USS Excalibur, 12/17/23, 10:00 PM ET

December 18, 2023

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USS Excalibur - Sundays 10 ET - Command Staff: Cptn Swain, CdrMirandaHawthorne

Between 12/17/2023 9:08 PM and 12/17/2023 10:19 PM

MISSION BRIEF; We last found our intrepid crew having a meeting. Very exciting! At the meeting they were discussing various issues regarding their current mission to discover what had become of the people using the missing mining equipment. That part had been straightforward as they had found the miners murdered in what appeared to be a shootout with some third party who had also absconded with any of the product of the illicit mine.

9:09 PM

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9:09 PM

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Rex> Frowning and mentally considering where a Merkocite processing enrichment facility might be nearby

“So, we’re searching for amateurs with an AQS unit, that haven’t killed themselves yet? Do I have that right?”

Irene> Reclining with a padd in her hands. "Given Romulan tech, we might not have to worry long, in that case."

Well that's one possibility, yes. But first they'd need to enrich the Merkocite, they weren't doing it here.

“Fair”

:: Listening ::

"So, where would you do that at? Don't tell me they stole an orbital refinery, too."

“That would be weird.”

ACTION> The Red Alert klaxons sound.

9:15 PM

Clark> +Science Lab+ Bridge to Science, Captain you better get up here.

9:15 PM

Frowns visably It's always something.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Stands quickly.:: Looks as though we're going to table this discussion...

“When it rains it pours.”

9:16 PM

taps the table

Irene> She jumps at the red alert noise, nearly falling out of her chair. "...they stole an orbital refinery, didn't they?" (edited)

Rex> Tenses and heads towards the doors and lifts

William gets up and heads to the lifts.

Irene follows after them.

Casts a glance at Jalen before heading to the bridge

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Follows the Captain, frowning for once.::

ACTION> Through the magic of a quick cut screen, the group all arrives on the bridge via the same turbo lift where they arrive to find the expected lowered main lighting and flashing reds.

9:19 PM

Report.

William takes his station and looks out the view screen.

Clark> We've been actively scanning for signs of cloaked vessels, Captain and...

Irene is a few steps behind, heading for Science.

ACTION> At that moment a shimmer on the view screen appears, the tell-tell sign of a decloaking vessel.

“Damn cloaks.”

Rex> Already at the tactical panel Romulan short-range interceptor, but a new class I haven't seen before. They're not powering weapons, that I can tell.,

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Checks his chair's console, still standing.:: Which is a good sign... for now. I wondering if they're searching for a pilfered AQS.

:: Seated on the bridge watching ::

“Has anyone tried saying hi?”

Tips his head Open hailing frequencies.

9:24 PM

Clark> Glances nervously to Val Channel open sir.

9:25 PM

+Romulan Vessel+ Unidentified Romulan vessel, this is Captain Asher Swain of the USS Excalibur. Please identify yourself and state your reason for entering, uninvited, into Federation space.

9:25 PM

Lowly so only Jalen can hear I swear to god if it's an N'Dak I will shoot the damn thing out of the sky.

(( It’s Always an N’Dak in the Federation ))

Val> Looks over at Clark, then goes back to intently staring at her console.

“All systems are live and ready Captain.”

$Corizon> The white-haired, dog-eared former captain of the Excalibur alongside a younger Romulan officer in a slightly different, but still very obviously military uniform appears on the screen. Captain Swain, apologies for the theatrics.

“Isn’t that the old captain two variations ago?”

Tries to hide his surprise, but is unlikely to do so very well. Glances to Jalen,

((I have no clue if that sentence correctly parses.))

Irene> She just looks confused.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Lifts an eyebrow at Swain.::

Corizon> This is Erei'Riov Vaener Tanak of the Tal'Dian. I'll explain more once we've come aboard... he paused I am transmitting my clearance codes now. I hope you don't mind if I beam myself to your ready room?

“Bold”

It took Asher what probablly seemed like forever to fully comprehend all of that, but looks to Jalen with an unspoken request to check the clearence

9:34 PM

Clark> Was staring down at his console as to avoid making a face

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Clears throat, tugging on his uniform, but nods slightly as he checks the code.::

Rex> Narrowing his eyes, he clicked over the security code and scanned the ship.

9:35 PM

+Corizon+ Alright. I'll see you in my ready room then.

:: Yawns :: "This is not boring."

Corizon> Smiles fangily and cuts the comm

“Bizarre” (edited)

At least it wasn't an N'Dak.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> At least... No, just a former Captain of this vessel taking liberties.

9:36 PM

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Which is worse?

Irene> "With Romulans?"

“I thought we’ve been through two separate space frames since he was captain.”

How much do you know about Corizon? It was rhetorical.

9:37 PM

Rex> Two individuals just transported into your ready room, sir.

9:38 PM

Jalen Let's go. Choxox, Rex, Mincine scan the out of that ship.

“Of course.”

Irene> Glances over at the ready room door. "With pleasure." She practically spits out and gets to work.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Never a dull moment. ::Follows Swain, steeling himself for more surprises.::

Enters the ready room where he finds Corizon at least not sitting in his chair as he expected, but instead standing looking out the window while the tall, almost stereotypical Romulan officer stood akwardly

9:41 PM

Vaener> Captain. His tone was something close to groveling, and if Asher or Jalen noticed it, he was blushing a light green.

“Do you think other ships have these kind of shenanigans?”

Rex> Glances over to Chocox and Mincine Tal'Dian now that's a twist.

