[USS Juno] Briefing

Posted on Fri Aug 3rd, 2018 @ 1:01am by Captain Harrold Anderson & Captain Xalanth & Lieutenant Avril Taylor
Edited on on Sat Dec 8th, 2018 @ 1:04pm

1,467 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: [USS Shanghai] S1, E1: So it Begins
Location: Observation lounge
Timeline: MD002 1000 hrs

Commander Bers had just reentered the bridge from the ready room with his clear marching orders. He tapped his commbadge. "This is Commander Bers to all senior staff. Briefing in the observation lounge. In ten minutes " he said, rounding the corner into that very room.

Harry and Bob both walked into the bridge, and both were given the traditional, attention on deck spiel, that was customary for the captain or a flag level officer, Harry acknowledged the greeting and walked into the conference room with Bob. "Thank you Number One." Simply replied Harry, waiting for the other bridge officers to arrive. Harry took a seat, but Bob walked over to the main viewer, he was inputting data into the monitor.

Avril was a few seconds ahead of Xalanth, he had to say goodbye to his family, all she had to do was report to the bridge. Her family was down on earth. She wondered why the first officer was calling a staff meeting a few days before the Juno is slated to leave space dock?

A few seconds later the lizard walked through the door still trying to clip his phaser holster onto his leg. He gave an apologetic smile as he made his way to his seat.

T'San followed not long after Xalanth. She walked in and sat down in a chair at the table.

More senior officers can into the observation room. "I am sorry to call you all together for a staff meeting, the Juno was slated to leave space dock in four days, but a situation has developed on New Bajor, little less than an hour ago, the colony was attacked. Starfleet is bumping up our launch date, we are being ordered to investigate the attack." said Harry, looking at everyone's faces. They seemed to be reacting okay, just in a little shock.

"Early reports, indicate the hostile forces came to New Bajor, to kidnap some of our personal, we are not exactly sure why.' Said Commodore Johnson, who was tagging along for a ride back to Starbase 952 via Deep Space Nine. He went on to say, "We have very little data." He activated the data on his pad and pointed to the main viewer, an unknown ship was on the screen.

"Starfleet has determined they are heading to sector five and want us to pursue them, and try to get our people back. We will meet up at deep space nine for last minute crew pick ups, but after that we will head to sector five, the list is incomplete, but I am being advised by the time we arrive at Deep Space Nine, they will have the list." Said Harry.

"Questions?" Asked Harry waiting for his crew to ask a few questions.

" Have we any idea who's done this or will we be going in blind?" Xalanth asked already running through possibilities in his head.

Harry looked over to Xalanth, "We have no information on this race, a lot of species in the gamma quadrant are a mystery to us, so far this species appears to be hostile in nature, but we are not sure where they are from, all we have our a few security camera footages from the ground complex, Admiral if you will." Asked Harry.

Bob changed the image to a pre recorded video, showing soldiers in what appeared to be bio suits charging at the capital building. "These are the only images we can go off, at the moment. It's not much to go off." Said Harry as he waited for Bob to change the image, "This is there ship, again not much to go off."

"We are going to attempt to track the enemy, and try to get our people back alive." Said Harry. He was not sure if it was possible. The chances of finding them again, was going to be hard, the universe is a big place and they could have adjusted course at any time.

This was Avril's first mission, and it appeared that it may end up being a combat mission. She was hopeful that they would be able to find a peaceful solution. But the odds were stacked against them. The unknown hostile force, did take several federation citizens against their will.

"Could this be the dominion with new ships?" asked Avril, she heard how ruthless they were in the past. But she did not realize that Odo returned to the great link to establish peace, how long that peace would last was a mystery. But there had been no new sightings of the dominion in some time.

"Unlikely, their combat tactics are inconsistent with the Jem'Ha'Dar fighting techniques. They like to cloak and strike from behind, for easy kills. We are not sure who they are, but I want Lieutenant Xalanth to study these tapes and point out and potential tactical strategies and weaknesses from the hostile forces." Ordered Harry.

" Will do sir. I'll make sure the away team are ready to go as soon as we arrive. My own people had a tactic called firestorm to use against Yor infiltrators. Should work here as well. " The lizard replied already running through plans in his head.

"Miss Taylor, plot a course for Deep Space Nine, we will be engaging the quantum slip stream drive. Make sure the Juno, is ready to go when we are." Ordered Harry. He was hoping to spend new years with his parents, but that clearly was not going to happen for him or for Avril.

"Yes Captain," simply said Avril. She was a little surprised by the aggressive actions of this unknown race. What was their motive. Surely they knew, the Federation would be coming after them, to reclaim their people. Beyond the thought of the hostile race, she wondered how upset her parents were going to be that the Juno was going to leave sooner than the new year.

"Doctor, I need you to make sure, all your supplies are onboard if not you can see what deep space nine has available as well, sorry to do that to you doctor, but the unknown hostile forces have a huge lead on us. Every minute we wait, is another minute we lose in tracking them down."

T'San nodded. "I understand captain, a shipment arrived earlier. I will send a communication ahead to deep space nine with a list of essentials. And hopefully some non essentials so they can prepare for our arrival."

"Number one, get down to the shuttle bay, ride the quartermaster hard, we have one hour to get all of the crew and gear aboard, make it happen." Ordered Harry, realizing that he maybe sounding a little demanding.

"Yes sir " Thoughts running through his head on the how to actually get that done.Previos Bers hosts, don't fail me now he thought to himself.

"Make sure each of your department staff is aboard and their gear is aboard, work with the quartermaster to get all gear aboard, we will sort through it later. Store it all in the cargo bays. We need to leave for DS9 asap, if it was upto me, we would be departing now. We have one hour team, let's make it happen. Dismissed." Said Harry, feeling a little guilty for giving them an unrealistic deadline. His tone was direct and to the point.

Avril knew she better get up to the bridge and not waste any time on making calls to her parents. That conversation was going to take longer than an hour. Avril walked out of the room and was going to walk over to the helmsman station. She was going to begin preflight checks.

He watched the senior staff leave one by one. He could tell that they were a little annoyed. And they had every right to be. But he was not to blame. The unknown hostile aliens were. Harry and Bob returned to his ready room to talk more about strategy and try to get more detail about the missing on new bajor.

Bervag was the last one to leave. Before he walked out the door, Harry grabbed his arm, gently, suggesting he wanted to talk to Bervag. "Do the best you can, Number one. I don't care how you get the gear, personal and supplies onboard, just see to it, I will be in the ready room getting Starfleet to push our departure. When this is all over, lets meet up at Nemo's for a drink." Suggested Harry.

Nemo's was the lounge on the ship. Harry wanted to make sure this place was an open and welcoming environment, especially since this was now a family ship, their needed to be an adult only area of the ship.

"Count on it, Captain " Bervag smiled

 

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