Posted Oct. 20, 2022, 8:38 p.m. by Lieutenant Miranda Martel (Chief Engineer) (Sam Haynes)
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Main Sim: Step One Done… Step Three is Profit! (Tag All)
Posted by Captain Sara Kiernan (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim: Step One Done… Step Three is Profit! (Tag All)
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It had been a day travelling at Warp 8 to get the Pelican and her crew to a place they could lay low for a bit. The asteroid field they were currently in was home to thousands of individual space rocks, a few hundred of which were large enough for the Rabid Pelican to actually land on and stay hidden.Once they were safely tucked away, it was time to discuss their last ‘outing’ and then sort out their take. To this end, Agent Blue had requested the Command Team and all participants of the freighter theft to meet in the cargo bay after everything was secured and all non-essential systems were either set to stand by or taken off-line entirely.
GM
Sara took her place early, before most arrived. She looked somewhat somber, the reports of events as they had transpired on the ship beginning to trickle her way.
Bethany arrived early along with Ridad and the rest of the team that has gone. She and Ridad had talked and she had a full sitrep from him. There were questions.
But one Jr Lt Samuel Patton couldn’t keep quiet any longer. “He shot him! Point blank. He wasn’t armed. We are supposed to LOOK like pirates, not be them!”
Gadi and crew
Miranda slipped in just behind Gadi and Ridad, staying near them like a sable shadow.
Silent movement behind them drew Shara to the group. “Wrong. We’re supposed to be exactly as we need to be to convince everyone we mean business. You were warned that this would get ugly. We did exactly as we needed to- no more, no less,” Calloway said, her steely blue eyes gazing hard at Patton. “You don’t have to like it, but that is our reality. This is bigger than anything you can wrap your mind around. You’re going to have to trust us.”
~Shara Calloway, CIO
“No actually, ma’am I don’t have to trust you. I trusted Captain Kiernan. Death and wounds are part of it, but killing an unarmed man point blank with illegal weaponry. I’m not paying for your man’s sins when this is over. Just because you two think you are better than the rest of us because you play these sick games all over space. That you have secrets and blackmail to keep yourselves out of trouble, doesn’t do the rest of us one bit of good. You can take your maquis past, his marine swager, Blue’s creepy intel crap and shove it. I don’t believe the means justify the ends.” He took a breath to continue but was interrupted.
“She’s right.” Sara cut in. She wasn’t looking at anyone in the room, just staring at the center of the table. “It may be distasteful to our starfleet sensibilities but if we don’t act the part, in every way. We will blow the hole thing. Your objections are noted Patton, but they cannot be afforded right now.”
-CO
Patton clamped his mouth shut. The captain was a sell out to everything they stood for. He had stayed because he trusted her to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Bethany watched him and made a note to talk to him later. Some people weren’t cut out for this. But her discussion with Ridad made her think Piklesimer was simply showing off and making a point because he could. Because HE and Blue had rushed things and made a choice because Micah just wanted to use Shara for this mission. Knowing the emotional investment Shara had in the outcome because of her daughter. And she came close to hating Piklesimer right at that moment.
A voice came down from the top of a stack of crates. “Lieutenant JG, you are free to discuss the matter with him if you like.” Agent Blue said as the door slid open and Pikelsimer walked in. “However before you judge him, make sure you have all the facts.” Pikelsimer looked up at Blue and said “You talkin’ ‘bout me?” and he looked at the assembled crew. “He is, ain’t he?” and he shook his head and grabbed a seat on a crate.
“Alright…” Blue began, “…objections aside the operation went well. So now we have in our possession several locked crates belonging to the Star Fleet Marines. ‘What could be in them?’ I hear you all say in your minds, so I will answer that question with an answer. Kilo-Echo-Tango-Seven-Niner-Seven-Eight-Four. That is the combination to the locks, so… open them up and take a look.”
Miranda entered the code quickly on the cases after coming forward. Better her to do it than one of the Security team. And well, if the code was wrong and there was a nasty trap, then it wouldn’t be her problem anymore. Nor would the mission. She’d probably be a nice, superheated vapor.
Once the crates had been opened, it was obvious what they had done…
Powered armor, sniper rifles, phaser rifles, grenades, mortars, three Tetryon Pulse Launchers, and more handheld phasers and demolitions kits than you could count easily. And there was a lot of everything. Crate after crate of munitions and armaments were now set on the floor of the cargo bay… more than enough to start a small war. “This is our ticket into the Syndicate. This is our calling card. By now, word has reached them. They know the shipment was taken. And they know it wasn’t one of their folks that did it. So make sure you are paying attention. Anything out of the norm and you let the Command team know immediately. Got it?”
GM
“Are we looking for them to buy the goods or just take interest in us because we have them?” Sara asked.
-CO
Bethany shook her head, “Nope I wanna play with these. Gear like this will make sure no one messes with us, and keeps our teams safe with minimal damage on either side. At least keep enough for one assault team. Then again that would be the smart thing to do.”
Gadi
“From what I understood, we were looking to arm ourselves with this, not get into business. That comes after we hit the liner and take whatever goods from it. This was prep for that,” she murmured out the side of her mouth to Gadi and Ridad, having taken her place once more. It was hard not to take one of the new sidearms for herself.
Martel
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