====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Transporter Room Three - CEO Ens. Taz River - 2378.08.19.1000) Taz looked at Lee then checked his watch, Taz tapped his comm. badge =/\=Ensign River to Ensign Dario=/\= <> replied the computer. =/\=When did he leave and on what ship?=/\= asked Ensign Taz. <> informed the computer. "Ensign Rough, I want you to come with me, we are going to see Jopek." informed Taz. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Transporter Room Three - ACEO Ens. J.G. Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.1001) "How long do we have to wait here"? demanded Lee. Ensign Taz River tapped his commbadge and asked what darios location was. The computer said that information was classiified for level 5 and above? ~Hmmm, this is strange~ The two Ensigns left the room and made there way to Admiral Jopek's office to see what was going on, Lee was now very confused. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CO's Office - CEO Ens. Taz River - 2378.08.19.1010) The two made there way through the corridors up to Jopek's office, Lee was speculating wildly about what had happened to Dario. Lee was just giving Taz his theory on a changling being the saboteur when they arrived at Jopek's office. Taz pressed the door bell and then heard "Enter," as the doors flung open. They both walked into the office and stood before the admirals desk. "Can I help you two gentlemen?" asked the Admiral. "Firstly I'd like to inform you that now Ensign Dario is missing off the station, no one knows his whereabouts, and the computer has been restricted from telling us." Informed Ensign Taz then he tapped his comm. badge and asked for the whereabouts of Ensign Dario, as the computer again informed that Level 5 security was needed all Jopek did was raise an eyebrow ~that's about as emotional as Vulcan's get~. (Reply Jopek) "I assume you came here for something else, too" asked Jopek "Yes, its about this saboteur, it appears that we are still no further in catching him, which doesn't make any of us feel safe, therefore I recommend that before every ship leaves the station it is given a level 1 diagnostic, I know this will take time, but it will take less time than having to deal with the ship if it explodes. "Also, I think the transporters should be disabled as we have uncovered some evidence that our saboteur is using a transporter to plant these devices." Taz says as he hands Jopek a pad. "Also, the internal sensors should be set to scan for teleporters being used, this will then mean the only way he can sabotage from then on is to plant these devices himself, which should give us an advantage if we can catch him in the act." Reported Taz (Reply Jopek) "Dismissed" said the admiral. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CO's Office - ACEO Ens. J.G. Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.1011) Taz pressed the doorbell, Admiral Jopek called "Enter" Taz River began to report to Admiral Jopek about the security risks of the station and where Dario had gone? The two Ensigns wasn't there for long they soon left and went to Taz's office. Taz entered his office and through Lee a PADD, Lee had a brief look at it. "Whats this all about then?" Taz told Lee about this replicators which were from the klingons and told him he wanted Lee to install them around the station. "Yes sir" Lee left the office and made his way to the turbolift. "Engineering" ~This sounds like a good idea~ The turbolift came to a halt and Lee stepped out into the corridor. Lee walked up to the Engineering doors. "Engineering team two, Your with me" The Team were ready, "Yes sir" "Ok, we have been ordered by Ensign Taz River to install this device which is klingon on all replicators for more protection." Lee held out his hand with the specifications on his PADD from Taz's office. "Ok lets get started" Lee made sure there was enough Engineers to handle with everything and then left, with Engineering team two following close behind. "Right you four work on the next deck up look for as many replicators you can we will work on this deck, if you need any help just ask, when you are finished use your common sense and make your way round the station adjusting the replicators." Lee walked up to the first Replicator and removed the panel a large amount of wires and boards presented itself. Lee began to configure the replicator to the new model. Lee finished the first replicator, Lee tapped his commbadge. =/\=Ensign Lee Rough to Ensign Taz River, we have completed our first lot of replicators it seems simple enough we will continue to fit the devices=/\= Taz told them well done and to carry on fitting them. Lee removed the next replicator panel when he noticed sparks at the replicator next to him. ~Does he know what he's doing~ Lee looked up at the Engineer configuring the replicator. "Heh, watch that board its extremely important you get it in correct" "Sorry sir" the Engineer replied. (Valhalla, Main Engineering, Day 4 17:00pm) Lee and his Engineering team were fitting the adjustments to the last replicators on the station. ~Phew, thats that over with~ "Well team I believe we have finished our job, if I were you I would get some rest while you have the chance, I think we can handle Engineering dowm here at the moment we will ask you if we need assistance" The Engineers agreed with Lee and left Engineering. Lee also left Engineering and made his way to Ensign Taz Rivers office. Lee rang the doorbell. "Enter" called the Ensign inside. Lee stepped in ive finished fitting the adjustments to the replicators, they were successful. Taz opened his mouth to speak. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CEO's Office - CEO Ens. Taz River - 2378.08.19.1020) The two ensigns left the admiral's quarters and no sooner had the door shut then Lee began his speculating again, "He knows where Dario is, wonder if Jopek is really a changling." Taz was getting fed up with all these speculating but he listened as it helped him to try and rule out possibilities. They both arrived back into Ensign Taz's office, this time Taz sat behind the desk with a cup of coffee in his hand. He threw a small device over to Lee "That's your next job" Taz said as Lee caught it and began examining it. "What is it?" asked Ensign Lee Rough "It's based on a device used in Klingon teleporters, when teleporters were first used by the Klingon's they had a number of accidents, so they designed this device to ensure that they would only be transported if it was going to be successful, it wasn't very err 'honourable' for Klingons to be killed in transporters. I've looked at the design of it and built one Federation design." Said Taz River. "Bit small isn't it" said Lee "That's because its only