They've come back

Posted on Mon Mar 2nd, 2020 @ 4:57pm by Admiral Kurso Teska & Commander Galiaan Fordring & Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Yamaguchi-Solusar & Lieutenant Shorin DeMasscho & Commodore Siaxx "Bluemoon" Dvald-Vaxx MD & Post Captain Tirion Fordring & Lieutenant Commander Kameron "Foehammer" Solusar-Yamaguchi & Zuko Omakan
Edited on on Thu Apr 15th, 2021 @ 1:18am

Mission: Mission 42: A House Divided
Location: Various Locations - Battlecruiser Ryazar's Shield
Timeline: 1900Hrs - September 13th, 2391

The past day had been a tiring one for all of them, but thanks to Seykai getting most of the robot crew functional again, their job of getting Ryazar's shield space worthy again had proven to be not as difficult as anticipated. It was in this case Ryuukei thanked the robustness of Akurian technology. while Akurian ships didn't have all the same fancy technologies that a federation ship had, they where built to have very high reliability even with poor maintenance. Now Ryuukei sat at the command console coordinating the repair efforts, which by this point, they where just about ready to lift off. The ship had been fully re-pressurized the previous day, so they no longer needed space suits, and most of the primary systems where still at near full operational capability.

Ryuukei nodded to Kakivi, whom sat at the helm. " Alright, power up the engines, lets get this old girl off the ground."

Kakivi tapped several commands on the control panel and brought the main thruster's to life. It took a minute or so for the engines to warm up, but once they did, the thruster's fired and the ship began to lift off.

Siaxx was wearing off duty civilian clothing as she was sitting at one of the consoles, the display was dark as she was making herself comfortable. "All of the bodies have been secured in the aft cargo hold." she explained. "The systems are off and life support doesn't work in that area." she explained. "The bodies should be safe for the duration."

"Anyone wanna say a few words before we start?" Elizabeth Yamaguchi inquired of the assembled people.

Siaxx did indeed say a few words which came across as barks and growls.

"Whats that Siaxx?"

"From the stars whence we came.... to the Stars we return... from now until the end of time... Its a Wulgari burial prayer.."

"Amen.." Elizabeth responded.

Kameron lifted his bottle of water to his lips as he took a drink. "Mmm.." he regarded Siaxx. "You think she'll be alright?"

"She will be... once she finds what she's seeking.."

Ryuukei felt the pull of gravity as Ryazar's shield lifted itself from the planetoids surface. Once the ship was clear of the planets gravity and settled into orbit Ryuukei asked, "Full systems check?"

Weyai tapped the operations console and gave him the rundown. " Well Life support systems are nearly fully functional, aside from a few dead units here and there, but nothing serious. Internal gravity plating is at 98%, a few dead sections, but nothing we cant deal with. Inertial dampening system is fully functional. Engines nearly fully functional, we have one rear thruster assembly that's dead, but that's it. FTL drive still needs about 30 minutes of maintenance before they can be brought online, subwarp fields are fully operational. Defense fields at 99%, got a couple bad units. Shields at 96%, a couple of generators aren't working at full capacity. Main 200 cm guns appear to be fully operational, as are the 80 cm's. two of the 38 cm guns, and four point defense DEW's are jammed, probably because the ship was resting on them. VLS missile systems are nearly fully functional, one of the modules is not responding, and missile capacity is at 96%."

Ryuukei nodded, "For sitting on a planet for 59 years and a days worth of restoration work, that's pretty good."

Weyai nodded, "Well, for now, its always possible that some systems might break down after only relatively light use."

"Yeah, but since the ships industrial replicators are working, that can always be repaired."

Weyai then added, "Also on a side note, there is still quite a bit of the food stores left, though I wouldn't eat it as its been there for six decades now. And of course all the plants in the hydroponics bay are long dead."

Elizabeth nodded. "So... can we replicate new food then?" she inquired. "or are we stuck with rations?"

Siaxx raised an eyebrow. "Well... we do have a working ship... More or less.." she paused. "What?"

Weyai shook her head," food replicators was something the Akurians never developed, unfortunately. Our replicators are capable of replicating some incredibly strong materials that federation replicators would never be able to produce, but food is not one of the things our replicators can deal with. However once we get to Vega, we can replenish our food stores and put new plants in the hydroponics bays, and it will only take us a few hours at most to get there."

