Legacies

Posted on Mon Nov 9th, 2026 @ 12:58am by Commander David Wallace & Lieutenant Commander Isabelle Veran-Dallas

Mission: CAPERNUM: {CD&MISSION} On Duty
Location: USS Roswell

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Beaming aboard the Roswell, David, Isabelle and Hannah materialized just outside the engineering section, David looked around, only to be bumped into by a crewman, "Sorry sir!"

"It's okay crewman, where's the CO?"

"That way sir." pointing toward the engineering workstations.

As David turned to look, "Captain Wallace!" a voiced called out, "I'm Commander Hagel the first officer."

"This is Commander Veran-Dallas my first officer and Ensign Gibson, what's your status?"

"Life support is barely holding up, primary power is out through several sections, the Captain is dead, the doc has turned the workshop into a makeshift medical center, we weren't equipped for something like this, just a short loop though the corridor and home." Hagel said

"What about your shuttle bay?" David asked

"Engineering is struggling to keep the forcefields working, they're working on a plan to use the backup generators to power it for evacuation purposes, those two smaller ships don't look like they have the capacity to take many."

"They'll take ten each, we can take the rest until we can meet up with Admiral Wallace." David said, "The two Lamprey class ships that are inbound will also take on some crew as well."

"They'll be here in an hour." Hannah commented

"Number one, Ensign, help get people to the shuttle bay, starting with the injured, we can use one landing pad as a transport site, no point in using shuttles we don't have the room..." David paused as an engineer ran by "how long will power last?"

"Ninety minutes." The commander said.

“We could help provide extra back up power for the force fields couldn’t we?” Isabelle looked towards David. “It would give us more time to get people off the ship.”

"Would that help?" David looked back to the commander

"It might give us an additional thirty maybe a bit more, the power systems are trashed." Commander Hagel said

"It'll have to do," David said "Cascade engineering..." he paused

=="Engineering!"== a voice said

"Beam a pattern enhancer kit and a back up generator over, we need to stretch out the power here to ensure a safe evacuation." David said

=="I'll send technicians over with the generator, give us ten...out!"

"Good call on the generator." David said

“Thank you Sir” Isabelle smiled. “We’ll head to get the wounded out, the sooner people are off this ship the better.”

Looking back to the Roswell's senior officer, "Commander Hagel, what exactly happened that led too this?"

"We followed the planned patrol route down too the last detail, as we approached the lone close pass too the Hydran border, based on the last patrol report we were told to expect aggressive sensor sweeps, maybe a pot shot from missile platforms not much else, the first thirty minutes were just that, sensor sweeps, single missile launch and that was it." the man paused as he keyed in some commands at the engineering station, "Your engineers are fast..." he continued " about then minutes later we got pinged by a weapons platform and suddenly we took three violent hits from what the computer identified as a hellbore based weapon, after that the ship started loosing power ensign Chase managed to use what was left of propulsion to push us out of range."

David swore under his breath, "Looks like you caught the break you needed to save some lives."

"The Captain shoved then ensign out of the way as the helm station exploded as we cleared the bridge from the life support failure from the impacts, last thing I saw was the hull plates and structure ripping away from the bridge as the turbolift doors closed." Hagel said

David looked at the damage control display, "looks like the generator has boosted structural latching and integrity, that'll buy us an extra forty minutes, maybe forty-five extra." he looked too Hagel "You good?"

The man just nodded, David tapped his commbadge =="Number one let's get the injured off the ship."==

Hannah stood up "Pattern enhancers are ready Commander!"

==“Getting people out of Sickbay now Commander”== Isabelle answered as she stood amongst the wounded that were being evacuated.

Hannah stood back as the first group beamed out, "Next group!"

Isabelle was hurrying people along as fast as she could, but some of the wounded couldn’t be rushed purely due to their injuries.

Down in engineering David looked at a readout "We've got a power drain somewhere."

Hagel looked at the same display, "There's a fault in power management, looks like the extra power triggered a restart sequence when we installed the generator."

David stepped back, "I'm going down there too stop the restart before it becomes problem, get your remaining crew up to the shuttle bay..."

=="Commander, start beaming out everyone, an automated restart may have been triggered with the generator, I'm going down to power systems to abort it, otherwise we have twenty minutes."== David said running to the ladder for the crawl ways.

==“Understood Sir!”== Isabelle hurried things along encouraging everyone left to move as fast as they could to get them to safety.

Climbing down the ladder David looked at the level sign, he'd arrived at his destination, forcing the door open he felt the air push out from the door, he walked carefully stepping to avoid the debris on the floor. David walked forward slowly, he could hear an alarm beep coming from the room ahead, as he approached the door threshold. He reached in his pocket pulling out a small device pushing the button down.

On the bridge of the Cascade Alex Bear had the watch he looked at a console, "What the hell!"

=="Cascade to first officer...."== Alex's voice was frantic =="The Captain's emergency beacon is active but we can't get a lock on him."==

Isabelle cursed. ==“Get the rest of these people out of here, I’m going to find him!”==

Heading after David, Isabelle made her way down to find him she could only hope that he wasn’t trapped, or injured. They had very little time. Stepping cautiously as she reached her destination she called out. “Commander! David! Where are you!?”

David turned "Get out of here! it's gonna blow!"

Alarm klaxon's rang out as David spoke, "Cascade get the first officer out of here! lock on now!" David pointed to the floor the emergency beacon was at her feet, "Energize!"

“No!” Isabelle reached to grab him, just as the transporter beamed her up.

On the bridge Alex called out "Get a lock on the captain!"

=="No luck, the interference is worse."== the transported chief reported.

Isabelle practically ran to the bridge bursting in. “Get him out of there! I don’t care how you do it, just do it!”

"No good, power feedback is critical, it's going to detonate the anti-matter storage." Alex said taking his seat at the helm, "We need to get out of here now."

"Incoming signal!" Hannah called out

=="Get out of here now!"== David screamed over the channel

"Proximity alert!" Elisa called out "it's..."

“It’s what?” Isabelle looked at Elisa, taking a deep breath.

On the main viewer appeared an ambassador class ship, gliding in with all of the elegance of a giant bird of prey flying with in a few hundred meters of the crippled ship it then rolled aggressively left and away from the doomed ship, both X one and X two followed in formation, "Incoming signal." Hannah said

On the main screen appeared the scared and mangled face of Rear Admiral Wallace, =="Pull out, we have your captain in sickbay."== The screen went back to the default view.

“You heard the man, get us out of here.” Isabelle said breathing a sigh of relief knowing David was safe. “Get us to a safe distance.”

End