>"I can't say for certain, as she may be busy. Howeverrr, I will endeavourrr to get thrrrough. While I trrry to get herrr, perrrhaps you should go in. He is rrready forrr you."
"Thank you," replied Kitanya, and took Aurelius inside. >"Admirrral," she said, with a polite, but perfunctory bow. She looked at him, seeing how he was after her absence, trying to tell if this was a good day or a bad day for him. > > She could tell that his day had started early, but other than that it was a good day. "Admiral Kitanya, Captain. Commander M'Rrenn said that you needed to speak with me about an urgent matter." "Yes, sirrr. It's something Captain Aurrrelius herrre pointed out to me, and it could have serrrious rrramifications forrr the Federrration." >M'Rrenn interrupted, "I am sorry to interrrrupt, sirrr, but Admirrral t'Llhweiirrr is online. Vice Admirrral Kitanya has rrrequested herrr to join in the conversation." > > Lasiter now seeming as if he knew that his day was heading downward, replied. "Very well. Put her through on the big screen. Join us please." Then turning to those in his office, "Shall we move over to the good seats and begin." Lasiter said directing them to the arrangement of cushy sofas and chairs that faced the large view screen off to the side in his office. Kit went first, sitting down and connecting the PADD to the screen, so that t'Llwheiir could see what she was pointing out. >As they sat down, M'Rrenn entered and t'Llhweiir appeared on the screen. > > "Welcome Admiral", Lasiter said to the screen. "Admiral Kitanya, please begin." "Thank you, sirrr. As you know, we face two serrrious crrrises, one being the Venasians, the otherrr being the felinids. Although rrright now, both seem confined to theirrr immediate facts, I believe that therrre is a connection between the two events, and if so, the Federrration could be on the verrrge of a full-scale, two-frrronted warrr that we arrre not yet rrready to fight. "The Venasians arrre everrrywherrre. Therrre has just been a hostile militarrry coup, yet the population seems strrrangely accepting, even on theirrr colony worrrlds located in the borrrderrs of each majorrr powerrr. As Captain Aurrrelius herrre pointed out, they'rrre lving in ourrr backyarrrd. They also know that Federrration and Starrrfleet affairrrs arrre in disarrray, leaving us vulnerrrable. Secondly, we have the felinids. Having just rrreturrned frrrom that frrront and fought them, they arrre forrrmidable enemies, beings of honorrr, prrride and bloodlust. We have discoverrred that they arrre bioengineerrred Caitians, crrreated to be fierrrce, insatiable killing machines. They posess high-powerrred weapons and advanced-design spacecrrraft that we believe they themselves do not have the ability to make, norrr do they use them effectively. All of this leads us to believe that they arrre shock trrroops, prrrovided with theirrr materrrials of warrr by a morrre highly advanced powerrr, which given the amount of rrresourrces necessarrry to build these ships, must be a goverrrnment. These rrraids on the Klingon/Federrration borrrderr smack of a prrroving grrround, somewherrre forrr that goverrnment to test out theirr newly brrred trrroops that won't rrraise much suspicion, as they'll be seen as a nuisance; rrraiderrs looking forrr a quick crrredit. But someone crrreated them, someone with advanced bioengineerrring capabilities and advanced spacecrraft ans weapons technology." Then she put up the Intell picture of the group of enemies. "Admirrral t'Llwheiirrr, this picturrre came frrrom one of yourrr operrratives. The being next to the Venasian, believed to be Generrral Aamon, is not a Caitian, it is a felinid." She put up the other pictures of felinids on the screen as comparison to prove her point. "Now, the Carrdassians we know; the technology used by the felinids isn;t coming frrrom them orrr we'd have rrrecognized it. But we know little of Venasian technology, except that it is highly advanced. So if the felinids and the Venasians arrre connected... The timerrr has begun its countdown, and we don't know when it's set to explode." (eh?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner! --Lynda Montgomery
