube, there was a small, darkened room. Pulling the remaining tubing out, she pushed her way through. Reaching back, Nudara wedged the top portion of broken panel back to it's place. There was no way to replace the bottom piece completely so she leaned it against the opening and hoped it couldn't be readily seen being so close to the bed. She turned and found herself in a small storage room. After checking a few containers, she found food stuffs rather than any sort of weapon. Deciding to take her chances, the dark-haired woman stepped cautiously toward the door. When it opened, she stayed back and listened for footsteps. Hearing none, she stepped into the hall and headed back toward the transporter room. She was nearly to their when voices echoed down the hall. Ducking into the nearest room, Nudara forced her breathing to slow and she waited for the voices to pass. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-09-04 02:33 [Guerin, in engineering] "Oh," she said as Whitney winced. "Sorry about that," Sam nodded towards Whitney's hands. "Yeah, you should have that checked out. You're officially in charge of engineering now, at least until the chief gets back, but you should still head to sickbay before starting anything. We have everyone working so one less body won't be noticed for the short amount of time that should take." Sam bent over as she was talking, packing things into her kit. "Warp engines are the first priority but the two people working on the transporters won't decrease the repair time on the engines so you may as well let them continue. That way, when the engines are back, you'll have both." Sam hitched the strap of her kit over her shoulder. "I can hang around here until you get back, if you want." ------------ FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

NPC Lord Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-09-04 10:56 [On the Bridge] Lord Kramer just happened to look up and see a shuttle from his former ship streaking towards hit new Romulan command. "What the..? Evasiv..." Lord Kramer started to say, however, he stopped, knowing that the shields would stop it. They couldn't get out of the way quick enough anyhow. Sure enough, the shuttle slammed into the Warbird, exploding. The ship rumbled a little and Lord Kramer gripped his armrests, furious. Next, something impacted with the hull, shaking the ship harder. Now Kramer was truly angry. "What was that!?!" he demanded as he stood. The helmsman replied. "Sir, just some debris. The people from the shadow universe on our old ship are obviously using our shuttles as a weapon." "Obviously, but that's no excuse for your not detecting it!" Lord Kramer screamed as he pulled his phaser, pointed it at the helmsman and fired it. The helmsman vaporized in the middle of the bridge. People at various stations stared at Lord Kramer, fearful that someday that would happen to them. "What are you all looking at? Get back to work! Now!" Lord Kramer snapped as he sat back down. "What was his name, anyway...Wallace, I think?" Kramer mumbled. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

Turbolift

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-09-04 10:58 .

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-09-04 11:07 [In the Turbolift, en route to the agony booth] Kramer had read about agony booths in command school. They were a torture device used in the Mirror Universe which inflicted pain on every cell in one's body. As he was thinking about this...though not really caring...something odd happened. The Romulan female Rwhen holstered her phaser and looked at Kramer. Kramer looked back at her and made eye contact. She nodded, then lightly let her hand brush against his in an almost imperceptible way. She was trying to send a signal...but was afraid to speak out loud. They were likely being watched via camera. Kramer nodded back at her, hopefully confirming whatever signal she was trying to send. The lift stopped. Rwhen pulled out her phaser again, pointing it at Kramer. The doors opened and Kramer walked out into a cargo bay. The bay was empty except for a cylinder in the middle and a control panel beside it. There were many chairs surrounding the booth, so that people could observe the torture. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

Agony Booth Cargo Bay

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-09-04 12:24 .

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-09-04 12:37 [In the Agony Booth Cargo Bay] Kramer walked across the room at Rwhen's prompting. They stopped at the agony boot, where she opened the door and gestured for him to get inside. Kramer did, not quite sure if he should trust her this much yet... She shut the door, then walked over to the console. The entire agony booth looked out of place in the Romulan cargo bay...it had obviously been transplanted from the ISS Aries. Inside, Kramer noticed blood on the floor. There were hand and fingerprints on the glass, obviously from people touching it in pain. Over at the console, Rwhen didn't activate the controls. Instead, she darted her head to the left and right, then stooped down, removing the console's panel. She appeared again in a few seconds holding what looked like two or three isolinear chips. She put them in her pocket, then looked at Kramer again, trying to send a message. Kramer got it this time. Rwhen powered up the console. Kramer stood silently as the light came on in the booth. Waiting, the door to the cargo bay opened, revealing Lord Kramer, who walked to the console. "The device is ready, my Lord." Rwhen said, gesturing to the console. "Excellent." Loed Kramer bagan, moving over to the booth to look at Kramer. Lord Kramer spoke again. "Cap'n Kramer. I think you'll like my technique. First I'll hit you with the most pain you've ever felt in your life. Then I'll lower the setting to that of a dull ache, where I'll leave it until you agree to my terms, go insane, or die. I don't particularly care which." Lord Kramer then walked back to the console. "Just so you know, I had my universe's equivalent of your Counselor through this process not too long ago. It took her four days to die." Lord Kramer said with absolutely no remorse whatsoever. With that, Lord Kramer toggled the controls... _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-09-04 12:48 [On the Bridge of the Romulan Warbird] T'Salle was sitting in the Captain's seat of the Romulan Warbird, gathering her thoughts about the situation. They had just entered a nebula, the only logical place for the Hercules to hide. Robinson (mirror) and his Bird of Prey were waiting just outside the nebula, cloaked. 'They must be in here.' she thought to herself, still contemplating her plan. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-09-04 14:03 [Shuttle] Paul looked at the two men. "The plan gentlemen, is simple. We need to find a point on entry. There should be a docking ring somewhere near by... We find that, hotwire our way in, then we'll scan for the Captain and Counsellor. Once we've found them, we'll asses on site how best to perform a rescue. The last thing we need is to simply end up as hostages ourselves." Paul stopped, trying to think back to all those Tactical Command lectures, ideas and theories that ha seemed so mundane back during his (brief, or so it felt at times like these) Command training. "We'll then secure the transporter room and beam back the Aries. Once we've done that, it's the Captain's party." 'If the Captain's still alive that is...' Paul thought to himself. "Questions?" Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-09-04 16:02 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge] Vyxx looked up from his console when the doc asked about comparing injuries to the crew and their mirror counterparts. “You could have the transporters do it, hold the pattern in the buffer and cross reference it with the medical records. Other than them giving you the secret code, there is no way to tell except for obvious differences in their appearance.” He answered Doctor Tor. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-09-04 17:07 [Main Engineering] After the Lt's briefing John left for sickbay. Once he was there he found a Nurse to scan his hands and heal them. After she was done with the dermal regenerator he left Sickbay and went back to Engineering. When he was back in Engineering, he found a replicator there and ordered his favorite "Green Tea...Hot". He took the hot glass in his fresly healed hands and took a sip. 'Now this is Green Tea, and its hot!'. He put the cup back in and said "Recycle". As it recycled the Tea, the replicator sputtered a couple of times and the lights went dim. "Crap!" He hit it and the lights came back on. He got a glance from an Ensign working a few consoles away. John said "Get back to work!" in a harsh tone. ' I better get to work before I break something...' He looked at the relay console and found which ones were not checked and put them in his PADD. He left throught the Jeffries tube to the relay which was two decks down. -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-09-04 19:51 [shuttle] "No questions here," Tam replied. As he thought, 'I just hope he's still alive.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-09-04 22:42 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik replied, "Ah, yes, the transporters. But then they would have to have their shields down. At any rate, I think that your answer, Lieutenant, " he said turning to the OPS officer, "Is that there is no plausible way to tell unless you have the person face to face." XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-10-04 01:52 [Devereux on Shuttle] Devereux placed his hand on the young Ensign's sholder "Don't worry Mr Hagen, we'll be fine" said Remy forcing a smile. Devereux then turned to Robinson "It sounds a good plan sir. The sooner we get going the sooner we get back. I'm sure Mr Hunter & the Doctor wouldn't like to left on the Aries too long." Devereux then began to pull his harness tether from the front of his suit. "I suggest we attach ourselves to each other. I noticed an airlock 50 meters from our position." Devereux turned to Hagen "Don't worry, I can bypass the airlock controls & alarms..." then flicked his comm to Robinson only "...I think." ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com Post Edited (08-10-04 11:52)

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-10-04 09:29 [Shuttle] Paul glanced briefly at Remy. It was apparent that either Ensign Hagen was you're archetypal TO and was as thick as two short planks, or, and this seemed the more likely in Paul's humble opinion, Remy was only talking to him. Paul flicked his transmit button so that only Remy could hear him. "Don't worry, we can always just knock and ask to come in..." Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-10-04 13:46 [McKnight, on the bridge] John took in all the information that the doctor and SO gave him. He didn't want to contact them yet. "Well, I don't really want to establish contact as of yet. That will be the last option that we will do. If they are not our people then we risk giving away our position," said John. He thought about some other ideas, but they were kind of farfetched. McKnight looked around his bridge crew and said, "Well, gentlemen, I'm open to suggestions." ------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player- Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-10-04 14:09 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Science I] Vyxx turned and stared directly at McKnight when he asked for suggestions. “Suggestions?” he replied sarcastically, “you need options to get suggestions. We have none! We are sitting dead in space, no shields, weapons, engines, transporters, sensors, or experienced command officers. What type of suggestions, besides just wait and hope we get some equipment fixed before they find us, would you like? If they find us, you have one option, destroy them. Parlaying with them will be trouble. Without shields or sensors, we would not know that we have been boarded until the internal sensor alarms went off, and then, it’s too late.” Vyxx turned to face his console again, shaking his head. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-11-04 00:28 [McKnight, on the bridge] John was astonished at Vyxx's response and was a little insulted. "I asked for suggestions, not for people to speak freely, Lieutenant" replied McKnight with emphasis on rank. He couldn't believe that a Klingon would give us so easily. "As for the options, we can make our own," started John and then an idea hit him. "What about the shuttles? Maybe we could use them as decoys. Heck, we can be creative and equip them with holo emitters and disguise a shuttle as the Hercules. Sensors are so bad in here that they won't figure out it's a hologram until it's too late. We can also had a direct up-link with the shuttle and by too late I mean we can equip the shuttle with plasma explosives and detonate them once we figure out that it's not our people. How does that sound for an option?" --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-11-04 07:25 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge] “Why would you have to fill a shuttle with explosives, when there are mines covering the majority of their hull? Why waste a shuttle. Also, do we have the personel to pull from repairing the Hercules to outfit a shuttle with holo-emitters? Protecting ourselves, so we can stay alive and attempt a rescue mission, and repairing the Hercules our are top priorities. Chances are the mirror Kramer would not come looking himself for us, but rather he would send one of his underlings. Therefore, I would assume it would be safe to destroy that ship the moment it finds us, if we are still defenseless.” Vyxx relied to McKnight, “besides, that would mean one less ship to fight later.” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-11-04 14:35 [On the Bridge, in the Captain's Chair] T'Sall commanded her Romulan Warbird with the typical efficiency and logic as a Vulcan. In the Mirror Universe, the Vulcans were no different, except that they were perhaps a little relentless. "OPS, report on progress." she commanded cooly. "Ma'am, w're blind as a bat in here. Using the sensors is really no different than watching through the viewscreen, but I'm confident we'll find them. They must be in here." OPS said. "Agreed and understood." T'Salle replied as she leaned back in her chair, thinking to herself. 'I must find them soon, otherwise my husband will come looking for me.' she thought, realizing, 'though once I find them, the dificult part will be gaining their trust.' _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-11-04 15:59 [Guerin, entering the bridge] Sam stepped out of the turbolift onto the bridge and frowned. Tension filled the air and Sam stopped in her tracks, not wanting to attract attention to herself. "It's probably our situation," she thought as she looked from one bridge officer to the next. "No one can be too comfortable right now. Yeah," she nodded, "that's got to be it." Sam still didn't move further onto the bridge, caught between the desire to get to flight control and not getting in the middle of whatever was going on. ----------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-11-04 18:16 [In a jeffries tube between decks 4 and 5] After about 5 hours and alot of old earth swearing, John had the last relay aligned and ready. " Whitney to Engineering." He said to his commbadge after he tapped it. "Peters here, sir" came a responce. "Do you read in engineering that they relays are online and ready?" "Yes sir. But we still can't move untill we fix the KL stabilzer." "I knew that. I'm on my way to fix that now. Send everyone else working on the relays to join me to fix it. Whitney out." When he finished he realized he did not even know where the KL stabilizer was. After a few minutes if searching on his PADD for the loacation he found it. Then he headed out of the jeffries tube and thought 'I'm gonna get some fresh air...' He took the turbolift to it and began to work as other engineers began to arrive and help him. -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-11-04 19:36 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik watched the OPS officer access the situation and then ask for input. Havik listened to the SO's brutally honest assertion of the situation, and then the OPS officer's retort. Havik admired him. Though he had made a mistake in coming to this nebula, he was still standing strong and doing his best to get them out. 'Plus, his shuttle idea is plausible, to a degree" Havik thought to himself. Then, the SO reminded them all of the mines attached to the enemies hull. Overall, though Mr. McKnight was doing as well as could be expected, the SO had won the argument in Havik's mind. Having chosen his words, Havik said, "It seems that the Lieutenant has a point, Sir. We should be more concerned with defending ourselves, not setting up an offense. If we die, there is little hope for the Captain and Counselor. As far as a defense goes, I don't know how good powering down everything not necessary for repairs would be, but not moving most certainly would be beneficial. And before you start, Sir, on 'the best defense is a good offense', we have no way to do an offense without giving up on a defense. It is all or nothing, Sir." He finished looking the OPS officer straight in the eye. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-11-04 21:26 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight was getting annoyed with Vyxx and in a way, he welcomed his objections. John didn't want a crew that was just a bunch of 'yes' men. "You are very well correct, Lieutenant, but that is what plan A is. We sit here and continue on with our repairs hoping they won't find us..." John paused as he saw Lieutenant Guerin step off the turbolift. "Lieutenant," said McKnight as he nodded at her in acknowledgment. "We were just discussing possible backup plans," said McKnight to Lieutenant Guerin. John then turned to faced the crew in general, "So, this is what we have so far. Plan A, we site here and continue with our repairs and hope that we get weapons and shields back once they have located us, but that's basically all of our plans at this moment, but what if that doesn't work?" questioned John. John had so many ideas flowing in and out of his brain that he didn't really know what to do. The idea that he had suggested before was one of his more 'crazy' ideas that he had came up with. "Okay, worst case scenario, they find us and they're not on our side. They then blow us up, which obviously is not a very good thing," continued McKnight as he tapped his finger on his chin. "Now, next possible case. The ship is on our side, but we won't know that unless we contact them. However, once we contact them, they will know our position and will know that we are in this nebula. The problem is that we do not know who they are without contacting them. Unless..." McKnight stopped as his idea came into full view, "Unless we can scatter the signal so they cannot triangulate on our signal." McKnight's thoughts were still scattered and he took a deep breath to drive home the point," Okay, how does this sound for a plan. We scatter the signal by whatever means that is available to us without directing more personnel than necessary and establish contact with the other ship. The most we could lose in this plan is that they know that we're inside the nebula. Seeing that they are searching the nebula, they probably know that we're in here." McKnight waited a response from the bridge crew. He knew that he could just give the order to establish a scattered communication signal and the crew would probably follow his orders, but McKnight valued the input from the crew. [Edited subject line] ----------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com ------------------------------ CO Captain John McKnight SM USS Perseus 7th Fleet Manager Newsfleet Division Manager Player - Mike Yan myfreakylittlefriend@gmail.com Post Edited (08-11-04 21:27)

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-12-04 14:10 [Bochema slipping into the lift] After hearing voices in the transporter room, Nudara moved on to the turbolift. She had no idea where the Captain was being held but she had to find him and a way off the ship. She ordered the lift to the next level. When the door opened, she peeked out carefully to make certain there was nobody in the hall. The Counselor moved cautiously as she made her way from one doorway to another. When a familiar voice caught her ear, she hid. Sure enough, the Captain's double passed by. Waiting until he disappeared through a doorway, Nudara stepped back into the hall. She got close enough to the door to listen but was careful not to trigger the auto-open sequence. She could hear voices and wondered if her Captain was inside. Deciding to look for a weapon she turned...and went face first into a sharp pain. Not hearing the guard behind her, Bochema had turned directly into the swing of his disruptor. Catching her in the left eye, the woman fell to the floor. As the pain carried her into unconsciousness, Nudara's last thought was "Nice move Dari. Nice move." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CSO Lt. Tim Hunter

