Fleet Sitrep for SD 13.0902 Cocoon Fleet News Service www.holoworld-startrek.org ********************************************************* Fleet Commanding Officer ~ Fleet Admiral Erin M. O'Connor ********************************************************* Fleet Executive Officer ~ Admiral Anna Karsten ********************************************************* *************************** Antelope Squadron Commander *************************** (currently vacant) *************************** *********** USS ARTEMIS *********** NO REPORT SUBMITTED/CURRENTLY DRY-DOCKED *************************** USS HAMILTON CO: Commander Judah Gibbons GM: Janet Gist *Hiding out in Carter Gillespie's quarters, FO Miranda Sands and CSO Mercedes McCarter are soon joined by aCSO Chandler T'krn-McCarter. Surprised that one of the newlyweds would have returned to the ship so soon, Mercedes asks what's up and Chandler answers that the groom is handcuffed to their bed for earlier misbehaviour (i.e. pushing her into the water). Mercedes takes the opportunity to ask if Chandler will help her with a surprise party for her brother, Chandler's husband. After agreeing, Chandler smiles inwardly at the fact that she is now helping both Yossarian and Mercedes plan a surprise party for the other. CSciO Jur Lehron is the next person to invite themselves in, having had a nightmare that Miranda was gone only to wake up and find that she really was absent. Next, Carter finally returns to his own quarters to find a party starting there without him. People ontinue to join the gathering until sudden spine-tingles cause Miranda and Mercedes to imultaneously ask the computer where the doctor is. When the computer rats on the CMO's tealthy approach, Carter's quarters are efficiently evacuated and the party reconvenes emporarily in the corridor while Mercedes invites CNS Logaan Woods along. They then ontinue their romp until shortly before their shifts are supposed to begin the next morning. That morning sees the awakenings of CO Judah Gibbons and FCO Tom Slater as well as the nsomniacs' failure to go to sleep at all. Having been snatched from the very jaws of death from is impersonator's attack, Slater immediately heads down to the brig for a rematch. The captain is disturbed from his temporary command post in the Sickbay ward by the ruckus in Security and hen the two Toms each tell him to arrest the other, he simply has Security seize them both. A imple inspection of the molars (one of which is known to be present in one Tom and absent in the other) reveals who is the fake and the impostor is chucked back in his cell and the real Tom s returned to Sickbay. ************************** ********* USS SAGAN ********* NO REPORT SUBMITTED/CURRENTLY DRY-DOCKED **************************** Beaver Squadron Commander **************************** Branch Admiral Cathal Aguiar **************************** ****************** USS HORIZON CO: Captain Tergin GM: Ruud Visser ****************** CMO Bill Patton experiences the emotional aftermath of their recent mission, and goes to his ssistant T'Salek for some comfort. Passing through the wormhole, the Horizon somehow ends up in another timeline. As the crew oon discovers, the Romulans have formed a secret alliance with the Dominion, the Breen and he Tholians. Apart from a few ships around Andoria, the Cocoon holds the last of the Federation. As the highest ranking officer remaining, Cmdr. Canon from the Nightingale greets he crew upon their arrival at OP108. Captains Tergin (Horizon), Alderbrite (Mauritania) and iak (former Hudson) join him at a 'chiefs of staff' meeting, where Cmdrs. Halifax (Hermes), Gibbons (Hamilton) and Marevic (Dakota) are also present. The eighth person present is Q, who laims to have nothing to do with the situation. On the contrary, he continues, the Romulans ave cut a deal with the Q's enemies, who have destroyed the entire race but him. After a riefing on the situation, the chiefs of staff come up with defence and counter-stri ke plans. Tergin akes these back to the Horizon, where the senior staff agrees the Federation will have to fight ack dirty to win the war. As the crew starts making forbidden subspace and biogenic weapons, FO Leyson Ayden privately addresses OPS Blaze Starsinger. Without involving Tergin, they gree Blaze will go on a probable suicide mission to install viruses in the Romulan computers. hen the CO hears about this, he is outraged at Ayden, but decides to delay the punishment until after the war. About an hour from OP108, the heavily damaged