But, but, but the new fighters!

[Cptn Corizon 0]

Captain's Log

Supplemental Entry

 

I’ve found myself staring into a minefield, literally, and once again facing a difficult decision.

 

In the course of making friendly with locals, I agreed to use our fighter squadron to help bolster local patrols while we’re in the sector, as pirates have become a bit of a problem, according to the HaVorante government.

 

A few hours ago, one of those patrols failed to report in as scheduled. We managed to track them down a nebula filled with mines. Of course all of that is in the mission log, but I feel the need to restate it, because it’s relevant to my current dilemma—we’ve had no luck finding a way through the minefield.

 

My XO, Commander Kitty, has made it fairly clearly to me that we should leave them if we can’t find away to safely find them, and I don’t disagree with the assessment that we can’t risk more lives on our ship, however I am concerned about losing an entire squadron of fighters this early in our mission.

 

What I am more curious about is who mined the nebula and why no one else has bothered to note it on the charts. They don’t appear to be Dominion mines, which tend to be phased out of normal space, like the Houdini Mines. Which is a positive, the negative is that in all likelihood there’s a group of pirates waiting to pounce on us, or already pouncing our fighter squadron.

 

How we get ourselves into these messes, I am not quite sure…

 

Oh bloody hell; the causality report is starting to come in. No fatalities yet, but still days like today are days I wish I would have stayed on the Oberon cataloging gaseous anomalies.

 

I suppose I should return to the bridge and check up on our efforts to defeat the minefield. I am going to give Science/Engineering a while longer…