Author: mjohnson  Date:   08-12-04 18:04 [Hunter, ISS Aries Bridge] Tim looked over at the Medical Officer still standing there. He seemed clueless as to what he should be doing. His demeanor was one of a person clearly not prepared for present events. He was young and inexperienced in the frontier. "Doctor, I know what is going on right now might be a lot to take in right now, but you and I are the only ones aboard this ship. We do not know the state the Hercules is in and we do not know if we will ever see the CO, XO,, or the Second Officer ever again. Any chance of that might rest in our hands. We need to stay calm and think rationally, so lets start with the basics." The Lieutenant pauses for a few minutes to consider his thoughts and develop a plan. After a short while and in the midst of that time Tim had made several passes back and forth between the OPS Station and Science 1. "Okay here is what I want to see happen. I want you to come over to Science here and attempt to locate our away teams combadges. The XO, Deveruex, and the TO. If your successful monitor their life signs. "Aye, Sir!" The Medical staffer replied. Just then the sensors came back with some interesting readings. "This is odd I am detecting Federation signatures on that Romulan ship. Hey Doc what do you make of this." Hunter turned to the MO that was with him and asked his opinion. "Well sure, it looks to me like those Nanites that we sent over to the Romulan ship on our side of the mirror." Hunter scratched his chin. "Hmm. Wow the Mirror Kramer sure acted quickly. Well I am going to try and contact the Hercules to give them an update. As for the Nanites lets keep them in mind. I might want to try and link to them if we can. Hunter moves over to the Operations console and attempts to hack into alter the command codes, in case the 'Evil' Kramer tries to retain remote access. Then Tim checks to see if the Hercules com-array appears to be active so he can open a channel to them. ------------------------------------------------- Mike Johnson Network Ops Forums Admin

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-13-04 17:11 [Devereux on Shuttle] Devereux smiled as Robinson's comment conjured up a mental image. "We had better get a move on." Remy checked his comm was still set to Robinson only "Do you think Hagen will be ok? He seems a little green." Devereux positioned himself next to the hatch and prepared to leave the shuttle. Devereux began thinking back what seemed an eternity ago to their days on the USS Shrike, where Robinson had been the OPS officer & Devereux had been an engineer. "Were we ever that young?" ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-15-04 03:51 [Guerin, on the bridge] Sam listened to McKnight give their situation as she walked over to the flight control console. Tapping the crewman manning the station, she smiled at him and smoothly slipped into the seat as soon as he vacated it. Sam studied her console for a moment and then tapped quickly on it, setting things to her preference. She then brought up the status of the engines on her screen, nodding as it confirmed the impulse engines were on line but the warp engines were not. Sam next checked their position in the nebula, relative to where they entered. At least as well as she could, considering sensors were basically blind in a nebula. Having done what she could, she turned her attention back to the discussion. ---------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net Post Edited (08-17-04 21:03)

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-15-04 10:14 [Shuttle] "Where we ever that young?" Paul glanced over at Ensign Hagen. "No Remy. We were younger..." Getting up from his seat, he flicked his comm so that both Remy and Hagen could hear him. "Let's get going Gents. It may just be me, but I have no desire to out stay our welcome." Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-15-04 11:32 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik listened to McKnight describe his new plans. As far as their sitting there and making repairs went, there wasn't much they could do about that. But Havik personally wanted to delay contacting an enemy ship that was hunting for them for as long as possible. Deciding to pipe up, Havik said, "May I suggest again that we stand still. Regardless of how efficient sensors are in this nebula, we are most likely making eddies and a wake, which would be noticeable. In addition, I personally would prefer delaying contact with ay enemy vessel until we are n better condition. however, the choice is yours, Sir." XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-15-04 14:01 [Devereux on Shuttle] Devereux nodded at Robinson. "OK people follow me" Devereux stepped out of the shuttle onto the hull of the Romulan ship. Remy could see the airlock 50 meters in front of him. Taking steady steps he soon reached the airlock. Remy turned to see Hagen, then Robinson following, all three tethered together. Devereux attached his tether to the airlock frame and opened his tool kit. Popping a panel next to the hatch, Devereux set to work. After 5 minutes, Remy closed the panel, shut his tool kit and stood up. "Open seaseme!" said Remy and pressed the open button. There was a hiss and a plume of escaping gas as the hatch opened to reveal the interior of the Romulan airlock. "Lets just hope I disabled all the alarms" said Devereux as he pulled one of his phasers and entered the ship... ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-15-04 15:44 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad was overseeing weapon repairs as he quietly listened to the on going discussion on the bridge. They did have a point, the Hercules was basically a sitting duck. The only thing that Chad could do to help that was to repair the weapons as fast as he could. Chad did however liked the idea to contact the other ship. "I think we should contact the ship. The best thing that could happen is that the ship contains our people and the worst that could happen is that we're blown to bits, but the latter will come sooner or later considering that we're outgunned and we have no idea what is going on in this universe" said Iza. After stating his stand, Chad quikcly glanced back at his console to check on the status of the weapons. Having weapons offline for so long was starting to biol his blood. He was the chief tactical officer and he had no sufficient weapons to control. ------------------------------------ CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

TO Ens. Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-15-04 19:05 [Hagen on shuttle] Tam followed Devereux and Robinson out of the Shuttle. When they reached the airlock he watched Devereux open the panel; at hearing Devereux say, "Lets just hope I disabled all the alarms" he shuddered a slight bit. Then said, "We'll be fine, let's go." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-15-04 23:10 [In the Agony Booth] With that, Lord Kramer toggled the controls... ...and Captain Kramer felt absolutely nothing, undoubtedly because Rwhen had pulled the isolinear chips that caused pain. She really was on his side. Knowing, he was supposed to be feeling excruciating pain, Kramer balled his hands into fists and screwed his eyes shut. He doubled in the middle, slowly going to the floor of the device. He could hear Lord Kramer laugh in the background. The laugh got closer...Lord Kramer was coming to watch up close. Kramer was all the way to the floor, now, curled up in a ball, still feeling no pain. Lord Kramer said, "Turn it off, now!" to Rhwen. Captain Kramer began breating deeply, quickly as if he had just finished a workout. Lord Kramer spoke again. "I have put many in that booth. I felt it myself, many years ago. However, I must say, I am proud that my double is handling the pain better than anyone I have dealt with. In fact..." Lord Kramer cut of his words, leaning in close to look at Kramer. "This is impossible. The booth affects every function of the body. Even the lowest setting will cause a sweat to be broken in an instant. You, though, are bone dry. The only way that is even possible is if..." Lord Kramer looked at Rwhen, knowing exactly what was going on. It was at that point that Kramer took his chance, kicking he door open from his seat on the floor. The door hit Lord Kramer in the side of the head, splitting it open and staggering him. Kramer jumped from the booth and began punching his counterpart about the head, staggering him further. Rhwen jammed the lock on the cargo bay door so nobody could enter. Recovering, Lord Kramer tackled Kramer, punching Captain Kramer several times. Kramer reached up and grabbed Lord Kramer by the throat, tossing him to the side. Both men got up, and the fight resumed... _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-16-04 11:39 [Warbird's Hull] Paul nodded appreciatively as the airlock slid open. Drawing both phasers, he followed Devereux into the airlock, sealing it behind him. They were in the cramped, interior airlock. Turning to face the door, he "I'll deal with this one if you don't mind..." Stepping forward, he walked over to the door control panel. Pressing a button, a breathable atmosphere was pumped into the airlock. Pressing a second button, the door slid open. Paul took off his helmet and took a few breaths of air. It felt good to be in a somewhat more natural environment than the stifling, cramped EVA suit. He turned back to his two accomplices. "An OPS background has its uses..." Paul smiled quickly, before getting back to the task in hand. "Right, first things first, we need to locate the Captain. Remy, can you scan for a Starfleet commbadge? If I remember correctly it should contain..." Paul paused. The Starfleet survival manual had never particularly inspired him. It was at times like these he wished it had. "A crystalline composite of silicon, beryllium..." Paul glanced at Remy. "You're the Engineer, you should know!" EDIT: (OOC: Guys, I'm goign to create a new location for us to start posting too as we're no longer in the shuttle. Just carry on up there ;-) ) Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com Post Edited (08-16-04 11:42)

Airlock/Corridor

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-16-04 11:42 =/\= Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-16-04 12:21 [Bochema tossed back in the brig] Nudara slowly gained consciousness. A sharp pain in her head kept her from opening her eyes at first. She could tell that she was being carried over someone's shoulder. By the feel of the clothing, she knew it was her guard from the brig. She forced her right eye open enough to look around. They were almost back to the brig. From what she could see, the two of them were alone. Forcing all of her strength into one move, Nudara balled up her fists and plunged them into the small indention of the guard's back. As planned he dropped her. She hit the floor, rolled to her knees and tried to push herself up to run. A quick sound followed by an enormous pain in her legs told her that she'd been hit. She fell unceremoniously to the floor. When the guard grabbed her by the front of the uniform, he laughed. "You just don't learn do you?" he asked then punched her hard enough for her neck to pop. Nudara felt herself being dragged behind the guard. She no strength left to fight him. A few moments later, she was dropped into a new brig cell. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-16-04 16:50 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux replied instantly without even thinking "Silicon, Beryilium, carbon-70 and gold" then looked at Robinson & Hagen "I thought everybody knew that" teased Devereux maintaining a straight face. Joking aside, Devereux returned to business. Devereux did a quick low level scan with his tricorder. "I'm picking up two signals a deck apart. I'm also picking up a large power source and heavy transporter activity at these co-ordinates. I'd guess that's the transporter room." Devereux downloaded the co-ordinates to his compainions tricorders. "How do you want us to proceed Sir?" Remy asked Robinson ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-16-04 17:08 [Corridor] Paul assimilated the information. "OK, I'll go for the one on the lower floor. Remy, you've got the higher floor, and Mr Hagen, you get the prize. The Transporter Room." Paul beamed at Hagen, hoping he looked more confident in the Ensign's ability than he felt. "Only contact each other if necessary. We'll meet up once Mr Hagen has secured the transporter room. We'll then beam back to the Aries. Remy, if you'd be so kind as to share the co-ordinates." Paul looked at the two men. "Questions?" Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com Post Edited (08-17-04 10:08)

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-16-04 18:00 [Fighting with Lord Kramer around the agony booth] Lord Kramer and Captain Kramer had been fighting for several minutes now. Rhwen had taken aim with her phaser several times, but the men were in such close proximity to each other that she couldn't stun one without hitting the other. "You won't win..." Lord Kramer said between breaths. "Even if you win here, you'll never get away. My crew won't allow it." Kramer said nothing, instead choosing to tackle his opponet and begin pummeling him again. Every time this happened, though, to either man, the other found a way out. As a result of their identities being the same, a fair fight between them would end in a draw. Lord Kramer must have realized this, as he began to fight unfair. Picking up one of the chairs in the room, Lord Kramer broke it over Kramer's back. With a metal chair leg in hand, he began to hit Kramer with it about the back and side. Kramer fell to the floor, knowing that Lord Kramer would likely kill him now. At that point, Kramer pulled himself back up and threw a chair between himself and Lord Kramer as an obstacle. Wild-eyed, Lord Kramer dodged it, swinging his chair-leg at Kramer again but missing. As they were in close proximity again, Kramer pulled the phaser from Lord Kramer's holster and pointed it at Lord Kramer, who stopped moving. Lord Kramer lowered the chair leg and began to laugh. "You won't kill me, Billy. To do so would be to kill yourself." Lord Kramer smiled. "And you're too soft for that." he added. "You're right." Kramer said, changing the setting on the phaser to medium stun and firing. The blast hit Lord Kramer, who fell in a heap to the floor with a surprised look on his face. "Rwhen, help me switch our clothes...he'll be awake in a couple of minutes." Captain Kramer said. Rwhen started to come over, but was gazing at the console. "I've just run a scan of the ship...was seeing if anyone was converging on our position because I jammed the lock. Nobody is, but there's now three new life signs on the ship...all from our universe from a look at the quantum signature." she said as she walked over and began to tug at Lord Kramer's boot. "I don't think the crew has detected them yet, but they will." she concluded. As she pulled off Lord Kramer's quasi-uniform, she mused to herself with a smile, "Second time I've done this today..." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-16-04 20:04 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik watched as the crew pondered their next move, but subconsciously, he was still stuck on the OPS officer's question about the mirror universe. It wasn't talked about in the Academy to any great degree, so if anything had been mentioned about biology in the mirror universe, which Havik doubted, he wouldn't have noted it out of sheer improbability of using it. Admitting defeat, he walked over to Science II, which was designed for basic medical use anyway, so he wasn't out of place, and pulled up all information on the mirror universe. Havik poured over it for a while before something caught his eye: quantum signatures. Turning to the OPS officer, Havik said, "Sir, perhaps you should look at this. I believe I have found a more plausible way for determining if one is from the mirror universe. If you still wish to pursue that plan, of course." He finished, looking at the OPS officer with an expression of curiosity. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-16-04 22:40 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight listened as the crew expressed their opinions. So far, it was still one to one. The doctor's phrase "the choice is yours, Sir" still echoed through his head. The doctor was right and ultimately the choice was his and it was him who had to live with that choice. Most command officers would probably be a lot quicker at making decisions that he would have been. 'No one said being in command was easy,' John said to himself. John leaned against a console and tucked his arms into his chest. John was about to ask what the remaining officers thought of the plan when the doctor said, "Sir, perhaps you should look at this. I believe I have found a more plausible way for determining if one is from the mirror universe. If you still wish to pursue that plan, of course." John was curious what the doctor had founded. McKnight leaned off the console and walked towards the doctor. A curious thought entered his head while walking. John wondered how his mirror counterpart would be like. He was probably a crazy man that licked a whole starship clean. John laughed to himself, but was careful not to show it. If someone saw him laughing for no reason, it would probably cause panic throughout the ship like it did to his department when they found out that he was crazy. Another thought also came into his consciousness, time was still a luxury they did not have. The longer they were in this nebula, the longer the captain and the other members of the away team was vulnerable. "Pursue or not, I'm still curious," replied John. "Any little bit of information helps." ----------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-16-04 23:26 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science 1] Vyxx kept his eyes on the incoming telemetry from the mines. Mentally plotting the position of the ship searching for them, against the Hercules position in the nebula. The other ship was nearing the edge of the nebula and would be turning soon. Would they pull a u-turn, and come back on a reverse course, in a standard back and forth type search? Are they moving in a spiral type search from the outside edges of the nebula in? If they did a standard back and forth search, chances are they would find the Herc on either this pass or definitely on the next. Time was running out. Vyxx estimated they had anywhere from 15-45 minutes before their hiding place was discovered. With nothing to do except continue watching the console, and wait for Lt McKnight to make a decision, he reached towards the floor next to his console, and picked up his jar of nightworms and started to munch on them. At least he wouldn’t have to fight on an empty stomach. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-17-04 00:29 [Vicinity of KL stablizer] John and his fellow engineers were workinh hard on the stablizer for several hours. After what seemed to be a thousandth check of his tricorder, he realized they were done. The engines were back online. "Good work guys, the engines are online and ready!" With that a bit of a cheer rose up from his comrades. "Whitney to bridge, Engines are fully repaired and ready to be fired up on your command." He waited for someone on the bridge to respond to his communication. -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-17-04 13:34 [Bochema, in the brig] Nudara laid on the cold floor of the brig and sighed. She had tried twice now to rescue her Captain and had failed miserably both times. Raising a shaking hand to her face, she began to check her injuries. Her left eye was swollen shut. The swelling spread to her temple and cheek. Her nose was broken from the guard's punch. She could feel her right cheek starting to swell as blood pooled to the area in a vain attempt to protect the injury. As the Counselor moved her hands slowly down, she found bruises on her arms and stomach. "Those are from being rag-dolled back in here." she muttered to herself. Forcing her right eye open, Bochema grunted at being able to see her nose so clearly due to the swelling. She forced herself onto her side and then carefully sat up. When the room stopped spinning, she looked around. On the other side of the force field stood her guard. He was glaring at her with a nearly sickening grin. "So," she started, "Why don't you tell me your name?" "Why?" he grunted back. "That way I can watch out for you when I get back to my own universe." she said, her mouth feeling strange from the swelling in her face. "The name's Jake." he said. "And that's all you will ever know." "Sounds like a threat. You planning on killing me?" she asked then continued without waiting for an answer. "No, of course not. You would have killed me outside the cargo bay if I was yours to kill." With that, Nudara laid back down. "What are you doing?" he asked with another grunt. "I am choosing to end our conversation and lie down. After all, you are not worth my time now are you?" she closed her eye and hoped that she was making him upset enough to make a mistake. His errors would be her only hope to get free again. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley Post Edited (08-19-04 18:07)

