COMPILE_TERMINAL_VIEW
USS Paladin
Piercing the Iron Curtain 2021-12-01
Compiled by Calvin Capps ========================================== Mission: Piercing the Iron Curtain Mission Day: 2 Stardate: 2407.01.11 ========================================== (USS Paladin - Bridge - CONN Lt. Max - 13:57) (USS Paladin - Bridge - FO Lt. Cmdr Calvin Capps - 1641) (USS Paladin - Deck 1, Ready Room - Commander Jenna Rulestaad - 16:43) (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CO, Captain Eva Straton, 16:44) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1645) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - Commander Jennifer 'Jenna' Rulestaad - 16:45) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee - 16:46) (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CO, Captain Eva Straton, 16:47) (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee, 16:47) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1648) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee - 1648) (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CO, Captain Eva Straton, 16:49) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1650) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee - 16:51) (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1652) (USS Paladin - Sickbay, CMO's office - CMO, Dr. Jared Keller- 1700) (USS Paladin - FO Office - Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1700) (USS Paladin - Personal quarters- CMO, Dr. Jared Keller- 1710) (USS Paladin - Personal quarters- CMO, Dr. Jared Keller- 1725) (USS Paladin, Holodeck 3, CO Captain Eva Straton, 19:17) (USS Paladin - Holodeck 3 - ACEO Ensign (jg) Kyp Durron - 19:19) (USS Paladin - Holodeck 3 - TAC/SC Kerge - 19:19) (USS Paladin - Holodeck 3 - ACEO Ensign (jg) Kyp Durron - 19:27) =========================================== (USS Paladin - Bridge - CONN Lt. Max - 13:57) "Sir, may I speak to you for a moment?" "Yes you may. Does this need to be in private?" Max looked up at the officer and wondered. "No, not at all, but it is a bit urgent. I need to talk to you about the upcoming battle." Max was now puzzled at which the question comming forward might be. "Ok." Max said a little hesitant. "Well, as you know, I have been working with the Science department, and we have decided, that in order to keep us with an advantage, to tie navigation into the sensor array, which will be able to compensate for any gravometric distorsions that will throw off the enemy ships. I just need your approval before we bring our findings to the captain." "It sounds promising." Max turned his waist so he could get a view of his board to look over the instruments. After pushing in a few buttons he returned back to Ensign Christian. "Will it become more difficult for the CONN officer to pilot the ship?" (posted by Calvin) ============================================= (USS Paladin - Bridge - FO Lt. Cmdr Calvin Capps - 1641) "Captain Straton to Commander Capps, Commander Rulestaad, and Lt.Brownlee report to my Ready Room immediately," She said, tapping hercomm-badge. Calvin was sitting in the command chair when he heard the call. He tapped his combadge. "I am on my way sir." He stood up and made his way to the Captains ready room door. The First Officer was allowed in immediatly. After the rest of the officer Captain Staraton called arrived, she spoke. "This," She said, holding up the PADD. "Contains the decryptedlogs from one of the two enemy ships we took this morning. What itcontains is a little alarming giving our current situation." She handedthe PADD to Commander Capps to look over before passing it on to Rulestaadand Brownlee. Calvin took it from Eva and looked at it quickly. After he scanned a few line of the data he realized what kind of news this was going to be. He then palmed the PADD and handed to Commander Rulestaad. "It seems," Eva said, in explanation. "That Star Base 234 is inthe process of deploying a mine field. According to the logs, which areincomplete, the mine field is still incomplete but enough has been deployedto play bloody hell with our battle plans and that's not all. It alsoseems that the two ships we captured where only forward scouts. The StarBase is a mustering point for forces in this area. The two ships wecaptured where to report to the Star Base in the next few days to join aBattle Group of some kind that was being formed to strike into spacecurrently held by the 52nd and our Klingon allies." Calvin had to take all the news in when Joran spoke. "Captain," he said, " it seems these cloaking devices the mines are equipped with are conventional in nature. It would be very eay to program the sensors to detect them and make emergency course adjustments, as well as weapons targeting." "But we'll still have to move slow enough to detect them, leaving us astargets." Rulestaad said. "And we have a more pressing concern, a timelimit. Every alert that Starbase has will go off once those two ships failto report." She considered for a few more moments, "I believe we have tostep up the time-table." She focused on the Captain, "Were the recordscomplete enough to list the extra ships in the area, Commodore?" "I would have to concur with the Cmdr Rulestaad on this one. We have to get passed the