Starfleet
Personal Log:
Cpt. Gjehjallahte Gronzern
Admiral Nine had graciously
accepted my promotion to captain, my proposal to Starfleet regarding
experimentation, and exploration in correlation with the newly discovered
Iconian satellite gateway system, as well as my suggestion that I command an
experimental H-Class Novae vessel for my debut mission.
My first mission as captain was
to pilot the ship I had been co-commanding with its Captain, Merle Dox, off to
a very important Starfleet Debriefing regarding the Mirror Universe in sector
001. Captain Dox had helped me formulate certain postulates in my proposal, and
consulted me in certain ways that I feel were systemic to my success. I was one
of four Commanding officers aboard the F-Class Aulanerk Saanich, a vessel that had six lieutenant-commanders as
well. It is a larger vessel, yet merely galaxy class.
We are to visit Ferasan to make
adjustments to the Nova-Dreadnaught H –
Class Bastet Ferasan, a much larger ship of which I will be one of three
Captains. Four commanders from the Aulanerk
Saanich will be joining us. Luckily,
it is known to the Federation how to use the Iconian satellite Gateways, so our trip was actually shortened
considerably. We were to transfer and meet Admiral Nine aboard, she is the
supreme commander of the vessel Bastet
Ferasan. As it would so happen, the Bastet
Ferasan is the most readily available ship of its class for this mission. My
hope is that after the mission I will be able to research our mission
conclusions on a Ferasan research station on-planet, I would be happy to help
training on-planet and to rejoin the Bastet
Farasan afterwards, as it were, I had not had extended leave in four years.
I would request one year at Farasan
Research Facility A, with the option for extension should my research be
for some reason incomplete in one Ferasan year.
Aboard Bastet Ferasan I was formally announced as the tactical Captain of
the Bridge, one of my co-horts from the Aulanerk
Saanich commanders became the Captain of Engineering, his Lieutenant
Commander being made full Commander of Engineering, one of six that the Bastet Ferasan now contains. One
Commander was also a tactical commander and was made my #1, and our Science
Lieutenant Commander was made Commander for this mission also. We were informed
of battlefield promotions aboard the Aulanerk
Saanich, which included the Engineering Commander, the Ferengi named Navi, who was made acting captain. The
ship was roughly forty percent Caitain, and we were grossly understaffed, at
about one quarter capacity, or roughly two thousand personnel.
Transport and storage are not
the main concerns of the voyage, although Starfleet intelligence considers the
likelihood that asylum seekers and other diplomatic cohorts are likely to come
aboard, there is more room for biological samples, shuttles, and of course the
two larger attack frigates. H-Class Caitian variations on the Vigilant and Sao Paulo tactical escorts, have been proven for combative and
diplomatic consideration. The tactical escorts for this mission are named Ferasan Fury, and Fist of Ferasan or Sraalla.
[This is roughly translated from Caitian mythology, the former being from a
form of philosophic construct, similar to human pride or geist to that of a
bezerk, and the later being a variation on the traditional name for the Ferasan
war goddess.]It had seemed that I would be more likely to command the Fist of Ferasan, or Sraalla, in case of extraneous circumstances, Admiral Nine has a
complicated personnel chart she would systematically refer to in order to
determine the command chain based on any plausible situation. Although I am happy for the design, I
only wanted to know what the circumstances might be, and percentage wise I
found it more likely that I would command the Bastet Ferasan, or the Fist
of Ferasan, or Sraala.
Meanwhile teams from the Aulanerk Saanich were working with
Ferasan technicians in order to ready all systems aboard the Bastet Ferasan. I was responsible for
coordinating the various timelines, and personnel, although There were two
commanders and three lieutenant commanders with several lieutenants working in
my sub-command chain. The Engineering and Medical/Science groups were served
similar compositions, although there was complicated cross over between the
disciplines.
