The Answer is No

Posted on Thu Mar 12th, 2020 @ 4:37am by Fleet Admiral Urban Holland & Admiral Kurso Teska & Fleet Captain Racheal Yamaguchi & Grand Admiral April Yamaguchi & Grand Admiral Julia Antilles-Yeager & Master Admiral Pasha Andreyev & Grand Admiral M'Tala & Grand Admiral Gregory Turner & Grand General Tom Walther & Grand Admiral Jake Grafton & Ambassador Lu'Pal & Grand General Paul "Caveman" Antilles & Grand Admiral Xavier Bell

Mission: Mission 89: An Irresistible Force
Location: A Classified meeting room - Location unknown
Timeline: May 26th 2392

Zeyss Mu'kar came into the meeting room where the admiralty was waiting, one could see the steam coming out of his ears after the latest meeting of the Federation Council. Kurso teska could immediately sense something was wrong.

Julia Antilles-Yeager sat back in her chair, she sipped her coffee as she waited patiently, she had a PADD before her but she wasn't touching it. "Mister President?"

Everyone stood up in the room in silence.

"The council backed out, like a bunch of cowards, because apparently dealing with the Federation's greatest enemy is not worth it," Zeyss almost growled.

Hursk had an annoyed look on her face. "Just like how the Federation council wanted to allow my people to remain their slaves."

April raised an eyebrow. "Wait.. what did they say to you?" the tall woman inquired.

Julia Antilles-Yeager facepalmed. "Sheeeeiiitt!" she growled.

Turner laughed. "I'm surprised those useless fucks actually gave you the time of day mister president.."

Zeyss sighed then explained. "They aren't going to fund or approve of the subspace device, so the plan to deal with the Borg is no good."

Rachael Yamaguchi who had been sitting in the room in silence suddenly growled. "What!" she snarled. "That is the most ignorant move they could have ever made." she paused. "However I can get around it myself.."

"Maybe it's for the best then.." Bell commented. "So... we need a new plan for dealing with the Borg... ideas?. Anyone?."

April Yamaguchi turned her head. "Perhaps... you'd best explain that?" the heavily pregnant woman inquired with a quiet growl. "Because you lost me... and I think a few others too."

"Well you wanna rip holes in space time itself to call the Borg and assuming either of those works.. how do we get the Borg out when we wish to deassimilate them.?"

April paused as Rachael the Borg Queen answered. "Well, how the hell do I know how you plan to do it. You're the science geek, not me... I am or rather I was medical..."

April shook her head. "Tactical for me," she responded. "Anyone else?"

"Engineering and Operations for me." Julia Antilles-Yeager commented with a smile. "So... How would you propose we deal with the single most dangerous and deadly foe we've ever encountered... " she turned to the Andorian male. "Mister President. Did they at least bother to give you an explanation as to why they are withholding approval or funding?"

Zeyss explained with an increasing level of disgust. "The Federation Council has cited the unstable and unpredictable nature of subspace weapons, therefore they have decided they won't fund anything for a subspace weapon. However they have also told me, Starfleet is authorized the use of red matter to deal with the Borg remnant."

Rachael Yamaguchi blinked as April's temper melted down in a fit of fury. "What!" she barked. "Are they fucking high?"

Turner paused. "Wait... They don't want to help the Borg... they want to finish them all off... They want us to lure them into a trap... Using you as bait-" he addressed Rachael Yamaguchi as he spoke. "-and then kill them all... They simply cannot be serious!?" he paused. "Are they?" he asked quietly a moment later

Bell shook his head. "It's going to take me weeks to get that amount of red matter together for this.." he paused. "However I should point out that this second plan... is a really bad plan... because it'll do the same thing as the original plan."

Rachael Yamaguchi shook her head. "Fine... I'll go with my own plan... I'll carry out the original plan... myself." she shrugged. "So the Borg detonated a subspace device inside Federation space...I can have them made from the resources I have on my cube and I can do it myself..." she paused. "I care not about subspace arms control treaties. They might. However, I am not a signatory and neither was the collective."

Kasana who was in the room, shook her head, reminding Rachel, "Actually no you can't, and neither can the Federation, because the device in question requires Akurian technical expertise to build, of which neither of you has. you could build the deflector dish part, but the firing chamber is an Akurian design. Which may actually work in our favor when it comes to circumventing the Federation Council's requirement."

Rachael paused as April was the first to react. "How so?" she inquired.

Walther finally opened his mouth and spoke. His words were in a soft and almost gentle tone of voice. "I think we should do this anyway... The council has no idea how badly this is going to get if we lose this chance to deal with the collective here and now.."

Bell raised an eyebrow. "You are proposing that we agree to the council wanting us to exterminate the Borg... I fail to see the differences here between their shitty assed plan and our plan.. Both violate arms control treaties!" he snarled, now truly angry. "In the end, this conversation is academic because it makes no difference!."

Rachael shrugged. "In the end, it does not matter who builds it... So long as it's not the Federation who fires it." the Queen shrugged. "Personally I wish I could see the looks on the council's faces when their idea goes supernova."

