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...
Kit had done graduate work in weapons systems, and could take apart a phaser, either a handheld or a ship system, and put it back together again. She had even designed an updated photon torpedo guidance system. But she was not an engine person. M'rrell had been a chief engineer, though, and she'd picked up enough from him that she understood there was a problem. That propulsion system, in the wrong hands, could mean a fleet of enemy warships appearing as if out of thin air on the Federation's doorstep before anyone could do anything about it.
She also suddenly remembered the missing ships, and knew that none of the parts from those ships had made their way onto the black market, which probably meant they were being kept whole by someone. She rechecked that information, looking both at what kinds of ships had gone missing, and whether the stolen parts would be of the appropriate type to retrofit those ships.
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