Lt. JG. Cynan Mandrake. Location: USS Vanguard; Bridge. Time: After "Rocking" (Peter-Jan). [Bridge] The Captains had asked for ideas, yet the bridge was silent. but then Highwaij spoke up and offered two solutions to the current predicament. [Snip from "Rocking" (Peter-Jan)] "Two thing can happen one: the automated defenses find the Ferengi and blast them away, perhaps the transporter room can get a fix on them when their cloak is gone and transport those Ferengie's to the brig, before their ship is destroid. the second use the Vanguard and jump back in time a few minuts" Highwaij said as the ship got hit again [End Snip] Now Mandrake didn't really have any idea about the A170 Snapdragon turrets that made up the planets defence grid or how they worked, but an idea, even a stupid idea, was still an idea and who knew (he sure didn't), it could be a good one. He span around on his chair to face the Captain. Cynan: "What if we powered down the ship? If we play dead maybe the turrets would leave us be and target the other two instead? They'd take the full force and we could simple glide down to the planet on our own momentum." ********************************************************** USS Vanguard: http://vanguard.iwarp.com Gamma Fleet: http://www.gammafleet.org.uk _Free_Lists: //www.freelists.org **********************************************************