Letter from Sloan

[Cptn Elias Moore 0]

Elias,

 

I traced that "Omega V" comm address of yours back to a small warehouse in Oakland. I thought this whole business was weird enough when you asked me about nonexistent Intelligence divisions... well, it's gotten a whole lot weirder and I wonder if you can make any sense out of this.

 

The warehouse was storing crates of small electronics components, under the label OkudaTech, nothing out of the ordinary as far as we could tell. The only person there was a security guard who seemed nice enough, until we found the skeletons in his closet... literally. My team made some scans around the place while I distracted the guy with questions. They picked up some organic signatures under the floor at his guard post. When they brought this to my attention, the guard got pretty angry, asking me if we had a search warrant, what our business was snooping around the place, etc.. When we tried to detain him, he just calmly stepped back... and transported away. We checked in with the local Starfleet monitoring posts, on the surface and in orbit, but nobody picked up any transport beams... so I'm afraid to say we've lost the guy. Someone may have been monitoring the warehouse, ready to pluck the guy out if any heat built up.

 

We popped open the loose floorboard at the guard post, pulled out some clay blocks that had been stacked up underneath, and found no less that eight corpses in various states of decay about three feet down. My forensics people are working on IDing them, but I can tell you that two of them are not human--they're Bolian. I don't know what to make of it, but I can say with a fair bit of confidence that this is no Intelligence agency.

 

We looked through the guard's computer... not much, but what we found should interest you. There were Starfleet personnel files describing one of your officers, Elias... an Ensign Stephen Connor. There are also correspondences addressed to and from that very same Connor, some of them mentioning the ESS Achilles, some of them mentioning a Bolian conspiracy, which fits with the two bodies. I've attached them for you to look over. There's nothing else of interest. Seems like this guy's job was to simply stay in contact with Connor. I assume this Connor is the supposedly innocent person that you're protecting?

 

I'll await an answer from you, Elias. I assume you want me to keep my silence for now, so I'll hold off on reporting anything that happened here until I get your feedback. But a Bolian conspiracy? I won't wait long. Get in touch.

 

-Sloan