Wrong.

[STSF Precip 0]

The report from the Warbird Rodan 2 hours earlier was still sending Gravous' head spinning.

 

He was wrong. And he couldn't shake the feeling that misreading intelligence while commanding a major operation the Tal Shiar was performing would send him to his grave. Potentially literally.

 

The Warbird Rodan, while operating cloaked had detected an odd signal emanating well outside the Romulan star system. Shorlty after the signal two vessels had decloaked. One a Romulan shuttle, the other a Federation Starship..Nebula Class. The Nebula resumed it's cloak and left the shuttle behind.

 

Gravous grasped the armrests on his chair. He thought Manticore was out of commission, he thought they would send the less experienced, impetuous Wolfe to do the extraction. He thought the extraction of the Federation team would be take place in the Romulan Star System proper. He had even commanded all nearby Tal Shiar vessels to converge around Romulus and irradiate space with enough EM radiation to make a cloaked vessel glow.

 

But he found nothing, he was wrong. Additionally he had placed the Romulan search fleet out of position to catch the Manticore. Manticore now had a head start home and the Warbirds under his command would be unable to catch the fleeing vessel. The closest vessel, the Rodan, was busy recovering the Shuttle the Federation team had used to escape. Command had given orders to Gravous and his wayward fleet to head to the Neutral Zone at Maximum warp. Command had also informed the Ordinary forces of the Romulan Navy of the infiltration and to set up a picket near the Neutral Zone. This action was a humiliation to the Tal Shiar..and Gravous was at the center of it.

 

He was wrong and he would pay a heavy price for this failure. His failure.