Preliminary Mission Briefing

Posted on Wed Aug 14, 2013 @ 7:09pm by Fleet Captain Rhea Kennit & Lieutenant Samantha Raylen & Lieutenant Nicole Anderson

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Mission: A Whole New World: Part 1 - Precipice
Location: USS Victory
Timeline: 62505.413 Fri, 23 Nov 2384 07:21

[Bridge]

Stepping out onto the bridge with a cup of coffee in hand, instead of walking towards her seat on the Bridge instead the Captain approached the XO. "Good morning XO, what's our status?"

"Good morning to you as well Captain." Hunter greeted her pleasantly. "I trust you slept well." His eyes went to her cup of coffee. "Nothing to go with your coffee? You must take better care of yourself." He teased lightly. He then switched to professional mode. "All systems are in the green and operating well within their normal parameters. We are on course at a leisurely warp 3."

"Good to hear.." she replied. "I need you to call a staff meeting this morning at.." she paused a moment, sipping her coffee and considering times.. "oh make it 1000. We'll be reaching the border to the Khrelan Expanse this evening, time to go over some ground rules and set up a few tasks I'd like to get accomplished."

"Of course Captain,sounds like fun. I'll get right to it." As he tapped his combadge, "Attention Senior staff, there will be a staff meeting at 1000 hours. Don't be late." He closed the link and looked at the Captain. "Done and done."



[Briefing Room : 1000 hrs / Stardate: 62505.714]

At exactly 1000, Captain Kennit entered the briefing room with a data padd in hand. "Good morning.." she greeted the assembled officers as she walked towards her place at the table. "First things first, get ship's business out of the way, as you may or may not know by now.. we have two new officers joining us. Lt. JG Alex Volos has joined us, he'll be working in Stellar Cartography," she looked towards him then with a slight smile, "Welcome aboard Lieutenant, I have a feeling we're going to be keeping you busy for the next while as the charts and data we have on the Expanse are woefully limited in scope.."

Alex gave Kennit a respectful nod. "Pleasure to be aboard, Captain. I can't wait to get started."

"We also have a new Chief Medical Officer, Lt. Nicole Anderson.. welcome.." the Captain then said with a nod and a second smile to the new CMO.

Nicole's icy blue eyes swept the room, looking at the people around her. She didn't offer a smile in return, but she did nod to each of them. "Hello," she said, her voice a bit more throaty than she would have preferred, her nervousness showing slightly.

"We also have Lt. AJ Taggart who is taking over as the Victory's Intel officer.." again she smiled and gave him a slight nod as she said, "Welcome aboard.."

7.22: Tags Taggart?

The first introductions done, she said "Well, you all know me.. so lets go around the table now and introduce ourselves.. then we can get to the status reports and finally, a preliminary mission briefing so that we have some idea of what we'll be doing as we progress forward.."

Hunter was the first to follow the Captain's lead. "I'm Lt.Commander Hunter, the Victory's First Officer. It's a pleasure to meet our three new arrivals." His eyes taking them each in as he spoke. "If there's anything you need or I can help you with let me know. Any ideas for the ship come to me first and I'll bring them to the Captain." He paused, "Again, it's a pleasure to meet our new officers."

Once the introductions and status reports were out of the way, it was time to go over their current mission directive. "As you know, the Khrelan Expanse has only just been opened for Federation exploration. We don't have a great deal of information on the star systems within this region of space here, we've got a very basic navigational chart but what little it does give us really just leaves even more questions and curiosity about what exactly is out here. As a result, once we enter the Expanse itself we're going to be focusing on a lot of scientific work to begin with, that should keep you quite busy in Stellar Cartography Mr. Volos.." she added.

Alex grinned as the Captain mentioned the lack of maps on the Expanse. "With the Victory's sensor arrays the holes in the maps won't stand a chance."

"Additionally," the Captain said. "We'll be taking our time and moving in to get a look at those star systems we identify which host M-Class planets to identify other warp-capable civilizations in this region as well as any pre-warp civilizations we may identify. We'll also be committing to away teams to explore potential worlds which may provide colonization sites, or perhaps host mining operations for materials the Federation needs out here which would be more efficiently mine locally than brought all the way here from within the Federation."

"Should we encounter any pre-warp civilizations," Nicole said, "would we be conducting any away missions to study the cultures and any advancements they may have made thus far?"

"If we are making first contact I volunteer myself to take the lead, as it were." Yarin said his enthusiasm at the prospect evident in his coloring.

Nicole smothered a smirk by coughing and covering her mouth, then looked back up. "Well before we take that step, we'll probably require some camouflage. I can begin work on likely away mission candidates to have templates ready."

"Regarding the camouflage I believe I can synthesize an enzyme from my skin cells that will help get the job done." Yarin said.

"That won't be necessary Mr. Yarin," the Captain said. "As for any potential First Contact situation.. We will deal with that should the situation arise."

She took a breath, then said "On that note, until we have more information to work with I think we're done here.. You all know what to do. Dismissed!"

 

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