| SUBMITTED: Stardate 95078.7 | FILED BY: LT H'ajah | SECURITY: Level 1 - Open |
LOCATION: DEEP SPACE 13, ALDEBARAN SECTOR
MISSION: DESTROY THE SCAFFOLD SURROUNDING DS13
OUTCOME: THE SCAFFOLD WAS UTTERLY VANQUISHED
KEY PERSONNEL:
CAPT Bishop, Samuel
CAPT Caspius
CAPT Holmes, Alexandria
LT H'ajah
CAPT Caspius
CAPT Holmes, Alexandria
LT H'ajah
NARRATIVE: WHEN LAST OUR HERO LOOKED UPON HER BELOVED HOME, THE MIGHTY FORTRESS DEEP SPACE 13 LAY IN RUINS. WITH WEARY HEARTS AND IRON RESOLVE, THE WARRIORS OF THE 38TH FLEET BEGAN TO REBUILD. EXHAUSTING WAS THIS LABOR, YET THEIR DETERMINATION WAS UNDIMINISHED. HEARTBREAKING WAS THE PROCESS OF TEARING APART THEIR SANCTUARY, YET THEIR SPIRITS LIFTED AS THE NEW STRUCTURE BEGAN TO TAKE SHAPE. FINALLY, AFTER MONTHS OF BACK-BREAKING TOIL, THE FORTRESS WAS WHOLE ONCE AGAIN. ALL THAT REMAINED WAS TO STRIP AWAY THE CONSTRUCTION SCAFFOLDING THAT COCOONED IT THROUGHOUT THIS METAMORPHOSIS, SO THAT DEEP SPACE 13 MIGHT ONCE AGAIN SPREAD ITS WINGS AND FLY.
OUR HERO HAD THE HONOR OF BEING SELECTED TO MANAGE DRONE OPERATIONS DURING THIS FINAL STAGE. ELATED, YET SOBERLY AWARE OF THE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY LAID UPON HER SHOULDERS, SHE MADE HER WAY TO MAIN OPERATIONS. THERE, THE STATION'S NEWLY-PROMOTED CAPTAIN CASPIUS, A VULCAN WITH A REPUTATION FOR FEARSOME CRITIQUE, AWAITED. ASSISTING HIM WERE TWO HUMAN STARSHIP CAPTAINS, HOLMES AND BISHOP, READY TO REMOTELY COORDINATE THEIR VESSELS' TRACTOR BEAM PROCEDURES.
THE TEAM OF DECONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS DISPERSED ACROSS THE SKIN OF THE STATION, SETTING ABOUT THEIR WORK OF OBLITERATING THE ANCHORS THAT CONJOINED STARBASE AND SCAFFOLD. IN THIS, THEY WERE ASSISTED BY A SWARM OF EXOCOMP DRONES, CENTRALLY MANAGED BY OUR ATTENTIVE HERO. DEFTLY, SHE GUIDED THEIR EFFORTS, ENSURING THAT THE SCAFFOLD WAS RIVEN FROM THE STATION WITH PRECISION AND CARE.
THE UPPER SCAFFOLD WAS CUT FREE, AND CAPTAIN BISHOP DIRECTED THE ENDEAVOR TO TOW IT AWAY TO A SAFE DISTANCE. NO SOONER HAD HE GIVEN THE ORDER THAN A CRISIS EMERGED: THE ENDEAVOR'S DEFLECTOR DISH FAILED, LEAVING THE SCAFFOLD IN AN UNCONTROLLED DRIFT! COLLISION WITH DEEP SPACE 13 WAS IMMINENT, THREATENING ALL WE HAD ACCOMPLISHED. OUR HERO IMMEDIATELY RALLIED HER EXOCOMP MINIONS TO LATCH ONTO AND STABILIZE THE ADRIFT SCAFFOLD, YET THEIR COMBINED THRUST ALONE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO THE TASK.
ACTING SWIFTLY, CAPTAIN CASPIUS TOOK CONTROL OF THE STATION'S MOORING TRACTOR BEAMS TO HALT THE SCAFFOLD'S DRIFT. THE CRISIS WAS NARROWLY AVERTED, AND OUR HERO DID BREATHE A MIGHTY SIGH OF RELIEF. SOON THEREAFTER, THE DALLAS ARRIVED UNDER CAPTAIN HOLMES' ORDERS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE UPPER SCAFFOLD AND DRAG IT TO THE DESTRUCTION SITE. CAPTAIN BISHOP DEPARTED IN DISGRACE.
THE REMAINDER OF THE OPERATION PROCEEDED WITHOUT MAJOR INCIDENT. BOTH HALVES OF THE SCAFFOLD WERE TOWED AWAY AND RENT ASUNDER BY THE DUTIFUL WRATH OF THE DECONSTRUCTION TEAMS AND DRONES. WHEN THE DEED WAS DONE, HARDLY A TRACE OF LOOSE MATTER REMAINED. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO THOSE WHO WOULD THREATEN THIS STATION: THERE IS NOTHING SO LARGE OR FORBIDDING THAT OUR HERO CANNOT BREAK IT.
RECOMMENDATION: THE LOOSE MATTER RECYCLED FROM THE TEARDOWN OPERATION SHOULD BE CONDENSED INTO A MORE COMPACT, DURABLE AND PRACTICAL FORM.
OOC: There are a few trifling details omitted from this report. This is not an oversight.