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''Kinney: ::Darkly:: Yes. ::He pushed a PADD across the desk that had a bland summary of Arrhimen's statement:: I think I just sent an aging ship of children into a lion's den.'' | ''Kinney: ::Darkly:: Yes. ::He pushed a PADD across the desk that had a bland summary of Arrhimen's statement:: I think I just sent an aging ship of children into a lion's den.'' | ||
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''Sarin::arched a perfect Vulcan brow. He never favored human turns of phrase, and many metaphors simply escaped him.:: The Albion is perfectly serviceable, and last I checked all officers and crew were well above the age of majority. ::He deadpanned.::'' | ''Sarin::arched a perfect Vulcan brow. He never favored human turns of phrase, and many metaphors simply escaped him.:: The Albion is perfectly serviceable, and last I checked all officers and crew were well above the age of majority. ::He deadpanned.::'' | ||
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''Kinney: ::Waving a hand in the air:: Technicalities. An old ship, a new commander and new officers in key areas is a recipe for disaster. ::he frowned:: I sent those kids out on an expedited launch with little warning and no planning time because I thought this would be a cakewalk. Beat Arrhimen there, talk him down. Simple. ::He leaned back, his countenance going dark:: This is no longer simple.''</center> | ''Kinney: ::Waving a hand in the air:: Technicalities. An old ship, a new commander and new officers in key areas is a recipe for disaster. ::he frowned:: I sent those kids out on an expedited launch with little warning and no planning time because I thought this would be a cakewalk. Beat Arrhimen there, talk him down. Simple. ::He leaned back, his countenance going dark:: This is no longer simple.''</center> | ||
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The crew finds out that their mission is to intercept the USS Stormcrow before it gets to Romulan space. Starfleet believes that the Stormcrow will attack the defenseless Romulan Valdis colony in an act of war. As the crew express shock and dismay at this, Commander Taybrim goes on to explain that the Captain of the Stormcrow is [[Haz Arrhimen]], the same Haz Arrhimen that insisted they investigate the destruction of the [[SS Annabelle's Lament]] and the death of his younger brother. Since Arrhimen left spacedock he's refusing to answer hails and looks intent on committing an act of war. | The crew finds out that their mission is to intercept the USS Stormcrow before it gets to Romulan space. Starfleet believes that the Stormcrow will attack the defenseless Romulan Valdis colony in an act of war. As the crew express shock and dismay at this, Commander Taybrim goes on to explain that the Captain of the Stormcrow is [[Haz Arrhimen]], the same Haz Arrhimen that insisted they investigate the destruction of the [[SS Annabelle's Lament]] and the death of his younger brother. Since Arrhimen left spacedock he's refusing to answer hails and looks intent on committing an act of war. | ||
As the Albion speeds towards the Valdis colony, they receive a call from Lt Commander James Thorn of the [[USS Tribal]], a fast frigate on patrol of the Romulan neutral zone. Thorn and his crew have | As the Albion speeds towards the Valdis colony, they receive a call from Lt Commander James Thorn of the [[USS Tribal]], a fast frigate on patrol of the Romulan neutral zone. Thorn and his crew have received Arrhimen's declaration of war over subspace and the Tribal is close enough to the Valdis colony to lend aid to the Albion, an offer which Commander Taybrim is happy to accept. However, unknown to either one of them Captain Arrhimen has intercepted their communication and moves to engage the Tribal. About an hour after the conversation between the Tribal and the Albion, the Stormcrow attacks, badly damaging the USS Tribal. | ||
Thorn sends out a distress call, and while the Albion cannot spare the ship to assist her, they do launch a medical and marine contingent to lend aid n a trio of arrow class shuttles. Meanwhile Starfleet Command in the trinity sector gets word on just how violently serious Haz Arrhimen is, prompting Commodore [[Allan Kinney]] to question how wise it was to launch an old ship with a new crew into a dangerous battle. | Thorn sends out a distress call, and while the Albion cannot spare the ship to assist her, they do launch a medical and marine contingent to lend aid n a trio of arrow class shuttles. Meanwhile Starfleet Command in the trinity sector gets word on just how violently serious Haz Arrhimen is, prompting Commodore [[Allan Kinney]] to question how wise it was to launch an old ship with a new crew into a dangerous battle. | ||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1986326 Rude Awakening] | ! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1986326 Rude Awakening] | ||
| The USS Albion is set on an expedited launch at 0500 hours | | The USS Albion is set on an expedited launch at 0500 hours | ||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1986612 On the Border] | |||
| Haz Arrhimen broadcasts a message to Starfleet, and Starfleet takes notice | |||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1986718 Dead in Space] | ! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1986718 Dead in Space] | ||
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== Act II: A Vicious Battle == | == Act II: A Vicious Battle == | ||
<center>''"Me and my crew of the Stormcrow are those Patriots and we will water the tree of liberty with green blood of the tyrants." -Haz Arrhimen''</center> | <center>''"Well I say to you, here is the new revolution. Me and my crew of the Stormcrow are those Patriots who will fight, and we will water the tree of liberty with green blood of the tyrants." -Haz Arrhimen''</center> | ||
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[[Image:Excelsior Space Battle.jpg|150px|thumb|left|The USS Albion fights a tense battle]]The Albion reached the Valdis colony shortly before the Stormcrow, | [[Image:Excelsior Space Battle.jpg|150px|thumb|left|The USS Albion fights a tense battle]]The Albion reached the Valdis colony shortly before the Stormcrow, and immediately started to search for the missing starship. Haz Arrhimen, already aware of the Albion's presence from the communication with the USS Tribal approached the Valdis system using the Valdis nebula as cover. The Stormcrow ambushed the Albion from inside the nebula and advanced. | ||
