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Old March 11th, 2006, 07:56 PM   #6
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Star Trek 6.0

Several light seconds away, a basestar had engaged the tw0 K-42 corvettes, while IKS Whamact-charr stood off and pounded it with torpedo fire. The Klingons were quickly learning that these basestars were not so easy to disable or destroy. Because they have no shields like the Klingon vessels, they were built more sturdily, with thick layers of tough armor plating over everything. Although the K;lingon torpedoes did damage to the base star, it is not the kind of results Kevar wants.

Meanwhile the K-42's are attacking in the standard Dartch-MAH! manuver which virtually always works for smaller Imperial Klingon vessels attacking a larger advisary. With their cloakes engaged, the K-42's make a high sub-light speed run on the target, finally disengaging their cloaks at the last minute, firing their disruptor cannons and then vering off and returning to cloaked status. Unfortunatly this was similar enough to the Cylon's own pinwheel attack that the basestar's command centurian recognized it and was able to catch one of the K-42's with his
point defense turbolasers. The damaged IKS Dagobah limped off under cloak to heal its wounds.

The Pegasus is also lining up to take a shot at the basestar with Pegasus' main ship to ship weapon a CPAW ion cannon. Cain has used the Klingon as a distraction. Pegasus fires, and scores a direct hit on Cylon. For agonizing seconds, it appears that nothing has happened to the base star that it has absorbed the megapunch from Pegasus and survived, then slowly at first the first few plumes of flame appear, speedily degenerating into a multilobed explosion of blue-yellow and orange flame spliting the upper saucer in half and totally destroying the lower saucer.

There is jubilation from the Klingons. Nothing the Klingons like better than a good clean kill of an opponent. Cain has won a lot of admiration among the crews of the Trunchon, Dagobah and Inquisitor. Comm officer on the Trunchon forgets himself in the revels and sends a congratory message to Pegasus.

"Commander Klath!" Commodore Kevar angrily spat the name of the Captain of the K-42 Corvette IKS Trunchon, "No unauthorized communications with the alien!" The Battlestar Pegasus filled his screen, surrounded by various statistics and labels.

"Sir!" came a female contralto over the speaker, "The responsible one has already been relieved, sir!"

"YOU are the one responsible, Commander!"

"Sir!"

Kevar cut contact without waiting for the "Victory to the Komerex" that Klath surely uttered. Klath was a compent command officer, but she was much to young and inexperienced. Kevar was determined to rid her of all of her inexperience as quickly as he could, this live-fire
contest against the alien invaders would be perfect for the tactical lessons that Kevar hoped to impart to her. One of those was never try to communicate during combat. Words could not harm shields and might give your oponent some advantage.

Kevar had an on-going disagreement with Thought Admiral Khempek over what level of freethinking was necessary at what level of command. In Kevar's opinion, Klath and her generation were too impulsive and uncontrolled to be of their best use to the Komerex. This disagreementremained amicable -- however, Kevar suspected that it might have had something to do with keeping him from becoming an admiral all these years. As an admiral, Kevar could well be considered too powerful and dangerous to have the free and easy access to Khempek's ear that he currently enjoyed. Kevar was, after all, an experiment, and a successful one, who
had long protected the Komerex.

"Sir!" the officer at the sensor station shouted, just as Kevar was beginning to relax into the rhymth of stellar combat.

"Incoming sensor contact, to aft!"

"On main screen!" Kevar ordered, immediately alert, "Identify!"

"Working!" the officer watched the data displays, and then sat bolt upright, "Sir! It's one of the saucer aliens. Somehow they have managed to slip behind us!"

"WHAT!?" the commodore reacted immediately, "They must have cloaking technology! Karnath! Bring us around, course 345 mark 000. Arm forward disruptors, set for minimum divergence!" He slapped the com switch, and repeated the orders to all the ships in the squadron. Looking up, he found that his tactics and weapons officer hadn't moved - he was mesmerized by the image of the swiftly closing double saucer ship.

"Karnath! Now!"

Lt. Karnath shook himself, and began running though the sequences on his panel, "Yes, sir!"

A beam of antiprotons leapt out at the Inquisitor and caught it amidships. The K-42's shields glowed bright violet, seemed to expand and suddenly disappear all together. A millisecond later the antiproton beam swept across the now unshielded Inquisitor. It disolved into a bright ball of radiation which quickly expanded and was gone. The shock of the Inquisitor's loss was felt by all of the crew, but they betrayed none of the emotion surging within their beings, just below the fascade of the disciplined Soldiger of the Empire. The Dagobah having repaired the worst of its combat damage rejoined the squadron.

"d'k tahg pattern, now!" The two remaining ships of the Klingon squadron each leapt in a different direction, as if flanking the incoming ship, with the Whamact-charr falling back a little.

This unusual tactic had worked, barely, against the Federation in the days of the Klingon Empire's expansionistic era, when in most cases the Klingon Commander found himself seriously outnumbered by his Federation opponents. Scattering the squadron allowed for more manuverability on the part of each individual ship, and made it less likely that collisions might occur in the fog of war.

"Yes, let's spread out, and let them pick us off one by one," Kevar mused darkly, "otherwise, they will surely pick us off all at once." The alien opponents were adaptable; once they experienced a weapon, or tactic, they quickly created a defense.

"Sir!" com reported, "The aliens are jamming all communications! We have lost contact with Trunchon."
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