The Heart of Kahless

Posted on Thu Mar 5th, 2020 @ 3:00am by Captain Aurelian Saunders & Captain Worf, Son of Mogh & Lieutenant Micheal Ward

Mission: Mission 53: Last March of the Enterprise-E
Location: B'moth shipyards
Timeline: December 27 2391

The Enterprise-E dropped out of warp near the B'Moth system, where the 82.8 million ton Bortasqu class Battleship Heart of Kahless was waiting. Enterprise-E was absolutely dwarfed by the massive Klingon ship, which itself was somewhat larger than a Guardian class.

Alyssa looking at the ship oncreeen, commented. "Well the Klingon's have been busy, didn't expect her to be quite that big."

Worf rose to his feet as he regarded the large Klingon vessel before him as one of the smaller escorts slowly past before the Klingon flagship. "Impressive." he rumbled. "Hail them please?" as he turned to face the viewscreen.

Chancellor Martok appeared on the screen. "Worf, it has been too long.. I'm glad they had the sense to send you.."

"Indeed Chancellor." Worf responded. "We are here to accompany you on your shakedown cruise and assist with problems as they arise."

"Good." Martok responded. "Soon we must go Targ hunting together." he added. "I brought six barrels of twenty three oh nine and we must drink it, your senior staff... and mine."

"I am honored." Worf responded.

Saunders smiled as she knew exactly what she was going to be asking the Doctor for in a short time but she kept that thought to herself.

Just then Martoks helmsman reported that they were ready to begin getting underway, the Chancellor nodded. "Worf?"

Worf nodded back. "We are ready Chancellor. Helm set course for the exercise area. One half impulse... and engage when ready."

The Enterprise wheeled around smartly as her conn officer guided the starship to where she needed to go, the massive Klingon battleship followed along with her escorts before the entire group went into warp.

Barely 5 minutes into the journey, sensor warnings went off on the Enterprise E as out of nowhere, a wormhole appeared and engulfed the Enterprise, Bortasqu and the Klingon escorts.

Worf remained in his command chair as a soft booming sound echoed around the bridge. Aurelian turned her head. "Report?"

"We're back at impulse, so is the rest of the group." responded the Operations officer.

Ward added. "Most of the ships are scattered around the area, everyone is present however... but I can't get a fix on our location."

"Our sensor grid is more or less fried.. Engineering is on it."

Worf meanwhile hadn't moved since the shaking stopped. "Sir... are you alright?" Aurelian Saunders asked of her friend and Commanding Officer.

Worf nodded once. "I am unhurt. You have the bridge number one,. I will go and visit the various departments and see the ship for myself." and with that Worf departed the bridge.

Ward regarded the Executive Officer. "Sir... I've been able to get a limited star fix... based on asterometrical observations of the surrounding stars... and.."

"What?" Saunders inquired.

"Our position has moved.. We're now on the far side of Vela."

"Thats impossible..." Saunders responded as she tapped her combadge. "Bridge to Engineering. Report?"

Alyssa was in the middle of doing a full engineering diagnostic. "Most of our systems are still coming back online, but i cant get the warp drive up, something is preventing us from forming a warp field."

Saunders nodded her head as a sigh escaped her lips. "Understood. Keep me informed please?" she responded quietly. "So... let me get this right.. a wormhole pops up out nof nowhere, snares all of us while at warp.. and drops us off here and shorts out only the subspace systems... am I just being paranoid or was that one weird wormhole.?"

Ward raised an eyebrow. "Or something masquerading as one." he regarded her. "Just because your being paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you."

Massae parks tried her best to raise the other ships on the comm but had no success. "I cant get any comms up. Diagnostics indicates that the subspace radios are operating and have no malfunctions, but all I get is nothing, not even static."

Saunders regarded the Caitian female. "Theory?. Could we be inside a subspace bubble?" she inquired. "Do we have any other ways to contact the other ships... I can see a Klingon Captain over there getting pissed off about this.."

Massae shook her furry head," No, if we were in a subspace bubble, the comm system would still be giving me static, but I am getting nothing at all. I can try and use a point to point laser communication system, it will be lightspeed limited, but it should work, however it will take me a few minutes to get it set up."

"Very well." Saunders responded. "Proceed... Hopefully the Klingon's get the hint." the taller then average human woman let out a sigh.

Massae nodded and then after making the necessary configurations, she tried hailing the Klingon ships using laser comms. It took several minutes of unsuccessful tries before the Klingon's finally answered," Alright, got them, putting them on screen."

Commander Saundfers regarded the Klingon she didn't know. "Captain... Whats your status?"

"Why do none of our subspace systems work... is this some kind of Federation-"

"No, its not sabotage." Saunders responded in a derisive tone. "When we are in the same situation ourselves...." she added. We're still checking in with the various Captains of the Klingon force... and for now, we're all stuck at impulse speeds.."

Norsvin ended up commenting," Yeah, this is not how I saw this day going."

Ward smiled. "No kidding right."

Meanwhile Saunders carried on. "This line of sight communication system right now is presently the best system we have to talk.. so we'll try to round up the Klingon force before we get underway."

"Very well." the Klingon turned off the com. "Get me Martok." Saunders turned to Massie Parks.

Martok's face appeared on the screen. Saunders then proceeded to brief him on the particulars. "Chancellor. We have no warp power.. so for now I'm thinking we should consider remaining together as a group until we can get sorted out."

"I will consult with my people and explain the situation to them. Martok out." and the screen went back to stars.