mines quickly, other wise we will be sitting ducks for the enemy to have free fire on us. Do you think there is any way to clear a pat of the mines?" Calvin said not forming the question to any one particular. (posted by Calvin) ============================================================ (USS Paladin - Deck 1, Ready Room - Commander Jenna Rulestaad - 16:43) Jenna folded her hands together in thought after she passed the PADD over to the second officer. She said nothing as she thought. "Captain, it seems these cloaking devices the mines are equipped with are conventional in nature. It would be very eay to program the sensors to detect them and make emergency course adjustments, as well as weapons targeting." Brownlee said. "But we'll still have to move slow enough to detect them, leaving us as targets." Rulestaad said. "And we have a more pressing concern, a time limit. Every alert that Starbase has will go off once those two ships fail to report." She considered for a few more moments, "I believe we have to step up the time-table." She focused on the Captain, "Were the records complete enough to list the extra ships in the area, Commodore?" (posted by Trout) ========================================= (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CO, Captain Eva Straton, 16:44) "Captain, it seems these cloaking devices the mines are equipped with are conventional in nature. It would be very easy to program the sensors to detect them and make emergency course adjustments, as well as weapons targeting." Brownlee said. "But we'll still have to move slow enough to detect them, leaving us as targets." Rulestaad said. "And we have a more pressing concern, a time limit. Every alert that Starbase has will go off once those two ships fail to report." She considered for a few more moments, "I believe we have to step up the time-table." She focused on the Captain, "Were the records complete enough to list the extra ships in the area, Commodore?" Before Eva could reply Command Capps spoke up. "I would have to concur with the Cmdr Rulestaad on this one. We have to get passed the mines quickly, other wise we will be sitting ducks for the enemy to have free fire on us. Do you think there is any way to clear a path of the mines?" Calvin said not forming the question to any one particular. Eva looked at Brownlee as she took each statement in turn. "I appreciate your confidence in this ship and her crew Lt. Brownlee, but lets not be overconfident. A cloaked mine field poses a real threat to this ship and the entire battle group, especially if we are in the middle of full scale battle. We can't be sweeping mines if you have a fleet of enemy ships and an enemy star base shooting at us. Bypassing the mine field or negating it will be up to your department, liaison with engineering. They should be able to help in that matter," Eva said before she turned to Commander Rulestaad. "Yes, the extra ships are listed at the bottom. We need to move quickly before any more can arrive, and I agree we need to step up our time table." She looked at Command Capps. "How good are you acting skills Commander?" (Reply Brownlee, Rulestaad, Capps) "The enemy still does not know that they are missing two ships. Anyone here familiar with the story of the Trojan Horse?" (posted by Wes) ============================================= (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1645) "How good are you acting skills Commander?" Calvin did not think about the question for a split second before he answered the Captain. "I acted quite a bit in the Academy. Been in a few plays. Why?" Calvin could not see what was going on immediately. He then smiled because he was pretty sure what Eva was conjuring to do. "The enemy still does not know that they are missing two ships. Anyone here familiar with the story of the Trojan Horse?" "I certainly am sir." Calvin said. (posted by Calvin) ============================================= (USS Paladin - Ready Room - Commander Jennifer 'Jenna' Rulestaad - 16:45) "Yes, the extra ships are listed at the bottom. We need to move quickly before any more can arrive, and I agree we need to step up our time table." She looked at Command Capps. "How good are you acting skills Commander?" Jenna scrolled the list as Capps replied that he'd been in a few plays, but looked up again sharply when the Captain said "The enemy still does not know that they are missing two ships. Anyone here familiar with the story of the Trojan Horse?" "I certainly am sir." "A holonet or some basic changes to the screen processing can take care of the crew and their appearance, we have records on the officers captured for the bridge crew to study and emulate." Rulestaad murmured as she thought. "We could sneak them in, as long as the act wasn't long. The question is, what would we want those ships to accomplish? Two vessels won't survive long against the whole fleet, but they could..." she paused in thought again. "Either could engage the defensive systems of the starbase and beam over the Marine Combat Engineers to work from the inside, prior to our arrival on their sensor screens. The sabotage teams would be more effective that way in either case, rather then loading them with the rest of the grunts from