[USS Chimera] ||Back Log|| SD:240811.12 Joint Log Ensign Kroitzer & Ensign Hopeler

"Paul Howorth" <palsh963@gmail.com> wrote to chimera@ucip.org:

=/\= Aeran III =/\=

Mimi was playing a game of tag with the children. She had been keeping
them busy with the game for about 30 minutes and had already been it
several times to keep the kids interested. She had managed to get far
enough out of reach that Martin who was it at the moment was taking a
couple of seconds to figure out his strategy to get Mimi back.
Unfortunately for Gustav that's when he chose to walk through the
middle of the game. Martin quickly reached out and tagged the
engineer, saying, "Your it!" as he ran away.

Gustav was walking through the camp of escape pods that everyone
called home at the moment going no were in particular, when he heard
some commotion ahead of him in abit of a clearing, he got to the
middle of the area when he and was wondering what was happening when a
little boy hit him on the hip and shouted "your it"! Then promptly ran
off.

Kroitzer looked around and saw Mimi and the two kids, giving a
quizzical look to Mimi he mouthed "What's going on"

"We're playing tag, she answered taking a couple of steps toward
Gustav so she didn't have to yell. "And apparently Martin has decided
that you joined the game."

Martin stopped Mimi's forward progress saying, "Don't get too close or
you'll be it again."

Rachel giggled as she watched the man still standing there, "Has he
forgotten how to run?"

Hearing the little girls taunts Gustav decided that he would join in.

Mimi knelt to answer the question, "No He's just...." She never got a
chance to finish as Martin ran by grabbing Rachel's hand, "Come on
.... he's moving." Mimi watched the children run off in one direction
as she stood and turned.

Gustav was making his way at quite a rapid pace to where Mimi was
getting ready to tag her when Rachel decided she would be brave and
dart in front of him thinking that Gustav wouldn't be quick enough to
tag her.....she was wrong and got a quick tag on he shoulder.

Rachel frowned but ran after Martin for a bit and then tried to tag
Gustav again and then switched to Mimi. After a couple of tries Mimi
let Rachel off the hook and let the little girl tag her. "You two are
just too good," Mimi commented as she began chasing the kids. every
once in a while she would reach out and try to tag Gustav but he
always managed to just get beyond her finger tips.
Laura called to the children to come for lunch and Mimi stopped in her
tracks and took a deep breath.

Looking to Mimi Gustav said "That was fun, never thought I would be
playing tag any time soon" a little out of breath.

"So do you want to join the kids for a bite to eat?" Gustav asked {I
always seem to take Mimi somewhere to eat}.

"I think I'd like something cool to drink and a nap .... but I'd
settle for a drink and a walk with you ... unless you're hungry," Mimi
quickly added.

"Nah I'm not hungry, a walk would be good although are you saying that
a walk with me is like taking a nap" Gustav said with a grin on his
face.

Mimi turned abruptly to face him saying, "NO .... I just meant ...."
her words fell short when she noticed his smile. A light blush covered
her cheeks and she cleared her throat and finish, "that I'd rather
spend the time with you." They walked past a table that had bottles of
water and each grabbed one as they walked by.

As they walked taking in the beautiful landscape Gustav asked "Are you
going to stay on the new Chimera when it gets built".

"I think... I'd like to.... but I'm afraid I did such a bad job
that.... I won't be allowed to," she said with indecisiveness. "Are
you sure the new ship will be a Chimera?"

"Well I hope a new one gets built, it would be a waste of a good name
if it doesn't." Gustav said.

They came across a quiet little place in a small grouping of trees.
"Can we sit for a bit," she asked.

"Sure" Gustav said

"Why do you think you had done a bad job, from where I'm standing I
think you done a fine job, hell you wouldn't have been asked to do the
job if there was any doubt in your abilities" Gustav said trying to
let Mimi know that even if no one had said it to her at least he
thought she done an excellent job.

"Well... I supposed to be in charge and I just delegated everything
out and went to be with Rachel when... things started to go wrong....
but well I knew her parents wouldn't be able to be there.... "

Feeling like Mimi didn't want to talk about it Gustav let that subject drop.

She sat quite close to him as he rested his back against one of the
trees. "It is very pretty here ... its too bad we had to find out in
such a horrific way." She opened her bottle and took a deep pull;
letting the cool water sooth her dry throat. With a small yawn she
rested her head on his shoulder, "How long do you think we'll have to
wait to get a new ship or orders?"

"Yes it is and I don't think it will be to long until we get either
or" Gustav responded looking around him with his arm around Mimi's
shoulder gently stroking her cheek with his thumb.

She nestled a little closer enjoy the tranquility before giving
another little yawn and then a contented sigh. "This is nice."

Feeling more at ease and comfortable than he had in awhile Gustav
agreed which surprised him considering how he and everyone arrived on
this planet although he thought to himself that nothing could beat the
challenges of being an engineer on a starship.

While enjoy the atmosphere and silence Mimi fell asleep with her head
on Gustav's shoulder.

