Bumpy ride
Posted on Tue Feb 20th, 2018 @ 6:14am by
Edited on on Thu May 31st, 2018 @ 9:42pm
414 words; about a 2 minute read
Mission:
Episode 2 - The Enemy Within
Location: USS Pioneer- Bridge
Timeline: MD005 0630hrs
Tags: SD 71381.0630
Flight through the Badlands is like taking a pilots worst nightmare and turning it up to 11. Jax had some of her team just brining her coffee. That was their whole job was to keep her cup full. She had worked out a deal with Ops to have an actual grinder and a stash or beans in her office. She didn’t mind replicated Joe, but in highly tense situations she needed the real deal. Her mind was working on over time. In these times she wasn’t very chatty and was busy watching the view screen, ops read outs from the whiskers, and her power levels.
As they made their way deeper in she saw on the whisker data a spike in charged gas in front of them. She looked over the data and then looked up just in time to see a huge explosion in front of the ship some two hundred yards in front of them. She didn’t seem to panic as she put the ship in full reverse. A ship this size it wasn’t a matter of pushing the brake to stop. You also couldn’t turn on a dime like a fighter to miss the explosion of charged gasses. While the shields would take much of the hit from the explosion, a shot that hard would throw people all over the place and really cause some damage internally. Her quick thinking she was able to put the ships engines in a full reverse and tilted the tip of the nose up so the brunt of the shockwave glanced off the bottom of the ship.
The Pioneer shook violently, and a random red shirt that was walking near an auxiliary console when the wave hit was thrown into said console as it exploded. You could hear the underbelly of the ship groan from the hit it took. Jax winced as she saw the bridge first responders start treating the crewman. That wasn’t fun but in the back of her mind it could have been much worse. She continued the course now that gases return to as normal as they come in this sector of space. In the background she could hear damage reports coming in. Nothing sounded to catastrophic but the hit they took will cause some extra hours for damage control and medical.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Jacqueline Storm
Chief Flight Control Officer, USS Pioneer
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