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The Beginning
Topic Started: Mar 27 2018, 10:18 AM (2,281 Views)
Rebecca Talon
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<Later>

Rebecca was in her ready room aboard the USS Erebus. With here were three high ranking officers. Fleet Admiral T'Ver, Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Mattis, and Admiral Lesly Davidson. To her left Angel stood. Handing the ensign a coffee, she leaned in. "Are you okay ensign? Your father is coming right?"
"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776
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Angel Ryder
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"He'll be on his way." Angel said softly and smiled at the cup of coffee. "Must have gotten delayed with something." she glanced at the wall chrono and sighed. "You know my father. He will be late to his own funeral."
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Rebecca Talon
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"I do," she sighed.

"How do you like working with Admiral Sandoval?" Admiral Davidson asked Angel.
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Nick Ryder
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"Been great so far, much more punctual than a certain Admiral Ryder." Angel said with a chuckle.

Just then Nick walked into the ready room and shook his head, "Sorry I'm late, Commodore Valdez had a crisis and wouldn't take 'I have to go' as a hint that I had to go." he rolled his eyes. "I know, I know... late for my own funeral. Alright, sit rep Admiral Sandoval? What'd you two see?"
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"Honestly..." She shrugged. "I don't have a clue." Rebecca bent down and entered commands at her desk console. "At 0935 Pacific time myself, and Ensign Ryder observed the following from a mid level atmospheric pass over Islamabad, Pakistan. My sources in SFI suggested that the earlier anti-alien attack originated from that region."

"Anti-alien!" Mattis exclaimed.

"Unfortunately," Rebecca signed. She brought up the crime scene photos, and winced at the brutality.
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Nick Ryder
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"Never seen anything like that." Nick said as he took off his glasses and looked closer at the screen. "It's like... they just blew them apart, left the bodies. Almost like they're trying to send a message." he glanced at Angel and then to Sandoval. "So that would explain why some of our contacts have been dark."

"Reminds me of those old video files from the 20th Century, Taliban and Al'Quieda and others." Angel said as she crossed her arms. "I mean, I didn't think people still acted that brutally on a planet like Earth. Clearly we can see what they did. We have eyes all over."

"Like I said, they're trying to send a message. Knowing we can see it. Admirals, permission to... use some Big Brother protocols, see if our satellites picked anything up before this, find out who did this." Nick said as he rubbed his neck. "I'm trying very hard to stay away from the Intel stuff..."
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"What's done is done. We can't change the past. The way I see it the question is what are we going to do about it. These people are getting help from some very powerful people. Trialic explosives are strictly regulated by the Federation Counsel, and enforced by Starfleet Command. There are maybe 20 people in the Federation that have access to this technology. I know two of those are in this room including myself."

Rebecca fidgeted, and turned to Nick. "What we found. Could that be for the manufacturing of Trialic based weapons?"
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Nick Ryder
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"Possibly... there are still miles and miles of tunnels and caverns that are centuries old, hard to scan through. What bothers me the most is that this happened on Earth." Nick said in a grim tone of voice. "We need to clean this up and fast. I think... I am going to see what my wife's contacts within the Federation Secret Service have. Banned weapons on Earth are their jurisdiction."
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"This facility should have never been constructed," Mattis stated. "It's not exactly hidden. That takes the right people in the right places. People who are... well highest levels of power both in the Federation government, but Starfleet too. Joint chiefs, vice-president and so on."
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Nick Ryder
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"Which means we have a larger problem brewing than we realise and few can be trusted with this." Nick said as he crossed his arms. "None of this leaves this briefing room. We've all known each other for most of our careers, if not longer. Granted the knowledge of this will be widespread but... this was an act of domestic terrorism, presumably by Terrans against non Terrans."

Nick expanded the view on the site they took images of and stared at it. "We may need to get boots on the ground to investigate, covertly. Now, this is the thing, if this IS some wider conspiracy... none of us really have any trust. I have seen this before, sub groups within a government subverting it and no one knows who to trust. Look at the Klingons, the Romulans, Cardassians, even the Bajorans. Hell, our planet pre-Federation."

"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." a tall, thin man said from the corner. "Director V'Pier." he said with a nod of his head. "And you can add Dominion to your list too as well Nick." he walked next to Nick and Becca. "General, Admiral, Fleet Admiral. This is very troubling, because this is not the only instance of this weapon being used on Earth. But this is the first time they made spectacle of it."
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"I fought the Dominion, and the Cardassians," Rebecca started with dismay. "And they never did anything like this. We tell ourselves that we are evolved. But, are we? Are we so different than Kahn Noonian Singh, Adolf Hitler, or Pol Pot?" She shook her head.

T'Ver raised an eyebrow, "Becca, it is not logical to dwell on such things. What humanity has done in the past few hundred years shows your people's ability for compassion."

"Okay then. What do we do? If this is as bad as it seems we might need a contingency plan. I'll not live under that kind of tyranny. I will not serve a Federation that does this to non-terrans."
Edited by Rebecca Talon, May 2 2018, 04:17 AM.
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Nick cleared his throat. "We have to be very careful with contingency plans." he pulled off his glasses and held them up and put them behind his head. "Hindsight is always 20/20 'why didn't we plan for this, why didn't we set this up when we suspected something'. Angelica knows as well as I do, that there's a point when we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. If there IS indeed a movement, hidden as it may be, of anti-alien... non Terran sentiment. There are plenty of 'aliens' that were born here and have lived her for generations and are as much a Terran as I am."

"God you like to talk..." V'Pier muttered. "I think what Ryder is trying to say in his rambling, I get paid hourly way, is that whatever we come up in this room, stays in this room and everyone here is bound to keep it to themselves. That includes, young Miss Ryder and all the rest of you old people."

"Right." Nick nodded his head and gave V'Pier a look. "This is held at the highest levels of Section 31 and Federation Intelligence clearance. As of this moment, we're all part of this shield." he held up his badge. "If... things break down, we have to come up with a backup plan. May not happen tomorrow or next week or even next year."
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Rebecca frowned, and took her seat. After a moment she started, "To be clear, so that we are all on the same page. Civil war?"
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Nick Ryder
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"I would hope it does not come to that." Nick said in a grim tone of voice. "However, we need to be ready to... handle those elements. Division would not do anyone good. We start a civil war, that's the end of the Federation, or at least Earth's role in it." he gestured to Angel. "And her generation will pay the price for it."
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"Indeed. Short term we figure out how deep this is, and who is behind it. V'Pier are you hearing the name Tiberius?"
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