S1 - M2: Delta Gateway

[Sevoc]

[Science Labs]

T'Ra hesitated a moment, not quite sure how to reply. It wasn't so much his words that troubled her as the space between them. The unspoken anguish, all the things left unsaid. "Regret is illogical," she began at last, hoping to appeal to his sense of Vulcan reasoning. "You had no control over the situation or the lingering effects of the illness you experienced. Blaming yourself does not change what happened, nor is it true. Atone for it, if you wish, but do not blame yourself for it. Sloan must bear that burden, not you."

She paused, giving him time to let that sink in, but also to allow herself another moment to gather her thoughts. But T'Ra found she could not continue without giving over to the despair that she felt. So instead she shifted her focus, as Sevoc had, to incoming data scrolling across her console's screen. "Perhaps we will have the opportunity to observe some interesting quasar or nebula en route to wherever it is we're going."

(Science Labs)

Sevoc took his superior's words to heart. He knew she not only had the ship's best interest in mind, but also his.

"I shall endeavor to atone for it," he replied. "Those particular phenomenon would be quite fascinating. It is almost regrettable that we won't be able to do an in depth study, but that is not our mission, unfortunately."

[Lena Atwood]

[CIC]

Lena was leaning back in her chair with her feet up by the side of the console in front of her. She was semi-listening to the chatter from starbase whilst drinking from her mug, sedately watching the hologram in front of her.

The Control Information Center was an oval shaped room, in the middle was a large singular unit which had four primary consoles on each side and the holo projector in the middle. At one side of the room was the boss's office and the other to a turbolift. The rest of the walls in the room were large screens displaying flight plans and squadron statuses, with two secondary consoles at either end of the room. All under red light.

The hologram flickered as another contact entered the edge of the 3D image of the Shran at starbase Columbus, the feed was both a mix of the Shran's sensors and the starbase's.

=^="Bridge to all personnel of the USS Shran, if you are a civilian or any form of non-essential personnel, report to cargo bay 3 for evacuation in the next 30 minutes."=^=

"We're essential personnel right?" Lena asked PO1 Toby Leeward. He nodded slowly then yawned tiredly. "Yeah pretty sure we are." He replied before taking a large mouthful of coffee. The CIC team was small, only eight strong with two officers. Lena took a sip of her tea before resting it on her flight suit as she had before.

"Don't suppose you've seen that blonde FCO have you?" Lena asked, she then lean't forward tapped a few buttons so the field of view on the hologram was enlarged.

"No? Everyone in the CIC's new remember?" He sighed took another sip of his coffee. "Why?" He finished coughing on his drink.

"Just think she's cute." Lena shrugged, blushing slightly. Not that Toby could see under the low light.

"You've got a better chance of becoming the president of the federation!" He replied laughing. She quickly changed the subject.

"Isn't the boss supposed to in now?" She said looking at the clock at the bottom of her console.

"Should be." He paused. "Think he might be in a meeting? Try him. His comm badge will be set to do not disturb if he is."

"Lt Conley, I could do with a few reports reviewing and a personal word if you've got chance?"

[Ser Conley]

[CIC]

Lena was leaning back in her chair with her feet up by the side of the console in front of her. She was semi-listening to the chatter from starbase whilst drinking from her mug, sedately watching the hologram in front of her.

The Control Information Center was an oval shaped room, in the middle was a large singular unit which had four primary consoles on each side and the holo projector in the middle. At one side of the room was the boss's office and the other to a turbolift. The rest of the walls in the room were large screens displaying flight plans and squadron statuses, with two secondary consoles at either end of the room. All under red light.

The hologram flickered as another contact entered the edge of the 3D image of the Shran at starbase Columbus, the feed was both a mix of the Shran's sensors and the starbase's.

"We're essential personnel right?" Lena asked PO1 Toby Leeward. He nodded slowly then yawned tiredly. "Yeah pretty sure we are." He replied before taking a large mouthful of coffee. The CIC team was small, only eight strong with two officers. Lena took a sip of her tea before resting it on her flight suit as she had before.

"Don't suppose you've seen that blonde FCO have you?" Lena asked, she then lean't forward tapped a few buttons so the field of view on the hologram was enlarged.

