08-17-2025, 05:50 PM
Jenny's knuckles turned a lighter shade of blue as she gripped the armrests of the command chair; Chertstone's evasive action wasn't working, the Yeager's impulse drive having been constructed from components left over from the Defiant prototype - engines that were dangerously overpowered for such a small ship were woefully under-powered on a ship the size of the Yeager. The Jem'Hadar craft were agile and well-armed, and trying to fight them in a manoeuvre battle was a losing proposition; something that became self-evident as they battered down the Yeager's shields and shattered hull plating.
T'Lari's reply, Earth American East Coast, sounded utterly alien to Jenny as the torpedoes fired. More blasts rocked the ship as Chertstone tried in vain to get into an advantageous position over the smaller ships. Not for the first time, Jenny wished Theresa Black were at the helm; Chertstone was a better pilot, but the older officer had the combat experience to not try what the NCO was trying.
“Initiating Tellar Roll, Mark.”
There was no further warning as the Yeager heeled over into a tight banking turn, and Jenny was pushed into her chair by the sudden change in vector while the inertial dampeners attempted to compensate. The newer Yeager would have handled such a manoeuvre with relative ease, having more powerful (and numerous) engines with improved vector control, attitude thrusters with higher outputs, and a structural integrity field so reinforced that theoretically the ship would hold together if it were sawn completely in half. The original Yeager lacked all of those things beyond the enhanced SiF.
She'll tear herself apart if we keep this up.
"Belay that! Omega-Four, Starboard!"
Jenny just hoped the delay between Chertstone's implementation of the manoeuvre and her countermanding wasn't so long that they were fully committed, and that they didn't present an easy target or rip themselves to pieces before they figured out exactly what was going on.
T'Lari's reply, Earth American East Coast, sounded utterly alien to Jenny as the torpedoes fired. More blasts rocked the ship as Chertstone tried in vain to get into an advantageous position over the smaller ships. Not for the first time, Jenny wished Theresa Black were at the helm; Chertstone was a better pilot, but the older officer had the combat experience to not try what the NCO was trying.
“Initiating Tellar Roll, Mark.”
There was no further warning as the Yeager heeled over into a tight banking turn, and Jenny was pushed into her chair by the sudden change in vector while the inertial dampeners attempted to compensate. The newer Yeager would have handled such a manoeuvre with relative ease, having more powerful (and numerous) engines with improved vector control, attitude thrusters with higher outputs, and a structural integrity field so reinforced that theoretically the ship would hold together if it were sawn completely in half. The original Yeager lacked all of those things beyond the enhanced SiF.
She'll tear herself apart if we keep this up.
"Belay that! Omega-Four, Starboard!"
Jenny just hoped the delay between Chertstone's implementation of the manoeuvre and her countermanding wasn't so long that they were fully committed, and that they didn't present an easy target or rip themselves to pieces before they figured out exactly what was going on.