Season 2 Ep 1 Page 08

- Bridge -

“Captain we were simply outgunned by about ten to one. If they wanted to destroy us they could have. If we want to take that planet we need a bigger fleet. However tactically Galen IV is not that important right now; it would take a much bigger fleet than we have to retake the planet. We are five (Damaged) ships against 30. We need to reprioritize our objectives". Maia said.

“Agreed Commander, It does not look good, their weapons seem to be stronger than normal” She said.

At that moment Jasmine looked around to the turbolift and saw Cahill return.

Cahill returned to the bridge and she sill looked a mess but did felt better seeing how things was herself. She goes to the Medical computer on the bridge and checks out the medical reports on the other friendly vessels. She sees they only had minor numbers of injuries and a few deaths each. Could have been a lot worst no ships were lost.

“Doctor what report from Medical?” She asked.

"Captain we had 4 KIA, 8 injuries that need to remain in Sick Bay for a 24 hour period, 3 that need 5 days till the can be released. But all others were treated and released. The ACMO had to have surgery to fix a dislocated shoulder. But will recover." Cahill said then paused.

"I checked medical reports from other ships, they had a total similar to the Tomcat. I sent a copy of all reports to your pad as well as the XO's pad. We were extremely lucky, things could have been a lot worse considering the damage that we had."

“I with you on that one Doctor” Jasmine responded.

She thinks about how bad it was and how close they came to having too much damage to be battle ready.

Jasmine tapped her interface on her chair arm “Interesting” She said to herself as she read what Cahill had sent her.

“Thank you Doctor” Looking at Sheela “Lieutenant Sheela I don’t care what you have to do, find me a way to take those ships out of my sky and get on the horn to Starfleet see if they can send support, send them all current data on the events” She instructed.

Sheela busy working away for any weakness, but the Rogue faction of Orion Syndicate had things well covered. The way they placed their ships for the battle gave them strength against the finesse of the Federation and the Direct Blitzkrieg of the Klingon attack. Whomever set this up, had studied battle tactics of both Federation and Klingon through out the centuries and placed their ships in optimum position.

She scampered from her communication console over to Science and took control of Secondary Science Station. She looked through the gathered data. It was pretty much the same, but a more clearer picture with scanner readings. Once getting the info from there, she moved up next to Tactical to get confirmation on how they was running the battle and manoeuvring their ships.

"Captain Somers," Sheela as she moved and sat next to Somers, opposite of XO. She brought up a holo-display of the battle, highlighting Rogue Orion Ships. "Theyz positioned their ships online in a zigzag pattern. Then the Overall Command rotated their ships by letting the individual ships with weaken shields to fall back behind the ships with stronger shields."

She showed RO ships manoeuvring the way she said. "This allows them to do the necessary repairs and strengthen their shield back up to speed." Then widening it to show the whole battle, "RO knows wez use finesse and stand firm to slug it out with uz. With the bold Charge of the Klingon’s, they create gaps in their line and broadside them as they pass through, baiting them with a ship that’s been wounded." she highlighted the areas that she talked about on the display.

Looking at Sterling “Commander what is the status of our fighters?” She asked.

"I agree with the Doctor Captain it could have been much worse".

“Commander what is the status of our fighters?” Somers asked.

"Fighters are tip top Captain! While those Orion cruisers had good capital fire power they lacked much in the way of point defensive weaponry. They really couldn't hit our fighters at close range. Possibly they didn't see them much as a threat. Orion's aren't known for using fighter craft. We didn't lose any in the last battle".

“Good, notify our allies, those who can fly to rendezvous at these following coordinates” She said tapping something in and sending it to Sterling.

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