A few moments later Remy slipped into the conference room and took his place at the head of the table.

Boudreaux (CO)

Reilly walked in immediately behind him and said “Welcome back.” and he expertly rolled an optical disk down the table to Remy and then took his seat at the opposite end. Most XO’s sat directly next to their Commanding Officers, but not Reilly. He liked to be able to see everyone and also be able to get the CO’s attention easily. That, and the addition of small text displays installed on each allowing for private comments, made it a more efficient positioning of the two.

“That’s Petrov getting taken. So before anyone else arrives, I have to ask… do we have to go get him?” and he winked at Remy.

Reilly, XO

Alita stepped in right behind Riley and glanced at the two gentlemen.

“So I’m going to assume we have to get Mr. Petrov right? Okay okay. Back to professional COS.” she said with a sigh.

Walking to the replicator she found the largest, strongest, cup of coffee it could produce and took a seat at the conference table.

A part of her was frustrated that that damned engineer could steal the show in this fashion.

• Alita, MO/COS

“I ‘ave no problem admittine it, but I was askine myself de same tine. One of de ‘azards of beine on dis ship. On de oder ‘and, IF we rescue ‘im an’ save ‘is life, he may feel ‘e owes us. . . . . no, no ‘e won’,” Remy replied.

Reilly just nodded in agreement.

Mado was shocked. He looked at Lt. Finn. “That looks like an artifact was in use at the time that Mr. Petrov was taken,” remarked Mado, “The way the hands appear doesn’t seem like a glitch in technology.”

GM

She leaned forward to get a better look at the images. It was possible they kidnapper used another artifact—but which one?

“Any idea what de artifact might be, Lt.? Per’aps sometine used by an illusionist to perform sleight of ‘and tricks, or maybe a master tief?” As he made that comment, he thought *Sometine like dat would ‘ave come in very useful in my younger days. . . *

Boudreaux (CO)

“Difficult to say at first glance,” replied Mado.

“The shop had passive scan data, its attached to the vid file. I’d suggest science go over it and see what they can come up with. Any thread we can follow now is better than where we are at currently.” He looked at Remy and said “And how did your team fare, Skipper? Come up with any leads?”

Reilly, XO

“If the passive scan data has thermal data, that might reveal the shape of person who kidnapped.”

Bryson walked into the room slightly late, and it was at this time that he noticed he hadn’t changed out of his uniform and it was still damp. “Sickbay has finally been cleaned up, but I don’t think I’ll be going for a swim anytime soon.”

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GM

Reilly pulled up the scan data and put it on the room’s view screen, and then looked for anything like Mado suggested.

Reilly, XO

The data showed a humanoid, bigger than Petrov. But the thermal data was insufficient to give an exact detailed shape. With the thermal overlay in place, the computer replayed the video showing Petrov kidnapped, with something cold held over his mouth and nose.

GM

Reilly looked at Alita and said “Connect with Risa law enforcement and see if they have any cameras in the vicinity, if you would please. If so, let’s see if we can find a vehicle or something that sticks out. I’m pretty sure they didnt carry him off down the road on their shoulder.”

Reilly, XO

Remy was beginning to feel exasperated and have second thoughts about this mission and working for Adm. Frederic.

“Jus’ so we are all on de same page, lemme sum up. . . . .Dere was a flood in Sickbay caused by an artifact, my team was unable to get our ‘ands on de artifact we were searchine for. Someone else got to it first. Cmdr Reilly’s team was unable to get de artifact dey were lookine for, Lt. Petrov ‘as been abducted, an’ we are no closer to knowine de identity of who tried to kill me? Anytine else?”

He looked to Alita with an almost pleading look that seemed to say, ‘Please, nothing else.’

Alita looked straight at Remy and shook her head. That was really all he needed.

-Alita, MO/COS

“Lt. LeBlanc, until Mr. Petrov is returned us, I am assignine you as actine Chief Engineer.” He chose Acadia to act as the temporary CE for two reasons. First, she was a competent engineer. She had to be or else she wouldn’t have been sent to the Wolverine. Secondly, he wanted to see if she had the chops to be the chief, if, God forbid, they were unable to get Petrov back.”

Boudreaux (CO)

“Captain, we still need to get the supplies for artifact containment that the Admiral provided us,” said Lt. Mado, “If we are dealing with an enemy who is aware of the artifacts existence, then there is a serious problem we have on our hands,” said Mado.

GM

Fin looked over at Mado. “How could they have found out? You’re familiar with these things—where should we start looking for a leak?” The artifacts existence were not well known and for someone to snatch it up a few seconds before the Wolverine’s team did, well that was very suspicious.

Reilly glared at Mado and said “Yeah… and the whole kidnapping of a Star Fleet officer thing kind of adds a whole layer of complexity, doesn’t it Lieutenant?” and he then looked at Remy. “Captain, Mr. Petrov needs to be the priority here. He may be a real sonofa&^%$h, but he is our sonofa&^%$h. Respectfully, we need to focus on finding him. I’m sure the good Lieutenant here can handle the logistics of the material request.” and he jerked his head towards Mado.

Reilly, Irritated XO

“This is too big of a ruckus, for someone from the Risa government to not know anything....” Commander Erin said after listening to everyone’s input. “Either the Risans are too incompetent to adequately monitor their own planet, or someone is looking the other way on these shenanigans.” Bryson was hoping the Risans weren’t in on this, or else the issue would be more dire.

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