Star Trek Hunter
Episode 26: Rain Over Rising Sun
Scene 16: Potato Gun

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Potato Gun

At 16:00 hours, the U.S.S. Hunter broke orbit from Rising Sun and left the system, as previously scheduled with Star Fleet planetary – a schedule that was publicly available.

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At 21 hours and 3 minutes, the Hunter made an unscheduled re-entry to the system from high warp and on arrival, immediately launched the wagon, the two interceptors and the tactical unit – each of which jumped instantly to warp to arrive at a specific target. The tactical unit and the wagon came out of their short warp jump just above the Potato Moon. The two interceptors arrived at the control satellite for the planetary defense network. The Hunter platform remained where it had come out of warp – positioned so that its weaponry could simultaneously support both task groups.

In the cockpit of Interceptor 2.A, Chief Flight Specialist Thyssi zh'Qaoleq entered a code that caused the deflector shield around the control satellite to deactivate. She also deactivated the station's life support, lighting and grav plating.

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In the tiny bridge of the tactical unit, Lt. Cmdr. Napoleon Boles was in the command chair. In front of him, Ensign Chelna Zusa was in the pilot's seat. To her right, Ensign Geoffrey Horatio Alstars was focusing the phasers of the unit and shaping its shield bubble.

"Zusa, put us right on top of that thing," said Boles.

In response, the rigellian pilot's fingers danced across the pilot's console, causing the tactical unit to dive toward the Potato Moon, then pull out of the dive 15 meters above a shielded building. This brought the tactical unit's shields into direct contact with the building's shielding. Alstars reconfigured the tactical unit's shields, cancelling the building's shielding.

"We have shield congruence, sir," said Alstars.

"Hit them, Geoff," said Boles.

Ensign Alstars quickly destroyed first the single phaser cannon, then the shield generators, then the power generators, then the batteries. "Confirmed facility-wide power failure," he reported.

"Gaia, you have a go," said Boles.

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The grav plating in the operation staging area – the rear compartment of the wagon – was at a minimal setting – just enough to keep the six crew members clad in full EVA suits standing on the deck. At the word from the Hunter's first officer, the second officer, Lt. Cmdr. Gaia Gamor said, "Visors down," and closed the visor on her EVA suit. Her five companions – 2nd Lt. Tolon Reeves and his tactical squad – followed suit.

"Energize!"

The wagon's staging area vanished around Gamor and her task group, to be replaced by a darkened corridor. As they arrived, the crew members crouched, in a planned first move. It was a good first move as a disruptor beam passed through the space their heads had just occupied.

"Break and attack," Gamor ordered quietly. She and tactical specialists Veri Geki and Ranni Neivi launched in one direction down the corridor as Lt. Tolon, Tactical Specialist Daserae Eba and Chief Rumi Grace sprang in the opposite direction. The corridor was dark, but the Hunter's EVA visors included infrared and other features, allowing the Hunter's crew members to see the limits of the room and identify their quarry.

The inhabitants of this corridor had no such advantage – they were not dressed in EVA suits, did not have magnetic boots and did not have visors of any sort. With the power suddenly cut off to their facility, they were blind and nearly weightless. One of them was shouting "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" Others were firing disruptors blindly, not realizing their attackers were all now close to the ceiling. Within seconds, the five humans who had been in this corridor when the Hunter's crew arrived were stunned, marked with locator pins and beamed into brig units aboard the U.S.S. Hunter.

The Hunter's crew activated their magnetic boots, causing them to be attracted to the nearest metal surface. They reorganized themselves on the ceiling and headed deeper into the facility, walking in single file along the ceiling.

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Stay Tuned for Episode 26: Rain Over Rising Sun:

Scene 17: Planetary Defense Grid

Scene 18: Prepare the Way

Scene 19: Stone Grip

Scene 20: The Atlas Class

Scene 21: The Borg King