====== CO's office, Main Ops, SB 234: UNITY
======
Shane was still sitting in his chair … but felt slightly
uneasy. He looked around himself and thought that this was
not his office, but a strange place. Well … technically
this WAS his office, as he was UNITY's CO as well … but
his place was definitely the 1TF CO's office tenths decks
above this one.
The only reason he stayed here was Terek's search for
clues about the kidnapper's ship. He had to nod to himself
as being lucky to have Terek on board, since the CSCiO did a
hell of work to trace those who kidnapped his beloved.
Not knowing what magic did Terek employ, Shane's got some
bits of information already. By chance, an satellite that
was malfunctioning and towed aside to wait for repairs
picked up visual contact with an unidentified ship who's
position originated at those coordination where Live's
access codes have been used the last time. Chance was great
that the ship was really the kidnapper's one. Terek was
now running a scan on those data, sure was only that it was
no federation ship … or a ship of fed allies like Klingons
or Erassians. From the ship's trajectory a course was
plotted that lead into the Romulan Empire. Shane feared it
would lead to Romulus or some other major planet, but
instead of that it was leading to a region of Romulan Empire
that was far from the Centrum.
There were some news from the attached shipyard as well. Not
good news only … the expected Lancer batch was quite in a
delay. Resources reasons were announced and Shane had to
wonder about that. Last time he checked (a month ago) the
requirements queve was well stocked and resource transports
from Earth were scheduled in to arrive in time. He wanted to
inquire the case, but busy as he was, he trusted Rodgers to
handle it.
Preliminary reports from Commander Ohmsford and his task
group arrived yesterday. It was obvious that assigning
Chimera and Cropa's crew to deal with the Erassians was a
good idea. Getting in touch with General Ivanov, they seemed
to make some progress in getting into Erassian space.
Shane sighed. Ivanov was a strange individual. He and Shane
had quite a history on the Chimera (while under Shane's
command) and the strange dislike, but mutual respect of
those two man had a major impact of relation of this two
powers in the alpha quadrant – Federation and Erassian
Alliance. In a certain way, the saying: "even the smallest
thing can change the course of the future" become true
once again …
On the other hand, the Thalaron investigation led by Captain
Chisulo went very well. TF Command just got a notice that
Romulan forces in the affected systems have been destroyed
or forced to leave and that the last stage of this operation
was running – ground combat. Since the entire planet has
been voided … and no live survived the Thalaron attack,
there was no worry about civilian causalities during the
operation. Shane looked forward to get a copy of Chisulo's
report regarding the thalaron tech used there. It was
needless to say that Chisulo's tactical experience paid
off in a large scale space battle.
Looking at the console in front of him, Shane realized that
the arrival of Admiral Jefferson and Captain Trent Rodgers
was about to happen. He needed to be there to greet the two
man, since it was never god to let an Admiral waiting …
and even less when the actual Admiral was the 2nd in Command
of all Joint Defense Command. Summoning the Chief of fleet
level security – Lieutenant Mumacik, Shane left the
operations level and headed towards the docking port II.
====== End of log ======
Commodore Shane Guzman
CO, SB 234: UNITY
CO, 1st TF, SSF Command
