Post #261: A Fraught Homecoming

Posted on Mon May 12th, 2025 @ 8:13pm by Major Charlotte Thrace

399 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Secrets
Location: USS Angel
Timeline: current

Charlotte sighed as she walked through the corridors of the Angel. This wasn't a mission she'd ever expected needing to do, but these were the most uneasy of times - as evidenced by the tactical theory all saying that the Delta Quadrant of all places was the safest place right now. The Angel's job for the minute was simple enough, they'd planned to evacuate DS9 as part of their journey to Ocampa but evacuations of the manner required took time, and it likely wasn't a good idea for the base to be loitering in the system, it was far safer for the base to just travel through the wormhole and get going while taking advantage of the Angel's spore drive to have the ship handle the evacuation. It wasn't just personnel that they were going for either, there were the runabouts, torpedoes, phaser rifles, hand phasers, tricorders, tools, medical equipment... this was what was known as a total evacuation, nothing left behind for presumably the Cardassians, and that was just what they needed to get from DS9 there was a far more sensitive thing on the surface itself.

She'd gotten a skeleton crew drawn from junior officers together for this, an understandable decision as every department was focusing on getting the base ready for the trip. "All right are we ready to go?" Charlotte asked as she stepped onto the bridge.
"All systems green Major." the officer manning the ops station said
"Undock, and go to black alert. Spin up the spore drive." Charlotte said
"Undocking." the officer at the helm said as the lights registered the black alert being called "We're clear."
"One quarter impulse get us away and then jump to Bajor." Charlotte said

It was a few moments later that the Angel's spore drive took the Inquiry class ship to Bajor, the system where Charlotte had been raised.
"DS9 off the port bow." the ops officer said
"Let's see the damage." Charlotte said, the Cardassian built station was brought up on screen and it was safe to say it had seen better days, there were what looked like open wounds carved into the docking arms, holes in the habitat ring and wreckage of starships littering the area. "Ok then get us docked and start the evacuation, I want a com channel to Bajor as soon as possible as well."

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Major Charlotte Thrace
Marine CO
Starbase Obsidian

 

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