"No? Everyone in the CIC's new remember?" He sighed took another sip of his coffee. "Why?" He finished coughing on his drink.

"Just think she's cute." Lena shrugged, blushing slightly. Not that Toby could see under the low light.

"You've got a better chance of becoming the president of the federation!" He replied laughing. She quickly changed the subject.

"Isn't the boss supposed to in now?" She said looking at the clock at the bottom of her console.

"Should be." He paused. "Think he might be in a meeting? Try him. His comm badge will be set to do not disturb if he is."

"Lt Conley, I could do with a few reports reviewing and a personal word if you've got chance?"

[Outside CIC]

After finishing with the commander Ser down to his new Home away from home.  He got the call just hit side the doors.  Chuckling to himself step in to the room.

"Ask and you shall receive,  Ensign."  He said adding a bit of fare with his hands.  When no one laughed Ser drop his hands.  And got to business.

"The reviews can wait for now.  We have a task that going to keep us busy for awhile, but If you need to talk let's do it in my office before we get started."  He said motioning to his office.

[LK Reede]

Reede, meet me in my office and we can talk. Collect Ensigns Kane and Harmon on your way. Lieutenant Tre'el out.

[Brig]

LK nodded, although Tre'el couldn't see her. She tapped her comm badge and said firmly, Ensigns Kane and Harmon report to deck 9, Lt. Tre'el's office, immediately. Reede out.

[Deck 9 - Officers offices]

It didn't take long -not long enough- for LK to make it to the turbo lift and up to deck 9. She walked slowly toward the chief's office, hoping to give herself time to gather her thoughts together. That message... was it real? Yes, she decided. it had to be. They'd been dealing with S31 on their shake-down mission. It seemed reasonable that Sloan wouldn't go away so easily. He would want to cause dissent on the ship and what better way than to start a rumor that their captain wasn't Starfleet.

The door chimed as LK stepped in front of the sensors. At a sound that she interpreted as Á¢â,¬Ëœcome in', Lt(jg) Reede watched the door slide open to reveal the Cardasian sitting calmly behind his desk.

"Lt(jg) Reede reporting, sir. Before the others get here, I want to tell you about a message I received. It said Your Admiral is not what he appears. The message appeared for an instant and I was unable to retrieve it. Do you have any idea what it might mean?"

[James A. Hawke]

EQ wasn't one to look for deep meaning in anything.  But to each his own, so he shrugged.  "Either way, It's hella funny.  Sorry Sir, no disrespect.  But Dude" he replied with a big grin on his face while he nodded his head like like he was listing to hard rock music.

[Bridge]
James looked at EQ and gave the free borg a half smile "Hey Dude" he said in order to get this attention.   He approached the man and kindly  continued "don't worry Mr. Kimball, you can call me James  anytime"  He walked into the middle of the bridge and said "EQ, with the evacuation of most of the civilians and non essential personnel, there are going to be a lot of scared people...do what you can to keep them calm"

He walked in the middle of the bridge and then started calling Hawke to Mr. Harmon, please report to me at your convenience, Hawke out

He then walked to Ardy and said "Ardy, if you have a second do you mind helping EQ with the Evacuation?"

Before he left the bridge he looked at Miriam and said "Keep me posted,  I imagine people are scared...do your best to keep them calm and we will come out of this all together...I promise"

Before he can focus on the next task he heard from comms "Sir, we are getting a Priority 1 transmission from Columbus Science to our Science Department" a officer said.

"The day just keep's getting better and better..." James said to himself

"Put it through Science Labs, I will be there"  James said  He looked at Miriam and said "Miriam, you have the conn I will be right back"

[Science Labs]

James felt the doors swish behind him as he entered the Science lab.  "Commander, Mr. Sevoc...I hate to interrupt but we are getting a Priority 1 trasmittion from Columbus Science...."James said

He looked around and commented "huh, never been here...busy last couple of days already...what you think Columbus wants with us?"He asked

[Kirok]

[Bridge]
James looked at EQ and gave the free borg a half smile "Hey Dude" he said in order to get this attention.   He approached the man and kindly  continued "don't worry Mr. Kimball, you can call me James  anytime"  He walked into the middle of the bridge and said "EQ, with the evacuation of most of the civilians and non essential personnel, there are going to be a lot of scared people...do what you can to keep them calm"

He walked in the middle of the bridge and then started calling Hawke to Mr. Harmon, please report to me at your convenience, Hawke out

He then walked to Ardy and said "Ardy, if you have a second do you mind helping EQ with the Evacuation?"

