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==Mission 3 - "The Borg Conduit"==
Located Below you will find three helpful pieces of information on this mission. First is a generalized Mission Overview which covers only specific and important events. Second is excerpts from the Captain's Log entries made during the mission, this can make for quite a read, but contains far more detailed and in depth accounts of the mission and the events surrounding it. Third is the crew's personal logs which will give insight into the mission from their perspectives.
===Mission Overview===
===Captain's Logs===Capt Elisa Godard== ===Stardate 20403.12===
'''Mid Vinzz Personal Log, Shard Vinzz. Gold Encryption Coding.'''
"What a day! First I get the whirlwind tour of the back-end of the Federation, just to find I've been assigned to a science ship that just relocated from the Cardassian Frontier. Then, after all the rushing to catch them, I arrive in the middle of Third Watch, and everyone is either off duty or off ship, partying at Starbase Bravo, and I can't even report in!
They'd never put up with this in the Andorian Home Fleet!
Anyway, after a quick cabin assignment and a few hours of sleep, I finally get to go meet my new Head of Department -- who turns out to be some arrogant Klingon whack job named Avark.
Personal Note: Remember to message home and have Big Brother run a check on this Avark; see if he comes from any Klingon Family of consequence. Wouldn't do to get on the wrong side of someone with the ear of the High Council, or something. He might even be a good business contact.
So, I go and meet this Avark the Frelling Klingon -- and he's having breakfast with the Captain! A little tiny slip of a woman -- I'm sure that either Avark or myself could just pick her up and snap her in two! Well, Avark could. I'd probably be able to toss her across the room though!
Anyway, Avark and myself are joined by another Andorian...
Personal Note: Look her up, later.
...and the three of us start talking about this puzzle the fem has. She's discovered that a phaser and a tricorder have gone missing, and someone's been using a cargo bay replicator to make a few snacks.
And the Klingon is dumping this Federation-Shaking Mystery on me. Shard Vinzz. Pride of Clan Vinzz, Top Comet at Flight School, Cadet Instructor of Arctic Survival Techniques.
Oh, yeah. I've made the big-time, now.
Well, to make a long story even longer, it turns out that my new ship -- the U.S.S. Copernicus -- on it's way out of the Cardassian sector, got attacked by a few Cardie ships. Attacked and Boarded, for Gozz' sake! And, now, a few days later, it looked like there were a few still left aboard.
On second thought, if this is what Klingon-led Security is like, I don't know what we of the Federation were ever afraid of.
So, I'm the one who figures out that there is a Cardassian stowaway on board, and Avark gives me command of the tactical squads to go out looking for the Cardie. Then, while I'm standing around like an idiot giving my men a briefing, the frelling Cardie pops up and gets himself chased by Avark -- who chases the Cardie right into his own quarters, where the Cardie goes and burns down Avarks human lover!
If Avark were Andorian I'd suspect he set that all up just to rid himself of an unwanted lover, but I don't think Klingons are that twisted; if he was tired of her, he'd have just snapped her neck and claimed it was an accident during sex. Brrrrr.
So, the Cardie burns down the Klingon's Par'machai, and that's when I catch up to him and beat him senseless. I broke his jaw -- though I didn't confirm that until later.
Avark and his woman beam off to Sickbay, while me and my team drag the Cardie off to the Brig. End of story, right? Wrong.
I figure that this Avark fellow will come charging into the Security office any second with blood in his eyes and a dagger in his paw -- you know how Klingons are about revenge. So I tried a few things I remembered from my anthropology studies to try and defuse things. I clear the office, so that if Avark comes in roaring there won't be any witnesses -- except yours truly -- I put some of the Cardie's blood on Avarks dagger and have it sent to him, so that he can be shown that his honor is safe, because his weapons -- the TacSquad under his command, specifically, and the bloody dagger, figuratively -- have taken out his enemy.
So I'm standing there, all alone, expecting to have to face down an angry klingon -- and, are there any other kind of klingon? -- me, a mere Midshipman, yet -- when suddenly the Cardassian is beamed right out of the Brig Security Cell!
