Lt. Cmd. Silveira: Tactical and tactful.
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May 31, 2026, 12:07:04 PM (4 days ago) May 31
to USS Artemis-A – StarBase 118 Star Trek PBEM RPG
((USS Artemis-A, deck 1, Bridge))
Vitor sat down in the Captain's chair. He tapped a few commands at Zie’s console, giving the minimal permissions for Jetripar to use the XO console.
He took a deep breath, rested his hands on each end arm of the seat, and leaned back, keeping himself straight.
Silveira: Half impulse, shields and weapons down until my order. Is there anything new on our away teams?
Bergmen: [swear], comms offline! Cycling error! Resetting now! (beat) No success!
Imril: Could the ghost be a Da’al shuttle that the virus isn’t letting us see?
Jetripar: Response
Vitor narrowed his eyes as they reported in.
Bergmen: Virus overtook our comms. Communicating with the intercepted ship! (beat) Correction! Now contacted those Nascaik ships back on orbit! (beat) Oh my… They are losing their power over all their systems!
Imril: The virus must have transmitted itself to the ship in search of more data to consume. But why shut everything down on their ship and not ours?
Silveira: We are on Nascaik space, we shouldn’t be here so for now it might consider us the lesser threat. And we are not as aggressive.
Jetripar: response
Bergmen: Sir, we need to disable the primary comms systems before it spreads! Destroy them if needed!
Imril: If we do that, the virus will still be able to spread from those ships. We need to end the virus here, and transmit the final counter-virus to the Nascarik fleet.
Vitor shook his head and stood up. Being seated really wasn’t for him, most likely because it was certainly set for Zie’s physical parameters.
He turned to the others.
Silveira: Fight the virus Lieutenant Imril. Lieutenant Bergmen find another way. I know you got this. Secretary Jetripar stay put, I might need your assistant in a moment.
Jetripar/ Bergmen: response
If there was something he needed to do was plan ahead. And in this game of chess that was life, with the highest stakes at risk and him holding the Chair, Vitor had to work fast.
Imril: The patch worked! The virus’s targeted search algorithm now regards its own inter-process communication matrix as being a component of the Da’al ship’s plasma accelerator EM field vectorization protocols! And is deleting them!
Silveira: At least some good news. Lieutenant Bergmen, tell me we have comms back. And start preparing a data package with all the data we have on the virus. We need to share that with the Nascaik.
Jetripar/Bergmen: Response
Imril: Estimated virus integrity down to ninety-three percent. Eighty-four. Seventy-nine. I’ve secured a route to the heuristic firewall. It’s starting to crack…
Vitor turned and stepped forward in the viewscreen direction.
He saw it before he was alerted.
Tactical: Commander the Nascaik ship is firing
Silveira: Get me comms and open a channel. I don’t care if you have to shut down life support. We hold our breaths.
Jetripar/Bergmen: Response
Vitor put his hands on his hips, legs slightly spread. He narrowed his eyes as the Artemis was slowly positioning. Without turning he started speaking.
Silveira: All hands… Red alert. Helm full impulse intercept course on the Nascaik fire line.. Set the Artemis between them so we take the hits. Lieutenant Bergmen open a hailing frequency. Lieutenant Imril, whatever you have to do to speed things up do it, but get Engineering ready.
Secretary Jetripar… Well, you're a politician so the closest thing I have to a diplomat. Give me some idea on how to deal with the Nascaik, that doesn’t involve then firing on the Afalqi or delivering you to them
Jetripar/Bergmen/Imril: Response
The next orders were a gamble and he was fairly certain he would have to repeat them.
Vitor was so used to screwing things up and making amends that it was like a second nature. But now, what he was about to do, would likely have no return. And it was going to require sacrifice.
As always it was a gamble and as the Artemis swiftly navigated space, he thought of Nan.
And Jonathan. And Zie, Alex, Roy, Munro…
In that split second before he spoke everyone went through his head.
Silveira: Set us in position and power down shields and weapons.
Jetripar/Bergmen/Imril: Response
Vitor was pretty sure that a shroud of silence covered the bridge, even with all the noise from a red alert operations bridge.
Silveira: Send this message and the data regarding the virus to the Nascaik ships =/\= This is Commander Silveira from the USS Artemis, we are here to help. I assume you're also suffering the effects of the Virus, and are placing ourselves in your fire line to prevent any loss of life as we keep working on a solution. Please just give us a little more time. Thank you=/\=
Vitor took a deep breath and turned facing the others.
Silveira: If they are being affected maybe the Virus won’t attack us. If they were in control and firing on the Afalqi hopefully they would stop, with us in their way.
