Part of Bravo Fleet: The Devil to Pay

USS da Vinci - USS Jaxartes

The Great Starship Sale

The USS da Vinci and the hunt to track down a stolen vessel; before it goes to the highest bidder!

Mission Description

It had started out as an audacious and seemingly impossible task; steal a fully functional Starfleet vessel.  But never being one for subtlety, that’s exactly what an Orion by the name of Navaar Orci, had done.  With the help of a disillusioned and partly brainwashed Chief Engineer Thomas Bellbrooke and the disgraced former Commander William Armitage; she’d taken a Norway-class from right under everyone’s nose.

For close to 18 months the USS Stavanger had move unmolested across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants; monitoring shipping routes and selecting targets for pirate vessels that accompanied her, to attack.  The ship went through several name changes, its transponder codes altered to mimic any other ship in her class; rendering it near impossible to track.

The arrival of the ‘Lost Fleet’ changed all that; when its disappearance was discovered.  Now the hunt was on.  With a new set of codes in operation, the Stavanger no longer had the ability to blend in and go unnoticed.

After fighting her way out of the Hydra Cascade; Orci plans to sell the ship off to the highest bidder, before the net finally closes in.

 

Commander Anacostia-Bolling and the crew of the USS da Vinci, have other ideas.

About the Mission

Status
In Progress
Total Stories
16
Start Date
02/11/2024

8 December 2024

Part 16: Confrontation

USS da Vinci: The Great Starship Sale

Five space suited figures slowly and carefully made their way across the outer hull of the Norway-class vessel.  Each carried a phaser; drawn and pointing in the general direction they were moving.  They were spread out to cover as much area of the ship was possible, yet close enough to spot any [...]

6 December 2024

Part 15: ‘Brick Wall’

USS da Vinci: The Great Starship Sale

It had taken a while; crawling through Jeffries Tubes and forcing open a couple of doors along the way, but eventually Lieutenant-Commander Alara Ley and her team had met up with Lieutenant Grav and his group.  Between them the Trill and Tellarite discussed what they and the engineers with them [...]

29 November 2024

Part 14: Runaway

USS da Vinci: The Great Starship Sale

On the Bridge of the USS da Vinci; as with the Bridges of the other ships in the small Taskforce and that of the vessel they’d come to recapture; there was a sense of collective confusion.  First was the realisation that this whole operation had one more twist and the second was what the USS [...]

26 November 2024

Part 13: Boarding Party

USS da Vinci: The Great Starship Sale

Navaar Orci sat in a high backed office style chair at one end of an oval shaped cobalt grey table, in the middle of a dimly lit conference room.  Standing behind her and just to the right, stood Korda; holding the Starfleet issue Type 3 phaser rifle he tended to have with him to protect his [...]