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Rhan K'hal

Home on the Range

Another two weeks of playing cowboy had crawled by; not the exciting, gun-slinging Wild West kind of cowboying but the brutally dull herding cattle across the plains, though in this case the cattle were transports (and far less maneuverable than cows) and the plains were the black, emptiness of space. Nearly regular stops for repairs or warp nacelle cooldowns popped up along the way, rather slowing down the endeavor, along with the agonizingly slow pace around warp 4. Even if the whole thing meant that they'd get out of the Gamma Quadrant for a while, Rhan was exasperated beyond telling as they approached the partially completed Starbase Lyonesse. Some of the bridge personnel began to joke that the area behind Rhan was a navigational hazard as his tail was whipping around like a deadly weapon more often than not.

 

His major headache came in the form of one Major Vellan Kre, the Bajoran transport group commander. Besides being woefully inadequate in dealing with space operations, the ridged-nose man's people skills were lacking. Between episodes of whining, complaining, and arrogance, Rhan was nearly ready to transport him into the void. He was having no such trouble with Colonel Kutang, the leader of the Klingon scouting detachment. When a Klingon warrior is the polite one, you know it's bad.

 

In any case, the young Cait's troubles were only starting, as the upcoming trip through the wormhole was a logistical nightmare considering a lot of these ships weren't in the greatest of condition, and while the wormhole is stable as far as wormholes go, it requires a ship to have a stable subspace field and enough maneuverability to avoid the verteron nodes. The Starfleet engineers from the Fleet ships will undoubtedly be busy getting some of the convoy ships up to specs for a safe passage.

 

Rhan's job will be to coordinate all of this once again, as well as fitting in other arriving vessels full of refugees being sent to the gathering point from Camelot Station. With Starbase Lyonesse being nothing more than a navigational hazard at this point, the Excalibur will have to act as a mobile traffic controlling station on top of everything else, at least until Starfleet moves another more suitable asset into the area.

 

The worst part of all, the lanky young Cait knew, was that this was likely to be the best mission they'd see in a while. Once they were sent back into the Gamma Quadrant, they could very easily find themselves caught up in the Dominion unrest, and the Wild Wild West part of the cowboying would begin. Yeehaw.

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