From: Ranjani Sabarinathan (rantrek_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2008 - 22:34:02 PDT
“Operation Liberation”
(contd from Justin’s ‘All Things Must End’)
Location: USS PARCHE, NCC-18500
Scene: Conference Lounge
Stardate: 2.80404.1406
TI: Few hours after the away team returns from ANDARA
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The officer in black wearing commander's pips on his shoulder picked up another padd from the pile before him. His leave during the Easter holidays was behind him, and Icky had gone back to school, with promises to write that would never be fulfilled. He was 9 years old now, and showing all the independence the child thought he deserved. But there was still that excitement when his father was there every school holiday to pick him up off the train.
On the padd he now held were the fleet resources available to him for the upcoming mission he was proposing. It was a mission to recover lost assets to the dominion who were incarcerated in a prison facility deep within Dominion held territory. Over the past 4 weeks, a deep undercover op agent had been passing along information as he gained it. Having a changeling aka founder in your employ during a war with said race was one of the best options to have. And while the assets useful life was coming to an end as an agent, as he couldn’t rejoin the link until the war was over otherwise they would know he had informed Starfleet of some information, what little he did possess had helped SFI gain a better grasp on the situation.
Over the last 50 years, the Dominion had launched a vast territorial expansion of their influence within the gamma quadrant, but had done so in a way that didn’t approach Federation held territories. Starfleet had no idea how large the territory was, and only now did it come out that the listening post that the USS PATRIOT was supposed to install, was within the new expansion of dominion held space.
"Ensign Michaels, I need a tightwave eyes only channel to the USS COMMENDATION for Captain Anaqueen Spankryz, the USS MATACO for Brigadier Cassie Yates, and to Gateway Outpost for Lt. Commander Eishnala Kor."
[[Right away Commander, please standby.]]
The wall viewer in front of him came to life, with a rotating SFI insignia on the screen as the participants were gathered and linked in. Once complete the three requested officers appeared on screen simultaneously. "Ladies, the following briefing is eyes only and classified at the Omega level."
{{Mister Lawrence. You are someone I didn’t foresee wearing black again. I think we remember why.}}
"Yes captain, but as they say I'm much better now. But this is not the reason for this briefing. Intelligence reports that Commander Davidson, and Lieutenant Commander Drake as well as a handful of other Starfleet Personnel are being held captive in a Dominion held prison facility deep within their territory. All accounts and reports of Commander Davidson turning traitor are of course false, we have evidence of Dominion cloning. A plan has been developed to liberate these people, and you are all involved.
Captain Spankryz, you and the COMMENDATION will escort the CHANTICO and the 13th Regiment into Dominion Space, locate any military facility within a 4 parsec range of the facility, and attack, thus providing a diversion for the troops to go in and get our people back. Targets will be at your discretion. You will be in command of this task force.
Brigadier Yates, the 13th will infiltrate the Dominion held base under cloak, and retrieve the lost assets under any means necessary. You will of course be in command of the ground troops.
Commander Kor, you and the CHANTICO will go along as support vessel. Since you have a cloak on your ship, you will be providing cover for the Marines.
I will leave the details to be worked out by Captain Spankryz. Captain, expect delivery of an intelligence packet of all pertinent information in 5. I must remind you this briefing is classified, only us four plus the acting deputy chief of SFI are aware of this mission. Good luck to you all."
The screen blinked off, leaving Jax in darkness once again.
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Location: USS COMMENDATION
Scene: CO’s Ready Room
Anaqueen sighed as she reviewed the information in the intelligence packet Jax had sent her. The Trill recalled the broadcast showing Daisy defecting to the Dominion and for a moment, Ana felt downright shocked but thought sadly at the time it could have been a changeling posing as the GS-2 CO. After the briefing with Lawrence, Commander Kor and Brigadier Yates, it was only then she had figured that it was a clone in that news feed. Ana was disgusted, though not surprised at the Dominion’s tactics in attempting to diminish morale in the Federation.
With the location of the facility holding the prisoners known, Spankryz was hopeful that Daisy could still be alive. However she knew a mission deep in Dominion space was extremely dangerous and failure in the operation could be catastrophic to the war efforts. In order to ensure the mission’s success, careful planning was highly needed. Triumph would be a huge boost to morale in Starfleet. The COMMENDATION would also be put in a very precarious position in the mission, where they had to distract the Dominion forces to allow the marine regiment and the CHANTICO crew to complete their extraction.
