Chapter 3: Set course Maximum warp...
Captain Davison, I am sorry to take you out of your current mission so early before it has even started, but you're the only starship in range. Enterprise will be along in another day or so to join you but until then you are on your own, we are asking you to go and examine some strange emissions coming from an unknown part of space called the Geranguas sector. We believe it to be involved somehow in the Temporal Cold War but we are unsure so we are sending you to investigate.
The Vulcans are not going to intervene but they do protest that we shouldn't get involved and keep to ourselves as we could make more enemies then we already have. Amelia please be careful and bring yourself home to us in one piece this is no easy mission, included along with this mission we have supplied you with every piece of available data on that sector but that is all we have. Good luck captain.
~Admiral Forrest~
Well they had their orders and at the moment Freedom was sitting there in space not moving as they were waiting for the order from the captain to get going. Amelia didn't know what to say she wasn't expecting this, Jamie didn't say anything but waited for the captain's reply on the matter at hand. The captain didn't want to read any further as it was now the note from Jon to read and she was not looking forward to reading it now as it could contain some information or then again maybe not.
Amelia, Enterprise is two days behind you; Trip is preparing us for warp 6. You wont be on your own for long as apparently the space we're being sent into is very volatile and many starships have disappeared and they have either been destroyed or never been found. We are bringing supplies along with us including some new shuttles that were not placed aboard Freedom due to an accident at star dock, don't go into the Geranguas sector until we arrive and we will be seeing you real soon.
-Jon Archer-
Well that little extra note didn't put her mind at rest; they were heading into volatile space they were definitely heading into the unknown, which was now a potential danger. She did feel somewhat easier though that she knew Enterprise was coming out with them, she continued on to tell Jamie of what was said in both letters. She downloaded the data into a small data pad, and folded up her patchwork quilt. Took one last drink of her cold tea and placed it down and headed for the door. The commander placed his thumb against the door panel and the door slid back followed by the one leading onto the bridge.
The two didn't talk anymore when they stepped out onto the bridge but was greeted by grim smiles and the two new officers. Sarah Louise standing by the tactical station and Jun'tak sitting at the science station, he seemed to be working hard no doubt making changes to the sensors recalibrating them to his requirements. All eyes were on the captain she crossed to the centre of the bridge stood in front of the command chair while Jamie dismissed the crewman sitting at the helm. Amelia took a deep breath her heart was heavy and she was not looking forward to this at all. She bent down looked at the small control panel on the side of her chair and looked for a certain button to press; she found it and pressed the button.
"All hands, this is your commanding officer. Prepare Freedom for warp 6 travel, batten down the hatches and stow all gear. We are proceeding onto the Geranguas sector an unexplored territory..." She paused whether or not to continue. But she began speaking again it was very hard for her to say what she had to say to inform the crew of their obligation to this change in mission. "Enterprise will also be accompanying us on this mission as two ships are better than one. I don't know what to expect or what we will find when we get their this is the chance we have all been waiting for and its time to prove ourselves we are ready for space travel. Thank you."
When she said space travel she had looked at the Vulcan science officer he had noticed this but kept himself resided to his work. She closed the channel, took another look around the bridge and faced her tactical officer. "Carl let me know when all decks are clear for warp, Jamie here's our coordinates and heading I don't want any margin of error in our course." She handed him the pad and he placed the trajectory into the station in front of him. "Course laid in ma'am."
Amelia sat in the command chair and watched as Freedom turned slowly and faced away from Vulcan. Carl spoke out from his station, "All decks report ready for departure, and the galley chef is upset because he cannot cook but will create a marvellous meal when we reach our destination." She smiled but it didn't make her feel any better. This was it the jump into the unknown they were going to push the warp 6 engine to its maximum speed that was sustainable for 2 hours which was an improvement drastically.
