[color=limegreen]SOME INDETERMINATE TIME LATER..

PORT ENGINEERING DECK[/COLOR]

The engineering deck was busy as usual. Technicians walked back and fort with holopads and tools, while supervisors watched, all under the constant hum of the Lincoln's hyperdrive engines. The low hum of the engines were almost felt more than they were heard, and coated the engineering deck in a pale purple glow. Despite the hustle and bustle, aside from keeping a watchful eye on the hyperdrive engines- lest something go terribly wrong and consume the entire ship, work on the engineering deck during a hyperspace jump was relatively peaceful, especially when compared to the desperate feel of a combat situation.

[color=khaki]"Hey Boss!"[/color] Kepler called out lazily, [color=khaki]"How much longer you think we'll be in hyperspace for?"[/color] Kepler was a new hand, lanky and whiny, with a thick Brooklyn accent despite growing up on Fortuda, an originally Latin-American based colony. Kepler was a talented hand, graduating and earning his degree in engineering early on in life and easily getting into the UEN Engineering Corps. Despite this, he was incredibly lazy, and had to be sat on to do any work at all. Still, despite his perpetual whine and complaints, the jokester was generally pleasant to be around.

[color=firebrick]"We'll be in the tube for another 3 days at least,"[/color] came the gruff reply from his supervisor, Kolsch, a no-nonsense man with a well maintained beard and perpetually grubby coveralls.

[color=khaki]"So three days to relax and take it easy, right?"[/color] Kepler said with a whoop and a skip. 

[color=firebrick]"More like three days to drill combat scenarios."[/color] Kolsch barked, eliciting a collective grown from the engineering deck. [color=firebrick]"Don't give me that!"[/color] the gruff voice cut through the whines, [color=firebrick]"That last engagement was sloppy. Langsy, if Robinson wasn't there to jump in, we would've lost half of our Impellor Drive from that missile hit! And Kepler, don't even get me started. No rest for you lousy lot, we've got us a lot of work to-"[/color]

A loud [i]CHUNK[/i] cut the senior engineer off, as the entire ship gave a sudden rumble. The engineering deck fell silent.

[color=khaki]"What the hell was that?"[/color] Kepler asked aloud. [color=khaki]"It sounded like something hit us."[/color]

[color=firebrick]"Don't be stupid."[/color] Kolsch replied, [color=firebrick]"We're in hyperspace, its impossible for anything to hit us-"[/color]

A second [i]CHUNK[/i] reverberated throughout the deck, and several cries of confusion could be heard as a large, barbed spike punctured through the meter thick armor of the Lincoln. A trio of giant prongs then opened up and secured themselves against the hull as the spike began to pull back. Kepler took a hesitant step towards the equivalent of a giant grappling hook as several vents opened on the sides of the spike. The spike began to spew a thick, purple gas. 

Kolsch took a step back, his face paling. Rushing over to a comm system on the wall, he keyed the link to the Lincoln's bridge.

[color=firebrick]"Captain! The Port Engineering Deck's been hit! We-"[/color]

An explosion rocked the ship. The ship then rapidly decelerated, throwing objects, supplies, and people around as the Lincoln was suddenly and forcefully pulled out of its hyperspace jump.

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[color=limegreen]The Indivisible, Orca Class Coalition Rapid Assault Cruiser [/COLOR]

"Holy shit. I didn't think that'd work." whistled the XO as Captain Damsky watched the UEE Battle-Carrier swing out of hyperspace, still attached to the experimental grapple-like weapon the Indivisble had fired. Now that the Lincoln had entered real space however, the Indivisible could no longer pull the considerably larger ship with its cable. The Lincoln now found itself in real-space, facing an Orca class cruiser, and a pair of destroyers in orbit over Jehan, a small terran Coalition research colony. 

"That being said, I wasn't expecting it to be so big." Captain Damsky replied. "Nevermind, the experimental weapons Jehan has given us for testing should be more than enough to deal with a single carrier. Deploy all units."

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The side hangar doors of the Coalition ships opened, as they released their clutches of MAS. The destroyers released teams of 3 Ferir Mk II's, led by a Ferir Mk III. The Orca released a quartet of Mk II's, led by a Mk III, alongside another MAS. This new MAS was one that the UEE had yet to encounter, its relatively thin frame and white color scheme a far cry from typical Coalition designs. The Coalition MAS's formed up in a formation in front of the Orca Cruiser, with the shiny new machine at the head.
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