Unity – Mission Of Mercy Part 2
by Commander Richard Dunham
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The Wallace Class Garrison Vessel fell within the light escort catagory of starship, at had a personnel of three officers, Dunham included, and twelve enlisted personnel, it was cramped and confined, with a Maximum warp velocity of warp six eight, ablative armour, phasers and torpedoes. It didn't really inspire Dunham as a ship that could take on what ever forces had managed to destroy a Cardassian Galor Class Starship. But it was all he had, as he had adopted in the end to leave the escorting runabout back at deep space five, so as not to antagonise the two cardassian freighters that he was escorting through deep space five patrol territory on the far outskirts of their operational zone, several systems away from the space station proper.
Somewhere out here was a straship or starships, that were portending to be Federation vessels and attacking Cradassian targets, and it was Dunham job to escort the two remaining freighters who had already come under attack once to safety. Dunham wished he had a little bit more to go, but neither of the Cardassian freighters had the nescarry sensor data for Dunham to make a educated guess as to what had been attacing them, only that the ship had a federation signiture. Or the Cardassians did not want to share the information they had at hand.
Dunham pondered this from the command chair of the USS Polax, his elbow resting on the chair arm, his fist buried in his chin in deep concentration. Dunham wathced the streaking lights of warp speed on the monitor, at a ninty degree angle and just below them were the two cardassian Freighters, Dunham had opted to take this psosition so as to better get a tractor beam lock on them if worst came to worst, and he had to drag them out of a combat zone, and run away.
Running away was not an option Dunham was use to, when it came to space combat, but his orders were to protect the freighters, not engage the enemy in all out attack. But it was quite, and excusing the stereotype it was to quite. Whoever these people were they had not shown hide nor hair since he had met the small convey and headed through Deep Space five space.
Now half way through the patrol things didn't seem right at all. No contact with anything, all other ships on his route had ID's and checked out on sensors. Basically this convey had not been attacked the moment he had turned up and he was beginning to wonder if they did not want to engage a starfleet starship.
More time passed as they got three quarters of the way through the convey route. Tactical had had picked up one or to identification tags that came up as starfleet but nothing was confirmed, who ever they were they kept on popping in and out of his sensor range. Dunham consider about going to full warp speed and chasing them down, but that would leave the convoy vulnerable. But so they were at the end of there route and federation jurisdiction was at an end, So Dunham commanded the ship to a full halt, and to keep the Cardassian ships in sensor range for as long as possible, still nothing happened.
With his orders complete Dunham ordered helm to set a course for home. At the back of his mind Dunham was a bit bugged that he had taken onboard this mission instead of the rescue of POW's
Lt Richard Dunham
(Acting) CAG / Wing Commander
by Commander Richard Dunham
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| Title | Mission Of Mercy Part 2 | |
| Mission | Unity | |
| Author(s) | Commander Richard Dunham | |
| Posted | Mon Jun 14, 2010 @ 5:06pm | |
| Location | Sector Space | |
| Timeline | Unity Back Post. Two Hours after Mission of Mercy |
The Wallace Class Garrison Vessel fell within the light escort catagory of starship, at had a personnel of three officers, Dunham included, and twelve enlisted personnel, it was cramped and confined, with a Maximum warp velocity of warp six eight, ablative armour, phasers and torpedoes. It didn't really inspire Dunham as a ship that could take on what ever forces had managed to destroy a Cardassian Galor Class Starship. But it was all he had, as he had adopted in the end to leave the escorting runabout back at deep space five, so as not to antagonise the two cardassian freighters that he was escorting through deep space five patrol territory on the far outskirts of their operational zone, several systems away from the space station proper.
Somewhere out here was a straship or starships, that were portending to be Federation vessels and attacking Cradassian targets, and it was Dunham job to escort the two remaining freighters who had already come under attack once to safety. Dunham wished he had a little bit more to go, but neither of the Cardassian freighters had the nescarry sensor data for Dunham to make a educated guess as to what had been attacing them, only that the ship had a federation signiture. Or the Cardassians did not want to share the information they had at hand.
Dunham pondered this from the command chair of the USS Polax, his elbow resting on the chair arm, his fist buried in his chin in deep concentration. Dunham wathced the streaking lights of warp speed on the monitor, at a ninty degree angle and just below them were the two cardassian Freighters, Dunham had opted to take this psosition so as to better get a tractor beam lock on them if worst came to worst, and he had to drag them out of a combat zone, and run away.
Running away was not an option Dunham was use to, when it came to space combat, but his orders were to protect the freighters, not engage the enemy in all out attack. But it was quite, and excusing the stereotype it was to quite. Whoever these people were they had not shown hide nor hair since he had met the small convey and headed through Deep Space five space.
Now half way through the patrol things didn't seem right at all. No contact with anything, all other ships on his route had ID's and checked out on sensors. Basically this convey had not been attacked the moment he had turned up and he was beginning to wonder if they did not want to engage a starfleet starship.
More time passed as they got three quarters of the way through the convey route. Tactical had had picked up one or to identification tags that came up as starfleet but nothing was confirmed, who ever they were they kept on popping in and out of his sensor range. Dunham consider about going to full warp speed and chasing them down, but that would leave the convoy vulnerable. But so they were at the end of there route and federation jurisdiction was at an end, So Dunham commanded the ship to a full halt, and to keep the Cardassian ships in sensor range for as long as possible, still nothing happened.
With his orders complete Dunham ordered helm to set a course for home. At the back of his mind Dunham was a bit bugged that he had taken onboard this mission instead of the rescue of POW's
Lt Richard Dunham
(Acting) CAG / Wing Commander