Graviton Torpedo Counter (Roll Playing Thread)

[Atlantisbase]

posted on April 6th, 2011, 6:58 pm

Last edited by Atlantisbase on April 7th, 2011, 1:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

*****Captain's Log: Stardate 98960.3 - Adm. Petri - U.S.S. Hime*****
The Hime has been on silent running for the past 36 hours. We tracked the Zeggepian warship to an asteroid field near the boarder of Borg space where it vanished without a trace. My people believe it might have entered one of these subspace pockets the Tereanans have come across. I'm inclined to agree. 

We have arrived at the last known coordinates of the vessel and are currently scanning for a pocket. Progress is slow however, since the composition of these asteroids cause naturally occurring subspace fields.
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Ops: Scans of grid D-6 complete. Proceeding to grid D-7.

First Officer:Aside to Captain Honestly sir, could this be a trap.

Captain: It's possible, but I doubt it. We've been here for six hours already. If they were going to spring a trap, they would have done it by now.

Alert beeps
Ops: Captain, long range sensors just picked up a large explosion 30 lightyears from here.

Captain: Show me.
Map on screen

First Officer: But that's...

Captain: I know, Borg space. Aside to Ops officer: Any sign of Omega?

Ops:Aside to Captain Yes, sir. Sensors confirmed the presence of Omega.

First Officer: Zeggepians...

Ops: Most likely, ma'am.
Alert beeps again
The explosion has produced a Level 10 shockwave. It will hit this sector in approximately twenty minutes; it should dissipate to about a Level 8 by the time it gets here though

Helm: Sir, it's going to take us at least that long to get clear of the subspace eddies these asteroids create; we won't be able to go to warp if we're still near them.

Captain: Damn. Helm, plot the shortest course that will get us clear and engage at best possible speed.

Helm: Aye, sir.

Captain:To Ops officer Come with me, we're going to figure out a way to ride that shockwave if we have to. You have the bridge Cortana.

First Officer: Aye, sir.
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Captain: ETA on the wave front.

Ops: Two minutes.

Helm: We're still five minutes from clearing the subspace eddies.

Captain: So, we're going to be in for a rough ride, eh. Are the shield geometry modifications in place.

Ops: Affirmative.

Captain: Bridge to Engineering: Are you all set down there.

Chief Eng.: Yes, sir. Power shunt is in place and stable. Between power from the core and what it absorbs from the shockwave, the shields should hold.

Captain: Good. Give me ship-wide. All hands, this is your captain speaking. At this point it's certain that we will be hit by the shockwave. All personal are to secure loose items and brace themselves for impact. That is all.

Engineering, transfer warp power to the shields.

Ops: Contact with shockwave in 5. . 4. . 3. . 2. . 1.

The ship is struck by the shock wave sending it flying forward. Sparks fly, pieces fall about, steam bursts out. The ship continues to shake for a good five minutes before the shockwave disapates.
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Captain: Picking himself from the floor. Everyone alright?

Ops: Yes.

Tactical: Good.

First Officer: Helped to her feet by the Captain I'm fine.

Captain: Report.

Tactical: First and second layer shields have been depleted. Aft torpedo launchers are offline. Shuttle bay 3 is seriously damaged. Primary power conduits on decks 15, 18, and 20 are off line. Hull breaches are reported on decks 15-22.

Ops: 58 seriously wounded, 103 with minor injuries, no casualties. Aft sensor pallets are offline. Communication are fine.

Helm: The port nacelle was hit by debris, warp drive is offline. Transwarp is still functional, but I'd advise against using it: structural integrity is at 59%.

Ops: I would also advise against using transwarp sir. Initial scans show subspace is extremely unstable right now.

Captain: Alright. Where are we? How far did the wave push us?

Helm: I'm working on that now. It looks like we're about ten lightyears from Federation space.

Captain: Right back were we started huh. Can you raise Starfleet?

Ops: Yes. In your ready room sir?
Captain nods approval and exits to ready room

****Channel to Starfleet Command*****
Adm. Susan Reikmann: Paul, I thought you were hunting aliens, what the hell happened.

Petri: We were. It looks like the Zeggepians dropped an Omega bomb on the Borg. Whatever they blew up, it generated a level 10 shockwave. We were deep in an asteroid field where we lost the Zeggepian ship we were tailing. We couldn't get clear in time and ended up riding the wave back here using our shields. We're alive, but full of holes and subspace is a mess around here.

Reikmann: Alright. I'll divert some ships in the area to provide assistance.

Petri: Good, but listen, they won't be able to use warp or transwarp once they get near us. Subspace is extremely unstable.

Reikmann: I'll be sure to tell them. I'm also going to inform the Tereanans.

Petri: Alright. We'll proceed on impulse an get as far from the subspace instabilities as we can. Petri out.

