A mysterious cloaking field at the site of the medical frigate's distress call inadvertently led to the discovery of a cloaked minefield. At it's heart, an unfortunately placed Ferengi ship, helmed by former Pioneer acquaintance - Gaila. As Sickbay dealt with an increasingly exhausted crew, members of the staff set about analysing and disabling the minefield, featuring some welcome defusal tropes down in the cargobay. Meanwhile, Jemma Etis and Lucas Perry talked things through on the Bridge - leading the latter to propose an additional talking session over dinner - in his quarters. Just ignore the life-or-death situation going on around you, Ensign!
Michael Barnes finally revealed the Walter Peirce situation to Mason - with the anxious Captain unsure as to how to proceed with this information. Would she betray the crew's confidence by spilling all to Starfleet Command?
Finally, as Gaila was freed, he departed with a passing note of importance. He had already located the missing frigate, and tracked it's course. With the coordinates set, the Hera headed along the same course and soon reached the lost ship. With no life-signs, minimal power readings and suspiciously low damage sustained, the medical frigate was a ghost ship. As Mason planned to recover the cargo still aboard, within minutes, a Klingon armada was detected - and they were almost right on top of them.
Predicting a trap, Mason instructed McClintock to place the ship in to Gray Mode following a quick jolt away from the frigate. The Hera now lies dark and silent - as the Klingon fleet (speculated by Etis to be Red Dawn) approaches.....
TO BE CONTINUED
We lost, briefly recovered, then lost Klaw again, so plans for the future convoy were sidelined for now. Retrospective apologises to criminula for that! Thank you all for attending - rate and discuss, above and below! Or just rate. Or just discuss. Or neither. But if you do that I'll cry.
Quote from: Klaw on February 09, 2014, 03:06:01 AM
I really am dreadfully sorry :( It has been a rather hectic Saturday
We noticed ;), don't worry, stuff happens.
As for the episode, it was really nice. Some action, some downtime, everyone was doing something all at once and the plot just felt like it came together very well. It felt a little slow in the beginning to me, but then again i was distracted (hence my relative silence the first half of the episode) by stuff going on around me, so that was probably my own fault. Looking forward to the conclusion to this cliffhanger.
I tried to pull you out of Astrometrics just after Perry sent Jemma his message - but when I didn't get a response, I left you to it :P
Quote from: Clara on February 09, 2014, 05:15:55 AM
I tried to pull you out of Astrometrics just after Perry sent Jemma his message - but when I didn't get a response, I left you to it :P
I think she has glued to the chair in Astrometrics xD but in overall I enjoyed it since you only trust Lucas Perry on the driver seat :P
This episode gets a vote of excellent from me. Continuing on with the themes of the previous episode, we have a command crew hiding things from each other, a crew most exhausted, and of course we required a visit from an old friend. Enemy. Friend. Perhaps we'll decide later. With that out of the way, let's jump in.
The crew is exhausted! Having the crew going through a tough time in their sleep cycle actually provided for some interesting character development. As the crew got more and more tired, they also got more and more abrasive, and their natures started to show. Whether it was Captain Mason and her not needing the stim-pack, or McClintock and his utter obsession with the things, it definitely made for an interesting experience. Speaking of which, how did the crew hold up while being held together by a bunch of stimulants? Personally, I think rather well considering as how they managed to not explode under the pressure of a cloaking mine and Gaila.
In Asteroid Field, something unique happens in that every person has a job to do and nobody ever gets left with nothing. When left with no story plots, people tend to levitate to their own devices and these seem to blend in quite well with the main storylines. I can't recall a single time throughout the episode that there was a person not doing anything at all (aside from the occasional AFK). I believe that this one thing is what sets AF apart from the many other SRPs that have been hosted here at TLO in the past.
Gaila's back! The man who ran our bar until someone blew it right out of the station seems to find us whenever it's least convenient for everyone. This time, our vessel in distress happened to be none other than our friend. Enemy. Friend. No matter what he is to us, he's definitely a source of information and headaches. Saving Gaila did yield the co-ordinates of our missing medical freighter, so thing can't be that bad right? ... Well had the freighter not turned out to be a trap, maybe. So, is Gaila an elaborate scheme designed to get us all killed or is there some other misfortune causing us to meet in all the wrong circumstances? Well, I'm partial to the death theory, but that's just my inner Accobar speaking.
It's a trap! Captain Mason has had her work cut out for her since day one of entering the system and that work doesn't seem to be slowing or stopping in the slightest. The true test of co-operation between crew and captain, the ship must remain on Grey Alert until the unexpected armada of Klingon vessels departs. Could it be that Gaila tipped them off? Do we have a traitor in our midst? Will there be dinner between Jemma and Lucas? Will there be ice cream? ... I digress. There are a number of interesting things to consider given our current set of circumstances.
The crew is exhausted, the lights are out. There's nothing to do but wait and see what a mighty armada wants.
... Have you taken your stim-pack today?
If by stim pack you mean coffee, then yes, certainly! An engineer needs his..stimulants to hud' a whole together wi' his bare hands!