East-West Accord

Posted on Sat Mar 7th, 2020 @ 3:33am by Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 72: T'Would Ring the Bells of Heaven
Location: Various Locations - USS Argonne
Timeline: 1200Hrs - March 25th, 2392

Captain Rhodes made his way past the pilots who had finished training. He noticed the bearded man in a cockpit clad wearing an old military jacket and oddly wearing sunglasses.

"Commander Sergeyev. I presume?" Rhodes asked. "I've sent you several requests for a conference but you have failed to acknowledge them."

Sergeyev first announced to his pilots. "Comrade pilots, 15 minute break, then head for the simulators," He then turned his attention to Rhodes. "Greetings Captain, I apologize I never got these requests, are you sure you didn't send them through one of those incompetent slaboumnyy La'brosse's or Bremer's did you."

Rhodes didn't recognize the word so just continued. "No need to apologize Commander, it seems that some of the staff is in a state of transition." Rhodes told him.

"I would like to ask you about what happened at the Lobox System. Namely what happened between Colonel Nye, Colonel Hobbs, you, and the rest of the crew of the Argonne."

Sergeyev took a slightly darker tone, given his complete distaste for Nye. "Nye, that man. He would have made a great leader, for the Soviet Union under Stalin. Throwing his troops into the meat grinder just to serve his own career. He failed to properly estimate the Air defenses of the planet. When the Shuttle carrying the heavy weapons got shot down, he and his lackeys decided to resort to a frontal light infantry assault, which had predictable casualty results. The entire operation would have been a total failure if it weren't for the presence of the Akurian Battlecruiser, and even then, it still was mostly a failure, especially when Nye staged that mutiny, plus his failure to coordinate with the Akurians, whom had tanks and the equipment to break the fortress without resorting to an infantry charge. Then there was sending my pilots into suicide attacks against enemy air defenses. 80% of my birds got shot down in that operation, and yet he refused to listen to me thinking he was an expert in fighter combat."

"Is that why you physically assaulted him when you returned to the Argonne?" Rhodes coolly asked.

Sergeyev shrugged. "Well he sent his troops into the meat grinder, treating them as little more than cannon fodder, so the asshole deserved that ass beating. Besides, your JAG, you should know my track record. I don't care if your a lieutenant or a Four star. Treat your troops as nothing more than cannon fodder to be expended as ammunition, I'm gonna deliver that ass beating Soviet Style."

"From reading your service jacket you seem to deliver several beatings...'Soviet style'." Rhodes inflecting his voice for effect. "How does an officer of your record of assault and battery stay in Star Fleet?"

Sergeyev smiled, replying as he shrugged his shoulders that indicated he did not care. "Well, ask Wing Master Phoenix, she has an even worse record than I do. besides, I'm not in Starfleet, I'm in fighter Corps. So..."

"Phoenix is not the matter at hand." Rhodes pointed out. "You're a Federation officer. You pulverized a flag officer. That flag officer later died. The question is, Commander, why should your testimony have any merit?"

Sergeyev showed no inclination of caring about Rhode's opinion. "So, jackass had it coming, what of it?". The Russian man shrugged. "If you don't think my testimony has any merit, then why are you here wasting my time, and why do you think I care.?"

"I just had to make you didn't have anything useful to add." Rhodes told him. "Clearly you don't Commander."

Sergeyev didn't care about Rhode's opinion either.. "Clearly you don't care about a useful investigation either, so, yeah, go on, get out of here, stop wasting valuable oxygen."

"I'll leave the fighter combat to you Commander and you can leave the judicial work to me." Rhodes replied.

"For once I agree with you, now why are you still here?. taking up valuable space on my flight deck..." Sergeyev asked.

Rhodes didn't bother to respond as he knew it would not make any difference. He gave Sergeyev a once over and left.

Sergeyev didn't even bother to think any further on the man, having little respect for JAG as is.