Before he left the bridge he looked at Miriam and said "Keep me posted,  I imagine people are scared...do your best to keep them calm and we will come out of this all together...I promise"

Before he can focus on the next task he heard from comms "Sir, we are getting a Priority 1 transmission from Columbus Science to our Science Department" a officer said.

"The day just keep's getting better and better..." James said to himself

"Put it through Science Labs, I will be there"  James said  He looked at Miriam and said "Miriam, you have the conn I will be right back"

[Science Labs]

James felt the doors swish behind him as he entered the Science lab.  "Commander, Mr. Sevoc...I hate to interrupt but we are getting a Priority 1 trasmittion from Columbus Science...."James said

He looked around and commented "huh, never been here...busy last couple of days already...what you think Columbus wants with us?"He asked

[Bridge]

EQ heard the change in the XOs voice.  "Aye, Sir.  I will head to the docking area now" he said.

Kimball saluted Hawke.  Then he headed to the turbo.  Then over to the docking area.

[Ashley Weir]

[Starbase Columbus - Science Labs]

Another boring day in the science labs. Ashley had been sat alone at a console for most of the day running various menial scans of the area around and inside the Starbase. For the most part there was nothing of note, but just under the surface she spotted something not quite normal. It wouldn't alarm most people, but she had always been a very curious person and as soon as she spotted it, instead of letting it go she dug deeper. As soon as she figured out what it was she immediately opened a comms channel to the Shran. USS Shran, this is Lieutenant Ashley Weir of Starbase Columbus. I've detected a strange amount of Triquantum Waves near the Starbase. Of course it may be nothing, but I'm going to send the coordinates over to you for you to do what you'd like with. Good luck. Ashley quickly sent over the coordinates that she'd found, to be honest she was quite happy to have something to do for once.

[T'Ra Jones]

(Science Labs)

Sevoc took his superior's words to heart. He knew she not only had the ship's best interest in mind, but also his.

"I shall endeavor to atone for it," he replied. "Those particular phenomenon would be quite fascinating. It is almost regrettable that we won't be able to do an in depth study, but that is not our mission, unfortunately."

[Science Labs]

James felt the doors swish behind him as he entered the Science lab.  "Commander, Mr. Sevoc...I hate to interrupt but we are getting a Priority 1 transmission from Columbus Science...."James said

He looked around and commented "huh, never been here...busy last couple of days already...what you think Columbus wants with us?"He asked

[Starbase Columbus - Science Labs]
USS Shran, this is Lieutenant Ashley Weir of Starbase Columbus. I've detected a strange amount of Triquantum Waves near the Starbase. Of course it may be nothing, but I'm going to send the coordinates over to you for you to do what you'd like with. Good luck. Ashley quickly sent over the coordinates that she'd found, to be honest she was quite happy to have something to do for once.

[Science Labs]

T'Ra arched a brow, intrigued, as a new notice appeared upon her screen. "It seems we may have something more interesting on our hands," she mused to Sevoc, her mind already beginning to whir and analyze the information received. It was a set of coordinates and an unusual phenomena...

But before she could delve much deeper into possible conclusions, the doors to the science labs swished open, interrupting her thoughts. T'Ra looked up to find Commander Hawke heading towards them. In his command red, he stuck out sore thumb amidst a sea of blue, much as she had in the recent encounter with the borg, a thought that caused something to stir within the back of her mind.

"Na'shaya, Commander," she replied in an even tone, noting that a few had turned their heads, no doubt curious to see what would bring the XO to their little corner of the ship. "The Priority 1 transmission concerns triquantum waves at a set of coordinates just past the point where the accuracy of our sensors begins to peter out. Given the Priority 1 status, it would be well worth our time to investigate."

