Is This a Staff Meeting?

Posted on Wed Aug 6th, 2014 @ 9:49am by Captain Enalia Telvan

Mission: Something Amiss
Location: Captain's Ready Room
Timeline: MD1 2100

Was this really how she wanted to conduct her first official 'Staff Meeting'? Without even holding one? It was a different approach, and it's not like anything would change. They weren't even officially in orbit of Faltan 3, though anyone with sensors could see that. As far as anyone knew, the Hera was just going to be puttering along the border at warp 5, maybe 6, scanning the borders for signs of trouble starting in 2 weeks time. Never mind the planned rescue mission and scheduling to leave the system the next morning at warp 9 once the last of the supplies were beamed aboard. They technically didn't even have a full complement, missing at least 40 people as well as most of their intel and diplomatic divisions.

This was how it had to be, though. Starfleet Intelligence was leaning on her pretty heavily to do this as covertly as possible, and that meant no records of any kind as well as dual reports. Hence how she found herself recording a mission briefing to the command crew for them to watch at their leisure rather than holding a proper staff meeting. In it, she included the orders and personal data she was given, as well as a little speculation on things herself.

They had brought aboard a lot of unusual espionage gear, including a set of prototype holo-disguises pre-programmed with several different bio-signs for the area. The thing that worried her was that Remans were included in that array. And why did Intel decide they needed to carry so much of that gold pressed latinum? Was she supposed to bribe people with it? It wasn't even part of the official cargo manifest. The cases were scattered about and marked as flu vaccinations. What vaccinations needed her thumbprint to get to, she would never know, but she included that information in the briefing as well. It was best that at least her senior staff be aware of what was on board.

She did leave out the part about Nexi, though. She'd have to remain discrete in her dealings with the civilian, no matter how useful she may be. Once they were underway, she'd have to have a more personal meeting with a select few people, but for now that wasn't something they needed to know.

Finishing her 10 minute long speech and sending the whole package to the terminals of her senior staff, Enalia clicked off the screen and leaned back in her chair. Something about this whole thing bothered her. Something was very wrong. She hoped it was just a feeling, but her guts had been prone to predicting unkind twists of fate since she had gotten the symbiote and she knew there was a lot more to this mission than anyone knew.

Unbeknownst to her, six decks below, a strange device was blinking away, monitoring the Hera's every movement. It was even secretly relaying the ship's sensor data to whomever owned the strange device.