Grafton paused. "The Federation Council wants us to eradicate the Borg... Rather than risk freeing trillions..." he shook his head. "Now that just's just typical. They are afraid to make a decision because it'll require work.."

Hursk added in darkly. "More like the Federation Council doesn't want the Federation, or rather their worlds to shoulder the financial burden of trillions of refugees. That's the problem with the council, is that they see those trillions of drones if they were to be free, to be nothing more than a burden."

"Well they do kinda have a point," Myzar replied," The Federation doesn't exactly have the living space for trillions of drones."

Kasana had no suggestions to offer here. She knew the OISU had a solution, the only problem was, that solution was back in their universe, and she had no idea when contact would be reopened.

Paul Antilles slowly smiled. "Well. I'd say that's incredibly shortsighted of them." he was referring to the council. "For we do." he paused as he allowed that to sink in a moment. "We do have many hundreds, if not thousands of worlds that were looked at for colonization but were rejected for various reasons. Days and night cycle being too long is a good one." he nodded to Bell. "How many colony sites were rejected over the past twenty years for whatever reason?" he inquired of Bell

Bell paused. "Close to fifteen thousand.." he paused. "Probably more. I don't have hard figures on me at present."

"Can these words all be lived on?" Antilles inquired softly. "That's all I'm asking here."

"I'll need to have Terraform command go over things again... but I don't see why not.," Bell responded. "Some of them were really lovely places, some were not and others were a cross of the two."

"Okay... So we do have the space for these people... Fifteen thousand colonies, being settled all at once will be quite a strain but we can simply have one or two ships per colony and a starbase looking after most of the admin needs for that sector. The starbase closest would commit one of their ships... and most starbases have five or six ships assigned to them already.." Antilles explained. "Yes. It will be quite a drain but it could be done.."

Kurso Teska looked over his PADD and began to run up some numbers, then he turned to Rachael senior asking. "Do you think it's possible to design a Borg inspired shield system to be used to control random radiation spikes emanating from somewhat unstable stars."

Rachael raised an eyebrow. "The Borg already have these shield systems, we have had them for centuries.." she answered. "Why do you ask?"

Kurso then pulled on the information of one particular system up on his PADD. "Well, then I have figured out a way to quickly house all these people, and we can do it on one star system."

Antilles slowly grinned. "A good a location as any.. Considering what's there.." he chuckled softly.

Rachael Yamaguchi regarded Antilles with a smile before she turned her attention to the star map being displayed before her. "Yes... I like the location.." she added with a smile.

"I think if we can fit adaptive shielding to an enlarged Akurian style planetary shield grid, we can make this place fully habitable again," Kurso explained.

Rachael nodded. "Indeed, Yes we can use this location.. and in addition, it can be settled by others who wish to use the space too... We would not deny others."

Antilles nodded. "I recall reading reports of this place. it's very heavily industrialized. Yes, we can use this site."

"Since we are not bound by any treaties," Kasana explained, "We can build the firing chamber for the subspace device. All the Federation needs to do is build a very big deflector, which shouldn't be hard to say that it's for other experiments."

Bell nodded his head. "We can arrange it... and say it's for research." he smiled.

Antilles raised an eyebrow. "I will ask several bases for a ship a piece... and send them to secure the Sphere."

Kurso nodded. "Well, as long as this plan works, I won't have to go with my backup solution."

"And what was your backup solution," Hursk asked.

Kurso paused, then answered. "I would have said, screw any of our treaties, dust off project Genesis and build Genesis devices, But this time obviously using them on actual pre-existing barren planets instead of firing it inside of a nebula."

Antilles turned his head. "You cannot possibly be serious?" he inquired in a soft tone. "That would have really honked off all of our neighbors.." the bearded man responded in a thoughtful tone of voice. "And start a super weapon arms race that we do not need to have, also one that we can't control either."

Bell paused. "Well. In the defense of the backup plan... We could make it work if we have more time and the ability to build them quietly. But I do have several dark sites that can make these devices.." he deliberately avoided calling them weapons. "However our own allies can't get ahold of these... the moment word goes out... it'll cause all kinds of havoc for everyone."

Antilles-Yeager nodded her head, she regarded her brother before she turned her attention to the President. "I don't think the backup plan is going to work... We can't risk aggravating the rest of the galaxy like that."

Hursk added. "Honestly, it doesn't matter what method we take, we are going to aggravate someone. The Dyson sphere is least likely to provoke problems, but the other two options will run the risk of aggravating someone. Finding enough conventional habitable planets means further expanding our borders and thus will likely annoy our neighbors even further, so either alternative option has that problem."

Antilles paused. "Then we need to look at the Dyson sphere option more carefully then," he responded in a gentle tone. "We have a chance to eliminate the great threat the Federation has ever known and to help people. both at the same time... Besides I think the Dyson sphere is our best option, it has the space required and it's also inside our borders."

Zeyss finally added in. "Alright, agreed then, Dyson sphere is our first option, but if we have to, we keep the other two options open. And if things go south, Well, then I'll take the fall for it."

Antilles nodded. "Agreed." as the various people nodded in agreement as well. "Sounds good... Shall we carry on with it then?"