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-17-04 16:12 [On the Bridge, in the Captain's Seat] The Romulan Warbird had been continuing its search pattern for several hours now. T'Salle was about to abandon the search, having decided the ship must have been destroyed or have come to some other fate when she was signaled by the mirror McKnight. "T'Salle, I have something on short-range sensors." the mirror McKnight said. T'Salle walked over, listening to the report. "T'Salle, I've found a disturbance in the nebula. I can't confirm as to what it is because of the limited use of sensors in this mess. What I can say is that there is an area of the nebula which is displaced...sort of like when you drop a rock into a pool of water." mirror McKnight said. "I understood without the school-age example," T'Salle said cooly, adding, "Continue." "The size of the displacment, according to the Romulan memory banks on this vessell, is the same size as the Federation starship from the ghost universe we are seeking." McKnight concluded. "Understood. Transmit those coordinates to the helm. Helm, when you recieve the set of coordinates OPS is sending you, take us to that location." T'Salle ordered. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-17-04 21:58 [Guerin, at flight control] Sam listened to all the ideas but didn't add anything to the discussion. She didn't feel she knew enough yet of the situation to give a reasoned suggestion. Sam gave her console the once-over again, quietly humming under her breath, and then swivled in her chair, facing the bridge proper. The discussion appeared to be continuing. ----------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

TO Ens. Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-17-04 23:24 [Airlock] Tam took his helmet off and listened to Remy's instruction. Tam thought to himself, "This is probably not the best idea." He looked at the other two wondering why they appeared not to trust his capabilities. He did survive training and he was given this position based on his ability to do the job. He would have to remember to ask them later. "No questions Sir. Should we move out?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-18-04 00:27 [Iza, on the bridge] After Chad stated his opinion, he got back to coordinating weapons repair. He had teams in the torpedo room and in jefferies tubes. The lastest status report he had gotten from one of his chiefs was that weapons were almost repaired. Iza pushed several buttons on his console and brought up a weapons layout of the ship. Phasers were up to 90% and torpedos were around the same also. Chad directed some more personnel from security to weapons repairs. Iza then turned back to see where the bridge conservation had gone to. He still had faith that John would make a good command officer. McKnight was a little slow in getting used to things, but once he was there, there's no stopping him. Seeing that there was nothing he can add to the thought process, Iza turned back to his console. He then got a report that said weapons were back online. 'Finally,' thought Chad. He took a deep breath and turned to McKnight, "Sir, weapons are back online." --------------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-18-04 01:24 [McKnight, on the bridge] John was waiting for the doctor to respond when he was interrupted by a comm signal from engineering. "Whitney to bridge, Engines are fully repaired and ready to be fired up on your command." 'Finally, some good news,' thought McKnight as he tapped his comm badge, "Acknowledged, stand by. By the way, keep up the good work." John was about to say something when Chad alerted him that weapons was back online. It seemed that they might have a chance after all. McKnight turned to the doctor and said, "Hold on a sec." He then faced Vyxx and said, "Lieutenant, can you locate the current position of the other ship relative to the Hercules." John replied to Lieutenant Iza, "Lieutenant, I still want us to be at yellow alert, but keep you finger on the red alert button. I have a feeling that things might get a little rough soon." He then turned back to the doctor and said, "What did you find, doc?" John knew that since the weapons and engines were already repaired, plan A was trash now. It seemed that they only had two choices, contact the other ship and hope really hard that they were the captain and the others or there was probably going to be a fight. Either way, John was going to be prepared. ----------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-18-04 07:54 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx gladly listened to the comm. from engineering reporting that the engines were back online, followed immediately thereafter by a similar report from the CTO about the weapons. Vyxx smiled and thought to himself “Okay, now we have options.” At McKnights request for the position of the other ship, he was just about to respond, when he noticed that the Romulan ship was not in the standard search pattern. Waiting about 5 seconds and then querying the mines again, and plotting the new position, he quickly turned towards McKnight, “Sir, they have turned, and are on a direct intercept course for us. They will be here in under 2 minutes. Position is 34 degrees off our starboard bow, 2 degrees high, and approximately 50 million kilometers.” Vyxx sent a signal to the mines to give him a constant update, he wasn’t worried about them finding the mines and following the signal back to the Hercules now. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-18-04 08:02 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux piped up with a "No questions sir." before turning to Hagen. "You going to be alright Ensign? After all you've pulled the short straw. If the crew of this ship find out we are aboard, they'll head for the transporter room to head us off. You'll have to hold them off single handed." Devereux thought for a second 'Hang on Remy - he is a trained security officer'. "Forget I asked Mr Hagen, you'll do us proud." With that Devereux headed off in to the ship... ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-18-04 08:45 [Corridor] "Very well Gentleman. I'll see you in the transporter room." With that, Paul turned and jogged down the corridor towards the co-ordinates on his tricorder. Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-18-04 11:38 [In the agony booth cargo bay] "Second time I've done this today..." Kramer heard Rhwen say as he was replacing his pants with Lord Kramer's. "What was that?" Kramer asked. "How do you think I got him to trust me enough not to beam me into space with the rest of the crew?" she answered. Kramer felt odd when she said this, as he and Lord Kramer were physically exactly alike. He also felt angry that the mirror Kramer would betray his wife...in his universe, T'Salle was gone. Here, his mirror counterpart took advantage of the fact she was alive and well. "Did you learn anything else? And what's your story, anyway?" Kramer said as he pulled on Lord Kramer's boots. "I've been an informant for the Federation for the past seven years. I knew about my government's attempt to tap into the mirror universe because of my former position with Romulan Intelligence. The Star Empire sees the mirror universe as an untapped resource. The Romulans here are still pretty much isolationists. My Romulans believe that if they were able to join forces with the Romulans here, they would be able to take both universes." she said, but Kramer interrupted. "As far as I know, knowledge of the mirror universe was confined only to the Federation, and we kept it classified beyond belief. Hell, I only learned that it existed when I became an officer, and that's about all I know. Everyone hears rumors, though...and I'm guessing the Romulans didn't build a porthole over here based on a rumor." Kramer stated. "You're right. I'm fairly certain the Empire has a highly placed spy within the Federation...I don't know who, though. It's a guess on my part. At any rate, the Romulan's plan was shot when they happened to cross over and your double here took the ships while they were powerless. From what I could tell, before he got lucky and had a Romulan fleet drop in his lap, he was pretty much a pirate...though he did some work for the Terran and Vulcan Resistance when it suited him. His crew hates him, his wife does as well...but he's got a grip on these people. You may have been better off in your own uniform. What are we going to do about the hair?" she concluded. Kramer thought about this while looking down at his mirror counterpart, now dressed in a Starfleet uniform. The only noticible difference between he and Lord Kramer was the hair. His was cut in a short, military fashion while Lord Kramer kept a long clique of hair in the back. It was odd to see Lord Kramer lying there in his uniform, almost as if he was looking at himself. Kramer got an idea. Pulling the large knife Lord Kramer kept on his weapons belt, Kramer reached down and cut off Kramer's clique. Now they looked identical. They were also both bloodied and bruised from the fight. "If anyone notices, we'll claim he pulled it out during the fight. Is there any hand shackles in here?" Kramer asked. Rhwen looked around and came up with a set from under the console. Kramer put them on Lord Kramer, completing the switch. Hopefully anyone they encountered would believe he was Lord Kramer. "Now what?" Rhwen asked. "We've got to find Bochema...and the others." Kramer answered. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-18-04 17:14 [KL Stabilizer room] "Mr Whitney, Report to the Bridge now" came an unfamiliar voice as he reported the engines were online. "On my way." he said to his commbadge, then looked at the rest of the Engineers, "Okay guys with how long this took all thats left is shields, now those are not much of a priority now because of the nebula, but i want 3 guys on it, any volunteers?" Three engineers stepped forward. "Okay, get to work on the shields and inform me when they are done. I'll be on the bridge. The rest of you, consider your shifts over and you may return to quarters if you like. Dismissed." Now to the bridge... [Edited spelling] -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com Post Edited (08-18-04 17:18)

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-18-04 17:17 [USS Hercules, Bridge] John stepped off the turbolift on to the bridge to find serveral officers missing. What worried him the most was the Romulan Warbird on screen. 'On second thought, maybe I should of had more guys work on the shields...' "I'm Mr Whitney, what is needed sir?" He said to the officers on the bridge. -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-18-04 23:26 [Airlock] Tam looked at Remy and said, "thanks now let's go get the captian." At that Tam jogged towards the coordinates on his tricorder checking for hostiles along the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-18-04 23:31 [Transporter Room] Arriving at the transporter room Tam couldn't help but think this is a little too easy. He cautiously entered the room spotting the transporter crewmember he stunned him and slid him into a corner. Then Tam proceeded to input the coordinates for the Aries so that when Paul, Remy and the captain there all they had to do was engage it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I replaced Hercules w/ aries sorry about that I wasn't thinking at the time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net Post Edited (08-20-04 16:19)

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-19-04 13:23 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik waited for the OPS officer to walk over before beginning an explanation of what he found. Once he had made his way, Havik said, "As you can see, similar to how our technology suffered from a phase difference when we entered the mirror universe, our bodies have a different quantum signature than that of nearly everyone else in the system. Therefore, all you need to do is a biological scan of the ship, but you'll have to talk with Science to figure out how to do that." XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-19-04 18:17 [Bochema, in the brig] Nudara continued to lie on the floor enjoying it's coolness against her skin. With the exception of the occasional grunt, she wasn't hearing anything from her guard. Deciding to antagoniz him a little further, she took a deep breath. "It must really bother you." she began. "What?" he huffed. "Here you are, Mr. High and Mighty, stuck guarding a woman while other security officers are off doing more important things with their time. What did you do to get thrown down on this detail anyway...kiss the Captain's woman?" "LORD Kramer's wife if on another ship. Not that it is ANY concern of yours." Nudara wanted to laugh but didn't dare. Had she really guessed correctly? Did this guy have something for the T'Salle of this universe? "Oh I see," she said aloud, "You got moved down to gutter detail and she got kicked off the ship entirely. Hm, Kramer must have wanted to make certain he could keep the two of you apart." "Lord Kramer doesn't know what he had or what he wants!" the guard was more than just agravated now. "You think he's stupid? Maybe I should let that slip during my interrogation." she said, moving her head enough to look at him. "You wouldn't!" Jake said. "Why wouldn't I? Like you have the guts to stop me." she said snickering, Nudara turned away. 'Come on,' she thought, 'get mad enough to get stupid. You can do it.' Sure enough, the guard paced for a few moments trying to decide what to do. "Is she worth it? I hope so because by the time I'm done telling Lord Kramer about our little talk, he'll probably want you dead. Isn't that a shame?" After slamming a fist onto the console, the guard headed over to the brig cell. Huffing, he reached up to the button to release the forcefield... -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

NPC Transporter Tech

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-20-04 00:32 [In the transporter room, just before being stunned and moved to a corner by Hagen] Martz put his hands in the air when the man in the E-Suit holding the phaser entered the room....but not before pressing the silent alert button. Smart enough to not fight when he knew he would lose...(he was unarmed, Lord Kramer only let the trusted carry weapons)...Martz just waited silently for the security troops to arrive... The man stunned him anyway, and Martz fell to the floor. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net Post Edited (08-20-04 01:11)

NPC Rhwen

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-20-04 00:44 [In the cargo bay, looking at the console] Rwhen was horrified by what she just saw on the console. "Captain Kramer, the silent alert was just sounded. It was set off in the transporter room." Rwhen said as she accessed the transporter room's system. "It's your people...somebody has just locked in the coordinates for the Aries. We'd better get him woke up and moving." she said, indicating Lord Kramer. "Right." Kramer said, moving towards his double. Kramer kicked the man about the legs. "Wake up...we're going to take a walk." Lord Kramer stirred, then awoke, surprised to find himself shackled and in a Starfleet uniform. "What the...of course, that's exactly what I'd have done, but they'll never believe you." Kramer pulled his mirror double to his feet and held him there, his own face just inches from Lord Kramer's. It was like looking in a mirror. "This phaser is set to kill. You make too much noise, look the worng way, or just do anything I don't like and I'll kill you...then ther likely won't be any question of which is which." Captain Kramer hissed...it was the detached, 'evil' tone he used when addressing adversaries. It worked, as Lord Kramer shut up right then. "Let's go." Captain Kramer said as he headed for the door, prodding Lord Kramer to move. Rhwen held up the rear, leaving the cargo bay last and walking just a step behind Captain Kramer...showing the deferance she would had it actually been Lord Kramer in those clothes. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

NPC Mirror McKnight

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-20-04 00:55 [On the Romulan Warbird bridge, at OPS] "It's definately the Federation starship Hercules." McKnight said to T'Salle, who nodded in confirmation. "Do they detect us?" she asked. "Very likely. Also, there seems to be a power bulid-up of some sort on the hull of our ship, almost as if something is attached." McKnight reported. "A tripwire, set by the Hercules?" T'Salle asked. "Probably...but there's no telling unless we go out there and look." he answered. "Noted." she answered simply. A voice from Tactical spoke up next. "Regent T'Salle, shall I charge weapons?" "No. If I want them, I will ask for them. Absolutely do not charge weapons until I give the order, understood?" T'Salle answered. The crewman nodded gravely. "OPS, open a channel to the Hercules." T'Salle ordered. "Aye...open." McKnight replied. "USS Hercules, this is T'Salle of the Vulcan Resistance. Please respond." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

COMM FROM ROMULAN WARBIRD

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-20-04 00:56 [Comm from Romulan Warbird] "USS Hercules, this is T'Salle of the Vulcan Resistance. Please respond."

