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The Volograd soon reported in that though they had quite a bit of damage to their warp drive and a few hull breaches, they could make repairs to both in a few days time and then get back to starbase 243 safely on their own power. They reported they had lost 13 crew members in the battle though and another 2 were missing presumably from hull breaches and so were likely also dead and their remains lost somewhere in subspace out of temporal phase now.

The Forseth meanwhile were also back in phase with normal progress of time flow. While they had not yet officially broken the warp barrier all three ships present did show signs of having a stable core reaction present on the ships. So since they were aware of other warp cultures now it was just a formality to make the choice to initiate official first contact procedures with their VIP ambassador and his wife that they had brought along in the first place. The XO could either choose to make such a call herself as the ranking officer here, or wait for Andone to recover and make the call herself.....

GM CockRoach

Kyle shot a smile at Marlaa, hoping that some silent reassurance would help her get her confidence back.

-Lieutenant Kyle Anders: Chief of Security-

Sifeda thought about whether they should make contact. The Commodore was in a coma and there was no telling how long she would be there. “I guess we should make contact with the Forseth and introduce ourselves. After all, we both survived....whatever that was together.”

Itri, XO

Mar smiles back at Kyle then nodded to the XO. “I’m up for it off you don’t wish to. We certainly wouldn’t just cut and run.” She laughed lightly. “It isn’t like they haven’t seen us and we can remain unknown.”

She nodded to the XO and smiled. “The question isn’t should we the question is should it be a Command Officer or myself.”

Mar CNS

“I’ll happily go if no one else wants to,” Kyle said, only half seriously.

-Lieutenant Kyle Anders: Chief of Security-

It seems their moment of respite to choose to contact the Forseth or not was taken out of their hands, on an audio only channel the lead ship of the Forseth was hailing them....

GM CockRoach