the Patton and Pershing." She looked over again, "But any offensive action would mean the command crews life would be short lived, unless we had an immediate escape plan. And any such attack will put them on high alert, it would have to be done minutes before we arrived. They couldn't even play off that they were running from us, as that has the same effect of putting them on alert." (posted by Trout) ========================================== (USS Paladin - Ready Room - CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee - 16:46) "Yes, the extra ships are listed at the bottom. We need to move quickly before any more can arrive, and I agree we need to step up our time table." The captain looked at Commander Capps. "How good are you acting skills Commander?" Joran was a bit put off by the captain's question; there seemed to be no pertinent reason for it. Capps did answer the question, and then the captain said, "The enemy still does not know that they are missing two ships. Anyone here familiar with the story of the Trojan Horse?" "I certainly am sir." "A holonet or some basic changes to the screen processing can take care of the crew and their appearance, we have records on the officers captured for the bridge crew to study and emulate." Rulestaad murmured as she thought. "We could sneak them in, as long as the act wasn't long. The question is, what would we want those ships to accomplish? Two vessels won't survive long against the whole fleet, but they could... either could engage the defensive systems of the starbase and beam over the Marine Combat Engineers to work from the inside, prior to our arrival on their sensor screens. The sabotage teams would be more effective that way in either case, rather then loading them with the rest of the grunts from the Patton and Pershing." She looked over again, "But any offensive action would mean the command crews life would be short lived, unless we had an immediate escape plan. And any such attack will put them on high alert, it would have to be done minutes before we arrived. They couldn't even play off that they were running from us, as that has the same effect of putting them on alert." "Captain," Joran said, after thinking a bit on what Rulestaad said, "I believe that in order to pull this off, each bridge crew member be assigned a 'character' to emulate. Then, be given time to study that person thoroughly and get inside their heads. And might I also suggest, just in case the screen processing system doesn't work out, some surgical alterations in order to make the portrayal as seemless as possible." (posted by Spencer) ========================================== (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CO, Captain Eva Straton, 16:47) Eva listened to what everyone had to say weighing each concern and suggestion. "What I'm thinking," She said, after a moments silence, "Is that we can use the captured ships in a capacity that would allow us to render the mine field ineffective. After all they are expecting the ships any way. When the ship arrives the base would either send a signal to deactivate the mine field or send the incoming ship a course to take to navigate the mine field. Generally an encoded signal is sent to temporarily deactivate the mine field. If we could intercept that signal somehow and send it back to the Paladin. Then we could use it when the fleet enters the area. Timing would be critical as we would have to time the arrival of the fleet within minuets of receiving the signal. The officers on the captured ship would not have to play their parts very long. Just long enough to ensure the OPS officer on the star base that they are legitimate and to send out the deactivation code. If for some reason they simply provide a course to assume to navigate the mine field, we would still have obtained a method of bypassing the mine field. It's risky, I know, but I think it's our best bet to get past that mine field quickly." Eva leaned back in her chair, as a thought suddenly accord to her. "Unless they send out one of the ships currently on station there to escort them though the mine field. That could be bad. The officers would then have to maintain their cover. Could they get a signal off to the Paladin without the star base or the escorting ship picking it up? Could we even pull it off at all? I am not gonna waste the time or the resources, let alone the lives of my officers on this if there is no chance of pulling it off successfully." Eva looked at each of the officers sitting across from her, waiting their opinions. (posted by Wes) ============================================= (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee, 16:47) "What I'm thinking," The captain said, "Is that we can use the captured ships in a capacity that would allow us to render the mine field ineffective. After all they are expecting the ships any way. When the ship arrives the base would either send a signal to deactivate the mine field or send the incoming ship a course to take to navigate the mine field. Generally an encoded signal is sent to temporarily deactivate the mine field. If we could intercept that signal somehow and send it back to the Paladin. Then we could use it when the fleet enters the