To: RADM Bishop; CAPT Varley; CMDR Nathes
From: LCDR t’Veras, A.
Subj: Rimward Logistics
I am following up on a mission undertaken by the RRW Tebok a few months ago. CMDR Nathes is copied on this missive in accordance with the intelligence-sharing agreement that put me on board.
On stardate 100577.5, the Tebok encountered a number of Imperial operations teams, including Tal’Shiar and Tal’Diann, in operation on Rimward Station, owned by the civilian shipping conglomerate known as Rimward Logistics. While we were not able to figure out why they were interested at that time, Tebok’s intelligence officers were able to slap a tracker on a ship somehow involved with the mess, the SS Lament.
Since then, the Lament has visited nearly every port in the area that has even had the slightest to do with Rimward. Rimward has also had a significant increase in funding, ship construction, and solvency when they honestly should still be hurting from the Terran advance, which is impossible on its own and extremely suspicious. Add in the significant interest from the Tal Shiar and other agents of the Romulan Star Empire, and it became a situation worth watching.
We have watched long enough. Sources tell me the Empire will be making a move against Rimward presently, possibly against the executives, and definitively in Federation space. We must beat them to the punch and figure out how and why they’re being funded, as well as track the funding Rimward recently received and figure out what the SS Lament is intent on accomplishing with its flight path. This company operates extensively in DS13’s immediate environs, as well as in the former Azedi Confederacy. Not only should the Star Empire be prohibited from operating in Federation and disputed territory, I do not need to tell you what the consequences of wildly game-changing resources such as these falling onto the craw of such an unstable situation as the one in unfolding Azedi space are.
//SIGNED//
Aurelia Buchanan t’Veras
Chief Intelligence Officer
Deep Space 13
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