XO Lt.Cmdr Paul Robinson

Author: Paul Robinson  Date:   08-20-04 12:02 [Corridor outside Cargobay] Paul sidled up the corridor, both phasers outstretched ready to fire at an instance. Every sense was on the highest alert, his nerves strained by the slightest sound from afar. Checking his tricorder for the umpteenth time, Paul found himself practically on top of the Captain. Without warning the cargo bay doors opened, and out stepped Lord Kramer, holding the Captain prisoner and a Romulan female whom looked suspiciously familiar. Paul ducked out of sight behind a pillar, until he was sure that the party had moved in the opposite direction. The Executive Officer closed his eyes and took several quiet breaths. It was now or never. Swinging out form behind the pillar, he levelled one phaser at Lord Kramer’s back, the other at the Romulan's. "FREEZE! Don't even THINK about moving. Put the weapons down, before I decorate the walls a nice shade of red..." Commander Paul Robinson, Andrew Crow, gmi_100@hotmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-20-04 14:54 [McKnight on the bridge] Things were finally picking up speed on the bridge. John listened as the doctor told John about the quantum signatures. After the doctor was done, John replied, "Thanks doctor. That will come in handy. Work with Vyxx and see if you guys can develop a method to perform the scan. When we find the captain and the others, we will need to verify them." McKnight was then inturrupted by Vyxx's report on the status of the other ship, "Sir, they have turned, and are on a direct intercept course for us. They will be here in under 2 minutes. Position is 34 degrees off our starboard bow, 2 degrees high, and approximately 50 million kilometers." 'That's not good,' thought John as he turned to faced the viewscreen. Right there on the viewscreen was the image of the Romulan Warbird. John was thinking of all the possible plans and all the things that could go wrong with them when he was distracted by somebody getting off the turbolift. McKnight turned and saw a person wearing an engineering uniform. "I'm Mr Whitney, what is needed sir?" said the engineer. John didn't remember somebody calling for an engineer, but maybe John just forgot about . Seeing that since he was on the bridge already, John decided to give him something to do. "Ensign Whitney, get the engines ready in case we need to outrun them. You can use the engineering station on the bridge," said McKnight. John took a deep breath. It seemed that they will have to contact the other ship whether they wanted to or not. McKnight turned to Iza and said, "Stay at Yellow alert until they charge weapons. Charge weapons as soon as they do, but don't fire until I give the order." John turned back to face the screen and was about to open a channel to the other ship, but they beat him to it. "USS Hercules, this is T'Salle of the Vulcan Resistance. Please respond." John didn't know much about the Vulcan Resistance, but it would seem really rude if he did not respond. 'Maybe I could talk my way out of a fire fight. Yea right," thought John as he smiled to himself. McKnight opened the channel and took a deep breath. "T'Salle, this is Lt. John McKnight, acting commanding officer of the USS Hercules," announced McKnight. He then added, "How do you do?" -------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

COMM FROM USS HERCULES

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-20-04 14:57 [McKnight, over the comm] "T'Salle, this is Lt. John McKnight, acting commanding officer of the USS Hercules. How do you do?" ----------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-20-04 15:44 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik nodded to the OPS officer as he walked away to resume his duties. Then, Havik walked over to the Science console at which the Science Officer was working, and was about to officer his assistance when the enemy Romulan ship come over the comm system. Listening to the OPS officer's response, Havik found it odd that he a) mentioned his rank, b) mentioned he wasn't technically in command, and c) proceeded to be rather informal in addressing his enemy. 'Well, his speech is his own' Havik thought turning with a raised eyebrow to the Klingon beside him, waiting for his reaction. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-20-04 16:27 [Hagen in the Transporter Room waiting for the others] Tam started to worry about security being tipped off to his presence in the transporter room. He checked the transporter console for silent alarms; he noticed the transporter chief had hit a silent alarm before he was stunned. 'Oh hell' thought Tam, as he worked on disabling the alarm. After accomplishing this he walked over and stood next to the door incase anyone came in to check on the alert. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net Post Edited (08-21-04 19:30)

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-20-04 20:07 [Guerin, on the bridge] Sam was relieved when she heard Whitney report the engines were back online. Swivling back to face her console, she began inputting flight plans into the computer. "Evasive maneuvers first," she thought, "in case the warbird decided to fight." Sam knew the technicals specifications for a warbird and chose several maneuvers that should keep the Hercules out of phaser fire. Not really listening anymore to the conversations on the bridge, Sam hummed quietly under her breath as she worked. -------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-21-04 19:33 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx looked up from his console when the comm. from the Romulan warbird came over the speaker. This is it, he thought, we are officially out of time. Vyxx almost choked when he heard McKnights response, ‘How do you do?’ he thought to himself, he must be joking. This wasn’t some instructor he had back in the academy that he ran across in a bar, this was a Romulan, who was most likely going to attempt to destroy them. So much for a firm posture and trying to be on the same level with them. Vyxx had the brief thought that maybe the Klingon way of attaining command was not so bad after all. Vyxx also thought about just sending the command to detonate the mines and destroying the ship, but McKnight was still a superior officer. He would wait, for a little more. He looked around the bridge, he glanced up at the Doctor, and thought he saw something on the Vulcan’s face, a brief flash of emotion. Maybe they were of the same mind. Vyxx decided that if he did decide to take command, the lynchpin would be the FCO. The CTO would side with McKnight, that’s all he had done so far. The EO was young, he would probably go with whomever came out on top. Maybe the Doc could declare McKnight insane. He did lick a console not long ago. “They are still to far for a sensor reading. I am picking up nothing on them. I can’t determine if they have their weapons charged or not.” Vyxx unexpectedly snapped at McKnight. Vyxx hastily composed a quick message for the doctor to see on the screen, ‘Doc, Is he sane enough to be in command? How do you do? We might be in trouble.’ SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com CO Captain Clarke - USS Broadsword CSO Lt Cmdr Vyxx - USS Hercules Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com Post Edited (08-21-04 19:35)

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-21-04 21:23 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight still wasn't entirely sure of how much the T'Salle and her crew had gotten out of the Romulans' database. He didn't know how much information the Romulans had on them. One thing John was pretty sure about was that the Romulans had at the very least crew bios of everyone in Starfleet, that was primary reason why John had used his real rank in his little introduction speech. He had though about saying that he was teh captain, but lying in using ended up in something bad. John only needed to stall the other ship until they got shields back up, which the EO stated that it will take at least 30 minutes. Then he heard Vyxx snapped at him, "They are still to far for a sensor reading. I am picking up nothing on them. I can’t determine if they have their weapons charged or not" with the comm link still open. John gave quickly sent a text message to his console saying that if he ever snapped at him again especially with an open comm link, John will have him removed from the bridge. John really hoped that T'Salle wouldn't assume anything from what Vyxx had said. The worst thing that they could assume is that the commanding officer had no control over the crew, which is bad enough. The truth was that John was really an inexperience commad officer, but he was adjusting quickly. The only way to learn was from experience itself. John quietly waited for T'Salle to respond. He really hoped that he could stall enough for engineering to get shields back up in time and he also hoped that nobody else will snap at him with an open comm link. [Edited to include a word that was accidently left out] ------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com ------------------------------ CO Captain John McKnight SM USS Perseus 7th Fleet Manager Newsfleet Division Manager Player - Mike Yan myfreakylittlefriend@gmail.com Post Edited (08-21-04 21:26)

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-22-04 17:33 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux had followed the signal on his tricorder to what looked like the brig of the ship. Hearing voices, Devereux remained out of sight. All he could see was the guard, not the occupant of the cell. Remy carefully listened to the exchange between the prisoner & the guard. Devereux recognised the voice but couldn't put a face to it. Devereux watched as the guard lost his temper and went to de-activate the forcefield. The second the field flared out of existance, Devereux stood out into plain view. "Thanks for lowering the forcefield" said Remy as the guard turned to look at him, a gormless expression on his face "Who the F..." muttered the guard before Devereux drove him into the wall with twin stun beams. Devereux leant over the prone body of the guard "Tut tut, Don't you know it's rude to use such language in front of a lady?" Remy then turned to face the open cell to see how the mystery woman was, expecting to find a security officer. "Counsellor" exclaimed Devereux running over "Are you alright? What are you doing here?" asked Remy as he stood beside her and checked her head wounds. ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

EO Ens. John Whitney

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-22-04 22:52 [Bridge, USS Hercules] John heard McKnight's order to man the Engineering console and he did. Once he was their he noticed the EPS flow was a little off. He fixed it with a few commands. Next thing he did was get the warp core ready to be used by starting the antimatter reaction, and was sucessful. "Everything on my console look ready, including engines and weapons. Shields took a little longer to fix than expected but should be online within half an hour." -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt Email - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com [OOC: Post Moved to Correct Thread by SM]

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-22-04 23:02 [On the Bridge of the Romulan Warbird] T'Salle cocked her head to the side in curiosity at the reply from the Hercules. "T'Salle, this is Lt. John McKnight, acting commanding officer of the USS Hercules. How do you do?" the officer in yellow said over the viewer. T'Salle decided not to address the 'how do you do' question and pressed on. She knew the Hercules' Captain...the counterpart of her husband...was on her husband's ship, but did not expect to find such a junior officer in command. As she began to speak, she stopped, as she could hear the Klingon in the background say that he couldn't tell if her ship's weapons were charged. T'Salle addressed this first. "Lieutenant McKnight, please be assured my ship's weapons are not charged. I wish to come aboard your ship for discussions." T'Salle omitted the words, 'regarding your surrender,' off on purpose, partly to send a message to the commander of the Hercules, and partly so those on her crew who were not completely loyal to her would not guess easily what she was attempting. "Lieutenant McKnight, I promise allowing me to come over will be in the best interest for you, me, and the officers you are missing aboard your ship, including your Captain." T'Salle concluded. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

COMM FROM ROMULAN WARBIRD

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-22-04 23:03 [Comm from T'Salle's Romulan Warbird] "Lieutenant McKnight, please be assured my ship's weapons are not charged. I wish to come aboard your ship for discussions." {A pause} "Lieutenant McKnight, I promise allowing me to come over will be in the best interest for you, me, and the officers you are missing aboard your ship, including your Captain." T'Salle concluded.

ACTION

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-22-04 23:10 A pair of security troopers come in the Transporter Room, armed with phaser rifles.

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-22-04 23:37 [Kramer and Rhwen, in the corridor] Kramer, Rhwen, and Lord Kramer had taken no more than 10 steps when Kramer found a phaser in his back. "FREEZE! Don't even THINK about moving. Put the weapons down, before I decorate the walls a nice shade of red..." Robinson said. Kramer closed his eyes, silently cursing his luck. Lord Kramer beamed and said, "Robinson, good work....you're just in time." Lord Kramer turned around to face Robinson, now unafraid of Captain Kramer's phaser. "Get me out of these." Lord Kramer said to Robinson, offering his wrists. Captain Kramer and Rhwen looked at each other in anticipation... _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-23-04 04:51 [Transporter Room] Tam watches as the two troops enter he shoots and stuns one. He then dives and rolls and shots the other. He pulls them over to the transporter crewman he also looks seeing if either is his double. {if one is his double} Tam proceeds to change uniforms with the double and looks for any differing marks. {If one is not his double} Tam posts himself back at the spot he was at before the guards entered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-23-04 13:07 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik was pleased to see that the SO had had a similar reaction to his, letting a quick smile slip through, he quickly pulled up the information on mirror universe Quantum Signatures so that the SO could modify the sensors, if possible. Then, before he sent it off, he saw a message from Science I on his screen. Stifling a snicker, he replied, "He is sane, I think, though if I have a medical reason, I can relieve him of duty. I don't see one yet, do you? At any rate, here its the quantum signature information for your modifications." Attaching the file, he sent it, and then turned around to watch the conversation behind him. Havik found it curious that T'Salle wanted to talk, seemingly about nothing in particular. He wondered if she was planning something treasonous, but then decided against it. If she was, she would make it obvious if and when she came on board. If she wasn't, they would most likely die in combat. But again, the choice was up to the OPS officer, so havik sat back and waited for either his response or oder to cut the comm link while he asked for input. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-23-04 13:15 [Bochema, in Lord Kramer's brig] Nudara laid on the brig's floor and watched Jake move to the brig. When he hit the switch to lower the force field, she had prepared herself to get free. Another voice in the room startled her. "Thanks for lowering the forcefield" the voice said. Jake turned toward the voice. "Who the F..." Nudara watched a stun beams slammed the guard into the wall and the voice's owner moved into view. Devereux leant over the prone body of the guard "Tut tut, Don't you know it's rude to use such language in front of a lady?" She pushed herself carefully into a sitting position. She leaned back against the wall as the man turned to face her. Her swollen face was blurring her vision. The one eye that could open tried it's best to focus on the man approaching her. As he grew closer, Nudara recognized the Hercules CEO. "Counsellor" exclaimed Devereux running over "Are you alright? What are you doing here?" asked Remy as he stood beside her and checked her head wounds. "Getting a face lift." she said. She tried to smile, but realized she couldn't. They were beaming the Captain here from the Hercules. I tried to knock one of them out of the transporter beam but got caught in it myself. I was brought in here and decided to keep the guard busy." She waited as the CEO checked her injuries then Nudara gingerly moved into a standing position. "I'm okay, really. Most of the damage is in my face. I've just got a few scrapes and bruises otherwise. If you are willing to guide a mostly blind Counselor, we can get out of here and get the Captain back." she told Remy. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-23-04 21:18 [McKnight, on the bridge] John listened carefully to what T'Salle said. "Lieutenant McKnight, please be assured my ship's weapons are not charged. I wish to come aboard your ship for discussions. Lieutenant McKnight, I promise allowing me to come over will be in the best interest for you, me, and the officers you are missing aboard your ship, including your Captain." T'Salle concluded. 'Guess, she didn't fall for my how do you do thing,' thought John as he carefully thought about T'Salle's proposal. Something about the word 'discussions' did not sit right with John. There was something hidden behind her message, but John wasn't quite sure what it was. McKnight thought that letting T'Salle come about the Hercules was a lot bettr than a fire fight in which they would probably get destoryed since shields were not up yet. John also knew that he had the option of Vyxx's mines, but that again will be futile if the Hercules had no shields. 'Oh wells,' thought John, 'When worst comes to worst, I can also use her as a hostage or something.' John also thought about asking for the crew's suggestion, but that might send some kind of unwanted message to T'Salle and McKnight did not want to do that. He did have an idea in mind thought. John took a deep breath and replied, "T'Salle, I will grant you premission to come aboard under one condition, you move your ship out of weapons range and provide us with the coordinates as soon as you beam over." John figured that if she complied, the Hercules will have an extra safety margin. McKnight waited for T'Salle to reply. [Edited spelling] -------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com ------------------------------ CO Captain John McKnight SM USS Perseus 7th Fleet Manager Newsfleet Division Manager Player - Mike Yan myfreakylittlefriend@gmail.com Post Edited (08-23-04 21:19)

COMM FROM USS HERCULES

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-23-04 21:21 [McKnight, over the comm] "T'Salle, I will grant you premission to come aboard under one condition, you move your ship out of weapons range and provide us with the coordinates as soon as you beam over." -------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-23-04 21:45 [On the Bridge, in the Captain's Seat] T'Salle stood and walked towards the screen as McKnight replied. The effect on the Hercules was to have the entire screen filled with T'Salle's head. "T'Salle, I will grant you premission to come aboard under one condition, you move your ship out of weapons range and provide us with the coordinates as soon as you beam over." McKnight answered. This was unacceptable to T'Salle. To do this would show weakness to her crew, who would then sense something was afoot. "Out of the question, Lieutenant McKnight. Let me point out to you that with no shields and limited weapons capability at best, you are in no position to negotiate. Also, it would not be logical for my crew to fire upon a ship I have boarded. I'm afraid you'll just have to trust me." she replied. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

COMM FROM T'SALLE

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-23-04 21:46 "Out of the question, Lieutenant McKnight. Let me point out to you that with no shields and limited weapons capability at best, you are in no position to negotiate. Also, it would not be logical for my crew to fire upon a ship I have boarded. I'm afraid you'll just have to trust me." she replied.

ACTION

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-23-04 21:48 One of the troops is indeed Tam's double. Having not heard back from the troops who Tam stunned, Lord Kramer's head of security sends 5 more troops.

