Act One, Scene Two

[Kiera]

I paid little attention to the briefing, focusing more on the information on my PADD, constantly rethinking my suggestion. I hear a pause in the conversation and look up, seeing everyone looking at me. Oh great, I'm up to bat.

I clear my throat, looking towards the captain across the large conference table. "I've been able to determine two warp trails that are the most likely courses of the runabout. Basically I checked the volume of gas of each warp trail and compared it against how much the Susquehanna normally produces when at high warp. That got rid of all but two of the trails.
"One leads towards AR-558, a planet that is barely hospitable to humanoids and has a communications station originally constructed by the Dominion a few years back. Read Admiral Tate is hosting a war game with three Excelsior-class ships near there and, according to Lieutenant Kinchlirah, that area is well known for smuggling.
"The other warp trail leads to Starbase 74. The Lieutenant informed me earlier that currently there are only four runabouts and our fighter group stationed at the Starbase."

I take a breath and glance towards Kinchlirah before looking at the captain again. "I have conferred with Lieutenant Kinchlirah before this briefing and it is my recommendation that we should head to Starbase 74, and inform Admiral Tate that the Susquehanna might be heading in his direction."

I look again at the Lieutenant to see weather she approves of my recommendation, mentally relaxing because my part of the briefing was done.