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Main Sim - Badges? We Don't Need No- ... Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)

Posted Nov. 15, 2021, 5:06 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Main Sim - Badges? We Don’t Need No- … Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Main Sim - Badges? We Don’t Need No- … Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)

Posted by Lieutenant Harrison Callahan (Security Officer/Helm) in Main Sim - Badges? We Don’t Need No- … Oh We Do? Oops. (Tag Security)

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Shara didn’t budge till well after the shadows had claimed the man.

Then he was here to take something, use something or someone. Elias did nothing unless it benefitted him in some way. And to find that out she’d have to talk to who brought him here.

As Balthazar slipped from view, Callahan appeared from out of the shadows and sidled up to the security chief. He made a mental note to cgeck on just who Elias Balthazrwas or is, as it seemed.

“Interesting,” he began, “that he sensed Cmdr. Calloway’s presence, yet didn’t appear to sense I was present as well. . . .”

Gadi didn’t turn to look at him, watching the darkness and gloom warily. “He’s El-Aurian and he doesn’t perceive you as a threat. Also you didn’t have a phaser pointed at his head.”

“it seems you and the resurrected captain have some history together, Cmdr. Gadi. I could look it up, but I’d appreciate it if you saved me some time.”

Callahan (Sec/Helm)

Shara appeared, looking, well, miffed would be a good word. “Oh sadness, I didn’t get to show off my sniper skills,” she said idly. Was she joking ? Was she serious? Who knew.

She backed up a few paces, nudging Callahan to move with her. It was never wise to turn your back on Elias, even if you thought he was gone. Long habit had her scanning the cat walk looking for any tell tale signs of a note left. “He was never a captain, of anything. He uses the title to irk me. You can search all you want Callahan, you’d never find it.” She stopped next to the two guards, deadly serious. “He comes back, if you even think he might come closer than he was, shoot to kill.” Once inside she turned to Calloway. “Let’s talk, the three of us, my quarters.” And she headed down the corridor waving Callahan and Calloway along with her.

Gadi, CoS

Calloway gave a small nod, her mind working through scenarios and also being mindful of their surroundings as they went.

Commander Calloway, CIO

Bethany entered her quarters expecting Callahan and Calloway to follow. She walked over to a small side table and flipped on the coffee pot. What she wanted was something much much stronger, but it would end up in a knock down drag out of a fight with her stomach. And one couldn’t afford such indulgence when Elias was around. “Sit.” Bethany sat at her desk and pulled out a small device and set it top and pressed a button and a small orange light began to blink. A connecting cord was pulled forth and plugged into her console. Arms leaning against her desk she looked at Callahan, “Much of this information has been declassified, but the rest is strictly need to know and highly classified. I’ve made the unilateral decision to make you part of that.” It was readily clear that if he made her regret it the consequences would be much worse than a court martial. Turning her console around there was a picture of the man on the catwalk along with a very long dossier. “This is:

Elias Balthazar
Half-human, half El-Aurian
Pirate
Mass murderer
Smuggler
Sentient trafficker
Slaver
Rebel Freedom Fighter
Mercenary
Thief
Assassin
Pimp
Armed Robber
Free-er of Slaves
Card Shark
Con Artist

He was on the Federation Most Wanted list for over a decade. I was on the task force sent after him. The task force was a joint Federation/Klingon/Romulan task force.

Think Jack Sparrow crossed with the Punisher. And not evil. Worse. ENTIRELY neutral he’s Neutral, lives by his own code of right and wrong And that code fluctuates. The only constant is him at the center He is a truly dangerous person. Like… he is who the boogeyman tells horror stories about. Jack the Ripper would be squeamish in his company.

But at the same time… he also liberated an entire system from an oppressive dictatorship. He’s stolen priceless art works and dropped them in a poor box on remote planets. He once commandeered the flagship of a Royal Navy just to give it to the rebels fighting them.

“You must not take for granted his dichotomy of motivations. He is yin AND yang, and no one can ever tell which is up at the moment. For every bad thing he has done, he’s done ten good ones. And for every ten good ones, he did 100 bad ones. And so on and so forth. Do not mistake him for a good person, he does whatever is best for himself.

He sabotaged an entire Cardassian task force en route to destroy an independent colony of 125,000 people. He somehow got canisters of an experimental binary gas into every ship’s life support systems. Killed over 800 Cardassians. And as noble an act as that was, he also sold all the ship’s to the Orion Syndicate, sooooo…

Another time, he got himself arrested by the Anticans so he would be sent to prison just so he could escape with a convicted terrorist bomb builder. Killed 8 guards in the process.

After the task force commander died we were kind of in limbo, waiting for orders. Tevik and I were sitting outside at this little food stall talking. He was animated, as usual, about the atrocities Balthazar had committed and how horrible of a person he is. And then….Tevik dropped dead into his soup bowl - Poisoned. A note was tapped to the bottom of the bowl, handwriting and DNA trace a 100% match to Balthazar. Note said, “Lesson for the day: Thou shall not taketh my f&^%ing name in vain.”

He ‘died’ 3 years ago.....He was killed right in front of my own eyes. Disruptor through the head just as I was clipping the cuffs on him.”

Gadi, CoS


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