> "To my knowledge no, but that doesn't mean that they havn't been. There
>really hassn't been any word one way or the other. Orders have gone out to
>all starship captains to keep any Venasian craft under surveilliance and to
>report their location at once."
"Have all Federrration citizens and perrrsonnel gotten out?"
"Funny you ask that. With the Venasian Homeworld a pollutted sewer of a
planet, from war, they have effectively become hermits. They have
'colonies' in just about every major territory from the Klingone to the
Romulans, to the Cardassians to the Federation. They are in the backyards,
so to speak." her Captain said, stressing just how wide spread of a problem
this was.
"Have one of ourrr teams starrrt trrraining for operrrations in Venasian
terrrritorry, and get ourrr Venasian experrrts put togetherrrrr a plan on
how such an operation would be carrrried out. Admirrral Lasiterrr hasn't
asked forrr ourrr help yet, but if he does, he'll need it ASAP. I want to
be prrreparred. The last thing we want is a hostage crrrisis orrr a weapon
of mass destrrruction situation and we'rrre caught with ourrr pants down
arrround ourrr ankles."
"Easier said than done, sir. To date not many of the major powers has
seen a Venasian warship in combat and lived to tell the tale. Mostly
because there have not been many wars, but they have put on a few
demonstrations of their power in the past. Boiled down this means that our
best people are only 'experts' in terms of comparrison to the rest of us.
However, I will work out a few rules of engagement with what we have. With
your permission, I would like to involve a few field commanders that I know.
They would be a great asset to the planning, and they can contribute
remotely- from their stations in the field."
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