Drawoh-Hilzarie, Rocar/Personal History: Starfleet Years: Difference between revisions

Later that year, Rocar was surprised to find an old friend (and former superior officer) turn up (unnoticed by security) in his office… Captain [[Rourke, Michael|Michael Rourke]] from Starfleet Intelligence. Having sent his staff on a diplomatic assignment to the province of Manaria, Captain Rocar followed Captain Rourke’s guidance and examined the planetary scans for pollution. Sure enough, there was an unusual power source being detected: [[Omega]].

Meanwhile at Starbase 185, the nearest federation outpost to the Duronis system, the USS Hatherleigh (NCC-73105) was just returning from a three year mission of deep space exploration when her Captain received a request from Captain Rocar for assistance with the detection of an Omega particle. Having traced the [[Omega]] to [[The Great City]] of the [[Laudean]] [[Fielding League]] in Damadaora, Rocar and Rourke implemented the [http://http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Omega_Directive omega directive] and left to locate the Omega and destroy it, despite the diplomatic consequences. With “the Great City” being the seat of Duronis II’s religious leaders (the fielding league’s Elders and Feldleser,) one thing was disturbing –surely given their fielding ability to sense energy sources they too were aware of the Omega’s presence, even if they weren’t aware of what it was.  

As the main senior staff recovered from their injuries and wondered where their Rocar had disappeared to without them, the USS Hatherleigh

(NCC-73105) arrived in orbit. Yet in a cruel twist of fate, Captain [[Montgomery, Tehodore|Theodore Montgomery]], commanding officer, ran several level-1 scans of Duronis II and could not detect a single trace of the Omega that he’d come to help with. Beaming down to the Federation Embassy, the sternly strict militaristic Captain found the installation in a state of chaos and assumed command.

Presuming Rocar and Rourke to be AWOL, Captain Montgomery led Rocar’s own staff on a mission to track down their missing CO.  This sternly strict militaristic Captain was a stark contrast to Captain Rocar’s command style and quickly met with opposition from the crew. Lieutenant Junior

Grade [[Webb, Cyrus| Cyrus Webb]], Chief Engineering Officer, and Lieutenant Commander [[Hilzaire, Gwendolyn|Gwendolyn Hilzarie]], Ambassador’s wife at the time and Embassy Counsellor, went AWOL to mount their own search for their missing C.O. Meanwhile, the rest of the Staff followed Captain [[Montgomery, Theodore|Montgomery]] on an undercover mission to the Great city in Damadora –their goal to trace down and bring back Rocar before a diplomatic incident was caused by his quest for a non-existent Omega particle.

Whilst the Staff overcame various challenges to gain access to secret passages and follow Captain Rocar, more sinister things were afoot. Deep in the tunnels below the sacred Cathedral of [[Diamoclease I]], a Reman and Romulan Tal’Shiar operative were hard at work in collaboration with a Laundean coven leader who wanted all off-worlders off Duronis II. Having created a device powered by Chroniton the Romulans had managed to imitate an omega particle signature on and off and were luring Rocar into their trap. This was why Montgomery was unable to detect the same signature that Captains Rocar and Rourke had  picked up and also why sometimes their tricorders detected it and sometimes they did not.

Rocar had walked straight into the Romulan trap and having fallen through an opening in the ground sustained major injuries. With the Chroniton having kept them out of phase (and also had side affects knocking certain Starfleet officers on the rescue mission out of phse for a short while), the Romulan operatives quickly left the device by the lumbering Ktarian and made their escape. By the time Montgomery and the Embassy staff reached the injured Ktarian and found the Romulan device it became apparent that the omega had never really been there; it was faked by the Romulans to lure the Federation CO.

Realising they had been duped by a cunning Romulan trick, it was too late. Having been notified by the Laudean coven leader conspiring with the Romulans, a team of [[Covot guards]] (the Fielding leagues private army and protectors of the great city) caught the Starfleet officers in the off-limit tunnels beneath one of the most sacred places of worship on Duronis II. Although the Embassy staff escaped, this violation of the fielding leagues holy grounds caused outrage with Laudeans all across the planet. Following the international outcry, the Federation were far from being the most popular off-worlders with diplomatic ties to the Laudeans. Having been forced to eat their own tails, the Starfleet officers have take a few days off on “shore leave” to get over their recent ordeal. Meanwhile, the backlash of the last mission quickly hit with the diplomatic trade negotiations Ambassador Rocar had been working on with Govinda Province falling through at the last minute. Disgraced by the Federations recent actions against their religion, the Laudeans of Govinda instead signed a trade negotiation with the Romulan Star Empire. It became clear that the Romulan Ambassador’s cunning plan to disgrace the Federation and win the exclusive diplomatic deal had worked perfectly from the start.

This single act was the begining of the end for Rocar's assignment to Duronis II and helped the Anti-Offworlders' Movement gain strength and support.