The Briefing (3)

Posted on 01 Nov 2018 @ 5:42pm by Major Alexandria Somers

Stardate: 237011.01

- SFMC Briefing Room – Earth -

With their training for the mission now, complete the assembled marines Alex and Annabelle among them took their seats. There were two officers up front a Major and a Marine Captain, one, the Major was a female human/Bajoran with blonde hair, the other a dark-skinned male of Asian origin.

“Greetings Marines,” Major Dennings said as he entered the room and stood at the podium.

All the marines responded with hello Sir or hi Sir or Major.

“You all have some idea as to why you were selected and what our initial mission is about, the Tal Shiar are developing advanced telepaths If they succeed then they only need to send four telepaths to rip information from their enemies heads and cause utter chaos on the targeted planet. *pause* They could even set ally against an ally, the Klingon’s also know of this facility and the second one on the border of Klingon/Romulan space, there is a Klingon strike team going for theirs, we are going for the one deep in Romulan space.

The Major paused.

“The planet is called Carraya and it is well within Romulan space, we do not know much about the planet except that it is M-Class with a moderate climate indicating forests and its where there is a Tal Shiar base that is doing these cloning experiments, it is the one we will be neutralizing,” Dennings said and noticed that the room was so silent one could hear a pin drop.

With that, he continued the briefing indicating where their insertion point was going to be and where their extraction point was, then they were assigned sectors in the base, as Alex was an expert shot she was tasked with taking out the organic sentries, while the tech marines took care of the tech sentries. The facility had no watchtowers as they wished to keep the facility low key, but there were humanoid defence emplacements.

After an hour and a half briefing with one marine asking questions.

Alex raised her hand “I have some questions Major”

Dennings looking up and straight at a female marine with unusual red hair that was cropped giving her a boyish look, if not for her features Dennings would have assumed it was a male. Yes, Corporal Somers, he said after checking his list.

“What is our mode of transport Sir? I mean we cannot exactly mosey on in there in a shuttle or frigate class ship with no cloak!” Somers asked.

Dennings smiling, glad someone asked that question “Starfleet Intelligence has obtained for us a Romulan shuttle with a cloaking device. We will be ferried to a Starbase along the Federation/Romulan border and cut loose, after that we are on our own until we return.” No more questions came up so she dismissed the team with final words:: It will be skidding up 0600 tomorrow morning.

With their departure time now known the marines retired to their assigned quarters and prepped their non-Starfleet equipment for the morning.

- Earth Station McKinley – 237011.07 to 237011.12 -

The next day the assault team was ferried up to Earth Station McKinley under the pretence of military exercises, they then were shuttled to Utopia Planitia where a Klingon Bird of Prey was undergoing an experimental refit. And it was the ship that was going to be used for the Klingon team, so the ships Captain had agreed to take them as far as the Federation border to the neutral zone, it was here the Romulan Shuttle awaited them.

- Planet Carraya -

The twelve man team boarded the Romulan shuttle and took it to a waiting BOP and the moment the shuttle was safely on the deck the ship cloaked and left the area. It took them two weeks to get to their destination, when they did the shuttle exited the Klingon ship and cloaked as it headed for the planet Carraya.

The Shuttle did a quick perimeter circuit and the pilot found them a good place to land, their entry was silent and stealthy. They closed in on the compound and two of them moved up behind two of the guards, clamped their hands over their mouths, and shoved their combat knives into the heart area on a Romulan, whose heart was in the same location as that of a Vulcan. The moment they were dead they were dragged out of the way into the bushes, then the group's snipers took out the patrolling guards and their tech marines took care of all electronic defences.

When it was safe, they moved into the building and silently took out any guards they came near, like all missions the element of surprise would only last so long and one of the guards managed to cry out the alarm before he was silenced, with all pretence of getting in quietly the marines unleashed their weapons. All was going fine; on the way in, the team knew that it would be worse on the exit portion of the mission, they made it into the control room which also doubled as the main cloning lab.

Dennings pointed to Somers and Graves “You pair take a tech and download the bases databanks then destroy the main databanks.”

“Yes Sir” both Somers and Graves responded at the same time.

With that, both women grabbed a tech marine, went over to the data console, and began downloading all the data needed.

[OFF]

Major Dennings [NPC: Somers]
Marine Academy Commandant
Sol-Sector – Earth

Corporal Alexandria Somers
Marine NCO
SFMC

Corporal Annabel Graves[NPC: Somers]
Marine
SMFC