Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Kane’s Quarters- Confessions and Collaboration

Posted by Lieutenant Dr. Solomon Kane (Medical Research & Development) in Kane’s Quarters- Confessions and Collaboration

Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Kane’s Quarters- Confessions and Collaboration

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“Absolutely not. I will not condone or be a part of murder,” she said flatly. “Find another way,” she said emphatically. “He’s committed crimes. You might not approve of this method, but we not compromise the integrity of this crew. We bury him using the legal system and that is all. And as for Starfleet Intelligence…” That dark expression from her office began to surface. “They haven’t cared about my input before and they certainly won’t now. I’m a marked woman, Lieutenant. We can try to take it higher, but I can’t guarantee you that I won’t be much more than a liability.” Clutching her water glass tightly, she took a long drink from it, attempting to quell that cold fury that once again tried to make itself known.

Commander Myqian, XO

“Legal system? Seriously? These f÷×=s make a living out of breaking the law and you think anyone is gonna apply the law to ‘em? Good luck with that.” He looked at her and saw the shift in temperament.

“So what’d you do to piss ‘em off?”

Kane, R&D

Could she tell him? He had enough clearance, but even then Dira wasn’t sure. And she wasn’t sure she wanted to hash this all out. This was about Alexis, not her own tousles with intelligence. But… if her experiences there could help reframe everything the way her experiences with obsessive people could, then perhaps it would be worth it. Sipping her water, Dira stilled the anger within her, making it making less important. It was still there but it would not control how she acted right now. “I got to see first hand what happens when a group decides to withhold information from those who needed it most to make informed decisions. Decisions that caused actions. Actions that put innocent people in the line of fire that shouldn’t have been. And people died,” she said, the emotion stripped of her voice. “And me, being the telepath honed in to the guilt in that room when everyone realized what had just happened and ohhh you can bet I called them on it.” She looked up but Dira didn’t fully meet Kane’s gaze. “It was a diplomatic nightmare and in the end it was all covered up and everyone else moved on with their lives.”

Commander Myqian, XO

Kane looked at her for a long time, his eyes not moving and his gaze hard. He didn’t feel sorry for her, there wasn’t pity. But he did understand. He stood and went to the replicator. He put his fingernails on the side of the machine where the frame met the wall. “Don’t tell anybody.” he said as he pulled hard and the entire front of the machine swung away from the wall. The connections and relays were still connected, but someone had added lengths of coupling and wiring to keep them on and powered even as the front swung open. He reached in and pulled out a bottle, and then an odd looking data chip and a well modified PaDD. He swung the ‘door’ closed, put the bottle on the counter,, and walked over and handed her the PaDD and the chip.
The chip was unlike any anyone had ever seen. It was oddly shaped and somewhat bulky, but the overall design seemed… familiar. The PaDD had obviously been modified to play it.

“That chip was in my pocket when I… ‘moved’. Kept it on me as a kind of insurance. In all the hubbub of my arrival, they missed it. So I kept it hidden. It was close a couple of times, but I managed to keep them from finding it. That’s the project that got me on their radar… Operation Dreamtime. Take a look.”

The file on the chip was grainy and filled with error codes, but it played nonetheless. Operation Dreamtime was a augmented and virtual reality simulation experiment meant to test and assess Star Fleet personnel in a controlled evironment. But Section 31 had taken it over and were testing it as a way to do ‘enhanced interrogation’ on a large scale simultaneously. Their hypothesis was if they could terrify a set group of people enough, then those people would take any opportunity for help… at any price. Section 31, without permission, gassed the entire crew of the USS Chernov and moved them all to a simulated virtual environment. There, they spent almost two full weeks attacking, ‘murdering’, terrifying, and outright torturing the drugged crew who didn’t know they were in a virtual setting. Kane, for some reason unknown to them, didn’t become fully immersed in the environment and kept trying to find his way ‘out, which he eventually did. He and the ship’s Captain shut down the simulation, and Kane physically assaulted the Section 31 agent running it. He was then ‘recruited without consent.

“Yeah… thats the kind of s%$# they pulled all the time back then. And still do here. You know I gave that very chip to the Fleet Admiral in charge of my ship? Witha full report and all supporting documents I could find? Kniw what she said? “Thank you.” and that was it. So you’ll understand why that and the crap they’ve done to me here makes me wary of a ‘legal’ solution.”

Kane, R&D