Fleet Four Report - March 2001
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The Fleet plots along! Activity is up this month on most ships, although not as high as I'd like it to be. The Columbus and Montgomery still defy any attempts on my part to advance the plot. They're a creative bunch, I'll give them that. So what's happened to the wacky mission?

In our last exciting episode, we saw that Starbase 202 had been visited by two brown-robed figures claiming to know something about everything, Alderaan had been destroyed, the Alliance was in persuit of the SS Falcon commanded by Lars Ono, and the Columbus and Montgomery were trying to find their missing half of a ship.

While monitoring the situation in the Zeta Epsilon (Sith) system via a specialized stealth probe, the Asimov discovered the cause of Alderaan's destruction. Alderaan itself was reduced to a small asteroid field, apparently by an anti-proton weapon. The source of the weapon was probably the immense metalic object they have detected. "Immense" in this case doesn't mean big, it means stompin' HUGE! The object is so big that the probe has yet to be able to get a complete picture of it. It is made out of some sort of unknown gray metalic material, is proportinally flat, and has a long straight side as well as at least one "stalk" rising from the top of it. A broadcast message, apparently from this object (which the science officer has declared is no moon, but a space station), was received, not just by the Asimov but by the entire fleet. (It's contents are listed below.) The Asimov has just been contacted by a Seetha scout ship, carrying one misc. Seetha on board, asking for help.

The Alliance, meanwhile, has tracked Lars Ono and the Falcon to the Calamar asteroid field. The field is too dense for the Alliance, so CTO Smith, COS Anderson, and Eng Dalgety have taken 3 shuttles into the field to go after them (the Maggie, Wolverine, and Red 2). The Alliance, meanwhile, is trying to maintain active scans of the asteroid field, but the incredible density of the field is making the computer (SIGMUND) take up most of his processing power, so much so that the replicators are having a hard time making a good cup of tea.

The Columbus and Montgomery, having secured the area, managed to "persuade" the Viceroy to give them access to his sensor logs, which confirmed that the Stardrive section had indeed not been destroyed, but left the system with the Malencar Sect's ship. Their trajectory led the crews to the Mu Theta system, where they indeed located the Stardrive section and Palpitine freighter (that's the Malencar Sect's ship) in orbit of Mu Theta II. They are mounting an assault team as we speak.

Meanwhile, Captain Temple initially turned down the request of the brown-robed Obi-Enne and his green and wrinkly cohort, who has now been identified as Ouija. Even a demonstration of the powers of The Force, which Temple asked for, was unable to persuade him. Hearing the broadcast from the unknown object that destroyed Alderaan, however, seems to have changed his mind somewhat, and he has contacted Fleet Commander Bligh on the Alliance for further advise. Meanwhile, an unmanned freighter of unknown origin has docked at the station. Registered as the SS Otana, the logs show the crew abandoned ship right after takeoff. It must be a decoy, several of the escape pods have been jettesoned.

So what's this broadcast we keep talking about? I'll just quote the original post:

The signal was coming from the general direction of Zeta Epsilon. Audio only. 

The voice was deep and resonating. It boomed through the speakers on the bridge with a 
presence that was unmistakable. A faint sound of deep breathing could be heard in the 
background as it spoke. From somewhere, a deep droning male chorus could also be heard. 

=/\=All Federation worlds. Your time has come. All your base are belong to us. We have come to
 reclaim what is ours, that you have destroyed. We accept your galaxy in forfit. You will not
stand in the way of our destiny, or other star systems will suffer the same fate as Alderaan.
Darth Vader of the Palpitine has spoken.=/\= 

The signal ended. Down in Engineering, an NE put in a CD and started playing the track labeled
 "Imperial March." 

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Fleet Report, already in progress.

Engineering have been having a quite month so far, we haven't been in any mishaps yet, so it's just a case of routine diagnostics, and trying to prepair the ship for whatever is coming our way.. and by all accounts it's something huge! Security have been continuing the group bonding, and sickbay has been handling the death of Adam Jnr. who had been born with a birth defect. So there's a lot or raw emotions going around.

All in all we've been seeing some of the crews spare time hobbies, and interactions. The crew is definitely a crew in the sense they get on well and interact on a regular basis outside their shifts and duties. Character development is one thing we seem to be good at.

Kudos has to go to Phil Morral who has improved greatly since he came onboard, Brandon has been a great asset to the crew since he came transfered towards the end of last month, and I can see big things in his future. Actually I should give credit to everyone on the Asimov, for they are all doing a stunning job, but then this report whould be twice as long ;)

Crew and ship are in fine health, so another month out of the way..

Johno has been finding his feet, the paranoia and arguments between most of the staff remaining on the saucer section is dying down, and we have finally evicted the Monty crew back to their ship :)

Engineering is strong as usual, and surprisingly Medical is doing really well. There are (for the most part) two good people in every department.

• Lt. Evan Casey (Eng): Evan has been with the ship for a long time, and has done a fine job. He recently took a stray Sec under his wing, even though he didn't have to. That's something I'd like to see more CEs do.

• Ryan Reeder (Lieut (j.g.) Tuvol (Ops)): Mr. Ryan performs very well though he is a freshman in STF. I think the quicker he be appointed as DH, the more STF will be benefied.
• James J. Garfield (Lieut (j.g.) Kronos (Sec)): Same as Mr. Reeder, Mr. Garfield performs very well too despite he is new to STF. I'm sure that he will rise to the height in the coming future. [FComm's Addendum: This Mr. Garfield is not related to FComm Garfield, as far as we can tell. James A. Garfield on the Alliance is, but this Garfield appears unrelated. He will be duley executed for using my name shortly.]

"All your Fleetwides are Belong to Us."

Report signed: FComm-4 Larry Garfield 11 March 2001

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