Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25361.4 - Captain Rosalee McAdams
The engineering crew is running some tests on a set of minor warp drive modifications. Nothing major, I fear, but nonetheless, they promise a measurable improvement in efficiency. A percentage point here and there does eventually begin to add up, after all! As a result, we are in high orbit around Torquedes V, with a number of our engineers making space walks to perform works on the currently vacuum exposed warp nacelles.
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25361.9 - Captain Gorth th'Hashok
The Yan-Ros are requesting an urgent delivery of an antidote devised by researchers in Rigel for a particular beastie on Vail. I'm surprised to see that the Rigellians are already conducting research and outreach like this. I do feel problematic about the fact that this is a paid antidote, and feel it should have been left to their turtleships. But with lives depending on this, I will do my best to show what the Gale's engines can do.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25362.4 - Captain Langa Mbeki
We are examining the systems near our new potential friends, the Laio, and we have been met by one of their prospectors. We are hosting some of their scientists aboard at present. I'm pleased to say they have beenamazed by the facilities on the Odyssey, which despite the way they are slowly falling behind the state of the art in the Federation, are over a century beyond where the Laio are.
[Gain option for BR mining colony at Ulen Gao VII - 20 (25) br/yr]
[Gain +25 with Laio]
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25632.5
By all the stars of Andromeda, there's been a murder!
At first we thought it was a terrible accident. An all-clear signal stating that all the engineers were accounted for was received, and we made an activation of the subspace field around our warp coils. Tragically, Chief Petty Officer Gorman was still there, between the nacelles. With the exclusionary force of the kilocochrane fields, his body was both pulped and accelerated away from the Courageous at ... ah, one third light speed. A shuttle had to be sent at warp one to retrieve his remains. It seemed to be an accident at first. Astonishingly unfortunate, but the stars are a cruel mistress. But then the remains revealed that the emergency transponder we track to generate the all-clear was tampered with.
We have begun the investigation, but Starfleet JAG is sending representatives from the local headquarters on Rigel via the Suvek.
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Captain's Log, USS Eketha, Stardate 25632.8 - Captain Rebecca St James
Starbase 8 at Vega is to be host to a meeting of United Earth and the Honiani, where they hope to discuss matters of trade and cooperation. We are help fly the flag for the Diplomatic Service and assist Rear Admiral Atash ch'Talyth, as it seems we have a few things we would like to arrange a trade for, including a set of high tensile PTC materials.
The UES Liberty arrived not long after us, and I must say, she looks gorgeous in her UESPA livery, stark white with broad royal blue markings. We are not such which ship the Honiani are sending, but it is expected to arrive soon.
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First Officer's Log, SKS Basilica of Lakhept, Cathedral-Year 5355/2/5 - Commander Jennifer Zhang
A year has passed in a flash with the Honiani. I have visited the Koliate Tower, the Serene Arch, the Oun-Aankhat, and a bevy of other cultural places the Honiani hold dear. I spent a few months being drilled on Honiani systems and protocols, and had a brief stint aboard a little old Parish-class ship, the Forthright. I thought I was being taken unseriously for a while, actually, but after that, and a quick stint aboard a Reliquary-class cruiser, they have bestowed upon me a tremendous honour. The second year of my exchange with the Honiani will see me serve as first officer aboard their flagship, the Basilica of Lakhept.
This thing weighs in at four megatons. My last two postings were a Centaur and a Constellation, and I had gotten accustomed to cramped, utilitarian confines. And more than just big, this ship is beautiful, even to a species with a distinctly different sense of beauty.
Right now, I can say that we're heading back towards Federation space, to help conduct diplomacy with United Earth at the Vega Starbase. I have been assured I will not be required to do anything contrary to my oaths to Starfleet, and I'll be kept at arms length from the negotiations beyond making some introductions.
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25633.1
Arrived safe and sound, with an anti-toxin that has made it in time to make a real difference to survivors of a recent wildlife attack. I was given a chance to beam down with my engineers and meet some of the people that we saved. It is a good feeling to look at a child who still has a mother and know that all the training, the work, the effort to get the very best out of our ship, it was all worthwhile.
[Gain +5pp, +25 relations with Yan-Ros]
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Captain's Log, USS Yukikaze, Stardate 25633.6 - Captain Iorinn Grann
A passing Caitian Fathership noticed a few odd readings from a system where an old supernova occurred, and we have gone to investigate. The stellar debris, it seems, has been steadily cooling, and to our surprise a great deal of matter is falling into a steady, if distant, orbit around the remaining neutron star. Stellar wind from the degenerate matter is mixing with the decaying isotopes generated by the r-process and creating a number of interesting materials that can be harvested with some proper safety precautions.
[Gain SR mining colony: Peco Sigma system, +10 (15) SR /yr - Near Merfara]
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Captain's Log, USS Torbriel, Stardate 25634.1 - Captain Diego Zaardmani
"Dammit, Commodore, I'm a scientist, not a snake-charmer."
Probably not the smartest thing I've ever said to a superior officer. In any event, it didn't help; I've still been sent on a diplomatic mission. With the arrival of Romulans at Sol, the Federation Diplomatic Service is frantically throwing missions out to check in with the member worlds and affiliates, even if they're largely doing so using as many different covers as they can At least, that's what the Ambassador indicated.
Our mission was attending an impromptu attendance at a tech-sharing seminar at Indoria. They have a very unusual approach to science, I'll say that much. They are very clever, however, and we picked up a few things we relay home.
[Gani +5pp]
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25634.3
Commander T'Rab and Lieutenant-Commander Bellash ch'Arthyne of the Starfleet JAG have arrived aboard. We have been able to hand over a strong set of leads. It seems that the late Petty Officer had covered up responsibility for an accident that resulted in severe injuries to a trio of crew a few months hence. I have read the riot act in about ten different languages over the fact no one came forward to blow the whistle, and full intend to drum three relevant persons out of not just this ship, but Starfleet as a whole.
Never accept the cover-up. Never shy from the truth. To do so is to fall fail Starfleet and fail yourself.
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 25634.7
A crewman is in custody now.
This has been a harrowing experience, coordinating with the JAG office, with the legal departments, getting advice from flag officers I know, and fighting for the truth and for the rights of my crew. I can't say that there were winners among the crew, but I feel confident that I can say that the truth won out in the end.
[Post-captaincy, Captain McAdams will have High Politics trait]
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Captain's Log, USS Eketha, Stardate 25635.5
After some short but sharp negotiating, the meeting is coming to a close. Watching the Basilica depart with an uncanny grace for so big and ornate ship is a treat for my old helmsman soul. Profitable for all concerned, it seems.
[Gain +15sr - pass squeaked in thanks to comms tech bonus]
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Sector Comamnder's Log, Gabriel BZ, Stardate 25640.4 - Rear Admiral Ainsworth
I'm wanting to properly investigate the remainder the of the Deva subsector, but I have been constantly positioning and repositioning Task Force 1 to react to the Cardassians. They demonstrate and fade away, but I after the intelligence reports I have been given, I am ill-inclined to go haring off after them. But I don't yet understand why they are continuing to test me like this if they refuse to offer battle.
However, our own mining colonies on Collie have completed, as have the Apiata's big tritanium mine on Sguirri. This let's us focus on some defensive emplacements. With those in place, I will be free to be more aggressive towards these Cardassian scout fleets.
[Collie mining colony complete, gain +10br, +15sr/year]
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QM/N: ran a smidgen out of time for what I hoped to accomplish...
