**Action** "Latecomers to the party"

**Action**
Where: Blue Dwarf, Drive Room
Who: Captain Alota, Efof Yuwan'Kar, Seymour Niples, Chris Lister,
Mark McJohn and Elian Sandoval
Seymour breezed into the Drive Room wearing a top hat and suit. He
stepped over McJohn and Sandoval who were laid under a desk fixing
the wiring.
Alota was stood sipping a mug of coffee studying a star
constellation map. She turned around, saw Seymour and
groaned. "Mister Ambassador, for what do I owe this… pleasure?" she
said sarcastically.
Seymour missed the sarcasm and beamed back at her. "Well hello
Captain, I'm here on official Royal business!"
Alota sighed again. "Look Ambassador we're a Jupiter Mining Ship…
true we barely actually do any mining, but we are out here on a
mission, we're not just a taxi for you to do that spotty royal
tart's biddings you know!" Her lecture had not sunk in with Niples
though as he was watching the new navigation officer Chris Lister at
the navigation computer. Efof was showing him the basics.
"Any good?" Seymour asked. Alotta shrugged. "I suppose we can't get
much worse than Efof!" Seymour chuckled. Lister pressed a button at
his navigation console and the entire ship lurched violently,
causing Seymour to fall backwards over a chair, stood on Sandoval's
fingers (who yelped in a Mexican way) and lost his top hat in a bin.
He got up and dusted himself down. "No, surprisingly still not as
bad as Efof!"
Alota raised an eyebrow and thought she better get this over
with. "Okay okay, what do we have to do to please the Queen?"
Seymour took a map out of his breast pocket. "This planet has just
been discovered by a team of Patrick Moore clones on a deep space
observatory satellite, I have orders to see if it is inhabited, and
establish trade negotiations. The Queen is bored of every type of
cuisine style on Earth and wants to try something new." He paused
and smiled. "Ooh I feel like sir Walter Raleigh coming bringing
newly discovered goods from foreign lands…"
"Save it!" Snapped Captain Alota. "This planet is thousands of light
years away."
"We can use the wormhole drive!"
"But we can't just jump into the middle of a new system, there could
be anything there!"
Seymour gave her puppydog eyes.
"Alright alright! If it gets you and you annoying top hat out of my
Drive-Room then we'll go! Lister, plot the coordinates into the
wormhole drive- Efof make sure he does it right please!"
Seymour took his hat in his hands and looked at it. "What's wrong
with my top hat? I thought I'd try and show a bit of class around
here… unlike some other people!" He glared at Chris Lister who was
wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
Chris turned around and wondered why he was being glared
at. "Coordinates plotted Captain."
"Okay lets get this over with." Said Alota, nodding at Efof who took
over and engaged the wormhole drive.
Electricity sparked off the Blue Dwarf's hull, striking the area in
front of them, space was torn, swirling like a bath plughole. The
Blue Dwarf's engines flared and it was sucked through.
………………….
On the other side the Blue Dwarf shot through the hole in space and
the momentum kept it moving. Unfortunately it was heading straight
into the middle of a rather large mass of Hymenoptera capitol ships.
The enemy ships were facing the planet that Seymour had wanted to
visit, bombarding it with green blobs, whilst smaller harvesting
ships went to and returned from the planet's surface loadened with
harvested proteins for the hive, like bees returning to the nest
with pollen.
Slowly, the group of ten huge Hymenoptera hive ships turned to face
the Blue Dwarf- like when someone unexpected suddenly walks into a
room.
Drive Room
"SHIT!!!" Said Alota.
Seymour twiddled his thumbs. "Oops-a-daisy…"
"Get us out of here now! Wormhole?" barked Alota.
"It needs some time to charge, we can't use it straight away." Said
Efof sheepishly.
"Dammit!" Said the Captain. "Well best speed away from here…" She
moved Lister out of the way and looked at the Navigation
map. "There's an asteroid field not far away, get us into there.
These ships are bigger than us, they won't follow us in."
"But they have plenty of little attack ships." Said Seymour
pessimistically. "They'll be more manouverable than us in there,
we'll be sitting ducks- we're not exactly nimble enough to move
between asteroids ourselves!"
Alota sighed. "Well we better get some starbugs and fighters out
there, both to defend us against the Hymenoptera fighters, and to
clear a path through the asteroid field for us. We need all the
pilots we can get!"
Outside, the large ships turned to track the dwarfstar vessel moving
away, the only flaw with a Hymenoptera hive ship that its massive
guns are only able to fire straight ahead. Efof took over piloting
the, and used this knowledge to move perpendicular to the big ships
at all times. Alota looked out of a monitor showing the view from a
rear CCTV camera. "We've got a swarm of fighters on us!" The
fighters all moved together, flying rings around the Blue Dwarf
taking pot shows at every target.
***Medi-bay***
Dr Keto looked out of the window, seeing all the ships flying past
and around. "Dear God!" He said. Then one turned in space and stared
right at him. He quickly shut the blinds before weapons fire hit the
plexiglass.
<OOC- Okay everyone to the shuttles! We need to keep the fighters
off us until we can wormhole out. Maybe someone can come up with the
crazy idea to stop the fighters at their source by blowing up a
capitol ship?>