area. Timing would be critical as we would have to time the arrival of the fleet within minuets of receiving the signal. The officers on the captured ship would not have to play their parts very long. Just long enough to ensure the OPS officer on the star base that they are legitimate and to send out the deactivation code. If for some reason they simply provide a course to assume to navigate the mine field, we would still have obtained a method of bypassing the mine field. It's risky, I know, but I think it's our best bet to get past that mine field quickly. Unless they send out one of the ships currently on station there to escort them though the mine field. That could be bad. The officers would then have to maintain their cover. Could they get a signal off to the Paladin without the star base or the escorting ship picking it up? Could we even pull it off at all? I am not gonna waste the time or the resources, let alone the lives of my officers on this if there is no chance of pulling it off successfully." Joran spoke up first. "There is one alternative if they escort us all the way in, captain. The helmsman on the captured ship, one of our own, of course, could track the course we take through the minefield, and record it. Then, once at Starbase, we could transmit the correct course. But, time is of the essence here. The only way they will not detect the signal is if we piggy-back it off one of their own." (posted by Spencer) ============================================== (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1648) Every single person suggested their own beliefs, ideas, and experience including Calvin. He sat in the chair along side of the second officer and the Strategic Operations officer. His thoughts running through his mind faster than ever. He could feel his blood start rush through his veins at a more rapid speed. His heart beat began to race. The First Officer knew what was about to happen. This has never happened to him since the day he stepped foot on the Paladin, and he had hoped it wouldn't. It was impossible to control now. There was no turning back. Calvin lifted his hand up to look at it, and what he saw was exactly what he was expecting. His body color had changed to the color of green. The same shade of green as if he were a Orion. "Captain!" Calvin said in a little bit more louder, and with more of tone from the back of his throat. "I believe this plan is possible. I am willing, and volunteering my self for this mission..SIR." (posted by Calvin) ============================================== (USS Paladin - Ready Room - CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee - 1648) "Captain!" the First Officer said, "I believe this plan is possible. I am willing, and volunteering my self for this mission..SIR." Joran stood up, saying, "I volunteer myself as well captain. I feel that I would be a valuable asset to this delicate situation." (posted by Spencer) ============================================= (USS Paladin, Ready Room, CO, Captain Eva Straton, 16:49) "Captain!" Calvin said in a little bit more louder, and with more of tone from the back of his throat. "I believe this plan is possible. I am willing, and volunteering my self for this mission..SIR." Before Eva could reply, Lt Brownlee stood up "I volunteer myself as well captain. I feel that I would be a valuable asset to this delicate situation," He said. "At ease Gentlemen," Eva said, motioning for Brownlee to sit back down. "One thing at a time. I want the details of this little plan worked out in detail before I send anyone on what could very well be a suicide mission. Since you two seem so eager to volunteer, I'll leave that to you two." Eva looked at Capps. "We will have a Senior Officers meeting 1200 tomorrow. See that all department heads and assistants are notified Number One. You two can then lay out your plan. You will need more than the two of you to pull this off. We will see then how many others are as eager to volunteer as you two. Unless you two have anything else to add, I suggest you get busy." (posted by Wes) ================================================= (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1650) The Captain had to settle down the 2O and Calvin. Maybe it was true that Calvin had jumped the gun, but he still felt the same way about the mission. There was a lot more planning to do for the mission, but the FO was wiling to take the chance. The Captain went on to say there was a staff meeting at 1200 hrs so Lt. Brownlee and Calvin had until then to come up with a plan and convince the Captain to go with it. It would be a long night for whoever Calvin could get to be involved in the planning. Calvin stood up from the chair. "Aye sir. Thank you Captain." Lt. Cmdr then turned to Lt. Brownlee. "Meet me in my office at 1800 hrs." (reply Brownlee) Calvin then turned to Cmdr Rulestaad. "We may need your help, I am hoping we will be able to call on you," Calvin asked in a question/statement way. (reply Rulestaad) Calvin then left the office to prepare for the long night. (posted by Calvin) ============================================== (USS Paladin - Ready Room - CSO/2O Lieutenant (jg) Joran Matthew Brownlee - 16:51) After the captain finished giving