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-23-04 22:14 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx listened to McKnight’s reply, and sighed noticeably. The ops officer was making a fool of himself in front of the Romulan. Vyxx stood up and turned to face McKnight, “Sir, I could care less that the channel is open, throw me off the bridge if you want me to keep quiet, but you are doing enough damage without me. Unless the Romulans have discovered some new transporter system, what you just asked would be impossible. Transporters only have a range of about 40,000km. Phasers have a range of about 300,000km, and torpedoes have a range of 3,000,000km. Either way, would you trust her officers remaining on her ship to stay where she told you they were? Just invite her over and see what she has to say. The only concern is if they decided to board us, but that goes both ways, since neither of us has shields. As for my other remark about their weapons, what you should have inferred from it was that, since we could not detect their weapon status, then they could not detect ours either. I was not telling you anything she did not already know.” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-23-04 23:16 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight listened to T'Salle's response and thought, 'it was worth a shot.' John was about to respond when the Klingon snapped at him again. "Sir, I could care less that the channel is open, throw me off the bridge if you want me to keep quiet, but you are doing enough damage without me. Unless the Romulans have discovered some new transporter system, what you just asked would be impossible. Transporters only have a range of about 40,000km. Phasers have a range of about 300,000km, and torpedoes have a range of 3,000,000km. Either way, would you trust her officers remaining on her ship to stay where she told you they were? Just invite her over and see what she has to say. The only concern is if they decided to board us, but that goes both ways, since neither of us has shields. As for my other remark about their weapons, what you should have inferred from it was that, since we could not detect their weapon status, then they could not detect ours either. I was not telling you anything she did not already know." John was getting fed up with Vyxx snapping at him with the comm line open. First of all, he misunderstood what John meant and second of all Vyxx was assuming things about an enemy's ship. John wasn't sure what T'Salle will think of that so John decided that he will quickly end the conversion with her and let her beam over. John turned to Vyxx and quickly mumbled "Lieutenant, you're out of line" through his gritted teeth with emphasis on rank. He then spoke to T'Salle, "Agreed. I'm sending you the coordinates for our transporter room and I'll see you in a few minutes. McKnight out." McKnight tapped a few commands to send the coordinates for Transporter room 1 and he cut the comm link. John then turned to Iza, "I want security on every deck, but do not make it noticeable. I want you to come with me, but do not bring any weapons." McKnight then walked over to Vyxx. "Lieutenant, you were out of line and it will be noted in my log. Your objections will also be noted. I have no time to deal with you now. Continue to work with the doctor on the quantum signatures." John hated talking to fellow crewmembers like this, but it was part of the job. McKnight turned and walked to the turbolift and before entering he said, "Lieutenant Guerin, you have the conn. Alert me once you notice a sign of trouble. Ensign Whitney, continue to work on the shields." John then walked into the turbolift and waited for Lieutenant Iza to join him. {Once Iza joins him in the turbolift} John said, "Computer, Deck 3" He then turned to Chad and said, "So, how's my command capabilities?" --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-23-04 23:19 [McKnight, over the comm] "Agreed. I'm sending you the coordinates for our transporter room and I'll see you in a few minutes. McKnight out." ---------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-23-04 23:29 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad heard the order from John, "I want security on every deck, but do not make it noticeable. I want you to come with me, but do not bring any weapons." "Aye, sir" replied Chad. He knew the logic behind John's reason for not letting T'Salle notice that security were carrying weapons even if she assumed they did. Chad typed a few commands to his department and placed sercuity on every deck. Iza then walked into the turbolift with John. His friend then asked him, "So, how's my command capabilities?" Chad coughed and replied, "No comment, but you can do better. I know you can. Don't let the crew disrespect the chain of command. You're still thinking like an officer, not a commander. Give the orders and don't let other people question them." Chad then smiled and added, "sir." ------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-24-04 00:17 [McKnight, walking to transporter room] McKnight listened to Chad's comments and thought about them carefully. It was so hard to evaluate oneself's performance, but it becomes a little easier with comments from a friend. "No comment, but you can do better. I know you can. Don't let the crew disrespect the chain of command. You're still thinking like an officer, not a commander. Give the orders and don't let other people question them." Chad then smiled and added, "sir." "True, true," responded John. It was true that John did ask a lot of opinions from the crew and he did kind of expected them to make decisions for him, but he is the commanding officer and everything decision should be made by him. John guessed that he just couldn't stand the blame if something went terribly wrong with one of his decisions. John sighed and replied, "Thanks for the comments, Chad. I needed it." He made a note to himself to be more confident in his decisions. The turbolift doors then opened and John stepped out. Before stopping at the transporter room, John stopped and said to Chad, "Alert security that if they don't hear from us in like 5 minutes after we enter the transporter room, they have permission to come rushing in with weapons. I trust that T'Salle won't try anything, but just to be safe and just to be extra safe..." John walked over to a wall panel and accessed the specs on the transporter room. He alerted the chief that McKnight was setting up something, so that the chief will not stop what John is doing. McKnight tapped a few commands and programmed the computer to set up a forcefield around the transporter room once T'Salle has transported over. John finished the commands and waited for Chad to alert the security team before entering the transporter room. {Once Chad finishes} John walked into the transporter room and nodded at the Chief operating the transporter console. ------------------------------------ OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-24-04 00:38 [Iza, with McKnight] Chad listened to John's plan and responded, "I was thinking the same thing." He then tapped his comm badge and said, "Iza to Security Team 1" "Security Team 1 here, sir." responded Chief Wiliam. Chief Williams was one of the people that Chad trusted the most and was glad that he was the one who answered the comm. Chad continued by saying, "In a few minutes, Lieutenant McKnight and I will enter the transporter room. Once we're inside you will start the timer and once that timer reaches 5 minutes and you do not hear anything from either me or Lieutenant McKnight, you have my permission to come rushing in with all the fire power available." "Acknowledged, sir. Weapons blazing, got that. Williams out." With that out of the way, Chad turned to McKnight and followed him into the transporter room. He wasn't worried about T'Salle beaming in with weapons. Chad had some tricks up his sleeves that John didn't even know about. Some tricks he had learned from tactical training while others he had learned from pirates during shore leave. Either way, this was going to be interesting and fun. ------------------------------------------ CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-24-04 05:30 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux helped Bochema to her feet. "Just hold on to me. We need to get to the transporter room fast." Devereux passed her one of the old style pistol grip phasers "If anything looks blurry & menacing, feel free to use this" With that Remy supported the injured councellor with his arm around her waist and set off towards the transporter room. ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-24-04 10:31 [Transporter Room] Tam had just finished changing uniforms when he heard the unmistakable whoosh of the doors opening again. He thought about how to proceed and decided his best bet would be to try to wing it. He turned towards the five new guards and said, "I'm glad you guys are here when we got here we found this one," Tam pointed to his double, "trying to hide behind the consol. I hadn't got around to reporting back yet, he also took out the other guard.” Tam thought to himself I sure hope they bought it. He then looked at the guards again. "I'm going to stay here incase one of them tries again." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

ACTION

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-24-04 18:14 T'Salle beams in, alone and unarmed. She is a small Vulcan woman, very graceful in her movements and facial expressions. She is dressed in a black, jumpsuit-type garmet. (Think T'Pol on Ent.) In some ways, she seems to act more like a human, though she is a full-blooded Vulcan. For those crew members who have been in Kramer's quarters or ready room, she is exactly the same person seen in the painting on his quarters wall or the photo on his desk. However, there is one slight difference. In Kramer's universe, T'Salle died over 10 years ago, thus, this T'Salle looks 10 years older, which is not much for a Vulcan...but as she has spent most of her adult life fighting with the Terran and Vulcan Resistance movements, the years have not been as kind. She has a little bit of a hardened-look because of her hard life in the Mirror Universe. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CNS Ltjg Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-24-04 22:24 [Bochema, leaving the brig with Devereux] "Just hold on to me. We need to get to the transporter room fast." Nudara heard the CEO say as he pushed something into her hand. Looking down, she saw it was an old phaser. Her unfocused eye sight, made it appear before her twice. "If anything looks blurry & menacing, feel free to use this." he said. "At this point," the Counselor began, "Everything is blurry. But, I'll do my best." She felt his arm encircle her waist, then they began to move. Clinching a bit of the back of his uniform in her fist Nudara began walking in step with Devereux. It didn't take long to get to the door. "Hmm, much easier way to exit than the last time I left here." she joked. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley Post Edited (08-26-04 11:46)

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-25-04 00:11 [McKnight, in the Transporter Room] John watched as the transporter came to life and T'Salle beamed over. This was actually the first time that John had seen T'Salle whom he knew so little about in both universes. John had heard bits and pieces about Captain Kramer's wife when he had served about the USS Shrike. However, even with the little information John had, he couldn't make any assumptions about this universe's T'Salle. Life could have impacted and changed someone's personality in a way that nobody could imagine. John stood there until the transport was complete and didn't really know what would happen next. It was strange that T'Salle would want to talk to them when her people took over the Romulans' ships. Why not take over the Hercules? John was thinking about this the whole way from the bridge to the transporter room and he still wasn't sure what to make of it. The traditional way was to greet the person and make introductions, but this was unusual circumstance. Even so, John had no idea what to say. He was inexperience with things like this, but ultimately he had to say something or else a awkward silence will prevail. McKnight decided that he will go for the traditional greeting and see what happens. He cleared his throat and said, "Welcome aboard the Hercules, I presume that you are T'Salle. I'm Lieutenant McKnight and this is Lieutenant Iza. Now that the introductions are out of the way, I would like to know why you have decided to beam over and talk instead of blowing us to bits." As soon as John finished saying that he thought, 'We need to work on your social skills.' [Edited spelling] -------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com ------------------------------ CO Captain John McKnight SM USS Perseus 7th Fleet Manager Newsfleet Division Manager Player - Mike Yan myfreakylittlefriend@gmail.com Post Edited (08-25-04 00:12)

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-25-04 11:14 [On the Transporter Pad] T'Salle materialized before Lieutenants McKnight and Iza. Stepping down from the pad, McKnight didn't seem to know what to say. In her universe, her McKnight was in no way ready for the responsibility of command, thus she imagined this McKnight was overwhelmed now. He finally spoke. "Welcome aboard the Hercules, I presume that you are T'Salle. I'm Lieutenant McKnight and this is Lieutenant Iza. Now that the introductions are out of the way, I would like to know why you have decided to beam over and talk instead of blowing us to bits." T'Salle appreciated his bluntness, but was apprehensive to speak in such an open area. Years of working in the resistance had caused her to be paranoid of everyone. "I will answer all of your questions, but not here. Please take me to Captain Kramer's ready room. If your Captain Kramer is anything like my husband, its the only room I trust will be secure on this ship for our conversation. Doubtful, I know, but I am in a position to trust nobody." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CSO Lt. Tim Hunter

Author: mjohnson  Date:   08-25-04 18:54 [Aboard the ISS Aries, Bridge] It had taken the Lieutenant a great deal of time and effort to reconfigure the ISS Aries to communicate on a subspace radio frequency that would accept transmissions from the nanites. Tim moved over to the Science station and preformed a few detailed sensor sweeps. After a few moments Hunter was able to determine that the Hercules was no longer within transporter range, debris in the area identified fragments of a shuttle from the Aries, but not enough to comprise of two of them so perhaps Robinson's team made it aboard after all. More detailed scans suggested that an impulse trail matched that of the Hercules drive system. It disappeared from readable sensor range at the edge of a nearby nebula. It was likely to Hunter at this point that McKnight had taken her in the Nebula to hide. 'Good man John ... I just hope they're doing okay in there." Tim thought to himself. The MO was a bit occupied with scanning for away team life signs while Tim was still trying to find anything he could use to effect improvement of their overall situation. The Operations console beeped at this time ... Lt. Hunter moved back over to the Aries OPS console to see what he had snagged. When he got to the console the data was confusing at first. Millions of individual encrypted communications signals where being received. It wasn't a lot of data just lots of transmissions, what is this ... Closer examination revealed it to be a Federation transmission, but it was not the Hercules. One of the signals over all seemed to have the least random bits and even a few command protocols. Narrowing his signals priority to this one instance Tim was able to determine that it was the control module among the nanites they had sent over to one of the Warbirds from before. "Doctor .... I think I just found our Trojan Horse. Our luck might be improving." With that Tim cleaned up the erratic signals and focused on the control module. After entering his personal security code he managed to gain full unrestricted access to the nanites.... Hunter, now with this new found advantage, began to plan his next move. ------------------------------------------------- Mike Johnson Network Ops Forums Admin

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-25-04 19:08 [Guerin, on the bridge] Sam brought her attention back to what was going on between the bridge officers when she heard Vyxx fairly snap at McKnight. “Great, first shift and things couldn’t be more far from ordinary,” she thought, hoping things wouldn’t escalate further. Sam wasn’t sure about T’Salle’s motives, but it wasn’t Sam’s place to question, either verbally or through her actions, McKnight’s authority. At least not unless he did something that would endanger the Hercules’ crew. Sam’s eyes widened as Vyxx stood and confronted McKnight. Sam sighed in relief as McKnight addressed Vyxx calmly but almost choked when he announced she had the conn and then left to meet T`Salle. Sam replied with an automatic, “Aye, sir.” She then sent a message to Ensign Crow, the beta shift pilot, to report to the bridge. As Sam waited for Crow to arrive, she tapped her fingers nervously on the console, hoping nothing happened between now and the time McKnight returned to the bridge. ------------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-25-04 21:00 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik listened to the OPS officer's condition's for T'Salle's arrival. Havik thought they might work, though they weren't in much of a bargaining position. If she agreed, that showed that she really wanted to talk to them. If she didn't, then she didn't want to compromise her position enough to avoid a fight. It all came down to her answer, as he edged forward on the seat to hear better. As Havik expected, she didn't comply and insisted on him trusting her. In addition to the fact that she would be a hostage of sorts, they were safe in that regard. Havik hoped that McKNight would agree, since T'Salle's logic was, as expected, impeccable. Just then, the SO stood up and pointed out a flaw in his suggested plan. Havik just managed to stifle a snigger at the SO's point, weapons range was most definitely father out that their transport capabilities. He mentally hit himself for not realizing this himself, though transporters and weapons were not his forte. Havik then watched as he repremanded the SO before, thankfully, inviting T'Salle over with the current conditions. Then, after McKnight left the Bridge, Havik walked over to the SO and said, "Don't worry. You were absolutely right, and no, he isn't not doing the best job of commanding the ship. But we have no choice. If we have any intention of getting things done, we follow what he says, and get the Captain back. He'll have fun with him." With a small smile, Havik continued, "Now lets do something productive and get these sensors modified." XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-25-04 21:11 [McKnight, in the transporter room] McKnight listened carefully as T'Salle responded, "I will answer all of your questions, but not here. Please take me to Captain Kramer's ready room. If your Captain Kramer is anything like my husband, its the only room I trust will be secure on this ship for our conversation. Doubtful, I know, but I am in a position to trust nobody." John wasn't sure why T'Salle didn't want to trust anybody, but he kind of understood her feelings for concern. Since her request would not harm the crew or put the ship at risk, John decided to fulfill her request. However, he was hesitant to take the turbolift up to the bridge and walk past Vyxx. He might say something that John didn't want T'Salle to hear. McKnight was also hesitant to use the captain's ready room because he had never been in there without him before, but seeing as his choices were limited, John came up with a idea. "I don't see why we couldn't use the ready room" said John as he stepped upon the transporter platform, "and the faster way to get there is by the transporter." John waited for T'Salle to step back onto the transporter pad. {If she complies} McKnight nodded to Lieutenant Iza so that he will know to contact the security team that plans have changed. John then nodded to the transporter chief and said, "Energize." {If she does not comply} John took a deep breath and mumbled to himself, "why does she make everything so hard for me." He stepped off the transporter pad and headed for the door. --------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-25-04 22:40 [In the transporter room] "I don't see why we couldn't use the ready room" said John as he stepped upon the transporter platform, "and the faster way to get there is by the transporter." John waited for T'Salle to step back onto the transporter pad. "I apologize Lieutenant. Again, I have my concerns. We'll walk." T'Salle said. John took a deep breath and mumbled to himself, "why does she make everything so hard for me." He stepped off the transporter pad and headed for the door. T'Salle followed him to the door and they were headed to the turbolift. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-26-04 00:51 [Iza, in the transporter room] Chad watched McKnight and T'Salle leave the transporter room. He lagged a little behind so that he could contact Chief Williams and update him on the situtation. While he was watching John walk out, Chad heard him mumble, "why does she make everything so hard for me." Chad let out a small chuckle as John brushed past him. It was kind of funny. After they left the room, Chad tapped his comm badge. "Iza to Williams. The situtation is okay for now. McKnight and T'Salle are heading for the ready room. Set up addition security on the bridge." "Acknowledge, sir. Williams out" came the reply. Chad then walked over to the transporter console and said to the chief, "May I?" The chief nodded and walked aside. Chad tapped a few commands which connected him to the bridge tactical console. He alerted the junior officer that took his place to hide and weapons/shields readings. He didn't want T'Salle to get any tactical advantage. With that done, Chad turned and left the transporter room. ---------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-26-04 01:11 [McKnight, in the turbolift heading for the ready room with T'Salle] McKnight wasn't much for small talk and T'Salle didn't really seem like the person that enjoyed small talk either, so John stayed quiet throughout the whole trip on the turbolift. He was just staring at his shoes the whole way. John had always dreamed about command ever since his early days at the academy. Heck, almost every cadet did, but John would have never guessed in his entire life that it would be like this. His dream was turning into a nightmare. Things were all going differently than he had planned. Even so, in the back of John's mind there was still the passion of command. He just had to find a way to tap that passion and get over all the problems he had encountered so far. After this whole thing was over, he was looking forward to being an operations officer again. John was also looking forward to asking Captain Kramer how he dealt with the problems and responsibilities of command. That is if John didn't get court martial for anything he had done already. If he did, then his dream of command will be flushed down the toilet. Not a pretty picture. However, John had no doubt that they will be able to get the captain back in one piece. Besides, McKnight had so many questions to ask him. When the turbolift doors opened, John stepped out first and as fast as he could without losing sight of T'Salle, John walked over to the captain's ready room. He hoped that T'Salle will follow him and enter the ready room before any of the bridge crew said anything. He did thought about taking T'Salle's by the hand and drag her into the ready room, but he thought better of it. It wouldn't be professional and T'Salle might take it in the wrong way. McKnight got to the ready room in a few seconds and waited outside the door. Once T'Salle got there, he walked in with her. {Once T'Salle enters the ready room} To break the silence, John decided to speak first. "So was Captain Kramer's ready room in your universe similar to this?" Once that sentence left his mouth, John quickly regretted it. 'What kind of question was that?' thought John. To try to recover from it, John decided to do something. "Computer lock the doors and disable and communication from this room. Authorization McKnight-Omega-3." The computer did what he said and John stated, "There, now the room is secured and nobody will hear our conversation." John waited for a reply from T'Salle. [Edited spelling] ------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com ------------------------------ CO Captain John McKnight SM USS Perseus 7th Fleet Manager Newsfleet Division Manager Player - Mike Yan myfreakylittlefriend@gmail.com Post Edited (08-26-04 01:12)