designed for replicators." Answered Taz. Lee looked really puzzled now. "Let me demonstrate" said Taz River He went over to the replicator, pressed the button "Computer, give me a Federation Compression Rifle" asked Taz River. <> answered the computer. Taz then took the panel off and began rearranging the cables inside, then he said "Computer, give me a black coffee", instructed Taz and to Lee's surprise a Federation Compression Rifle materialised. "You see the security risk, someone could easily program Jopek's replicator the same way, so the next time Jopek's orders Vulcan Green Tea, a bomb is replicated and blows the admiral up. Hence this small device, prevents that from happening, it also has an anti tamper device, once installed you activate it and if anyone removes the panel it disables the replicator." Lee looked impressed "I want you and Engineering Team 2 to begin installing these on every replicator on the station, then on the Firebrande when it returns. They don't take long to install" ordered Ensign Taz. (Reply Rough) Lee left Taz's office and Taz began working on some reports he was behind with ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Corridors - ACEO Ens. J.G. Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.1021) Taz entered his office and through Lee a PADD, Lee had a brief look at it. "Whats this all about then?" Taz told Lee about this replicators which were from the klingons and told him he wanted Lee to install them around the station. "Yes sir" Lee left the office and made his way to the turbolift. "Engineering" ~This sounds like a good idea~ The turbolift came to a halt and Lee stepped out into the corridor. Lee walked up to the Engineering doors. "Engineering team two, Your with me" The Team were ready, "Yes sir" "Ok, we have been ordered by Ensign Taz River to install this device which is klingon on all replicators for more protection." Lee held out his hand with the specifications on his PADD from Taz's office. "Ok lets get started" Lee made sure there was enough Engineers to handle with everything and then left, with Engineering team two following close behind. "Right you four work on the next deck up look for as many replicators you can we will work on this deck, if you need any help just ask, when you are finished use your common sense and make your way round the station adjusting the replicators." Lee walked up to the first Replicator and removed the panel a large amount of wires and boards presented itself. Lee began to configure the replicator to the new model. Lee finished the first replicator, Lee tapped his commbadge. =/\=Ensign Lee Rough to Ensign Taz River, we have completed our first lot of replicators it seems simple enough we will continue to fit the devices=/\= Taz told them well done and to carry on fitting them. Lee removed the next replicator panel when he noticed sparks at the replicator next to him. ~Does he know what he's doing~ Lee looked up at the Engineer configuring the replicator. "Heh, watch that board its extremely important you get it in correct" "Sorry sir" the Engineer replied. ====================/\==================== (Otono Medical Centre - Otono Central - CMO Lt. 'Mac' Cambridge - 2378.08.19.1100) Maxwell Cambridge sat at his desk looking over the reports that lay before him. Black was back on duty for the moment and he had been carefully watching him on his sensors to make sure the man didn't fall over and out some random porthole. It would be the CMO's luck that would happen. He picked up the report he had prepared for the Admiral. Okada had been in her office before transporting to the Lion's engineering room and then was on the shuttle when her life was ended. It still stung Maxwell when he thought about it. It was hard to get over someone who you knew for such a short time, but knew for such a long time. He finished the report, finding that Okada had found the bomb in the Lion's engineering room and had thusly tried her best to get off the ship, first with a transporter and then lastly a shuttle. He closed the report and sent it, his mind abuzz with a million thoughts. The killer was still around and it made it more of a stressful job for him, thinking of when the next group of bomb victims would come thorough his doors. Quickly, the Chief Medical Officer stood, closing his PADD's down, picking up one that looked fresh and moved out of his office and towards the reception desk. He heard a voice and knew who had finally returned. "Black out. Ahhh, Doctor, sorry for taking so long but it's becoming very busy very quickly up there. Would you mind if I sent a quick update to my Assistant?" The doctor held up his hands and smiled. "Either way..." Walking over to the desk, he slowly checked the roster sheet. It was early yet and most who had needed to had been checked into Otono Care. The sickbay awaited the storm that was coming. Black finished his report and Maxwell waved him towards the door of a room. Gesturing to the biobed, he allowed the Second Officer to get up onto it. "So, Mr. Black, any ideas on what happened this morning, other then falling fatally in love with that captain girl?" As he asked the question, he ran a medical scanner over the Operations chief. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Counsellor's Office - COUNS Lt. Cmdr. Eleni Rodos - 2378.08.19.1115) "Ok then Vanessa, that about wraps it up for today I think," Eleni said, smiling at the young woman. "We've made a lot of progress, don't you think?" "I suppose so," Vanessa replied, a little doubtfully. "But I still get those nightmares." "I know, and I'm afraid they'll continue for a while. But you are learning to manage them better, aren't you?" "Yes, yes I am. At least I can get back to sleep now." "That's good. One step at a time, eh?" Vanessa nodded. "Yes. Same time next week?" "Of course!" Eleni said. "And in the meantime, if things are getting on top of you again, just give me a call, OK?" "OK, I will." Once her patient had left, Eleni updated her notes and checked her appointments. ~Good, time to have a break before the next one! Oh, and see if I can meet up with Bobork!~ She tried the communit, but only got a message to say that Bobork was not in his office, but she got herself patched through to his commbadge. "This is COUNS Eleni Rodos. We haven't had a chance to get together yet - I'd like to have a chat with you and get to know you a little. After all, we will be working together! So what time would suit you?" (Reply Bobork) She stood up and, taking a PADD with her, headed for the door. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Corridors - ACOUNS Ens. J.G. Bobork - 2378.08.19.1118) ~Ok, I really really have little time to take part into all this... but I'll try to keep all things up!