her orders, Capps stood up again. "Aye sir. Thank you Captain." He then turned to Joran. "Meet me in my office at 1800 hrs." "Aye sir," Joran said, rising from his chair. He then turned, and started to walk out, when he turned around again before reaching the door. "We may need your help, I am hoping we will be able to call on you," Capps said to Rulestaad. "Commander," he asked Capps, "Should I draft a list of people for my team beforehand?" (reply Capps) Joran then walked out, satisfied with the answer. (posted by Spencer) ============================================================== (USS Paladin - Ready Room - FO Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1652) "Commander," Brownlee asked Capps, "Should I draft a list of people for my team beforehand?" "Yes, also make any other preparations before hand that you feel necessary," the First Officer answered. He then left the ready room and head straight to his office. (posted by Calvin) ==================================================== (USS Paladin - Sickbay, CMO's office - CMO, Dr. Jared Keller- 1700) Jared grunted as he reached to his eyes and rubbed them. ~I'll be glad when this battle is over, hopefully we won't take it too badly.~ He looked up as the nurse walked in. "Doctor Maybrey is here Doctor Keller." She stopped and looked at him for an instant. "You need to go back to your quarters and get some rest." He shook his head as he reached for a PADD. "Too much to do." A stern look came over her as she crossed her arms. "No Doctor Keller, I think I'll have to insist, you're worn out and need a break." As he opened his mouth to argue the point she snapped. "Or do you want me to summon Doctor Maybrey so that he can have this conversation with you?" Jared stood up and placed his knuckles on the desktop. "Nurse I appreciate your sentiments but there's too many reports to put off." "Then why don't you take the PADDs back to your quarters at least?" She asked. "I know Talinna and she hasn't seen much of you lately." Jared winced at that one, his beautiful and darling wife was feeling neglected since they had begun this mission, there was always so much to do; Especially since he didn't have an assistant (yet again) to fill in for him. "Perhaps you're right." The PADDs were gathered up and he gave her a small smile as he walked past her through the door to his office. "If I remember correctly your shift is over as well." The nurse smiled as he left the office. "Yes sir my shift is over now..." (posted by Charles) =================================================== (USS Paladin - FO Office - Lt. Cmdr Capps - 1700) Calvin walked through his office doors ready to get to work. With the new information about the mines surrounding the starbase a new plan needed to be worked out. The new plan so far seemed to be the best possibility and it success was critical to the success to of the mission. Lt. Cmdr Capps immediatly went to his chair that sat behind his desk. "Computer download all files from USS Hope to this terminal." The computer beeped has it understood the request. [Finish time to download is 30 minutes.] As Calvin waited for the download to finish he began to look up all the information he could get his hands on about covert operations onto a starbase. He preped himself as much as he could before his 2O showed up at 1800 hrs. (posted by Calvin) ===================================================== (USS Paladin - Personal quarters- CMO, Dr. Jared Keller- 1710) Jared dropped the PADDs on a small table in the hall as he entered, the smell of linguini and clam sauce with stuffed mushrooms and steamed vegetables brought a smile to his face. ::I'm home my love.:: He sent and grinned as she whisked around the corner and into his arms. ::I'm glad you're on time for once.:: She sent with a smile. ::Come in and sit down on the couch and I'll bring you a glass of chianti.:: He gave her a lingering kiss as he held her close. ::Sounds wonderful.:: Then gave her a tap on the bottom as she turned to walk away. He laughed as she turned back and grinned then flounced to the kitchen. Jared gather up the stack of PADDs and walked them into the living area where he placed them on a table beside the couch and then sat down. ~Tired eyes.~ He thought as he rubbed them again. ~I'll just close them for a minute then get to work.~ (posted by Charles) ================================================== (USS Paladin - Personal quarters- CMO, Dr. Jared Keller- 1725) Talinna hummed as she poured a half full glass of the flavorful red wine then replaced the cork and set it aside, she picked up the glass after wiping her hands on the apron and then the ships counselor carried the glass into the living room expecting to see her loving husband engrossed in his work but wasn't surprised to see him nestled comfortably against the padded arm of the couch with his eyes closed and deep breaths coming from a partially opened mouth, the precursor to a snore. She shook her head and placed the glass on the table after removing the PADDS then got a blanket and placed it over him. ~I'll wake him in an hour, there'll be plenty of time to eat then~ She smiled to herself. ~Besides I wasn't expecting him this early, that wil be about the time it's ready.