The Briefing - Part One

Posted on Sun Feb 23rd, 2020 @ 9:13pm by Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi
Edited on on Sun Feb 23rd, 2020 @ 9:19pm

Mission: Mission 5: Skyfall
Location: Various Locations - Starbase 400
Timeline: 0900Hrs - January 1st, 2389

It had been a few weeks since the covert mission into Romulan space, and like always life aboard Starbase 400 was humming along. Three civilian transports, eight freighters, and several Starships were due to leave or depart over the next twenty-six hours.

It was 0800 hours as Mike walked through Ops on his usual morning rounds. Out the corner of his eye, he saw Captain Zandusky step off the turbolift and walk directly toward him. He didn’t say a word, just handed Mike a PADD, then turned and left.

Mike looked at the PADD and realized the info wasn’t something that could be discussed in the open. The Federation Council had finally voted and approved military aid to the C’Hakilians on a limited basis. They had agreed to send a fleet to the warzone and set up a blockade around Krazzle space. A daunting task to say the least. However it wasn’t just Starfleet, the Federation had reached out to its ally the Klingons and Chancellor Martok agreed to send ships as well. As a surprise, the Cardassians were also sending ships too. As they continued to recover from the Dominion War, many changes had taken place in the Government and Military, most pioneered by Garek. While the Federation and Cardassians didn’t consider themselves allies, they did have a new Non-Aggression Pact in place and the extra cooperation was encouraging.

The various enemies of the Federation and their allies seemed to be working closer and closer together. Those few Romulans who were still capable after the Hoibus hypernova, Tholians, Breen, Son’a, Krazzle, Holy Order of the Kinshaya and the Tzenkethi acting against the Federation and their allies meant that having the Cardassians as ‘friends’ was a plus.

The news wasn’t that much of a surprise to the Admiral though. He’d been informed of the Council’s discussions by Admiral Sevlek weeks ago, he even knew who the Klingon Commander and Cardassian Commander for the blockade would be, the news to him was that the vote took place yesterday and the blockade was to be in place by the end of the week.

Mike walked over to the Intel position, which was currently not in use, and logged in using the security information provided on the PADD. It brought up a list of Federation, Klingon, and Cardassian ships en route to the Station to be used in the blockade. Two ships would be sent from Starbase 400 itself, the Venator and Pegasus. This would be the Pegasus’s first mission since her repairs and upgrades, and Mike was eager to get her out into open space. The rest of the ships in the blockade force would be arriving in a few hours.

Mike tapped his comm badge, “Admiral T’Lar, Admiral Sevlek, General Jones, Captain Pike, Commander Yamaguchi, and Counselor Delair please report to my office.”

Mike checked a few more details, then logged out of the Intel station and headed to his Office.

Once there, he ordered a raktijno and sat down in his chair. He looked over the PADD and waited for everyone to arrive.

Lt Commander Torilla Yamaguchi was already on duty but said she was distracted was stating the obvious as her husband was aboard the Starbase, he was presently asleep as he had been conducting patrols and drills in several of the nearby sectors. Now he was here, visiting his wife and youngest child.

She heard the summons as she raised an eyebrow but said nothing as she went over to the Admirals office, the young woman behind the desk recognized her and then let her into the Admirals office, to her surprise she was the first to arrive.

"Admiral." she greeted him.

Deela had the kids since Vincent, her husband left for Earth and was bathing her daughter when she got the summons. She was so used to having Vincent there that she forgot about making arrangements in case she was called into a meeting like this one. She got ahold of Alex's son, Paul who graciously agreed to be her emergency babysitter. She quickly changed into her uniform and left, walking very hurriedly. Arriving at Bremer's office, she stepped in, looking a bit frazzled.

Alex saw Torilla and nodded to her, then to Bremer as she sat down. She seemed slightly out of breath which was uncommon for her, "For a minute there, I thought that I'd be the last to arrive."

Torilla smiled at the older woman. "I know the feeling sir," she responded with a soft smile. "If you need, Rachael can babysit for you." she paused a moment as her eyes seemed to glass over, clearly she was in telepathic contact with someone else. "She is willing to help, should you ask it of her."

Deela's looked at Torilla and responded in the same manner, "Paul already asked if she could join him when he babysits. I said that it was fine. That is if it's okay with you of course."

Yamaguchi smiled. "It doesn't bother me at all, I saw how she treats Earl and you have done more for her than most, besides she speaks very highly of you.... getting her onto the subject is easy but getting her to change the subject afterward is at times, next to impossible... but... I must ask... Where did you find Earl?" she inquired.

"He used to belong to my deceased husband. He raised him from a baby. When he passed away, I adopted Earl or I really should say, he adopted me. He sort of became the USS Essex's mascot." She almost let out a chuckle but stopped herself when she looked over at Mike sitting there.

Torilla nodded her head, clearly understanding. "Ahh.." she was suddenly reminded that Admiral Bremer was sitting before them as they waited for the others to arrive.

Anandra had just barely settled into her own office for the day before getting the summons from Mike. With a sigh, she tapped her comm badge. "On my way, sir." She stood from her desk and left the office, arriving at the door to the Admiral's office in a matter of minutes. "Hello everyone." she greeted as she passed through the doorway and met a few familiar faces on the other side.

Andy had just finished breakfast when he listened to the call of the big boss, he answered that he was on his way and then after locking his station he proceeds to the admiral's office.

Once he was there he took a seat next to Deela and said "Reporting as ordered sir"

Torilla raised an eyebrow, she was a decidedly junior member in this very select gathering and she was feeling a little intimidated.

Anandra moved to take a seat next to Torilla and flashed a smile at the Commander as she sank into her chair.

Torilla returned the smile from the other junior officer in the room, her senses suddenly strengthened as she realized they were missing one more person, thus she settled down to wait, she still has issues with Captain Pike that she needed to sort out with him.