> After talking to Matt, she was not happy at all with what was going on.
> Someone (Boulay?) wanted a witch hunt, and considering that Matt was a
> squeaky wheel, she wondered if she wouldn't be put on the chopping block
> soon as well. The changes she was about to implement were not going to be
> popular.
>
> She finalized all the things she had enacted and made them completely
> official, then found some backwater desk job on Earth for the two she'd
> removed from Granite Outpost and sent them their orders. The rest of the
> morning was spent appropriating supplies for Pumace and sending them on
> their way, and then finding field operatives worthy enough to be sent
> there. When that was at last finished, she examined the outpost structure
> and looked to see how many outposts had been assigned to other commands as
> opposed to being attached.
>
Much to her dismay there more than a few field units assigned to
commands other than Spec. Ops. All in all she found that there were about
26, roughly 20% of all of her units in the field. Just how could that
happen?
>
> She then issued a general order to all affected ouposts and commands
> immediately removing assigned outposts from outside control and replacing
> them within Spec Ops direct command. Changing them from assigned to
> attached would ruffle a lot of feathers, but she didn't care. That done,
> she called the Tellarite in.
>
"Admiral, You wanted to see me?" the pig said as she entered/
>
> "Two things. Firrrst, I want you to do an inventorrry of all ourrr
> outposts and see who is below minimum rrrequirred perrrsonnel."
>
"Aye, sir. That will take the best part of what is left of the day,
but I can get that to you today.
>
> "Second, I was told you had some inforrrmation forr me." She tried not to
> show how interested she was.
>
"Yes, I do sir. As you requested I looked into your mate's
activities just prior to his disappearance. Now, I had to call in a few
favors and promise a few in the future, but I have some information that I
thought you would find interesting.
His last known assignment was Starfleet Engineering, Special
Research Projects. They do intensive research on anything from transporters
and replicators to new warp propulsion technologies and weapons systems.
While I could not get much on the particular project that he was working on,
I was able to find out that he was working on not one, but two separate
projects. One was a new propulsion system that was to make use of Borg and
Dominion technologies. The other was a weapons system, a defensive system
to revolutionize the way we shield our vessles." she stopped to gague her
reaction and to let what she said sink in just a bit.
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The Tellerite continued, "From what I have pieced together is that
while spending some time in the lab of the weapons system working late one
night with several of the researchers on a rather unusual discovery, there
was an accident. Now much of the research lab was destroyed, but since they
kept backups the overall impact was minimal. This is where the bad news is.
About three of the researchers were killed and three others were missing,
presumed dead. M'Rrell was amoung the missing. One of my contacts talked
to one of the lead researchers, Dr. Injured Donkey (OOC: indian for lame
ass), who said that he was not sure that M'Rrell and the others that were
classified as missing are really dead. He would not go into it, but it had
something to do with the experiments that were running at that moment."
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