~ She bent down and kissed his forehead then returned to the kitchen to finish the meal. (posted by Chalres) =================================================== (USS Paladin, Holodeck 3, CO Captain Eva Straton, 19:17) "You may fall unconscious Captain," Kerge said arrogantly, "I however will die before I succumb in such a way to any foe, real or projected" Eva rose one eye brow as she regarded Kerge before she looked over at Durron and rolled her eyes and shook her head slightly. ~I could remind him that the holo-deck safeties will prevent any of us from actually getting seriously injured.~ She thought as she turned her attention back to Kerge. She found his display of arrogance amusing in a way. "As you are still my Captain, I accede to your lead", Kerge said gesturing with his hand appropriately to indicate her to begin. Eva simply nodded. "Computer, begin simulation," Eva said, as she crouched down and moved off in a direction to circle around the outpost. They hadn't gone far before they spotted a Jem'Hadar patrol. Eva motioned with hand signals for Kerge and Durron to take up position on either side of the trail while she crouched down behind a large rock pillar herself. (Reply Kerge, Durron) Eva waited till the patrol had moved past her position before she leaped out at the last Jem'Hadar in the patrol. She swept his legs out from under him and repeatedly drove her fist into the spot where his feeding tube entered his neck, it was one of the weak spots on a Jem'Hadar. With her other hand she grabbed his rifle and yanked it from his stunned grasp. The rest of the patrol turned raising their weapons to fire at Eva, turning their backs on the still hidden Kerge and Durron. (posted by Wes) ========================================== (USS Paladin - Holodeck 3 - ACEO Ensign (jg) Kyp Durron - 19:19) "Computer, begin simulation," Eva said, as she crouched down and moved off in a direction to circle around the outpost. They hadn't gone far before they spotted a Jem'Hadar patrol. Eva motioned with hand signals for Kerge and Durron to take up position on either side of the trail while she crouched down behind a large rock pillar herself. Kyp crouched down to see what the Captain would do. He sank into a deep calm he only felt whenever he was in a dangerous situation. He nodded to the Captain as she moved forward to view the patrol's movements. (Reply Kerge) Eva waited till the patrol had moved past her position before she leaped out at the last Jem'Hadar in the patrol. She swept his legs out from under him and repeatedly drove her fist into the spot where his feeding tube entered his neck, it was one of the weak spots on a Jem'Hadar.With her other hand she grabbed his rifle and yanked it from his stunned grasp. The rest of the patrol turned raising their weapons to fire at Eva, turning their backs on the still hidden Kerge and Durron. ~Why would they turn around. A single attacker would not try to take on an entire patrol of Jem'Hadar on her own.~ Kyp shook his head. ~They will pay for their arrogance.~ Kyp jumped over and landed a powerful kick on the skull of one Jem'Hadar, smashing his skull in. He grabbed the rifle out of the air with his left hand, then pitched the pebble in his hand at the head of another Jem'Hadar. He fell back and hit the ground with a solid thud. ~Three down, five to go.~ (posted by Ben) ========================================= (USS Paladin - Holodeck 3 - TAC/SC Kerge - 19:19) Kerge needed no encouragement whatsoever, the moment the Captain had taken down the Jem'Hadar soldier, he leapt into action as the remaining squad turned to address the loss of their team. Both Durron & himself had quickly leapt from their concealment to attack the remaining Jem`Hadar. Kerge used his proccured rock to cave one solid head in, followed imediately by another, then he grabbed one of their rifles & opened up on a third to despatch him in an instance as Kyp dealt with yet another. The CO, not wanting to be left out of the action, imediately set upon one of the last to fall as they squared off to face their attackers. (Reply CO, IYW) The Jem`Hadar were not known for being a soft touch & these were no different, they fought valiently, but eventually the Starfleet team had eradicated this particular fly in their ointment & now they each had a weapon too. "They fought like women", growled Kerge brushing the dust from his uniform, "I hope our next foe is more up to the challenge", he added glaring at both Durron & the Captain as he spoke. (posted by Alan) =========================================== (USS Paladin - Holodeck 3 - ACEO Ensign (jg) Kyp Durron - 19:27) They had easily taken down the Jem'Hadar party, but Kerge was very dissappointed with the level of difficutly that they showed."They fought like women", growled Kerge brushing the dust from his uniform, "I hope our next foe is more up to the challenge", he added glaring at both Durron & the Captain as he spoke. Kyp grinned at him, "These were just young scouts sent out on patrol; a real Jem'Hadar would not have been that easy to take down. Don't worry, I expect we'll have to encounter much more worthy opponents." (posted by Ben) ========================================= END OF COMPILE I hope you enjoyed!