Amelia looked at her science officer he was still working hard while the rest of the officers looked at her, they were ready as they ever will be. "Jamie lets go warp 6." He didn't turn but placed his hand on a small bar that controlled the warp drive, "Engaging warp engines... now" he began pulling the bar towards him slowly and steadily they shot forwards and the stars began to stream past the viewscreen again.
"Warp 1." It was very tense as the helmsman was going to count down as they passed through each warp barrier threshes hold. "Warp 2." The engines began thrumming with power. Sarah suddenly spoke out, "If you want me I'll be in engineering monitoring the core." She disappeared into the lift and was gone from the bridge in a few seconds. "Warp 3."
The pressure on the bridge was mounting they were hanging on every word that Jamie was saying. They knew that warp five was attainable that was easy part it was getting past warp five that was the problem. "Warp 4." They were approaching their target and every time they moved into a new warp barrier the ship would move faster. "Warp 4.5," This was it they would hit warp 5 in the next second or so Amelia was concentrating hoping the warp engine would go past warp 5. "Warp 5." They had reached Enterprise's warp speed record; they were now going to break it. "Warp 5.5" Freedom began to shake steadily, the bulkhead around them groaned slightly it made Amelia very edgy as she was hoping her ship would not tear apart as they hit there target. "Warp 6! We're in captain." The ship instantly stopped shaking they had passed through the barrier first, the bridge crew breathed out all except the Vulcan officer he was looking rather concerned. But yet he still hadn't spoken a word, "Carl what's our sensor readings?" He checked his board quickly and silently, "we are mapping out a few hundred metres ahead of us, everything seems to be going..." he didn't even finish his sentence, when Freedom began shaking and was being followed by groans of testimony from the ship itself. Jun'tak finally spoke out, "our warp field is destabilizing, I deduct that we drop out of warp and continue on at impulse until this error can be repaired." Amelia grabbed the arm of the command chair as the ship gave a violent tremor. "Jamie do it!" she gave the order without any hesitation. Jamie began pushing the bar up and they dropped out of warp, and just as they thought they were in the clear a small explosion was heard through the ship.
To be continued...
Captain Davison, I am sorry to take you out of your current mission so early before it has even started, but you're the only starship in range. Enterprise will be along in another day or so to join you but until then you are on your own, we are asking you to go and examine some strange emissions coming from an unknown part of space called the Geranguas sector. We believe it to be involved somehow in the Temporal Cold War but we are unsure so we are sending you to investigate.
The Vulcans are not going to intervene but they do protest that we shouldn't get involved and keep to ourselves as we could make more enemies then we already have. Amelia please be careful and bring yourself home to us in one piece this is no easy mission, included along with this mission we have supplied you with every piece of available data on that sector but that is all we have. Good luck captain.
~Admiral Forrest~
Well they had their orders and at the moment Freedom was sitting there in space not moving as they were waiting for the order from the captain to get going. Amelia didn't know what to say she wasn't expecting this, Jamie didn't say anything but waited for the captain's reply on the matter at hand. The captain didn't want to read any further as it was now the note from Jon to read and she was not looking forward to reading it now as it could contain some information or then again maybe not.
Amelia, Enterprise is two days behind you; Trip is preparing us for warp 6. You wont be on your own for long as apparently the space we're being sent into is very volatile and many starships have disappeared and they have either been destroyed or never been found. We are bringing supplies along with us including some new shuttles that were not placed aboard Freedom due to an accident at star dock, don't go into the Geranguas sector until we arrive and we will be seeing you real soon.
-Jon Archer-
Well that little extra note didn't put her mind at rest; they were heading into volatile space they were definitely heading into the unknown, which was now a potential danger. She did feel somewhat easier though that she knew Enterprise was coming out with them, she continued on to tell Jamie of what was said in both letters. She downloaded the data into a small data pad, and folded up her patchwork quilt. Took one last drink of her cold tea and placed it down and headed for the door. The commander placed his thumb against the door panel and the door slid back followed by the one leading onto the bridge.
