Tricks of the Trade

Posted on Fri Mar 6th, 2020 @ 8:40pm by Fleet Admiral Dominique Jes-Tereth

Mission: Mission 65: And Death Rained Down
Location: The Korrok System
Timeline: 0900Hrs - March 3rd, 2392

General L'Heki was seated on his throne which was a large stone edifice mountain in place of a command chair. "Are the jammers repared?" he inquired of his first officer, a Captain in his own right.

"Yessir. they report they are ready to execute your orders."

"Do so." he then sat back on the throne, a smile gracing his lips as he bared his fangs. "Lets kill those bastards.."

"Jamming cruisers are online and all subspace coms just went down all over the system."

"Excellent. Contact Tethi. Tell her she is to proceed with the plan."

"Aye General." the comms officer turned to his task and proceeded to send the message to their erstwhile allies nearby.

Tethi was seated on her bridge as she regarded the viewscreen before her. "Hail strike groups two and three... send them after the battlestation orbiting the seventh planet, also tell them that I don't care how they destroy it. Only that its dead."

"Yessir."

Meanwhile HoD Nor'shan of House Makar smiled to himself as he received his orders to eliminate the battlestation. "Hail the General that we will deliver her the victory she needs..." he turned. "Engage cloak and take us in.."

The large Chancellor class ship suddenly cloaked as she faded from view, she began to make her move to accomplish this very goal.

"Helm.. Locate me a large moonlet, preferably one of the ring shepherds close to the starbase in this system."

"Target aquired." the tactical officer responded.

"Helm, land on it and then attach ourselves to the moonlet." he turned to his first officer. "Do we have enough mass to use this moonlet to do the job?"

"Yessir. This moonlet would hardly notice the battlestation as we crush it like a bug." came the response.

"Excellent. Helm.. you set?"

"Ready to fly Captain." came the response.

"Excellent.. lets take this asteroid.. for a stroll."

"Aye sir... disengaging cloak.."

"Firing weapons sir.." the tactical officer commented as the lights went from their dark red to a brilliant shade of white. From the forward weapons emplacement, a brilliant green disruptor blast came forth and blasted into the ground about two hundred meters ahead of the cruiser, once that was completed, the cruiser cloaked again.

The ring shepard began to move in the direction indicated, moments later the crew of the battlestation noticed something was amiss. "Call for help.."

"Subspace comms are dead sir.."

"How is that ring shepard moving in our direction.?"

"I'm reading a vent thats opened up on the surface.. it was created by Klingon weapons fire sir."

"Impressive... Open fire... try to divert it or to shatter it.."

"No good sir.. we don't have enough firepower to do that.. We can slow it down but not destroy it.."

The General commanding the base screamed loudly. "All hands abandon the station, everyone out." as he remained behind as his troops abandoned their posts for the evacuation shuttles, escape pods and assigned starships attached to the base.

The moon got ever larger and closer in the skies above as the personnel present fled for their very lives. Just minutes later the base was crushed on the face of the moon as it ran the base over like it wasn't even there. Meanwhile Nor'shan, his ship and his crew had quietly departed to rejoin the rest of the fleet.

Meanwhile elsewhere in the system the story was much the same as it had been for the two previous attacks, with L'Heki's forces and Tethi's ships and troops swarming through, taking everything and destroying what they had to leave behind.

The colony was itself glassed to prevent Wohavi from keeping what she had stolen from others before the jamming cruisers withdrew, leaving behind a lifeless system. the third in a week.