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==={{USS|Drake}}=== | ==={{USS|Drake}}=== | ||
Originally tasked with the study and repowering of an ancient Xenos sensor network, the USS Drake was on it's way deep into the No Mans Land between the Klingon and Romulan Empires. These now dormant Sensor Beacons promised to be a wealth of data and intelligence on the growing hostilities between the two boarder empires, and was an opportunity that could not be passed up. | |||
Bouncing first from a popular tourist spot on the shattered world of Ishkara, the crew of the Drake followed the bread crumbs to an aging alien space station, dubbed Gateway Station by the first Federation Explorers who found it years ago. Gateway was far from abandoned however, with hundreds of civillians calling it home as well as a well trained and equipped mercenary unit named The Black Sheep. More importantly the next Sensor Beacon was inside, and perhaps more importantly then that a Klingon Vorcha Cruiser lurked in the void outside and immediately took up arms against the USS Drake. With the Klingons firing the first shots in what could prove to be all out war with the Federation, the Drake moved to defend itself while and Away Team went to work on the stations Sensor Beacon. | |||
Thanks to a timely distress call the USS Avandar arrived on scene and assited the Drake in driving off the Klingons, who cloaked and fled the scene. Not however, before setting a field of Gravametric Mines loose to attack anything without a Klingon transponder, including the station and the refugees within. As chaos reigned in space, the away team was captured by the Mercenaries on board before they forged a loose truce so long as the Federation gave them a laundry list of demanded supplies in exchange for access to the beacon. The team went to work as the Drake and Avandar worked in tandem to defend the station, and themselves, from the swarms of incoming mines. The situation was made all the worse by the return of the Klingon aggressor, with the aide of several Klingon warships including a massive Vo'quv carrier. | |||
Both ships and station launched a counter offensive with the Black Sheep mercenaries lending their aide in the form of aging Space Superiority Fighters and soon the void was filled with shuttles, fighters, mines and debris. As casualties mounted on both sides the Away Team was successful in reactivating the Beacon, despite attacks by Klingon sleeper agents aboard the station and massive damage from gravametric mines. The Drakes 103 Search and Rescue team was dispatched to evacuate civilians and the Mercenaries who doggedly protected them, and began transferring them via emergency transportation to both Avandar and Drake. | |||
It was only the confusing and timely arrival of a second Klingon fleet that saved the day for the Federation. The second fleet quickly went to work attacking and destroying multiple elements of the original force, now known to be led by a rogue Colonel. With Gateway Station completely evacuated, the Sensor Beacon reactivated and broadcasting, and a steady stream of casualties both the Drake and Avandar returned to friendlier skies. | |||
==={{USS|Mercury}}=== | ==={{USS|Mercury}}=== | ||