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'Parrysplits and damage buffers' ===== Main Bridge, USS Archer ===== Mumacik tried his best to help to defeat the emeny. Tapping like a swift wind (or as a crazy fool) he aimed again a torpedo, locked his targed and shot ... and missed. But this time it was just a probe ... the real voley was ready right now. The enemy ship reached the most distant point of its trajectory and started to turn around to begin a new attack. Muma picked this moment to fire his next torpedo voley. Very little ships can turn around at full speed ... and from them a good half end 'sqashed' on some asteroid or comet ... and so even the swift and agile enemy had to reduce speed to turn around safely ... and that was just the moment Muma waited for. Another quick tapping ... and the bluish effect of three quantum torpedoes shimered on the main screen. Some quick seconds ... and the result. Two torpedoes hit the enemy. From the corner of his eye Muma looked at the enemy ship status screen ... their shields dropped down to ... 92%. Comparing to the state of the Archer ... it looked like a scratch only. Mumacik glanced quickly at Cameron who tried his best with phasers. The CTAC seemed concentrated and full focused on his console ... if anyone could 'teach the emeny manners' it would be Sikes. Mumacik turned back to his console and tried to lock the next voley onto the enemy ship. He glanced on Fernandez sitting behind him, taking care about shields and hull plating. She catched his glance and smiled a bit at him and then noded. It was quite nice that Muma doesnt need to care about shields as well ... and her nod revealed that its still not critical with the Archer's shields. {With this rate of taking strafe from the enemy ship, the Archer will be disabled in less the 10 minutes, 30 seconds} Muma thought. There must be an another way how to deal with that swift agile enemy ... and suddenly he had an idea. Opening his mouth to make a suggestion ... he was interrupted by the XO calling for options. "Perhaps" Harry said spinning from his chair. "We could somehow Propel the Destructing ship into the Path of Enemy Ship?" Mumacik noticed the immediate threating destruction of the civilian ship and thought about Harry's words for a second. There were several ways how to move an space ship without its own engines ... but most of them required time ... something they lacked right now. With an thought in his mind Muma started to tapp away to confirm some data first before speaking. James could hear Mumacik tapping frantically at his console from behind. "We'd need to boost power to the deflector dish Captain." Muma said. "That together with the Tractor beam should be enough to propel the ship." Muma wanted to add the probability rating of the success of that operation ... but thought better of it. One reason was that the rating was not quite high ... and the second that almost nobody payed attention to his probanility ratings ... "Shields To Engineering..." the CO Began, obviously planning on Getting Engineering to sort out the Deflector dish Problem. "Sir, I'll do it." James said standing to his feet. "Engineering have their hands full." As Finn left the bridge with Bren, Mumacik turned agian to the centre of the bridge and offered a suggestion: "Sir, with the present battle situation ... logic would dictate to launch three combat class shuttles. Our enemy is powerfull and heavy armed but the most advantage compared to the Archer is its swiftness and agility which makes it hard to hit by our weapons. That advantage would be neautralised by the shuttles ... the enemy would have to awoid four different sources of weapon fire and the shuttle could serve as 'parrysplits' and 'damage buffers' for the Archer as well. That could give us extra time for our plan ..." He eyed the CO standing in the middle of the bridge and waited for an answer. Post a comment in response: |
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