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-26-04 06:51 [Devereux in corridor outside transporter room] Devereux helped Bochema down the corridor when he saw 5 men appear around the corner. Devereux managed to get himself and Bochema into an ajoining corridor before they were seen. Carefully Devereux peered around the corner and saw the 5 men enter the transporter room. "Damn" muttered Devereux expecting to witness a fire fight errupt and prepared himself to rush to Hagen's aid. So Devereux was quite surprised when that didn't happen. Either Hagen had been caught or..or.. well Devereux wasn't sure what was going off. Devereux turned to the councellor "Just when you couldn't think today could get any worse. Five armed men have just entered the transporter room." Devereux checked the charge on his phaser then looked around the corridor. At knee height where he and the counsellor were standing, was the Romulan equivalent of a Jeffieries Tube. Devereux leant down and opened it, then guided the councellor's hand to the opening incase she couldn't see it. "At the first sign of trouble or phaser fire, I want you to get in here and seal the hatch then hide. If you don't hear from me within 15 minutes of it going quiet, go to ground. Remember there is a mirror counterpart of me running around somewhere so If I comm you and I don't say err 'Custard', yeah that'll do, If I don't say custard then you'll know it's not me. OK?" asked Devereux ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-26-04 12:03 [Bochema in the corridor near the transporter room] Nudara heard Devereaux swear as he pulling her out of the corridor. She leaned against the wall while he checked out the situation they were in. "Just when you couldn't think today could get any worse. Five armed men have just entered the transporter room." he said. "Yeah, that's just about the luck I've been having." she replied in a low voice. She could here something opening and tried to see what it was. Her blurred vision only showed that the CEO was doing something on the wall. He took her hand and placed it on the space where he was working. She realized it was an access tube. "At the first sign of trouble or phaser fire, I want you to get in here and seal the hatch then hide. If you don't hear from me within 15 minutes of it going quiet, go to ground. Remember there is a mirror counterpart of me running around somewhere so If I comm you and I don't say err 'Custard', yeah that'll do, If I don't say custard then you'll know it's not me. OK?" "Understood." Nudara replied then she shook her head slightly. "Custard...you would choose a word like that on a day I missed a meal, wouldn't you?" she said sarcastically then turned serious once again. "Don't worry about me Lieutenant. I'll be fine. Just go get that room cleared so you can get the captain out of here." The Counselor squatted down next to the opening. Pulling her phaser to her chest she whispered a quiet prayer of safety for Devereaux and anyone else on his team who'd risked their lives coming here to save her and Captain Kramer. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-26-04 13:26 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx was still standing as McKnight address him as being out of line. He just continues to glare at him as he turned and headed into the turbolift with Iza, and gave the FCO command. As soon as the doors to the turbolift closed, Vyxx turned to the Doctor, “I am so angry right now, I could eat cooked meat!” Vyxx shook his head and sat down at his console. “OK Doc, let’s not make this harder than it is. We can set the transporters up to read the quantum signatures as they beam over, with the normal medical scan that takes place. If they arrive by shuttle, we can easily get a medical tricorder to do it. There, problem solved. Keep in mind that there are differences in these people. The fact that they are our doubles means nothing. They live in a completely alien situation to ours. There are little similarities there, and each person would be very different from their counterpart. Even on Earth, be around a set of twins for any length of time and you can easily tell who is who. It would not take long for us to figure out an imposter was aboard. Just ask everyone something that only they know. The Captain will be easy, didn’t his wife die? Just ask him how and when, odds are that the mirror Kramer did not marry the same woman, and if he did, odds are astronomical that they would have died the same way, on the same respective dates.” As Vyxx was talking to the Doctor, he heard the turbolift doors opening, he glanced up and saw McKnight coming back onto the bridge with the Romulan female in tow, heading to the ready room. Vyxx returned his gaze back to his work SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-26-04 17:36 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] After the SO suddenly turned to him and explained his capability for eating prepared meat due to his anger, he sat down and set to work. Slightly baffeled, Havik just stood there and watched him work. Then, the CTO came over the intercom asking for more security on the Bridge due to T'Salle's anticipated arrival. A few minutes later, he watched McKnight lead the Vulcan across the Bridge to the Ready Room and enter, without saying a word. After they had left the Bridge, Havik turned back to the SO and said, "You're right, we would be able to tell easily. But it gives us something productive to do. And will make sure someone from the mirror universe has even less time to do whatever they wanted to do." XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-26-04 21:51 [Stepping out of the turbolift, on to the Bridge] T'Salle stepped out of the Turbolift and on to the Bridge, taking in the entire scene. She sensed a feeling of discontent from the bridge crew, not because of her presence, but something else. Everyone was acting just as humans do after there has been a heated argument. At any rate, they were a crew without a Captain, and that had been her doing... She looked at some of the faces. She recognized the person sitting at the helm...but was fairly certain that her countrpart in this universe had been killed. The Klingon was a surprise to her, in this universe they were the mortal enemies of the Terrans and Vulcans. Her husband would never have a Klingon on his bridge. And the Vulcan male...there was something about him that just seemed a little too emotional, part Romulan, perhaps? T'Salle kept quiet as McKnight showed her to the ready room. {Once they step inside} "So was Captain Kramer's ready room in your universe similar to this?" McKnight asked. He obviously felt bad about the statement, T'Salle realized, as his face gave away his feelings. Just like the McKnight in her universe. "Computer lock the doors and disable and communication from this room. Authorization McKnight-Omega-3." McKnight said, adding, "There, now the room is secured and nobody will hear our conversation." T'Salle did not reply immediately. Instead, she walked around the small room, looking at the items deposited in it. On the desk, ironically, was a model of a Constitution-class starship, identical to Lord Kramer's recently abandoned ship, the ISS Aries. The desk was a replica antique rolltop, the table also made of wood. What finally caught her attnetion was the photograph on the desk. Sitting down at the desk, T'Salle picked up the photo. It was of her, with Kramer, about 10 years prior. They were standing in front of a large pine tree in the snow...she immediately knew where. "Home..." she said just under her breath. There was also one major difference in the photo from anything in her own past...in the photo, she was pregnant. She decided to answer McKnight's question. "I sense you regret asking about this room. Please do not feel this way. Remember, I am a Vulcan, after all. As for the ready room, it is much different from what my husband has...but my husband is a different man than I married years ago. Perhaps at one time, this would have been accurate. But not now." T'Salle paused, looking at the picture again. "Do I have a counterpart on this ship?" she asked, holding up the photo. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-27-04 00:58 [McKnight, in the ready room] John watched as T'Salle looked around the ready room. In a way, she kind of gave him the creeps. Mainly because in their universe, T'Salle was dead; at least according to Starfleet records. But there was also something to her composure that kind of felt peaceful. It seemed that the mirror universe didn't treat her very well. John watched as T'Salle picked up a photo on the captain's desk. John had never seen the picture before either so he decided to walk and look over her shoulder. It was a picture of the captain and his wife. They seemed happy. T'Salle then answered his question about the room. "I sense you regret asking about this room. Please do not feel this way. Remember, I am a Vulcan, after all. As for the ready room, it is much different from what my husband has...but my husband is a different man than I married years ago. Perhaps at one time, this would have been accurate. But not now." T'Salle paused, looking at the picture again. "Do I have a counterpart on this ship?" she asked, holding up the photo. John just stood there and he imagined the picture slamming right into his stomach. Actually that was how he felt. He had no idea how to answer her question. John decided that the best way was to answer her question truthfully. "To tell you the truth, " he began, but he just couldn't tell her that her counterpart was dead. John just decided that he will just answer her question and that's it. "no. Honestly, I don't really know that much about the captain or his family..." John took one more look at the picture and decided to go to a slightly different subject. He looked at T'Salle and asked, "Do I have a counterpart in your universe or is he probably dead because he asks the stupidest questions ever?" John guessed the latter part, but if his counterpart wasn't dead he would probably want to meet him. John walked and sat directly across from T'Salle. ------------------------------------------ OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-27-04 17:22 [In the Ready Room, at the rolltop desk] McKnight answered her question about her counterpart. T'Salle set the picture down. "Do I have a counterpart in your universe or is he probably dead because he asks the stupidest questions ever?" McKnight asked. T'Salle was sitting in the Captain's desk chair at this point. She briefly answered his question. "You do. He is over on my ship right now. He really is not much different from yourself." T'Salle sat up straighter, the time for small talk was over...but she glanced at the photo one more time. "I have come over her to ask your help in overthrowing my husband. Having a Romulan fleet drop in his lap has made him crazed and power hungry...even more so than before. He's acted as a pirate and part-time Resistance member up until this point. He did Resistance work when it suited him, generally because it led to some end he wished to achieve. Now...now he wants to lead the Resistance, which I think is just not in the Resistance's best interests. If my husband, Lord Kramer were to gain the leadership of the Terran Resistance...and was successful in liberating our people...we would be back to the days of the old Terran Empire. Help me, Lieutenant...you'll get the rest of your crew back in the process." T'Salle pleaded more than stated, despite her being a Vulcan. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

EO Ens John Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   08-27-04 17:57 [Bridge] John watched silently as things happened around him. Once McKnight and T'Salle went to the ready room, John went back to monitoring his console. John looked and saw a message saying that shields are online and ready. "Lt. Iza, the shields are ready on your command." He said to Iza at tactical. John typed a message to the Ready Room computer, "Shields online with full power." 'Hopefully he gets that...' -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-28-04 00:51 [McKnight, in the Ready Room] John watched T'Salle's composure as she responded to his question. "You do. He is over on my ship right now. He really is not much different from yourself." For some odd reason or another, John wanted to meet his counterpart. It would probably be a lot more fun to talk to a counterpart than a mirror. He then watched as T'Salle sat up straighter and said, "I have come over here to ask your help in overthrowing my husband. Having a Romulan fleet drop in his lap has made him crazed and power hungry...even more so than before. He's acted as a pirate and part-time Resistance member up until this point. He did Resistance work when it suited him, generally because it led to some end he wished to achieve. Now...now he wants to lead the Resistance, which I think is just not in the Resistance's best interests. If my husband, Lord Kramer were to gain the leadership of the Terran Resistance...and was successful in liberating our people...we would be back to the days of the old Terran Empire. Help me, Lieutenant...you'll get the rest of your crew back in the process." It sounded to John like the Vulcan was actually pleading to him. It felt kind of strange partly due to the fact that he had never ever seen a Vulcan pleaded before. She did seem sincere, but John wasn't quite sure if he trusted her yet, but so far what she had said seem to be the truth because John wasn't a pile of particles floating in space right now. "It does look like my options are limited, but forgive me if I don't trust you completely at this moment. What is there to stop you for turning your back on us after I have agreed to help you. You seem like a sincere person enough and I like to believe that what you are saying is true, but I kind of need something a little more concrete before I jeopardize this crew and this ship more than I have to." John waited patiently for T'Salle to answer. He hoped that she will provide him with something at the very least so that he can so the crew that trusting T'Salle was the right thing to do. If she didn't agree, he had no idea whatsoever to do next. His options were very very limited. He guessed he could hold her hostage, but that will probably not solve anything and it was something that John hated to do. ---------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-28-04 14:26 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad came off the turbolift and said particularly to no one, "That Vulcan woman gives me the creeps," He go to his console and was glad to see that the junior officer had gotten his message to hide weapons and shields readings. He then heard the engineering officer reply, "Lt. Iza, the shields are ready on your command." "Acknowledged, ensign," said Iza, but he waited for McKnight before rasing the shields. Besides the Romulans didn't seem like they were doing any suspicious right now. Chad looked around the bridge crew. ----------------------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   08-28-04 22:13 [Guerin, on the bridge] Sam was still tapping her fingers on her console, waiting for her relief to arrive, when Iza came back to the bridge, not too long after McKnight and his visitor entered the ready room. "Lieutenant Iza," she said as she rose, moving to stand next to Iza. "Lieutenant McKnight left me in charge of the bridge. As you have more rank, and more bridge experience, I gladly relinquish command to you." Sam smiled, happy her first stint in charge ended without anything happening. -------------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   08-29-04 16:58 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] The rest of the crew went about their duties in making sure the ship got fixed while Havik sat there, feeling quite useless. Finally deciding to do something, be it productive or not, he walked over to Science II and started sifting through the files in the computer for something interesting to read. He found an article on bacterial growth in close proximity to the Bajoran wormhole. Finding nothing else better, he started reading, feeling slightly guilty at being useless. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   08-29-04 18:00 [Transporter Room] Tam watched as the guards left. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he waited for the rest of the group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

ACTION

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-29-04 21:19 A torpedo is fired from the Romulan Warbird at the USS Hercules, but as they are in the nebula and targeting equipment does not work, it misses. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-30-04 14:20 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx just happened to be glancing at the main screen when he noticed a red star flash by. Vyxx’s brow furrowed in concern and he spoke, “Was that a torpedo?” He turned back to his console and roughly calculated where it came from, and was from the position of the Romulan ship. They were firing on their own Captain! Vyxx first instinct was to detonate the mines, but he stayed his hand. Hitting the comm. button, “Vyxx to McKnight, the Romulan ship just fired a torpedo at us, permission to detonate the weapon and destroy them?” He closed his voice channel and looked at the CTO, “Iza, might I suggest security up here to arrest the Romulan, before she kills the Lt.” Vyxx then waited for McKnight’s response, if he was able to reply. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com CO Captain Clarke - USS Broadsword CSO Lt Cmdr Vyxx - USS Hercules Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com Post Edited (08-30-04 14:21)

