marie@nmtvax.UUCP (03/05/84)
Date: 171.0.0 Subject: Log Transcription of Captain Ronald James of the Command Cruiser (refitted) North America In the first action of the war the Federation CC+ "North America" commanded by Captain Ronald James responded to a call from a planetary base. The call contained an alert notice of two frigate sized ships of Andromedan design lurking at medium range from the planet. Fighters had been dispatched to investigate but the Andromedans easily outran them. The North America intercept- ed the ships after they had left the system. The interception area was near to a variable pulsar. This made any combat situa- tion doubly dangerous due to the outbursts of energy from the pulsar. Captain James: "Raise full shields, arm phasers and photon torpedoes. Engineering, prepare 2 suicide attack shuttles and 1 scatter pack. Gunnery, launch a type I-X drone." Science officer: "They are energizing power absorbers to reinforce levels. All weapons are armed. Pulsar warning! Seven seconds. Number six shield 55% damaged. Incoming fire: 20% dam- age to number one shield. Both ships closing to medium range." Captain James: "Damage control: Begin repairs to number six shield. Launch another drone. Science officer: "Both ships still closing and accelerating. Firing phasers. Number six shield is down. Minor internal dam- age." Captain James: "Fire phasers and photon torpedoes." Weapons officer: "A few hits, the range is too long." Science officer: "Pulsar Burst: 40% damage to rear shields. Both ships have reached maximum speed." Captain James: "Full for- ward acceleration. Come about to bring shield two to bear. Launch another drone." Score at the half: Andromedans slightly ahead due to slight internal damage to the North America from the pulsar. Captain James: "Close to point bank range. Fully overload photon torpedoes. At this point the North America strikes two small mines. Captain James: "What the #### was that? Science officer: "Two transporter bombs dead ahead, sir. Forward shield is down. There is minor internal damage." Captain James: I'll teach them to damage my ship! Fire all phasers and torpdeoes." Weapons officer: "Three torpedoes and all phasers operation- al sir. Firing. All torpedoes and phasers scored, sir! She's dead in space, sir!" Science officer: "Incoming fire, sir." "BOOOOOM" The Andromedan courier took over 50 internal hits. Within about 1 or 2 of blowing. Then two PA panels blew. The ship was finished. It blew up and caused about 28 hits to the forward Pa's of its' sister ship. The North America took about 14 more internals in addition to the 50+ it had already suffered. The second Andromedan came straight on and hit the three transporter bombs placed by the chief engineer who acted without orders to do so. He received a commendation from the Federation Grand Admiral for his actions. The second Andromedan ship took no internals from the bombs. The North America pealed off to the right and dropped another transporter bomb from the shuttle bay. The An- dromedan turned to the left to follow the North America and missed the bomb. The North America promptly fired two phaser III's into the forward PA's causing minor internal damage to the courier. The North America was now crippled. Captain James: "Launch a drone in his face for ######## sake. Launch a suicide attack shuttle too! Drop another tran- sporter bomb from the shuttle bay. The Andromedan destroyed the SAS with P-II fire but had to eat the drone. Moderate internal damage was caused. At least until a PA blew. The Andromedan hit the TB dead on for another 10 internals. He still came on bent on finishing the North Amer- ica. Next round: The North America manged to maintain speed and dropped another TB. Her remaining phasers (3 P-I, 2 P-III) were able to fire to the rear and did causing no internal damage to the Courier. The courier missed the TB and overran the cruiser. Fired its' remaining P-II and tore off at about 22 hexes per turn. It proceeded to outrun the cruiser and disengage. final score: federation: 87 andromedans: 73