SD 1-12-02 - "Charteause Ship" #4 - Uhhhhh ... that hurt.
We're on our way to the nearest starbase after Phiuse darn near got everyone on the bridge killed, again. He apparently knocked me out, and ordered the ship to turn around and head to the pursuing Fedetation ships, shields down, gambling they would take it as a gesture of peace. It worked, but when the USS Dangermouse sent a boarding party to the bridge, Phiuse then began firing at them. To add to the confusion, the holoemitters brought up a monster, which began going after the boarding party as well. It "ate" two, transporting them to the brig, before the men from the Dangermouse lost their nerve and beamed out.
I had come to at this point, and ordered Phiuse to give up. He didn't, and fired at me. Then Demian Tempres showed up, saying he had more holographic monsters ready. I ordered him to have them capture Phiuse. Phiuse threatened everyone with a grenade, then pulled the pin and threw it - the pin not the grenade, at us. We ducked, expecting the bridge to be turned into scrap. But it was a knockout gas grenade, and Phiuse simply passed out.
I promptly called Security, and in no time they were here with a restraining stretcher and tied him down in it after putting him in a straitjacket and muzzle. He reminded me of that old pre-Federation Earth story The Silence of the Lambs . The captain of the Dangermouse hailed us, and we were able to come to an understanding that the Freedom was not under hostile control, Phiuse's one-man-mutiny excepted.
Once at the starbase, Phiuse will be handed over to medical personel for psychiactric evaluation, and the "Freedom" will have the charteause paint job removed and the old one fixed up.