One example of such would be Commander Talnar,
his wife, and assistant Lieutenant Talnar-Ventir. Both are specialists and
customarily wear the solid black uniform, similar to that of Section 31. Due to
their specializations their objectives are classified, and I assigned to them
four escorts, two male, and two female, Caitain, assault specialists. The
Specialization Team is upgrading tactical, medical, and engineering schematics
to match current Section 31 standardizations. It is thought that the Borg will
be present in the Mirror Universe when we arrive. That now said, we need every
advantage possible, and the Vulcan Talnars are seeing that every advantage is
met. Our technical teams have been forewarned that there are possible variables
in our upgrading procedures that might not make the cut according to Starfleet
Intelligence. There have been minor incidences in every department that
rerouting and post-circuitry performance reviews have been necessary, are part
of new initialization and installation processes. At least a dozen times Talnar
has stopped process in an entire computer section, sometimes scores of
technicians at work in these places, waiting for a part, some kind of
mechanical augmentation to arrive, and be installed, attempting to reroute a
sub-routine, whatever the case, so that regulatory processes could continue. No
one is allowed to look at said installations except the senior staff. I
witnessed every such installation, usually in the company of Admiral Nine herself,
although she was too busy for some of the events. The Talnar encryption
processes alone can impede preparations for hours, although all systems need to
be redoubtable. We are still talking
about the Borg, no redundancy is irrelevant. The Admiral has said.
Captain Merle arrived in Ferasan
early, her briefing was short apparently, so she was prepared to command the Aulanerk Saanich, and her assistance in
overseeing ship preparations was greatly appreciated by everyone. A fresh set
of eyes, ears, and hands can often do twice the work of those who have long
been in the trenches. She arrived aboard the starship Daedalus D-class, a ship which easily matches the bulk and velocity
of the Bastet Ferasan. Daedalus was commandeered by Admiral
Janeway and co-commands with an Admiral Smithson. Smithson’s captains will be
co-commanding and taking responsibility for the Delta D-Class Defiant and Sao
Paulo tactical assault vessels Icarus
and Iapyx.
It is thought that the two
larger dreadnaught / pan galactic vessels with assault
vessels should be enough to make an assessment on the Borg activity in the
Mirror Universe, should the calculations be accurate. Meanwhile the Vulcan
specialists have been in communications with their secondary team aboard the Daedalus and both teams are in concert
on their extremely urgent need to make computations for newer enigma
calculations, which will essentially determine what the telemetry of Borg
involvement in the Mirror Universe is, and hopefully define an event horizon
for their involvement there, as well as with involvement with the Iconian
Gateways.[1]
Commander Talvar’s briefing to
the senior staff revealed some major intel considerations regarding the Borg
and the Iconians, their relationship to each other historically, and what
tactical consignments or manipulations both parties could likely be expected to
be defined by in the Mirror Universe.[2]
Not exactly a socio-dynamic consideration, among other things, Talvar is fairly
convinced, as are other’s in Starfleet that the Iconians, in a political move
of desperation created the Borg as a defense mechanism to harvest technological
sources throughout the galaxy, after being invaded by outside forces, likely
militaristic humanoids from the Andromeda galaxy, over 150,000 years ago. Intel
from actual Mirror Universe members are varied and somewhat vague, although it
has been suggested that there is a definitive possibility that on that side of
the chasm Iconians completely defeated the Borg, realizing they had created
another terrible source of competition for themselves, their more base
bureaucratic nature is in full consideration there, and they are terribly
militaristic and totalitarian, whereas here, some hundred thousand plus years
ago, the Iconians in a humanistic, civil manner discovered their folly and
created almost infinite models of species within existing DNA structures in
primordial microcondria on various primitive stage M-class planets, and
terra-formed and created nebula and other anomalies [dark-matter] in such a way as to smoke screen the species’ planets
away from the Borg.
Talvar used the Viking example,
Iceland, seems like a name inhospitable to life, Greenland, seems a quite
pleasant namesake… Of course I recognized the desert continent Green Island, Pangaea-like continent Death Island variation from the Caitian
translation on my hand held viewing com. Caitians have long ago abandoned such
misleading nefarious means of matriculation. Studying Terran history in
Starfleet, I was surprised to see the Viking example in such a way, when I
realized the humans were at least as good at exploration and navigation, it was
a very humbling experience for me. Like many young Caitians, I assumed they
were merely simian to all
circumstances. Much like humans being stunned to see bipedal felines I once had
to suppose, it takes time to convince humans that we have little relationship
to our quadruped ancestors from their planet, and our past. Did the Borg or the
Iconians plant DNA in these locations? Could there have been another factor?