[ewm90]

posted on April 6th, 2011, 9:02 pm

Last edited by ewm90 on April 6th, 2011, 9:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Halm caption we have another problem the waldo like creacher has eaten half the crew and has stollen my pet monk "little tue tue".

Caption not now!

Ops No that was me I made a talrygin meat souse last night.

Helm LITTLE TUE TUE!!!!

Caption SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I swear I am working with children! CHILDREN!!!

posted on April 6th, 2011, 9:08 pm

Atlantisbase, the Zaggepians are from this universe in the Beta Quadrant.  On the other side of the subspace pocket is the mirror universe where the Federation has been replaced by the Terran Empire.  The subspace pockets formed as a result of the battle with the Omega molecule and just happened to be a temporal gate into the mirror universe.

We've never seen them before because the majority of the Federation space is in the Alpha quadrant.  At least on maps where Earth is at the center of the Alpha Quadrant.  On mpas where Earth borders the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, Zaggepian space would be on the border of the Beta and Delta Quadrants.

posted on April 6th, 2011, 9:25 pm

*sub space broadcast*

This is the train empier! If you join us in our heroic mistion to peerage the "Tellown" from it we will greet you with opened arms and share our welt with you.

Our valute struggle to rid the universe the tallown will be won soon! Join us as we save the children of the future!

Failure to join us is clear you are of tallown!

*sub space broadcast end*

Ops Shear tallown in a train empire meaning "week/bad one" its got sorta a religious significance. It says any one how is seen as a tallown is killed along with there families. Prisoners are killed in one of 6 slow painful ways. "I am not going in to it here"

posted on April 7th, 2011, 1:05 pm

Atlantisbase, the Zaggepians are from this universe in the Beta Quadrant. 

seeing as this is a role (not roll) playing thread you accept that the story will progress based on collaboration. if u wanted to advance the story in that particular way you should have wrote it that way yourself, atlantisbase is writing this story too, and you cant tell him his story developments are wrong. you have to rewrite what you have to merge with his, just as he has to obey what you have previously written.

if u want to write the story all by yourself then prepare it in advanace and post it.

[Atlantisbase]

posted on April 7th, 2011, 1:47 pm

Last edited by Atlantisbase on April 7th, 2011, 1:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

seeing as this is a role (not roll) playing thread you accept that the story will progress based on collaboration. if u wanted to advance the story in that particular way you should have wrote it that way yourself, atlantisbase is writing this story too, and you cant tell him his story developments are wrong. you have to rewrite what you have to merge with his, just as he has to obey what you have previously written.

if u want to write the story all by yourself then prepare it in advanace and post it.

No, that's alright. It wasn't clear so I made an assumption. Actually it was more of a postulation on the part of my character. They lost track of the ship and it wasn't clear what happened to it; it just vanished like the Borg vessels earlier. And in fact, we never actually find out what happened to the ship.

I modified by last piece, removing my character's stipulation.

posted on April 7th, 2011, 2:52 pm

By the way, weren't the subspace pockets closed by the Tereanan Empire?

Tereanan Ship:  Lieutenant, seal those subspace pockets!
You'll have a hard time getting reinforcements here now.  How did you get Tereanan technology?  How did you even get your empire back on it's feet!?

NX-1701-C:  That is none of your business.  You will surrender immediately.

Tereanan Ship:  You are in no position to make demands.  Reinforcements are coming and there is no way for you to get back.  I suggest you surrender.

posted on April 7th, 2011, 3:08 pm

You know its so hard to play along TCR when you shoot everyone else down when they try to contribute

posted on April 7th, 2011, 4:10 pm

By the way, weren't the subspace pockets closed by the Tereanan Empire?

Those that were in that area; that doesn't mean there weren't others.

[Anonymous]

posted on April 7th, 2011, 4:11 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on April 7th, 2011, 4:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Okay.  But it still doesn't make sense that the Zaggepians went all the way to the Delta quadrant from the Neutral Zone-Federation border.  Or what border were they at when they left Federation space?  Unless the Federation has space in the Beta Quadrant that I didn't know about.  They were entering Tereanan space near the Neutral Zone-Federation Border.

The Neutral Zone-Federation border is near the Alpha-Beta Quadrant border I think.

By the way, fa11out, it's not that I'm trying to shoot everyone else down, I'm just trying to point out possible inconsistencies with the developing storyline.

posted on April 7th, 2011, 5:32 pm

I'm working from the Earth centric boardering presented in the Star Trek Starcharts book. Earth is on the Alpha-Beta boarder with Romulan space in the Beta quadrant. The "upper" boarder of Federation space is then in the beta quadrant. I imagine the initial incident occuring about near center of the red ring on the minimap in the image I attached and Federation patrols occuring in the region enclosed in green. The yellow dot is the Hime's encounter with the Zeggepian hackers. Mind also that this map is only reflects to c.2380, so I assume that the Federation has expanded since then as I indicate on the minimap on the side with hatched blue and the Romulans in hatched olive. I'm not sure how Tereanan space works into this though.