[Revek Tre'el]

[Brig]

LK nodded, although Tre'el couldn't see her. She tapped her comm badge and said firmly, Ensigns Kane and Harmon report to deck 9, Lt. Tre'el's office, immediately. Reede out.

[Deck 9 - Officers offices]

It didn't take long -not long enough- for LK to make it to the turbo lift and up to deck 9. She walked slowly toward the chief's office, hoping to give herself time to gather her thoughts together. That message... was it real? Yes, she decided. it had to be. They'd been dealing with S31 on their shake-down mission. It seemed reasonable that Sloan wouldn't go away so easily. He would want to cause dissent on the ship and what better way than to start a rumor that their captain wasn't Starfleet.

The door chimed as LK stepped in front of the sensors. At a sound that she interpreted as Á¢â,¬Ëœcome in', Lt(jg) Reede watched the door slide open to reveal the Cardasian sitting calmly behind his desk.

"Lt(jg) Reede reporting, sir. Before the others get here, I want to tell you about a message I received. It said Your Admiral is not what he appears. The message appeared for an instant and I was unable to retrieve it. Do you have any idea what it might mean?"

[Deck 9 - Sec/Tac Office]

Revek calmly looked up from the console on his desk as Reede spoke. After remaining silent for a moment, he responded, "Lieutenant, I do believe I asked you to report here with two others." The Cardassian made a mild show of looking around before continuing. "I do not see them. Do not make a habit of disobeying my orders. I give them for specific reasons. Now please sit," he finished, motioning towards a chair in front of his desk.

Without waiting for Reede to respond, Revek tapped his comm badge.

Ensigns Kane and Harmon, please report to the Sec/Tac office immediately. Lieutenant Tre'el out

Looking back at his officer, Revek slowly blinked several times before speaking. "The message could mean any number of things." He took a long pause while maintaining eye contact with Reede before continuing. "All of them irrelevant. Admiral Kirok is our Captain. Either you trust him and continue to serve him or you request transfer. You will speak no more of this 'ghost message,' is that clear Lieutenant?" The look on Revek's face made it clear he wasn't asking a real question but still expected an answer.

[Lena Atwood]

[Outside CIC]

After finishing with the commander Ser down to his new Home away from home.  He got the call just hit side the doors.  Chuckling to himself step in to the room.

"Ask and you shall receive,  Ensign."  He said adding a bit of fare with his hands.  When no one laughed Ser drop his hands.  And got to business.

"The reviews can wait for now.  We have a task that going to keep us busy for awhile, but If you need to talk let's do it in my office before we get started."  He said motioning to his office.

"It'll take the squadron ops officers a few minutes to formulate and submit the flight plans anyhow." She said walking into the boss's office. She took a seat before Ser had a chance to offer one and leaned on her right elbow.

"There's two things I wanted to raise. Firstly." She held up her finger. "When we got back to Columbus and we were told we were moving off the Discovery, I didn't have a problem with that. I accept that I'm a pilot but I work in the flight department, so I know that working as a fighter controller is just another branch of the job." Exasperated she sighed. "But of the entire eight strong department I'm literally the only crewman. I do everything for everyone else. There's five petty officers, you and the ensign and me."

She paused and changed elbows so she was leaning on her left. "And! To add insult to injury some genius in ops keeps listing my rank as ensign."

She paused to see if the Lieutenant was following.

[Alex Harmon]

[Deck 9 - Sec/Tac Office]

Revek calmly looked up from the console on his desk as Reede spoke. After remaining silent for a moment, he responded, "Lieutenant, I do believe I asked you to report here with two others." The Cardassian made a mild show of looking around before continuing. "I do not see them. Do not make a habit of disobeying my orders. I give them for specific reasons. Now please sit," he finished, motioning towards a chair in front of his desk.

Without waiting for Reede to respond, Revek tapped his comm badge.

Ensigns Kane and Harmon, please report to the Sec/Tac office immediately. Lieutenant Tre'el out

Looking back at his officer, Revek slowly blinked several times before speaking. "The message could mean any number of things." He took a long pause while maintaining eye contact with Reede before continuing. "All of them irrelevant. Admiral Kirok is our Captain. Either you trust him and continue to serve him or you request transfer. You will speak no more of this 'ghost message,' is that clear Lieutenant?" The look on Revek's face made it clear he wasn't asking a real question but still expected an answer.