I mean what the Frack! What kind of a frelling security cell is it that let's it's contents be beamed out while the forcefields are active?! I'm going to send a message to the Chief Naval Architect back at the Andorian Shipyards to look into this! I certainly hope that Andorian made security cells are better secured than these Earth-built ones!
So I locate the Cardie -- who's been beamed to a holodeck, I'd assumed, by Avark. Instead of doing a site-to-site myself -- after all, I respect Avark's need for vengeance; I'd do the same in his place! -- I decide to take the time to run down to the holodeck; give Avark the time he needs to do what needs to be done.
Only, when I get there, it's this Trill engineer I'd met earlier inside the holodeck with the Cardie. The Cardie is sliced up, laying on the floor, dead, and the Trill is down, leaking all over the floor.
So there I am, thinking to get my Klingon commander into my debt by covering for him while he slices up the killer of his lover -- but instead I end up with a leaky Trill, who appears to have killed the Cardie for the sheer fun of it! I thought I had a grasp of what to expect from aliens, but this just throws me for a loop.
But, a good plan is a good plan, no matter who it's sprung on, so I carried through and reported that the Cardie had managed his own escape to the holodeck, where he ran into the Trill, who then, in a fit of Patriotism, beat the Cardassian to death with a Bat'leth -- which the Trill just happened to be holding, at the time.
Hmm. It still wouldn't be too difficult to frame Avark for the killing....
So that's the story I give Avark, and later, once the Trill is up and about, that's the story I tell him, too. Now I just have to hope he's smart enough to jump on the sled.
I've modified the computer records to show that, instead of the Trill authorizing the Cardassian's beam out from security, it was the same unauthorized coding used by the Cardie to access the replicator, for food. And I've even gone so far as to replicate a Ferengi style personal site-to-site transport controller, programmed it to access our transporters with the Cardie coding -- so it will look like he managed his own escape. The controller is an old, fairly common design; I used one, years ago, to get around, when I was interning at the family industrial complex. I'll just claim I found it on the Cardies body, and that it's just the kind of infiltration equipment that a Cardie would carry.
Well, it's time to go be debriefed by the Captain. Either I'll be able to plow her under this snowdrift -- and Avark and his Trill pal will owe me, big time -- or I'll end up drummed out of Star Fleet; on my first assignment.
Appropriate ending, I suppose, for a Son who couldn't protect his Parents. Gozz be With Me.
End Log====Stardate 20404. Gold Encryption Sequencing Confirmed. 08====
Copernicus Mission 03: "The Borg Conduit" (view source)
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'''Stardate 20409.25'''
Then Captain Godard promised to her fiancé, and against the logic, to return into the Milky Way by the Borg Corridor. Even if the pre-test showed that it will be very risky, Godard ordered to try the Borg corridor again. Once again, the ship is badly damaged and 87 people died.
'''Stardate 20403.12'''
End log.
===Stardate 20403.31===
'''Stardate 20403.31'''
I did my first meeting with my seniors crew. It was… not what I thought it could be. I gave information about the mission. We will work on the hub then try the passage it will open. I thought they would manifest more their enthusiast or worries, but they acted like… startfleet officers! However, I suspect Prolog to put himself into a maintenance mode…LCdr Avark acted very oddly. He asked help of the doctor. And, he gave me his Combadge and he put himself off duty until he managed some personal problems. I’m waiting a report…
===Stardate 20404.29===
'''Stardate 20404.29'''
Two things aren’t thought. First we have storms over storms here. I’m not lucky. After that an report assured me that LCdr Avark didn’t kill the Cardassian and that I promoted him to second officer, the CMO, LCdr Munroe had been in contact with a virus or bacteria. She is now in stasis and my FO, Prolog started to have some difficulty. I sent him in engineering room for a full check-up., The second officer, LCdr Avark will act by interim until we found out what Prolog is suffering…
===Stardate 20406.05===
'''Stardate 20406.05'''
End logs.