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[Anonymous]

posted on April 7th, 2011, 6:15 pm

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The map is relative to where Earth is, right?  There seems to be image-overlapping in some areas, but I'll try to figure out how the Tereanan Empire fits into this.  I've outlined Tereanan space with a red line.  The dark red stripes indicate Tereanan space in 2370.  The bright red stripes indicate Tereanan space in 2403.  Notice the "pocket" expansion method that the Tereanans use.  The borders are enforced as well as areas near planets that are apart of the Tereanan Empire, but for planets that are not apart of the Tereanan Empire or otherwise empty space, the Tereanan's don't enforce those areas.  So not all of the space within the red boundaries is actually enforced.  But the borders are enforced.

The purple lines indicate Tereanan transwarp conduits.  The ones going into unclaimed space are for exploration.  The bright blue lines is where Tereanan scouts have charted the border of Zaggepian space and dark blue stripes.  The Tereanans haven't finished scouting the border yet, so the charts are not complete.  And off the map, Zaggepian and Tereanan borders start moving away from each other and never make contact.

PS:  For some reason, the Tereanans want to move one of their transwarp conduits away from Zaggepian space.

EDIT:  Map Updated.  White area is effected by the Tereanan construction field being destroyed.  And the conduit the goes through that area collapsed, knocking out the entire network.  The stations that maintain the network are still in tact, but have been disabled.  Support structures within the conduits have been crushed and will have to be rebuilt.

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posted on April 16th, 2011, 3:07 pm

=== BEGIN ===

=== Sending Transmission to Federation Fleet - Stardate 2404/051 ===

The following is a map of the known galaxy.  The dark blue area is Tereanan space.  The light blue is allied space.  The yellow is neutral space.  Dark red is former enemy/"we don't trust you" space.  The bright red is enemy space.  The dark green dot on the border of the Alpha and Beta quadrants is the location of Earth.

In the Gama Gama quadrant, there is the Dominion, and the Trakans as well as two new races.  The Kratans, and the Branorm.  The Kratans and the Tereanans have just signed a treaty that neither side will enter each other's space cloaked or with their defenses up and will honor any areas of the others space that is off limits and will stay out of each other's battles unless the battle is with a common enemy (eg:  The Borg).

The Branorm on the other hand seem a little on edge about the new treaty that was signed between us and the Kratans.

The Trakans are screaming that wars against them and attacking their ships and stations are illegal, however, they're really in no position to make demands.  They brought the war on themselves by attacking a Tereanan outpost even after they were warned about what would happen if they did.


In the Delta Quadrant, Tereanan ships have come across what appears to be official Netriiti space with a stable government and a functioning culture.  Although they didn't believe us about the stray vessels we found near Borg space and they didn't seem to know anything about the Borg.

The Tereanans also ran into Krenim space.  They didn't want any of our vessels entering the region because it was in dispute although it seemed that they had pretty good hold over the region.  The encounter went without incident.

We also found what appears to be Talaxian space seperated by about 40,000 light-years on either side of Borg space.  The one near the border of the quadrant is a few hundred light-years from where Voyager past and they seem interested in developing transwarp technology.


In the Beta Quadrant, we've finished scouting the border of Zaggepian space.  Although the scouts had to dart away in a hurry every few hours and there were several battles during the scouting mission.  It seems that their scanners are scanning for vessels in subspace, which defeats the purpose of our subspace cloak.  We also had several run-ins with the Borg during the scouting missions.  They seemed intent on getting our scouts where as before, they would ignore a Tereanan scout unless it was too close to Borg space or inside Borg space.  And the Borg seem to have adapted to our virus.


In the Alpha quadrant, the Cardassians seem to be at it agian with building up their millitary force.  And it seems that they are trying to develop a way to bring Species-8472 into the galaxy.  Tereanan scouts are searching for anything that might be trying to bring Species-8472 into the galaxy, but so far, nothing.  The spacial distortions that just appeared 3 hours ago don't seem to be helping.  During the Tereanan-Borg wars, Species-8472 briefly helped the Tereanans in the war and the Tereanans even provided Species-8472 with intelligence on where Borg vessels, systems, and stations were found.  That went on for about a couple months until a certain starship scared them off.

=== End Transmission ===

=== END ===

In an earlier thread, I said that the Trakans were in the Beta Quadrant.  However, I decided to put them in the Gama Quadrant instead.  Please overlook this inconsistency.  Also, the previous map had the Earth at the center of the Alpha quadrant while this map has Earth at the Alpha-Beta Quadrant border.

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