USS Siva, NCC-91520 - Senior Officer Logs

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The following contains the mission and personal logs of the senior crew of the USS Siva.

Shroud of Stars (AAR)

Commander Blake, K., Commanding Officer

Siva’s first mission as part of the Cetratus Squadron has been successful. She’s certainly a spirited vessel and far more nimble than the likes of the October or even Atlantis. It was wonderful to see how my crew interacted in this situation, and to think I was initially concerned there may be some level of interpersonal difficulty between some members of my crew, given their very diverse and frankly historic backgrounds, I am proud however to say that that has not been an issue, at least not on the bridge.

We did take some minor damage, but Engineering is working on repairs. It seems that there was something we missed during shakedown, which caused our aft shields to be significantly weaker, but I’m assured it’s correctable.

We’ve already received our orders for our next mission, apart from the squadron and towards deeper enemy territory. I’m apprehensive of such a mission, but I’m confident in my crews abilities to carry it out.

Lieutenant Commander Sorek, Executive Officer

The crew are operating within the expected parameters, however the ship is not. I have raised these concerns with the Operations division and expect a marked return to full operational ability by the first shift next week. The increased sensor bandwidth and higher warp speed is not an acceptable trade off for reduced shielding efficiency.

However, the crew were able to utilise these flaws in a satisfactory way, forcing a powered tachyon burst into the nebula substrate allowed a novel solution to reveal hidden Romulan vessels without compromising the safety of the ship or crew.

Lieutenant Commander Almrez, D., Chief Medical Officer

I worry for the kid, it’s not been an easy transition since joining Starfleet, but he’s finding his way. He’s bred for conflict and combat, but Starfleet should be so much more, Starfleet is so much more, and yet here we are again, fighting for yet another godsdamned just cause.

The Captain seems to understand, which in itself is refreshing. She holds a strong code of ethics and justice, and places the wellbeing of her crew extremely highly. I hope we can all get out of this with everything intact. Souls included.

Lieutenant Commander Ashodi, A., Chief Operations Officer

An inverted polarity tachyon cross feed with bilateral antilepton phase change arrays. Temporarily altering the composition of a micro nebula into an ion storm was inspired. Doing so without destroying the entire of Cetratus was sheer luck. But we pulled it off, and with some fine last second tuning by yours truly (humble as ever), gave us the tactical advantage we needed!

Shunting the power back from the pods to the main arrays and Arat got a quick solution back on the Romulans and (with a little help from our friends) they were all disabled or destroyed a short bit later. Great work by all involved!

Lieutenant Prin, H., Chief Engineer

Those redesigned warp governors are trouble. Sure, they increase the slipstream envelope integrity allowing its use on more classes, even without the specially designed hull like on the Odyssey or Dauntless, but on Siva? She’d handle slipstream just fine, I’m sure of it. Just a little manual adjustment to the intermix rate, a few more kilolitre plasma flow rate, maybe a dedicated sixteen gigaquad computer and three rolls of Starfleet’s finest vacuum tape, Siva’d get the same output as the best Vesta guaranteed.

But no, we have the tacked on external governor solution. Moving them from the end of the nacelles, the natural tail of the warp bubble, was a mistake. Of course, what do I know, I just have to fix the vaca things.

The issue with the design is the low level warp bubble at rest is now placed directly within the aft shielding quadrant, instead of being distributed to the quadrant edges.

Is the fix possible in the field? Yes. Is it easy? No. Can we do it before the week is out? Of course.

Faster reactive shielding at the cost of being able to complete Voyager’s journey and getting back for supper? Decent trade.

Lieutenant J.G. Arat’Atar, Chief Security Officer

Four more.

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Stardate:
101310.8

Filed By:
CMDR Blake, K.

Personal Log

The Siva is departing from DS9, now on our way back along route 528 towards Cardassia to pick up a supply of Industrial Replicators, destined for the yards at Aldebaran. Our journey back is peppered with a small trip to Betazed to pick up some weather control satellites and drop off Ensign Nyaput for his wedding. Just in time for a quick layover in Minos Korva to pick up self-sealing stem bolts so the VSS T’Veek can continue its surveys of the Betreka Nebula unimpeded. It’s exciting stuff.

I’m sure I almost caught Sorek off guard with a joke, but he’s staying stone faced. It’ll happen eventually!

Doing a “milk run” wasn’t quite how I anticipated my first anniversary of command, but our work is important to the bigger picture, especially with the recent collapse of the Confederacy of Azed, rumours of Borg reigniting and the usual aspect of star bound piracy. At least it lets us run in the engines after our maintenance layover.

If we stay ahead of schedule, we might be able to nip between the Maelstrom and run some combat exercises at Starbase 12 to bed the rest of the systems in place, a little treat for our outgoing crew once we get home to DS13.

While our last encounter was far from hostile, I’m hoping to avoid a run in with the Anne Bonny, I’m sure Captain Bodin noticed my disapproval and I’d rather avoid a potential reprisal. Not that I’m sure if I’d even realise it would happen before it was too late.

For now, we will keep on keeping on, I did at least manage to pick up a nice enough bottle of Spring Wine at DS9 before we departed, we’ll have to see what that buys me!

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Stardate:
101453.6

Filed By:
CMDR Blake, K.

Personal Log

Today has been an interesting one, Captain Tyrstoc sent over his orders and we’re separating temporarily from the squadron, for a patrol along the border - through the Beta Quadrant and to the Triangle as once was. We aren’t expecting much from the mission, we’re surrounded by largely peaceful neighbours these days and the Khitomer Alliance does a respectable job keeping the peace within the Triangle region - at most I’m expecting us to act as a deterrent in anti-piracy activities.

That being said, there has been an advisory from the Klingon Empire of a large unregistered Starship which has been seen along the border, with Starfleet corroborating the reports. We’ve only got long range scans to go on, but it seems to be a heavily modified Negh’Tev Battlecruiser. It’s unlikely that a pirate faction would be able to carry out such modifications, never mind maintain and supply a vessel of that size and crew complement. While I’m confident of the Siva’s combat abilities, the new crew is untested outside of a few simulations, running into such a vessel would likely not end well. Thankfully, Starfleet’s orders are to give the vessel a wide berth and conduct scans only if it is safe to do so.

On the matter of the crew, we did have a minor incident during the briefing with my Nymphidae Chief Engineer, who we had unfortunately misunderstood regarding her living arrangements. She’s a curious member of the crew, Nymphidae are rarely seen outside their home planet, rarer still to have one serving in Starfleet. It will indeed be a learning experience, no doubt for her as much as for the rest of the crew.

Oh, and a personal note, why don’t we have more comfortable bathrooms? I suppose the modern choice of a sonic shower over a traditional bath saves some space, and it’s probably easier plumbing. Maybe we need more Bolians on the crew…