Where Had All The Time Gone

Posted on Thu Oct 15th, 2020 @ 4:07pm by Fleet Admiral Mike K`Wor Bremer & Commander Leksander Draven

639 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Episode 107 – Recovery
Location: Starbase 400
Timeline: MD4 - 0800hrs

ON:

Mike walked into Tactical Operations as he took a sip of his morning raktijno. Draven was the only one in the room and he had The Beatles blaring over the speakers.

'It's been a hard days night...' sang out in the room as Draven nodded his head to the music.

"Having a good time?" Mike said as he came up behind Lek.

Draven tapped the mute button, "Actually, I am." He replied.

"Your message said it was important." Mike added before taking another sip.

"It is." Draven replied picking up a PADD. "Over the last couple of weeks we've managed to get shields and weapons back to one hundred percent. Communications and Sensors are also back to full capacity. Now, we're able to analyze intel again so this facility is back in business."

Mike smiled, "That's great news."

"That's not all." Draven said, picking up another PADD. "Repair teams have power restored to the holo-suites. The ones that don't need physical repairs are back online, but we downloaded all of the programs to the Pegasus before we left the Station."

Mike took a breath.

"Or so we thought." Draven added. "Once power came back on, the protective memory re-initialized the Vic Fontaine program.

"Hey Paly." A voice behind Mike said. Mike turned around to see Vic. "They can't keep a good hologram down."

"I don't know how he did it, how he's here." Draven smirked.

"Problem is, my program's backup files only had storage capacity for me. My club, everything else, it's gone." Vic added.

"Not anymore." Draven replied. "I got aboard the Pegasus."

Mike's attention focused more on Draven.

"I was able to get portable power cell installed and accessed the upper computer core and get a datalink to the Station. I'm in the process of downloading not only the ship's tactical database from the battle but I was also able to recover all of the Holo-programs. Vic's, Cheers', Old West programs, the list goes on. I should have everything downloaded in about an hour, then we'll see what we can recover from the lower core."

"Hey, that's great Paly!" Vic said with a smile. "I think I'll put on a show tonight. See you fella later" Vic's hologram vanished.

"Great down Lek, thank you." Mike added. "Can you upload the tactical data to the Enterprise when you get a moment?"

"Will do." Draven replied. "How was it?"

"The Enterprise? I just took her out of a quick incursion into Romulan space. We saw one ship, an old Battlecruiser. She handled like a dream." Mike replied.

"You liked it." Draven said with a smile.

"Hell yeah." Mike said, smiling.

One of the panels beeped and Draven walked over. His smiled faded.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked.

"Some updates from Starfleet. Seems there's civilian unrest flaring up in the Romulan Star Empire, some in the Romulan Senate are calling for an end to the war. Starfleet is keeping the 8th Fleet in the Alpha Quadrant along the Breen border. Fighting has been limited. Also, units of the 1st, 3rd, and 6th Fleets will remain in defensive positions in the Alpha Quadrant. Tholian and Breen forces attacked the Cardassians near Velos and two Cardassian Orders were wiped out. Also, the Breen attack Turlix destroying a Starbase and dozens of ships before being forced back...I guess that's why the Breen/Federation board has been quiet. The Cardassians are now considering pulling their fleet out of the Beta Quadrant to protect their own territory." Draven explained as he read the news.

Mike took a deep breath, "If the Cardassians pull out of the Beta Quadrant before we can launch an all out offensive it's going to delay it for several more months and drag the war out longer. We need a plan and we need it now."

Draven nodded.


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