Debrief

Posted on Sun Jul 12th, 2009 @ 3:32am by Captain Vorn Krace & Commander Acle Walex

Mission: Dark Discoveries
Location: Bridge -> Captain's Ready Room
Timeline: MD9 1623hrs

Vorn was sitting in the command chair on the bridge as Acle entered, still kitted up from the away mission.

Acle's eyebrows were scrunched together, a slight scowl on his face. Although it appeared tightly reigned, a fury burned behind his eyes.

Nodding slightly, Vorn indicated his ready room before standing up and making for it himself. It would be better receiving the mission report in there than amongst the bridge staff.

Acle saw the Captain's nod and suitably changed his course, entering the captain's ready room before the captain himself.

Vorn followed Acle into the ready room, but didn't sit down at his desk. He hoped that they'd be able to get the report done quickly so that he could get on with formulating a plan to get to the Guarded and put a stop to their operation. "Acle, report."

Acle's face turned into a full blown scowl as he said quietly "I lost an entire fireteam Sir..."

"Dammit." Vorn raise a hand to rub his face, remembering the last time he had lost a member of his crew. It was never a feeling he could ever get used to. "How did they go?"

"Chief Petty Officer was dropped by a man above him with a disruptor rifle. The same man then dropped a plasma grenade in the midst of the fireteam. None of the fireteam suffered at all, they were instantly immolated. I saw it all. There weren't even any remains." Acle said this all in the same tone of voice, his fury held tightly in check.

After a moment in silence thinking about the dead, Vorn responded. "I'm sorry to say that I can't give them the funeral they deserve yet; we have a job to do. But I will make sure that as soon as we can, they will get the proper ceremony. I take it we got what we went over there for?"

"Aye Cap'n. The mission itself was a success. The container is in our custody." Acle took a pause here, then looked at the captain directly. "Sir, when Fireteam Bravo was... eliminated, I authorized the use of lethal force. My thinking was we needed to end the resistance as quickly as possible. It worked, but, it was brutal."

Vorn nodded after a moment. "You did your job. Lethal force was justified, in my opinion by the loss of life of our own men, and as you'd already secured the primary objective." He hated himself for speaking about the loss of life in such a manner... as if everyone was just a statistic or a mission objective, though he knew they weren't.

"Go get yourself cleaned up and checked out by the Doctor. I'm calling a briefing for the senior staff tomorrow at 0900. See to it that everyone's there."

"Aye Aye Captain. It will be so." Acle brought himself to the position of attention and executed an about face. His precise military decorum was another indication of the emotions he was grounding. he exited the ready room and began to head to his own office.

He had been fully prepared to disavow all command authorizations if it had been necessary. In his own work as an intelligence operative, lethal measures were often used, even expected. But, Acle well knew that in a regular unit, such matters could get... Ugly. Still, Acle felt justified using the tactics that he had.

Acle shook his head once more, then shut his mind to such thoughts.

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Captain Vorn Krace
Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Acle Walex
Chief Intelligence Officer
Acting Executive Officer
USS Iapetus