While David was stewing in his nightmare-ish stay in the hell of rebel and now
MAG custody, other events were happening.
Starfleet forces were turning over every rock they could to find their missing
marines and Captain Boulay. Col. Stark, the SF Marine Commander of the
policing operation, was making quite a few enemies. Barking at his MAG liason
officer every few hours for intell and status reports on the efforts of the
planetary defence force to fine his missing personnel. He even sent several
requests to his superior, Admiral Van Der Loo, for intervention on his part.
For him to call his contacts at the planetary government to help spur their
folks along. What was plain was that they were delaying, taking their time.
{They being the planetary government and the MAGs themselves.}
All this was brought to the attention of others...
Colonel Justinian received a report from his people indicating that Starfleet
was putting on a serious full court press to find a bunch of marines and a SF
Captain that had gone missing. It detailed the efforts of Col. Stark- the
changes in SF deployments, the repeated calls to planetary defence force HQ
and to Van Der Loo. The report also indicated that Van Der Loo had done his
job, namely nothing but get the way of Stark. However, the repost also showed
something else... that Starfleet Command was starting to ask some serious
questions, and was not taking kindly to the answers it was given.
A separate dossier contained a full description of the Marines that they were
looking for. Some were in MAG facilities, others were still accounted for.
Perhaps some time could be bought by turning over some of the missing marines
in MAG care... Also included was a picture of Captain David Boulay, as well
as distinguishing marks to help identify him.
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