~ ACOUNS Bobork was hurrying up to his office, in Counseling Wing of Utopia Planitia. As Admiral Jopek ordered him, he just strolled around the yet not completed Starbase, observing the work of all that people, and trying to understand what was happening. He felt still a little disoriented, but now he was trying to keep things up and the first thing to do was to go to his office. =^=This is COUNS Eleni Rodos. We haven't had a chance to get together yet - I'd like to have a chat with you and get to know you a little. After all, we will be working together! So what time would suit you?=^= The voice of his boss on the commbadge almost awakened him from this "conscious dream"... being still not more than an academy cadet... =^=COUNS Rodos, this is ACOUNS Bobork. I apologize for my absence, I'm hurrying up to my office... I'll meet you there in a few minutes. Bobork out. =^= (Reply Eleni) The last door of the corridor to his office opened. He saw two women in front of the door he supposed to be his office. He turned to the woman with the Lt Cdr pips... "Sorry for being late, Sir... ACOUNS Bobork reporting for duty!" ~At last here I am!!!~ ====================/\==================== (Otono Medical Centre - Otono Central - OPS Lt. Martin Black - 2378.08.19.1120) The CMO ran a scanner over Martin as he asked, "So, Mr Black, any ideas on what happened this morning, other than falling fatally in love with that Captain girl?" Martin's brow wrinkled as he tried not to feel offended by the doctor's jocular reaction. "I believe," he said, "it may have something to do with Captain Rulestaad's Vulcan ancestry. She's a passionate woman, Doctor, and she packs one Hell of a punch!" Martin closed his eyes and briefly saw the image of the screaming face - *his* face - again before his eyes. He tensed, pushing himself into the biobed as though trying to flee the vision... He opened his eyes, but the screams did not leave... "Doctor..." he found his voice, a harsh whisper which reached into his ears on the crest of a wave of ever increasing screams. He clutched at his ears, and the banshee howled in his head. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Corridors - COUNS Lt. Cmdr. Eleni Rodos - 2378.08.19.1128) As she walked down the corridor, Eleni noticed a young woman standing outside the ACOUNS office, looking uneasy. "Excuse me," Eleni said with a smile, "Can I help you?" (Reply Lesia) "I'm Counsellor Eleni Rodos," Eleni explained. "I think ACOUNS Bobork is away form his office at the moment. Can I help you?" ====================/\==================== (Mars Base, Research Wing - WTO's Office - WTO Lt. Tanya Dervin - 2378.08.19.1205) Tanya had been so absorbed in her own work that she didn't notice the flashing light indicator that showed that during her period of unconsciousness she had received a message. Quite often, she configured her comm system to put messages in her box, because she did not want to be bothered with mundane things while she was busy with development. Therefore, as she was reaching for something to the side of her desk, she noticed illumination, that was blinking on and off. She eyed it curiously... ~NOW WHAT?~ She wondered, she'd been brought her to experiment and discover, and that was something that she was trying to do, but somehow, every time that light blinked...it denoted another distraction, another meeting. Tanya sighed. ~Maybe I could just ignore it, and whatever it is, I could just pretend the light had burnt out.~ Tanya reasoned. However, her mind scolded herself. ~Now Tanya, you're here to do work, and look at what they've provided you with, all you have to do is go to their meetings and wear the uniform.~ Tanya looked down at the monkey suit that she was porting and sighed with disgust. Maybe it wasn't worth it. Then she saw the PADD of info that the Lt. Newton had dropped by her, and a smile crept over her face, even if her uniform had been bright red with neon orange polka dots all over it, it would have been worth these facilities and this staff. She was truly blessed to be in such a magnificent place, a place of such potential and opportunity. And so, she took her finger and released the messages. A female voice came over her office. "Captain Rulestaad to the Advanced Technology Council and the Chief of Operations. Meet me in Strategic Operations in one hour. Rulestaad out." Tanya sighed. Another meeting. The timestamp was 11.10, which meant...~I'm LATE, AGAIN.~ It was another of Rulestaad's meetings and she was yet again late. ~You know there should be a directive about giving people ample notice for meetings.~ Tanya picked up some PADD's and ran to the transporters room. "Quick, you've got to transport me to the station, quick quick, please... I'm REALLY late...again." she shuddered. The transporter chief smiled and nodded as he engaged the controls and Tanya was sent to the station. ====================/\==================== (Strategic Operations - STRATOPS's Office - WTO Lt. Tanya Dervin - 2378.08.19.1219) Tanya stood at the door, she'd run the entire way, thinking about how when she'd first come onboard the station she'd been late for one of the Captain's meetings. She shuddered, this wasn't going to be a pretty sight. Briefly she considered not going to the meeting, perhaps she'd be in less trouble then. Instead, Tanya Dervin forced herself to walk into the room, head high and straight into the Captain's office. "My apologies for lateness, Captain." She stated as she stood before the Captain. "Lt. Dervin reporting as ordered." she stated succinctly. ====================/\==================== (Strategic Operations - STRATOPS's Office - STRATOPS Cptn. Jenna Rulestaad - 2378.08.19.1220) "My apologies for lateness, Captain." She stated as she stood before the Captain. "Lt. Dervin reporting as ordered." Jenna looked at the officer good and hard for many moments, before saying in a clear and quiet voice. "If you are late again, to such effect, I will see to it that you are drummed off the station. Do I make myself perfectly clear?" (Reply Dervin) Jenna gestured to a seat, and tossed her a PADD. "Look that over, and tell me what you think" ====================/\==================== (Mars Base, Research Wing - WTO's Office - WTO Lt. Tanya Dervin - 2378.08.19.1502) Tanya had spent much of her day in deep thought. She had been madly trying to come up with ways that things were going to happen, running tests, and making sure that the variables would be correct, however, she still wasn't sure of how to keep the shields rotating, she knew that was also an important factor. Tanya looked up as the TSO was coming in. "Tanya, I have just been spending the whole day trying to work out how we can make the Firebrande shields react to any changes to the frequency modulation within the wave." He handed Tanya a PADD, "My department are working on the piece of equipment which will process the data and change the frequency of our shields. I was wondering if you could give me the data from your tests so I could use them on the Holodeck simulation that I wish to create." Tanya looked at the data before her, she became more visibly excited as she scrolled through the PADD's contents. "Thank you so much Lt. Newton! These are fantastic!" Tanya acknowledged the accomplishments of the Theoretical Science Department. "I look forward to seeing the device! " She said, completely impressed. As the TSO turned to leave, Tanya smiled, she was happy that this group was so full of iniative. This was exactly what she needed! ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Main Engineering - ACEO Ens. J.G. Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.1700) Lee and his Engineering team were fitting the adjustments to the last replicators on the station. ~Phew, thats that over with~ "Well team I believe we have finished our job, if I were you I would get some rest while you have the chance, I think we can handle Engineering dowm here at the moment we will ask you if we need assistance" The Engineers agreed with Lee and left Engineering. Lee also left Engineering and made his way to Ensign Taz Rivers office. Lee rang the doorbell. "Enter" called the Ensign inside. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CEO's Office - CEO Ens. Taz River - 2378.08.19.1700) Taz's assistant entered the room, he had completed upgrading the replicators as planned. "Well done, now lets hope that when Jopek orders a cup of Vulcan Tea that's precisely what he gets." "I've heard they are looking for a new CEO for the Firebrande, I've put in a recommendation for you, if you work as hard as you have done here then she' ll be a fine ship. As this may be your last night as an ASSISTANT Chief Engineering Officer would you like to come with me for a drink?" asked Ensign River emphasizing the word Assistant. "Can do" replied Ensign Lee Rough "Thanks." Taz turned the console off in front of him and walked over to his sink unit and washed his hands and face, then the two ensigns made there way out of the office. "Would you like to see my holo deck program too? its set on Ferenginar, a bar in fact." Asked Ensign Taz "Yeah sure, I've heard about that program is that the one where one of the trolls try to sell you some stolen and illegal goods and a fight breaks out?" enquired Lee "That's the one, you been on it before," asked Taz. "I haven't, but I've heard the stories," answered Lee. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CEO's Office - ACEO Ens. J.G. Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.1710) Lee stepped in. "I've finished fitting the adjustments to the replicators, they were successful." Taz opened his mouth to speak. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Holodeck One - CEO Ens. Taz River - 2378.08.19.1720) The two were now outside the bar and they entered, the program was great, the Ferengi with the stolen goods was named 'Relo' he was finishing his business with the customer that starts the fight. Taz looked at his watch "Brace yourself thinks are going to get hectic in about 2 minutes." Something had caught Taz's eye, it was a Romulan in the corner of the room, he couldn't remember him being there before. "Computer, freeze program," ordered Ensign Taz. The program stopped, the Romulan had a glass of Romulan ale in his hand, paused with the program. "What's up?" asked Lee. "You getting nervous?" "No, its that Romulan, I've never seen him in the program before." answered Taz "Your just getting jittery about nothing." Replied Lee as he got up and made his way to the Romulan, Taz followed. Lee was standing opposite the table, leaning forward looking into the Romulan's eye's. "Looks like a hologram to me, boss," said Lee "Yeah, okay." Taz felt a right fool now, the two turned round to go back to there seats then they both jumped when they heard "Computer, resume program from time index 41234.6." Suddenly the bar was in the middle of the fight, Lee grapped two Ferengi bashed there heads together and threw them over the bar, another Ferengi then smashed a chair round Lee, knocking him to the floor. Suddenly there was a phaser fire, the phaser went straight throw two holo characters and into Ensign Taz River's back, sending him to the floor, Lee was dazed and on the floor under a table but he saw who had done it, it was the Romulan, he picked up a small bag he had with him and Lee saw the Romulan walk up to the holodeck doors which were disguised as a wall, the doors opened and he walked out. Just then Lee was picked up by three Ferengi who threw him over the bar and into the drinks. But as when he was in the air he could still see Taz lying on the floor. ====================/\==================== (Mars Base, Research Wing - TSO's Quarters - TSO Lt Steve Newton - 2378.08.19.2200) He looked down at the transfer orders which he had just received from Starfleet command, he had been transferred to the science section at Starfleet command back in San Francisco on Earth. He was to leave Utopia as soon as he could, but he anted to make sure that everything was in some kind of order for when his replacement took over. The fact is he didn't want to leave as he felt the position of TSO would of given him a chance to be a scientist again, but their was no way he could over ride the orders as they had been signed by the CINCSCI himself. He picked up his ruck sack and turned off the lights and left his quarters for the last time. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CO's Office - CO FltAdm. Jopek - 2378.08.20.0600) Jopek was looking over the reports for the last twenty four hours, it didn't make pretty reading. "Admiral's Log, Stardate 2378.08.20.0600, the reports keep coming in of suspected sabotage here at Utopia Planitia. To add to our problems we've had to contend with the death of an officer, injuries and two transfers off the station of the TSO and the SCL. Finally, we've had no word yet from the USS Columbia." The Admiral paused for a moment, he didn't believe in luck but he hoped that the crews on that ship were going to be fortunate to make it there and back in one piece. "In the meantime, Captain Remae is having the Firebrande prepared for her warp testing at Neptune.", he said pausing once more. The success of the new warp drive system was critical to further investigation of whatever the Columbia finds on her mission, if they were going to sneak up on anyone there, conventional warp drive wasn't going to do there job. "End log.", he said, closing down his computer terminal. "Ensign Kilroit and