Siaxx wanted to cheer, instead, she sat and did nothing.

"So... we're heading to Vega first then?" Elizabeth Yamaguchi inquired. "just... so I know.."

Ryuukei nodded as Teval walked onto the bridge, which Ryuukei commented, "Well Teval you are technically the captain among our group, care to take over?."

Teval shook his head, "No Ryuukei, this isn't a federation starfleet operation, this vessel flies an Akurian flag, plus, you know how these ships operate, she is yours."

Ryuukei shrugged, "Alright then." He was about to say something else when the sensor console beeped, prompting Weyai, "Guy's, we got trouble, Two Romulan warbirds have just decloaked, 400,000 km's away. They have locked weapons on us."

Ryuukei's commands where prompt, "raise shields and power up defense fields, sound general Quarters. Load the main guns and begin charging missile batteries."

Kameron sat down nearby as Elizabeth almost jumped for joy. "Oooh goodie!" she smiled

"Only you would call this good... should we not be retreating?" Siaxx inquired.

"Where to?," Ryuukei replied," We still have another 40 minutes of repair work to do before our FTL engines come online, besides, not to be rude, but this battlecruiser outguns a mere D'Deridex nine thousand times over, I rather doubt they can do anything

Weyai then added," Ryuukei, they are hailing us, they are demanding that we surrender the ship or they will destroy us."

Ryuukei scoffed, "Yeah whatever, fire an 80 cm shot across the lead warbirds bow."

Weyai nodded and one of the ships 80 cm turrets fired a single round that just barely grazed their shields.

The warbirds returned fire with their forward disruptor arrays, and the result caused Ryuukei to stand up in astonishment. The impact hit the battlecruisers shields, and though half the disruptor's energy was bled off by the defense fields, nearly half the disruptor's power's power still got through. Ryuukei felt the impact on the ship, and Weyai reported," Ryuueki, those ships aren't as weak as we thought, their disruptors have an Akurian Signature. Ryuukei was quick to respond, "Very well, full evasive maneuvers, return fire all guns, aim all 200 cm main guns at the lead warbird. This time Ryuukei wasn't surprised when the warbirds shields withstood the Ryazar's Shield's gunfire. The lead warbird withstood a withering hail of secondary 80 cm and 38 cm gunfire. Weyai then reported, all cruise missile batteries fully charged.

Ryuukei nodded, then fire a full volley, 200 cm and missiles.

200 VLS hatches opened on the battlecruiser, and 200 very large anti ship missiles left their launch tubes, and at the same time, all of the ships tewnty 200 cm guns fired. the warbirds point defense system attempted to neutralize the missiles and shells, but its point defense fire harmlessly pattered off the shells and only 5 missiles where destroyed before the rest hit their mark. Though the warbirds upgraded shields where far stronger than any warbird in the past ever had, its shields couldn't resist this level of punishment. The shields collapsed under the strain and many of the Shells and missiles struck bare hull, annihilating the warbird as its singularity power core went. The second warbird didn't wait for it to become the target before turning away to retreat. Multiple 80 and 38 cm shells caught it as it attempted to cloak and run away, one shell got lucky and struck home on their cloaking device, and several more landed on the shield generators. Now exposed, the warbird quickly fell under a hail of secondary gunfire.

Ryuukei fell back in his chair, as the realization hit him, he sat there in silence.

"Wait... what the fuck just happened?" Kameron inquired. "How did those rat bastards get ahold of your tech..." he paused. "They were the ones who pillaged this ship.... and they were able to make it work for them... Oh, shit.."

Elizabeth added. "Aren't you guys a couple of thousand years ahead of us in terms of tech level?"

Ryuukei turned his chair around and looked at them, "Correction, we were a couple of thousand years ahead of you guys."

Weyai sighed, then the realization hit her," Yeah, I know how they did it. They simply changed the particle emitters on their ships of one of our own disruptor particle emitters. Now that I think about it, adapting your guy's tech to fire the same disruptor particles our ships use is not difficult. Hell with some field modifications, I could probably adapt your ships phaser arrays and shield generators to have similar capabilities to what those very warbirds had. and it wouldn't take long to redesign your own quantum torpedoes to have a similar firepower level as well. They didn't fire a single torpedo at us, so my guess is they haven't solved that problem yet. But we also have a leg up on them. Producing the Armor of our ships is much more difficult to reverse engineer, but we know exactly how to produce that armor plating. My guess is, it would take maybe 2 months of work to retrofit Dreamcrusher to be able to go to that level."

