STAR TREK: DISTORTION (star trek vs star wars fanfiction)

CHAPTER III

There were hundreds of them. Small automated spacecraft, smaller than a shuttle. They didn't manage to get in range of the Boston Rose before she raised her shields again thankfully, and Captain Relor put his plan into motion. He fired all forward phaser banks at full power on the widest possible beam targeting the areas where the swarm of ships was most highly concentrated.

"How many ships did he get with the first volley?" Relor asked.

"Fifty-three sir" Lieutenant Commander Marquez responded.

Relor ordered the Boston Rose out of the orbit of the planetoid, putting distance between his ship and the enemy swarm. As he did so, the ship's sensors noticed multiple satellites dotted around the planetoid. He reasoned that they probably could only detect them now that they were powered.

"Andrews, is it reasonable to assume that these enemy crafts are automated, those satellites that just powered up are some form of power source or signal booster?" The Captain asked.

"Seems reasonable to me" Andrews replied.

The enemy swarm was now in range of the Boston Rose, and began pounding her shields and moving around her flanks to completely envelop her in a cloud of metal. They weren't using any form of weapon Relor or even anyone on the ship had ever seen or heard of before.

There were three signal booster satellites, and Relor found it reasonable to treat them as priority targets. 

"Tactical divert fire to bearing three-two-five mark one-nine, continuous fire. Let's see if these fighters will avoid an area if we continuously fire at it. If they do avoid that area, target the satellite past the swarm and fire 2 long-range photon torpedoes and 2 standard torpedoes as a meat shield. If they don't move out of the way, fire all weapons continuously everywhere and, Conn, move full speed into and out the other side of the swarm." Relor ordered. Multiple voices answered back with "aye sir" 

The Boston Rose lurched into position, firing continuous phaser blasts into one spot in the swarm. As predicted, the swarm learned to avoid that area, and a gap in the cloud was created. The captain ordered continuous low-powered fire from all phaser banks and fired the torpedoes towards the satellite, simultaneously moving into the hole it created in the swarm and temporarily breaking free. 

"Fire 2 more long-range torpedoes at the second satellite" Relor ordered

"Shields at ninety percent!" Ensign T'Ren, the science bridge officer, reported.

After the second volley of torpedoes was shot, the Captain specifically didn't order the third volley. He reasoned if he ordered the third volley, the fighters would try to intercept the torpedoes and they might succeed. So, he ordered his ship to not fire upon it. Instead, he ordered the ship to plot a collision course with the satellite and launched 2 torpedoes out of the forward tubes, however, they were completely unpowered, he didn't fire the torpedoes he just pushed them outside the tubes, then turned hard to starboard and began to fly away from the planetoid and continued engaging the swarm. It would take approximately thirty minutes for the unpowered torpedoes to float to the last satellite.

The Boston Rose wasn't a fast ship by any means. She was a big fat lumbering cruiser, but still, he tried to outrun the fighters and just put some distance between them. He ordered the helmsman to perform any evasive manoeuvre he saw fit, and tactical to shoot at everything he could.

Then an idea struck him.

He asked his science officer if it were possible to create a directed EMP from the main deflector, or something else that had a similar effect. Some form of beam sent from the deflector that would disable enemy craft that it touched.