Ensign Nauen, please report to the Admiral's Office, at your convenience, Jopek out." Jopek needed to make sure these officers were okay; their seniors were out on the away mission on the Columbia, the Vulcan wanted to make sure they were handling their roles. ====================/\==================== (USS Firebrande - Bridge - CO Cptn. Remae Ktell - 2378.08.20.0700) Remae and most of the skeleton crew assigned to the Firebrande had been up all night, making changes to the propulsion and shield sub-systems. It had been a long time, but the updates were complete, as best they could do. "Captain Remae to Commander Lee, Commander, this is Remae Ktell, the CO of the Firebrande, I need some permanent personnel on the Firebrande, we all short handed in several areas, including Engineering, do you have an Engineer to spare?", said Remae opening a channel to the Operations Centre. (Reply Lee) "Very well, we've prepared a warp drive test for the Firebrande at 09.00, we are forwarding the request and the flight plan to the Operations Department now, I trust that isn't going to be a problem?", he said. (Reply Lee) "Firebrande out, Captain to Operations, Ensign Ra'Kir, this is Captain Remae, we are departing the station at 0900 for a check flight, the flight plan is on it way to you. any problems with the ship or the plan?" (Reply Ra'Kir) "Thank you Ensign, Firebrande out." Remae spun his chair around to the main viewscreen. "Captain to all hands, prepare for departure, Engineering, bring the core online, OPS, bring all systems to flight tolerance and helm, lay in a course out of the solar system." All hands prepared their stations and go to work, they were seriously undermanned, but this was just a test flight and nothing else. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Main Operations - FO Cmdr. Richard Ian Lee - 2378.08.20.0701) =^=Captain Remae to Commander Lee, Commander, this is Remae Ktell, the CO of the Firebrande, I need some permanent personnel on the Firebrande, we all short handed in several areas, including Engineering, do you have an Engineer to spare?=^= Rich blinked, and turned to his console. "One moment." He brought up a list of the Engineering crew, and put a finger on his lips as He looked it over. ~Ah, We have the crew... Ill decide in a few.~ "Yes, Captain. I have some engineering staff I can send you, at least on temp basis. It is Admiral Jopek's decision who can and will be assigned permanently." "Very well, we've prepared a warp drive test for the Firebrande at 09.00, we are forwarding the request and the flight plan to the Operations Department now, I trust that isn't going to be a problem?", ~Red Alerts, deaths, no... no problem at all.~ Rich entered his command codes, and looked at the forwarded flight plan. "No Captain, no problem at all. I will have Your crew there within the hour." The captain closed the line, just as Rich was leaning forward and rubbing his temples. He sighed, and looked back up at his terminal at the top engineers currently on the station. He selected the CEO, and looked for a ACEO, and smiled when he came across a Female name. ~Ah, now that will kill two birds with one stone.~ HE tapped his badge. "Operations to Ensign Lee Rough. You have been reassigned to the USS Firebrande for the duration of Warp testing, report to Captain Ramae Ktell ASAP. Find and assign an engineering team, you have My authorization for this. You will have Lt Michelle Roberts along as your temp ACEO, I will inform her of this myself. Any questions?" (Reply Lee Rough) Rich nodded. "Ops out." He looked at the screen for a moment, then tapped his badge once more. "Ops to Michelle Roberts." =^=Roberts here.=^= "Lieutenant, you are being assigned to the Firebrande on temp duty as ACEO and Theoretical Engineering Advisor. Report to Captain Ktell and Ensign Lee Rough ASAP. Ensign Rough has been informed and is rounding up an Engineering team." A few seconds paused, then he heard a =^=Very well, Roberts out.=^= Lee sat back in the command chair, and rubbed his eyes. "Alright, " He said allowed. "Who else?" He closed his eyes, and said allowed "Ops to Dr Dervin, Ensign Landis, and Ensign Kilroyt. Report to the Firebrande within the hour for temp duty during her Warp trials." (Reply All Mentioned) "Ops to Lieutenant Black. Choose who you wish to be in command of Ops on the Firebrande, and send them down ASAP to the Firebrande. If it is yourself, let me know and report yourself to Captain Ktell." (Reply Black) "Very well, Ops out." Rich blinked, and considered. He tapped his badge one last time. "Lee to Admiral Jopek. Captain Ktell is requesting permenate crew on the Firebrande. Ive assigned temp crew for the duration of the Warp Test, it is beyond my authority to assign them perminatly. Orders?" ====================/\==================== (Mars Base, Habitat Wing - WTO's Quarters - WTO Lt. Tanya Dervin - 2378.08.20.0710) Tanya heard her communicator beep, and her commsystem sparked to life. She groaned as she forced herself to listen to the message. =^=Ops to Dr. Dervin, Ensign Landis, and Ensign Kilroyt. Report to the Firebrande within the hour for temp duty during her Warp trials.=^= Tanya rolled over in...bed? How did she get to bed? The last she remembered she was doing work somewhere... She sighed and shook her head Apparently she'd gone to sleep, in her own bed no less. Tanya, still somewhat dazed and confused hit the comm panel. "Understood." Was her simple reply. (Reply any) She groaned. ~THE WARP TESTS~ Tanya jumped out of bed threw on a fresh uniform, then showered. She walked out of the shower soaking wet, her uniform was also soaking wet. ~OOPS~ she thought to herself as she saw the uniform sopping wet before her. Quickly she reminded the situation, and bolted out to her office to get the last of the things in order before the test. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CO's Office - CO FltAdm. Jopek - 2378.08.20.0730) =^= Lee to Admiral Jopek. Captain Ktell is requesting permanent crew on the Firebrande. I've assigned temp crew for the duration of the Warp Test; it is beyond my authority to assign them permanently. Orders? =^= The Admiral considered the matter for a moment before replying to the First Officer. "Commander Lee, let's see how they do on their first mission with Captain Remae. if they do well, we will see if they want to transfer on a more permanent basis, in the meantime, I want to start working on the roster for the lower deck assignments, when the Firebrande next goes out on a mission, these people are to assume their position on that ship. Please inform the relevant department heads, thank you Commander, Jopek out." Once more, the Admiral went back to work, waiting for news on the Columbia and the departure of the Firebrande. ====================/\==================== (USS Firebrande - Bridge - WTO Lt. Tanya Dervin - 2378.08.20.0855) Tanya strode onto the main bridge of the Firebrande and looked around for Captain Remae. She was ready to begin, but she also had some questions to ask him. ====================/\==================== "I like my women like I like my coffee: covered in BEES!!" - Eddie Izzard Well, then... Been a while since I've done one of these, but here you go! There will be an up-to-date one out tomorrow, so get posting or you'll miss the band-wagon! :o) Michael ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Main Operations - FO Cmdr Richard Ian Lee - 2378.08.19.0838) "Even on the ball, you loose people." "Thank you, sir. I'll resume my duties." Lee nodded, and sat down in the seat before the command console. He rubbed the bridge of his nose for a few moments, then looked back up. He pursed his lips, and watched the tactical monitor as the Starfleet ships began reporting in. He leaned back, just as the AOPS officer called up to him "Sir, we have a lead on the saboteur. Security is checking shuttle Gallegos, it seems a 'Rear Admiral Kevel' has been using it to 'Tour' the USS Lion, and now I can't raise the pilot." Rich blinked. "Say again, Rear Admiral Kevel?" He knew that name. "He is Commandant of the Academy!" He pointed, "Get on it, regular reports from security!" "Yes, sir." Rich clicked his tongue, and crossed his arms as he watched his monitor. Something was defiantly smelling Rotten. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Main Operations - AOPS Ens JG Ralth Ra'Kir - 2378.08.19.0900) Ralth rubbed his eyes and noticed a security report incoming. ~Okay, let's see what we have... Ensign Tardis found dead, damnit! Another dash on your scorecard, saboteur, and the score must be evened out in the end. No samples of intruder DNA in hair, skinflakes or anything. No fibers from his clothing... Who the hell is this guy? It looks like he knows all Federation security measures. The scanner data from his access card was valid for Admiral Kevel, in fact identical. Argh!~ Sighing to himself, Ralth turned to the commander. "Sir, security rreports they found ensign Tarrdis's body tucked into a comparrtment in the shuttle. They found _no_ evidence to suggest there was ever anyone else inside the shuttle, not even clothing fiberrs or gloveprrints. Nothing. Our saboteur knows what he is doing, sir. That, or ensign Tarrdis flew over to the Lion, planted the device, returned, shot himself and then tucked himself away into a comparrtment. I'm still waiting a rreport on why the phaserfire didn't rregister on our scanners." (Reply FO) "Yes, sir." With that, Ralth turned to return to his duties. Where the hell was the engineering report on the power-grid failures? "AOPS to engineering. I'm trrying to figure out where our mysterious saboteur has been. I'll need inforrmation on those power-grid failures, theirr location and severrity ASAP. Ra'Kir out." ~Hm.. Maybe that'll get them going.~ With that, Ralth returned to monitoring Security transmissions, deep in thought, trying to become his prey to figure out where the saboteur would strike next. ====================/\==================== (Otono Medical Centre - Otono Storm Centre - OPS Lt Martin Black - 2378.08.19.0902) "You are dismissed on two conditions. You are to be back here at your earliest availiblty, over at Otono Central and you are to report to me. Understood?" "Yes..." Listening to the Doctor was a strain. Like listening for a singular violin in a vast orchestra, "Yes, Doctor." "Good. You are dismissed." Martin didn't wait for the Doctor to change his mind. He strode quickly out of the building and headed for the shuttleport. There was much work ahead of him. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - CEO's Office - ACEO Ens JG Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.0925) Lee walked in to Taz Rivers office as soon as he was asked. Ensign Taz River seemed friendly and Lee started to think he could get on well with him. Taz walked over to the replicator and asked for a black coffee, Taz askede Lee if he wanted a drink? "Ermmm, sure ill have the same as you thanks." Taz handed Lee the drink and sat back down, he shuffled in his seat and told Lee about a Dominion base very close to earth, he mentioned it was a surveillance mission but with the upgraded weapons he thinks if we get the chance we will destroy it. ~My first assignment, sounds good~ Taz stood up quickly and told Lee we had better be going. "Lead the way" Lee said to Taz as Lee still didnt know his way round the station. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Turbolift - OPS Lt Martin Black - 2378.08.19.1045) "Computer, record a message: "Ralth, I've been ordered back down to Otono for medical tests. You're in charge of station Operations until I return. Valhalla transporters are still down, the away team will have to use the transporters on the Firebrande. "Computer, send message to Ensign Ra'Kir." <> ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Main Operations - AOPS Ens JG Ralth Ra'Kir - 2378.08.19.1046) Ralth had just recieved a message from medical saying ltn. Black had returned to consciousness and had been released when his commbadge clicked again. "Play message." =^=Ralth, I've been ordered back down to Otono for medical tests. You're incharge of station Operations until I return. Valhalla transporters are still down, the away team will have to use the transporters on the Firebrande.=^= Nodding, Ralth pressed a few buttons to send an acknowledging message to Martin. ====================/\==================== (Strategic Operations - STRATOPS's Office - STRATOPS Cptn Jenna Rulestaad - 2378.08.19.1100) Jenna looked at the PADD before her, and shivered with something that could almost be called anticipation. With all the problems the station was still having, with the threat of attack and the mounted mission to hunt some Dominion pirates, Starfleet command had decided it was going to take no more delay. She held in her hands the collected knowledge of hundreds of Stratops personnel. The label on it, placed under about five different levels of Stratops encrypts, bore black letters that she had recognized right off from her time as Assistant Strategic Officer of the Fleet. It sent shivers up her spine, and made her feel as close to 'good' as she could get in a time like this. The words spelled out 'Project Firebird' She put the PADD aside, and once again picked up her orders. The enunciator went off, and she called out quietly "Come." The doors opened to grant admittance to a short bundle of fur. She looked up at him, and gave a feral grin, as she tossed him the PADD. "The Admiral hath given