Fleet Mission: "To Boldly Go..."

[Steve Malloway]

STARBASE THRINACIA
Conference Room
1856 hours

The Admiral turned his attention to the Commander, one he recalled as a Commander Layton. Assigned to the USS... Firebrand, if I'm not mistaken. Steve thought to himself, allowing a small smile to curl his lips just ever so slightly as the Commander posed his query.

"A valid question indeed, Commander." Steve tapped the PADD in his hands, the display showing schematics of both the new commbadges and the gateway control devices and how they linked with each other. "Our efforts into researching this technology have spanned near 5 years now, just under 4 of those years within our own Fleet. The latest simulations and test-runs have the devices operating at 98.567% accuracy. Our foremost objective is to establish the Aurora Colony on Planet-45604 in order for our Gateway objectives to begin - which are, yes, to explore through the gateways." He paused, allowing this to ripple across the faces of the COs and XOs. He knew some would still be sceptical about this, that was a given, but before when this topic was raised, the accuracy of the devices was far below what they sat at now. "I know a lot of you will be wary of this, I know I still am. But we are Starfleet, we are here to look past the unknown and explore. Trust me when I say I would not have authorised this for the Fleet if I wasn't happy with the stability of the devices and Gateways. At this time, starships are unable to use linked gateways due to the sheer size of the larger gateway, so only small teams will be asked to traverse. However, as I said, our first objective is the supply and establish Aurora Colony." The Admiral looked to Michael. "I hope this puts you somewhat at ease, Commander?" He offered a reassuring inclination of his head.

TAG: Michael, Anyone

OOC: COs and XOs - you can ignore the wordcount limit for the briefing to ask questions lol!