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   08-30-04 15:51 [Devereux in corridor outside transporter room] Devereux smiled at Bochema's remark about missing a meal. Devereux too was starving. Devereux crept to the junction desparetly trying to think of how to storm the transporter when the men started to leave the transporter room and head in the opposite direction from Devereux. As soon as they were out of sight, Devereux ran back to Bochema. "Our luck looks like it's begining to change" Devereux helped the Counsellor back to her feet "I don't know what field rations we have on the Aries, but as soon as we get get back to the Hercules, I'll buy you a bowl of custard & apple pie, jam roly-poly, or whatever you want." And with that Devereux headed to the transporter room, again supporting the counsellor as they went ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   08-30-04 16:03 “Vyxx to McKnight, the Romulan ship just fired a torpedo at us, permission to detonate the weapon and destroy them?” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   08-30-04 18:31 [Bochema being escorted by Devereaux outside the transporter room] Nudara squatted down next to the tube entrance when she heard the CEO's voice again. "Our luck looks like it's begining to change." She felt his hand as he helped her back up. "I don't know what field rations we have on the Aries, but as soon as we get get back to the Hercules, I'll buy you a bowl of custard & apple pie, jam roly-poly, or whatever you want." "Sounds great," the counselor answered as his hand moved to her back. She took a deep breath listening for anything. "But at this rate it'll be a good old fashioned steak and baked potato." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   08-30-04 20:02 [Iza, on the bridge] A few seconds after Iza walked onto the bridge, the FCO said "Lieutenant Iza," she said as she rose, moving to stand next to Iza. "Lieutenant McKnight left me in charge of the bridge. As you have more rank, and more bridge experience, I gladly relinquish command to you." "Acknowledged" replied Chad. This was the first time that he was actually in command. It felt pretty good. Chad monitored the weapons status and sheilds. Then all of a sudden the Romulans fired a torpedo followed by Vyxx saying "Iza, might I suggest security up here to arrest the Romulan, before she kills the Lt." "No duh," said Iza. He quickly tapped a few commands and within a few seconds, security was at the bridge. Chad moved with the security to the entrance of the ready room, but he did not charge in yet. He waited for a reply from McKnight before deciding to charge in. ------------------------------------------ CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-30-04 21:01 [McKnight, in the ready room] While McKnight was waiting for an answer from T'Salle, in the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of something red flying pass. John quickly concluded that it was a torpedo. There's no mistake in it because not many things are red that flies. His guess was then verified by Vyxx over the comm, "Vyxx to McKnight, the Romulan ship just fired a torpedo at us, permission to detonate the weapon and destroy them." At first John wondered how Vyxx's comm was able to get through. He thought that he had instructed the computer to block all incoming communications, but he gave no further thought to it. John crock his eyebrows in a questionable manner at T'Salle and silently cursed Vyxx for saying 'detonate' the weapon to destroy them. T'Salle and her people might have been unaware of it because on the nebula. John tapped his comm badge and said "Negative, Lieutenant. Standby." He then said to the computer, "Computer, unlock doors." He only did that because if T'Salle was playing him, John will be able to get out of the Ready Room and back onto the bridge. John looked at T'Salle and waited her to answer. He really hoped that she wasn't the one that planned to fire the torpedo because he was beginning to trust her a little. ------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   08-30-04 22:14 [McKnight, over the comm] "Negative, Lieutenant. Standby." --------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   08-30-04 22:17 [In the Ready Room, sitting at the desk] T'Salle saw the torpedo streak by as well, then heard the Klingon call the ready room for Lieutenant McKnight. Her eyebrow raised at the word "detonate." Her crew, although most of them were loyal to her, were ultimately loyal to her husband. They had discovered her plot, her reason for coming over. Looking back at McKnight and remaining as calm as any Vulcan would in this situation, she merely said, "They know. I suggest we go out to your bridge and call my ship. If they even respond, you'll have the proof you seek." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   09-01-04 00:32 [LtJG Tor, Bridge] Havik was sitting at Science I when a monitor above the one he was reading suddenly flashed with information. Looking at it curiously, he failed to determine what it meant; however, turning around soon reveled what it meant: a torpedo. He gathered this from the flurry activity and conversation on the Bridge. After seeing Security walk over to the Ready Room door, he got up himself and went to the Turbolift to go to Sickbay. If they were being fired at, he needed to take care of any injuries, would the next shot be more accurate. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   09-01-04 19:43 [McKnight, in the ready room] Vulcan personalities were so hard to decipher. John kept watching her when she answer her question about the torpedo thing. "They know. I suggest we go out to your bridge and call my ship. If they even respond, you'll have the proof you seek." McKnight got up from his chair and replied, "My thoughts exactly." As John and T'Salle walked towards the ready room door, John continued by saying, "But what if they do not respond? I have no way to tell if you are telling me the truth or it's some kind of elaborate ploy to take over the ship." He didn't really expect an answer for her, but was kind of thinking out loud. If she did answer his question, he would have more pieces to the never ending puzzle. John kept pondering about the odds of this even being a evil plot of T'Salle's. If only she wasn't Vulcan, John would have probably figured her out by now. John waited for her to address his question before stepping out of the ready room door. {Once T'Salle had addressed his question or not} Before McKnight and T'Salle walked out of the ready room, John stopped in front of the doorway but far enough so that the door did not open. In a friendly tone John added, "Before we step onto the bridge, I want to get something straight. Since you do not know who is in charge of your ship right now. Either it's someone who is loyal to you or someone who is not, I want you to hail your ship, but assume that you have taken control of this ship. That way, if they believe you they will stop firing at the ship so we won't risk further damage." John took a breath before adding, "and don't try anything that you and I will regret later. I will let my crew know ahead of time and we will do some role playing. If they do not fall for the ploy, " John took a deep breath before speaking again and he let his emotions show how hard it was for him to say, " we have the power to destroy your ship." John waited for a response from T'Salle before stepping through the ready room doors. He didn't know if T'Salle will agree to what he had said since he practically disagreed with everything he had suggested so far, but it was worth a try. --------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-01-04 20:09 [In the ready room, at the door] McKnight had been thinking out loud when he finally stopped at the door and said: "Before we step onto the bridge, I want to get something straight. Since you do not know who is in charge of your ship right now. Either it's someone who is loyal to you or someone who is not, I want you to hail your ship, but assume that you have taken control of this ship. That way, if they believe you they will stop firing at the ship so we won't risk further damage." John took a breath before adding, "and don't try anything that you and I will regret later. I will let my crew know ahead of time and we will do some role playing. If they do not fall for the ploy, " John took a deep breath before speaking again and he let his emotions show how hard it was for him to say, " we have the power to destroy your ship." T'Salle could not see a flaw in McKnight's plan. "Understood. Your plan seems to follow logic. As for destroying the ship, I'm afraid it's not mine anymore to destroy. Set up the comm." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   09-01-04 21:28 [McKnight, stepping onto the bridge] McKnight was actually happy that T'Salle finally agreed with something that he suggested. 'Maybe this was going to work out after all' thought John as he smiled at her and said, "Okay, here goes nothing." John turned around and stepped onto the bridge with T'Salle. He was caught off guard by the security squad assembled outside, but he was not surprised. John could always depend on Chad for anything and he excepted Chad to assemble a security squad at the first sign of trouble. "It's okay Lieutenant. Everything is under control," said John as he kept walking towards the center of the bridge. As he brushed passed Chad, he whispered so that only Chad can hear, " at least, for now." As McKnight walked towards the center of the bridge, he called, "Status Report." {Once someone gives a report} John stood at the center of the bridge and waited for T'Salle before addressing the bridge crew. "Okay, " began John as he gathered his thoughts together. "T'Salle has agreed to hail the other ship and figure out what is going on over there. As of this moment, we have no idea if her crew is on our side or not and having a fire fight will surely be something that will not work to our advantage. That is why, T'Salle will hail them and state that she has control of this ship. We on the other hard are going to do some role playing and act as if she does really have command. That way, it will at least stop the other ship from firing at us. There will be two possible outcomes of this. The other ship is on our side and they will help us to find Captain Kramer and the others," John turned towards Vyxx before continuing, "or we will have to destroy them. Understood?" John waited for the crew to respond before setting up the comm link. McKnight needed everyone to follow orders in order for this work. ------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   09-01-04 23:23 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx turned slightly as McKnight and T’Salle came out of the ready room. Vyxx listened to the plan, while staring directly at T’Salle. ‘Well, at least he made a decision’ Vyxx thought before grunting an “Understood” in McKnight’s direction. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   09-02-04 00:09 [Iza, on the bridge] CHad and his team was ready to storm the ready room when John walked out with the scary Vulcan lady. He waved to his team to put down weapons when McKnight said, "It's okay Lieutenant. Everything is under control," said John as he kept walking towards the center of the bridge. As he brushed passed Chad, he whispered so that only Chad can hear, " at least, for now." Chad smiled at his last comment and nodded at him in acknowledgement. The Vulcan lady still gave him the creeps when she walked passed him. Chad told the security team to remain on the bridge as he headed back to his console. He monitored the weapons and make sure they were ready when they needed it. When John asked for a status report, Chad decided that since he was in command before John came back from the ready room, he decided to give him the report. "Weapons and Shields are operational and the Romulan ship fired a torpedo at us. It was a miss so there is no damage." He was careful what to reveal and what not to reveal in front of the Vulcan. "Weapons are standing by." As soon as he finished his report John alerted the bridge crew about his plan. It sounded pretty good and he kind of agreed. It wasn't like they had a whole range of options open anyway. Chad responded, "Understood, Lieutenant." Then he said to no one in particular. "Time to brush up on my acting skills." ------------------------------------ CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   09-03-04 03:02 [Guerin, on the bridge] Sam nodded to Iza as he acknowledged taking over and quickly moved back to flight control. "Just in time," she thought as things started to heat up. "Understood," she quietly said to McKnight, who had returned to the bridge and told the crew to playact that T`Salle was now in control of the ship. Sam sat, prepared to move the Hercules at a moment's notice. ------------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net Post Edited (09-29-04 23:56)

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   09-03-04 13:19 [Bochema, in the hall outside the transporter room] Nudara held onto the CEO and carefully listened for anything in the hallway. They were heading to the transporter room and the Counselor sincerely hoped that Captain Kramer was somewhere close so they could all escape. The ache in her head was slowly increasing. With the pressure from her facial swelling, Nudara tried to concentrate on what she was doing. However, she seemed to keep losing her thoughts as the pain reached the outer limits of bearable. "We'd better hurry." she told Devereaux softly, "We don't have much time left." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

Counselor's Office

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   09-03-04 13:20 =/\= -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

NPC Asst. CNS Opal Long

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   09-03-04 13:42 [Long in the Office] Opal paced the office feeling absolutely helpless. She had attempted to comm Nudara only to find out the woman had been transported off the ship just before the Hercules ducked into the nebula. She looked out the window and watched as the gases swirled by. "I feel like a chicken hiding in here while Nudara and the Captain and who knows what other crew are stuck out there fighting for their lives." she muttered to herself. The chime on the door rang but the assistant Counselor was so lost in thought that the sound didn't register in her mind. A moment later, it rang again. Opal turned at the repeated sound and called out. "Come in please." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   09-03-04 13:44 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux entered the transporter room, still supporting Bochema, with his phaser drawn. In front of him stood Hagen, but Devereux was unsure if he was the primary Hagen or the mirror Hagen. Devereux took aim "Don't move. No doubt your going to tell us you are 'our' Hagen. If thats the case what was the password the 4 of us agreed on before we boarded this ship?" Devereux prepared to fire if he didn't get the correct response..... ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CNS Ltjg Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   09-03-04 13:52 [Bochema in the transporter room] Nudara heard the door open and the CEO lead her into the Transporter room. She tried to focus on a movement when she heard Devereaux's voice. "Don't move. No doubt your going to tell us you are 'our' Hagen. If thats the case what was the password the 4 of us agreed on before we boarded this ship?" he said. The Counselor waited for the answer as she silently thought, "Here I am starving and knowing this guy he probably gave a food as the password for that team too." She thought back to his idea of using custard in the hall and tried to smile. -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   09-04-04 01:39 [Transporter Room] Tam looked at Remy and said, "There was no password, sir, and only three of us entered the ship. Does that pass the test?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   09-04-04 17:41 [LtJG Tor, Sickbay] Havik walked into sickbay and saw that all the biobeds were empty except for three severe burn patients. The only reason why they were there was to see if there had been any irreparable damage to their internal organs, as well as bed rest. Walking over to his office, Havik saw that there were minimal staff in there. Frowning a bit, he tapped a button on his console to summon the current shift. He figured that what ever happened, one shift could cover it, as they were in a fairly good position, for once on this mission. Spinning the chair around to look at the nebula, he saw one of the wings of the Romulan ship. Picking up his feet off the floor, he sat cross-legged in the chair and brought his fingertips together to meditate. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

XO LtCmdr. Paul Robinson

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-05-04 22:40 [In the corridor, facing Rwhen and the 2 Kramers] "Robinson, good work....you're just in time." Lord Kramer turned around to face Robinson, now unafraid of Captain Kramer's phaser. "Get me out of these." he said, offering his wrists. Robinson began to move towards the wrists, but as he did, Captain Kramer interjected. "Think about what you're doing, Ex." Kramer said, deliberately using the term 'Ex,' as he often did with his XO. Perhaps that would give Robinson pause. It did, and Robinson turned now to look at Captain Kramer, who was standing before him in Lord Kramer's clothing. Lord Kramer...in the Starfleet uniform...began to get impatient. "Un-do these...NOW!" Lord Kramer commanded. It was this statement that set Robinson's doubt in for good. Captain Kramer would not be so assertive...nor had he ever yelled at his First Officer, nor any other officer for that matter, at least not in the presence of others. Robinson thought about this for a moment. The universes were mirrors of each other...but the two Kramers lives did not seem to be parallel. There were many things Robinson could ask that only Captain Kramer would know....but there was no telling what had been done to his Captain over here. Captain Kramer may be drugged to talk..hence the assertive tone...he needed something physical. In this universe, there was no Starfleet...hence no academy... Robinson spoke finally. "Captain, I'm sorry, but I won't take those cuffs off until you show me your ankle. You too." Robinson said, pointing at Captain Kramer in Lord Kramer's clothes. {NPC'd for Andrew by Brandon} _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-05-04 22:53 [In the corridor with Rwhen, Lord Kramer, and Robinson] Kramer almost smiled, Robinson had come up with a stroke of genius...and had apparantly looked at his Captain's personnel file at some point. Of course, that was the job of the XO... Kramer lifted the leg of his (actually Lord Kramer's) pants to reveal a tatoo of a coiled rattlesnake with the words "Don't Tread On Me" surrounding it. Kramer had gotten it in the academy, several of his classmates had. Lord Kramer would not have a duplicate. This was obvious based upon Lord Kramer's response. "You want me to do what? Uncuff me, Ex. (Lord Kramer was very clever, picking up on the use of 'Ex' so quickly) Do it now and shoot my counterpart. That is a direct order." Lord Kramer said. Robinson did pull the trigger on his phaser, but shot Lord Kramer, who collapsed to the floor in a heap. "Good call, Ex. This is Rwhen...the Romulan intelligence officer we suspected from the onset of this mission. Who is with you?" Kramer asked. "Devereux and Ens. Hagen. Were rendevousing at the transporter room, two levels up." Robinson said. "Let's make our way up there, but first lets stash my namesake." Kramer said, indicating Lord Kramer. Rwhen, who had been silent up to this point, spoke up. "How about over here?" she said, pointing to a sign indicating another cargo bay. She pressed the control to open the door and a room filled with containers was revealed. Kramer picked up Lord Kramer in a fireman's carry over his shoulder and carried the stunned body into the cargo bay. Towards the back, he set the body down in a heap next to a container. The stun setting Robinson used must have been light, because Lord Kramer began to mumble and finally opened his eyes. Just as he did, Captain Kramer slugged him across the jaw, knocking Lord Kramer out again. Smiling in satisfaction and moving back to the corridor, Kramer addressed Rwhen and Robinson. "Ex, pocket your phaser. We come across anyone at all, you're a prisoner. Let's move." With that, Kramer began up the corridor. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   09-06-04 20:48 [McKnight, on the bridge] John looked around the bridge crew as one by one they responded that they understood the order. McKnight was glad that they were finally agreeing with him as a whole. {Once Ensign Whitney responds that he understood} John moved over to take his place at his own console. It has been a while since John had been at his console and he kind of missed it. McKnight tapped a few commands to set up the channel and turned to look at T'Salle. 'Here goes nothing' thought McKnight as he said, "Channel opened, ma'am." ------------------------------------ OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-07-04 12:26 [On the Bridge, standing with McKnight] McKnight walked over to the OPS console and toggled the controls to open the channel. T'Salle walked down to the center seat and stood in front of it. She sensed that sitting in the chair would make some members of the Bridge crew uncomfortable and also thought about how odd it was that this was her husband's counterparts' chair... "Channel opened, ma'am." McKnight said, interrupting her thoughts. "This is T'Salle. Firing a torpedo was in direct conflict with the orders I left. Explain yourself." she said in a cool, typically Vulcan tone. The screen switched on, revealing McKnight's double. He was sitting in the center seat, but stood before he began to speak. "You're making a grave mistake, T'Salle...one that will cost you your life. I know what you're doing over there." T'Salle interrupted. "That is ridiculous. In fact, I have gotten the commander of the Hercules to agree to my terms. I was about to signal you when you fired." "You are lying. I have known about your plan for some time now. Lord Kramer knows now, as well. I just signaled his ship. You're lucky that was just a warning shot. McKnight out." With that, the screen went blank. T'Salle turned back to McKnight. "You said earlier you had the ability to destroy my ship. I suggest you do so immediately. He will not chane is position. I was not aware that my plan had been so easily compromised." T'Salle internally scolded herself for being so amaturish in her designs... _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   09-07-04 13:37 [McKnight, on the bridge] [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight watched carefully as T'Salle contacted the other ship and he almost jumped out of his stool when he saw who had answered. It was his counterpart, but he seemed different than John himself. He seemed have more command characteristics than he did. 'So, it is possible' thought John. McKnight quickly turned his attention back towards the conservation. It seemed that the other crew figured out something about T'Salle. It was probably that she was siding with the Hercules. Then T'Salle asked John to destroy the other ship. John couldn't believe that she will destroy her own ship. However, by doing so, John seemed to trust her story more than ever. McKnight was also hesitant to destroy his own counterpart because he wanted to ask him some questions, but he saw that he had no other choice. McKnight turned towards the engineer. In the ready room, John had gotten his message about the shields but didn't pay much attention to it. "Ensign Whitney, raise shields" said McKnight as he turned to Vyxx and thought 'Vyxx will enjoy this.' He then said, "Lieutenant, detonate the mines. Lieutenant Guerin set a course out of this nebula, full impulse." John sighed and walked back to the center of the bridge. He waited for his orders to be carried out. ------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

EO Ens Whitney

Author: ihlemic10  Date:   09-07-04 14:32 [On the Bridge] "Aye sir, shields raising to 100%." he reported. 'We better have fixed these, I have a feeling we are going to need them.' He watched as the haze on the veiwscreen cleared up as they left the nebula. -------------------------------- EO Ens. John Whitney - USS Hercules Player - Mike Ihlenfeldt E-mail - Ihlemic10@hotmail.com

ACTION

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-07-04 17:30 [Stepping into the transporter room] The journey up two levels had been without incident. The transporter room doors opened and in walked Robinson, followed by Rwhen, followed finally by Kramer...dressed in Lord Kramer's clothing.

