Re-Established Contact

Posted on Tue Sep 1st, 2009 @ 5:01pm by Captain Vorn Krace

Mission: Into a Devil's Heart
Location: USS Iapetus - Ready Room
Timeline: MD03 1040 hours

=/=Engineering to Captain Krace. Sir, we have long range, out-going communications capability back on-line.=/=

Vorn breathed a sigh of relief at the news that came over his com system. They would finally be able to contact Starfleet, and hopefully find out if Peter had done anything else illegal yet. =/=Thank you, Engineering. Good work.=/= he replied. =/=Krace to bridge, are we within communications range of Starbase Ronin?=/=

=/=Affirmative, Captain. Do you want me to open a channel?=/=

=/=Yes, connect me with the station commander, and put it through to my ready room.=/= As Vorn swivelled round in his chair from the PaDDs that he had been reading to the computer terminal just now rising up out of the desk, he watched the logo of the United Federation of planets glow on the screen briefly, before being replaced with the face of Commander Joseph Critchley.

"Captain Vorn Krace, Federation Starship Iapetus." Vorn began.

"Yes, yes your operations officer told me who you are, Captain," Critchley cut in, clearly irritated about something and impatient. "Is Lieutenant Commander Peter Brown your officer?"

Vorn was surprised at how direct the commander was being, but pleasantly so at the way the man got directly down to business. "Yes, he is. Do you know where he is?"

"No. But I know where he was. What I want to know is what the hell he was doing coming aboard my station to flash around a Starfleet Security authentification code, before exploding a shuttlecraft inside the shields of my station to steal a half-dismantled old ship!"

Vorn sighed. It looked like he had been right in his guess that Peter had been going after their old ship. Unfortunately, they had gotten to the station too late to stop him. "Let me guess, the USS Lincoln? I'm sorry Commander, but we're both missing large pieces of the puzzle here, I know barely any more than you do."

"Humph. Well you have a number of other officers listed as assigned to your ship that are on-station. I was about to confine them to quarters, since they've had contact with Commander Brown since he came aboard. I trust though that you don't have a habit of collecting officers going rogue under you." Critchley replied. He clearly wanted to get something done about this whole incident, but didn't know where to start, other than confining and questioning those Peter had come into contact with.

"No, I don't," Vorn replied. "I haven't met the officers in question yet though, they're new crew ready to be assigned to the ship, however I don't think they're involved in whatever Peter's doing. The only accomplice he enlisted from onboard the ship was promptly ejected in an escape pod while he was en-route. I'd like to talk to them though, if I could."

Critchley nodded. "I'll approve that. I can't override your jurisdiction over your own officers unless they actually do something illegal, but be advised, I'll be having my Chief Intelligence Officer monitor your conversation with the two of them. I do have the security of my own station to look after, Captain." Clearly he didn't want to give up too much of his control of the situation, though it was becoming clear to him that Vorn was in charge of this situation, not him.

"Of course." Vorn replied. It was a minor inconvenience to have their conversation monitored, but he wouldn't be giving the two officers anything that he didn't want anyone on Critchley's senior staff to know.

"I'll patch you through to them." As the commander's face turned away to look at the control he tapped, the screen switched back to the Federation logo while it waited to be reconnected.

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Captain Vorn Krace
Commanding Officer
USS Iapetus

Commander Joseph Critchley (NPC)
Commanding Officer
Starbase Ronin
Played by Captain Krace