Midway | Siege

Midway | Siege

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
Based on Deep Space Nine created by Michael Piller and Rick Berman

Midway | Part I of III

"Siege"

by R. K. Savage (ThunderChyld)
Narendra War concept by R. K. Savage & M. D. Bishop (ruahforever)

Last time on Star Trek Deep Space Nine:

Rex's combadge chirped, "Vision to Captain Savage--urgent!"

"Go ahead ArJai..."

"Starbase 234 reports that their outer defensive perimeter has been breached...."

"Then there is no time to waste, beam us aboard and lay in a course at maximum warp...."

As the three ships leaped to warp and caught up with the fleet, Rex was on his bridge watching for anything else coming in from the Starbase. "What's our ETA?"

"Just under thirty minutes..."

"Well our time has arrived--all hands to battle stations...get me Admiral Castillo so we could coordinate our efforts..."

As his crew attended to their tasks, the Fourth Fleet neared their destination, however the Romulans were coming, and they needed to be stopped-- no matter the cost.

And now… the Continuation.

USS Vision, Bridge
Stardate 58603.1

Captain Rex Savage was standing in the center of his bridge watching as his fleet of 40 starships close on the perimeter of Starbase 234. As they neared the area, ArJai J'Nelle who was at the upper tactical panels, was preparing and watching on as her captain was standing there, waiting. His crew had seen action since the beginning of this conflict. He knew that it would only get worse before it would ever get better. With Tomalak aboard, and the information that he shared with him and Starfleet has proven to be invaluable, however-when the time comes, will the fleet be able to turn the tide against the Romulan advance?

The task force known as the Fourth Fleet had been closing for nearly a week to reinforce the starbase. The fleet led by Captain Ben Sisko and the Defiant, had a significant force behind it. Further, as they had closed in, the starbase already signaled for assistance. Everyone knew what was at stake, knowing that the Romulans had somehow increased their weapons capability and managed to eliminate a decent amount of the older ships of the Federation fleet.

There were a number of ship captains that had to be reassigned. Once that happened, Starfleet Intelligence had decided that it was time to strengthen their defenses. One of the ways to do that was to make sure that only ships that were in the fight were of the newer classes. Most of the ships consisted of the Akira, Nebula, and Galaxy classes. These three are the most powerful combat vessels. These ships were also escorted by a group of the Defiant class starships.

Captain Rex Savage was still watching his wide view screen. ArJai had coordinated the fleet's attack pattern with precision. He and his crew had been through a lot in the last eight months, and now it had culminated up to this battle.

They were ready.

But would Starbase 234 hold up and defend itself until the fleet arrived?

Starbase 234, Operations Deck
Stardate 58602.9

Much of the internal workings of the operations deck were much like the bridge of a starship. The only real difference was the fact that this not a movable ship. But from here they could coordinate the entire fleet and its movements.

Starbase Commander Jessica Walker was on watch keeping an eye on the outer defensive perimeter especially after the messages that have been sent from the Fourth Fleet. Starfleet had dispatched over forty ships to the starbase. However, it was not enough according to estimates. She was sitting in the command chair aboard watching her tactical readouts. There was a chime that came from the screen. Lieutenant Roy Pierce was working the tactical displays and looked down and said, "Commander, we are picking up some sort of a distortion emerging near the outer defensive perimeter."

"Can you put that on screen?"

"Aye, commander."

On the screen, Roy tied in the visual scan of the outer perimeter after linking up to the sensors. On the screen a group of Romulan D'Deridex class Warbirds decloaked. After a moment, they fired at the detection grid which, were simply small sensor stations. When they fired upon it, their weapons hit the array destroying it, causing static on their screen before it went black.

Jessica Walker looked on in horror, and pressed a key on her chair. "This is Operations… all ships assume tactical formation Delta-Seven. Admiral Castillo, please report to Operations."

The fleet of forty ships had split into three separate lines. The front line consisted of the most mobile ships; the middle of the line would be half the distance between the outer perimeter and the base itself. The middle of the line consisted of more of the larger ships took up point there. A group of Sovereign and Galaxy class ships took up the defense there.