Captain's Briefing, Stardate 53830.26
Captain's briefing room was filled the senior staff. This included Captain Jackson Campbell, Commander Addison Bonham the ship's XO, Lieutenant Kiera Medart the ship's Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Kinchlirah the ship's acting tactical officer and Klingon exchange officer. Attending the meeting via Subspace communication were Commander Leana Vanlaere the ships Chief Medical Officer and Lieutenant Erica McCoy the ships Counselor. The topic of the meeting was the recent attack on the ship from nearly two days ago. Many had been aboard the ship for years and had built a strong friendship among themselves. Others like Lieutenant Kinchlirah were aboard for temporary posts. Then there was Lieutenant Medart who were completely new to the ship.
Before a monitor stood Lieutenant Kinchlirah explaining her findings, "I know that the computer disagrees with my findings and so does the medical staff. However I am the only one on the ship that was not impaired by her flash and concussion device during our encounter with the intruder." A image of Major MacConnell came up with physical stats along side the image. "Based on her size in comparison to my own size, Major MacConnell, regardless of life or death, is too tall to be our intruder. Petty Officer Traver is simply too meek in the eyes. This woman" she said motioning to a picture of Petty Officer Traver before her capture by the Dominion, "is not our intruder." Lieutenant Kinchlirah ran her eyes over the image slowly as she thought. "I know you may find this hard to accept or see this as conjecture."
She took a moment to pause and think of her next words, "But in my heart I know that this woman is not our intruder. I read over her personnel file over and over. Who I battled with shorty in the main computer control room was not this woman. There was fire in her eyes that can only burn from a heart of a warrior. Passion for what ever her goal was." Once more she paused and took in a deep breath as she turned to face the officers of the room. "I admit that there is much this that we don't know. But to further pursue this, Petty Officer Traver would be a mistake." she turned to the control panel and turned both images off and then she brought up a third option. "It is my opinion that this woman is our intruder." She said bringing up an image of blond human female holding a Violin.
"I have seen those eyes before. It was back on Deep Space Nine. She fought a Klingon who was assigned my ship. His name was W'Kanga from the House of Varnak. A Klingon that saw victory as more important than honor its self. Her ability to take hit after hit was impressive. I would not have believed it if someone had told me about this fight. But I saw it, I was there. He picked the fight with her expecting an easy pray. She turned out to be much more than she appeared. Like me at the time, he was young and inexperienced. She however was cunning. Allowing him to expend his energy in the fight. She managed to keep light on her feet and what blows she couldn't dodge she deflected. However that also meant that she had to take some painful blows. Each time, she got back up and taunted him. Finally, he made the mistake she was looking for. Tired from his own attacks, and eager to end this embarrassing match he left himself open. I watched her put him down with a series of combination blows and with a flying leap kick as the finish. My shipmates and I were shocked at what we had seen."
She brought the image out a bit showing Quak's Bar. She was wearing civilian clothes and the image was some kind of ad for the bar its self. "When we were stationed there, I know that I had seen her before hanging out at Quak's with Doctor Julian Bashir on a number of times before this fight took place. However after this fight, um, around Stardate 52022.71, I never saw her again. And trust me, I had meant to speak with her about her fighting style. It was quite unusual to say the least. I believe my former commanding officer might have some information on this woman, so I have taken the liberty to request it from him. I regret to inform you that after hours of searching" she said turning to the image, "This is the only image I can find of her. I searched both Federation and Starfleet databases and I was unable to find any matches. But I am sure that this is our intruder, what ever her name is."
Once more, the image zoomed in on the woman and her violin. Captain Campbell couldn't help but noticed the woman standing next to the intruder as Major MacConnell. In the image it appeared that both women were standing on the second floor balcony of Quak's waving to people below. They were both smiling and neither were in any kind of uniform. Both women were wearing traditional Scottish Tartans. Major MacConnell's Tartan was of deep green, dark blue and black. Captain Campbell owned a kilt very similar to that. He knew that that was the Tartan of the Scottish Black Watch. The unknown woman wore one of blue, green and black which was of his own Scottish Clan. There was a clear link now that the woman was from Earth. But it didn't shed more light on who she was. He knew that contacting Father Douglas McLeod had to be on his agenda now. If anyone could help identify this woman, it would be Father McLeod.
