Ten Trillion Drones

Posted on Thu Mar 12th, 2020 @ 4:27am by Admiral Kurso Teska & Fleet Captain Racheal Yamaguchi & Grand Admiral April Yamaguchi & Grand Admiral Julia Antilles-Yeager & Master Admiral Pasha Andreyev & Grand Admiral Gregory Turner & Grand Admiral Jake Grafton & Ambassador Lu'Pal & Grand Admiral Xavier Bell

Mission: Mission 89: An Irresistible Force
Location: A Classified meeting room - Location unknown
Timeline: May 24th 2392

After her lunch break, Kasana returned to the meeting room where the Federation president Zeyss as well as Hursk and Myzar where already present. Kasana knew more jaws were about to drop with the second part of the meeting and she found it rather amusing.

April Yamaguchi sat down in the same chair she was seated in earlier as the other Admirals all began to file back in one after another, they quickly took their seats, within moments they were ready to begin the meeting.

Rachael Yamaguchi was the last in, as she was decked out in her Borg armor, she cut an impressive figure. "Ladies and gents... We are all present... Shall we proceed?" she inquired.

This time Kasana pulled up some statistics. "Alright, so Thanks to Rachael here, I have an accurate count of how many drones we are talking about liberating from the collective if our plan works, and the final count is something on the order of 26 trillion drones."

Turner blinked. "Ummm What!?" he inquired. "Twenty-six trillion drones?" he paused. "Where the hell do we settle all of these?"

Grafton shrugged. "Who cares. We deal with that at another time..." he responded bluntly. "We have thousands of worlds that are not being used... Well, they will be after this... Assuming this is successful of course."

Admiral Bell chuckled softly. "I love this plan...I mean whats not to like... a small teeny weenie chance of success, stupidly impossible odds if this goes wrong and we might rip holes in the fabric of the universe... I mean honestly. it's great."

"This... from our science Chief..." Turner commented. "You sound like Miranda." he sighed. "I miss her."

"So if this succeeds... We will end up saving the last of the Borg from their new foe.."

"We designated them as species thirteen two oh one." Rachael Yamaguchi explained. "We are utterly defenseless against them."

Hursk gave her opinion. "No, I'd say we are saving trillions of people from the Borg. But we are sure as hell making sure the Collective's days are numbered."

Rachael Yamaguchi regarded Hursk with a rather evil smile. "The collective is over," she responded. "I am certain of that. My goal here and now is to save as many of those who deserve to live as I can."

"There is one major problem though," Zeyss added," We are already under strain from the various refugee groups flooding into the Federation. Adding over 20 trillion former drones to the Federation is going to put an incredible strain on our resources. as it stands our territory isn't big enough to handle all those people. Not to mention this will strain Starfleet's resources even further. Though I shouldn't have too many problems convincing the Federation Council to expand Starfleet further, the bigger problem is living space. So if anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with that."

Admiral Greg Turner then spoke up. "Well we do have a lot of systems that people have written off as being unlivable but they do have class M worlds in them... Moons orbiting class J gas giants for example that have two week long days.."

Bell nodded. "Yes... He's got a point, we've been rather picky about the words we settle on... It might be time to reconsider those standards."

"Setting up the infrastructure for so many worlds through that quickly, It won't be easy, "Myzar commented. "Even so, I don't think there is enough of those planets to do the job. We will probably have to expand to using planets outside of our current borders, provided no one else is using them."

Hursk nodded. "Yeah, we will also have to pull back on practically all of our current exploration activities and redeploy those ships for colonial survey duties. It's all doable, but it won't be easy."

Racheal Yamaguchi turned her head. "I have a great deal of data on many of the worlds in question. The Borg were probing for weaknesses over the last ten years on the Federation and they scanned many of the worlds in systems that you had written off as being unsuitable, for us however they will be more than suitable."

Turner chuckled softly. "I don't see the issues about exploration being an issue honestly. I've never been a great fan of them and we can always send out smaller carrier groups to do the same missions, more ship together will increase our ships odds of coming back from those multi-year long missions."

Xavier Bell smiled. "I too don't mind keeping our fleets closer to home for a change. Those unexplored spaces aren't really going anywhere and we've already spread our fleet too thin, repurposing those ships to scout out uninhabited systems will show us who has what and where it is.."