The two didn't talk anymore when they stepped out onto the bridge but was greeted by grim smiles and the two new officers. Sarah Louise standing by the tactical station and Jun'tak sitting at the science station, he seemed to be working hard no doubt making changes to the sensors recalibrating them to his requirements. All eyes were on the captain she crossed to the centre of the bridge stood in front of the command chair while Jamie dismissed the crewman sitting at the helm. Amelia took a deep breath her heart was heavy and she was not looking forward to this at all. She bent down looked at the small control panel on the side of her chair and looked for a certain button to press; she found it and pressed the button.
"All hands, this is your commanding officer. Prepare Freedom for warp 6 travel, batten down the hatches and stow all gear. We are proceeding onto the Geranguas sector an unexplored territory..." She paused whether or not to continue. But she began speaking again it was very hard for her to say what she had to say to inform the crew of their obligation to this change in mission. "Enterprise will also be accompanying us on this mission as two ships are better than one. I don't know what to expect or what we will find when we get their this is the chance we have all been waiting for and its time to prove ourselves we are ready for space travel. Thank you."
When she said space travel she had looked at the Vulcan science officer he had noticed this but kept himself resided to his work. She closed the channel, took another look around the bridge and faced her tactical officer. "Carl let me know when all decks are clear for warp, Jamie here's our coordinates and heading I don't want any margin of error in our course." She handed him the pad and he placed the trajectory into the station in front of him. "Course laid in ma'am."
Amelia sat in the command chair and watched as Freedom turned slowly and faced away from Vulcan. Carl spoke out from his station, "All decks report ready for departure, and the galley chef is upset because he cannot cook but will create a marvellous meal when we reach our destination." She smiled but it didn't make her feel any better. This was it the jump into the unknown they were going to push the warp 6 engine to its maximum speed that was sustainable for 2 hours which was an improvement drastically.
Amelia looked at her science officer he was still working hard while the rest of the officers looked at her, they were ready as they ever will be. "Jamie lets go warp 6." He didn't turn but placed his hand on a small bar that controlled the warp drive, "Engaging warp engines... now" he began pulling the bar towards him slowly and steadily they shot forwards and the stars began to stream past the viewscreen again.
"Warp 1." It was very tense as the helmsman was going to count down as they passed through each warp barrier threshes hold. "Warp 2." The engines began thrumming with power. Sarah suddenly spoke out, "If you want me I'll be in engineering monitoring the core." She disappeared into the lift and was gone from the bridge in a few seconds. "Warp 3."
The pressure on the bridge was mounting they were hanging on every word that Jamie was saying. They knew that warp five was attainable that was easy part it was getting past warp five that was the problem. "Warp 4." They were approaching their target and every time they moved into a new warp barrier the ship would move faster. "Warp 4.5," This was it they would hit warp 5 in the next second or so Amelia was concentrating hoping the warp engine would go past warp 5. "Warp 5." They had reached Enterprise's warp speed record; they were now going to break it. "Warp 5.5" Freedom began to shake steadily, the bulkhead around them groaned slightly it made Amelia very edgy as she was hoping her ship would not tear apart as they hit there target. "Warp 6! We're in captain." The ship instantly stopped shaking they had passed through the barrier first, the bridge crew breathed out all except the Vulcan officer he was looking rather concerned. But yet he still hadn't spoken a word, "Carl what's our sensor readings?" He checked his board quickly and silently, "we are mapping out a few hundred metres ahead of us, everything seems to be going..." he didn't even finish his sentence, when Freedom began shaking and was being followed by groans of testimony from the ship itself. Jun'tak finally spoke out, "our warp field is destabilizing, I deduct that we drop out of warp and continue on at impulse until this error can be repaired." Amelia grabbed the arm of the command chair as the ship gave a violent tremor. "Jamie do it!" she gave the order without any hesitation. Jamie began pushing the bar up and they dropped out of warp, and just as they thought they were in the clear a small explosion was heard through the ship.
To be continued...