9 hours ago
From her forward seat, and her focus on controlling the ship in its precarious orbit, Black could only listen into the conversations behind her.
With the return of Commander Qi the primary topic was how they could still save the Franklin from its fiery demise. T'Lari's comment that they could just push it with the tractor beam gave her a small smile as she imagined the look on the chief science officers face.
Her own suggestion would have been just lightly tap the hulk and let nature do its own thing, but that wasn't to be as moments later, the Cardassians arrived in system.
It must have been by pure luck that they had managed to make it to the other side of the planet nanoseconds before they arrived, and began actively scanning the entire system and flooding all subspace channels, and launching probes in all directions like some kind of multi headed hydra hoping and knowing that at least one would find the Federation vessels hiding place with comparative ease.
Yeager had only really glimpsed the uprated Os'ura Plus from their own wide ranging type three probe which they'd deployed to intercept the incoming target. What they'd encountered earlier had been massively upgraded and where before they had been on an equal footing, now they were no match for this thing in the slightest.
As she'd expected, the standard Cardassian tactic was to jam all outbound channels including the emergency ones. Something they had favoured during the Dominion wars. It was of course frowned upon under the conventions of war. But this far out there wasn't really much that could be done about it. Once again, the hurricane to the hummingbird.
[Captain Braggins and the crew of the USS Yeager.] Said a female voice on the only channel that remained free of static and sadness. [There is little use in hiding, for we know you are here.]
And?
[You are violating Cardassian territory,]
er... No.
[An act of war. Of course, what else is to be expected of the famous Jennifer Braggins? Fighter Pilot. War Hero.]
Pipe smoker, and rear of the year?
[Illegal Augment.]
Well, that explains a few more things...
[You are also wanted by the Cardassian Union for the crimes of Piracy and Murder.]
Oh... That!
[Surrender yourself to us, and the Yeager will be allowed to return to Federation Space. I will give you five minutes. After that, you and your crew will be treated as enemy combatants and dealt with accordingly.]
The entire message had been directed at Braggins. But everyone who heard it knew that the offer of leniency given that the Yeager would be allowed go free was easily summed up on one word that Theresa muttered quietly as her ire from this bad day really wanted to make itself know to the Cardassian woman.
“Well that's all Bollocks.”
With the return of Commander Qi the primary topic was how they could still save the Franklin from its fiery demise. T'Lari's comment that they could just push it with the tractor beam gave her a small smile as she imagined the look on the chief science officers face.
Her own suggestion would have been just lightly tap the hulk and let nature do its own thing, but that wasn't to be as moments later, the Cardassians arrived in system.
It must have been by pure luck that they had managed to make it to the other side of the planet nanoseconds before they arrived, and began actively scanning the entire system and flooding all subspace channels, and launching probes in all directions like some kind of multi headed hydra hoping and knowing that at least one would find the Federation vessels hiding place with comparative ease.
Yeager had only really glimpsed the uprated Os'ura Plus from their own wide ranging type three probe which they'd deployed to intercept the incoming target. What they'd encountered earlier had been massively upgraded and where before they had been on an equal footing, now they were no match for this thing in the slightest.
As she'd expected, the standard Cardassian tactic was to jam all outbound channels including the emergency ones. Something they had favoured during the Dominion wars. It was of course frowned upon under the conventions of war. But this far out there wasn't really much that could be done about it. Once again, the hurricane to the hummingbird.
[Captain Braggins and the crew of the USS Yeager.] Said a female voice on the only channel that remained free of static and sadness. [There is little use in hiding, for we know you are here.]
And?
[You are violating Cardassian territory,]
er... No.
[An act of war. Of course, what else is to be expected of the famous Jennifer Braggins? Fighter Pilot. War Hero.]
Pipe smoker, and rear of the year?
[Illegal Augment.]
Well, that explains a few more things...
[You are also wanted by the Cardassian Union for the crimes of Piracy and Murder.]
Oh... That!
[Surrender yourself to us, and the Yeager will be allowed to return to Federation Space. I will give you five minutes. After that, you and your crew will be treated as enemy combatants and dealt with accordingly.]
The entire message had been directed at Braggins. But everyone who heard it knew that the offer of leniency given that the Yeager would be allowed go free was easily summed up on one word that Theresa muttered quietly as her ire from this bad day really wanted to make itself know to the Cardassian woman.
“Well that's all Bollocks.”