Heavy Metal (Starbase 118): Difference between revisions

As multiple plans and approaches to dealing with the projectiles come together and the ship is put into motion towards the goal, another wave of larger, slower projectiles is discovered. This wave, located just under a week away from the station, is coming from a different direction and stands to be more difficult to handle and more devastating than the first. Putting the information to the side for that moment, the crew deals with the first wave before heading back to Starbase 118, where they will get to work on a week-long frenzy to bring the defensive systems of Starbase 118 back online before it's too late.

Testing of the special weapon devised by the science department begins, with some disastrous side effects; high levels of radiation injur the officers - Ensign Makral and Ensign Foster - who are testing it. Both officers end up in sickbay, with one, Makral, falling into a coma and not immediately waking.

While everything else is going on, the virus discovered in the signal earlier is let loose on the station cause various levels of havoc. Heading towards the computer core, it takes all of the engineers to figure out how to block the malevolent signal and prevent the destruction of what little they had left in the way of operational systems. The virus is stopped, but not before wrecking havoc on the diplomatic sector during a meeting called by Ambassador Kerok in which a Romulan man is murdered, and the blueprints of the weapon sent to Kerok by the hacker are destroyed.

As the Victory leave the Starbase, the ad hoc Defense Fleet, comprised of any ships at 118 currently operational to some degree, has also left the station. The Fleet will split into groups, each with a target - one of the various nearby colonies Reikara is currently attacking. Now, the tides begin to turn.

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