101256.5
LCDR t'Veras, Aurelia
LOCATION Terran Empire, Aldebaran Sector, Battlestation 13
MISSION Rescue Commander Alleya North from imprisonment and execution by the Terran Empire and bring her home.
OUTCOME CMDR North was located and rescued, as well as two Terran operatives whose insights could be useful if they can be deprogrammed.
KEY PERSONNEL
- CAPT Tyrstoc
- ENS Vemok
- SGM K’Timac
NARRATIVE CAPT Tyrstoc, ENS Vemok, and SGT K’Timac met our operative teams in the parallel universe, where we were provided with a runabout previously owned by that universe’s Aurelia t’Veras. We progressed to Battlestation 13, where Tyrstoc, Vemok and K’Timac took up residence in their counterparts’ lives without raising any suspicion.
I then arrived via runabout, where Vemok, in character as Commodore Vee Williams, met me and escorted me to “his” ship. We commenced an in-character negotiation for North’s release in return for Romulan technology and were about to sign on the dotted line, but were interrupted by the Savant, an Ocampan servant of the Empress who serves in a role that straddles the realm of psionic political agent and medical weapons developer. She took over the negotiation, pushing the “Commodore” out.
I then negotiated with the Savant to gain access to CMDR North’s cell. When I found North physically unharmed, the team began to put our plan in motion:
– I passed CMDR North a transporter beacon;
– I was able to gain access to the station shields to program them to go down by sneaking code into a Terran soldier’s PADD;
– ENS Vemok successfully used his station to program alarms to go off across the station at his command during a prison riot;
– CAPT Tyrstoc planted bombs to cover our escape.
At this point, our presence was discovered, if not our identities, and the station staff started investigating. To stay undercover, the team was required to participate in Terran missions, which played havoc with their Starfleet moral codes. By the time I met them in the medical bay – ostensibly to interrogate the “prisoners” – I feared that this mission had a deleterious effect on ENS Vemok, and I was determined to help him in whatever way I could.
At that very moment, a breakaway battleship run by a Terran expatriate, Iana Vel, attacked the Battlestation, and used a shield punch to break through. We then witnessed the Savant what we would eventually find out was their universe’s Stone of Gol on Vel’s marines, reducing them to nothing more than a fine pink mist.
While this occurred, Vemok, K’Timac and I were inside the medical bay, behind the line of Terrans, who had their backs to us. I made a call at that point, breaking our cover. I intended to attack them, ground them, set off the bombs, and beam our team, plus North, to the runabout, using Vel’s punches, cloak, and retreat. I did this because there was no way in the underworld we would have been able to counter the Savant’s psionic weapon; if the Savant even suspected we were not who we said we were, we would be immediately turned into a fine pink mist ourselves. At the same time, I wanted to save my team the mental anguish of having to forego their Starfleet vows. It is one thing to dodge Terran security stupidity; it is another to have a mind-reading servant of the Empress able to reduce us to dust with a thought.
We successfully neutralized the Terrans, but before I could engage my team’s transporter beacons, ENS Vemok was beamed away into Savant’s custody. We were nevertheless able to beam the entire team plus CMDR North off the station and onto the runabout by piggybacking on the shield punch, save Vemok, who was beamed away by the Savant. At that point SGM K’Timac was grievously injured in the altercation with the Terrans, and we were able to stabilize and save him using the runabout’s medical kit (although, I must confess, how is a mystery to me.) CMDR North was physically unharmed at that point, but due to being in the Terran universe for two years most likely needs a long and involved debrief and psych care.
We shortly after received a transmission from ENS Vemok, who said that he would be set free in exchange for the passage of the Savant and her aide, Seres Avlin, to the prime universe to access medical care. They arrived as advertised, without the Stone of Gol. We attempted to hold the Savant in the transporter buffer, but the buffer was too small, and rather than allow her pattern to degrade, we sedated her for transport to avoid her psionic abilities.
Upon arrival at DS13, we recommend she be contained by whatever psionic services in Starfleet exists, as the Savant is an extremely effective and callous individual whose entire moral code is to fulfill the Terran Empress’s most disgusting desires. As you can imagine, there is no way this individual has ever experienced kindness, nor been able to divulge or give it; she was not even named as a child. She and Avlin are Terrans, with typical Terran violent intentions, and should be treated as such. Nevertheless, I also think there is an opportunity here for someone patient and willing, but those decisions are for my superiors to make.
We were never able to locate the Stone of Gol. We destroyed the shuttle the Savant arrived in; perhaps it was there, perhaps it was still in the Terran starbase. Locating it was not part of our mission parameters, so we left it lie. If the Terrans use it to kill each other, so much the better.
RECOMMENDATION Significant debriefs are needed for all personnel involved, with special psychological care given to ENS Vemok and CMDR North. Our Terran guests must be contained by officials, processed, and returned to their universe as soon as possible.
RECOGNITION These officers were not trained infiltrators, but they did their jobs in a splendid fashion. Every single member of the team went above and beyond to save a member of Starfleet’s own in a very dangerous place. I am honored to serve beside them.