Capt. Dominic Santos USS Vanguard - Briefing Chambers Following "The Captain Calleth" Capt. Dominic Santos waited until everyone had settled in their seats before starting. "We don't have much time," he said, "so let me get to the point." "If you'll study your displays, I'm uploading the available, non-classified data on the timeship Tomonaga. "As some of you may know, the Tomonaga was the prototype for a line of temporal vessels. Starfleet and the Romulan Empire, for reasons that are irrelevant to our purposes today, chose to scuttle the project. As far as we know, the ship has been in mothballs at a secure, undisclosed location. "Long-range scans have recently detected a Starfleet vessel in the vicinity of the Barrens. The indications are that this vessel is the Tomonaga." Santos waited for a response from the assembled senior officers, and was not surprised at the murmurs encircling the room. "The ship appears abandoned, and all attempts to contact any crew who may be aboard have gone unacknowledged. "Our mission is to board this vessel, discover what happened to its crew, how it came to be in the Barrens and to take control of it and have it returned to Deep Space 16. "Due to the sheer magnitude of the task ahead, all senior officers, including myself, will board the vessel. Commander Soman, Lieutenant Quetan and I will assign a skeleton crew on the Vanguard. "We will board the vessel in hazard suits, equipped with wrist-torches should the need to abandon our suits arise, armed with phaser rifles, photon grenades, phaser sidearms, medical/standard tricorders and standard emergency kits. "Because safety of this crew is my top priority, we will be divided into and stay with groups of three--Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Teams. "Charlie will fall under the command of Zena Quetan. Their primary mission, along with the goals I've already mentioned, will be to reconstruct the history of this vessel and its missing crew. Salvage any logs you find, gather any clues, leave no stone unturned. "Bravo will be with Commander Soman. The primary mission of Bravo Team will be to get the Tomonaga operational and in a condition to be tractor-towed back to DS16. My recommendation is to establish a command post inside Engineering and to work from there. "Alpha will be with me. We will secure the ship, clear it of any possible threat and coordinate the efforts of Bravo and Charlie Teams. "We're on fast approach to the Barrens and will have Tomonaga in sight at approximately 1400 tomorrow. "Because the ship's status is unknown, I rule out tractoring it to DS16 before we begin our investigation. I want to solve this mystery before I present the ship to Command. "My first preference is to transport aboard the Tomonaga, team-by-team. If that proves impossible for whatever reason, we will move the teams by shuttle and penetrate the ship by any means necessary. "Group assignments will be forthcoming. Are there any questions?" __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ********************************************************** USS Vanguard: http://ncv80221.netfirms.com/default.htm Gamma Fleet: http://gammafleet.startrekrpg.org/ FreeLists: //www.freelists.org Vanguard Archives at Freelists: //www.freelists.org/archives/ncv80221 **********************************************************