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Security Log

Chief Security Officer’s log:

 

Over the past few days, my team has been shaping up for our upcoming mission quite well. I finally believe the first hurdles of dealing with heavy combat in a weightless environment have been cleared. Even Commander Laarell Teykier, who has only recently joined the group, seems to have gained a basic aptitude for the task at hand.

 

In the next few trials, focus will now be put on the crux of our mission, demolitions. For our attempt to succeed, we shall have to fully master the use of high-level explosives in zero-gravity as well as the implementation of a rudimentary EMP discharger. This should be an easy task since both Lt. Jons and Ensign Doug have most likely had some experience with such devices in their security training and my own specialty in the field should make filling any memory gaps a simple task.

 

I have as of yet only told the Commander and the Captain the basic outline of my strategy. The rest of the team will sadly have to be left in the dark until we launch. Though I trust my officers’ confidence completely, my duty weighs too heavy to let details be spread by word of mouth.

 

It is my intention for the team to pilot a shuttlepod close to the edge of the facility’s sensor range before cutting power and riding pure inertia to the edge of the Asteroid. Once this is done we shall disembark and gain access through a puncture made at a place close to the facility’s control center but with enough distance so as to not damage the integral systems. This forceful entry will be preceded by the activation of the aforementioned EMP device which should keep the facility’s security system offline long enough for us to reach our target. Once the target is reached it will be up to Commander Teykier to complete our ultimate goal whilst the Security team provides defense from hostiles.

 

Commander Teykier seems to find this method too garish and that stealthier tactics are needed. I find however it unlikely that we could remain undetected long enough in such a closed environment and that the chance of failure is too high and too costly. It is true that the plan I have suggested will result in a loss of life. Anybody present in the sections we enter will most likely be killed in rapid decompression. However this fact should be discounted for two reasons; firstly that it is this exact lack of gravity or oxygen that will give our team in EVA suits an extreme advantage and secondly, it doesn’t damn well matter if they die.

 

Some day soon, the Federation forces on this side of the wormhole will run out of supplies and ships and when that happens we will be defeated. There is no if, there is no but, it is a mathematical certainty. The Scorpiad will slaughter us all. So if our survival depends on a mission where casualties cannot be avoided, so be it. War is not a game of Parrises squares. It is choices like these I must make with my current position and though decisions such as this one will most likely not raise my symbiont’s reputation from it’s current low-status on Trill, I stand by them.

 

On a personal note, I find Commander Laarell’s manner both beguiling and baffling. She seems to hold the events of our last mission against me strongly, almost to the extent of making me out to be some sort of barbarian she’d loathe to be near. But at the same time she seems to have a strong interest in my personal life. In our conversations, she has certainly been hinting at a suspicion of, if not a total knowledge of, the night I spent with Victria and our ongoing dance around eachother. However the tone of her voice has not been mocking nor interrogatory, merely curious. I am not sure of her motives but am intrigued. Why would she be so interested in the details of my love life?

 

Victria herself will not be present for the operation in question. I am unaware of the details but am informed that the Captain has prepared a specific task for her precise skills. I wonder if this decision by Corizon is purely a matter of course, or if I have made the interesting relationship we are pursuing painfully obvious to all and sundry. It could just be that he wishes to prevent any further protests on my part regarding her status on board Excalibur by removing her from my presence. I simply do not know. The man is impossible to read.

 

For now I shall rest on these thoughts. My violin is calling, it has not been played in a while and I fear I am getting out of practice. Tomorrow will be another long day.

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