[Starfleet Intelligence Headquarters - Langley, Virginia - Earth - Sol System]
"Director." Greeted the voice of Captain Alexander Emile Mercer, the Director of SFI Standard Intelligence, as he entered the office of his superior officer, Vice Admiral Tuvok. "Thank you for seeing me at such short notice."
Mercer hobbled over to the chair across the desk from the dark-skinned vulcan with the use of his duranium cane as the Admiral stood to greet him.
"Greetings, Captain." Tuvok nodded, and took his seat. Mercer followed suit. "I here you have some more news into the Antigonis incident."
"That is correct, Admiral." Mercer replied. "We were able to trace the signal the Breen sent out before they committed suicide to a distribution point in the Briar Patch."
"Were you able to decode the transmission, Captain?"
"No sir." Mercer replied, regrettably. "The Breen are using an algorithm as of yet unencountered. It's giving the cryptology department quite a time."
Tuvok replied with a non-verbal nod, signalling Mercer to continue.
"In the Briar Patch, our teams discovered another bouy that split the transmission into three different locations throughout the quadrant." Mercer was about to continue when the Director interrupted.
"And where did these transmissions disperse?"
Mercer sighed. "Number one was tracked to a desert planet in the Vega system. Number two to an asteroid belt in the Xenex system next to Talarian Space. Both leads have turned up to be dead-ends."
"I see." Tuvok's eyebrows steepled. "And number three?"
"Into Erassian space."
Tuvok brought his hands together atop his desktop, perhaps the closest expression to frustration Mercer had ever seen the vulcan express. "And this is our fianl lead."
"Yes sir."
"Recommendations?"
"Investigation, sir. Though since we a dealing with the Erassians now I though it would be best to request Special Force's First Taskforce's involvement."
Tuvok turned around in is chair to look out the window in contemplation. "That would be a logical suggestion. Erass would be more likely to coordinate with a known entity. And the Taskforce's Chimera was the ship to originally be assigned to this mission. It is... fitting for it to be a par tof its conclusion."
This time Mercer responded with the non-verbal nod.
"Very well, Captain. I will get in touch with Admiral Janeway and General Kira." Tuvok said. "In the meantime, prepare a dossier to be presented to Commodore Guzman and his team for the operation. I want a copy on my desk tomorrow morning."
"Aye, sir."
"You are dismissed."
[End Log]
Vice Admiral Tuvok
Director
Starfleet Intelligence
Captain Alexander Emile Mercer
Director of Standard Intelligence
Starfleet Intelligence
(NPCs by Rojac)
