OOC This information is OOC and is to act as a small Prequel to May 31st | Operation Pounce set only an hour before the event begins.
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A Missing Cat
What are a crew to do whilst the Cat is away?
Defender near a moon in the Kern System
The Defender sits in the Kern system, keeping it’s sensors on maximum and trained on the asteroid field they had tracked the Caitian Escort to, with the Crew all buzzing around the ship and monitoring all systems, with Commander Zenade sat in the Captain’s chair on the bridge, tapping her fingers on the arm of the chair as she sighs, with Commander Kas in the lower bridge area of the Defender, monitoring readouts and studying information that was coming in
Carlos sighs as he looked towards the large screen in front of him, rubbing his eyes sorely as he grunted a little “Probe one, no change… that Atrox came back and then left after an hour” he said talking to himself clearly frustrated at the readings
The tall Andorian Chief Medical officer, Lt Commander Tiroh T’Soph, soon walked down to the lower area of the bridge and stretches a little “You still down here Major?” she asks tilting her head a little as her antenna twitched slightly “Am sure we will get this all sorted”
Carlos grunts and looks over at Tiroh before nodding then turning his look back to the screen, as he carefully moves to reading over an old Majestic report “Captain is captured, possibly on the base we are monitoring… we need to get him back… damn this would have been easier only a few months ago”
Tiroh nods slowly and moved to take her medical tricorder, before she opened it and started to scan Carlos “Well, worrying isn’t going to bring him back” she said in a rather stern tone before she sighs “Everyone is worried about him, but your message to someone certainly didn’t help the crews mood”
Carlos grunted and goes to speak but the console starts beeping rapidly alerting to an update from the probe, Carlos taps on the console and sighs “Great… an Aspero just entered the system… under escort… that can only mean trouble” Carlos taps away a little more and grunted softly
Tiroh looks to Carlos for a moment and nods slowly “Keep an eye on it… I have to go get some information from a doctor to help when we save the Captain”
Carlos nods slowly and taps on the console a little more as he monitors the carrier group approach the asteroid base through the probe “One carrier, two Ferasan Slithus Escorts and two Shikaris Escorts… likely more elsewhere… damn it”
Commander Zenade comes down to the lower conference room and grunted softly “Spots… tell me you have something… sensors are going crazy”
Carlos looks over at the first officer and sighs gently “I wish I had better news, that one Escort we tracked left the system about twenty minutes ago, and now we have a carrier group at the base… this makes no sense… black claw don’t take prisoners… they never did before.”
Zenade walks over to the console Carlos was standing at and taps on it bringing up the markings on the Ferasan Slithus Escorts “That… is certainly different, they never used to work with Ferasans either… we need to ID that clan marking and find out who we are dealing with…” she then pauses and looks to Carlos “You… know the Captain will find out about your message to her… he won’t be happy”
Carlos looks at Zenade and grunts softly “I ain’t sugar coating the fact the Captain might be dead… all we have to support he might be alive is some strange data being forwarded to Commander Kala, though if they are working with Ferasans we need to start putting a plan together… now”
Zenade nods slowly and pats the Trill on the back “I know, you would have preferred a more sympathetic tone when your wife passed and your daughter was taken from you, but look in the files, pull the structural maps as best you can, start putting a plan together… your leading the away team to that base, you need to know what to do”
The Defender remains in the Kern system, with Carlos studying all the information he could get, as the probe kept monitoring the system, watching the Aspero and the escorts in the system, then shortly after this there would be a number of alarms ringing out through the Defender, sending the crew scrambling around the bridge to see what was causing the alarms before the crew all stopped and the alarms fell silent
Carlos would run up to the main bridge and look around grunting “What is going on… why where all the alarms going off?”