===Stardate 20406.25===
'''Stardate 20406.25'''
End logs…
===Stardate 20407.29===
'''Stardate 20407.29'''
End log.
===Stardate 20408.29===
'''Stardate 20408.29'''
End logs.
=Crew Logs===Security=====Crew LogsCOS LCdr Avark=== ====Stardate 20403.11====
'''LCdr Avark Chief of Security's Personal Log, Stardate 20403.11, Lieutenant Commander Avark:'''
End log.
====Stardate 20404.18====
'''LCdr Avark Chief of Security's Personal Log, Stardate 20403.18, Lieutenant Commander Avark:'''
End Log.
====Stardate 20403.27====
'''LCdr Avark Personal Log, Avark, Stardate 20403.27:'''
End log.
'''LCdr Avark Chief of Security Personal Log, Stardate 20404.08, LCdr Avark Reporting:'''
End log.
====Stardate 20404.15====
'''LCdr Avark Personal Log, Lieutenant Commander Avark, Chief of Security, Stardate 20404.15:'''
End log.
====Stardate 20404.23====
'''LCdr Avark Personal Log, Lieutenant Commander Avark, Chief of Security/Second Officer/Pseudo-Acting-First Officer, Stardate 20404.23:'''
End Log.
====Stardate 20406.04====
'''LCdr Avark Personal Log, Avark, Stardate 20406.04:'''
Eng log.
==Miscellaneous==
===Mid Vinzz===
====Stardate unknown====
'''Mid Vinzz Personal Log, Shard Vinzz. Gold Encryption Coding.'''
"What a day! First I get the whirlwind tour of the back-end of the Federation, just to find I've been assigned to a science ship that just relocated from the Cardassian Frontier. Then, after all the rushing to catch them, I arrive in the middle of Third Watch, and everyone is either off duty or off ship, partying at Starbase Bravo, and I can't even report in!
They'd never put up with this in the Andorian Home Fleet!
Anyway, after a quick cabin assignment and a few hours of sleep, I finally get to go meet my new Head of Department -- who turns out to be some arrogant Klingon whack job named Avark.
Personal Note: Remember to message home and have Big Brother run a check on this Avark; see if he comes from any Klingon Family of consequence. Wouldn't do to get on the wrong side of someone with the ear of the High Council, or something. He might even be a good business contact.
So, I go and meet this Avark the Frelling Klingon -- and he's having breakfast with the Captain! A little tiny slip of a woman -- I'm sure that either Avark or myself could just pick her up and snap her in two! Well, Avark could. I'd probably be able to toss her across the room though!
Anyway, Avark and myself are joined by another Andorian...
Personal Note: Look her up, later.
...and the three of us start talking about this puzzle the fem has. She's discovered that a phaser and a tricorder have gone missing, and someone's been using a cargo bay replicator to make a few snacks.
And the Klingon is dumping this Federation-Shaking Mystery on me. Shard Vinzz. Pride of Clan Vinzz, Top Comet at Flight School, Cadet Instructor of Arctic Survival Techniques.
Oh, yeah. I've made the big-time, now.
Well, to make a long story even longer, it turns out that my new ship -- the U.S.S. Copernicus -- on it's way out of the Cardassian sector, got attacked by a few Cardie ships. Attacked and Boarded, for Gozz' sake! And, now, a few days later, it looked like there were a few still left aboard.
On second thought, if this is what Klingon-led Security is like, I don't know what we of the Federation were ever afraid of.
So, I'm the one who figures out that there is a Cardassian stowaway on board, and Avark gives me command of the tactical squads to go out looking for the Cardie. Then, while I'm standing around like an idiot giving my men a briefing, the frelling Cardie pops up and gets himself chased by Avark -- who chases the Cardie right into his own quarters, where the Cardie goes and burns down Avarks human lover!
If Avark were Andorian I'd suspect he set that all up just to rid himself of an unwanted lover, but I don't think Klingons are that twisted; if he was tired of her, he'd have just snapped her neck and claimed it was an accident during sex. Brrrrr.
So, the Cardie burns down the Klingon's Par'machai, and that's when I catch up to him and beat him senseless. I broke his jaw -- though I didn't confirm that until later.
