A ninety degree turn
Posted on Mon Oct 27th, 2025 @ 7:20pm by Commander Rhupert Tyree
Edited on on Tue Oct 28th, 2025 @ 12:16am
584 words; about a 3 minute read
Mission:
On the Trail
Location: SS. Adelaide, on Quatal Prime
Timeline: Same time as Maintenance Matters and A Nurse Named Weld.
Rhu shifted through the shear amount of data Adelaide’s communications suite had gathered was keeping his mind busy while his crew was off trying to save Avan’s Colony.
He was also mainlining caffein and he knew he’d need to flush his system later in the day.
Such was the life of a starship captain.
Routine data-packet updates were also coming in and there was encrypted messaging that mainly dealt with housekeeping notices for what Rhu liked to think of as Everything, Everywhere. All at Once.Some of that data didn’t need to be marked as restricted, despite what their encoders or authors might think.
Then a Priority One message came in with the /Lama suffix that demanded immediate attention.
And one of Captain Froyce's NOC's was Dasher Fold.
Realistically, Dayna could finish this out and then follow through with the mission, then on with tracking down the Foragers and Rhu could catch up later. He had no idea who might be aboard whatever transport was headed their way, but he hoped they could get in and out of Quatral Primes space without giving away the freighters cover.
Running fingers through his dark hair, Rhu leaned a hip against the back of his command chair and and debated. He likely had a few hours. He'd need Amy to hijack the stations computer first to lower their shield so he could beam out and beam in whoever might be coming. Then she'd need to erase what had happened. Also erase any traces of this new ship arriving.
Tapping into the communication's suite, he sent out two messages, chirping Dayna and Amy's communicators to tell them to use their ear pieces.
"Crevins to Rix. Get me an update when you can. I've been summoned to a board meeting and have transport inbound. Command of the Adelaide and mission is yours. We have another crew person arriving, apparently, who I will brief and turn over my caretaker duties here on Adelaide until you return to the Adelaide. I'll be in contact once things resolve themselves for both of us. Otherwise, continue on to the next port of call as per contract. Good luck.
"Crevins to Smith. I need you to get into the colony's system. Put in a secret back door into their computer and comms. First order of business, prepare to erase the arrival of a transport, likely a shuttle, that is coming in to beam me out and drop off another member of our crew, who will assume my caretaker duties aboard Adelaide."
Sifting through the obscure message, Rhu decided that there was a ship inbound with someone or someones that most likely Tesha wanted aboard the freighter. Equally, she wanted Rhu back aboard the Valiant. Post haste or he missed his guess. Standing out of habit and needing to pace, Rhu processed and decided he had time.
Setting automatics into the the computer, he moved off to do more cleaning around the ship, including leaving a hot meal in the warmer for the away team.
END
A solo post by:
Commander Rhupert Tyree
Master and Commander
USS Valiant, aboard the SS. Adelaide.
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