Fly By "
By: Hardluck Harry , Ship Yard Operations Director , [NPC]
Ian Hunter, Commanding Officer, [PC]
Giuseppe Silvio, Chief Engineer, [RNPC]

Stardate: 58206.25 1315

Hardluck Harry entered the briefing room and looked at Silvio and Hunter. He grunted, "You two, follow me," he said turning towards the door. "Try not to break anything."

Hunter arched his brow at Silvio as he stood up and followed Harry out the Door.

Harry led them out of the conference room and into the main operations center of the dockingbay. Technicians and controllers say at their consoles coordinating the work crews as they began to prepare the Zion for work. The entries wall of the room opened out into the bay, giving the occupants of the room a panoramic view of the Zion. Harry paused just long enough to stare at the gaping hole in the side of the ship. He shook his head and continued thought a door that lead to a small air lock. Entering and access portal the found themselves in a small shuttle.

"Do me a favor and seal that hatch," he said to Silvio as he sat down at the controls of the shuttle. "we need to have a closer look."

Silvio did as he was told and then sat down in the co-pilots seat. Silvio actually looked forward to getting a closer look at the damage now that the ship was secure.

Harry tapped his comm badge, "Cut me loose guys," he called to someone on his team. Moments later they were flying around the Zion. Harry started with the biggest hole, "That is a mess," he observed.

"You should have seen it after the battle," offered Silvio. "We have stabilized the power systems."

Hunter watched out the front window as the service shuttle continued to skimmed across the surface of the Zion. Large pock marks from enemy phaser fire were everywhere.

Harry looked over the gaping hole in the ship, he gave these guys a hard time, but inside he was filled with pride, the ship they had designed and built had done it's job. He could see the ship had been in a huge battle and it came home. For a ship designer and builder he could not ask for more. Harry gestured to the window, "We will need to rebuild this whole section, what's left of it anyway."

Silvio nodded in agreement, "We have been working on the internal EPS couplings and by the time you are ready to start everything will be ready for you."

Harry said noting but flew past the sensor arrays. He noted some damage to them as well.

Near the the base of the saucer section, near the deflector array, there was more severe damage where enemy torpedoes attempted to destroy the array. Because the array uses so much energy, its destruction often means the destruction of the ship itself. Because of the tremendous deflection power of the Zion, the torpedoes usually impacted the shields away from the defector. Hunter wasn't sure which of the assailants had even bothered to try that.

Harry added more to his rapidly expanding list of things to do.

The underside of the ship was also marred and scared from phaser fire.

As Harry maneuvered up to the nacelle pylons it was an amazing site. On one of the pylons much of the covering had been melted and blown away, revealing reinforced skeleton which was built differently from the Federation rivals.

Harry tried to hide his smile but he could not, "You guys are damn lucky."

Hunter looked at Silvio, and agreed, "...and you should see the other guys," he added.

Harry could not help himself and started to laugh, "I trust their ships did not hold up as good as yours did."

"Not only did they not hold up, they didn't hold *together*," replied Hunter.

"We were damn lucky," reiterated Hunter, "We were outnumbered 6 to 1 until Tango Fleet arrived."

"Good ship," said Harry, as he maneuvered the shuttle back to the docking port.