A New Opportunity

Posted on Wed Dec 14th, 2022 @ 7:36pm by Director Roman s'Lovok PhD

903 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Mission One: Goodwill Tour [Part One]
Location: Azure Sector, Passed Crateris, formerly Romulan Freighter Unstable Unicorn
Timeline: MD03

IC:

Roman was walking along the main corridor, sometimes the wall displays took sensor feeds from the outside and like a power save mode showed what one would see through a window at a display's location. At the moment the freighter was on its way to Coridan to pick up dilithium for delivery jobs contracted to Captain Spirokris Solomon by the Federation and various independent Romulan colonies.

Though he had heard Spirokris say at some point that he wouldn't put it past Free State forces to ambush any who were rendering aid to the colonies not aligned with them. Ugh, I hate politics. Roman thought as he watched the projected stars fly past. It helped calm him. He had managed to do some investigation work on Galorndon Core for the Daystrom Institute on the planetary storms and ionisations for the last week or so, although he did not quite have permission to be there before his sponsors found out.

He made his way back to the Bridge and entered just in time to hear Boatswain Abrasax talking. The Denobulan male was standing at the Operations console, "... a lot of activity readings from near the Hromi cluster, Captain."

Spirokris frowned, "can you localize it further?" The Trill asked as he approached Ops.

"Sure," Abrasax replied and worked his console for a few moments. "The computer has identified the origin of the readings as both formerly Federation world Amphitrite and the now claimed Romulan world of Ihhuein ei'krih aka Water Home." He frowned. "It is an O-class planet, mostly ocean."

Roman had heard about many worlds abandoned by the Federation due to the unknown power of the supernova that had threatened most of known space.

"I'm detecting about a million Romulan lifesigns on the world. They seemed to have clustered in several cities as well as the former Federation settlement called Triton. I've also detected a Federation delegation and the Seabase seems to be moving to the closest Romulan city. Which is called the Golden Towers." Abrasax explained and saw that the Golden Towers had put out a supplies request, he quickly checked with Quartermaster Shakuras of Clow about the list of supplies that the Unstable Unicorn was still carrying.

"A Seabase?" Roman asked as he came to stand next to Abrasax. "What is its purpose?" He asked with excitement.

"Oceanographic and Planetary Operations," Abrasax reported robotically as he read the Seabase's sensor profile and they should now be aware of their scans.

Roman's eyes lit up even more, he'd wanted to find a place where he could put his marine knowledge to practical use once again since the Atlantis Project was in its final stage.

=/\= Bozun, =/\= came Shakuras' voice on the intercom. =/\= We have mozt of what you lizted to me. We could make additional profit zelling thiz ztuff. =/\=

"What stuff?" Spirokris asked.

"I sent a list to Clow that the Golden Towers had made a request to any suppliers willing to take. We just so happen to have most of what is listed that we don't really need and are just taking up space," Abrasax answered, "we could as he said sell it all to the Romulans."

"I'd like to go check out the Seabase, which seems to be headed to the same place." Roman chimed in with a grin. The one that seemed to always get a yes out of Spirokris.

The Captain sighed and smiled. "Very well, win-win situation all round. Change course and head to the Golden Towers." Spirokris ordered, it would only take 10 hours to arrive, he saw on the helm console.

Docked with Golden Towers, Ihhuein ei'krih/Amphitrite, 10 hours later

He watched from the observation lounge at the front of the freighter as they approached the shining skyscrapers of Golden Towers, they had given the Unstable Unicorn permission to dock with the tower that was facing the ocean. Since the freighter was largish it was unwise to have it hover above the rest of the 'city'. Roman could see Triton Seabase on its approach as well, though slower. Unstable Unicorn had actually flown over the seabase on its descent. It would have been a sight to behold by those on Triton.

He headed to the transporter room and met Spirokris, Abrasax and Shakuras.

"Aren't you excited?" Spirokris commented as he watched a grinning Roman.

The Romulan smiled widely and nodded. "I am. Let's go, let's go."

The operator laughed and they were beamed away.

Golden Towers, Ground level

They appeared in what looked like a marketplace, and it was busy. Roman grinned, and the four looked at each other.

"Looks like we have shopping in our future," Abrasax commented, there was hope in his voice.

"After you sort out who we are delivering to," Spirokris said before he smiled.

Abrasax sighed, "okay Captain," he said and then held up a padd to read it. "Okay well I will be back shortly."

"Shakuras and I will look around, shouldn't you go with Abrasax, Captain?" Roman suggested with a smirk.

The felinoid chuckled and Spirokris momentarily glared at Roman before turning to his boatswain. "Let's go," and the two headed into to tower that the Unstable Unicorn was docked with.

Roman and Shakuras chuckled as they watch them walk away. They too headed further into the marketplace to check out the Romulan wares.

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