“Lord Vader…Lord Vader…Sir, we have that ship in sight again.”
Darth Varer awoke with a start, still seated in the command chair of his ISD. Beneith his breathing mask, a wry smile touched the corner of his lips as he considered how the encounter with these “Federations” had really gone.
“Very well, close to attack range.” The ISD had detected an unknow ship entering the sector from an unknown sector of space. It had identified itself as a “Federation” starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise. It’s Captain, an inane being named Picard, had prattled on about interstellar cooperation and so fourth, that Vader had felt compelled to reach out and choke the idiot. Beings with such a weak code would surely then surrender, after seing their leader killed from a distance.
Darth sighed again. It haden’t hapened. The Enterprise had wheeled and disappeared from his screens in a burst of light. Darth had felt his grip on Picard slipping, and then gone. He knew that, baring a great deal of luck, Picard would have survived. The Empire’s scientists still weren’t sure what method of travel the other ship had used to escape, except to state that it was not hyperspace, but perhapse a simiar phenominon. They had been able to track the other ship, though, and Vader had been following it for days, determined to have this new drive for the Emperor.
Vader stood, and strode to the front of the bridge.
“This time they shall have No chance,” he said. " launch all Tie fighters, ready all weapons! Captain, how long until we are within range of that ship?"
" Ten Minutes, Lord Vader."
“Excellent…” Darth broke off as the Star Destroier lurched. He looked in amazement at the screen as the Enterprise attacked his ship from ten times farther away than he was capable of firing! A succession of projectiles was striking the ISD, and from the sound of things, doing quite a bit of dammage. He heard reports of the destruction of the bridge shields, and the efforts of the technitions to fix them. Nevermind, he HAD to strike back.
" Navigator! I want a Micro hyper jump to put us right up against the other ship, hear? They may be powerful, but we outgun them by a sizable factor. Weapons, stand by to fire everything we have. NOW."
“Damage report, Mr. Laforge!” Captain Jean-Luc Picard fought his way across the smoking bridge of the Enterprise as systems struggled to compensate for the massive attack they had just absorbed. “Data, evasive pattern Omega 3! Put some distance between us!”
“Captain! We were hit with primitave laser weapons, but with an incredible number of them. Shields are down to 68%, The warp core is offline. I’m realigning the injectors now, we should have warp drive in 2 minutes.”
" Make it so, Geordie. Data, whats the tactical situation."
" I am evading most of the enemies weapons, sir, but believe there is only a 47% chance that I can continue to do so for more than 5.3 minutes."
“We only need 2 minutes. keep it up!”
{{{I’ll finish this story later today. I know how it’s gonna turn out, I just don’t have time right this second-Dave}}}