Lieutenant Kinchlirah's investigation revealed new light as to who the intruder was. However it didn't help with why she attacked the
Thunderchild or where she was. The tall Klingon was replaced by Commander Bonham who got up to speak. "According to Operations, the intruder's attack on our computer seemed random but it was far from random. It was a targeted attack on files linked to Admiral Ross and his staff. Personal Files, Logs, Tactical and Strategic Reports, everything. Somehow she managed to clone a Admiral's level security clearance. We have already notified Starfleet of the type of data taken. Strangely, no file accessed and copied were dated 2376 or later. Meaning that all the files were prior to 2376. A lifetime ago in the terms of information security. It was as if this was part of the search parameters. This means that the damage can be mitigated but doesn't shed any light on what the intruder was looking for."
He moved on to the nature of the computer attack, "She had everything timed out during her attack. She knew how long it would take us to react to the situation and plotted every move within that time table. A very highly precise attack and one that not just anyone can accomplish. She turned our own systems against us to hinder our response. This all shows us that our intruder shows a degree of forethought that makes her remarkably dangerous. Our intruder is also well thought out. She was able to use a computer virus to hide the fact that she stolen the
USS Susquehanna from the Proxima shipyards. They actually had to physically check each bay, each holding area and each sub-yard before they could confirm that the runabout was not there. Once more, she has proven her cunningness. While I have no doubt that she is dangerous, I can not ignore the fact that she saved Cadet Madhev's life. Clearly, a decision made in the heat of the moment. But listening to the voice recordings of the attack, you can hear that she had a strong familiarity to loss of life."
"But also as you listen" he paused to play a recording of the intruder.
Quote:"This is why I didn't bring a damn phaser! There was no reason for him to fire like that!"..."stupid.....stupid..."..."NO! Just keep buying me time."..."she's dying."..."Come on, fight!"..."don't give up on me!"... "FIGHT MADHEV! Don't GIVE UP ON ME!"..."NO! Not yet!"..."I am not leaving her to die!" ..."NO! NEVER!"..."uh?? No. Nothing"..."Sorry. keep me informed,"..."I can't let her die!"..."Susquehanna, you have to give me as much time as you can"..."Come on Madhev, fight!"..."Computer Control to Medical Bay! Phaser wound to the right upper skull. Intracranial hemorrhage along the extra-axial. Subdural hemorrhage due to scoring of the bridging veins in the subdural space between the dura and arachnoid mater. Bleeding has been confined but not stopped. Prepare for Emergency Transport."..."Susquehanna, lock on to this medical tricorder and beam it and the cadet site to site, to the Thunderchild's ships medical bay."
"If you listen to the desperation in her voice, she was unwilling to leave the Cadet to die. There was a personal connection to the Cadet as the intruder knew the Cadet's name. I spoke with Cadet Madhev in depth on this matter. She has no knowledge of the intruder. This means that the intruder had been stalking us for some time. But we are clearly not her target. Based on this, In her eyes, I don't think we are seen as her enemy. More like, the ends to a goal. Plus listen to how she presents her case to our medical bay. There is clearly advanced degree in medicine. I am under the assumption that this intruder has already thought of what her next series of actions will be." Commander Bonham took a moment to take in a deep breath as he searched the eyes of the senior staff.
"Even as we speak of her now, she is two steps ahead of us. We need to quickly figure out what her over all goals are and move to get ahead of her." During the past year, he had a number of senior staff meetings back at the repair yards. He made comments like this a dozen times. But in this moment he realized that was no longer the commanding officer of the ship. His eyes fell on the Captain, "My apologizes, Sir. I meant no disrespect. This is your meeting, it is your course of action to decide on." Commander Bonham said as he moved to sit down.
OOC Notes from the Technical Adviser:
The following are notes that were commented on by our Technical Adviser,
superseen1. You will find these notes very helpful and a glimpse of how much effort I am putting in to this story to keep it canon and fair for all players
Quote:2) A typical agenda for a senior staff meeting would be for the captain to call it to order, get a rundown from each attendee regarding their involvement with the matter, taking a bit of time to go over the data as a group and then the captain would set a plan of action into effect to be carried out. As long as you keep that in mind, you should be good for covering the bases of how a briefing goes.
5) " ... Even as we speak of her now, she is two steps ahead of us. We need to quickly figure out what her over all goals are and move to get ahead of her."
If anyone is going to say this line, it would be the captain and this could either precede or follow giving/having given a set of instructions to the senior staff.
6) There isn't much involvement from the other members of the senior staff in this briefing, and I don't know if that's a matter of needing the other players to fill those roles, etc. but it would be an idea to have more even contribution regarding the facts of the case (ie. the CMO and counselor discussing the audio file regarding the cadet, the tactical officer discussing the infiltration and ex-filtration methods used by the intruder, etc.).
Those are my major notes, so I hope they help you out.
If you would like to know more about being an Technical Adviser or know someone who would make a great Technical Adviser, I am always willing to listen.
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