USS Heracles (commanded by the Horizon's ormer OPS, Lt. Cady) is speeding home with a Romulan fleet 37 hours behind them. Thirty inutes behind the Heracles, LtCmdr. Joshua Ryan (former CEO USS John Glenn) tries to fight ff two Romulan scouts. Cady brings Ryan aboard against his wishes, and continues towards OP108. pon their arrival, Captain Diak takes over command of the Heracles. More help is on the way or the Federation in the form of the severely damaged USS Yorktown, which isn't able to stay head of the enemy ships. The aCO decides to go 'dead in the water', hoping the enemy will gnore them. On the covert-ops vessel USS Integrity, Captain Tino and FO Davies decide to disobey their rders and come out into the open to help win the war. On their way to OP108, they come cross a Wraith class fighter. Aboard, and about to be toasted by three Romulan warbirds, are Ensigns Abstentrion Morit and Ian and Jouri Hollander (CMO, CSO and astCSO USS Athene). The ntegrity beams them over, takes care of the Romulan ships, and sneaks past the entire enemy nvasion fleet. Emotions begin to flow as Blaze writes a goodbye message for his lover, CSciO Melody Cuen is eunited with her father, Q, and Patton is reunited with his wife Shania, who has long been dead n his own timeline. With the help of the Nightingale's staff and facilities, work is started on he bio weapons. Later that day, Bill wonders if he can leave Shania again when it's time to eturn to his own timeline. Back on the Horizon, CSO James Mauler receives a coded message rom someone who says to be his father. He calls Cmdr. Ayden, as the FO is the only one who can decode the information. After comparing the temporal scans of Melody, Bordak and Q, it turns out that Bordak is ctually from the current timeline. Engineer Griff informs the captain about the project Bordaq who is also in this timeline, but belongs in another one) left the Horizon for: the USS Infinity, a top-secret powerful ship. He assumes it's on its way to the Cocoon. In the Ship's Edge, Arkanis onfronts Bordak about his counterpart and advices him to live his own life. The aCEO takes the OO up on his invitation to join him on the holodeck for a pre-war workout. FCO Phryn is working in the shuttle bay, as is Ensign Drell. Suddenly, Phryn realizes he'd heard the name rell before he came aboard the Horizon, but he can't figure out when or where. ****************** USS ATHENE ****************** NO REPORT SUBMITTED/CURRENTLY DRY-DOCKED ******************************** USS HERMES CO: Commander Michael J. Halifax GM: Scott Bassitt ******************************** ************************** Condor Squadron Commander ************************** Branch Admiral Aleksi Kara ************************** ***************** DS101 CO: Captain Alyza GM: Don Ratliff ***************** Repairs are completed and the HIKARU proceeds on it's mission. Poynton completes treatment f Tuvur's injuries and shortly thereafter the CEO awakens. Ignoring doctor's orders to take it asy for a day or two, Tuvur leaves Sickbay. Aboard the Yawetag vessel, THREE RIVERS, trapped inside the cavern, Htide feels the resence of the 'Instrument' coming closer...to help him find the Sphere. The HIKARU picks up ignals from THREE RIVERS' distress beacon and makes contact with the commander of the awetag vessel, Captain Opal. Soon arrangements are made for HIKARU to send over some edical staff and supplies to aid the THREE RIVERS' crew in treating their injuries. ************************** USS JOHN GLENN CO: Captain Richard Murphy ************************** ********************************** USS NIGHTINGALE CO: Lieutenant-Commander Pol Canon GM: Mistie Smith (SitRep by Scott Bradley) ********************************** This week, Paly'n, onboard the Nightingale, discovers that the impostors that have replaced the sis are clones of some sort, and he, ahem, questions one of them as to the real psis' hereabouts. Planetside, Stuart does some sneaking about with Mrell. Upon returning to cCuen's report of events on the ship, he leaves Ens Thayer in charge and returns to the ightingale with Mrell in tow. He arrives to find that Paly'n has discovered the psis to be held in military prison camp on the planet. In addition, Kel, who had finally located and uncovered the mysterious array, manages to escape he station's weapons and reports that the array was used to clone the Praq, who are actually a pecies unto themselves that cannot reproduce in any other manner. The process, however, orks only on psis. Along these lines, Mrell