Surrender?

[STSF Precip 0]

Personal Log

Lt MitarPrecip Tactical Officer

USS Manticore

"Surrender"

Stardate 50307.28

 

"...AND PREPARE TO BE BOARDED"

 

Precip overheard on the Manticore's bridge speakers...much to his disgust. This whole situation was disgusting and defeating to the Bolian.  At least 6 Romulan vessels surrounded the Manticore..The two warbirds the Manticore followed to the small planet below, and the four newcomers that surrounded the Manticore blocking any escape.  The two uncloaked warbirds had done a classic lure job..leading the cloaked Manticore to the Spider's web.  As Tactical Officer, The Bolian shouldn't of allowed this to happen..yet it did.

 

The Bolian had addressed his concerns. Hadn't he? Had he not suggested that after the first engagement the Romulan's had penetrated the Manticore's cloak and now could track her?  Had he not suggested that the fact that they were operating in Romulan Space, there could be more Romulan vessels observing their every move.  It was there own territory.

 

Yet here they were...in a Romulan Trap...prepared by the traitor Melville.  And the trap had been well built. The Romulans had apparently developed a new shielding system of some sort..that could absorb the impact of an entire spread of photon torpedoes.  The Bolian considered Garnoopy's thought earlier of the Romulans using photonics (holograms) but the torpedoes would of sailed right through them...and if anything..the holomatrix projected would of been distorted to some degree by the enormous release of energy imparted upon it.  If they were decoys...they were unlike anything he and ever seen..and seemed to defy the laws of physics.

 

Defiance....should he have argued his beliefs about the course of action the Manticore was taking the last several hours stronger?

Apparently the bridge crew including Precip, had irritated the Admiral to the point of giving a public lecture on the chain of command on the bridge itself.  Perhaps the Admiral was dead set on pursing Melville even if their position had been compromised.  The Bolian could not read the mind of the Admiral Atragon but he did read the situation now. They were trapped, and the Admiral standing if front of him was about to make a critical reply to the Romulan's announcement that they were boarding the Manticore.

 

End Log.