The Vulcan female scoffed. "I protest, we must keep sending out ships and forces out to explore, that is after all that we do best... Meet new people and seek and explore."

"It's only worth it if... it serves a Higher purpose than simply going somewhere for the thrill of seeing something new." Admiral Grafton responded. "Pirates are still a menace and they can set up shop anywhere... even on rogue worlds which we've always dismissed as being worthless... We should do something about those as well..."

"We keep sending out ships... and losing them." Pasha Andreyev responded. "We hear stories not of exploration missions that succeeded but of missions that failed because the ships were lost or they disappeared." he then shrugged. "We should take some time.... years preferably to build up our forces, to invest more heavily into research and development and build a force that can really protect the Federation... We need more living space and we need the forces to protect that living space."

Zeyss offered a more moderate viewpoint. "No, we are still going to need our exploration forces, but for a very specific goal in mind, finding living space for all these drones we are planning on liberating. Our exploration capabilities aren't going anywhere, we are just redeploying them all for a specific purpose in mind rather than general exploration. If anything, with a number of planets we are going to need, we are going to have to significantly expand our exploration arm of the fleet."

Grafton paused. "We will also need to expand our infrastructure," he commented. "That we can do simply because we're already doing it.."

Lu'Pal regarded her fellow Admirals. "We need more ships...and more personal... so more teaching facilities.."

"Fortunately," Zeyss added. "With the latest crisis we have been dealing with, the DaaVit Confederacy, Pregnancy of the Carnelian throne and the Cardassians are willing to help us. The Davvit have sent medical aid and are willing to redeploy to help patrol our territory, so we can utilize those ships elsewhere. Same with the Pregnancy, and I think I can get the Cardassians to help with the survey efforts."

The various Admirals all nodded.

Rachael Yamaguchi, the Borg Queen turned her head. "I can assist you with this effort if you wish.."

Hursk brought up a problem. "Well, as long as you aren't doing survey work with a Borg ship, or even people whom still have all their Borg technology. If you're going to assist it's better to have the people who are no longer assimilated help with survey duty."

Rachael peered at Hursk. "There are several thousand former Borg drones that are not doing anything. They can assist you. I do not control them or have any say in their lives.."

Hursk nodded. "That's fine, as long as they don't appear Borg, as that would spook people."

"What about the Devidians?" Rachael Yamaguchi inquired. "The Borg are aware of some of their recent activities... mostly they are organizing and moving into what I can only assume are feeding areas.."

"Who are the Devidians," Kasana asked.

Rachael Yamaguchi was the one who spoke up. "Mister President, With your permission?" she inquired of the Andorian in the room.

"Yeah go ahead." Came the unexpected response.

Rachael Yamaguchi rose to her feet, she regarded the display at the center of the table as she began tapping away at the display. Moments later after Rachael finished inputting her information, a display revealing much of the Devidians appeared on the display before everyone. "They might be feeding at present... " she explained. "Or they might not... their positions can be detected with large amounts of triolic energy being present."

"Providing that they haven't changed their tactics since the Enterprise-D found them," Kurso Teska added. "However from what the DTI has told me, the time travel trick the Enterprise-D discovered seems to be a rare thing, they haven't discovered any further temporal incursions. But from what other sources have told me, the Devidians generally seem to prefer to prey on pre warp civilizations. However major wars do seem to attract them."

Rachael nodded. "Yes. Your information is correct on the Devidians... and I'll bet they are presently feeding on the fighting going on in Klingon space.." the Borg Queen explained. "Do you have any specific rules of engagement in dealing with them?."

Neither Kurso, Hursk or Myzar could answer that question.

Turner paused. "We'll need to consider this one carefully."

"No... We can't negotiate with them, it's been attempted and it's failed." Pasha Andreyev spoke. "We try once to negotiate with them and if they start with us. then we drive them off from where they are harvesting... Or we kill them."


"Well, if we run into them," Hursk commented.

Rachael peered at the Caitian female. "You will... I can promise you this much.." she slowly smiled. "They will be your next big foe." What Rachael did not know was that she was very wrong.