The NEW Adventures of the ALPHA-1

[Dingo1]

Admiral, Itsy's feelings are hurt, she is in her web with tears.  Itsy Bitsy is our resident enviroment officer from the planet Arachnid.  We rescued her a while back.

Approach Warp 175, engines running like a top.  Running at 12.78%  The slide lever on your right wing side, controls the speed, currently at minimum thrust.  On your left wing, you will find the manuveer control wheel.  On your perch are the forward weapons control push buttons

[payloadcontroller]

OH! HOW could I have been so forgetful?!? Please notify Itsy that I am EXTREMELY apologetic, and ask her to chalk it up to having been under anesthesia to repair my leg. That anesthesia really messes up my head; just ask Agent Kay.

*Before Kay can respond, Bernard nods his head vehemently*
*Kay grins*

Oh, that's right, Bernard, I tried to feed you bean sprouts that time, didn't I?

*Bernard makes gagging motions, then clutches his belly*

Sorry, little fella.

*Bernard shrugs, then climbs up into the Admiral's lap and settles down*

Hm, let's punch up the speed just a smidge here...

*moves thrust lever forward to halfway mark*

[Yevaud]

Following in a small, beaten up, cargo ship...

Grmmph.  Last time I ever go to *that* bar...

What day is it, anyways?

I think I'll catch up to them in another few months...

*sigh*

 

[payloadcontroller]

*glances at sensor readouts across the bridge*
*sees something odd*

Hm. Full sensor sweep to stern, computer. Display readouts on main screen.

*studies readouts on main screen*

AH! I wondered where he was! Dingo, engage tractor beam on that ship! Bring it into the hangar bay!

[Dingo1]

Already on it, give us a good workout on the tractor beam.  Engines are at 50 % speed is at Warp speed, and climbing.  Approaching galactic barrier, and course set for Galaxy M-9A, sector BBC approx 1.1 billion light years away.  Approx 3 days at full speed (as if I know what the Alpha can do since the the massive engine upgrades and efficentcy).  Wonder how well Yevaud's ship is doing being dragged at this speed

[Yevaud]

YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee
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HAW!

 

*Yowsa!*

[Dingo1]

*Looking at the viewscreen on Yevaud's ship*
Whoa, that must be a heck of a ride, his ship is whipping back and forth like on the tip of a whip.  Ok, tractoring you ship onto the hull, will not be able to open up the docking bay at this speed.

Admiral, our speed has settled down to a nice Warp 1106.  Going 1200 lyrs a minute is fun. Do you want to go to full engines or emergancy speed??

[Yevaud]

YYYYaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....


*CLANG THUD*

Whew.  And they used to think riding the mechanical bull at Gilly's was a ride.

[payloadcontroller]

Full engines for now, Dingo. Call ahead and let 'em know we're coming. They can tell us if we need to hit the afterburners.

[Dingo1]

Engines to Full...Aye Aye...

*The engines hum a deep sound*  Ok we are at full 250,000 lyrs a minute, Warp 3000
at this speed it will take us 3.4 days to reach our destination.  Engines at 90% and steady

[Yevaud]

Well, while I'm stuck in here, may as well keep busy.

*turning on sensor suite*

HOLY!  Something's following us, just at the edge of sensor range, and is it ever big!  What in the hey IS it?

*Fiddling with fine-calibration of mass-detector*

Dang, that's HUGE.  I wonder if they can receive me in the Alpha?

*Skrrrttt!*

"Umm, hello?  Admiral Lady M'am Sir?  I think we've got company..."

[Dingo1]

Yevaud, give us details on what is following us.  At this speed we have no weapons, as if we fired, we would run into our own shots.  Our weapons are sub-warp, that go into warp to get to the target almost instantly.

Admiral, suggest emergency speed and evasive manuveers.  Yevaud, better web yourself in, and set your gravity dampers to max, this could get rough

[Yevaud]

*I don't think he's going to like this much*

"It's, oh, about the size of a small moon, moving at the same velocity as we are, and is reflecting back most otherwise penetrating scans: neutron, neutrino, synthetic aperature radar, the works.  All I can tell you is it's BIG."

*strapping in*

"After the ride I just had, 'this could get rough' has real meaning to me."

*checking scans*

"It appears to have a mass of 200*10^20 kg, and a diameter of 612.82 km.  That's really all I can tell you at the moment.  Oh, and it's keeping pace with us, but just - just - on the edge of my sensor's range.  I'll tell you more when I can...

...Long-Range shuttlecraft 'LeMaistre' out."

[Dingo1]

* Oh horse pocky...I know what that is...attempting to hail following vessal............no responce *

Admiral, hold on to your perch, it WILL get rough...engines to 120%  Reaching Warp 1750....That will double our speed but at a cost...

Initiating ultra-evasive manuveering.... (picture placing a couple dozen mables into an empty large coffee can, close the lid.  Place the can in a paint shaker and turn on... the marbles represent crew-members, and you get the idea)

Admiral, we have an old WAN automated galactic border battle moon on our tail, and it's communications are out We can possible out manuveer it, but not out run it, not enough fuel at emergancy warp speed,  possibly might be able to beat it in a fight, but it would be a very touch and go fight.  They are very hard to kill and can absorb a heck of a lot of damage without degrading it's massive firepower.  I ought to know I designed the things..

Yevaud and suggestions??

[Yevaud]

Hmmm.  Lesse...

*Pulling up old charts of the sector*

"How about that large, ionized gas-cloud?  Might even be the beginning of a Herbig-Haro object.  Would the interference mask our signature from the Battle Moon?"