Zenade and the bridge crew would be staring at the view screen in silence just blinking as they watch the broadcast the ship had picked up
On the viewer would be a formally dressed Caitian male and female, new casters, with the male having white fur and the female had brown fur with red patches
The male news caster would shuffle his papers “And we bring you breaking news from the Capital city, where local news stations across the planet have all received a message from the group black claw, this has been seen all across the planet, and nearby installations, with a number of protests breaking out shortly after, with the Caitian Government deploying CDF and security forces to ensure these protests don’t turn dangerous, with the main area being around the Sh’ow family house hold not too far from our Capital city”
The Female new caster takes over as she clears her throat “That is right, following the disturbing video message that was transmitted to all local news stations, the Caitian people have began questioning the government and what they are hiding from them, please be advised the following transmission contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing and hard to watch”
The screen would go black, before soon a room that had no obvious details, would appear on screen with the camera soon settling on H’Ltol who was tied to the chair, with his wrists bonded behind his back, the Captain had signs of injuries, with patches of fur missing, scars along the areas where fur had been removed, as well as blood leaking from his mouth and his nose
A voice off screen would speak “Speak Cat… say what everyone needs to hear”
A Caitian dressed in Green Omega force armor would then come onto the camera and strike H’Ltol with a shock baton, jabbing the end of the baton against H’Ltol’s left side* “You heard the boss… talk traitor”
H’Ltol would cry out in pain as the baton made contact with his side “Ahhh…” he pants as his head drops a little and he grunts “I… will… say… what you want… me… too” he said as he looked into the camera his lifeless eyes being clear to see “I… Captain H’Ltol Sh’ow, have been captured and held by the Caitian Group Black Claw on alleged crimes against… the Caitian and Ferasan people… crimes… that… I have been… provided…”
Before he can speak the Caitian would strike the Captain again, sending another jolt through his body, which also made the fur on H’Ltol’s body stand on end “Drek, Nei Torom Tak Dki” The Caitian speaking in his native tongue, with no translation currently provided
H’Ltol would struggle against his bindings as he growls and pants “My… family… almost… fifty years ago… committed crimes… on behalf of powerful crime families on Cait… crimes that have been since… swept under the rug by the…” he pants softly and groans gently “current… government… in exchange… for information…”
The Caitian strikes H’Ltol again this time for longer, making the pain worse as he growls loudly
H’Ltol would cry out in pain again, before he looks to the Camera almost like he has given up “Sejea… if… you… are seeing this… Ra’tikaya ri, Ra’pras arla ri” After yet another strike from the Caitian he would go limp, blood falling from his mouth and nose and onto the floor as he was out cold, with the camera quickly shifting away as medics rush in to treat the injured Captain
The Camera pans over to the Ferasan with dark purple fur that had previously been behind the camera “Keep him alive, I am not done yet” he said in a harsh tone to the medics that had rushed in, before turning to the Camera “Take this as a warning… I will not take this crime lying down… release the files that will make this right… and maybe… the Captain gets… to live…”
The transmission then ends, with the view screen once again showing the new casters
The male news caster would speak up first “The Caitian government has refused to comment on the transmission, apart from to say they have no idea what crimes this Ferasan is referring, and this station did attempt to contact the Sh’ow family for comment however given the large group of protestors outside the family estate and the large security presence there, we were unable to speak to any of the family, and with the CDF put on high alert I doubt we will get the chance today”
The female news caster then nods slowly and purrs gently “Never in recently memory has our planet seen such distressing images about one of our own, we will continue our live coverage of events as they unfold, this is the Caitian News Network, signing off”
The news report would end, with the bridge crew all stunned into silence as they all look at each other in shock, despite all this crew had seen they have never been as shocked as they are now
Carlos would clear his throat and speak up “Do what we can to find out where that transmission came from… but… at least we know the Captain is alive…” Even Carlos struggled to speak after what he just saw
Zenade looks to Carlos and adjusts her uniform slightly nodding slowly "You heard the Major… comms… see if we can narrow things down, then… I want a full tactical report on our readiness within the hour… we go as soon as we are ready, support or not… " she then gives a stern look to Carlos “You better get a plan ready… if support doesn’t turn up in time, we go alone… we can’t loose any more time”
The Defender would once again become a hub of activity, doing everything they could to pull together all the information they had on the PMC Group, the base and anything else that might be of use, security teams using floor plans of the base to run security drills, with the Leopard crew working with the on-board fighters in combat drills as well as system patrols, whilst they waited for support to arrive, but ready to go in alone if they had too