Jetripar/Bergmen/Imril: Response
TAGs/TBC
Lt. Cmd. Vitor S. Silveira
Chief Tactical Officer
USS Artemis-A, NCC-81287
O238907VS0
Vitor sat down in the Captain's chair. He tapped a few commands at Zie’s console, giving the minimal permissions for Jetripar to use the XO console.
He took a deep breath, rested his hands on each end arm of the seat, and leaned back, keeping himself straight.
Silveira: Half impulse, shields and weapons down until my order. Is there anything new on our away teams?
Bergmen: [swear], comms offline! Cycling error! Resetting now! (beat) No success!
Imril: Could the ghost be a Da’al shuttle that the virus isn’t letting us see?
Jetripar: Response
Vitor narrowed his eyes as they reported in.
Bergmen: Virus overtook our comms. Communicating with the intercepted ship! (beat) Correction! Now contacted those Nascaik ships back on orbit! (beat) Oh my… They are losing their power over all their systems!
Imril: The virus must have transmitted itself to the ship in search of more data to consume. But why shut everything down on their ship and not ours?
Silveira: We are on Nascaik space, we shouldn’t be here so for now it might consider us the lesser threat. And we are not as aggressive.
Jetripar: response
Bergmen: Sir, we need to disable the primary comms systems before it spreads! Destroy them if needed!
Imril: If we do that, the virus will still be able to spread from those ships. We need to end the virus here, and transmit the final counter-virus to the Nascarik fleet.
Vitor shook his head and stood up. Being seated really wasn’t for him, most likely because it was certainly set for Zie’s physical parameters.
He turned to the others.
Silveira: Fight the virus Lieutenant Imril. Lieutenant Bergmen find another way. I know you got this. Secretary Jetripar stay put, I might need your assistant in a moment.
Jetripar/ Bergmen: response
If there was something he needed to do was plan ahead. And in this game of chess that was life, with the highest stakes at risk and him holding the Chair, Vitor had to work fast.
Imril: The patch worked! The virus’s targeted search algorithm now regards its own inter-process communication matrix as being a component of the Da’al ship’s plasma accelerator EM field vectorization protocols! And is deleting them!
Silveira: At least some good news. Lieutenant Bergmen, tell me we have comms back. And start preparing a data package with all the data we have on the virus. We need to share that with the Nascaik.
Jetripar/Bergmen: Response
Imril: Estimated virus integrity down to ninety-three percent. Eighty-four. Seventy-nine. I’ve secured a route to the heuristic firewall. It’s starting to crack…
Vitor turned and stepped forward in the viewscreen direction.
He saw it before he was alerted.
Tactical: Commander the Nascaik ship is firing
Silveira: Get me comms and open a channel. I don’t care if you have to shut down life support. We hold our breaths.
Jetripar/Bergmen: Response
Vitor put his hands on his hips, legs slightly spread. He narrowed his eyes as the Artemis was slowly positioning. Without turning he started speaking.
Silveira: All hands… Red alert. Helm full impulse intercept course on the Nascaik fire line.. Set the Artemis between them so we take the hits. Lieutenant Bergmen open a hailing frequency. Lieutenant Imril, whatever you have to do to speed things up do it, but get Engineering ready.
Secretary Jetripar… Well, you're a politician so the closest thing I have to a diplomat. Give me some idea on how to deal with the Nascaik, that doesn’t involve then firing on the Afalqi or delivering you to them
Jetripar/Bergmen/Imril: Response
The next orders were a gamble and he was fairly certain he would have to repeat them.
Vitor was so used to screwing things up and making amends that it was like a second nature. But now, what he was about to do, would likely have no return. And it was going to require sacrifice.
As always it was a gamble and as the Artemis swiftly navigated space, he thought of Nan.
And Jonathan. And Zie, Alex, Roy, Munro…
In that split second before he spoke everyone went through his head.
Silveira: Set us in position and power down shields and weapons.
Jetripar/Bergmen/Imril: Response
Vitor was pretty sure that a shroud of silence covered the bridge, even with all the noise from a red alert operations bridge.
Silveira: Send this message and the data regarding the virus to the Nascaik ships =/\= This is Commander Silveira from the USS Artemis, we are here to help. I assume you're also suffering the effects of the Virus, and are placing ourselves in your fire line to prevent any loss of life as we keep working on a solution. Please just give us a little more time. Thank you=/\=
Vitor took a deep breath and turned facing the others.
Silveira: If they are being affected maybe the Virus won’t attack us. If they were in control and firing on the Afalqi hopefully they would stop, with us in their way.
Jetripar/Bergmen/Imril: Response
TAGs/TBC
Lt. Cmd. Vitor S. Silveira
Chief Tactical Officer
USS Artemis-A, NCC-81287
O238907VS0
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