CAPERNUM: Intel Wary

Posted on Thu Jul 3rd, 2025 @ 8:38pm by Lieutenant Commander Sheyla {MD} & Lieutenant JG Jynxza Dahl & Lieutenant JG T'Pri

Mission: CAPERNUM: {CD&MISSION} On Duty
Location: Bridge
Timeline: Current

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With Captains Green and Taavis in a conference, Lt. Commander Sheyla had been tasked with the conn. Captain Green had given her orders to see to the arrival and positioning of USS Capernum. Lt. JG Jynxza was at the Helm, as she was certified to do so despite her assignment to other departments, due to memory from her symbiote and its long lifespan.

"Lieutenant Jynxza, ETA?" Sheyla asked.

"One minute, seventeen seconds, Sir." Jynxza had glanced at the chrono and then her eyes went back to viewing forward and her console controls.

"Bring us to sublight when we arrive, Miss Jynxza," ordered Sheyla as she stood up. "Announce arrival and the proceed." Jynxza acknowledge the orders even as Sheyla went to the aft Bridge section to confer with the SCI station. "Lieutenant T'Pri, are you familiar with cloak detection methods? Both well known and obscure?"

T'Pri turned her chair enough to look up and not strain her neck to do so, one eyebrow arched. "That would be hard to determine, Commander. Is there one in particular you would like to ask me about?"

"The micro-lensing of stars with our sensors, to look for gravity distortions between us and the stars around us." Sheyla's face was askance.

"I am familiar, Commander Sheyla. A detection method invented by Lieutenant Commander Spock of Enterprise. Would you like that to be a standing discipline for the SCI department?" T'Pri's face had gone back to normal, her eyebrows now in a normal askance position.

Sheyla gave a nod. "That would be most helpful, Lieutenant. This region of space is claimed by a group of like-minded people who are not above subterfuge to play hell with Starfleet." As she finished that sentence Jynxza announced their drop from light speed and that Capernum was now at all stop and station keeping. "Thank you, Lt. Jynxza. Maintain status." Sheyla ordered, then looked back to the Vulcan. "It is whispered in the Intel community that those same vagabonds do use cloaks with certain ships. Make it so."

"Aye, Sir." T'Pri turned her attention back to her station, sending a text to Jynxza at Helm for the lateral sensor arrays, and what they were doing in regards to the micro-lensing.

Lieutenant Jynxza, at her station, grinned to herself as she read the note. Adjusting her sensors for the required discipline, she then went back to watching over her console.

Sheyla, being an Andorian, felt antsy now that they had arrived. Through Intel reports and probe data from this region that she had read while they were in transit, suggested that a group calling themselves the Rift Alliance were now in charge of Dark Harbor. Intel reports suggested that there were ex-Starfleet personnel among them, those that either broke the law and headed for the Harbor once they were expelled, or were unhappy with certain things happening within their own ranks enough to cause them to leave the service. Most of them had used the word 'corruption' in regards to Starfleet. Why Captain Green had wanted to sit here like a beacon of irritation to them, Sheyla could not fathom. But, being Andorian, if this Rift Alliance wanted a fight she was more than ready to thump some skulls. Perhaps that was why the CO and XO were in conference with each other, to decide how best to proceed.

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