Subject: Grail: "The Great Brightness": `Shields Down'

> Standing up, he turned to face the bridge crew, his smug grin almost

>stretching from one ear to the other. "Thank you, thank you, " he

>started, "It was nothing, really. And I invite all of you for the repeat

>performance in ten years, on our way back!"

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Lt. Cmdr. Corvette Hunt begun clapping at the words of François. He and

Donucci had done it. And they deserved the congratulations. Although it was

very little time to celebrate, for as soon as power returned to sciences and

auxiliaries controls, the shocking truth was revealed.

"Sir! Shields and weapon systems are offline. The residual radiation from

the travelling through the Great Brightness has affected decks 1 through 5

and 16 through 21. Sickbay reports that those that where previously affected

by the K'pla, and that where on those decks during the last 10 minutes have

worsened their conditions and have entered into the final states of the

disease. At least 23 persons won't last the hour. 52 more have worsened

their cases severely and have reduced their survival period. They have about

6 days left. "

His words, sank into the hearts of everyone on the bridge. The joy of having

traveled through the Great Brightness successfully was destroyed in less

than 10 seconds by the revelations made.

He began pulling any resource on the ship available, in order to fix the

shields problems. Hands where flying on the keyboard with inhuman speed as

he tried to readjust the systems in order to gain back some shielding.

Hargen was surprised by the actions of the head of Ops, but scanning the

problem, she as well begun to reassemble shields, at an almost mechanical

speed.

"There. Shields are back up to 10%. That must be enough to protect the rest

of us from the radiation." reported Hargen from the engineering consoles.

"Sir. If we had been ambushed by the Romulan ship, we would have been unable

to defend ourselves." reported Hunt as they continued to work on restoring

shields and weapon systems to the Grail.

(OOC: I'm sorry Janice, I didn't had the time to add you up on the post. :)

Hope you don't mind.... )