LtCmdr Tamio K'Wara - Names and Pictures

[LtCmdr Tamio K'Wara]

((Tertiary Conference Room - Operations Center, Deck 5, USS Artemis-A ))

K’Wara: This is our focus now. Use whatever sensor data we got from Launch Control. We need to know how many people are likely to be on board that Ship, who was involved with the construction who’s since gone missing.

Bergmen: Aye, sir.

Tamio looked over what resources they had to utilize in this most pressing of tasks.

K’Wara: Thanks to Ollie and the others, we have Havun’s personal communications. Odds are, some of those names will match the missing ones. ::searches through the files:: The first one’s obvious: Havun’s wife, Falon. She wasn’t one of the missing Da’al from the transporter accident, but she’s definitely on the Afalqi with him. According to Jetripar, she’d been home sick for the past several days.

Bergmen: Do we know how Havun got her on board?

Imril: If the roof-jumper was able to take advantage of knowing where the security cameras were, so could anyone else. And we already have proof that someone was manipulating the schedules of Security personnel in and around the hangar to reduce the number of Da’als on watch at certain points at certain times.

Jaran: At this point, we have to just assume security may as well have been non-existent. It's safer to assume she's there than anything else.

There was also the obvious possibility that whoever had been serving as security that night had been in on the theft, which was why they needed to identify how many people were onboard, and make some logical deductions as to who that was.

Bergmen: She was obviously quite important for Havun as he didn’t leave her behind. That points he does not plan return back. So whatever motivated him, it’s a one-way ticket. This is concerning regarding what they do once we find them. And this comes to those eight. If they are on board, they literally died for them to get off their planet. The more I think about it, the more I start to worry about what will happen once we catch up with them.

Imril: Whatever they left for, they’re not going to give it up easily. They’ve already given up so much for it. 

Jaran: The lengths they've gone to. This hints at more than a simple money or power motive, doesn't it?

K’Wara: I agree with that. Now, we need to find out what common cause has united this group of people. The theft came as a surprise, so I doubt it’s ideological, or surely Havun and the engineers would have made some sort of public spectacle previously, but nothing in the data corroborates that.

Tamio looked down at the files once more, but was growing increasingly sure that none of the rest of the team was.

Bergmen: I believe there is an option where this does not need to end in a shootout. But it will be unpopular with Da’al. A lot.

Tamio didn’t look up.

Bergmen: Commander, I believe you should recommend to the Captain to give Havun and his co-conspirators a way out. Grant them Federation asylum for their full surrender.

Imril: That would currently be one way to ruin a Romulan provocateur's day. 

Jaran: I'll admit that I don't particularly care if the Da'al like it or not. If it means lives are spared, I'm on board. It makes sense to me.

This was the kind of moment where Tamio imagined their father would’ve smacked his palms against the console. They didn’t do that. But when they looked up, their felinoid eyes were impossibly narrowed, evidence of their consideration of that ridiculous plan.

Offer him asylum? ‘Don’t care if the Da’al will like it’!? The Da’al - isolationist though they might be - was a prospective ally to the Federation - the Artemis had enjoyed an entire shoreleave on the planet, for goodness’ sake, and the government had invited them in good faith to assist with the retrieval of the Afalqi.

K’Wara: ::calm voice:: Ensign Jaran, I want you to consider, very carefully, what serving on the Flagship of the Federation means in terms of political and diplomatic responsibilities. Preferably before we catch up to Havun. ::looks to Ollie:: As for any notion of asylum, I won’t recommend giving such a thing to a criminal unless there’s substantial evidence that they belong to a marginalized, prosecuted or otherwise mistreated minority, that’s just trying to live life honestly. ::looks back down to the computer:: Cross-reference with the computer, both of you. We need names.

There was a brief pause before Imril filled out the silence. And they did so, not by following the direction given, but by resuming work on the ship schematics.

Imril: But since we already know the Romulan is on the ship, and that Havun and his people might not be aware of that fact, they might complicate any peaceful resolution. Make it impossible, even. ::Looking to their console:: But I think I have something, now, if this turns violent.

Jaran: I'd like to think avoiding violence isn't impossible in any case.