Ana tapped her comm. badge after having making a few notes regarding the mission on a PADD. “Spankryz to Bridge.”
[[Bridge here,]] came the voice of Commander Daiuon, the ship’s Ops officer.
“Inform the senior staff to get their departments ready for departure tomorrow at 0800hrs,” Ana ordered. “Also send a message to Brigadier Cassie Yates of the USS MATACO and Lt. Cmdr. Eishnala Kor of the GATEWAY telling them to get their vessels ready to leave with us.”
[[Aye ma’am,]] the Betazoid woman complied.
A few minutes later, the Trill CO transmitted a message containing details of the mission plans to Kor and Yates on a secure channel. She then contacted Daiuon again to make an announcement to all senior staff members to report to the Observation Lounge for a mission briefing.
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Location: GS-2
Scene: Briefing Room
TI: 1 hour later
The senior staff of the Federation’s largest station filed themselves into the room and took their designated seats. Eishnala stood at the head of the table waiting for everyone to settle down. The Andorian ExO was well-aware of the risks the mission to rescue Daisy, Drake and the other prisoners from the mining camp entailed. Kor tapped a button on a console and a holographic projection of an M-class planet appeared. She began. “This is the third planet in the KAOS system located in Dominion space. KAOS III hosts a large Dominion prison facility.”
Mowree questioned. “Could Daisy and Drake be held there?”
“I was just coming to that, Commander,” Eishnala stated. “According to various intelligence reports, Commander Davidson and Lt. Cmdr. Drake are captives in that particular facility. Also, there is evidence of cloning by the Dominion of species besides the Vorta.”
Trella observed. “So it was a clone of our commander in that news broadcast and the information of her defection to the Dominion is false.”
“Exactly Lieutenant,” the blue woman nodded. “We will be heading in the CHANTICO to the KAOS system as part of a taskforce where our mission objective is to infiltrate the facility and liberate the prisoners.” Eishnala paused for a moment to take in a tiny breath.
“The taskforce is headed by the USS COMMENDATION and also comprises the entire 13th regiment who will be coming in their own transports. The CHANTICO’s role is to act as support to the marine troops, who will be responsible for the actual infiltration of the facility.”
Thomas Varn queried. “How do we plan on avoiding the Dominion while we conduct this rescue operation, considering we’ll be inside their territory?”
“The COMMENDATION will be distracting the Dominion forces to divert their attention away from our operation,” Kor explained. “Also the CHANTICO and all the Hellespont class marine transports will be cloaked for the duration of our stay in Dominion space.”
Jake Crichton inquired. “Is the COMMENDATION planning on engaging the Dominion forces in battle as a way to distract them from us?”
“Yes,” Eishnala nodded, her antennae dangling sideways. “We will be departing with the COMMENDATION and the marine transports at 0800hrs tomorrow.”
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Scene: MacNeil’s quarters
TI: Later that evening
Kate placed William Wallace on her lap, stroking his soft, brown-black coat. The dog whined sadly as he looked up with big brown eyes at his mistress, sensing something was wrong. MacNeil spent close to half hour explaining to the little beagle that she had to be away on a very dangerous mission and leave the pets under the Anthony Giles’ care till she returned. Kate felt the dog’s disappointment in parting from her and the Scot assured him she was definitely come back safely. Although the half-Nuimon suspected William Wallace was not completely convinced by her assurances. Just in case she did not return, Kate made arrangements with Giles to send the pets back to her parents on EARTH with a letter. She smiled, watching Mary Sue swinging on the branch of her artificial tree. She did not even mind her parrot yakking.
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Location: USS COMMENDATION
Scene: Main Bridge
TI: Following morning
Cmdr. Daiuon informed. “Captain, GATEWAY has cleared us for departure.”
“Understood,” Anaqueen acknowledged, leaning forward in her chair and turned her attention to the helm. “Ensign Talbo, set course for the KAOS system.”
“Course laid in,” the Ocampan FCO reported a minute later.
Ana ordered. “Disembark from the station and engage.” Cocking her head towards one of the auxiliary stations where the COMMENDATION’s SOO sat, the Trill inquired. “What’s the status of the other vessels in the taskforce?”
Lt. Evelyn Williams answered, glancing behind. “The CHANTICO, HELLESPONT, CHIMERA, HELLE, DARDINELLE and ATHAMUS have all disengaged from the station and awaiting our signal before going into warp.”
