The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Posted on Tue Mar 3rd, 2020 @ 4:10am by Admiral Jake Yamaguchi & Captain L'Ruan "Shield" Dragon & Captain Traci MacIntosh & Commander Marissa Cartwright & Commander Pava Sh'Andoo & Lieutenant Hriss & Lieutenant Commander Feris Hingol & Commodore Ashley Kuechler & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 50: This Grey Spirit
Location: Inside the HD-385784-2395 Star System
Timeline: 1000Hrs November 25th, 2391

Ryuukei looked up at Bihkami and Kasana. "How's things."

Kasana shook her head," Subspace disturbances are getting worse, I think its time to leave the system until it settles down."

Ryuukei sighed, then asked," Any idea why they are getting worse."

Kasana shrugged," I'm not sure, but the federation ships do emit subspace fields with their drive systems, that could be whats stirring up all the quantum filaments."

Ryuukei looked at the main display," Well either way, its gotten too dangerous to satay," Contact the Courageous."

Bihkami nodded and opened a channel to the Courageous.

Meanwhile on the bridge of the USS Courageous. Captain Torilla Yamaguchi who was just coming on watch, she had the evening and the night after losing two destroyers the day before. "Courageous here." Pava Sh'Andoo almost purred as she smiled. "Go ahead?"

Ryuukei decided to be the bearer of bad news," Hey, from what we can tell, the subspace disturbances are getting worse, probably because of your ships warp fields is stirring everything up in the system."

Yamaguchi nodded, in agreement. "My science guys are telling me more or less the same thing." she paused only a moment. "Alright. Lets call this one and get ourselves out of here."

Ryuukei was about to say something else when Kasana alerted him to a more urgent problem," Ryuukei, stellar activity has just spiked to an enormous degree, and its starting to stir up the subspace rifts even more, I think its time to go like now."

Ryuukei nodded, and taking helm control's himself, he plotted the fastest course out of the system, while saying," Did you get that Torilla."

Yamaguchi nodded. "I did." she responded, meanwhile Sh'Ando was urgently hailing the rest of the group. "Omega Signal. Mission Abort. All ships evacuate the system, repeat, Omega Signal. Mission Abort."

Jaest who was at Conn tapped the display before her. "Ready to get underway sir"

"Helm, take us outta here... "

Meanwhile the USS Rawalpindi had to fight out way back out of the deepening gravity well. Captain L'Ruan regarded the display before her when a voice from her operations officer alerted her to the problems at hand. "Sir. we're receving Omega Signal. Its from the Courageous."

"Very well... Helm. take us out of here..."

"Aye sir." came the response.

The minutes passed by as Ryazar's shield recovered all her drones and accelerated out of the system. They had to get some distance form the star's gravity well before they could activate their FTL. The federation ships seemed little better off. All the subspace interference was preventing stable warp fields from being formed, so all ships had to escape on sublight. Not ten minutes after the warning went out, the situation became more urgent, The star released a coronal mass ejection, which triggered a subspace shock wave. Ryuukei had the Ryazar's shield go to emergency overload of her engines, to try and get as close to lightspeed as possible. Fortunately, the shockwave was limited to lightspeed itself.

Rawalpindi saw the black surge coming from the star almost as soion as the star launched it off. "Can we go to warp?"

"Warp opne only sir." Hriss responded, almost as if she didn't see the issue.

"Engage... Take us out of here, order all escorts to do the same."

Meanwhile on Barnham's bridge. Captain Ashley Kuechler watched the scene play out before her, she was orbiting the Brown Dwarf at a distance of thirty million kilometers, her ship was well outside of its forming gravity well

"Sir, we have a situation... the Courageous has ordered Omega signal."

"Very well." Kuechler didn't hesitate. "Helm... set course for the rendezvous point and take us out of the system, best speed."

"Aye sir." and with that the starts pinwheeled around on the view screen before they seemed to elongate, the Barnham had gone to warp. Kuechler paused. "Report?"

"We're clear of the system sir..." came the response.

Meanwhile over on the Ishtar which was presently floating free in the outer Kuiper belt., the signal came in as Captain Traci MacIntosh sat down in her command chair. "Talk to me?"

"Captain, we have an omega signal, its coming from the Courageous.... wait.. sir, the star.."

"Pu it up" McIntosh ordered.

The display was shocking. "Did the star just go nova?"

"Negative sir... it was a Coronal mass ejection... but I've never seen one this powerful."

The Courageous meanwhile was attempting to navigate the hazards when she was suddenly caught in a wormhole which collapsed moments later, removing her from the area.

Meanwhile on the bridge of the USS Comet, Commander Marissa Cartwright watched as the Courageous was caught inside said unstable wormhole. "Shit... Alert everyone that we just lost the flagship, her status is unknown... but she was caught inside one of those subspace distortions."

The various destroyers with them all attempted to escape as one of them engaged her warp drive but was also caught by a subspace distortion right at the last second, there was a muffled explosion as she likewise disappeared off of the board. Cartwright noticed that it was the Ericsson.

"We're dropping like flies." she paused. "Helm, get us the hell out of here?"

"I'm trying Captain.." came the response from the Trill female officer at conn.

Cartwright watched as Command Warrant Officer Elena Aries fight with the system, as she stabbed the warp engage toggle, but the Comet was more fortunate then the Ericsson as she escaped unharmed.

Kasana was quick to notice the disappearance of two ships, but barely had time to warn everyone that another rift formed in the battlecruisers path. Ryuukei tried to avoid it, but the sheer inertia of the 84 million ton vessel took them straight into the rift anyway, and along with the other ships, Ryazar's shield disappeared as well.

L'Ruan who had been observing simply sighed. "Well... Shit!" the Vulcan woman didn't know of what else to say before she turned to Hingol. "Inform the rest of our ships that remain... I'm assuming command of the group... all ships to form up at the rendezvous point as soon as possible.."

The stocky Bolian male nodded as he went to work. "Nothing from the Ericsson." he responded. "I have Comet, she escaped unharmed, same with Barnham and Ishtar." he paused as L'Ruan regarded him with her delicate eyes. "Akatsuki also escaped... they will rendezvous with USS Miami first then both will come to meet with us, estimated time... four hours." he paused. "Hara was assigned to the Barnham.... she too is undamaged. No sign of the Ryazar's Shield or the Courageous."

L'Ruan sighed softly. "Very well. Hail all of the ships and inquire about their status. Then tell Engineering to prepare for repairs... this mission was bad from the start..."