Research - Part I

Posted on Fri 29th Mar, 2013 @ 2:24pm by Colonel Horatio Drake

354 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: http://sb109.sim-station.net/index.php/sim/missions/id/3
Location: Deck 12: Drake's Ready Room
Timeline: MD-04: 0830

ON:

As Ashton sat at the desk in his Ready Room he was considering how much sleep he had got in the past three days... it couldn't have been more than a couple of hours last night... the night before he couldn't sleep at all. He was surprised at himself for his lack of fatigue - perhaps it was the drama of the past two days; perhaps it was the realisation of the resounding impacts that those events had on his already fragile view of Starfleet... either way he knew he would have to pop into Sickbay for a stimulant before the end of the day.

Downing the last of his fourth cup of coffee that morning he addressed the ceiling, "Computer, who was the Commanding Officer of Starbase one-five-nine when it was under the control of the Federation Civilian Defense Authority?"

It replied in its curt tone after a couple of bleeps, "There was fifteen Commanding Officers from the Federation Civilian Defence Authority during twenty three seventy four and twenty three eighty six, please specify time period."

'What an idiot' he thought to himself 'of course there was more than one!'

He rubbed his eyes as he thought of how he could narrow down his search, "Computer how many of those Commanding Officers were specialists on biomechanical engineering?"

"None had expertise or training in the specified field" it replied quite frankly.

"Right... think, think, think" he said to himself and he double checked his metallic coffee mug. "Computer, how many of the FCDA personnel had training in the field?"

"Working..." a few seconds passed "five medical staff received extensive training in the specified field."

"Aha, now we're getting somewhere. When did they serve on Protector?"

"From twenty three seventy four until twenty three seventy five"

"And who was Commanding Protector during this time?"

"Kurt Picket was commanding the starbase at the time"

Ashton began tapping his desk top console to get through to the FCDA on Earth - perhaps this was going to come up trumps, perhaps it wasn't, but either way it was an avenue that he had to explore....

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