New Mission - Part Two

Posted on Mon Feb 24th, 2020 @ 12:22am by Division Admiral Thomas Lasky & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi & Commodore Siaxx "Bluemoon" Dvald-Vaxx MD

Mission: Mission 8: Hope Found and then Lost
Location: Various Locations - USS Yorktown
Timeline: 0800Hrs - April 1st, 2389

K'Temoc then looked back at the Officers gathered. "Yamaguchi take Flight
Control...you'll also serve as my XO. Gillo take Engineering/Operations.
Nechayve, Tactical One. Gardner Tactical Two. Takabe Science, Gillmore take the Aft Bridge Station. Lasky and Blackthorne will be in Engineering. And Dvald, the Medical Bay. We'll only have about forty Officers and Crew aboard for this flight. We'll keep it simple, testing the Yorktown's systems...flight operations, warp, impulse, and slipstream, we'll also test her weapons systems, sensors, communications...give her a full shake down over the next two days of her positronic core and LCARS 7 as well. Questions?"

Siaxx Dvald raised an eyebrow as she moved over to where Torilla Yamaguchi was standing. "Here we go again Commander." she greeted the larger woman with a jovial smile and a joke.

"Indeed Siaxx... I hope you packed properly this time."

"Of course I did." she explained with a smile.

"Did you look at the medical facilities yet?" Yamaguchi inquired.

"No.... do I dare ask?"

Torilla raised an eyebrow. "You know how I feel about anything small." she commented as Siaxx sighed. "Torilla, please.. I am begging you on my hands and knees... don't bring that up... ever.."

Torilla chuckled softly. her opinion on the Defiant class was no secret in that she thought of them as oversized Escort Frigates and little more. "Flight Control... should be interesting.."

"Torilla... when was the last time you flew anything other then a shuttle or a Runabout?"

Torilla had serious misgivings about her assignment a she was not a career pilot as she went over to Captain K'Temoc. "Captain. a moment please." the two of them moved to the back of the bridge rather then make a scene as she kept her voice quiet.

"With all due respect sir... I'm not a career pilot and I believe I'm not qualified for the post for which you have assigned me sir." he raised an eyebrow as he looked at him. "My skills are in tactical and operations, not flying... I've not sat at Conn since I was at the academy." she explained.

K’Temoc looked at Yamaguchi, “I know piloting it’s your strong suite, but not only is this a test flight for the Yorktown, but a training and observation mission for the command crew. Most of them don’t get time to be a Department Head or even Bridge duty, I need them to be at their departmental positions for the mission to effectively evaluate them. The Admiral wanted you to service at my Executive Officer to help me evaluate them. Sadly, the only position that isn't filled is Flight Control.” K’Temoc quietly said.

Yamaguchi looked at him. "I will need some time to become familiar with
the Helm controls." she paused. "I'll try not to crash into anything on the way out..." she sighed softly. "I can fly shuttles and Runabouts easily enough."

"If you prefer, I'll have Chief Branson come aboard to handle Flight Control." K'Temoc decided to have the experienced Chief Petty Officer come aboard either way, just in case...since Yamaguchi seemed unhappy or uneasy with the assignment.

Yamaguchi raised an eyebrow. "No... I'm sure I'll relearn how to drive in a hurry... but having the Chief along might be helpful just in case." she explained. "My last ride was a fraction of the size and mass of this ship and she had far less firepower."

Chief Blackthorne patted Lasky on the shoulder, "We better get to Engineering."

Lasky nodded his head. "Yeah... Lets go." he commented as he walked past the lovely looking Bolian woman as he departed the bridge, he had an eye for the ladies and the more unusual she looked, the more the lady appealed to him on a personal level.

He followed the Chief Warrant officer. "We have Sixteen engineers and we need to make sure they work as a well oiled machine. My specialty is Damage control, how do you want to play this?" he looked at the other man.



Meanwhile, Bremer and Coleman made their way to the Intrepid Class USS
Essex. Mike glanced at another PADD he was carrying that listed the crew
of the Essex;

Bremer - Mission Advisor/Observer/Overall Mission Commander
T'Lar - Commanding Officer, USS Essex/Mission XO
Lokran - Acting USS Essex XO
Baratan - Acting Chief Security/Tactical
Solomon - Chief Operations
Coleman - Chief Engineer
La Baron - Chief Flight Controller
Brislan - Chief Medical Officer
L'Verrem – Chief Science Officer
Keikeya - Diplomatic Officer
Sullivan - Marine Platoon/Fighter Element CO
Lennox - Marine Platoon XO
Pepper - Marine First Sergeant
Duval - Marine

Bremer and Coleman made their way to the Bridge where the rest of ship's
Command Crew for the mission was gathered for a quick briefing.

Deela was going over the duty roster for this mission. As soon as she heard the door of the turbolift open, she looked up in time to see Bremer, along with Coleman, enter. She nodded to Bremer but didn't break a smile. Her eyes followed his movements as he faced the bridge crew.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting." Bremer said as he entered the Bridge.
"We'll keep this short so we can get to work. Last week, the USS Searcher
passed close to the Socala Major system on her way back to Federation
space after a two year deep space exploration mission. They picked up some 'strange readings' from the third planet in the system. They were able to tell the planet has a Humanoid population of about three billion in a
pre-warp level of technology...probably closer to the level Earth was at
during World War Two. However, energy readings they picked up were clearly something much more sophisticated, but they couldn't get clear readings because of some kind of sensor malfunction that cut their deep space mission short. Starfleet wants us to check it out, and I thought this would be a good time to test the Essex's new upgrades, including her Slipstream Drive...but even at Slipstream, it'll take us nearly ten hours to reach Socala Major...that's a distance of more than double that between Starbase 400 and Earth."

Bremer walked over the Helm and tapped in a few commands, a map appeared on the main viewer with a plotted course on it running from Starbase 400 to Socala Major. "Socala Major is here, twelve sectors further out than DS13 and Omega Antares. DS13 will be of little assistance to us with all of their focus on supporting the Theta Antares Sector and supplying aid to M90. So this will be a good test of the Essex and her upgraded systems. I'm not sure what we'll find there, but it's nothing we can't handle. We will of course, avoid Gorn and Tholian territory."

Mike looked over at the new face in the room, the big Caitian, Captain L'Verrem, “I apologize for the quick assignment, you having just arrived on the Station.”

Saith scrutinized the map. She did not like the unknown parts of the territory beyond Omega Antares and DS 13. Much exploration had occurred in that area, but there was still a lot of unknown. Not to mention they would be passing close to the Gorn Hegemony and the Tholian Assembly. Even though they would be traveling using the Slipstream, if it didn't work or any other number of problems arose, it could spell trouble. She located Socala Major on the map, dicey space she thought. She went through her memory about the World War II era on earth; mostly projectile, but newfound atomic/nuclear weaponry as well. Dicey, she thought again. Saith let her gaze reach the Caitian that Bremer was addressing, she had read the Captain’s file when he was assigned, so her attention returned to her map and her musings. She felt a strange disquiet, not the anger she usually carried but tenseness just the same.