"Home Time" Attn: Prescott

Posted on Tue Aug 20th, 2019 @ 11:04am by Lieutenant Commander Buck Ducati

Mission: After the Storm
Location: Archa IV Orbit, Office of Station Maintenance

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Having deployed all the maintenance teams with any and all other personnel he had authority over to likely areas vital to the survival of the station. They were tasked with keeping power, life support and data conduits in working order. If any failed the station could be done for.

Lieutenant Commander Buck Ducati had returned to his office to get his own engineering kit. All engineers and most operations officers who have been in the profession for a long time would have gathered tools and devices that they like, modified, enhanced and so on.

He knew a few of his senior officers did the same as he had seen them with their kits. Even some of the cases was personalised. Buck had pictures of his kids on the inside where they didn't interfere with the tools. He was about to grab it from under his desk when the swarm was upon them and the station rocked violently as they made a meal of the lost Starbase 332.

Buck hated that a swarm of bugs could be the end of them all, he didn't want to go out like that, well he gave a quick prayer to those lost on the Carthage and hoped they could, he didn't know, give them a little extra supernatural mystical support. The red alert lightning was regular and he could hear metallic whining and distance destruction over the klaxon sound, though it stopped after a time.

Then a rumble went through the station, knocking Buck to the floor. He prayed that his kids and uncle were okay as he realised that the rumble must have been the wormhole magnet as everything suddenly shock like as if all matter was coming apart. Seconds later all stopped, Buck just realised he had closed his eyes during the rumble and opened them. Well power is still on, he thought as he just lay there for a moment disbelieving the quiet and lack of Duranium whining and any previous sounds.

He glanced side to side waiting for the bugs to finish the job but nothing happened. The wormhole magnet must have worked, he got to his feet and accessed his computer. He saw that they were now back where they belong in orbit of Archa IV. He smiled as he sat in his chair, though suddenly he saw that some of the bugs had burrowed into the hull when they probably felt the wormhole come.

Buck double checked the locations of the bugs and if there was action there. It seemed they were dormant, he better get as many people onto capturing and securing it in something that will hold it. He called his senior officers and was thankful all were still with him. He ordered a bug containment and teams go retrieve the bugs. Though they were huge, he'd get help soon from the other departments once they saw what he was up to.

He tapped his combadge, =^= Ducati to Prescott, sir sensors indicate some of the bugs are burrowed deeper in the station. I have ordered containment and retrieval. Only 5 seem to have come back with us. All dormant but I don't think that will remain so for long. =^=