>According to Kit's personal database, what LCDR Joseph Garibaldi told her
>checked out. Of course there was some information in her database that
>the LCDR did not mention. Probably because it was more background info in
>nature...
>
> Kettering was at the academy when Lasiter was. Only Kettering was a
> senior as Samuel Lasiter was a plebe (freshman), and the two had a long
> history of competition while at the academy and on their early
> assignments- Ensign Samuel Lasiter was assigned to the same starship that
> Lt jg Kettering was. This rivalry was described by one on looker as the
> talented, self assured, rather arrogant, win at all costs, power junkie
> aka Kettering versus the equally talented, self assured, team focused,
> thrill junkie aka Samuel Lasiter. The important side note was that
> Kettering, as a then LCDR, served on Bajor where he met an ex Fleeter
> turned governmental bureaucrat. The pencil pusher would later become the
> current Bajoran Ambassador to the Federation. Kettering would later owe
> his promotion to Vice Admiral to an influential Federation official, who
> (you guested it) was the ex fleeter. As the Ambassador from Bajor, he
> personally advocated the selection of Vice Admiral Kyle Kettering to the
> post of Commander, 9th Fleet with a promotion to Admiral. So, Kettering
> was quite possibly indebted to the Bajoran...
>
> Additional research into some of what the young Gariabldi had
> mentioned about the elder Garibaldi came up interesting as well. It
> appeared as if there were records of all transfers of materials. All
> perfectly in order. The exception being that there was nothing to be
> found about the the materials ever being received. The rules were
> followed to the letter, except for the last part of the
> process. Receiving. The number of mid transit transfers from one vessel
> to another. From one cargo holding area to another, only served to
> complicate the paper trail. At face value it appeared that Marcus
> Garibaldi was using the general apathy that existed in Starfleet to cover
> his tracks. That if he could make the trail complicated enough, sooner
> or later anyone interested in following up would just give up. It had
> worked up until now. However, that was not the strangest part. That
> could be summed up in just two simple questions... 'Just why would
> someone that has the ability and know how to hide records and cover his
> trail leave such an obvious paper trail? Was it carelessness or was it
> cunning?'
Black market materials were nothing new, nor were military personnel making
a fortune on stolen government property. But almost always the
perpetrators were enlisted personnel or low-ranking officers trying to make
a quick credit until they could fulfill their commitment and get out. They
also tended to steal directly, or with few middlemen to increase their
profit margin. Kettering, though, was a very high-ranking officer, who
would have innumerable middlemen who would have to be bribed or paid
off. Profit, therefore, seemed an unlikely motive. But there were other
reasons to steal military hardware and supplies.
Kit took a closer look at what exactly was going missing.
It was a laundry list of components from ODN lines and main and secondary
processors to warp core coolant. It looked like an engineers ingredient list
for a starship overhaul. Over the time that Marcus Garibaldi had been at SF
Command enough material was missing to patch up a handfull of starships.
Stareing at the shopping list Kitanya remembered something about RADM Garibaldi
that probably no one else would have known. Back when she and her mate M'Rrell
ran Starbase Triangle Garibaldi had a stop over when he commanded the USS
Stargazer. He was preparing for a 2 month mission to test a new propulsion
system that was designed by Dr. Runningbear. A brand new type of "faster than
warp" propulsion. Well faster than the conventional drive. The problem was
that in the departure, something went terribly wrong with the drive and the
Stargazer dissapeared with hardly a trace. When Stargazer returned some 18
months later, it was reported that the drive malfunctioned and the ship was
taken into an interdimentional space. It took them 18 months to figure out how
to get back. Perhaps Garibaldi and his crew found a way to make Dr.
Runningbear's new propulsion system work. Perhaps that would explain the
missing components. Well, it was an interesting theory anyway...
{response}
Co-GM of the Spacedock/JSOC Game
Characters:
Adm. Samuel Lasiter,
RAdm. Markus Garibaldi,
Ambassador Marconis,
LCDR Donovan Black, and a host of others.
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