Posted by Commander T’Aria (XO / Navigation Officer) in Main SIM: Approaching Klingon (Tag: XO/Bridge crew/Kastarak and Valharra)

Posted by Captain Chris Taggart (Captain) in Main SIM: Approaching Klingon Tag XO and Bridge Crew/NE’s
It has been a few days since his surgery, and everything is going well both with his health and the mission. Sitting in the captain’s seat he looked over to T’Aria. “Commander.
We are in Klingon space and will be orbiting the planet in two hours. Please ready the staff for an away mission and choose whom you are going to take. Take as many as you need but keep in mind it is clandestine. Or I can go and you can stay here? The choice is yours madam.”

Captain Chris Taggart, CO

Situated at the helm, T’Aria inputted a series of commands into the astrogation systems, adjusting their velocity to account for phenomena in the surrounding region. Her near-constant awareness of their position alerted her to their crossing into Klingon space, only for Taggart to confirm the observation when he called her attention. Qo’noS wasn’t far, now. T’Aria quirked an eyebrow and heeded Taggart’s orders with a discerning nod.

“No, sir. I will assemble an away team,” T’Aria tersely agreed, unwilling to risk his safety for this mission.

Starfleet classified Qo’noS as ‘uncharted space’ with little known about the system and its inhabitants except what United Earth and Coalition Era reports revealed. Even then, such accounts boiled down to ‘Class M planet’ with an ‘intricate system of subterranean volcanoes’ and a ‘dense atmosphere’. They knew slightly more about its indigenous population, the tlhIngan or ‘Klingons’, who revealed themselves to the Federation as warriors bound by a strict code of honour. They were intrepid in their acquisition of glory and dominion. Thus, relations between the Klingon Empire and Federation were unstable, impeded by hollow threats and disputes along their shared border.

Their limited intel on the Klingons and their homeworld elevated the danger of a rescue attempt. If they’d any hope of success, they needed to be quick, creative and discreet. That meant taking a basic but specialised team of no more than four, herself included. T’Aria assessed her options. There was an inherent threat to the woman’s life, exacerbated by the growing impatience of her captors. Her life was a commodity – a veritable bargaining chip – they could not risk losing, but her well-being was a different story. They needed someone qualified to care for the body and mind. Instantly, she thought of Dr Kastarak. His specialties in inter-species medicine and psychiatry paired with his prudence made him especially qualified for the task. Then, there was the issue of security. T’Aria recalled a conversation with Valharra many years before about his unique history that demonstrated a high degree of versatility and resourcefulness. No doubt, his experience and training would be invaluable.

T’Aria pondered the team a heartbeat longer before pressing the internal comms to request Dr Kastarak, Lt Valharra and NE Kiran report to the conference room for a pre-mission briefing. They had two hours before arriving at Qo’noS. That was enough time to discuss any intel they had to devise some semblance of a plan.

“Captain,” she turned to him after terminating the comms, “do you have a moment to discuss the mission?”

— T’Aria

OOC: If you’re interested in joining the away team, feel free to report in place of ‘NE Kiran’! :)

(Blaze can help with his hacking skills like opening door shutting down security systems and getting info and tapping into there coms)