Lt. JG. Alidar Raedai - The wrong way to do something right

[Alidar Raedai]

((Cockpit, USS Rhine, Outside the J-0922A System))

The wrong way to do something right, that was the summary of what they were doing. Because if anyone asked a Romulan, they would answer that the best weapon was information. And there they were trying to belatedly get what they needed more than anything else, in a totally improvised way. Their only advantage was the combat that had just occurred, pieces of ships and radiation of all kinds scattered around the immediate area.

That was what Alidar was working on, keeping the ship in that radiation, even generating more if necessary. It didn't have to be Sencha radiation, engine ionization, radiation from the destroyed ship's reactor, the explosives hidden in the escape pods, remnants of the antimatter explosions from the torpedoes the Ronin had fired and the stupid fighters they had launched against a starship.

Alieth: Sencha radiation levels from the wreckage will begin to penetrate our shields in two minutes, we will need a tactical analysis of the surrounding space before we move :: Looking at the front seats of the Rhine:: are there hostile ships around us? Are we within range of the stations' passive scanners?

Raedai : They haven't gone out to look for their remains yet, so we're alive. But the longer we stay here and the farther the Ronin and Khitomer get...

They would have to test how fast that little ship could be. He had a couple of destinations thought of, but it would depend on more factors as to whether they could use them.

Lorana: response

As the two senior officers worked, Alieth turned to the rookie.

Alieth: Ensign, as long as we are not in a medical emergency, I will need you to double me up with the secondary science console and the scanners. For now, use only the passive ones until we determine that we can work beyond that. Do you have any training on this?

Syrex: Response

Alieth: ::With a glint in her eye :: It will suffice. :: Turning to the other officers.:: Have you determined the route to approach the cloaked areas?

Raedai: In the areas close to where there has been combat, it is relatively easy to hide, for the moment. But to get to the cloaked areas safely, we can only do so if we look like one of the remnants. At the speed at which they move, it would take us two days to reach the nearest area.

The Romulan would like to give better news, but he did not know his enemy's sensors perfectly. In another situation there was possibly some hole they could use and with his people's technology it would be fairly simple to do what they wanted to do.

Lorana/ Syrex : Response

The Vulcan listened attentively, her head slightly tilted on one shoulder.

Alieth: Neither seems like a good option, but we knew what we were up against. My main focus is to find out why the secondary area is so protected and what the structure it contains is for, but that high-density cloaking barrier may reveal our position too soon, or result in a poisoning like the one Miss Lorana and I suffered in Olindra. Which options do you suggest for or against it?

Raedai: their cloaking field should be a problem to detect us, the way it catches almost any signal. :: So it was with the 100-year-old Romulan cloaking systems that Starfleet was well aware of.:: But they came out of it when they detected the Ronin in... trouble. So, they must have something to help them see out or some particular frequency that transcends from their side like communications. If we find either of those two, we can fool them by sending the signal ourselves of whatever we want them to see.

He himself doubted his first theory, it would be difficult to have a sort of periscope on a ship, with a probe or something that didn't have to be easy to detect. Although it was too complex a system for a moving ship. The second theory required much more refinement, and he didn't know if they would have enough time.

Lorana/ Syrex : Response

Once again, the Vulcan remained silent for a while.

Alieth: We will use that second option, take off carefully, approach vector using the wreckage while we have the chance.

Raedai: Up to these coordinates… :: pointed on a screen visible to all:: We will look like part of what would be the remains of what we might call the starboard nacelle. :: The Tollians had a rather strange way of making nacelles.:: If we only use the maneuvering thrusters, we should not be detected.

Alidar began to perform the calculations to move the ship in that direction, trying not to emit the wrong energy in that first part of the journey.

Lorana/ Syrex : Response

Raedai: it is a possibility, we would extend the radiation that hides us in the direction we want.

Alidar ran a couple of simulations with the data from the probes that were still scattered around, emitting even less energy than the Runaboat.

Lorana/ Syrex / Alieth: response

Raedai: a small, very small impulse could be useful and should not be detected.

It was the day of crazy plans. They could always run.


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Liutenant Junior Grade Alidar Raedai
Ops Officer
USS Ronin (NCC-34523)
Cpt. Karrod Niac Commanding
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