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Pre Sim: CE's Arrival - Captains Quarters

Posted May 11, 2019, 10:39 p.m. by Captain Chris Taggart (Captain) (Travis Good)

Posted by Commander Stovik (XO) in Pre Sim: CE’s Arrival - Captains Quarters

Posted by Lieutenant Gage Whitney (CE) in Pre Sim: CE’s Arrival - Captains Quarters

Posted by Commander Stovik (XO) in Pre Sim: CE’s Arrival - Captains Quarters
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His eyebrow raised in surprise. He had heard of three Vulcan guests almost immediately as they boarded. Efforts hadn’t exactly been made to empty corridors in their presence and even a ship of 500 had more than its fair share of gossips “I will maintain their secrecy of course, although I feel that particular ship has long since sailed, Commander. I’d certainly appreciate any information they can give me. Whatever or why-ever they wish to maintain their secrecy, I at least will need full access to those specifications to adjust and calibrate the sensors to scan for a technological needle in a haystack. I’ll also either need the entire main shuttlebay if this thing is as big as one would think”

Whitney (CE)

Stovik nodded as he rose,”Of course. I will see to it that you have what you need. Welcome aboard, Lieutenant. I look forward to working with you.” He said as he walked toward the door. He still needed to finish moving his things out of the Captain’s cabin and to here. Not that there was a lot of it but he wanted to get the move down before they got into the thick of things with this mission.

Commander Stovik

He nodded his agreement, beginning to move with the Commander towards the door, as it parted to deposit a rather peculiar looking fellow wearing Captains bars.

Just as Stovik opened the door Chris was there with some of Stoviks things helping him move. The Chief would notice a man in his late 30’s with an eye patch and dark raven black hair and a cybernetic arm holding some boxes.

Chris didn’t see Chief Whitney. “Perfect timing sir! Where would you like these? They came from your bedroom. Also sir, I said we didn’t have to switch rooms right now. They are pretty much the same. “

Captain Chris Taggart CO

“I felt it would assist both ours and the crews ability to settle into the unusual command change easier, Captain.” Stovik said equanimity. “On the couch will suffice.” He added stepping out of the way so Taggart could move past him.

“Yes sir. ” he then went to the couch, his couch. The one he spent many nights on. Looking longley at it.

He cleared his throat, not wanting to be seen to eavesdrop on this rather awkward conversation

Whitney (CE)

“This is our new Chief Engineer, Captain, Lieutenant Gage Whitney. He has just arrived and I have brought him up to date with the mission parameters.”

Commander Stovik

Chris smiled and wiped his clean hands clean again on his pants. He put it out to shake the man’s hand. “Please to meet you Chief! I’m Chris Taggart. Do you like to be called chief or do you prefer something different?”

He gladly took the proffered hand with a smile, his voice chipper “Chief will suffice, thank you Captain. It’s what i’ve grown quite accustomed to over the years at UP”

“Good Chief! You’ll like it here!”

“I do have something to all of you and sorry it is so soon. Where we are going they have already detected a decloaked Romulan ship. Is there something that you can do to try to detect them when they are cloaked. There is also an Orion ship there. “

Captain Chris Taggart CO

He frowned, scratching the side of his cheek with his right hand as his eyes grew distant. It was all too suddenly all too real. Taking a position aboard a ship of the line was one thing, but actually facing the possibility of a violent encounter with a species as unfamiliar as the Romulans was an entirely different matter. His flipped his hand out, his voice thoughtful “Honestly, I would be tempted to say no. We know virtually nothing about the Romulans. We haven’t had a verified encounter in nearly a century as far as I know. Our exposure to cloaking devices up to this point has involved the Klingons and Suliban. The NX Enterprise used a quantum beacon to detect suliban cloaks, but it didn’t seem particularly effective against Romulans. Our sensors are fairly easily calibrated to emit the same range of frequencies used by the original beacon, and they’re significantly more powerful, but I can’t guarantee any results.”

Whitney (CE)

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Chris frowned. “Damn it. Well it was worth a try anyway. I just have this feeling that the Romulans will not do a single thing to us after we initially get there. There might be a quick skirmish and then they will make it look like they ran away. But will be cloaked in the distance watching us until we hopefully find what we and they are looking for. Then they’ll spring the full attack on us. I’d do the same thing.

But we have those Orions there as well. Chief. Do you know anything about the Orions?”

He scratched a shoulder and cleared his throat “I’ve had one or two… Encounters… with Orions before. Everyone knows about the women of course, but beyond that and the Orion Syndicate having destroyed a couple ships built when I was still with Wolfestar, I couldn’t tell you much. Their technology is comparable to our own. They don’t have too many capital ships that I’ve ever seen, but in packs, they can take out much larger targets. I’d be disinclined to believe there’s only one of them out there, especially if the Romulans are poking around. If it weren’t for their slave trading, I imagine they’d be a Federation member by now”

Whitney (CE)

Chris statched his beard that was no longer there pondering for a moment. “In packs uh? Shop we have to have different tactics at the same time. One against the stealthily and mighty Romulans and pack tactics like African dogs against the Orions. We need to come up with a happy medium but we have to wait until we see what they do. “

When the chief gave his answer he looked at Stovik. “I just can’t fathom why, now, all of a sudden, Us, the Romulans and the Orions are after the same thing at the exact same time. Commander Stovik. There is something that the three guests and the Admiral are not telling us.

“I concur, Chief. I believe that as well but as one is an Admiral and the other the Vulcan High Command, I cannot demand that they tell us. We will need to find out for ourselves.” Stovik said with equanimity.

Commander Stovik

Captain Chris Taggart CO

“The difference between us and them, Captain, is that regardless of however long they may have been in the area, we still have the advantage. We have the specs for the archive, as well as data concerning its original location, composition, power signature and potential coordinates. They are searching an entire planetary field for the proverbial hydrospanner in a pile of stem bolts. They’re also breaching a Federation secured area. You’d hope the Romulans wouldn’t be interested in starting another war, and the Orions are scavengers of fortune. I don’t see why either would want to fire on a Federation starship, especially after the last decade spent building a defensive fleet in response to the very incursion that resulted in Vulcan’s destruction.” Not that he was a particularly inspired interstellar political operator, but the years he’d spent wrangling designs and contracts with both alien and human governments had given him something of a sixth sense about people.

Whitney (CE)

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“Very true,” Stovik murmured as he considered what Whitney had said. “There May be something more in these records then we know. Something that may make it desirable or valuable to either powers.”

Commander Stovik

He looked back towards the Captain, clearing his throat as he stroked his mustache “You know, Captain, if you really feel the Vulcans are holding something back, there are a series of sealed inspection crawlspaces in the construction superstructure that happen to run around the frame of the guest quarters. The plating in those sections is thin enough that a very low frequency sonic extrapolator would pick up on conversation quite clearly… Hypothetically, of course…” He looked towards Stovik again, somewhat apologetically as he cleared his throat again, momentarily embarassed at the suggestion that they should eavesdrop on diplomatic visitors.

Gage (CE)

Stovik’s brow rose until it hit his grey bangs,”Are you suggesting using listening devices?” He asked, the distaste for such a suggestion apparent in his tone.”I am quite sure you are aware how illegal that is? And against an allied power and Command itself?” His voice left no doubt despite its even tone about how he would feel about such an action.

Commander Stovik

“What the Commander said Gage. I can’t condone that. But thank you for future tactics should it be needed. “

Captain Chris Taggart CO


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