Loose Lips Pt.1
Posted on Wed Jun 24th, 2026 @ 1:50am by Commander Rhupert Tyree
972 words; about a 5 minute read
Mission:
Post Cards from Past
Location: Captain's Ready Room, USS Valiant
Timeline: Tail End of Operation Kakori
She drew in a breath, to get her mind in in order.
Amy continued "However, when Aria, went with me to make that back door, she was doing a half-assed job. I don't know what she did but, I caught a flash of a message, too quickly for me to record it. There was an odd feeling in the air. Plus I found a Maquis symbol, it was mostly covered but I recognized it. Whatever was going on there, with that colony, there was more beneath the surface than what we could see, or investigate."
Frowning, Rhu touched his computer to bring up a visual timeline of the Avan's colony mission. On one side he had the signals data from the colony. Then he brought up Amy's log timeline and synced the two. Chewing at the side of his lip, he stopped the feeds and highlighted a line across. Sighing, he said "Well. That explains how Gil Divinis picked up on the Adelaide. Our sensor suite is top of the line and even if they had passives in the system, she shouldn't have known we were there that quickly."
Glancing at Amy, he brought up the comm's feed from the colony and frowned as he dumped it into a subroutine, then began pulling it apart and stopped. "Well. There we go. The comm signal from the colony uplinks regularly back and forth to maintain signal with a communications satellite. An old one. They piggy backed the breach and scanned the Adelaide and our covers probably into a burst transmission to at least the Gil."
Amy slumped back in her chair, arms folded, a sour expression still there. "Great, just because of Aria's muddling with the isolenear chips, our cover is blown, possibly? I am thinking that they might be looking for the Adelaide now, even if we had changed the transponder."
She reached back to her neck rubbing at the tight muscles that came up, Amy wanting to prevent a headache. "Would it have been wrong of me if I had shot Aria, stunning her?"
Rhu smirked slightly and said, "Honestly. Yes. If she messed up before you had the chance to stop her, then you'd have had to deal her being stunned as well as everything else going on there. Sounds like it was more ineptness than planned on her part, so we deal with the fallout. Aria however will be transferred off the Valiant once we arrive at Earth."
"Which brings up something. One of the Pioneer crew is flagged as a former deep cover asset." Rhu brought up the image of Makeba Brown and it rotated between them. "Makeba Brown. Associated with the Maquis and retrieved by the Pioneer a while ago. Captain Froyce tasked me with recruitment as well. So far I'm going to offer a relationship with Fed Intel to Lieutenant Tremble in the very least. We need some better ears within the Commodore's world and as an action arm, the Cure are becoming more and more valuable." Beside Makeba, the half Vulcan's image came up to share space.
"Tremble, formally Mira Jayna and her sister Jade were guerrilla fighters with the Bajorans. Which leads me to Jade." Another image popped up next to Jayna and Rhu said, "Jade is in out of the cold, more or less and it looks like we'll be needing a security chief. At least an interm one. She's got good field experience and has been in deep cover for the past year or so. She was formally a security officer on the Pioneer." Taking a data crystal from his drawer, he inserted it into a notch on his desk and dropped the files into it one after another, causing the holo-photos to disappear.
"Copies of their records. All most secret of course. The data on the crystal will evaporate in about twelve hours. Take a look and let me know if there are any flags that might affect our creating relationships with Tremble and Brown, or bringing Mira Jade aboard to lend a hand. She'd be working at least part time with you meshing security and intel."
Pausing, he smiled and said, "Lots to do. But there was a lot on Avans colony and I want to hear about that as well. Either now or after you get a minute to digest. And now we have that info dump from Breyet Nor to sort through."
The first thing Amy latched onto was the news of Aria being sent off the ship.
She couldn't resist a fist pump at that news and saying. "Oh thank you, thank you! I could almost kiss you." she stopped there, her cheeks going a dark pink. "Um. yeah."
A couple of beats as she stared at Rhu, then decided to go on to another subject.
"Twelve hours you say? I will definitely be going over them before time runs out." Amy gazing at those in front of them.
"As for the colony, once I got away from Aria, I went with Katya to go check on the miners that had an emergency. and were in trouble. It got a little bit dicey, Besides the maquis symbol upon the wall of the computer room I had been in. I saw another one in that mine. To my dismay I think I set off an explosion, when I went to get a closer look of the symbol, which caused the mine start to collapse. then we ran like crazy, taking with us the wounded Klingon." Amy trying to squeeze things in a nutshell, the details.
Rhu let the kissing comment go.
He got that a lot.
END
A joint Post by:
Commander Rhupert Tyree
Master and Commander
USS Valiant
Lieutenant Amy Gordon
Chief Intelligence
USS Valiant
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