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CAPT Skye, F.
After Action Report
ADDENDUM The U.S.S. MacAlpine was dispatched to investigate an asteroid that an explosion had been monitored on, which revealed the installation built inside of it.
While en route to the asteroid we were joined by the U.S.S. Endeavour and the U.S.S. Pegasus. The decision was made for the Endeavour and Pegasus to wait on the edge of local space and for the MacAlpine to approach alone to avoid the appearance that we were there to start a battle.
On our approach to the asteroid, the facility detected the MacAlpine’s approach when we tried to hail them, resulting in them raising shields and powering up their weapon systems. I then gave the order to not raise shields unless their weapons actually target us, to avoid escalating the situation while continuing to hail the facility.
The station then accepted our hail, after we had detected ongoing fighting within the station which prompted me to ready an away team and for aid teams to start getting ready.
During this communication, we offered to provide medical and other civil aid to the facility and the personnel inside. There was a brief interruption on the other side of the hail after a round of back of forth with us offering assistance and them saying they didn’t need any before our offer of aid was accepted.
The away team went over in a shuttle with basic medical aid gear for us to first find out exactly what the situation was before sending aid teams into a dangerous situation.
The Commandant of the facility identified it as being called “the Rock”, the commandant then greeted us when landed in the facilities hanger.
Upon initial questions around the situation and the facility itself, the commandant wanted us to delay our reporting of the situation through diplomatic channels back to the Kingdom of Parin. The commandant also identified the prisoners as being “killers, psychopaths, arsonists and mass murderers” as just the tip, along with the casual mention of jettisoning an entire cellblock with their staff still inside.
At this point, the away team split with myself and Captain Nimitz moving to investigate the situation in the cellblocks.
Captain Nimitz took the lead in speaking with the prisoners at this stage, so his account of the situation will be able to provide better depth to the situation.
But the prisoners identified themself as political prisoners and requested asylum after Captain Nimitz offered it to them as a way out of the situation.
It is my belief that while some of the prisoners were political prisoners, we could not spend time investigating who actually was a political prisoner and who was there for committing a crime. From what was observed and from the way the prisoners responded to their captors, it is clear there was more going on at that facility than simple incarceration.
RECOMMENDATION It is this officers recommendation that continued observation by carried out on the Kingdom of Parin, or at least of “the Rock” as there is more going on than incarcerating prisoners.