From: Erik (felldoh_at_voyager.net)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 16:25:32 PDT
"Peacekeeping" continued from "Downtime" Location: USS PATRIOT Stardate: 2.80825.1603 Scene: MOC "First off," Gorman began when everyone had arrived. "We've had some personnel changes. Ensigns Dugan and Suvak have been reassigned. Ensign Song is our new CEO," he indicated the black haired woman in Suvak's old seat, "and Ensign Tam will be taking over the Medical department." He turned to the Bajoran officer and added. "Due to a shortage of qualified personnel we don't have a replacement for your old job yet. The rest of the staff can handle the ship's counselling needs, but you'll need to continue handling the department's administrative needs until Fleet sends us a new CNS. "Understood, sir." She replied dutifully, silently dreading the fact that her paperwork load had just doubled. "Captain." Gorman said, indicating he was finished. Kenta nodded. "First off I'd like to report that Starfleet Command considers Marathon and our part in it a huge success. The entire Federation is grateful for your efforts. I tried to convince the admiralty to give us extra shore leave, but they apparently weren't that grateful." The joke seemed out of character for the usually austere captain, but most of the senior staff laughed anyway, if only out of courtesy. "We are getting a bit of a break though," he continued. "We've been rotated out of front line duty." No one in the room had ever balked at doing their part for the war effort, but the PATRIOT had so far been involved in both of the engagements with the highest casualty rates of the war. No one felt bad about taking the back seat for awhile. Kenta tapped a few buttons in front of his chair and the table projected a holographic map. "This is the IRATHI system." he began. "It was one of the first we liberated from dominion troops. It has two inhabited worlds, the third and fourth planets, as well as a colony on the largest moon of the seventh. The government has formally surrendered, and is cooperative to the Federation, but a large portion of the population is in open rebellion, and the government has requested help in suppressing it. The Dominion suppresses military technology among it's citizens, and the resistance groups have no military training, so a relatively small Starfleet force should suffice to quell the rebellion if it comes to open battle, but Command is hoping the presence of a warship of the PATRIOT's caliber will be enough to convince most of the groups to surrender." Ben turned off the display and continued. "This will be predominately a goodwill mission. We'll be bringing a small diplomatic team along, and Commander Gorman will lead an away team responsible for medical relief and infrastructure repair." he turned to Maverick. "Colonel, your marines will be responsible for the security of both teams, but they are not to engage any insurgent cells except to defend Federation personnel." "Understood." He replied. "Meanwhile, there will be work to do on the ship as well." He turned to the new engineer. "I'm afraid you've got your work cut out for you. The starbases engineers didn't get a chance to do much work since our last mission, so your staff will need to complete the repairs from the last mission. The transwarp drive is still completely offline, and that will be your top priority." "Yes, sir." Meera answered. In a perfect world she would have had some time to get familiar with the ship and staff before undergoing major repairs, but she was confident she was up to the challenge. "We'll be leaving in one hour. Dismissed." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NRPG: A little terse, but I've been very busy the last few days. The bright side is that my computer is finally fixed. This mission is pretty free form, though I'm sure it won't stay as clear cut as it seems. Anyone who wants can post us arriving at the system and getting started, and don't be shy about introducing a problem I haven't alluded to, and as always if you have time to post, but are stuck for ideas don't hesitate to talk ask Rahul or I for ideas. Lastly, I'd like to formally welcome Ran to the PATRIOT. The bio for her character Meera Song is up on the website. Erik Walz Captain Benjamin Kenta Commanding Officer USS PATRIOT 5781-A & Lt. Seloron Junior ACT Instructor Starfleet Academy, Earth From HyperNews_at_youth.net
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