Fleet Opening Mission: To Our Future

[Steve Malloway]

STARBASE THRINACIA
Command Control Deck
1941 hours

"Gentlemen, all at once is not warranted to request orders!" Steve snapped as his head flicked to the Lieutenant Commander and the Cadets as they had sped up towards him, the red alert lighting casting eery shadows across everyone's faces. Then his eyes widened with a thought. The odds could do with a Galaxy Class out there with the others.

As an officer began to dart past with a PADD, Steve reached out and snatched it, wiping its contents as he plumbed in data while speaking, his eyes remaining on the small screen as he issued orders. "Lieutenant Commander Jackson, you are hereby permitted TEMPORARY flight with the Majesty during this crisis. I am assigning crewmen to your vital areas but you WILL be on a skeleton crew. Get your ship ou there." Steve ordered, thrusting the PADD at Callam with the orders on it for docking control to receive. "And take these Cadets with you, they could be useful." He turned to the Cadets standing there watching him. "Cadets, you are with Lieutenant Commander Jackson, get to your stations on the USS Majesty, Galaxy Class and for the time being until this is over he is your direct Commanding Officer. Commander," He looked to Callam, "your primary objective is to act as defence to the Starbase, the majority of our resources went to the Gateway so both Thrinacia and Majesty will need each other; us with limited resources, you with limited crew. Dismissed!" He barked, turning back to the front of the deck as Megan approached and reported.

"all security personnel in position in and out of the station. All ships are in formation and an open comm to all of them. captain Woodcroft has reported they're ready and is waiting on others to report to her." she reported to him. As she said that she hears a voice coming over the comm again.

"Understood Commander, coordinate attacks with our people using the Starbase scanners." He ordered, overhearing Gillibrands attempts at communications over the comm. with the Cardassians. "And Megan, relay all scans to each ship; there's Tachyons out there, I wouldnt put it past those inbreds to have some form of cloak." He paused, accepting a PADD and placing his thumb to acknowledge its data. "And for the love of gods, would someone analysis all outgoing communications?! I wanna know how these bastards got wind of all this!"

"Admiral! The Cardassians have moved down to one half impulse power! Increasing time to weapons range now to almost 5 minutes!"

The Admiral paused, squinting his eyes somewhat as he took in what the Ensign said. "Why would they slow down?" He muttered aloud, straightening as he looked to the viewscreen at the ships around the Gateway. "Open a channel to our Fleet."

As the blirp echoed for an open line, Steve leant on the back of one of the chairs at a console as he spoke via audio only. =/\="All ships, this is Admiral Malloway. Stand your grounds. I know the odds dont look promising, at least 11 of them against limited of us but I know you all posess the skills that by far outreach theirs. All Fighters are to remain with the Gateway and Thrinacia, using the USS Majesty as aid, the rest of you are under the direction of your Taskforce Commanding Officer and Executive. Concentrate your resources as you see fit, you know your vessels. Malloway out."=/\= And the line was closed.

Steve turned to Connor. "Commander, we have a breach in security here somewhere and I want to know who. Work with Admiral Morgan and anyone else you need - find me this mole."

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