From: "Don Ratliff" To: Cc: "mail2news" Subject: Cocoon Fleet - SITREP - SD: 13.0916 Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:29 PM Fleet Sitrep for SD 13.0916 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 *************************** McCarter family dealings continue to generate excitement. CSO Mercedes McCarter refuses to sign a waiver to allow her sister Jolie to stay aboard on grounds that her sister is making a fool of herself over the captain. Jolie is quite upset and accuses Mercedes of being motivated by jealousy, which Mercedes says is ridiculous and that she has more important things to attend to. The SF Mafioso meeting was called to honor Michael Pachuco, reported dead, by means of the appropriate Mafia ritual. Mercedes, still upset, impatiently casts off ritual and declares that there will be a party in his honor a week hence. Checking up on preparations for the party she planned for Yossarian with aCSO Chandler T'krn- McCarter is next on Mercedes agenda. Only last minute stuff, like the banner saying happy birthday to her twin, isn't up yet so she leaves satisfied. When she returns with her brother, they are both satisfied to find banners for each of them at the party they planned for the other. After they blow out the combined 48 candles, everyone begins mingling and sampling the edibles made available. FO Miranda Sands asks Mercedes what drink CO Judah Gibbons would usually order but Mer only shrugs and asks why. Miranda explains that she promised to have a drink for Gibbons who is still marooned in Sickbay, but she can't make up her mind what to get. Mercedes at least benefited from their conversation, for it reminded her of her need to speak to the captain about Jolie. Once in Sickbay, Mercedes briskly informs Gibbons of her decision and the reasons for it. When he brings her attention to her distracted scratching at her arms, Mercedes pulls up one sleeve of her cardigan and spots(pun intended) chicken pox. With a second legitimate reason to be held in Sickbay, Mercedes hurriedly excuses herself and heads back to the party at full speed. At the birthday party, Miranda finally gives up and asks Gibbons via commbadge what she should get. He suggests a Spiritual Blood Brandy, a drink Chandler mixes, if she is brave. When she asks what she should get if she isn't brave, Gibbons says with a smile in his voice that she is on her own if she's not brave. Miranda goes for it and likes the taste of the drink, but is surprised to find somewhat disappointed looks on her friends' faces. She didn't exhibit the normal reaction, sputtering, gasping, searching frantically for something cool to drink, that most people have on sampling that particular concoction. Miranda guesses that having the chicken pox must have interfered somehow, then excuses herself to save CEO Johnson from her exCNS fiance's inkblots. ********* USS SAGAN ********* NO REPORT SUBMITTED/CURRENTLY DRY-DOCKED **************************** Beaver Squadron Commander **************************** Branch Admiral Cathal Aguiar **************************** ****************** USS HORIZON CO: Captain Tergin GM: Ruud Visser ****************** In An Alternate Time-Line: Feeling useless aboard the USS Integrity, the Hollander twins get permission to leave in a fighter. After convincing Ab Morit to join them, they return to the enemy fleet. They manage to board one of the larger Romulan ships, kill the crew, and make it to the bridge without the enemy noticing it. More Federation power is on its way in the form of the USS Infinity, an officially non-existing ship from Section 31. Aboard is Bordaq, the Horizon's former CEO, and his counterpart from the Mirror Universe. The latter leaves to go ahead in a shuttle, and allows himself to be captured by the Romulans. He soon escapes custody and proceeds with what he has to do aboard the Romulan ship. As Captain Tergin mourns the billions who have already lost their lives in the war, CMO Bill Patton is on the Nightingale, finishing off on the bio-weapons. He enjoys some time together with Shania, his wife who has long been dead in his own timeline, before being called back to the Horizon. He informs the senior staff of the bio-weapon they've devised: a species-specific virus that will inhibit mitochondrial activity, killing any person within minutes. ****************** USS ATHENE ****************** NO REPORT SUBMITTED/CURRENTLY DRY-DOCKED ******************************** USS HERMES CO: Commander Michael J. Halifax GM: Graham Tyler ******************************** Jynn(CSO) and Agah(FO) prepared themselves to go over to the Juggernaught, to see about shutting down the scramblers, Foster(CSciO) worked on convincing the computer of the Juggernaut that the shuttle's computer has been fried, as he started to send this information, he also sends random outputs in every format he could