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Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Lt. Gov’s Office - When Cultures (And Laws) Clash (Tag Lt. Gov.)

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The personnel file on Vargas was nothing out of the norm. Average Engineer, slightly above average test scores, promoted as was reasonable. Nothing stellar, but nothing negative, either. It wasn’t until the last year of his service that things seemed to go awry. The DH in charge of him, one Lieutenant Commander Balindre Hdla, had nothing but negative reviews of the man. Below average fitness reports, disciplinary write-ups, restriction to quarters on several occasions. She even recommended a reduction in rank at one point, a very odd note in Star Fleet. It was a very different person from the previous years of service where Vargas seemed to be simply doing his job.

There were some counseling notes in the file… but seemingly very broad and open ended. Adding them up, even in the last year of Vargas’s service, there were only four such notes for entire year. On closer inspection, it seemed that the notes didn’t quite fit into the standard format for the file either… almost like they had been an after thought of some kind.

The last file was the requested locations:

The former DH was now Commander Hdla-C’thol, and she was the Chief Engineer of the USS DeepBlue, an exploratory vessel that was about to be commissioned in the next few months.

The Executive Officer over Vargas was Commander Gren C’thol. He was now Captain C’thol and was the Executive Officer assigned to the DeepBlue.

The former Commanding Officer was Captain Bertrand Russel. He retired a few weeks after Vargas went AWOL, and was now living on Earth in the area around the Academy in San Francisco.

The warrant had been issued from the Starbase 1 Security office, but oddly had been immediately transmitted to Oed… but not to the Security desk. It went directly to the leader of the team that had walked into the House Duroc Embassy - one Lieutenant Commander Ans’lik.

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Curses flowed through her mind as she read through the files and saw the all too obvious gaps. It was good to confirm the lack of counselling surrounding his request for discharge. It was standard procedure and one that had been completely ignored. She pulled up the Counsellor’s file to see what the story was there, because the notes said nothing and there should have been way more, especially after the incident that claimed his shipmates. Trauma was no small thing and she and other counsellors hadn’t pushed Starfleet Command to have counselling services on duty where people actually served just for the hell of it. The sooner someone had support after any significant event, the better they did going forward. Vargas had slipped through the cracks, or as she saw it, pushed through the cracks. And right now she needed evidence to prove it.

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

The Counselor assigned to the station when Vargas was there was Lieutenant Commander Marcus Papadimitriou. His name was well known in counseling circles… and not for good reasons. He was as arrogant and lazy as he was inept. But he had been well connected, and thus kept getting promoted and transferred away from the issues he had caused. It had finally caught up with him almost a year ago when he had ‘counseled’ a young ensign and she ended up attempting suicide in a quite spectacular fashion: she had leapt from the top of the Academy Command School building. An emergency fall-arrest system in place for upcoming construction saved her. The Commander had been unable to escape the fallout from the event and had been summarily stripped of his license and removed from Star Fleet under quite the cloud.

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For a moment Eela just sat there and stared at the information before forcing herself to take a deep breath. Yes, there were bad mental health practitioners just like there could be ineffective and damage causing people in any profession. But crap like this made her blood boil. Stress, though, would not do her any good, so she took time to calm her heart rate before she returned her gaze to the screen.

She needed to explore Hd’la and C’thol a bit more but first she brought up the personnel record for Lieutenant Commander Ans’lik, looking for anything and everything that might be the least bit suspicious.

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

The file for the Andorian Lieutenant Commander was remarkable only in its mundaneness. No disciplinary reports. No fitness reports above average. No awards past a few Letters of Commendation, and none of those from anyone higher than a Department Head or Executive Officer. No major achievements… but no major black eyes, either. He was, simply put, quite average.

The average is what stood out, however. Because ‘average’ Security officers are not assigned to Starbase 1… and that just so happened to be the Lieutenant Commander’s duty station prior to being assigned to Oed V six months ago.

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Curious to see how far she could push her clearance, she delved a little deeper to see who recommended or authorized the assignment and if Ans’lik was connected to anyone of note.

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

The only thing that came of the search was that he had been recommended to SB 1 by a Captain C’thol and he had served only 8 months before being transferred to Oed V.

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Scrolling back through his previous assignments, she followed a hunch and checked to see where C’thol and Ans’lik had served together. If the situation forming was what she thought it might be then she might actually laugh aloud at the ridiculousness of it all.

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.