Useful Information

Posted on Sun Sep 15th, 2024 @ 4:28pm by Captain Nycolas Temple & Lieutenant Commander James Smith & Lieutenant Krysia Kaleri-Smith

Mission: The Only Thing Left Was Hope
Location: Ver-1 / Risa
Timeline: After "Utilization"

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Having met with his new crew members - by subspace at least - Nyx was keen to rally the Pandora's senior crew to their new mission to find the Pandora. He had an idea that Lieutenant Commander Mindo was on Risa and was heading there currently in a shuttle, but he knew he would likely need the expertise of his Chief Intelligence Officer and Chief Counsellor too. He had been initially trepidatious about the mission Admiral Milne had sent him on, but he was starting to feel excited about getting the old crew back together now. He just hoped they shared his enthusiasm.

The captain once again connected his PADD to the shuttle's subspace relay and sent out a call invite to Lieutenants Smith and Kaleri-Smith, hoping he would catch them together.

Krysia was cuddling up with James enjoying time together when Nyx’s call came through. “It’s Captain Temple!” She looked at James with a smile.

James looked up as he heard his friend and Captsind name. They hadn’t heard from him in a while and he hoped everything was ok. Sitting up he looked toward the view screen and said, “computer, please patch the call through here please” and waited for the call to connect.

"Well if it isn't the Smiths." Nyx beamed on the other end of the call. He noticed they appeared to be quite cozy together and this caused a trademark eyebrow raise. "I... hope I wasn't interrupting?"

Krys shook her head. “No Sir” she grinned. “We were just enjoying being back together, we’ve only just been reunited after separate assignments. I’ve been on Drax trying to help with talks.”

'Drax' Nyx thought immediately, remembering the conversation with his brother. Magnus had wanted Nyx to speak with Krysia about Drax's provisional membership to the Federation. But they had more pressing matters on their hands right now. "Ah yes," Nyx smiled, "We need to talk about Drax, but maybe another time. How have you both been?"

Krys looked at James, then back at Nyx. “We’ve been... busy. I was sent straight home, and James was assigned to the Academy. We’ve barely seen each other since we left the Pandora. Speaking of which, have you been visited by a...dark man? He appeared to me, to tell me I had to go home and he didn’t mean Drax. He meant the Pandora.”

Nyx could hardly believe it. "You too?!" He practically shouted.

Krys grinned. “I take it you’ve heard this one before Captain?”

"Unfortunately, yes," Nyx sighed, "You're not the only ones to be visited. It seems this person has found all of the remaining crew - and some of the new ones too - and urged us to get back together. Did you notice anything about them that was identifiable at all?"

James sat up at the mention of dark man, "He also appeared to me, before I left StarFleet Academy. He also told me to return." He still hadn't told Krys yet, so he was surprised to hear he wasn't the only one that he had appeared too.

Nyx nodded, "Well that's useful to know. I just wished he had given us a little bit more to go on." Nyx frowned for a moment, "I am going to need your help - both of you - to help find the Pandora."

Looking at Krys and back to Nyx James said, "Of course we will help find her. I'd like to know why she wasn't in space dock like I thought she was."

“It’s definitely a mystery.” Krysia looked at James then at Nyx. “We’ll be there Captain. Have you seen much of Owen? I haven’t seen him since we left the Pandora.”

"He's on my call list," Nyx replied, "I'll hopefully be in touch with him soon. I'm sorry to have to interfered in your down time, but I do have some homework for you."

“Homework?” Krys grinned. “Just like school all over again. What do you need us to do?”

"I managed to find some information," Nyx continued, as he tapped away at his PADD. He was sending an encrypted file over the subspace network. "It shows the Pandora did leave Luna space yards and made it about half-way to Mars before the trail stops dead. The thing is, if someone or some people merely commandeered the ship, we would still have a warp trail to follow, right? And it would've been a massive security alert too. So, how could there be no warp trail?"

“Is it possible to mask the warp trail? Or could they have used another ship to maybe tractor the Pandora away?” Krys looked at James for other ideas.


"Another ship?" Nyx raised an eyebrow, "It would have to be a very large one to put the Pandora inside it but... it could happen. We'll know more when we gather together on Risa, but I think that's worth exploring."

Looking at his clock, Nyx sighed. "I need to get some sleep. I'll see you both on Risa very soon. Temple out."

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