has discovered that the Praq have been at this "clone 'n' conquer" process with various species. The Helnai, however, were a species with the ower to change form, so the Praq were very successful in their endeavors to clone them. Being f a dual nature (offensive and defensive), the Helnai went through several genetic mutations nd encountered social strife as a consequence. The Praq then arrived and began to take over, and many of the Helnai rebelled. Back at the negotiations, Thayer discovers that the away team has, in truth, been negotiating ith the Praq posing as Helnai, as true Helnai break forcibly into the meeting. Having bugged he away team, Stuart secretly discovers this action and sets a plan into action. The away team has now been taken hostage by Helnai who want to use the Nightingale and her crew for their wn purposes. As soon as he can, Stuart manages to beam all the present Helnai and Praq onto the Nightingale, nto custody. The away team is also beamed over, but not before the Helnai leader fires on hem, grievously wounding Kennala, who took a phaser blast for a fellow crewman. Paly'n and is team work feverishly to save her life and do so. It's only as Stuart comes to sickbay to tell McCuen about the location of the array and a plan to send a team to rescue the captive psis does e discover the extent of the damage, as the murderously wrathful doctor tells him that Kennala, aly'n's love, is hopelessly paralyzed. ***************************************************************** Cocoon Fleet Situation Intelligence Report (by Cmdr Seth Forster) ***************************************************************** UPDATED SD 13.0615 Na'stiu and Juun relations continue to be tense without progress from assigned diplomatic teams. Activity has been reported in the Holack sector, despite the Veil's blockage of subspace communication. The USS HERMES has been sent to investigate. Reports of Talonid invasion into the Cocoon have been determined to be false. The USS JOHN GLENN has reportedly found debris from the destruction of the USS COCHRANE. Search for survivors continues, but none have been found at this time. ***************************************************** Amgine Sector and Andromeda Report (by Lt. Alac Nond) ***************************************************** OP 108 activity has begun increasing with the completion of the orbital docking platform. Construction has begun on several new ships at the newly contstructed shipyards there. In addition, the Andromeda wormhole has shown no signs of unusual behavior in recent months, causing a return of commerce to the area. Peaceful cooperation with races in the Amgine Sector continue to increase in the aftermath of the Noo'Ach Peace and Trade Conference. Terrorist attacks continue to plague Starfleet ships in the Andromeda Galaxy. Purist terrorist cells, devoted to ridding Andromeda of all Federation presence, have jeopardized the entrance of Trasior into the Federation. Negotiators on Trasior report that the Trasien council is considering withdrawing their application for membership, while various attacks and disappearances are being investigated both by Trasien Security and by Starfleet. ***************************************** Beyond the Portal (by LtCmdr. Eli Meyman) ***************************************** Recent troop movements along Cardassia's border with Breen space has sparked some interest in the Union's possible plans. With relations still cold from the war, no official inquiries have been made, and no investigation is planned. Betazoid Council chairman Beyard Mali and Alpha Centauran Council chairwoman Vhesha P'Nehbuddar have announced plans to begin a massive cultural exchange between their two peoples, including cultural centers on each of the two race's home planets. The cultural centers will be primarily devoted to exploration of similarities between the two cultures and will include expositions on the theoretical genetic links between Alpha Centaurans and Betazoids. Three suspected members of the Orion Syndicate were indicted today at a Federation Council hearing. Although the Orion Syndicate has been careful in the past to remain outside of Federation jurisdiction, the recent acceptance of Vermanda III into the UFP has expanded StarFleet presence into a previously unmoderated area, heavily used by Syndicate trafficking. StarFleet expects no retaliation, but also no more arrests, as the Syndicate has most likely changed their operations routes. **********************************************************