Irene> "And we just... let them beam into the ready room?"

Rex> Smirks No, but you would be bored on any other ship, Will.

9:43 PM

Rex> Military intelligence. Not exactly the Tal'Shiar.

“Only slightly.”

Irene> "Nobody's gone wrong overestimating Romulan deviousness."

Corizon> See I told you Civet, they wouldn't shoot us on sight.

9:45 PM

Looks to Jalen with one of those, "they don't pay me enough."

9:45 PM

Rex> What you think Corizon is a faaaaaakkkkeeeee?"

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Starfleet ships normally don't. Unless things have changed since you were a Starfleet Captain? (edited)

Vaener> Blushes a deeper shade of green.

Irene> "It's been known to happen, hasn't it?"

“Yes”

Captain, can we skip to the part where you tell me what in the hell you're doing showing up here in a Romulan ship?

9:48 PM

Rex> Smirks I am scanning the ship. I've never seen an interceptor of this configuration. It must be a new design.

9:49 PM

Corizon> Smiles, fangily I've always appreciated your directness Asher. Commander Stanton, I don't believe we've had the pleasure.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Definitely not. I'd remember. ::Dryly.::

Val> "Haven't seen a Romulan ship this small since the Dominion War. Maybe they learned somethin' from Dominion fighter craft."

“Anything interesting on scans?”

Corizon> Smirks Do you mind if I make myself a drink? He didn't wait and headed to the small bar where Asher kept the real booze and started mixing something As I said, this is Erei'Riov Tanak of the Tal'Dian. His code name is Civet and that just seems easier to me but...

9:52 PM

Asher> Erei'Riov

Irene> "You wanna be more specific? It's a new Romulan design, there's a lot of interesting things." She's cataloguing them all with every scanner the ship has.

“What pops out to you?”

Corizon> Rolls his eyes out of sight of Swain but returns to the conversation with a drink in hand. Of course the man could find the good whiskey without asking.

9:53 PM

Rex> Tactically its packing more of a punch than I'd expect for a craft the size of a runabout.

Irene> "It's like they took a Defiant and squished it down, but kept all the weaponry."

“Impressive.”

Corizon> The Tal'Dian is the intelligence wing of the Galae, the military inteilligence. They contacted us a few weeks ago and asked us to look into some, well, strange .

9:55 PM

Rex> We should run its energy signature against the damage on the outpost.

“Good idea.” William starts typing away.

I know what the Tal'Dian is, Captain. He moved to take his seat behind his desk and looked at Jalen.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> What sort of strange... ness? ::Looking to the Romulan officer.::

Val> Looking over the readout of the Romulan ship. "I don't know. That thing's built for ship-to-ship combat. It's not a landing craft."

Vaener> Looking somehow even more uncomfortable, he took a deep breath. We've been tracking unusual shipments to colony worlds on the outskirts, especially near Breen space. Advanced medical imaging equipment being sent to planets without advanced medical facilities, sensor and communication array components for planets without them, thing s like that.

9:59 PM

Corizon> We tracked some high-end energy conversion stuff to a planet on colony on Teral IV.

10:00 PM

Corizon> That's where I came in. I helped Civet here inflitrate a water-treatment facility where the stuff was being off-loaded.

10:00 PM

Vaener> Winces

10:01 PM

Rex> That doesn't look like any of the normal cloaking devices I've seen either, does it to you Will? Much smaller.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Pirates?

“Oh yeah, much much smaller.”

Corizon> If only, that would be a welcome change.

10:04 PM

Vaener> We weren't able to positively identify them he had summoned up the courage for the mild corrective but we believe....

10:04 PM

Corizon> Tal'Shiar operatives most likely.

Irene> "Small ship, small area to cloak, smaller cloaking device. Pretty scary that they got them that small, though."

Rex> Very helpful of the Sub-commander thumbs towards the ready room to let us just scan that bad boy, then.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Tal'Shiar... rogue operatives / former operatives? Or current agents operating under the government's nose?

Corizon> Great questions. The Tal'Dian is a little he glanced to Vaener hesitant to go to the mat with any of this just yet, but I can't see how they're putting together this kind of an op without official support at least with the Tal'Shiar.

Irene> "Oh, I'm sure sensor data on that thing is part of whatever deal they're cooking up in there."

Vaener> Frowns, but doesn't interject

Cdr Jalen Stanton> And what's their purpose? Destablization? A payday?

Corizon> Anyway, they were using the water treatment facility as a cover to put together a Merkocite enrichment facility. I won't insult you any further as to why we're points to Vaener here.

10:10 PM

Corizon> Grins and points to Jalen with his drink. I like him Asher. That's what we don't know, yet. We'd hoped to find the people wildcatting Merkocite in the act and... ask them a few questions, but well looks like someone beat us here, huh?

10:10 PM

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Lost track of time haha

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Corizon likes Jalen, I don't know whether to be afraid for him or not

lol

But at least it wasn'

10:12 PM

t an N

10:12 PM

Dak

10:12 PM

and yes, I really considered an Issaha cameo

10:12 PM

I know how much Irene misses him

Haha

10:14 PM

That means yes

So, next week is christmas and after that is new years

10:15 PM

So we'll be off till Jan 7 when we can find out what Corizon really wants from us

Yay!

10:15 PM

Everyone have a great Christmas & Happy New Year.

10:16 PM

There's still time to buy me a present, also.

lol

10:18 PM

Corizon is going to owe asher booze for christmas

He can pay with one of his earrings

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