=/\= End Log =/\=

Ensign Gustav Kroitzer
Deputy Chief Engineer

&

Ensign Mimi Hopeler
Jr. Counselor

USS Chimera-B (destoryed)

[USS Chimera] SD 240811.10 Duty Log [Back Log] Ensign Tom Jardan (DSEC)

<<OOC>> fter battle of SB 234   =/\= EAS Hermes=/\=   Tommy lifted the bandage and turned to the next person in sickbay. All around him he saw other crew that were pressed into action as medics.The battle had taken a heavy toll on the ship, and it was all he could do to keep up with the flow.   As he worked, his thoughts kept turning back to his encounter on the bridge with Commander Wellington. He was amazed at how the shy pre-schooler had grown up to be a pretty woman. And what he felt about it. He had thoughts of guilt as he remembered how he had used her grandmother as a courier during the occupation.   Soon they had treated all of the casualties and he was told to get some rest, which he happily complied with.{ I will sleep, hen talk to both the general and Athena. Also need to get ahold of The commander and find out what's next.}      End Log Ensign Tom Jardan Deputy Chief of Security USS Chimera(Destroyed)

[USS Chimera] SD 240811.11 || CO Log || Cmdr Cropa Rojac || Awards and Promotions ||

[Temporary Quarters - SB 234 - USS Chimera-B]

Cropa put the mug of coffee back on the desk and exhaled a heavy sigh. He leaned back in the dark leather chair which  gave way with a loud creak as he swiveled around to survey the drab interior of his temporary quarters. All of his personal belongings went up in flames with the detonation of the Chimera-B those short six months ago, and the war left him little time to refurnish.

He had spent his days informing the families of his fallen crew members of their demise at the Battle of SB 234. It was his least favorite thing to do as a Captain, and so far he has had to write at least one letter from each of his missions. All of them were equally hard; from his Security Chief at Antigonis V, to Specialist Zephram Luna in engineering. They all gave the ultimate sacrifice for the Federation and its people.

Rojac stood from his desk and walked to the viewport along the bulkhead of his quarters. The base was thriving with workbees buzzing to and fro working of the renovation of SB 234. The base had been transferred to the Command of Starfleet Special Forces First Taskforce, and was being refit to accommodate those needs. 

The man in charge of the refit was 1TF's new Chief Engineer, and Rojac's former CEO, Commander Rick Rodgers. Rojac thought it was ironic. It wasn't long ago that Rick turned down a job at SB 1 under Admiral Geordi LaForge, and now he ended up on a starbase anyway. Perhaps it was for the better. SSF had passed the rule forbidding unauthorized civilians and juveniles from starships, and Rachel had Rick by the collar. He needed to be with her.

But what about Maikai, his CMO and Rachel's mother? Rojac asked her if she wanted to transfer to UNITY, that he was sure he could get her a position under Commander Summers. Maikai declined. Rojac advised her not to be so hasty in her decision, and to take her time to evaluate it. To help her in her decision, he had her assigned to the SB medical staff while the crew waited for the new ship to arrive. There she could decide where her place would be.

Rojac's meditations were cut short by a chirrup from his personal computer. It flashed with a message and he quickly crossed the room to access it. The news was good. Commodore Guzman had approved the awards and promotions he had petitioned for. Cropa smiled, sat down, and began writing the messages to his awarded crew. 

Because of Starfleet's stretched resources during the war, many of the Chimera's crew was spread out across the theatre. There would be no easy way to hold an awards ceremony, and now was not the time as skirmish after skirmish erupted along the neutral zone. Rojac was forced to compose written messages and send them to his crew members, where their immediate superior there would issue their pips and ribbons. 'Perhaps it was easier this way' he told himself. 

The awards went as such:

Lieutenant Commander Natalia Trzetrzelewska was promoted to the rank of Commander.

First Lieutenant Anya Xerxes was promoted to the rank of Marine Captain. (And given the OOC awards of the Fleet Service Medal with Silver Comet Cluster and the Fleet Ribbon of Merit.)

Ensign Tom Jardan was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade and given the position of the Chimera-C's Chief of Security. He was also awarded the Kragite Order of Heroism from Commander Rojac, and a Citation for Gallantry from Commodore Guzman.

Ensign Gustav Kroitzer was given a field commission to the rank of Acting Lieutenant Junior Grade, and was awarded the Technical Excellence Award. (OOC: Fleet Ribbon of Merit, and the Fleet Service Medal with Silver Comet Cluster.)

Lieutenant Junior Grade Pazla Dacour was given a field commission to the rank of Acting Lieutenant and given an Acting Executive Officer post aboard the USS Rapier. She was also awarded the Rising Star.

Commander Rick Rodgers was given another Technical Excellence Ribbon as a final thank you from the Chimera's CO. Rojac was quite sure he had a drawer full already. (OOC: Fleet Service Medal with Silver Comet Cluster, and the Meritorious Service Medal.)

Lieutenant Commander Maikai Rodgers was awarded the Golden Heart.

First Lieutenant Jade Reese was given the Preantares Ribbon, and Rojac being impressed with her performance aboard the Bahamut, asked her to be his new Chief of Operations.