“Thank you,” Ana nodded. “Helm, jump to maximum warp.” Spankryz proceeded to tell her chief of operations to send a communiqué to the other vessels indicating them to do the same.” The next few hours traveling in warp for the taskforce would be considered the lull before a huge storm. The ship’s marine contingent had already transported to the HELLESPONT to join in the ground efforts at the mining camp.
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Haley, the ship’s Sec/Tac, informed. “No sign of any Dominion vessel following us and my counterparts on the other ships report the same thing.”
“Thank you, Commander,” the Captain acknowledged.
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Location: USS CHANTICO
Scene: Bridge
TI: Few hours later
The helm officer, a young Ferengi woman, announced. “We’re approaching our destination, ETA 2 minutes 45 seconds.”
“Thank you, Crewman,” Eishnala acknowledged. The taskforce planned on jumping out of warp at a safe distance from KAOS III so as to not arouse too much attention from the Dominion and provide enough time for the CHANTICO and the marine transports to activate their cloaks. The taskforce had managed to jump out of warp without incident.
Palandora reported. “Sensors detect no sign of any Dominion activity in the vicinity.”
“Activate the cloak,” the Andorian ordered. “And go to yellow alert.”
“Yes ma’am,” the Vissian complied and soon the raptor and other Hellespont transports were hidden from view.
“I’m receiving a message from the COMMENDATION,” Kate announced. “Captain Spankryz wants us to proceed immediately to the facility.”
Eishnala nodded. “Helm, set course for the planet.”
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Location: USS HELLESPONT
Scene: Bridge
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Brigadier General Cassie Yates watched on the viewer as the entire task force either cloaked simultaneously, or broke formation. These were the tasks that she was trained for. "Helm, follow the CHANTICO into a low orbit. I want a full defensive workup done on that facility within 5 mikes.”
The lighting on the ship dimmed out as their energy signature was masked by the cloaking systems, it also gave the personnel on board a sense of running silent, like on old Naval submarines. "3 minutes to orbit" the Marine at operations reported.
"Acknowledged. Input stationary orbit coordinates. Locate and input primary and secondary LZ's, sound alert, have all troops prepare for departure. Companies C D and E are to remain as reserve."
"Orders acknowledged. LZ's located and plotted. Facility defended by security screen, transport out of the facility proper is not possible. Recommend primary target be the shield generators on level 6."
"Send word to Recon Alpha they are responsible for taking out the shield generators."
"Alpha acknowledges. Orbit obtained."
"Initiate transport. Tactical on viewer." A map of the facility came up on screen while several dozen blips approached the facility in blue on the screen."
[[Recon Alpha secure, proceeding with objective]]
[[Recon Alpha, target acquired. 15 hostiles in area. Standbye.]]
"Recon Alpha, be aware of the possibility of shrouded military personnel"
[[Acknowledged Hellespont, distortion detection active indications negative. Proceeding with objective]]
The comm. system burst with several small pops through the speakers, like someone opening a vacu-sealed can. [[Recon Alpha, soldiers neutralized. Planting charges.]]
"10 minutes recon alpha"
[[Acknowledged.]] more silence permeated the bridge while the recon team did it's thing down below. [[Recon alpha, mission phase one complete. Request extraction in 4 mikes]]
"Transporter room, standbye to retrieve Recon alpha."
More waiting, until several screens on the bridge reported explosions on the planet surface, and the screens around the facility dropped.
"Yates to all extraction teams, you are a go. Target any federation personnel you see and tag them with markers for transport."
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NRPG: A JP by Taylor and myself. The taskforce arrived at the mining camp and this post ends with the start of the operation. Now as for any away team(s) from the CHANTICO that will go down with the marines, I will leave that at your discretion.
Everyone: TAG!
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Col Bret Maverick
USS Patriot NCC-5781-A
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V Adm Adam Heyting
Public Relations Office
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V Adm Nathan Hathaway
Chief of Starfleet Engineering
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Maj Hunter Williams
2/5th Regiment Commander USS Vincennes
Task Force 44, Group Shadow
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Ranjani Sabarinathan
Speaking for...
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Lieutenant Commander Kathryn MacNeil, MD
Chief Operations Officer
GATEWAY STATION- 2
and
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Captain Anaqueen Spankryz
Commanding Officer
USS COMMENDATION, NCC-10021 (Non RP ship)
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