Captain's Mission Report - Starbase 336

Posted on Thu Feb 14th, 2019 @ 3:04pm by Captain Enalia Telvan

Mission: Dance of the Valkyries
Location: Captain's Quarters
Timeline: After Starbase 336

Enalia settled into her desk chair in her quarters with a cup of tea and began writing her latest mission report. The Aesir had been secret and tenuous allies for some time now, but with all that had happened recently, that seemed to have been strained.

That all had to wait for now though, as she had to register all eight hundred passengers aboard as refugees displaced by the destruction of Deleth Station. It would take a few weeks for Romulan and Federation ships to pick up all the displaced service members and civilians, if not months. On top of that, there was the issue of an investigation to conduct. The Commodore's new ship, the USS Photon was working on that part at least. Unfortunately, the scientists were evacuated by the two small Romulan warbirds so they would have to be tracked down for questioning later.

Sighing heavily, Enalia leaned back in her chair and began composing. "Captain's Report on the Starbase 336 Deleth Station Titan Iapetus incident. We were on another mission, acting as a failsafe for a diplomatic mission when we received the distress call. Computer, insert comm log link 34725. From there, we pushed our engines as hard as they could burn antimatter and made a new record for us. Warp 9.9995. When we arrived, several ships had already been taken out, including an Exeter class Connie refit that we almost ran into and a D'deridex class that was in our immediate vicinity."

"After a quick exchange with the Commodore, insert comm link 34728, we took up a defensive posture so the remaining station defenders could pull back. Once they were able to regroup and gather the wounded, we went on the offense, using tactics designed to deal with deity-class aliens. One of the nice things about having to fight beings in the same class as Odin and his Valkyries is that when they decide to challenge you to a fight... The USS Hera and her crew happen to be ready. Computer, insert combat logs, red alert stamp 9927."

"We were doing well enough, though admittedly on the likely losing end. Shields were at eighteen percent and our hull was starting to take a bit of a beating. Weapons and power were holding out well, though. We were energizing our armor for our next push. Odin's Sleipnir had been disabled, as had three quarters of the Valkyrie ships. That's when Freyja entered the battle with her spear."

"She hit us, deflected ever so slightly, went straight through one of the two Miranda class cruisers, the USS Aldrin, and pierced the outer hull of the station. Our shields and armor were decimated and we had hull breaches on multiple decks. Within moments they had people beaming in, which we were able to initially divert to the brig, but then they used that Bifrost and dropped Valkyries into engineering. It took a little bit, but we were able to get a boarding party onto the station, get engines and main power back online, and somehow... Up until this point the worst injury had been a plasma burn and the loss of some house plants."

"As the boarding party dealt with not only the Aesir attacking the station but also the station defenses trying to keep us out... Seriously, we need to not place fecking cokholsters in charge of our facilities... Someone shows up at your doorstep to HELP wearing armored EV suits, you let them fecking HELP. Ahem... Official recommendation... For future missions... Because my people rescued many of those people that had been spaced due to the boarding action of Freyja which caused massive failure of the station's remaining structural integrity and power grid in the section."

"The Baroness Schwein von Alcott, my family's attendant to me was aboard so volunteered for the mission. She is... Engaged... To the Mighty Thor so this might be seen as a conflict of interests, however I saw it as a possibility of a diplomatic solution. Acting as a forward scout for the away team, she was able to assess the strength and composition of Odin's forces and predict Freyja's entry point. Once they arrived at the final labs, she was also able to engage the entire defending Valkyrie position and engage Freyja directly while the rest of the away team covered her and stunned the dislodged defenders."

"Computer, attach body cam logs of all Starfleet away mission members. I am loathe to attach the Baroness's footage for two reasons. She is a civilian and such footage being logged into record without per express permission is against my better judgement and her body cam footage is from her cybernetic eye. It's not from some chest sensor... It's literally from her actual point of view, which makes the whole experience that much more personal. Because of that... Her duel with Freyja and private discussion about the betrothal with Thor... I would prefer that it be left out of the official records."

"Just suffice it to say that in an amazing display of daring, skill, and strength, she bested the Queen of the Valkyries and of Asgard honorably."

"Which brings me to the final point of this report. Odin said he would destroy Deleth station after collecting the Titan Iapetus. He did not. He used the Bifrost to move it away. From the trajectory, I suspect that it is now in Asgardian space but there is no way to be sure. I just hope that this does not further jeopardize our alliance with him."

"As for our refugees, I'm including a list of everyone we rescued as well as their medical status. I'm listing Doctor Dael as their medical provider for now. Some of them are grumbling about the conditions, but they're alive, which is a far cry from what Odin would have done to them if we hadn't shown up. Out of this whole mission, the USS Hera amazingly did not lose any people. Starbase 336, of the Starfleet personnel... Nineteen station personnel were lost. The entire crews of the USS Hansho, USS Ganalro, USS T'lark, and USS Fredrickson were lost. The USS D'arj had only seventeen survivors. The USS Aldrin had ninety six survivors. On top of that, several Romulan ships were destroyed with all hands lost. Whatever they were researching, I hope they got what they were after, because we paid a heavy price for it."