us toys, let us rejoice and be filled with gladness." Dorkin frowned as he looked at his CO. ~Crazy woman~ He looked back down at the PADD, pushed in his security clearance as it was also Command Encrypted, and read allowed. "by order of Starfleet Command and Fleet Strategic Operations... yadda yadda yadda." He frowned deeper, and scrolled down on the PADD. "...accordingly, Stratops Utopia Planitia has been given full possession of Project Firebird, and the fruits of said project..." Dorkin scratched his head, and tossed the PADD back on the desk. "Id heard the name, but I have no Gutpuckin clue what the project entails!" Jenna had been watching her 2O with steepled fingers as he had begun reading, and grinned at him as he complained about a lack of knowledge. "The project, was one of great secrecy, obviously." she said. She laughed again at the look on his face at her response, and turned good naturally to a small encryption device on her desk. "Computer, secure room." The computer beeped, and the doors locked. In what was quite possibly the most secure area of Utopia Planitia, Jenna Rulestaad placed the PADD in the encryption device that fed directly to a screen behind her, and tapped her badge as it loaded. "Captain Rulestaad to the Advanced Technology Council and the Chief of Operations. Meet me in Strategic Operations in one hour. Rulestaad out." Jenna lifted her eyes to her 2O, and openly smiled at the look of pure enjoyment and animalism that the information on the screen behind her produced. He had caught the implications, as she knew he would. Dorkin too, was becoming more enchanted with Project Firebird, the more he read. ====================/\==================== (Mars Base, Research Wing - WTO's Office - CO Cptn Remae Ktell - 2378.08.19.1105) Remae was interrupting the Warp Technologies calculations with his arrival into her office. Tanya was red faced and upset with losing her train of thought. "Yes, Ensign, Lieutenant, Commander, Admiral, what can I do for you? Now that you've completely made me miss the one shield vector that was missed and I had it before my very yes, who knows when it shall grace me with its presence again." The Bajoran lifted his head from the odd angle the Doctor had been at, and as the "Captain, actually, Doctor. I've been ordered to command the ship that we will be using to test your new warp drive technology. The ship is at your disposal; let me know if there you need and we will depart when you are ready.", he said, walking closer to her desk. Tanya looked at the Bajoran before her strangely. Why was he here? What had he said... Oh, right, he'd been made the Captain of the ship, that they were supposed to be experimenting with. Tanya nodded her head. "Alright, Comm - Captain." She corrected herself. She had a funny feeling that getting this person's rank correct was probably an important thing. "There will be some modifications that need to be made to the shield grid in order that it can conform to the subspace frequency of the carrier wave, but those exact calculations and programming have yet to be perfected, they will be made available to the engineers soon." Tanya finished. "Very well, Doctor - I'll take care of it. If I may, you were in deep thought there, for a moment, weren't you?", he said, before continuing, "If you'll let me, I was taught a little technique that maybe able to help you?", he said. Tanya looked at the strange captain before her. What had he said? Her mind was rather fuzzy, Oh, right, something about a technique. She looked at him, skeptically, her grey matter wasn't something that she liked people toying with, however, it wasn't like he was going to do a full blown lobotomy with a fork, and he had said 'technique' perhaps it would help. She relaxed her face. "Sure, please, C-aptain, if you wouldn't m-mind that is." she finally managed, despite her skepticism. Nodding, Remae went a little closer to the Doctor, even though she was across the room on the other side of her desk, he raised his hands a little towards here. "Close your eyes for a moment and think about the warp calculations, nothing else exists, not this room or anything else, or anyone else, just you and your thoughts.", He checked to make sure she was doing what she was being told, even though she probably was faking a little, Remae looked over at the small and slight odd looking rink on his finger - imbedded was a gift from his people and it began to glow, softly to itself, a piece of an Bajoran Orb emitted its light and the room began to fill with it, hopefully, helping Tanya find what she was after. a few moment later, it was over, but Remae had already left the room while it was take a few moments for the Doctor to recover, he would catch up with her later on. Instantly, Tanya was in a white sterile room, she was wearing a white gown that would have been pure white, except of course for the pattern of blue flowers that adorned it in a completely seemingly random pattern. She could hear her heart beating, over and over again. There was something about this place, it seemed familiar, and there was something that she'd not seen, yet she had... All of a sudden a voice filled the air. It was speaking, but Tanya was not quite capable to understand it. Also, it didn't appear to have an origin, or did it? The room was blank, there was no furniture in it, except the lone cot that Tanya was laying on, her bed sheets were white as well, or were they white, no, in fact they were clear. Clear bedsheets? Tanya began to wonder. That voice began to speak again, and this time a man appeared that seemed to be somehow associated with the voice. He was dressed in white also except for his green shoelaces. Tanya looked at him strangely. The voice boomed overhead as if amplified by something that was around them, but yet it had nor source, there was no speakers or such device that would cause a noise to be made. Tanya looked at the man, and his lips weren't' moving, but yet she heard a voice that was somehow paralleled to his own, or was it. She wasn't sure. The man began to pull out a bunch of shapes. Tanya had to identify them, with the holo-images that appeared before her. Then she was required to make such shapes out of a sticky white material. There were several shapes that she was required to make, each more complex than the previous one. Tanya was confused, why was she making such things. Then the man took her creations and attempted to roll them across the room. Tanya did as she thought she was supposed to, by imitating him. As expected, some passed quite well while others did not. But it was the way that the sides of the shapes were configured that caused the shapes to either roll or not roll with ease or not. Then the man had her throwing the shapes to the wall to see how they would rebound. Also things were dependant on the shape, but in both instances, the ones with sides that were flat and not round, they did not deflect off the wall in an unexpected way, and also they didn't roll... they....sat as they were supposed..............to................ Tanya's eyes flashed open, she was in her office things were different, she had been dreaming? She thought back to what she'd seen, it had been a room, similar to one of the ones she found herself being tested in as a child and she was being required to make shapes. SHAPES! That was it, the vector; she needed to ensure that there was some sort of shape that would ensure that the ship would sit correctly in the stream. It couldn't have the normal curvature of shields, it had to be different, and it had to have a ledge or hook of some sort. Tanya examined the figure of numbers before her and instantly, the answer popped out to her. She had it, this was it. She keyed it into her PADD, it made a dinging noise, and then suddenly, it displayed the output. ~Funny, it looks rather like the bottom graduation of the hulls of old earth ships. Well....~ she reasoned ~they were sitting in water, and cutting it, and this, well, this is through subspace waves... ~ Tanya shook her head, there were simulations to run. She paused, did someone come to visit? She vaguely remembered someone that looked Bajoran, but she wasn't certain if that person had been in her dream or not. Never the less, she shook her head and proceeded to set up the simulations for her series. ====================/\==================== (Otono Medical Centre - Otono Central - OPS Lt Martin Black - 2378.08.19.1110) Martin walked, somewhat apprehensively, into the reception room at Otono Central looking about for Doctor Cambridge. Patiently he clicked his heels whilst waiting for the CMO to appear. =/\=Captain Rulestaad to the Advanced Technology Council and the Chief of Operations. Meet me in Strategic Operations in one hour. Rulestaad out.=/\= Martin tapped his commbadge immediately, "Lieutenant Black to Captain Rulestaad; I am currently being kept in Doctor Cambridge's care at Otono. I will make every effort to attend your meeting personally, but if this is not possible would my assistant, Ensign Ra'Kir, be acceptable?" (Reply Rulestaad) "Understood, sir, Black out." Martin had no sooner closed the connection then he received another bleep through his comm-badge: =/\=Captain Remae to Operations and Engineering, I need teams onboard the Firebrande to upgrade the Primary Shield Grid, as soon as possible - Remae out.=/\= He sighed. It was going to be one of those days, and he most likely wasn't going to be around to help out Mr Ra'Kir... "Lieutenant Black to Captain Remae; I'm currently in the care of the Otono Medical Facility, but I shall forward your request to the Assistant OPS, Ensign Ra'Kir." (Reply Remae, If required) "Black out." As he tapped the comm-badge to close the channel, Maxwell Cambridge rounded the corner, "Ahhh, Doctor, sorry for taking so long but it's becoming very busy very quickly up there. Would you mind if I sent a quick update to my Assistant?" (Reply Cambridge) Martin tapped his comm-badge and quickly summed up the last two messages he'd received to his assistant, before allowing the Doctor to lead him on to the examination. ====================/\==================== (Strategic Operations - STRATOPS's Office - STRATOPS Cptn Jenna Rulestaad - 2378.08.19.1110) "Captain Rulestaad to the Advanced Technology Council and the Chief of Operations. Meet me in Strategic Operations in one hour. Rulestaad out." =^=Lieutenant Black to Captain Rulestaad; I am currently being kept in Doctor Cambridge's care at Otono. I will make every effort to attend your meeting personally, but if this is not possible would my assistant, Ensign Ra'Kir, be acceptable?=^= Rulestaad sat back, and considered that hard for a moment. She blinked, then replied. "If it is absolutly necessary, Lieuteant. But I would wish for You to be there personally." =^=Understood, sir, Black out.=^= Jenna blinked again, and awaited the rest to contact her. ====================/\==================== (Mars Base - Transporter Room One - CO Cptn Remae Ktell - 2378.08.19.1130) "Captain Remae to Operations and Engineering, I need teams onboard the Firebrande to upgrade the Primary Shield Grid, as soon as possible - Remae out." "One to transport to the Firebrande, Chief.", he said, waiting to be beamed up to his new ship. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Transporter Room Three - ACEO Ens JG Lee Rough - 2378.08.19.1130) The two engineers made there way to Transporter room 3. On there way down they made idle chatter about the academy and they noticed they had some of the same instructors. Lee and Taz arrived at Transporter room 3 where Dario was waiting for them. Ensign Taz introduced Lee to Dario. They were ready to go. ====================/\==================== (Starbase Valhalla - Main Operations - AOPS Ens JG Ralth Ra'Kir - 2378.08.19.1132) "Play." Ralth didn't even lift his head from the operations console, because he was in the process of regulating traffic to the three different station shuttle landing platforms that were still in use while the security were crawling over the fourth. =^=Captain Rulestaad to the Advanced Technology Council and the Chief of Operations. Meet me in Strategic Operations in one hour. Rulestaad out.=^= =^=Captain Remae to Operations and Engineering, I need teams onboard the Firebrande to upgrade the Primary Shield Grid, as soon as possible - Remae out.=^= Ralth sighed deeply. ~So, at least I'll be too busy to think about Okada... Blast it, concentrate! Okay. So I have one hour to report to Stratops, and I'll need three specialist teams from engineering to pull that shield grid upgrade before she's due to launch. Maybe I'll be able to get those engineers onboard _before_ this meeting with the Stratops head.~ "AOPS to engineering. Prriority one. The Firrebrande is waiting forr an upgrade and rrecalibration of their Prrimary Shield Grrid. She's due to launch immediately after the Columbia rreturns and has been debriefed, so get to it. Also, our transporters are still out due to the power grid crisis, so use the Firebrande's transporters. Ra'Kir out." ~That probably doesn't win me many friends in Engineering, but then again, I haven't heard back from them in any case. They better get the job done, though, or I'm going down there to bust some heads!~ Shaking his in frustration, Ralth started monitoring the Firebrande for any activity to see if anything was happening in there. ====================/\==================== "I like my women like I like my coffee: covered in BEES!!" - Eddie Izzard