Warp Core Breech...Pt. 2

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Subject: Warp Core Breech...Pt. 2

Date: Sun, Apr 6, 1997 4:18 PM

From: CmdrChell

 

 

...continued......

 

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" Estimated completion of Evacuation is two minutes. Warp core Breech in 30 seconds."  The computer droned on.

 

As fast as he could, Chell rerouted circuit after circuit, system after system.  "Holly, except for emergency and evacuation systems and life support in areas where personnel have not evacuated, reroute all available power into the Warp Containment Subsystem. Override all safety and security lockouts, Command override Chell Alpha Alpha 1.  It may not save the ship, but it will at least buy us some time.  Reroute systems now."   Instantly, most of the ship went dead.  Life support systems shut down on

deck after deserted deck.

 

"Warp Core containment stability increased three percent.  Warp Core Breech now in 105 seconds."

 

"An extra minute.  It'll have to do."  Chell scrambled to work behind the scenes to clear the way for the remaining few hundred souls to make their way to life pods, shuttles and whatever else was left.  

 

" Warp core breech in ten.....nine.....eight...."

 

"Da*n!  one more escape pod and everyone is gone!"

 

"...Seven....  Six...."

 

"This is the Bridge!  You have five seconds to launch!"

 

" five....four...three....two....."

 

After what seemed like an eternity, he looked up at the main viewer to see that the last cluster of people were aboard the only remaining escape pod and were initiating their launch sequence.

 

" .....one.   Warp Core Breech in progress."

 

At the sound of those last words, Commander Chell leaned back, looking up at the representation of the USS Republic on the main viewer, looking sadly on as parts of that graphic gradually, then rapidly began to vanish; looking at a single, solitary red dot at the center of the Republic's Bridge on the graphic.  

 

Now, the entire ship began to rock from all of the jolts and explosions below, rapidly getting closer and closer to the Bridge, a minor bump here, a stronger jolt to port. Then it came, the massive explosion that ripped through the ship, breaking up the bulk of what was once the flagship of the fleet into pieces no larger than a shuttlecraft, tearing away much of the bridge and exposing the remainder to the cold vacuum of deep space, ripping away it's fragile envelope of oxygen......