CAPTAIN'S LOG Stardate 100931.0
Reyga’s making a pit-stop back at DS13 before continuing on to our next set of missions. In addition to the regular resupply, we’re taking on some unusually sensitive items that’ll require physical transport. Luckily it’s nothing so large that we can’t squeeze it into a runabout, so we’ll be sending Aesop on a cargo run rather than going through the hassle of docking.
The most noteworthy item on the list is the 52 liters of bio-mimetic gel. Aside from being illegal for civilians to possess, this stuff can be hazardous and it’s highly regulated, so we’ll need to send along some specialized personnel.
I know just the team…
CAPTAIN'S LOG Supplemental
It seems we have something of a mystery on our hands. There was apparently some sort of mix-up with the restricted cargo. According to the initial report, our crate of bio-mimetic gel instead contained 52 disks of vacuum-desiccated Ferengi remains. The correct crate was apparently recovered by Lieutenant Sono after some effort, and we’ve wound up with both the Ferengi disks and the gel onboard.
The security report on this one should be interesting!
CAPTAIN'S LOG Supplemental
It seems we have something of a mystery on our hands. There was apparently some sort of mix-up with the restricted cargo. According to the initial report, our crate of bio-mimetic gel instead contained 52 disks of vacuum-desiccated Ferengi remains. The correct crate was apparently recovered by Lieutenant Sono after some effort, and we’ve wound up with both the Ferengi disks and the gel onboard.
The security report on this one should be interesting!
Security report is in. The second crate, with the Ferengi remains, was addressed to a Lieutenant Vehl who had no knowledge of it at all. Lieutenant Sono doesn’t think she’s behind it, more likely just caught up in whatever the scheme is.
The missing crate was found in an empty docking bay, and the cannisters of bio-mimetic gel themselves were found stuffed into a plasma conduit. I feel like this raises more questions than it answers, though. We were only able to recover the gel because the would-be thief failed to properly align the wall panel, preventing the conduit from activating - if not for that, the cannisters would have been destroyed. Given its value, I can’t imagine why someone would go to the trouble of stealing it and bringing it to the threshold of the docking bay, only to try to destroy it rather than just take it and leave.
The only suggestion so far seems to be that maybe it was a misdirect, hoping we’d turn our attention elsewhere and leaving them free to collect the cannisters later. In case that’s it, Starbase Security is monitoring the docking bay in question and will be ready to detain anyone who tries to access it.
In the meantime, since it was our cargo that someone tried to swipe, I’ve given Lieutenant Sono the go-ahead to run an investigation.
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