The comms officer had been routing traffic around the ship for his entire shift. While in port things were so much more chaotic because of onloading supplies and a lot more personal traffic. Suddenly, the light on the left lit and buzzed his comms panel.

He paused for a moment… He knew this could happen but, he had never seen a priority one before. He calmed his voice and readjusted his earpiece before pressing the button. “This is the Starship Sentinel.” His back straitened as he heard the Andorian voice on the other side. “Go ahead and play message, ready to receive and record.” As he listened to the message all the color slowly drained from his face. He tapped out a quick code to save the transmission and keyed up an internal comms connection.

=/\=Captain, this is Comms Officer Chatter, you have a priority one distress call that’s been routed through Andoria. I’ve encrypted it for you. =/\=

-GM