Bergmen: Response

Once again, the still achingly empty roster of the Afalqi team was replaced by the ship schematics, and Tamio crossed their arms. 

Imril: If the forward space is dedicated to plasma acceleration, this is my best guess at where to target, where not to and at what maximum power to disable the ship safely. I can also estimate the punch of their plasma cannons and/or torpedoes, if any, based on the estimated energy output of the engines. ::Typing:: And here's another damage assessment calculated from ten percent higher engine capacity, in case the official schematics are flat out lying.

Jaran: Damaging those systems comes with a high risk of dangerous levels of delta radiation flooding the ship.

Bergmen: Response

Jaran: No one wins if everyone on board is poisoned.

K’Wara: Lieutenant Imril, forward those schematics to Engineering and have them continue with the analysis. The Chief will let the Captain know of anything they discover. Now, we need this roster filled out. Lieutenant Imril, check the rosters. Havun and Falon didn’t construct the parts of the illicit tech on their own. We want the names of every engineer involved with the project, and which ones have gone missing from Meranuge IV. If no one has seen them since, they’re very likely on the Afalqi. ::looks to Ollie:: Ollie, you’re on those communication records. Run through them as far back as the Project itself if you have to, and flag every conversation Havun has had that mentions alterations or upgrades to the Afalqi. The recipient names might give us something.

After giving their orders, Tamio removed the schematics from the holotable’s display once more, for the final time, and pulled up the empty roster for the Afalqi once more. Well, empty, except for the headshot of Falon.

Jaran: Who is she? I know appearances mean nothing, but she doesn't look like someone who would want any of this.

K'Wara: Falon, 52 years old, Senior Engineer attached to the Afalqi Project since its inception, married to Havun for more than two decades. She’s a decorated Engineer, who’s worked on numerous government projects over her career, and she’s never received any reprimands or poor evaluations until this one, where Jetripar accused her of a lack of work ethic, due to calling in sick a lot in the past month.

They concurred with Ensign Jaran’s observation. Falon, and her husband by extension, seemed too devoted, too dedicated, to do something like this. Havun and Falon had worked on dozens upon dozens of government contracts over their lives, some together and some as individuals. And yet, this one had ended out being career-ending for both of them.

Why?

Bergmen/Imril: Response

Jaran: I know it's not really our task to be asking these questions. But these are real people with real thoughts and motivations and desires. Knowing who they are can tell us what we might expect.

K'Wara: No, this is exactly what our task is, Ensign. Those are the right questions to be asking... ::considers:: I wonder…

Something had to have happened to trigger this. But what?

Bergmen/Imril: Response

Jaran: Sorry to interrupt, but is this anything?

Pulling up one of the transporter signatures, which they had managed to clear up for recognizability, Doctor Jaran pointed to a device embedded in the figure’s midriff. 

Jaran: This is some sort of device, but it's embedded in the body. The transporter can usually recognise any of the usual internal devices like artificial organs or other sorts of medical equipment. But this is... something else.

K'Wara: Do your best to analyse it. It may be nothing, or it may be a vital clue. ::to Imril and Ollie:: Where are we on filling out some of these personnel profiles?

Jaran/Bergmen/Imril: Response

K’Wara: ::echoes the name:: Lers... ::checks:: He’s not on the Afalqi Project roster. He’s Falon’s brother. A retired starship pilot with the Stellar Navy. He may have joined the theft out of loyalty to his sister? ::adds Lers headshot to the roster:: Good. We’re getting somewhere.

Jaran/Bergmen/Imril: Response

K’Wara: I have something as well. ::drags up a headshot:: Yeno. Best I can tell, he’s Falon’s assistant or apprentice; he’s CC’ed on basically every technical document she wrote over the project’s lifespan. If she knew something, it’s very likely he did as well.

Jaran/Bergmen/Imril: Response

((( OOC: If you need inspiration to fill out the roster, feel free to reference my Havun SIMS, but you’re also very free to make up some general NPCs to fill it out! )))

TAG/TBC

LtCmdr Tamio K’Wara

Chief of Ops

USS Artemis-A
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