Avark and his woman beam off to Sickbay, while me and my team drag the Cardie off to the Brig. End of story, right? Wrong.
I figure that this Avark fellow will come charging into the Security office any second with blood in his eyes and a dagger in his paw -- you know how Klingons are about revenge. So I tried a few things I remembered from my anthropology studies to try and defuse things. I clear the office, so that if Avark comes in roaring there won't be any witnesses -- except yours truly -- I put some of the Cardie's blood on Avarks dagger and have it sent to him, so that he can be shown that his honor is safe, because his weapons -- the TacSquad under his command, specifically, and the bloody dagger, figuratively -- have taken out his enemy.
So I'm standing there, all alone, expecting to have to face down an angry klingon -- and, are there any other kind of klingon? -- me, a mere Midshipman, yet -- when suddenly the Cardassian is beamed right out of the Brig Security Cell!
I mean what the Frack! What kind of a frelling security cell is it that let's it's contents be beamed out while the forcefields are active?! I'm going to send a message to the Chief Naval Architect back at the Andorian Shipyards to look into this! I certainly hope that Andorian made security cells are better secured than these Earth-built ones!
So I locate the Cardie -- who's been beamed to a holodeck, I'd assumed, by Avark. Instead of doing a site-to-site myself -- after all, I respect Avark's need for vengeance; I'd do the same in his place! -- I decide to take the time to run down to the holodeck; give Avark the time he needs to do what needs to be done.
Only, when I get there, it's this Trill engineer I'd met earlier inside the holodeck with the Cardie. The Cardie is sliced up, laying on the floor, dead, and the Trill is down, leaking all over the floor.
So there I am, thinking to get my Klingon commander into my debt by covering for him while he slices up the killer of his lover -- but instead I end up with a leaky Trill, who appears to have killed the Cardie for the sheer fun of it! I thought I had a grasp of what to expect from aliens, but this just throws me for a loop.
But, a good plan is a good plan, no matter who it's sprung on, so I carried through and reported that the Cardie had managed his own escape to the holodeck, where he ran into the Trill, who then, in a fit of Patriotism, beat the Cardassian to death with a Bat'leth -- which the Trill just happened to be holding, at the time.
Hmm. It still wouldn't be too difficult to frame Avark for the killing....
So that's the story I give Avark, and later, once the Trill is up and about, that's the story I tell him, too. Now I just have to hope he's smart enough to jump on the sled.
I've modified the computer records to show that, instead of the Trill authorizing the Cardassian's beam out from security, it was the same unauthorized coding used by the Cardie to access the replicator, for food. And I've even gone so far as to replicate a Ferengi style personal site-to-site transport controller, programmed it to access our transporters with the Cardie coding -- so it will look like he managed his own escape. The controller is an old, fairly common design; I used one, years ago, to get around, when I was interning at the family industrial complex. I'll just claim I found it on the Cardies body, and that it's just the kind of infiltration equipment that a Cardie would carry.
Well, it's time to go be debriefed by the Captain. Either I'll be able to plow her under this snowdrift -- and Avark and his Trill pal will owe me, big time -- or I'll end up drummed out of Star Fleet; on my first assignment.
Appropriate ending, I suppose, for a Son who couldn't protect his Parents. Gozz be With Me.
End Log. Gold Encryption Sequencing Confirmed.
===Lt Areack Jackson===
====Stardate 20405.30====
'''Lt Jackson Personal log, Jackson, Areack Lieutenant. Stardate: 20405.30'''
END LOG.
====Stardate 20407.15====
'''Lt Jackson Personal log, Jackson, Areack Lieutenant. Stardate: 20407.15'''
END LOG.
===Mid Vreean Abaa===
====Stardate 20408.18====
'''Mid Abaa Personal Log, Stardate 20408.18, Midshipman Vreean Abaa Recording'''
End Log
====Stardate 20409.15====
'''Ens Abaa Personal Log, Stardate 20409.15, Ensign Vreean Abaa Recording'''
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