Heading back to the Victory

Posted on Thu Jun 25, 2020 @ 11:13pm by Fleet Captain Rhea Kennit

787 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: The Binary Suns
Location: Valkyrie

Gazing through the forward windows of the Valkryie as the ship began it's final approach to landing in Victory's massive shuttle bay, the Captain was very quiet. She was.. annoyed.

Annoyed was the safer term to use at this point in time.

She'd given orders. Made it, quite clear that she didn't want officers on the away team to get into trouble. They were only supposed to take a look around, get a feel for the planet and it's multi-species inhabitants. Not take part in a knock-down, drag out bar fight.

She knew that the injured parties had limped back to the Victory licking their wounds with their tails tucked. That Taggart had gotten into a brawl didn't surprise her. She was astonished that Summers hadn't been the one to start it. Halvor should have known better and for damn certain, Doctor Nicole Anderson knew better than to get into a fight like this. Even her First Officer had been involved, it seemed most of her crew didn't understand the order she'd given. Stay out of trouble. What was it she'd said that was not clear?

Instead of valuable information, she had multiple injured crew currently in sickbay including her Chief Medical Officer and her XO.

Harv Bennet, Herman Yeager and their little toadies had dragged her out of her home, canceling her retirement and reactivating her.. for this shit??

Oh hell no. She was no closer to discovering what was going on, who had stolen the schematics of the Genesis Device and provided it to the damn Terrans than she'd been as she watched Bennett and Yeager walk away from her front door. Just before they'd left on this away mission, she'd received a secure message from Admiral Bennett in Section 31. An operation team enroute to pick up a data recording for analysis in China of all places had been intercepted and killed. Bennett believed that the stolen Genesis Device information had been taken by someone within Section 31 and sold to the Terrans. They'd discovered that information buried in transmissions between an unknown faction and members of the reptilian-Xindi species, who had made an alliance of sorts with the amphibian Haek.

It gave her a fucking headache as she read the brief. The only thought which truly held sway in her mind was that she did not want to do this anymore. The constant combat. Constant lies and counter lies with the truth buried so damn far it was nearly impossible for anyone but those buried with it to know.

She was tired of being buried within Section 31's lies. John had wanted out as well. Look where it got them.

She continued to read, a distraction from the anger she'd felt seeing that holographic recording of her crew and senior officers engaged in a bar fight as if they were a bunch of drunken merchant crew on their first shore leave after a 6 month ferry run.

The more she read, the more her eyes darkened. This couldn't be right. A faction within the Federation Council believed to be plotting against the President? She knew there'd been considerable political turmoil in recent months. The Borg attack at the Gateway had taken millions of lives, and many Federation worlds now believed that further expansion and exploration into the Delta Quadrant would only bring the Borg back in response. Attacks by the Haek, the raids on Federation outposts and newly established colony worlds by races native to the Delta Quadrant all were being hotly debated. Did the Federation really need to expand into the Delta Quadrant? Did the benefits of exploration and alliances with species on the other side of the galaxy validate the loss of life?

The debate was raging on both sides of the issue.

And if the Xindi had gotten involved.. since the attack on Earth back in March of 2153, even though the Xindi had become members of the Federation some 200 years later in 2311, they were a contentious member of the Federation and prone to heated accusations and threats when the Xindi rulers felt they were being slighted. Over the years there had been many skirmishes with Xindi factions who did not share the Federation's priorities and ideaology. She'd had a number of clashes with them herself over the years.

So somehow, the Xindi, the Haek, and the Terrans were involved in this. What the fuck was "this" that was the real question. Did this all fit together somehow or were they looking at separate issues..

Sighing, she muttered a soft curse under her breathe. as she thought to herself, ::Fuck I don't want to do this anymore...::


Once she got back aboard and cleaned up, she had a visit to make. In Sickbay.


TBC...

 

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