Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Captain Hamilcar Jasar (Captain) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Commander D’Vash Odinson (First Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge
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“This ship itself could be a bomb.” Jasar asked, taking his command chair. “Can we beam them aboard?” He asked curious, looking at the sensor display near his chair.

-CO

The ship was unshielded, it was therefore possible to beam everyone onboard. The only indication of weapons of any kind were two forward facing disruptor arrays, and one collapsed torpedo tube. Powering the disruptors at this point seemed unlikely given the ship’s remaining power levels.

-Matrix

Sural stood and faced the captain, his hands clasped behind him. “Sir, motive would be required were we considering this to be an explosive device. Their singularity core is dead and their power levels insufficient to begin mustering either an offense or defense. We were not expected to be here and the Zeus could not take this vessel in. Moreover, the cargo vessel would normally have as its crew up to five. There are over 40 on board. Logically if they were performing a suicide mission they would do it with minimal persons rather than what we see. Tactically were we to take the vessel on we only have ourselves to protect in the event of any other Romulan incursion. We are able to both take the vessel aboard and contain it, beaming the crew to another location such as sickbay. Then, security and engineering can secure the vessel.”
- Sural, CE

“It’s not the motive of the crew that I am concerned about. If they are running from the Tal’ Shiar they may have an agent on board.” Jasar stated to Sural. He stood up and moved towards the view screen. “Hail the Romulans.”

Once they reestablished communication.

=^=Captain Revel, This is Captain Jasar of the Federation Star ship Olympic. I would like to beam your crew aboard my ship, we can better protect you that way. Any members of your crew that need medical attention will be attended to. Once your crew has been seen to, we can discuss your asylum request.=^=

-CO

=/\=Captain Jasar, that is perfectly agreeable. My ship is unshielded, I will tell the people to expect beam out at any time.=/\= he was about to close out the channel when he said =/\=Captain, we cannot thank you enough.=/\= The viewscreen went dark, then returned to a view of the I.R.W. Talok. Soon to just be drifting scrap metal, relieved of its burden.

-Matrix

D’vash leaned closer to Jasar. “Captain, it took a few moments, but I remember hearing of this Suket, Capt. Revel mentioned. She had made a number of enemies among the Romulan Senate, for her unethical ways, even by Romulan standards. After the Hobus Incident occurred and the Tal’Shiar took over the government, Suket became somewhat of the favored child by the new government.”

“If these people are running from her, for whatever reason, she will stop at nothing to get them back. Even at the risk of starting a war.”

Odinson (XO)

Sural’s brow rose. That sounded rather melodramatic and emotionally based for a response. While he was not averse to considering a ‘plant’ in the Romulan ranks, he considered that a fleeing group of rag tag refugees were hardly something to start a war that the Romulans, in their current condition, had no way of winning. That was not logical. However, any such dedicated pursuit needed a reason. “Then, if I might add, Commander, we must discover their motive for such a pursuit.” Doing so would solve a number of questions and give them indication as to what their importance was.
- Sural, CE

“I’m just suggesting we don’t underestimate Suket, Sural. She is ruthless, to say the least.”

“Of course, sir,” Sural replied. “That is most logical.” His even voice didn’t betray his thoughts. Ruthless was not a motive. One required cause to cross the neutral zone into Federation space in a warship. That was no small thing. Whether there were ‘moles’ in the mix only added to why then they were being pursued and why they had not been caught on their side of the fence, so to speak. A freighter was hardly a swift vessel. Their escape story was one that needed to be explored.

Pretha didn’t hear everything D’Vash said, she got the feeling there was more to their coming guests than she was aware. Standing up, she waited till a pause in their whispering and nodded to the others. “I’m going to set up the cargo bay as an ingress point. We’ll keep security minimal in the bay, but on standby and in the halls as well. I’ll also lock down the systems in the bay so they can’t access the computers till we are sure what’s going on.” She nodded to the CO and XO. “Permission to leave the bridge and set up security in the bay and medical?”

She hoped she would become privy to whatever it was they seemed to know, but she wasn’t about to ask now.

Pretha
CoS

“I’ll join you, Lt., in welcoming our guests,” D’vash offered.

“Captain, shall I bring Capt. Revel to the conference room as soon as he and his people get situated?”

Odinson (XO)

“No Commander,” He said, pausing for a moment to think. “I want you to take a small away team and secure the freighter. Once it is secured we can bring it aboard.” His eastern european accent coming through slightly as he spoke. “Lt. Pretha, you and the good Doctor will see to our guests.”

He walked over the the commander to escort him to the turbolift. “Something about this smells wrong, do you disagree?” He asked his XO quietly as they walked.

-CO

Sural tapped at the controls, downloading all pertinent sensor data of the Romulan vessel to his PaDD. He anticipated being on the Away Team so undertook this proactive stance. So too, it was helpful for the ship’s sensors could much better map the unshielded cargo vessel and, should he have the map ready, he could much easily navigate the ship rather than being limited to what could be gleaned from the scans on a PaDD. Shutting down his station, he turned, expectantly awaiting the order. If it came that he was not part of it, and that say, NE Reno was a part of the team, he would pass the Texan his information.
- Sural, CE

A complete map of the small ship was downloaded to Sural’s PaDD. A warning came up that power failure was imminent and EVA suits or backup power supply would likely be necessary.

-Matrix