Mission 2: Possibility of more Romulans

[Drex]

"Please inform the station Mr Sven."

"Thank you Major. Could you take charge of Ops and Tactical? We're abit short handed and I believe you can program one of the stations for both tasks."

(Edited by Drex at 6:57 pm on Jan. 6, 2004)

[Lewis Drake]

=A= This is Lewis Drake. I have orders to pick up Commander Gri Tall =A=

[Jonathan Mason]

=A= General Mason to Commander Salen =A=

A simple mission briefing is needed to clarify what your mission is.  We have received intelligence that there might be a Romulan Coalition base in this sector and we need the Blackfire to locate it. Your goal is to find the base, secure it and if needed to destroy it.

=A= Mason Out =A=

(Edited by Jorgen Salen at 12:25 pm on Mar. 18, 2004)

[Jorgen Salen]

"Thank you, Mr. Guiss.  Mr. May (Sara May), please begin sensor sweeps and inform me immediately of anything fishy."

OFF:  I don't know.  I've been putzing around until they could post.

(Edited by Jorgen Salen at 2:14 am on April 26, 2004)

[Trell]

Trell moves his head a fraction and smiles to indicate that Salen's point is well taken.  Now he becomes very stiff and formal as he turns to Movack.

"If I may be permitted to examine your fine console further?"  He reaches across to point to a display and says, "This is a tight-beam transmission.  You are not getting static, you are getting the feedback from the reflection of the signal.  If the receiver of this message were there, he would turn the equipment to face the source- thus eliminating this ghost transmission.  This is a standard coded transmission, but because the receiver is not properly tuned I would surmise that either the recipient is dead-or shall soon be dead for dereliction of duty.  Had he done his duty, your ship would never have registered this signal unless you happened to move directly between it and its source."

Trell smiled faintly and moved beside the captain's chair.  "Your question now is, do you persue the source of the signal, or do you investigate the errant recipient?  Your decision, Commander."

[Jorgen Salen]

"This ship, Ambassador, is too small for us to bother with at this time.  We're after bigger game."

Salen turns to Movack, "Ask the members of your team to report to my quarters for a mission brief in five minutes, yourself and Mr. Guiss included."  He gets up to leave and says, "You have the bridge, Lieutenant Brodie.  Keep us away from any large moving objects, especially Romulans, and notify me if the situation changes via commlink."  Salen leaves to his quarters.

[Movack]

I walk over to the replicator and as for "Klingon bloodwine".

My favorite drink for a relaxer before the meeting.

[Movack]

*** I make my way to engineering, swiftly and soundly not to alert any romulan guards.

**** I find a science station and start messing with the board to start a small fire to begin one of many distractions.   The science station, shorts out and starts on fire.  I exit the area and hide behind a bulkhead.  The electric fire sets off alarms in the ship.  

[Jorgen Salen]

OFF:  Your request has been noted and the report will be placed in the Status Report section of this division.  Thanks.

[Jorgen Salen]

"I doubt they'd know of our presence, but your recommendation is noted."

=^= Salen to Ambassador Trell =^=

"Please report to the bridge, Mr. Ambassador."

=^ Transmission Ends =^=

"Helm:  Continue staggered orbit and try to define the borders or extent of the subspace fluctuation.  Lets not deviate from our search pattern just in case it is a trap."

[Sven Guiss]

puts his hand up shakely*

sir I am right here. your helmsmen remember?

*then he studies what he has just said over in his head and discovers that he has made a fool of himself*

*coughs*  uh, Helm ready, uh , sir.

[Sven Guiss]

sir , I had not set the warp speed yet, I was merely stating that it would take 51 hours at warp 4. But anyway, setting speed for warp 5 sir.

*the ship jumped off into the distance and disappeared with a blink*

[Drex]

Sven: =/\=Major Drex Please Come To The Bridge=/\=

Drex walked onto the bridge, took his seat and Drake went back to the Tac/Ops Station.

Sven: "We've arrived at Khazara Station Sir."

Drex: "Hail the station Mr Drake."

OFF1: I figured we should speed this up.

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[Jorgen Salen]

"Very well, Mr. Guiss," Salen says in his usual efficient British military manner, "I want you to oversee a level 3 diagnostic on the helm and navigation systems while I review the mission logs.  Also ask Engineering to run a level 2 diagnostic on the cloak.  I'd ask for a level 1, but that would require shutting the cloak down and we can't do that at this time."

[Jorgen Salen]

Copy of post in Dragon forum:

=^= Jorgen Salen to Ken Garcia (Secure) =^=

"I have spoken with the Romulans and the away team.  Your crew will be beamed aboard forthwith.  Romulan Agent Gri Tall will be on the Dragon, and Romulan Ambassador Trell will be on the Blackfire.  We have decided to split the area to be searched in half since we have two ships.  The most likely areas are on the attached starcharts (see attachment).  Your ship will take the area of the Gallosian asteroid belt with emphasis on M3619 asteroid because it is the largest, and on the large planetoids on the other side of the T'Hi Nebula.  The Blackfire is traveling to the Boruun System and the gas giant of Psi-Epsilon Gert.  Be careful.

=^= Transmission Ends =^=

OFF: I am copying this message so that some questions will be answered before our meeting in my quarters.  The new crewmembers should also note that this ship will be cloaked while exploring the aforementioned areas.

(Edited by Jorgen Salen at 2:05 am on April 26, 2004)

(Edited by Jorgen Salen at 2:12 am on April 26, 2004)