"Try as hard as you like, Captain!" the voice echoes down the hall. "You aren't fast enough! Strong enough!"
Rosalee walks briskly through the hall, tapping away at a tricorder reading, whistling as she walks. Powerful blasts and crashes can be heard in the background, sounds of the extraordinarily unprofessional professional assassin who has come to kill her trying to ... well, it's difficult to say. Intimidate? Herd?
"That little hand phaser is no use against my shield!" the voice comes again. Rosalee sighs and shakes her head as she places her phaser pistol next to her tricorder, transferring a series of program adjustments. "It's just a matter of time!"
The whistling stops and Rosalee sights down the hallway with her phaser pistol, waiting for a humanoid shape to come around the corner. The moment the shape is present, she fires, and a brilliant beam lances out. A shimmer of shielding appears but does nothing to stop the beam. Instead the assassin drops to its knees and falls forward, with only steam left above the shoulders.
"Not fast enough, not strong enough, but...," mutters Rosalee as she fires again and turns the dampening device the assassin carries to cinders. "Easily smart enough. McAdams to Courageous, one to beam up."
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25025.3 - Captain Rosalee McAdams
After leaving Yrillian space, we headed directly coreward at high warp, putting distance between ourselves and the Sydraxians to avoid trouble.
We have detected a starship at a distance and have changed course to find it. The signature of the warp drive has some strong similarities to Honiani technology, but it isn't an exact match.
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Sector Commander's Log, Gabriel BZ, Stardate 25025.6 - Rear Admiral Rachel Ainsworth
We are surging out into the Expanse, with Task Force 1 moving into orbit around Collie.
We fully anticipate that Collie will become a major colony world for whichever group puts up the colonists to settle there. It is, however, a very dangerous world to settle on, and will take some work. Despite that, it is a Class M world with mine-able deposits of a number of important spaceship metals and exotic materials, and will make a great launchpad.
Now, our nearest threat is undoubtedly the Sydraxians, and I am definitely giving thought to removing that element from the field as soon as possible. I have Jessica River working with my staff to come up with plans to lure out their GBZ fleet for a decisive battle, starting once we have the full force in place next quarter.
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Captain's Log, USS Docana, Stardate 25026.4
We are moving to attend an anomalous result where a chroniton surge has passed through the magnetic field of the gas giant in the Landle IV system.
It was a ... very weird scenario. It seems that an non-warp capable craft that was hauling volatile chemicals harvested from the atmosphere of the gas giant suffered a catastrophic feedback loop, that interacted with the chemicals on board and it appears to have XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and shifted the gas giant five minutes out of time and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX after which we XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX but when the XXXXXX was returned it saved Landle IV from XXXXXXXX.
All in all, a good day's work.
[Admiral's NB: ?????]
[Chief of Staff's NB: Don't ask. Just don't.]
[Gain +10rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Valiant, Stardate 25026.9
We have represented the Federation at Arqueniou, helping calm down some nervous Senators that the situation with the Cardassians is now under control again, and their explorers will be able to go forth safely. In the interim, I have learned a ridiculous amount about the 'Rides', or Lebs, of the Qloathi. These are the travelling theatre that is the speciality of their people.
[Gain +10pp]
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25027.2
The ship was a civilian research cruiser belonging to a species known as the Yan-Ros. The scientists have met us warmly so far, and I have high hopes for future relationships with them. They have a culture that is driven by a martial-creed infused with a very spiritual sensibility.
As we suspected, these are acquaintances of the Honiani, and have learned much of their starfaring technology from them. However, this is not to say they are dependent on the Honiani for technology. The scientists are going to bring us towards their homeworld to put forward the Federation's case to their ruling council.
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Captain's Log, USS Blizzard, Stardate 25027.8
We have assisted the Orion USSC in tracking down a fugitive from the fall of the Celosi Corporate Republic which was flying a civilian ship out of Union space.
In a surprising and confusing move, the fugitive hypercorp CEO did their best to bribe us. As a result we ensured that we delivered her directly back to Union custody.
[Gain +3 Impact]
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25029.3
We are now in orbit at the third planet in the Vail system, and are beaming down a contingent to meet their rulers. The locals, we have learned after one of them volunteered to sit down for the doctor, are on a Vulcan level of physical capacity.
Their knowledge of personal-level robotics and personal weapons is extensive, and I am sure our security division would love to talk to them about their individual shielding systems. However, for all that there are many accomplished warriors, they are not what I would call a war-like people. Indeed, their focus is more on the, actually rather terrifying, local wildlife, which are some of the most dangerous creatures since that report on the incomprehensibly named fluffy puffy crossed my desk.
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Starbase First Officer's Log, Starbase 5, Stardate 25029.7 - Captain Jalai Toor
With the recent turmoil we've had to suspend a number of mapping missions.
[Missed event]
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25030.1
After a lot of fruitful talks, I appear to have become the target of an insurgent group opposed to the current Council on Vail. I will endeavour to acquire more information, but you should be aware that I am fine, and that these personal shields are surprisingly easy to calibrate one's phaser's modulations for. In any event, I have impressed many by taking down what was, by all accounts, an accomplished killer, and there is fertile ground for the Diplomatic Service to work with.
I suggest Amarkian ambassadors.
[Meet New Species: Yan-Ros, Starting Relations 75/100]
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Sector Commander's Log, Gabriel BZ, Stardate 25030.3
The Apinae reinforcements have arrived, and at the moment are holding station around Collie. I am looking forward to working with High Queen Nerzizza.
The Starfleet Tactical Runabout Squadron is making principal assessments of five systems in this subsector known to have orbiting bodies. From their initial flights, we have ruled out one of these systems as useless. However, Bean's Star and 24 Camden both bear closer inspection, and I hope to use Task Force 1 to secure 24 Camden, while the Apiata secure Bean's Star.
I have ordered the establishment of mining colonies on Collie II, and detailed the USS Nicholas Barton to begin assessing the other planets in the system for anything that may have been missed. To help build the mining colonies we have loaded up the two freighters and the Kalakandor with the raw materials and delivered them to the surface, which will tie them up for this month and the next. Both Atlas and Titan have come up to handle the construction, and Trailblazer will handle the colony works.
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