Editing Bandits on the Surface (section)

== The Forlorn Hope==
[[File:Photon grenade.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A Photon grenade]]
The Cartecay managed to gain a significant lead on the [[USS Boudicca]], but the quick thinking of [[Rank|Ensign]] [[Henry Jacobs]]  allowed the Boudicca to overtake the Cartecay just as they were arriving at the Pirate base. Jacobs had managed to create several warp signatures, which he did to convince becks that he was aiding in their escape, while in reality he was directing the Boudicca along their actual course.

Just as the runabout was arriving at the Pirate stronghold, the Boudicca launched a  [[Trojan Class Marine Drop-Shuttle]], to overtake the Cartecay.  Fearing capture, Becks beamed herself and Jacobs abaord the bridge of the Broken Wing, the pirate vessel aboard which she served.

Jacobs was ordered to the brig.  Becks, in the meantime, uploaded a virus into the  Cartecay's computer and set the runabout on a collision course with the marine ship.

[[Deynyk Rinn]], now managing to escape the crawl space for the first time since his capture moved into the cockpit in time to realize what was happening. Unable to take control of the ship's helm controls, he instead locked out the weapons locker and the transporter. 

Betting everything on a slim chance that Becks had not altered the transporter settings when she and Jacobs had beamed off the ship, Deynyk copied the transporter settings into a tricorder which he beamed aboard the marine ship. They contained the shield modulations for the Broken Wing's [[Deflector Shields]].

Then using a photon grenade set on a timer, he prepared to destroy a magnetic constrictor in the runabout's warp drive in order to prevent it from colliding with the Marine Drop ship.  Then Deynyk  sent another grenade, set on stun through the runabout's transporter to the bridge of the broken Wing. He followed it a moment later.

If the first grenade had detonated before the [[transporter]] sequence could be completed,  the Broken Wing had chanced their shield modulations, or if Deynyk had arrived too early or late on the heels of his distraction grenade, the entire assault would have failed. As it was, Deynyk was fortunate, because he completed the transport before the runabout was destroyed.  In addition his photon grenade went off at exactly the right moment, stunning a good number of the bridge crew on the Broken Wing.