Shortly after the meeting which Alex had attended but simply observed and remained silent, he received a message from his new Cardassian Department Head.

On my way, sir.

Alex responded as he turned on his heel and headed to the Sec/Tac Office. He had had a lot to think about since the incident with Sloan. While he was secretly working for Sloan, he was having serrious doubts about remaining on his side after he was nearly killed, allbeit indirectly by Sloan.

"You wanted to see me, sir?" Alex asked when he entered the Security Office.

[Ser Conley]

"It'll take the squadron ops officers a few minutes to formulate and submit the flight plans anyhow." She said walking into the boss's office. She took a seat before Ser had a chance to offer one and leaned on her right elbow.

"There's two things I wanted to raise. Firstly." She held up her finger. "When we got back to Columbus and we were told we were moving off the Discovery, I didn't have a problem with that. I accept that I'm a pilot but I work in the flight department, so I know that working as a fighter controller is just another branch of the job." Exasperated she sighed. "But of the entire eight strong department I'm literally the only crewman. I do everything for everyone else. There's five petty officers, you and the ensign and me."

She paused and changed elbows so she was leaning on her left. "And! To add insult to injury some genius in ops keeps listing my rank as ensign."

She paused to see if the Lieutenant was following.

Ser could tell this was going to be a long Conversation.  But he'd been meaning to breach this topic with the crewman.

"We can take care of that Ensign problem fairly simply.  Do you want to be an officer?" He asked.

[Ariste Stark]

Bridge

Miriam looked over at James when she heard her name and then listened to James' orders. "Aye commander." Miriam said, turning to LK to finish her conversation.

"If you hear from him, send him my regards. I have work to do so I'll catch you later." Miriam smiled and gave a simple nod to LK and then went over to the OPS console to prepare all civilians and non-essential personnel for departure. She opened a ship wide channel and then raised her voice slightly, to ensure everyone could hear her. =^="Bridge to all personnel of the USS Shran, if you are a civilian or any form of non-essential personnel, report to cargo bay 3 for evacuation in the next 30 minutes."=^=

Miriam walked over to the second console and then pulled the list of operations officers onto a PADD, she took the top 10 junior officers on the list, seperated their names and selected them to do evacuate everyone. She also left a list of tasks to do on the PADD.

Ensigns,

The duties listed on these PADDs are very important. The jobs must be completed and every task should be done with maximum effort. If this goes wrong, we may be delayed for departure and we cannot afford to be delayed.

The tasks set are listed below:

1. Report to cargo bay 3, with a PADD containing a list of all civilians and non-essential personnel aboard and create several lists with names on in alphabetical order. If there are children with their parents, allow them to get their child's name signed off too. - I will meet you all in the cargo bay and will be overseeing the departure.

2. Make sure every name has been signed, if a name isn't signed, send crewmen looking for the people who are absent, once they are found, have them report to cargo bay 3 and get their name signed.

3. Once every name has been signed, begin to have people boarded onto shuttles for departure. See to it that families are kept together and make sure everything is done safely. If safety isn't taken into account people may get injured and you will be answering for it.

4. As soon as all shuttles are full, I will call them to depart. If there isn't enough space for everyone, we shall run the shuttles  again and repeat this until there is no one left on the ship.

5. When all people have been departed, let me know and I will contact the commanding officer to ensure all personnel get somewhere to stay.

I will meet you down there and help you get this done. As I said earlier, I expect maximum effort and minimal mistakes.

LT(JG) Miriam HÁƒ¤llstrom

After she had finished composing the message, she had a copy sent to each of the 10 ensigns and then she made two seperate copies on PADDs, she walked over to the XO and stopped opposite him. She nodded at the two men who he seemed to be having separate conversations with simultaneously. "Commander." Miriam passed over one of the 2 PADDs and then continued. "Here's a copy of the evacuation orders, I'm going to organise temporary accommodation for everyone being evacuated, I imagine a cargo bay or something similar would suffice for a few days. I'm having everyone report to cargo bay 3, if there's too many people, I'll take up another bay however I don't think we'll need to. everyone should be off the ship in the next couple of hours." She paused for a moment, thinking of anything else she might need to mention. "Is there anything else you need from me before I oversee this all?" She finished.