The two ships engaged in a vicious firefight which led to the crippling of the Stormcrow, and major damage to the Albion. The majority of the Stormcrow's skeleton crew launched on life boats which were intercepted by the Albion, but over a dozen Stormcrow officers were left onboard. The Albion sent a search and rescue party to the Stormcrow, to retrieve injured crew and retrieve information from the Stormcrows computer banks before the ship's life support completely failed. Ensign [[Freya Andersen]] was successful in convincing the Stormcrow's science officer Tara Whittings to help them. The security teams were successful in rescuing the rest of the survivors, but when they tried to access the computer core they set off a trap that Captain Arrhimen set in the core system, triggering a self destruct. Lieutenant JG [[Rocko Stevens]] stayed on board to help push the Stormcrow away from the Albion while he ordered the rest of his team to beam back to the Albion. Through the careful maneuvering of Lt Commander [[Kaitlyn Falcon]] the Albion was able to get to a safe distance and beam Lieutenant Stevens back before the Stormcrow exploded. In the end the Albion crew only gleaned a small amount of what secrets Arrhimen may have held. | |||
However, on board the Albion the survivors were kept in the brig but Haz Arrhimen demanded to speak to the Albion's Commanding officer. When Taybrim agreed to meet with him, Arrhimen uncovered that he wasn't going to attack the Valdis colony with phasers and torpedos; but with a biochemical agent that was already released on the planet. In his madness, Arrhimen claimed that he had brought the bioweapon on board the Albion with him and that the entire crew was now infected. | |||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1987483 Ragnarok] | |||
| The USS Albion deals the ending blow to the USS Stormcrow | |||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1987599 Symphony of Chaos] | |||
| The aftermath of the Stormcrow's fatal blow | |||
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== Act III: Madness and Lies == | |||
<center>''I am a black belt in Starship Jujitsu, and don’t you dunderheads ever forget it! -Lt Commander Kaitlyn Falcon'' | |||
[[Image:Valdis Colony.png|150px|thumb|left|The lives of the Valdis colony hang in the balance]]In the Captain's read room, Haz Arrhimen makes the bold claim that there is a cloaked Romulan warbird in the nebula, and it was the Romulans who fired the killing blow into the USS Stormcrow, not the Albion. This claim does line up with the fact that the Stormcrow apparently sustained much more damage than the Albion was capable of delivering in a single torpedo shot; as well as the reason for Arrhimen setting the remnants of his ship to self destruct. However Commander Taybrim, Counselor [[Anastashia Broi]] and Lieutenant {{n|Trel'lis}} all suspect that Arrhimen is lying somehow. | |||
Medical and scientific teams led by Doctor [[Jen Malcolm]] quickly discover that while Arrhimen has brought strains of a bioweapon virus on board, the crew is at little risk. The bioweapon specifically targets Romulan physiology. Dr. Malcolm is able to quickly produce a serum that will safeguard the Albion's Vulcan crew members from any ill effects; but cracking the bioweapon and finding a cure for the Valdis colony is much more difficult. The Albion decides to offer clemency to the Stormcrow's science officer Tara Whittings in exchange for assistance in creating a cure for the bioweapon. Thankfully, she agrees. | |||
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Whittaker and Lieutenant JG Peters are investigating the power surge that happened directly before the Albion fired upon the Stormcrow; only to find that there is an overload in one of the torpedo tubes! Lt. Commander Anders rushes down to engineering to lend aid as the resulting explosion could end up destroying the Albion in its weakened state. He ends up working in close quarters in a life-or-death situation with Lieutenant Whittaker - a fateful situation that would start off a long term romance between the two officers. | |||
The Albion | With a cure for the bioweapon well underway, Haz Arrhimen's lies are wearing thin. Commander Taybrim decides to call Arrhimen's bluff by sending out a deflector pulse which should show a sensor ghost of any cloaked ships. As the pulse is deployed Taybrim is ready to send Arrhimen back to the brig when a Romulan warbird decloaks off the port bow of the USS Albion. The already frazzled bridge crew is startled by this, and tension rises as the Romulans do not open fire - but they stand their ground as if trying to stare the Albion down. As Commander Taybrim goes to try to talk to the Romulans Captain Arrhimen activates a covert communications device and is beamed off the Albion. It is unclear whether the Romulans beamed him off either as an ally or to dispense justice to him - or whether Arrhimem beamed elsewhere. The Albion was left with many questions as the warbird re-cloaked and left the Valdis system at high warp. | ||
The rest of Arrhimen's crew were secured and the Albion was able to synthesize an antidote to the weapon used against the Valdis colony and offered both the antidote and the formula for synthesizing more to the planetary governor; thus preventing an act of war. The Albion returned to the USS Tribal, retrieved all teams and offered full medical aid to all Starfleet officers. Both ships rendezvoused with the [[USS Avalon]] which towed the tribal and escorted the Albion back to StarBase 118. | |||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/ | ! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1987495 Goners] | ||
| The | | Lt Commander Anders and Lieutenant Whittaker bond in the face of life and death | ||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1987518 Flirting in the Face of Danger] | |||
| The start of a beautiful relationship | |||
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! style="width:200px;"|[http://sims.starbase118.net/posts/1988030 Wrap Up] | |||
| The cure is delivered to the colony and the Albion gets ready to head home | |||
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|Transferred from the {{USS|Apollo|A}} 239211.10 | |Transferred from the {{USS|Apollo|A}} 239211.10 | ||
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|{{n|Nira}} | |||
|Science Officer | |||
|Joined 239211.16, AWOL 239212.06 | |||
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|{{n|Anastasha|Broi}} | |{{n|Anastasha|Broi}} |