Chapter:8 USS Excelsior

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"We're dropping out of Warp. Interference is lessening. There's a single planet in this system. Class D" Vanessa said

"Scan for the Excelsior." Tadashi said standing up and walking to Satoshis console

"I found her she's drifting a few kilometers from the planet she's sorta in orbit but not?. She's got power but only emergency" Sato reported

"Life signs?" He asked

"Ummm no I'm not picking up life signs she's empty.. " Sato answered

"I don't believe that for a second past experiences tell me nothing's ever truly empty especially when it's dead in the water and especially when it's supposed to be sitting in a fleet museum while it's Captain sips fruit cocktails on a Tokyo apartment balcony.... But risk yay. Xall, Thrall and Vanessa let's go take a look. Felix and Sato y'all stay here for now and get ready to yank us out if shit goes down. Just a quick look we'll look at the last logs then we gotta let Starfleet handle this one ok? This sadly ain't something we can just scrap so. "

Everyone seemed in agreement as Vanessa, Xall and Thrall made way for the turbo with Sato taking the Helm

"Come back safe" he said

"I intend to though I'm overdue for being the damsal in distress"

USS Excelsior. The bright blue beams of the Transporters illuminated the darkened bridge depositing the four inside

Tadashi scanned the room. The primary lights were out. Viewscdeen full of static the various consoles around either dead or flickering

"Spread out  Vanessa. Check the helm
Xall see if you can get the engineering console online, thrall me and you will check the corridors outside the bridge. Got it?"

Everyone nodded in agreement and got to work

Vanessa approached the con and sat down  "I got limited power to this console Xall anythint you can do?" She asked

"One moment dear let's see.." Xall answered stepping up to the engineering console

"According to this the Excelsior only has limited Emergency power. Most of which is diverted to Life Support and we don't Wana take away from that do we.. hmm. I'm going to cut life support from some empty decks and see if that helps standby"

Meanwhile Tadashi and Thrall exited the bridge and into the rear corridors

"I'm not familiar with the Excelsior I'm assuming this is more an administrative deck? " Tadashi asked

"Hell if I know babe. I've never been on a Federation ship asked from the Hayashi and her successor. " thrall answered stopping at a large MSD Display

"Here's a internal schematic though. Yeah bridge, conference room 1, ready room, Transporter room 1, Airlock 1-A and escape pods A1-4 so yeah I'd say admin deck.  Nifty having a transporter room that close to the Bridge." thrall said

"A good or bad thing given a situation"  Tadashi said shining his light around before looking up at the lights coming back up

"Captain ive cut life support to lower decks and focused that energy into Deck one we have partial power but should be enough to access bridge functions cause I also transfered surplus to the primary computer core"

"Excellent Xall we are coming back".

Entering the bridge the group gathered in the center

"I pulled up the last Log Entry from Captain Sulu" Xall said

The view screen changed to show a messy and exhausted Sulu

"Captains log. Today marks our 2nd week the anomaly we don't know what it was but somehow it transported us almost 65 thousand Lightyears from the closet federation Outpost in the Gamma Quadrant. The Anomaly did a real number on our warp drive and primary power systems.  And the energy drain only continues

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