Assault on Deck 5

[Hanna-Beth Rieve 0]

CORRECTION: During the sim, we'd assumed the battle bridge was on deck 6; according to the specs, it's on deck 5. Magic edit the record to your delight.

 

The set up was now complete, and it was time to set the assault plan in motion. With the Jeffries tubes sealed by Robair and his team, there was only only one way to the battle bridge -- through the turbolift. But, Bravo team hit a snag. It was now obvious that not only were they being tracked by Alpha team, but that Alpha team also had the capabilities to take over the manual control of the turbolift. 2Lt. Hanna-Beth Rieve thought that the Alphas revealing themselves was a grave mistake, and she was greatful for it. Their desire to brag of their small victory denied them the element of surprise, and allowed Bravo team to come in better prepared. When Cpl. Wilkins saw the message from the Alphas, he immediately disconnected the controlling tricorder. It was replaced with a new one that was quickly reprogrammed for the manual turbolift control -- better firewalled, but not impenetrable. Before that stunt, Rieve could only assume that the Alphas would be tracking them. But, now that Bravo team knew that they were being tracked and hacked, they could use that to their advantage. The turbolift would take them all to deck 12. From there, Kor'both and his team would follow Rieve and her team up the turbolift crawlway to deck 5.

 

Meanwhile, Cpl. Wilkins would maintain control of the turbolift as long as he could, bringing it through the crawlway to the space between decks 6 and 7 behind the battle bridge. Hopefully, the Alphas would know that that was a prime access point for the Jeffries tubes leading to Decks 5 and 6 and the battle bridge... and might expect the attack to come from the rear.

 

The attack would have two other diversions in place. Sgt. Greene would stay with Ens.(?) Bill in main engineering. From there, Sgt. Greene would make sure that the battle bridge's auxilliary power was otherwise engaged when it was needed by Alpha team; he rerouted the auxilliary power to an infinite loop taking place in the deck 5 replicator system. As a side effect, if anyone ordered anything from the replicators there, they would instead get Marine MRE Meatloaf, the smell of which was enough to stun a grown Klingon. Bill would remotely detonate the simulated explosive device that Robair had planted, knocking out main power to the battle bridge. Lance Corporal Adams would attempt to divert their attention by initiating communications with the battle bridge from a shuttle in the lower shuttle bay. She wasn't quite sure what tricks Adams had up his sleeve, given that he was fresh out of the academy, but, there was no better time than now for on-the-job training in thinking on his feet, when the danger was only simulated.

 

In the crawlway, Mid. Kor'both had questioned Rieve's decision to send her own team in first. At first, she had assumed it was another of those petty security officer glory grabs, but, as Kor'both stood down, she realized that he was just doing his duty -- attempting to protect his commanding officer -- and she respected that. She knew that she owed the midshipman an apology for her reaction and her assumptions, so she put it on her list of things to do after the simulation was over.

 

With LCpl. Adams, Cpl. Wilkins, and Sgt. Greene off on other duties, the first assault could not be left to only Rieve and Sgt. Mendez. Robair's squad was rapidly catching up with them through the crawlways, and they would have to join in the first attack force, if there was to be any chance of success. The first attack would be a joint operation, or it would fail.

 

She hoped that Mid. Kor'both would carefully set his stopwatch to give them prompt relief two minutes later. The time delay was necessary. After the actual assault began, Alpha team would certainly be counting how many Bravos "landed" from the turbolift bay. When they saw only half of Bravo team accounted for, they should expect another attack from the rear turbolift/Jeffries tube diversion. Rieve thought it might cause the Alphas to redeploy their forces to the rear, expecting a second assault. Instead, Kor'both and his squad would reinforce the first push towards the battle bridge.

 

Shortly before the attack, Sgt. Mendez would send a multifrequency pulse through his tricorder in an attempt to confuse the sensors on any improvised explosive devices. It was a trick taught in the Marine academy, known to be only 40% successful, but, for now, it was the best they had. The assault team would have to watch out for booby traps in addition to clearing enemy fighters.

 

Rieve slowly, manually opened the turbolift door until it was slightly ajar, and readied to lob a set of three stun grenades into the unseen distance, leaving a clear path through the first part of the turbolift to battle bridge hallway. After that, they were committed.

 

The technological phase of the plan was coming to an end. The Battle of Deck 5 was about to begin in earnest.

Edited June 23, 2005 by Hanna-Beth Rieve

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Kickin' tactical log Hanna-Beth. Gave me a *mental image* of what's going on. :P