To: RADM Bishop, Samuel (@Sam)
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From: LCDR Zital, Serris
Subj: Confederacy of Azed Strategic Outline
Good morning, Admiral.
Per your request, I’ve put into writing my suggested plan of action regarding the remnants of the former Confederacy of Azed. With the 25th century proving to be a volatile and conflict-prone time in galactic history, it is my belief that a pragmatic foreign policy with the aims of deterring other parties from engaging in conflict with the Federation will best ensure the success of our exploration initiatives, diplomatic outreach, and humanitarian efforts. After our wars with the Klingons, the Iconians, the Romulans, and the continuing threat of Borg incursions, it would stand to reason that developing new defensive technologies is long overdue.
While the Azedi factions are fractured and no longer the threat they used to be, it is imperative that we ensure peaceful co-existence with their more militaristic powers while respecting their right to self-determination. I believe our best course of action, in accordance with current Federation foreign policy, would be to scout and scour debris fields from the Azedi’s recent conflict with the Terran Empire, with the aim of salvaging their technology to reverse engineer its functionality and develop better defensive countermeasures.
To that end, I believe employing the defensive countermeasures we already have access to would be prudent. The unpredictability of the Frith and their possession of functional dreadnoughts present a remote but significant threat against our assets along the border. I believe Project Battlement should be retrieved from storage and deployed along the defensive perimeter of Deep Space 13 as a deterrent. I will be contacting Lieutenant Commander T’Pemi Carter on Deep Space 13 to begin networking an engineering “think tank” to work towards adapting this countermeasure to mobile platforms for deployment on starships.
Thank you for your time,
//SIGNED//
Serris Zital
Chief Engineer,
U.S.S. Mariner NCC-74671-A