06-15-2026, 11:20 PM
==Moving us along since we seem to have ground to a halt...
Some time later...==
The Yeager dropped from warp at the designated coordinates, an empty sector of space between the blockaded Starbase and the Talarian border. Light Years from anything interesting, it was the perfect place for a sneak attack to be staged from, or for supplies to be secretly ferried to an occupied sector. Anyone transiting the area was about as far from the regular space lanes as one could get without entering 'Here Be Dragons' territory beyond mapped space, which meant that if they ran into trouble, help would be days away at least.
Which is why Jenny had selected it.
"Flint, I want thrusters at full for five seconds, then cut all thrust. Take us to Condition Grey, but keep the warp core on minimal output. Shut off exterior lights and override polarisation on viewports, set to maximum. From now on, we're just a hole in space. Signal Lowry to come to full stop and enter Grey Mode until ordered otherwise."
Jenny leaned forward in her chair as the lighting reduced to minimum and the life support system began to slow its air circulation cycle. Her decision not to signal all stop was deliberate, and left the Yeager drifting through space on a ballistic course with no immediate way of changing course or stopping should they need to. To passive sensors, the Yeager would not register without energy emissions, and even should anyone conduct a cursory active scan, she was doing her best impression of a meteorite or piece of debris - enough ships had fallen to piracy in the area over the decades that a derelict floating through empty space was a novelty rather than a surprise, something to be noted and tagged for salvage rather than investigated.
Which was exactly what Jenny was banking on.
Though the probe had yet to report the number or class of Cardassian ships enforcing the blockade, they were going to need replenishment or reinforcement sometime; that meant supply ships would be coming through this area, perhaps with escorts, and that gave her the opportunity to get far more up close and personal with the Cardassian blockade than any probe. Done right, it could even break the blockade and prevent the situation escalating into all-out war.
If it went wrong, then...Jenny had already been tried in absentia in the Cardassian Union for piracy once, what was another ship or two to add to the list? They could only execute her once...
"T'Lari, I want weapons on standby. Science, I want the probe telemetry the moment it comes in. Keep an eye on passive sensors, as well; I want to know if someone so much as turns on a flashlight out there."
Some time later...==
The Yeager dropped from warp at the designated coordinates, an empty sector of space between the blockaded Starbase and the Talarian border. Light Years from anything interesting, it was the perfect place for a sneak attack to be staged from, or for supplies to be secretly ferried to an occupied sector. Anyone transiting the area was about as far from the regular space lanes as one could get without entering 'Here Be Dragons' territory beyond mapped space, which meant that if they ran into trouble, help would be days away at least.
Which is why Jenny had selected it.
"Flint, I want thrusters at full for five seconds, then cut all thrust. Take us to Condition Grey, but keep the warp core on minimal output. Shut off exterior lights and override polarisation on viewports, set to maximum. From now on, we're just a hole in space. Signal Lowry to come to full stop and enter Grey Mode until ordered otherwise."
Jenny leaned forward in her chair as the lighting reduced to minimum and the life support system began to slow its air circulation cycle. Her decision not to signal all stop was deliberate, and left the Yeager drifting through space on a ballistic course with no immediate way of changing course or stopping should they need to. To passive sensors, the Yeager would not register without energy emissions, and even should anyone conduct a cursory active scan, she was doing her best impression of a meteorite or piece of debris - enough ships had fallen to piracy in the area over the decades that a derelict floating through empty space was a novelty rather than a surprise, something to be noted and tagged for salvage rather than investigated.
Which was exactly what Jenny was banking on.
Though the probe had yet to report the number or class of Cardassian ships enforcing the blockade, they were going to need replenishment or reinforcement sometime; that meant supply ships would be coming through this area, perhaps with escorts, and that gave her the opportunity to get far more up close and personal with the Cardassian blockade than any probe. Done right, it could even break the blockade and prevent the situation escalating into all-out war.
If it went wrong, then...Jenny had already been tried in absentia in the Cardassian Union for piracy once, what was another ship or two to add to the list? They could only execute her once...
"T'Lari, I want weapons on standby. Science, I want the probe telemetry the moment it comes in. Keep an eye on passive sensors, as well; I want to know if someone so much as turns on a flashlight out there."