[Sickbay]

Ariste paused her work as her PADD chimed, and she sighed. It seemed she never got a rest.
Flipping it out of her toolbox, she scanned over the instructions, before flashing an exhausted grin at the Crewman. "Duty calls, sorry." She excused, before slipping out of sickbay, and into the nearest turbolift. It just never ended, did it? She must've done laps around the ship by now, running around to fix every little thing possible. And to make things more exhausting, she was temporarily in charge of Engineering while Conwell took care of "some things", whatever that meant. Taking a deep breath, she concluded to take a moment to create an organized schedule for everything that needed fixed and recalibrated for the Engineering department after she got a minute to herself.

Before she got to the Cargo bay, she made the stop ordered to create a PADD with all personnel names alphabetically categorized. Downloading it to the PADD, she grabbed a few other PADDs from Engineering on her way down, and copied the exact same list onto them, for whoever else was to report down there.

[Cargo Bay Three]

Proceeding to her original destination, she was unsurprised to see a few Crewmen and Officers milling about, no doubt preparing for the task ahead of them. Her eyes moved over toward EQ, a fellow yellowshirt. Nodding to him in greeting, she mouthed a 'hello', recognizing him from the earlier meeting. Flipping through her PADDs, counting how many copies she had made, she figured she could spare one if he was here to help with the evacuation.

Approaching, she flashed him a grin, eyes sparkling. "Hey, Kimball. What brings you down to this chaos?" She queried, before flipping one of the PADDs so the screen was facing the man. "If you're here helping out with the Evacuation, you'll need a list of names to check for people. I don't think that'll be too much of a worry though."

[Lena Atwood]

Ser could tell this was going to be a long Conversation.  But he'd been meaning to breach this topic with the crewman.

"We can take care of that Ensign problem fairly simply.  Do you want to be an officer?" He asked.

"Hell no!" She exclaimed. "Well not right now... I don't know." She sighed again. "I've got the relevant technical experience to go the academy, but I just don't see myself going, I also don't see myself fetching tea and coffee for the entirety of my stint in the CIC." She sat upwards in her seat. "If I like it here I'd certainly think about specializing as a permanent CIC crewman, or officer as the times dictate. But for now I think I just want my petty officer pins."

[Ardyn Jaeger]

[Bridge]
James looked at EQ and gave the free borg a half smile "Hey Dude" he said in order to get this attention.   He approached the man and kindly  continued "don't worry Mr. Kimball, you can call me James  anytime"  He walked into the middle of the bridge and said "EQ, with the evacuation of most of the civilians and non essential personnel, there are going to be a lot of scared people...do what you can to keep them calm"

He walked in the middle of the bridge and then started calling Hawke to Mr. Harmon, please report to me at your convenience, Hawke out

He then walked to Ardy and said "Ardy, if you have a second do you mind helping EQ with the Evacuation?"

Before he left the bridge he looked at Miriam and said "Keep me posted,  I imagine people are scared...do your best to keep them calm and we will come out of this all together...I promise"

Before he can focus on the next task he heard from comms "Sir, we are getting a Priority 1 transmission from Columbus Science to our Science Department" a officer said.

"The day just keep's getting better and better..." James said to himself

"Put it through Science Labs, I will be there"  James said  He looked at Miriam and said "Miriam, you have the conn I will be right back"

[Science Labs]

James felt the doors swish behind him as he entered the Science lab.  "Commander, Mr. Sevoc...I hate to interrupt but we are getting a Priority 1 trasmittion from Columbus Science...."James said

He looked around and commented "huh, never been here...busy last couple of days already...what you think Columbus wants with us?"He asked

[Bridge]
Ardyn nodded at James's request. "Sure thing, James."  Her main shift at the Helm wouldn't really start for a while, so she was pretty set. She caught sight of the Borg Ops officer at the far side of the bridge. Quickly catching up with EQ, she asked. "You need any help with the evacuation coordinations?"