SeniorAdmin, Team_Member
7,694
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
In a plan still unclear to Donovan, Commodore Braggins had Jordan ordered to begin the StratOps course while still en route back to star base, the very next day after he completed his command course. It was the perfect follow up to his professional development of the week prior. While Jordan missed his post as Security Chief, his new training in Strategic Operations only built upon his already expansive knowledge of combat operations from the point of view of Security and Marines, while now complementing it with the Tactical perspective, and the inclusion of other disciplines as well. Jordan excelled in his course, which culminated in a two week session in person. As he waited for the staff of the Ticonderoga to return from their recon mission aboard the Renegade, Jordan was temporarily assigned as a Strategic Operations Officer aboard [[Star Base Bravo]]. While there, he was contacted by his mother, to find out that he had fathered a child, so many years ago, with Jessica Cline during his Scout Sniper training as an enlisted marine. Jessica Kline had been killed under suspicious circumstances to which his daughter, also Jessica, was the sole witness. Then 10 years of age, Jordan and Jessica began the rocky process of establishing a happy and healthy Father-Daughter relationship, with the generous help of the Ticonderoga's counselor, Lieutenant Commander [[Alexandra LaHaye]].
<h3>[[Mission Log 9 - Stardate 21206.01 “Gunboat Diplomacy”| “Gunboat Diplomacy”]]</h3>
During their mission aboard the Renegade, Jordan helped oversee the refit of the Ticonderoga into a light carrier, and the organization and addition of the other vessels that would comprise the light carrier group Omega-2. Upon the rest of the crew's return, Jordan was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and assigned as the groups Strategic Operations Director. The mission assigned was to carry a Federation Ambassador, coincidentally mother of Ticonderoga's CMO [[Laer, Corin|Corin Laer]], back to Bishtar where the Tico and Commodore Braggins had a particular rapport with the ruling family. The Bishtar were undergoing a civil war, and the Tico and her group were tasking with escorting the Ambassador to help negotiate a peace to help facilitate a unified Bishtar people's entry into the [[United Federation of Planets]]. When the group arrived, they beamed over the leaders of the opposing factions, and began talks that initially seemed to go nowhere. Meanwhile, on the bridge of the Ticonderoga, evidence of what turned out to be none other than a cloaked version of Braggins' old nemesis Daimon Whodat's vessel, the Unlimited Profits. Evidence lead to the fact that Whodat had orchestrated the civil war. A battle ensued between both sides of the Bishtar conflict, the Star Fleet light carrier group, and Whodat's vessel; which included a version of the XF-2 fighter, which was allegedly highly classified. The battle was tense and caused friction on the bridge of the Tico's bridge between Jordan and Braggins, with Tokat also getting involved. The Ticonderoga and members of her escort ended up sustaining significant damage, and the subsequent loss of life that always follows. Jordan, having been present to witness to what he viewed as Braggins' failure at command, which he also saw has part of the reason the damage sustained was so severe, ended up leaving the bridge in protest once the battle was over, informing the Commodore that he intended to resign in the morning.
<h3>Shoreleave 5 - “Wargames”</h3>
During the meeting in which Jordan had intended to resign from under Braggins' command, the two men ended up holding a contentious, lengthy, but considerably candid conversation for several hours. Both gave ground on some of their positions and Jordan walked away without having tendered his resignation, but instead feeling confident that giving his role as Braggins' Strategic Operations Director another shot was in fact the correct course of action. His first assignment was to oversee various training drills for parts of the crews of the vessels in the group. Many of the senior officers, plus others from the crew of the Ticonderoga, were divided into two crews and pitted against each other in a simulation designed by Jordan himself. Ironically, at the moment where the two crews were about to engage each other, a massive technical issue between the simulator complex and the control stations on board the still under repair Ticonderoga resulted in a system crash and termination of the simulation. The next morning the crew was summoned, ending shore leave, for an urgent mission that would touch each of them to their core.