(More OOCs: Fleet Ribbon of Merit to Rangi, and the Fleet Service medal with Silver Comet Cluster to Jass. P.S.: Muma will be giving out some more too.)

=/\=

Rojac smiled. Promotions, he decided, were a much happier affair than consolation letters. The former brought at least a glimmer of happiness to the drab and heavy atmosphere of war. He crossed the room back to the bulkhead as the brightly lit orb of Aeran III came into view. Rojac had only spent a day or two on Aeran III following the battle. Most of his time was spent up on the starbase, helping coordinate attacks and develop defensive strategies with the Taskforce staff.  He spent a few days on the surface, taking the Bahamut on searches for the remainder of his crew that were scattered across the globe. 

He decided that the Chimera's early end to their last R&R was a disguised blessing. If all of his crew had made it aboard in time, then there might have been many more casualties to the already hefty amount. And he would have had to write many more sad letters. 

Rojac flipped on the news with a verbal command to the computer. On the screen battle scenes caught along the neutral zone flashed on-screen with commentators describing the scene. The Romulans had made an incursion into Qualor System, and had sent the Second Taskforce's Ships into a retreat. Rojac hoped Commodore Uhnari could remedy the situation quickly in her theatre, before the Romulans gained too much of a foothold. 

First Taskforce had its hands full in the southern end of the Neutral Zone. Romulans kept testing the border, the Erassians were pressuring for the signing of the Mutual Defense Pact while the Council had been stalling it, and the Klingons seemed reluctant to get involved. To Rojac it seemed that UNITY was stuck in a hard place between ruthless adversaries, and pressuring diplomatic obligations, and he could barely wait to get back in the thick of it.

[End Log]

Commander Cropa Rojac

Commanding Officer

USS Chimera NCC 96899-C [In Production]

[USS Chimera] SD: 240811.11 Special News Broadcast, Premier Joseph Lephren, Head of The Erassian Alliance [Backlog]

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***Press Room, Erassian Alliance Parliament, Erass Prime***

 

Premier Joseph Lephren approached the podium slowly and somberly.  
He was dressed in a black suit and tie with a red poppy pinned to
the right lapel of his jacket.  He stepped up to the podium and spoke
in his deep and commanding voice.  "Today on the Earth Calendar is
the 11th of November 2408.  Today is the 490th anniversary of
Armistace Day.  On this day 490 years ago an end to the Great War
was announced.  Back then it was hoped that never again would there
be a war that would engulf the world and cost so many lives.  We the
human race have failed to live up to that dream as today we stand on
the very cusp of another war which threatens not just one world but
many, a war which if we lose we likely face annhialation rather than
occupation." 
 
"Today though I do not stand here to represent the human race,
today I stand here as the representative for all the Humans,
Betazoids, Trill and Ferengi that make up the people of the
Erassian Alliance.  You know as I know that for the past 140 years
we the Alliance have been attacked, harrassed and plotted against
by the Romulan Star Empire.  I break to you now that this time they
have gone too far.  The Starfleet Medical Ship USS McCoy and its
escort the USS Quasar-A were atacked by a force totalling 6 Romulan
Warbirds and 30 Heavy Fighters.  The mission that was being carried
out by the USS McCoy was one to find a cure for the biological weapon
that was used on our planet of Charos VI.  A biological weapon I am
assured by our top medical researchers which is likely of Romulan origin. 
The attack on the USS McCoy was thwarted by the intervention of
4 Starfleet ships and our own Second Fleet."

"That was not the end of Romulan treachery today, in Federation space
today the Romulans sent a fleet of around 80 Warbirds to capture or
destroy the nearby Starbase 234.  Naturally the Alliance will not tolerate
such blatent acts of aggression against ourselves or our neighbours.  
The Second Fleet along with elements of the Third Fleet were dispatched 
to aid the Starfleet's defence of the Starbase.  Against these vastly
superior numbers our forces combined with those of Starfleet have
prevailed.  This victory however has come at a great price 63 of our
service men and women have been reported as fallen.  Their sacrifice
will not be in vain.  Today by Special Act of the Erassain Alliance 
Parliament we will make the same stand that our forebearers before us
have made.  We will not tolerate aggression to ourselves or our
neighbours, we will not tolerate attacks on civillian targets and we
will not go quietly into the night.  Today the Erassian Alliance issues a 
call to arms as on this most solemn of days as we hereby issue a Formal
Declaration of War against the Romulan Star Empire."
 
"To our neighbours in the Federation and the Klingon Empire we urge
you to stand up and join us in battle.  Whilst we have not always
gotten along, we have never been enemies.  And to the Romulans
today you have woken the sleeping Shadow Wolf, sleep lightly for
you may wake up to find our teeth at your throats."
 
With that he stepped down from the podium and headed off to the
stage exit from the Press Room seemingly unperturbed by the clamouring
of the press corps, leaving the mass of questions to his poor Press Liason. 
Only time would tell if todays actions had been the right ones and history
as always history would be written by the victorious.
 
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Premier Joseph Lephren (NPC Ixus)
Head of the Erassian Alliance
 

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