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   09-07-04 18:20 [SO Lt Jg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx listened to the short but direct conversation between T’Salle and her ship. Then to Lt McKnight's orders to raise shields, destroy the Romulan ship, and leave the nebula. He wondered how long it would take the engineer to realize that shields don’t work in a nebula. Since Vyxx knew the exactly distance the mines were from the Hercules, he composed the order to detonate only those mines a set distance from the Hercules. Basically, Vyxx wanted the entire aft end of the warbird to explode. This would cause three things to happen. First, it would render the ship useless, by cutting the ship in half, secondly, since the Hercules did not have shields, if the bow of the ship did not explode, it would help shield the Hercules from the explosion, and thirdly, maybe the entire crew would not perish. He quickly sent the order to the mines, to detonate, with a 3 second delay. Vyxx figured the extra distance would help. Of course that is counting on the FCO officer to engage the impulse drive immediately. Vyxx also sent a command to the other mines in the nebula to deactivate, so they would not be attracted to the Hercules as they left the nebula. Vyxx then turned towards Lt McKnight, “Sir, order sent to the mines. I gave them a 3 second delay, to give us more distance from the ship since shields will not be available until we are clear of the nebula.” Vyxx also explained about only detonating roughly half of the mines and his reasons. Vyxx figured it was a long shot that the entire ship would not explode, but if it did not, the survivors could not give chase or fire any weapons without power. SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-07-04 18:35 [On the Bridge, standing in front of the center seat] Once McKnight gave the order to destroy her ship, T'Salle gave the situation some thought. Although McKnight was probably hesitant to end the life of his counterpart, he did not show this in making his decision and giving the order. Turning back to McKnight after the Klingon sopke, T'Salle said, "Lieutenant, keep in mind there's a Bird of Prey outside this nebula with my most loyal subordinate in command. I believe his counterpart is your XO. At any rate, I do not know if he will be with us or against us." _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

FCO LtJG Guerin

Author: TerryG  Date:   09-08-04 00:20 [Guerin, on the bridge] "Aye, Lieutenant," Sam replied to McKnight's order to take the Hercules out of the nebula. She tapped several keys on her console and the Hercules moved away at impulse, back along the same trajectory on which she arrived. ------------- FCO LtJG Guerin terry gruber terryg40@adelphia.net Post Edited (09-29-04 23:55)

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   09-08-04 05:41 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux smiled at Hagen "You'll do Mr Hagen. Help the councellor to the transporter pad". It was then that Kramer, Robinson & a romulan female entered the transporter room. Devereux froze for a moment weighing them up, phaser trained on them, before lowering his weapon. "Well it's about time" grinned Devereux with relief "And we have company" indicating the Romulan "Now as much as I've enjoyed this little trip, could you all join the counsellor & Mr Hagen on the transporter pad so I can get us out of here". With that Devereux started to use the console to try to lock on to the Aries. ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-08-04 11:20 [Stepping into the transporter room] Kramer stepped into the transporter room and Devereux immediately raised his weapon...then lowered it. He wasn't fooled by Kramer's clothing. Frankly, if it was that easy, Kramer was glad their trip to the transporter room had been without incident. "Well it's about time" grinned Devereux with relief "And we have company" indicating the Romulan "Now as much as I've enjoyed this little trip, could you all join the counsellor & Mr Hagen on the transporter pad so I can get us out of here". Devereux said. "Not quite yet, Remmy. We're about to beam back over to a ship where we can be outrun and outgunned. I think we need a tactical advantage...sabotage. Can you disable their weapons or warp drive...or both, even for a little bit, from here? Or do we need to go to Engineering?" Kramer asked, hoping his Chief Engineer would have an answer. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   09-08-04 14:34 [McKnight, on the bridge] McKnight watched as his orders were carried out after all. Vyxx then gave him a report about the status of the mines, "Sir, order sent to the mines. I gave them a 3 second delay, to give us more distance from the ship since shields will not be available until we are clear of the nebula." "Very good Lieutenant. As soon as the mines detonate, try and confirm the destruction of the Romulan ship," said McKnight. As soon as John gave that order, T'Salle said, "Lieutenant, keep in mind there's a Bird of Prey outside this nebula with my most loyal subordinate in command. I believe his counterpart is your XO. At any rate, I do not know if he will be with us or against us." "I see," began McKnight. His thoughts were then distracted by the image of movement on the viewscreen. John turned to face Vyxx, "Lieutenant, what kind of gases are in this nebula. See if it's compatible with our busscard ramscoops. If it is, we can "back flush" the gas out, somewhat like the Riker maneuver." John then turned to Guerin and said "Lieutenant Guerin, slow to one-quarter impulse. Lieutenant Iza, weapons status." He turned back to face T'Salle and said, "We can try the same thing with what we did with my counterpart or we can try it another way. What will happen if you told the counterpart Robinson the truth?" John waited for T'Salle's response along with Vyxx's before he put his plan into action. If it turns out that the counterpart Robinson was not on their side, they could maybe destroy them with the nebula gas. -------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

NPC T'Salle

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-08-04 15:51 [On the Bridge, near the center seat] McKnight asked, "We can try the same thing with what we did with my counterpart or we can try it another way. What will happen if you told the counterpart Robinson the truth?" T'Salle thought about this. Although she suspected her Robinson was completely loyal to her...and disgruntled with her husband...she had been mistaken by her own McKnight. "Logically, telling the truth will do one of two things. He will join us, or he will be against us. Really no different than the situation at hand, but I trust the explosion of my ship will make his suspicious." T'Salle said. She bit her bottom lip slightly as she did when she was thinking. "Using the manuver you suggested, and with the other ship exploding, do you believe there is any chance we can get away with him thinking this ship perished in the explosion as well? I know there will be no debris...but perhaps it could buy us just a little time..." T'Salle concluded. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   09-08-04 17:01 [Devereux on the Warbird] Devereux smile faded as Kramer spoke "Not quite yet, Remmy. We're about to beam back over to a ship where we can be outrun and outgunned. I think we need a tactical advantage...sabotage. Can you disable their weapons or warp drive...or both, even for a little bit, from here? Or do we need to go to Engineering?" asked the captain. Devereux tapped a couple of controls before letting out a sigh. "We can't do it from here, It'll have to be engineering. It's not like we can shut down their power systems as they run off an artificial singularity. Best I could do is divert the power some place else, but even this rabble could fix it in no time." conceeded Remy. That left a rather unappealing option open to him. Devereux addressed Kramer. "Captain, If you and the others would care to prepare for transport. When I get to engineering I'll activate the transporter from there. I should then be able to manually compensate for every adjustment this crew can make. That should give you enough time to disable this ship with the Aries' limited armaments. I can then beam back to you as soon as the ship is crippled." Devereux unclipped his tool box from the front of his environmental suit and began to check it "As long as Ensign Hagen can manage to shoot straight we should be ok" said Devereux with a cheerfulness he didn't feel, and a grin hiding his apprehension. But Devereux knew that as a starfleet officer, he would sometimes have to carry out unpleasent and dangerous missions. It now rested with the Captain. ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CMO LtJG Havik Tor

Author: William Beeler  Date:   09-08-04 17:03 [LtJG Tor, Sickbay] Havik felt a small rumble in his chair and opened his eyes. He looked out through the window and saw that the engines had been engaged: They were moving through, and assumably, out of the nebula. He hoped that there was a plan in action, as he was sure he remembered another ship following them, and hence would be waiting for them outside of the nebula. He might just become a little bit more active. XO Cmdr Linton Earnshaw (USS Dakota) CMO Cmdr Havik Tor (USS Hercules) Player William Beeler erulin9@gmail.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   09-08-04 17:12 [Bochema in the Transporter Room] Nudara stood near the transporter pad and listened to the conversation between the CO and CEO. "Not quite yet, Remmy." The Captain said. "We're about to beam back over to a ship where we can be outrun and outgunned. I think we need a tactical advantage...sabotage. Can you disable their weapons or warp drive...or both, even for a little bit, from here? Or do we need to go to Engineering?" Devereaux replied, "We can't do it from here, It'll have to be engineering. It's not like we can shut down their power systems as they run off an artificial singularity. Best I could do is divert the power some place else, but even this rabble could fix it in no time." The Counselor took a deep breath as the CEO continued. "Captain, If you and the others would care to prepare for transport. When I get to engineering I'll activate the transporter from there. I should then be able to manually compensate for every adjustment this crew can make. That should give you enough time to disable this ship with the Aries' limited armaments. I can then beam back to you as soon as the ship is crippled. As long as Ensign Hagen can manage to shoot straight we should be ok." Leaning against the wall, Nudara thought for a moment then offered a suggestion of her own. "Captain? Do we really need such stealth for sabotage? If the whole idea is to cripple them then can't we just beam enough stuff out that they can't come after us? If we leave it in the buffer then do a quick wipe and beam ourselves out, there's nothing left in the memory for them to rematerialize and reinstall." -------------------- CEO Ensign Jordana Rydyll - USS Dakota Janaye Hinsley

CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux

Author: Rembrandt Devereux  Date:   09-08-04 17:34 [Devereux on the Warbird] Even though the question was aimed at the Captain, Devereux spoke up addressing both the Captain & the Counsellor. "Stealth is not the objective here Councellor. Believe me, as soon as I start doing my magic, every alarm on this ship will go off. To buy the time we need, I need to manually compensate for any repairs the mirror crew might make. As for beaming 'stuff' out, even if we over rode the safety blocks that prevent such an occurance, there is not enough buffer space aboard to remove enough equipment in a realistic time scale. Remember that a Romulan Warbird is over 1200 meters long and weighs 4.3 million metric tons." Devereux turned to Kramer "Sir, this is a rescue mission after all. The sooner you all leave, the sooner you can get the Hercules back and the injured can get treatment. It's your call, but we are running out of time" ------------------------------------ CEO Lt. Rembrandt Devereux USS Hercules NCC-83549 Scott Walters scott.walters3@ntlworld.com

CO Capt. Billy Kramer

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-08-04 17:46 [In the Transporter Room] Kramer assessed the situation. The sure thing was to allow Remmy and Hagen to go to engineering...but it wasn't necessairly the safe thing. Kramer decided to do the sure thing. "Remmy, Ensign Hagen...go do it. You've got...Kramer looked at a chronometer than made a guess in his mind...5 minutes from the time we beam out, then I'm leaving you. I don't want them able to follow or shoot at us when were trying to esacpe in that antique. Everybody else, on the transporter pad." Kramer said with conviction, stepping on to the transporter pad himself. Rhwen followed and Robinson walked over to the Counselor to give her a hand. _______________________________________ Commander Billy Kramer Flight Control Officer - USS Dakota Player - Brandon Carter captainkramer@cox.net

CTO Lt. JG Chad Iza

Author: Sean Yan  Date:   09-08-04 22:20 [Iza, on the bridge] Chad watched as the conversation that T'Salle had. The image of John's counterpart made him wonder if Chad had a counterpart also. If so, Chad wanted to punch him in the face. He believed that there should only one Chad Iza in all the universes. He then heard John ask him about weapons status. Chad quickly tapped his console and reported, "Weapons are operational. Ready to fire on your command." Iza put his finger on the fire button and waited. ----------------------------------- CTO Lieutenant Junior Grade Chad Iza Player - Sean Yan artmedia@graphic-designer.com

TO Ens Tam Hagen

Author: THagen  Date:   09-09-04 15:25 [Transporter Room] Tam listened to the conversation carried on by Capt. Kramer, Remy and Bochema. He thought to himself, ‘Well at least everyone’s safe, for now. Looks like I get to go back into the fray. Well this is what I signed up. Time to get my adrenaline pumping I guess.’ He then looked at Remy, “Well you ready to go? Oh and the transporter was already locked on the Aries, first thing I did.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTO LtJG Tam Hagen Player: Todd Wiley E-Mail: Kaudrim@earthlink.net

Engineering

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-09-04 18:05 {}

SO LtJg Vyxx

Author: Mike Lynch  Date:   09-10-04 09:54 [SO LtJg Vyxx, Bridge, Science I] Vyxx listened as McKnight asked the composition of the nebula. After a quick glance at his instruments, to make he was giving a correct response he answered, “The nebula is composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of nitrogen. It does have a fairly high dust content, approaching 1.5% of iron and nickel, all within hydrogen sheaths. I am unable to determine the extent of the damge to the Romulan vessel. Sensors are unable to penetrate the nebula.” SO LtJg Vyxx Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com CO Captain Clarke - USS Broadsword CSO Lt Cmdr Vyxx - USS Hercules Mike Lynch Dervical@aol.com Post Edited (09-10-04 10:05)

ACTION

Author: Billy Kramer  Date:   09-10-04 11:25 The aft section of the Romulan Warbird explodes. The forward section begins a free fall, then also explodes. No escape pods deploy. There are no survivors.

OPS Lt. John McKnight

Author: Mike Yan  Date:   09-10-04 12:00 [McKnight, on the bridge] John listened carefully to what T'Salle suggested. As he listened, he suddenly felt a rumble and John glanced at the viewscreen. Logically, he already knew what the rumble was and there was probably no survivors. John sighed and was then inturrupted by Chad saying, "Weapons are operational. Ready to fire on your command" which was then followed by Vyxx reporting, "The nebula is composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of nitrogen. It does have a fairly high dust content, approaching 1.5% of iron and nickel, all within hydrogen sheaths. I am unable to determine the extent of the damge to the Romulan vessel. Sensors are unable to penetrate the nebula." McKnight took in all the information present and quickly thought about it. Hydrogen was extremely flamable and would probably be compatiable will the bussards. John knew from his training at the academy that the magnetic field in the bussard ramscoop were able to attract loose molecules of hydrogen gas. McKnight quickly formulated a plan. He then turned to T'Salle and said, "That might actually work. However, in order for it work for sure, we need to know the exact location of the other ship before releasing the gas. We don't want to fly directly into their laps. Is it safe to assume that you know the coordinates of the other ship and that they have not moved since?" John waited for her to answer before putting his plan into action. The first step they needed to do was to get out of the nebula in some way. Once they were out, John had another plan in mind that would hopefully get the captain and the others back in one piece. -------------------------------------------------- OPS Lieutenant John McKnight Player - Mike Yan holoinfomod@inorbit.com

CNS Ltjg. Nudara Bochema

Author: Janaye Hinsley  Date:   09-10-04 13:37 [Bochema, in the transporter room] Nudara heard the Captan order everyone on the transporter pad. "Watch your back." she called to the CEO. She felt a hand on her back as she was led to her place. After taking a deep breath she turned to where her limited sight told her the Captain was. From what she could tell, he was not in uniform. "Must have been a good party if you had to change clothes afterward." she