Ryuukei nodded," Yeah, and the power generation capabilities of federation ships isn't that different from ours. In fact, in terms of Raw power generation, Dreamcrusher's power generation is very close to one of our light cruisers, so adapting our weapons and shield tech to your ships isn't that hard."

Kameron Yamaguchi nodded. "Okay... that takes care of all of the newer ships... what about the older ones like the Excelsior we have remaining or the older Galaxies?"

Siaxx turned her head. "It doesn't matter... We have a new arms race starting out here..."

Teval sat down in one of the chairs, "An arms race that started when Dreamcrusher crushed several of those Romulan ships a couple of months ago."

Siaxx nodded her head. "I recall... It was an interesting fight."

Ryuukei sighed," We will have to do a more extensive analysts on the problem, Kakivi, bring us close to the Romulan ships, I noticed something off about their shield generators, I want a closer look at them."

Kakivi nodded and brought Ryazar's shield closer to the burnt out hulks of the Romulan ships, while Weyai went over the sensor records. Once they got close enough, Weyai was able to confirm Ryuukei's suspicions," Hey Ryuukei, yeah, your right, These ships are using Transphasic shielding, they aren't using our Shielding at all. Just our weapons."

Teval asked the question," Wait, then how did their shields resist our weapons fire, Akurian Disruptors are supposed to be several hundred times more powerful than phasers of the same power."

Ryuukei shook his head, "Against particle shielding and armor plating they are, because like phasers, our disruptors induce a chain reaction effect in energy shields and armor. However transphasic shielding, because it is constantly oscillating through multiple phases, is immune to this effect. Likewise our gun shells are tipped with energy Dispersion Armor, so when it comes in contact with shields, again, it drains energy shielding significantly with the chain reaction effect, but transphasic shields are immune to that, so it was simply pure raw kinetic force of the rounds that was draining their shields."

Weyai sighed, "Well, at least that solves the problem of shielding against our weapons, what about armor."

at that point Kurso Teska walked in, saying," That problem is already partially underway. The new class 5 tritanum armor plate, that is being fitted to Roanoke and Dreamcrusher as we speak, once we retune the structural integrity fields, will be able to resist these weapons types, with nearly the same degree of effectiveness as our own dispersion armor plates."

Ryuukei looked over at Kurso, saying, "You knew, didn't you."

Kurso nodded, "yeah I did, about a year ago, the romulans discovered one of our badly damaged drone fighters. The fighters missile armament had been dumped, but they where able to recover an intact lance gun, as well as other equipment. So i made preparations for the day when the Romulans may come wielding our weapons."

Weyai listen carefully, then added, "Wait, a big part of our ships defenses is a defense field, but we cant add that to federation ships, but you think we can bolster their defenses even more with our dispersion armor."

Kurso shook his head," No unfortunately, the technology is not compatible, because the dispersion armor doesn't react well with structural integrity fields, the armor interferes with SIF fields, which would weaken the hull where the armor is mounted. No adding Dispersion Armor would do more harm than good."

Kameron raised an eyebrow. "Guys... " he said quietly. "I don't mean to be rude.... " he commented. "But are there any other ships out there and... can you guys scan for cloaked ships?"

Weyai shook her head," No our sensors aren't picking up any cloaked ships, however we know the romulans have started to employ phased cloaks, and our sensors cannot penetrate them."

"Either way," Ryuukei added," Lets recover their disruptor array and shield generator, also some of their armor plating as well, and what else useful we can grab in the next 30 minutes, then we get out of here."

Kameron Yamaguchi nodded. "Can I assist with that?" he inquired. "I'm sitting around feeling useless and... I want to be doing something."

Ryuukei looked over at Kameron, "Nah, not much for you to really do now, we are mostly going to be using the ships robots to handle that, unless your science or engineering trained, then you can go and investigate the romulan gear that we bring on board."

"I'm a fighter pilot... I'm.... Yeah." h sighed.

Siaxx rose to her feet. "Nah. You can assist me... I;'m medically trained so we can look into things... where is the ships medical and research facilities?" the small Bolian inquired.

Kurso said to them both, "follow me, I'll show you where they are at."