"We've got a hard seal on the airlock, Good to go....air quality inside is....90% of normal, so no need for suits. Rads are a bit high but we'll soak it without turning into mutants,"

Jovus heaved the hatch open, keeping a phaser pointed down into the aperture...just incase.

As it happened, Grouser was staring back up....a heavy disruptor rifle pointed back.

Both of them grinned vicously at each other...and swung their weapons away.

"Good to see you again Grouse!"

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Elysia was surprised when suddenly 3 Romulan birds-of-prey decloaked. She let out a surprised gasp and called out loud "Sir, 3 Romulan ships have just de-cloaked. They're opening fire on us!!". It wasn't her job to do this, but it happened as by instinct and when the ship took the first hit she had no time to be embaressed about potentially having stepped on someones toes.

The ships had decloaked in plain view from the large bridge window, and in all honesty Elysia was surprised to be the first one on the bridge who seemed to react. As the ship came under fire, the bridge was called up by Major Silliskan, the MACO commander, and she quickly opened a channel so the First Officer, currently in command of the Tempestas, could hear what he said..

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Medical Division, Delta Squad
12th Fleet, United Federation of Planets
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Lyaph jumped as he heard the alarm in the lieutenants voice "Shields are up" he announced and forwarded sugestions on evasive patterns to the helm. "Shall i return fire captain?" Lyaph looked to the commanding officer ready to activate any of the numerous patterns he had been programming since they left the starbase.

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Medical Division, Gamma Squad
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Tracy was surprised by the move. This didn't make sense for the Romulans to do this.

Not here.

Not now.

They'd like to wait and see what was going on. What their enemy was going to do.

This was rash and short sighted.

"Focus fire on the middle target. Loose everything. Begin working on their shield harmonics and communications frequencies. Also scan for anything unusual being transmitted to them.

Helm come around to broadside our target, do your best to help the shields.

Major, excellent action taken. We'll alert you if the shields weaken to the point when boarders might become an issue.

Everyone," Tracy said as she relaxed even further, "I suspect communications will be open after they lose their first attacker."

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Angel kept his finger on the trigger. It wasn't how Starfleet taught weapons safety, but then again, Semper Paratus was his motto.

They came down the tube and onto what could best be described as rust in space.

Hope all was well on the Tempestas.

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"Yes Sir!" Elysia acknowledged and started working diligently, fingers fast, as she carried out the part of the given order that had been meant for her. On the same time, she tried to keep an eye on the ships power-levels, just in case...

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Medical Division, Delta Squad
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IC = Klena

As she climbed into the docking conduit connecting the shuttle to the 'station,' she suddenly felt a weight on her mind, for lack of a better word to describe it. It was as if someone was screaming into her head. She didn't have time to meditate on the issue, and frankly, she wasn't sure she'd be able to block it out if she did. Meditation had never been something she'd been good at.

"Mr. Grouser." She said, as Jovus and Grouser exchanged greetings like old pals. "I am RADM Klena. I believe LCDR Amberose has told you what we are here for and what we are offering in trade."

As Grouser turned to face her, a new wave of pain etched its way across her version. She blinked, momentarily losing focus with the rest of the world in an effort to limit her reaction. In some ways, it was confirmation of what she thought Grouser's condition was, an inability to control his telepathy. By now he'd probably worked out she was a Vulcan, even if her ears were still tucked beneath her long brown hair. Telepathic minds tended to sense each other.

OC = Klena

IC = that GM dude

As the Tempestas turns to go full broadside with one of the Romulan ships, the two others break off and continue their attack from the other side. As they do, it can be clearly seen that there are no Romulan Star Empire markings or logos on these ships, despite their origin. They continue to fire.

Deep inside the Tempestas, along one of the primary EPS relays connecting the warp engines to the shield arrays, there is a loud explosion, as a bomb rips open the casing and breaks the connection.

On the operations console, shield power immediately drops off and the shields fail under the strain. The computer reports a failure of the primary EPS relay and that a reroute must be performed manually.

On the tactical console, the computer notes one of the Romulan's Birds of Prey (outside of the Tempestas' firing arc) shields drop temporarily.

On the helm console, the warp engines report that they are offline as Romulan plasmas torpedoes strikes home, damaging the warp nacelles.

OC = that GM dude

IC = Science backup man

"Captain!" An ensign currently manning the science station yells over the commotion on the bridge. "We've just had an unauthorized transport from cargo bay 2."

OC = Science backup man

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"From?" Capt. Wellingford said, turning towards the ensign.

"Bridge to Major Silliskan, send someone to Cargo Bay 2 to secure the area. Also, we've lost shields so expect boarders," she then opened a ship wide channel.

"All hands, this is acting Captain Wellingford. We are expecting enemy boarders, all team and section leaders should arm personnel accordingly and exercise caution when conducting duties. Bridge out," she finished.

"Someone tell me something about how we suddenly lost power."

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IC = science NPC

"It wasn't a beam in Captain, someone beamed out. I'm having trouble tracing where to though, it's not to any of the Romulan ships we can see."

OC = science NPC

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Elysia frowns slightly as it becomes obvious that the Tempestas has already lost all shield power. When the acting captain asks for the reason that this occured, all she can report is "the computer reports a failure of the primary EPS relay Captain! I cannot determine exactly what happened, but it seems to have been an explosion!"...

The shields were vital to their survival, Elysia knew that. But if she was to reroute power, she had to carefully consider where to take the power she needed for them from. Sickbay would most likely need as much power as possible, especially when they were under this heavy fire. They'd need their weapons too and life support could not be tampered much with either...

She might be able to transfer power from general systems, such as the replicators, but that wouldn't be enough for long. And seeing as they didn't know the reason for why the EPS relay had failed in the first place, the power she DID transfer could end up being wasted...

The engineers of the ship would have to detect what the problem was with the EPS relay as soon as possible. She hurriedly carried through her decision, but at first it didn't seem to have worked much...

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Medical Division, Delta Squad
12th Fleet, United Federation of Planets
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Tracy was somewhat frustrated by the second shift Science station officer. She hadn't said that there had been a beam in, only for the MACOs to secure the area.

"EPS conduits don't just blow up like that, especially with a new ship like this," she tapped a few commands into the armrest of the chair, "I'm not an engineer, but they don't fail in those sectors either."

Dots were starting to form in her mind.

If I were to try and get off the ship, when would be the perfect time? she thought.

"I want a personnel count, now. Tactical, we need to capture one of those ships. Do what you have to do to make that happen."

Something's not right, she said to herself.

This is exactly how I'd do it.

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Semper Paratus - Always Ready

Semper Invictus, Semper Vigilans - Ever Invincible, Ever Watchful