[ Padassa Station ]
Major Kinn sat in the control room of Padassa Station monitoring the fleet of Romulan ships that were making their way towards Ru'Bazean homeworlds. Klingon and Quorum officials had been locked in talks almost constantly since they first detected the movement of the fleet, yet a decision had not yet been made on what to do. It was an impossible situation, one that Giella was not sure she would know how to handle if the choice were up to her.
Quorum ships were too slow in evacuating the population before the Thalaron cruisers would arrive, and they would easily be intercepted by Romulan warbirds and picked off one by one. It would take too long for Federation ships to arrive and assist in evacuation, so that option was not available. As for Klingon assistance, most of the fleet assigned to Quorum was currently busy with other objectives, and Klingon ships were built for battle, not for carrying large crew numbers; they wouldn't even be able to evacuate a tenth of the population. There also weren't enough ships available to be diverted to attack the Romulan fleet. Although the Klingons loved a challenge, their generals also weren't foolish enough to send most of their ships on a suicide mission.
It was now simply a matter of a few short hours before the Romulans would reach their target and the attack would begin. Giella traced back the sensor logs to extrapolate a more accurate ETA, then stopped when she noticed something odd. Out of the original group of ships that was heading towards the planet, three had disappeared. She compared the data three times to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her, then glided her chair to the station next to hers.
"Out of my way," she ordered the junior Klingon officer seated there. He gave a grunt and a filthy look but did as he was told and moved out of the way; the Klingons had come to respect the Tollauran major by now.
She quickly tapped in a pair of commands that gave her detailed access to the various tachyon grids that had been establish since the Federation's arrival in Quorum space. Though the Romulans still had technology to evade them, not all ships had been outfitted with advanced cloaks. Hoping for just a glimpse of where those ships could have gone, she compared the hundreds of grids, overlaying each of them and adding checks for possible Romulan warp and energy signatures. A moment later a grid set up by Klingon ships revealed three faint sensor echoes in one of Padassa's neighbouring star systems. They were still under cloak, but there was no question now where they were heading: towards Padassa. But why only three? They would be greatly outnumbered.
Standing up from her chair, Giella tapped her commbadge. "Major Kinn to Brigadier Stirling. Sir, there's something you should see in the control room.
[ End Log ]
Major Giellera Kinn
Intelligence Advisor
1st Task Force, SSF
[NPC by Bren]