Iconians in the past have taken claim to such events, still, they could
consider the work of the Borg to be their own. Talvar created many intriguing
complexities, and frankly I was happy to have Saurian brandy with the Admirals
and joint senior staff after the briefing.
Smithson
said to Janeway, with his Captain Argensen also in said social grouping, “I see
Captain Gronzern has had enough Cloud
Atlas theory for the afternoon.” I had seen the movie in academy in San
Francisco, although I was on the accelerated course at the time, having studied
on Ferasan, I chuckled without regard to being polite as it was actually kind
of a scary moment of rationalization. It came out a little like a growl from a
hyena, is what I have been told in the past by Terrans.
“Admiral,
I’m sure we will run out of Saurian Brandy today, its fine, there’s a fixed
amount in this location, we are expected as senior officers to perform at our
best.” That was Janeway’s rebuttal.
Luckily
my guttural accent isn’t debilitating, so I was able to share my thoughts with
my colleagues. Commander and Lieutenant Talvar thought my insights were exactly
excelsior to the design philosophy of the motive of consternation, honestly, I
know both Vulcans have extra special abilities in continuum, quantum and astral
theory, so I was simply happy to stay on my feet with my brain in concert with
this particular zeitgeist. They were particularly gratified, to also Nine and
Janeway, who apparently liken advanced theory in the field more than Smithson,
who dislikes analogous anomalies of this nature. Captain Argensen, who has
known Smithson longer translated.
“Not
his idea of a good mystery, really, we just want the answers here, nothing
more.” Captain Argensen has a natural way of expressing disconcertion to an
alleviating affectation. Smithson seemed more pleased with Argensen’s
explanation.
“In
an earlier century we would have thought this all nonsense, now perhaps the
galaxies on both parallels are in jeopardy…”
Talvar
had explained that in the Mirror Universe the galaxy had been divided by
ancient militaristic factions, lesser factions, such as those in our own local
stellar neighborhood were to fight one another, to build strength from within
enough to defend all else without. His personal view was that as much of the
galaxy that is ruled by the Borg here in our galaxy was now in paradox lead by
the Iconian autocracy, all other authority in the Mirror-side purely oligarchic
in nature. The Iconian autocracy will believe by right of paradox that the Borg
control of our own galaxy will be by divine right, their own doing. That, in a
nutshell, is what was disturbing Smithson, Janeway, Nine and he would be
furthering their conceptual alignment on the subject.
“We all share the same concerns
here. We are anon, we are not Borg, remember what the Klingons have in the past
said, They are the Borg; Deassimilate
them!” Admiral Nine shares the distinction of being a relatively young,
attractive and deadly intelligent Admiral with a bone to pick and a cross to
bear, to use a human analogy. Her grits are rough and ready, her smite is sharp
and wicked. “Both pan-galactic vessels
are outfitted to keep thousands of Borg in stasis and hundreds in various
pseudo stasis. The scientific data from this mission alone could in fact be
enough to turn over rule in this galaxy to the Federation / Galactic alliance.
There is a real chance that we can use the Borg to discourage further
Mirror-Universe incursion on this paradox, as well as find reasonable diplomacy
and knowledge from that paradox also. Live today so that our enemies will die
tomorrow-Take prisoners and remind
the enemy the extent of our intent against them.” Nine used late 23rd
century Klingon rhetoric as a device to create passion and mission unity. I
felt, although a devout Caitian and Federation member, that that particular
passion resonated with me fully in my being and that my comrades were of the
same mind. Later I recommended that she use this mode of speech with both crews
of the mission fleet. She would think on it.
[1] http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=13760831&postcount=12
, I establish motive for the Iconian gateway’s universality and Borg
considerations thereof, the Mirror Universe is also a consideration to this
effect.
[2]
Ibid.
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