<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Mission: Death in the Shadows</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Stardate 2446.02.09</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">(USS Illuminar - Deck 1 - Bridge - FO Commander Sienna Williams-Verin<span style="font-size:medium"></span>– 1329)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><br></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Sienna had been sitting on the Bridge, watching the incoming enemy fighters come up from around the curve of the planet. <br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">
“Captain,” T'Mur tried to warn, “we are about to be scanned by a high energy particle beam. Trying to compensate shields.”</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">She heard her bondmate speak and looked, up to meet T'Mur's eyes, and the quick telepathed statement that had Sienna out of her seat, horror etched on her face.<br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">::I will be fine.::</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">"Commander Verin, searching for the Captain's signature. However there is an <br>
increase in the ionization in the D and E layers of the ionosphere that <br>
is scattering our scanners. It will also affect our ability to transport to the surface."</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">Sienna's mind was screaming incoherently and her body stood in shock, "She's alive." Sienna spoke, trying to be calm. "Since she's alive, that means that likely the Captain is as well. How did they get through our shields, Mr. Gregory?"</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><Reply Gregory><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">=^= Engineering to Bridge, I've lost a Cadet suddenly, missing anyone up there?=^= <br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">One thing after another hit Sienna too quickly, her mind still screaming at the separation from T'Mur. "We have, Ensign Alantar. Which of the engineering cadets was it?" Sienna knew that the reason the Illuminar had a disproportionate number of engineering cadets was the new crystalline drive that the other ships were being outfitted with. Starfleet needed young engineers who had a great deal of experience with said drive.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><Reply Alantar></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">"Luma!" Sienna spoke sharply, trying to cut through Luma's distress that her bondmate was gone. "Luma how many people disappeared?"</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">=^= Three. Our Sekal, Our Sienna's T'Mur and the Surkal. =^= Luma's voice showed a slight distaste as she named the third vulcan.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">"And Luma are there any other vulcans aboard?" Sienna pressed.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">=^= Ensign Celiste Winters, Ensign Skashe Winters. CPO Liray Bjin. =^=</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">"But they are all mixed race vulcans, all three are about a quarter vulcan at best. So the Controller..or whoever else seems to be in charge down there, has the Captain and my bondmate and a valuable cadet. Why the Vulcans?" Sienna asked quickly, thinking out loud, "Ideas, people. Why would the Controller want our full blooded vulcans?"<br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><Reply Any, iyw><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">"Ma'am, we still have incoming, they have not broken off. Their shields <br>
are up, am not detecting energy weapons." Gregory spoke quickly. <br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">Sienna nodded, turning her mind back to the present, "For now the Captain is on his own. Evasive Pattern Omega, variance 4b. Mr. Gregory, transmit the news to our Starfleet compatriots about the Captain. Tell the Vice Admiral that we think the Controller took his son, and that we are not sure why that woman took all of our full blooded vulcans."</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">She took the center seat, anchoring herself as the ship began to fly, "Randomize out flight pattern, Ms. Grey Wolf." Sienna ordered, wondering when the relief from tactical was going to get here, and who was being sent. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">"Lock phasers on the largest vessel, Mr. Gregory and fire when in range. Target their engines."</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">(reply Gregory, Alantar, any)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px">(posted by Mel)<br></div>
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