possibly think of, to keep the Juggernaut from drawing the MISSOURI in. Jynn and Agah prepare for the mission, which is to beam away prisoners within the Juggernaut back to the sickbay of the HERMES. They prepare themselves for the worst, arming themselves with a phaser, a rifle and a field kit. After beaming across, they discovered what is believed to be an organic substance from some living creature, but it was not showing any traces of DNA, they then looked at each other and loaded the rifles, keeping their fingers on the trigger. Stuck within the jail cells of the Juggernaught was the rest of the crew, seemingly in good spirits, but clearly showing, the health of the prisoners was deteriorating, as they would cough violently from time to time, as they continued to keep their spirits high. Mean while approximately a half a kilometer down the hall, Lt. Qoensal(Intel.Officer) identifies some of the MISSOURI officers in a cell similar to the one his crew is held in, quite apprehensive, he enters the cell, and asks the crew of the MISSOURI to follow him to where his crew is being held, but due to the MISSOURI's FO, they can not, as he had suffered a broken leg, after speaking with them Qoensal returns back to his own crew. Knowing that they were getting closer to the prisoners, Jynn and Agah suddenly run into trouble. Fighting off a Creature standing over 8' tall, they notice that the creature has tentacles emerging from it's chest. Putting up a good fight, Jynn and Agah managed to over run the creature with a solid shot to the body from the phaser rifle. Continuing down a corridor, they discovered a hatch. Opening this, they automatically noticed the group of humans in Starfleet uniforms, from the Star Ship, USS MISSOURI. As Jynn and Agah started to prepare the crew for transport, the FO of the MISSOURI ask what was going to happen to them, and also mentioning to Jynn that a member of her crew had already made contact with them, and also pointed out, the corridor that Qoensal went down was filled with some kind of gas. Still secure within the cell, Qoensal waved to his CO, but also noticing something moving outside the wall, hearing scratching sounds. As a metal plate was being moved, Qoensal suddenly clenched his hand around the neck of some person climbing out of the hole. Observing this Halifax (CO), quickly walked over to both Qoensal and the body of a StarFleet Officer, Qoensal then recognized a claw coming out of the same hole, it was the former CMO's. ************************** Condor Squadron Commander ************************** Branch Admiral Aleksi Kara ************************** ***************** DS101 CO: Captain Alyza GM: Don Ratliff ***************** With the HIKARU's dilithium cyrstal mysteriously vanished, a search is undertaken for native replacements. Roberts and Speeder, the Rachet who accompanies Roberts, discovers a chamber on the planet...shielded with an energy field, containing tractor beam and transporter. It is here that the ship's dilithium crystals were taken. The chamber is located several meters below the native city...the city that is in the throes of a war. The THREE RIVERS completes Engineering repairs and attempts to break free from the cavern. As the THREE RIVERS emerges from the cavern entrance it is 'swatted' back inside. Lt Fischer, who took the apparent loss of the HIKARU hard, awakens in the THREE RIVERS and seems none the worse for wear. Until, that is, he starts talking. His speech patterns have been disrupted ... and who knows what other mental disarrangements. Dr Poynton works at finding exactly what has happened to the First Officer and how to reverse the changes. Ens Foley, CSci, uses the HIKARU's sensors to investigate the planet and city. He manages to contrive a disguise to allow him to pass as a native. Unfortunately, this disguise is able to be worn only by himself, anyone else would have to undergo surgery...something that is not available on the HIKARU. Foley suggests that with appropriate equipment he can infiltrate the city, gain access to the location of the dilithium and obtain replacement crystals. Capt Alyza comes up with a 20th Century movie-makeup methods that would also produce the proper disguise. An Away Team is prepared. ************************** USS JOHN GLENN CO: Captain Richard Murphy GM: None Assigned ************************** ********************************** USS NIGHTINGALE CO: Lieutenant-Commander Pol Canon GM: Mistie Smith (SitRep by Scott Bradley) ********************************** ***************************************************************** 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. ********************************************************** Contact: Don Ratliff, Fleet GM ratliff [at_symbol]tsixroads.com or fleetgm [at_symbol]yahoogroups.com **********************************************************