Reptiles

Posted on Sun Feb 23rd, 2020 @ 7:26pm by Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 2: Casino Royale
Location: Various Locations - USS Kearsarge
Timeline: 0900Hrs - July 10th, 2388

Lt Commander Torilla Yamaguchi liked hot environments as much as the rest of her family did which was not at all, she truly hated them with an intense passion, she was much more at home on Earth's most southern continent of Antarctica or most of Andorians Northern plains.

She could be found more at home wearing a heavy jacket than as little as possible, she was thirty-eight years old and the effects of three pregnancies were obvious to herself and everyone around her.

She turned her mental energies back to the Gorn as she considered the Federation's long-running history with them, one of them was able to impersonate Commodore Travers who had been the commander of the starfleet colony on Cestus III when it had been demolished by the Gorn, it was only thanks to the intervention of the USS Enterprise that we hadn't lost the planet, the resulting
the encounter had been a test of another advanced race called the Metrons who were testing the Federation and the Gorn but Jim Kirk had refused to kill an incapacitated opponent, when he used science as well as his raw intelligence and quick thinking to disable his opponent rather than brute force.

This had impressed the Metron who teleported both Captain's back to their respective ships and let them both go on their way, there was something to be said for developing the intellect as well as brawn, it was something she had taught her children and frankly, she felt she had succeeded brilliantly.

Torilla sighed softly as she accessed the system to start another long-range scan of the surrounding sector as one could assume they had cloaking technology so she requested a tachyon scan as part of a series to detect cloaked ships, someone attacked the Buraq and disabled her, they wanted her to be found and Torilla felt like she was creeping across the hallway to escape her parents notice as she snuck out of the house. It was a feeling she hated.

It was a feeling that annoyed and offended her and for that, she
decided the Gorn needed to be found and their plan uncovered
but she also felt that she was missing something here, the answers
may be found over on the disabled USS Buraq, but then the Gorn
might have boobytrapped her to explode.

She haad heard of the Gorn Admiral who was commanding the
Typhon Pact Forces in this area, he was known for being cunning
and ruthless when needed and so far what she had seen thus far
was very sloppy work, it was obvious to her that it was a baited
trap and not Ssa`ssar's work as she had expected.

"but then the Gorn had the perfect bait...now don't they?" she
thought to herself as she watched the expected results come on
from the first scan which showed her little but space dust, the
planets in the system and the systems primary star, suffice to
say that she was concerned didn't do the term justice.

"I know you're out here, scaly.." she thought to herself.

A thought hit her as she considered what else the Gorn could
possibly want, maybe this attack wasn't done out of malice or
provocation but more rather it was out of desperation as it was
intended to bring a ship from Starbase 400 here, one of the ships
which could and would be refitted with Quantum Slipstream drive,
a tech the Typhon Pact had spent years chasing with no success.

She lifted an empty PADD as she began jotting down notes and once that was done, she caught the eye of an Ensign manning one of the aft stations as she waved him over, with that done she walked over to Clifford. "Captain, no sign of Gorn activity but
I am concerned..." and with that, she handed him the PADD with her thoughts and theories on it.