Fleet Opening Mission: To Our Future

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Somewhere in another galaxy
0400 hours

“Sir, we’ve just detected a gate activation from outside of the network,” the young ensign at the Gateway Network Monitoring Station reported.

“Can you get a localization on it?” his superior asked.

“Narrowing it down now….it seems to be coming from the Milky Way Galaxy, Alpha Quadrant, Federation space, Merenion Nebulae Cluster, Salon System.”

“Federation space?  Kuchaba Ornixen was from that area, a little planet called ‘Earth’, if memory serves.  What information do we have on the Federation?”

“Nothing interesting.  They are a non-magical, generally non-psionic conglomeration of various races.  Tech reports indicate that Gateway technology should be over a century away, however, the Iconian race was also known to habitat that part of the universe and they did have gateway technology.”

“Interesting,” the supervisor said.  Turning and heading to a nearby comm-station, he opened a channel, “Kuchaba Ornixen, this is Gateway Networking Monitoring.”

“Ornixen here,” came the drowsy reply.

“We’ve detected an unusual signal from the Milky Way Galaxy…a gateway has been activated, at least partially, by the United Federation of Planets.”

“How long ago?” came the sudden, much more alert, response.

“Just a few minutes, sir.  We’ve already isolated the location.  We believe the Federation has somehow activated an Iconian Gateway.”

“Transmit the co-ordinates to the Firestorm.  I’m going to go investigate personally.”

Firestorm, Merenion Nebulae Cluster
0710 hours

“Sir, we have arrived,” the Firestorm’s computer reported.

“Status of the stealth systems?” Ornixen requested as he continued to review all of the intel they had on the station.

“Fully operational.  We are undetectable by the station sensors.  Communication tapping is indicating that they are attempting to get some sort of control device to work with an Iconian Gateway and they are planning some sort of ceremony.”

“Alright.  Start scanning the station and locate the commanding officer’s office.  Once he is alone there, notify me.”

<TAG Admiral Malloway>