Battle of Kalla

The Battle of Kalla was the name of a incident that took place in the Kalla system in 2380 in which the , under the command of Captain Carol Freeman, was attacked by a Pakled clumpship commanded by Jackabog. ()
== Prelude ==
In 2380, the under Captain Dayton was on a star survey mission in the Kalla system. It was suddenly attacked and weakened by a Pakled Clumpship. The Solvang attempted to escape but the clumpship was able to use its mining arm to latch onto one of the Solvang's warp nacelles. When the Solvang went to warp, it was destroyed with all hands. ()
== The Battle ==
Having received a partial distress call, the Cerritos investigated the Solvangs last known location, but did not take the distress call as seriously as they should have due to Dayton's skittishness and history of false alarms, leaving them unprepared for what they were about to encounter. They ended up dropping out of warp right into the Solvangs debris field, where they witnessed a grappling arm latching onto an intact portion of the Solvangs saucer section and pulling it onto the Clumpship's hull. The clumpship fired its weapons at the Cerritos and jammed its communications. The Cerritos was then trapped in its tractor beam and a grappling arm clamped down on the port nacelle. Freeman, realizing the fatal mistake Dayton had made, told her First Officer Jack Ransom not to go to warp and instead to power down the engines. This action saved the Cerritos when the nacelle was torn from the ship.
Despite the damage, Chief Engineer Andy Billups was able to restore auxiliary power. The clumpship's commander, Jackabog, told Freeman that he would salvage the Cerritos to add to his ship. Freeman tried to negotiate with Jackabog, but he refused and continued sending his ship's grappling arms to salvage the Cerritos. The Cerritos was brought closer to the clumpship, where the Pakleds used phaser slicing beams. Freeman asked several of her junior officers, such as her own daughter, Ensign Beckett Mariner to take command and come up with an unorthodox solution. Ensign Brad Boimler told Mariner and Freeman that since the Pakleds' ship had integrated parts from multiple cultures, they would need a universal system to have them work together, leading to a complete lack of security. Mariner asked Ensign Sam Rutherford to create a virus that would disable the Pakleds.
Rutherford was able to use his Badgey hologram to create three viruses to disable the Pakleds' ship. However, he would have to upload the chosen virus manually, aboard their ship. As the Pakleds beamed slowly aboard, the Cerritos' senior staff and junior officers attempted to make their way to the armory. They were intercepted and fought off the boarders with contraband weapons Mariner had kept stored on board, however, Captain Freeman was wounded. Security Chief Shaxs was able to get the captain to sickbay. The Cerritos' crew tried to convince Ensign Peanut Hamperto deliver the virus, but she refused, then went AWOL by beaming herself into space.
Shaxs carried Rutherford to a shuttle and boarded the Pakled ship. Rutherford was able to plant the virus. Unfortunately, Badgey, due to Rutherford snapping his neck during their previous interaction, decided to wait for the Pakleds to kill Rutherford, then changed his mind and initiated the self-destruct sequence. However, Shaxs was able to pull Rutherford's implant out of his head. Shaxs was able to get him aboard the shuttle, but had to stay behind to cover him. Jackobog's ship was destroyed with Lieutenant Shaxs aboard. Three more clumpships arrived to finish Jackobog's job.
However, the under Captain William T. Riker arrived and was able to force the remaining Pakled clumpships to retreat. The Cerritos was towed away by the Titan and then returned to Douglas Station. There, the Cerritos was externally rebuilt and repaired to original specifications. The crew also had a memorial service for Shaxs. Ensign D'Vana Tendi helped Rutherford in his recuperation and recovering his memories. For her part in saving the Cerritos, Freeman offered to help her daughter in her side missions. ()
== Aftermath ==
Boimler was briefly promoted to Lieutenant junior grade and was stationed aboard the Titan. However, he returned to the Cerritos three months later following a transporter duplication. ()
Sometime after these events, Shaxs was revived and resumed his position as Freeman's Security chief. Captain Freeman's actions impressed some important people that could promote her to a capital ship. ()
In 2381, Freeman attempted to enter the Command Conference afterparty on Starbase 25, mentioning her actions at the Battle of Kalla as a reason she should be let in. The bouncer, however, still refused her entry. ()
Later that year, Peanut Hamper transmitted a distress call from the isolated planet of Areolus that was received by the Cerritos, discovering Drookmani scavengers destroying an Areore village for their ancient technology. However, it was revealed that the exocomp had engineered the attack in order to appear heroic and have Starfleet likely accept her back into the service, solely just so she could leave Areolus without being sent to a penal colony for abandoning her post. After the scavengers were defeated, Freeman refused to let Peanut Hamper on board the Cerritos, but after she threatened to summon the Borg to the planet, Freeman ended up taking her into custody in order to stop her. The former ensign was later incarcerated in the Self-Aware Megalomaniacal Computer Storage at the Daystrom Institute. ()
Some time after Peanut Hamper was arrested, Rutherford discovered that he had coded the artificial intelligence prior to his cybernetic reconstruction and realized that Badgey was a fork of this AI, prompting him to rush to Captain Freeman's ready room to warn her of the threat as she was contacting Vice Admiral Les Buenamigo over the 's violation of the Prime Directive. There, he informed her that the class' AI was "the same one that killed Shaxs" and, based on his experience with Badgey, fruitlessly warned Buenamigo not to grant the Aledo full autonomy. Shortly after the subsequent battle with the Texas-class vessels, Drookmani scavengers salvaged Rutherford's old implant, with Badgey still within its storage, from the wreckage at Kalla. Badgey took control of the Drookmani captain and went on to exploit the Nova One attacks to get his revenge on Rutherford, but ended up ascending to godhood after realizing the beauty of life and the pointlessness of his revenge plot. ()
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