On Patrol

Posted on Fri Mar 6th, 2020 @ 4:13pm by Commander Shireen Stark-Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 53: Last March of the Enterprise-E
Location: Akurian Minor World Kosklova
Timeline: 1000Hrs - February 17th, 2392

Lieutenant Third Class Nyskar sat in is command chair, observing quietly as his Heavy Akurian Patrol Vessal conducted its routine policing patrol of the area. It was a quiet job for the young SDF officer, and a relatively uneventful posting. The Akurian World of Kosklova sat on the border with the Orion Federation, an OISU member and long time ally of the Akurians, and the Maze, which pretty much nothing ever came out of. So it came to a major surprise when a Fighter Force patrol drone radioed in, "APV-33, this is Wing Officer 3rd Class Hyuka we are picking up a vessel incoming, near your sector, unknown design and configuration."

Nyskar set down his drink and hit several commands at his console," Yep I got them, intercept the vessel and attempt to contact them."

Hyuka nodded and turned her patrol of a half dozen fighter drones, bringing them in the direction of the unknown contact. unlike most carrier based pilots, it was normal for a fighter Force officer to personally fly in one fighter leading a dozen or more other fighters, particularly with low risk patrol assignments. She then began to attempt to hail the unknown vessel, but was unable to get a response.

Meanwhile aboard the unknown vessel. Commander Shireen Yamaguchi sighed softly as she sat in her command chair on what was left of her bridge, with what remained of her crew on the good ship U.S.S. Mohawk of the Geronimo class.

Yamaguchi wanted to go home and she knew her entire crew did too but the absence of anything resembling the Federation was crushing her crews morale, she wanted to cry but she once again suppressed her emotions as the communications officers turned his head to look at her. "Skipper.. I'm not reading any subspace chatter on any frequency whatsoever."

"What kind of place is this.... This is the Inverness system .... right?" Shireen Yamaguchi inquired, she looked almost confused, her eyes and attention drawn to the sensor displays which read that the planets were lust and beautiful with life, there were no signs of habitation on any level whatsoever. Which meant that the Federation seemed to not exist.

"Aye Captain... Indeed we are in the Inverness System however I'm reading no Federation presence of any kind on any level whatsoever."

"How is that possible?" Yamaguchi paused quietly, her mind reeling from the ramifications of what they had found.

"I honestly have no idea.." The science officer shook his head. "I don't understand it either."

"Captain... I'm reading a D7 class cruiser decloaking." barked her conn officer, an asian officer from Luna. "They've locked weapons on us.."

"Red Alert... Evasive pattern Delta Five.." Yamaguchi turned, while she barked orders out to her bridge crew. "Raise shields. arm weapons... prepare to return fire.."

"Aye Keptin." her navigator responded as he armed the weapons and began locking what they had onto what targets he had before him.

"Ordinance incoming fast!" the Navigator warned in a loud tone of voice.

The single torpedo came in and impacted on the Mohawk's forward saucer followed by two disruptor blasts when suddenly a Bird of Prey decloaked nearby and began shooting at a second ship which the Mohawk missed seeing.

Yamaguchi desperately tried holding onto her chair as the jury-rigged repairs began falling apart around her. "Klingon Bastards!" snarled her conn officer.

"Stand by to retreat.." Yamaguchi responded. "Heading One one five... mark... three... two .. six." the small woman rattled off a sequence of coordinates.

Hyuka swore as unknown energy weapons fire narrowly missed her own fighter and hit one of the nearby drones. Its shield held up rather well and Hyuka quickly acquired a target lock on the lancer sized enemy ship and launched several missiles at the offending vessel. However to Hyuka's surprise the attacking vessel was obliterated completely by the first missile, the remaining ones overshooting and went off into space.

She then turned her attention to the two remaining unknowns. One had a very similar power signature and identification markings as the vessel she just destroyed while the other was clearly from a different nation. And judging from the fact that they where firing at each other, they didn't like each other. After repeated attempts to hail both vessels with no response, hyuka decided to switch to a more universal language, turning off the safeties on her fighters quad 15 cm lance gun array, she fired several warning shots at the ship that was from the same manufacture as the smaller destroyed vessel. When it made the mistake of returning fire she fired a burst of multiple 15 cm rounds into the ship, reducing the vessel to a smoking wreck in less than a second.

Yamaguchi and her bridge crew watched the sudden fight came to a rather dramatic and sudden conclusion. "What just happened?"

The Science officer who doubled as her first officer simply shrugged. "I've never seen or heard of weapons that powerful."

"Sir..I'm getting a series of tachyon pulses aimed right at us.." came the voice of the communications officer.

Shireen turned, an idea going through her mind. "Wait... Can you run that through the com system and maybe use that to talk to whoever they are?" she inquired.

"I don't think its ever been done... Let me look into the matter real quick." the human female who was forty pounds heavier then Shireen and a half foot taller then she herself was went to work, her long blonde hair was tied back in a simple ponytail.

