04-19-2011, 09:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2011, 09:39 PM by Steve Malloway.)
USS Majesty
Main Bridge
1952 hours
As I sat on the first officers chair Commander Callum asked me what the corkskrew manoeuer was. At that point I realised I almost imagined an antique black and white television I saw in a museum many years ago where I first heard about the corkskrew. I thought it out in more detail and adapted it to our situation, taking into consideration what our ships status was. Maybe if we could get some of the fighters involved it may help too. And it would protect the starbase better as well...
"Commander, the corkskrew was originally used in World War 2 by B17 pilots. Basically, because those aircraft were so big, they couldn't out manoever the smaller fighters so they developed a way of reversing from defence to attack. Its simple, I believe if we circle the starbase with a wide birth and slowly tightning our turn we should be able to get this Cardassian ship's tail infront of us and focus our weapons on his warp core. Should be enough to disable him. And if we can get the fighters to circle in the opposite direction it might help too."
Shortly after I had spoken to the commander, the commander asked me to take over the engineering post while the other cadet made his way to Main Engineering. The first thing I noticed was the main shield generator had just been damaged from the last strike. It was still operational but loosing power.
"Commander! Shield generator has been damaged and is loosing power!" I screamed across the bridge. There was a lot of defining noise as the enemies weapons impacted the weakening shields of the Majesty.
Main Bridge
1952 hours
As I sat on the first officers chair Commander Callum asked me what the corkskrew manoeuer was. At that point I realised I almost imagined an antique black and white television I saw in a museum many years ago where I first heard about the corkskrew. I thought it out in more detail and adapted it to our situation, taking into consideration what our ships status was. Maybe if we could get some of the fighters involved it may help too. And it would protect the starbase better as well...
"Commander, the corkskrew was originally used in World War 2 by B17 pilots. Basically, because those aircraft were so big, they couldn't out manoever the smaller fighters so they developed a way of reversing from defence to attack. Its simple, I believe if we circle the starbase with a wide birth and slowly tightning our turn we should be able to get this Cardassian ship's tail infront of us and focus our weapons on his warp core. Should be enough to disable him. And if we can get the fighters to circle in the opposite direction it might help too."
Shortly after I had spoken to the commander, the commander asked me to take over the engineering post while the other cadet made his way to Main Engineering. The first thing I noticed was the main shield generator had just been damaged from the last strike. It was still operational but loosing power.
"Commander! Shield generator has been damaged and is loosing power!" I screamed across the bridge. There was a lot of defining noise as the enemies weapons impacted the weakening shields of the Majesty.