Posted by Captain Freja Andreassen (Commanding Officer) in Captain’s Ready Room - Post Senior Staff Briefing

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Finn Grady (First Officer) in Captain’s Ready Room - Post Senior Staff Briefing

Posted by Captain Freja Andreassen (Commanding Officer) in Captain’s Ready Room - Post Senior Staff Briefing
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Instead, I’m going to continue my primary mission: protecting this ship and her crew. If that mission happens to align with protecting the people of Scallax from Federation overreach, then perhaps my loyalties haven’t shifted — perhaps the Federation’s have.

VOSS, A.
Colonel, SFMC
Commanding Officer, USS Cinzano

– GM Amadeus

The more Freja read, the less she liked this mission. Her gut was telling her that there was a bigger picture, but someone wasn’t talking about it. It wasn’t Voss or anyone on that Scallax independence council either. She wasn’t precisely sure how she wanted to handle this, but it definitely needed careful management, but it was definitely time to share notes with her XO. She’d probably wind up conferring with Hammond afterward too to get his perspective.

=^=Andreassen to Commander Grady, please report to my ready room when you have a spare moment.=^=

~Freja Andreassen~

=/\= On my way, ma’am=/\= Finn’s voice came over the comms.

A few moments later the XO had arrived and stood before the captain.

“Ma’am things are progressing outside: the Favereau is en route, though I will say her captain is not pleased to be pulled way from some vaccination mission, departments are making appropriate preparations for our arrival and we should be in the Scallax system in a few days,” he smiled expectantly at the senior officer, “What can I help with in here?”

Lieutenant Commander Grady - XO

“Good,” Freja nodded, pausing briefly, “I’ll speak with Captain Y’lar when we’re done here. She should know the potential hornet’s nest we might be headed into.”

She leaned back, “So I’ve been researching various things. I’ve learned that Colonel Voss, the commander of the Cinzano, is part of the separatist council that formed on Scallax. The Admiral conveniently left that out which I’m not overly happy about. Scallax itself was subject to numerous raids from likely the Orion Syndicate, which is where the Cinzano was sent to investigate, but Voss’ logs indicate he felt something was being withheld from him or that someone was insuring his intelligence briefs were stage managed and controlled as to what he could see. Probably lead to him joining the separatists because prior to this assignment he was a model officer.”

“There is a lot of information provided to us, but there’s still much unsaid,” Freja paused after a moment, “Voss will have to be handled carefully, I’ll chat with Colonel Hammond before we arrive in Scallax to get his read on Voss’ record from a marine standpoint. I think that our primary angle should be approaching the Scallax council with ‘okay, you want to separate, we’re not going to interfere with that, we are here primarily for Federation citizens who wish to not be part of the movement and relay your demands up the chain of command’ type of thing. Plus, we lack the military fire power to really do much else beyond protect ourselves and the Favereau.”

“I don’t want to relay these concerns with the crew at large yet, mainly because I don’t know if I’m just reading too much into the information I’ve uncovered and I don’t want to worry or frustrate the crew unnecessarily. As my XO, I think it’s important that you know what’s on my mind for the most part when it comes to mission details though. I don’t like keeping things from my XO, so that’s what this discussion is about. The message to the senior staff and crew at large though should be that there is evidence in the mission briefs that there are some shifting loyalties in the Scallax system and we have to be extremely cautious. They can’t access Voss’ reports as I can, but it wouldn’t be hard for anyone reviewing the planetary feed data we received to put two and two together that Voss likely betrayed his uniform.”

“Any questions, thoughts, concerns?” She finished.

~Freja Andreassen~

Before Grady could reply, the chime rang to announce Reid’s presence outside.

Once given the okay to enter, Conner approached the captain’s desk.

He nodded to the XO and offered, “Good, I’m glad your both here. Permission to speak freely, Captain?”

Lt. Conner Reid
Chief of Security-USS Chimera