Yamaguchi turned her attention back to what was before her. "Stand down from alert.." as she watched the Klingon vessel get boarded. "Lets watch the show... Its seldom I see anyone castrate the Klingons to such a level and I for one do not plan to miss any of this.."

Her coms officer turned back to Yamaguchi. "I have a working system now.." she paused.

Yamaguchi smiled. "Hail them.."

Hyuka started receiving a response from the unknown vessel, so she said over the Comm. "Unknown vessel, this is Akurian Fighter Force Patrol, Identify yourselves."

"I'm Commander Shireen Yamaguchi of the Federation Starship Mohawk." she paused. "Wait.. what do you mean unknown... This is Federation space!"

Hyuka was somewhat confused, She recognized the voices as human, though somewhat garbled because the universal translator was still adjusting to the language, however the ship design was definitely not Orion federation design or UAF, the power systems where completely wrong. So she replied. "This is the Akurian Planet Kosklova, Orion Federation territory is still 20 lightyears form here, and UAF territory is several thousand lighyears away."

Meanwhile the Akurian APV had finally caught up and was approaching the scene, and a nearby Destroyer had been alerted to their presence and was on its way.

Several of Yamaguchi's bridge crew shared looks as if they couldn't believe what they were hearing. "The United Federation of planets.. they had a major presence in this region.. They were until recently at war with the Klingons.. the two ships shooting at us and you." Yamaguchi explained.

Hyuka didn't know at all whom the klingons where. "who the hell are the Klingons, I have never heard of them."

"The Klingons are or rather were the guys shooting at you..." Yamaguchi responded. "Commander... anything?"

"There are two dozen survivors aboard the D7 cruiser. None on the Bird of prey."

"Alright." Yamaguchi paused before she turned back. "I'll let you handle those... be warned they don't surrender easily and they will attempt to resist you, if they have a chance, they will commit suicide rather then let themselves be captured." Yamaguchi explained for the person hailing her.

Hyuka answered," Well either way I need to report this incident to my superiors so give me a few moments:

Yamaguchi's response was instant. "Understood."

Hyuka switched channels on her radio and got in contact with the Fighter Force patrol headquarters. "Headquarters this is wing officer 3rd Cloass Hyuka of patrol, I have a vessel claiming to be from a nation known as the united federation of planets here in the system. I have also been attacked by two ships known as the Klingons and have disabled or destroyed both of them."

The radio officer was about to make his reply when Sky Master 2nd Class Yozor interrupted by taking the second handmic. "Say again patrol, you said United Federation of Planets Federation right."

Hyuka nodded. "Yes that's correct."

Yozor paused, like most higher ranking officers, he had been briefed on the situation surrounding the UFP and the other species that have come from their as well, but not extensively," Alright, escort the UFP vessel to our primary docking facilities, I need to contact the MIS headquarters on Tsu Yaskal and inform them of the situation, as for the klingons, ignore them I'll have the nearby Destroyer tow them into dock. I'll have a large detachment of MP's available to arrest them. Also warn the federation ship to not attempt to engage their FTL, since their FTL doesn't work properly here."

"Very Well," Hyuka acknowledged. She then switched channels back to the Federation ship. "Alright I have orders to escort you to our docking facilities, apparently my commander does know about your situation and has requested specialists to come and help. He also has told me to warn you not to engage your FTL systems here, something about them not working properly around here."

Yamaguchi nodded her head. "We tried.. Its how we were able to get here... from the Sherman system .... It took us a couple of weeks to get here... We were able to max out our acceleration to ninety nine percent of light speed.." Yamaguchi explained.

Hyuka wasn't sure how to respond, so with a slight loss of patience she replied. "Look, I'm a very junior ranking pilot officer, it does you little good to explain that to me, just follow me back to our base and my CO will be able to help you more than I can."

Yamaguchi raised an eyebrow. "Doug, follow them and keep your eyes peeled for more Klingons." she sighed softly. "Tyler... keep what weapons we have on stand by... Just in case.." she said quietly before turning to her science chief. "Anything else that we missed?"

"Negative sir.. However I am reading a larger vessel now just entering the area." Lt Commander Darnell Hammond explained. "It measures in at six point two million tones... Its several times our size and mass Captain.."

"Weapons?" Yamaguchi inquired, more oput of curiosity then anything else.

"Well let me put it this way... Our entire battlegroup at Axanar couldn't handle that ship." he paused. "Considering the number of guns... I'm going to assume that a dozen of our best ships couldn't take this thing on."

Yamaguchi responded in a dry tone. "Fantastic. This day is getting better and better." she turned back. "Alright.. Lets follow these... whoever they are back to their base and hope that they are not hostile..."

"If they are.."

"Then we're screwed." Yamaguchi responded with a sigh. "Alright. one issue at a time-" as the small woman sighed softly. "-and hope things don't go full retard."