Victory Monthly Mission Report: Difference between revisions

Team Alpha, led by Lt. Cmdr. Julia Harden, ([[Terran]]) (CMO, Acting First Officer), located the auxilliary engineering and computer controls. Also locating the prison cells where the Starfleet marines undoubedly were being held, they then signaled Bravo Team that it was safe to exit their hiding place. Alpha team carefully and stealthily moved back into the corridor  where a Green Alert (the [[Romulan]] equivalent of Red Alert) was sounded.  

Unknown to either team, Matilda Tayler-Ventu ([[Terran]]), Counselor Ventu’s mother, had taken a shuttle from the Victory and is now on Celipentha Station (running amok) which had triggered the alert and sent Romulans and Starfleet trying to capture her.  

Bravo Team, led by Cmdr. Robin Phoenix, (CO) (Terran), was discovered in their hiding place by a Romulan inspection team. Acting swiftly, the Starfleet officers overpowered the Romulans and escaped into the station. Startled to find a bomb attached to an energy core, Cmdr. Phoenix decided to put her life at risk to disarm it.  

Alpha Team was able to blend in with the other Centurions. Unexpectedly they came face to face with Lt.Cmdr. Paul Diamond (Terran), who was there to recover a stolen data chip. Teaming up, Cmdr. Diamond acted as a prisoner in order to bluff their way into the tightly guarded cell block.

With the bomb ticking and time running out, Alpha Team found the marines and beamed them to safety aboard a cloaked Romulan Shuttle waiting there for that purpose. Lt. Hunnicutt (Terran), defied orders to help Cmdr. Phoenix disable the bomb but found they were unable to do so. They did find out that it would be detonated remotely. Cmdr. Phoenix managed to hold the bomb together with her mental abilities until she passed out. Lt. Hunnicutt had her beamed off the station onto Shuttle #2.  

The contingent of Marines, several Romulan prisoners and a few other species also being held were liberated and beamed to Shuttle #1 then taken to the Victory.  The bomb exploded taking part of the station with it.

Having been appointed the Commanding Officer of the USS Victory, Commander Phoenix ([[terran]]) finds herself planning and executing a highly delicate mission on behalf of Starfleet Intelligence.

A platoon of Starfleet marines was supposed to rendezvous with the USS Nubulus near the Acmar System. Whilst this was a routine operation, a navigational error caused their troop transport ship to end up somewhere between [[Romulan]] and [[Klingon]] space, where it vanished.  Starfleet Intelligence has informed Cmdr Phoenix that the Romulan [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Tal_Shiar Tal Shiar] has taken command of a derelict station left from Dominion War, outside Romulan Space, which they identify as Celipentha Station. They believe that the Romulans use it as a prison for enemies of the Empire and have incarcerated the marines there.  It is also believed that the station is a platform for Romulan intelligence missions against the Klingon Empire.

Unfortunately, because the marines are not held prisoner officially by the Romulans, the Federation is unable to use diplomatic means to secure their release.  To solve this problem, the USS Victory is ordered to go on a black mission (top secret and unofficial) to free the Starfleet Marines.  Cmdr Phoenix is ordered to retain full invisibility and stealth during the operation.  Although the station is not officially Romulan or even officially exists, failure could mean international incident resulting in another war.

Cmdr Phoenix elicits that assistance of Commander Janatra, a Romulan who has played a role in some former and current Victory member's career and lives. Having earned each other's trust, Phoenix is forced to call in quite a big one favour.  The Victory and Janatra’s vessel, the Romulan Starship Falcon, rendezvous in a nebula close to the Romulan border, where their plans are developed.  Janatra agrees to transport two small Starfleet teams, heavily disguised as Romulans to the station.

The three person Alpha team, led by Lt Cmdr Harden (Terran) (MD, and acting First Officer), successfully (albeit temporarily) fool the Tal Shiar security as they enter the station in their disguise.  Their plan is to access auxiliary engineering and computer controls within the space station.  Team Bravo, led by Cmdr Phoenix, is beamed across by the Falcon in a cargo container.  The plan is for team Alpha to safely lead team Bravo to the marines’ cells, from which a daring extraction plan will be executed.

However, the unexpected arrival by shuttle of Matilda Tayler-Ventu, Counselor Aresee Ventu’s mother, has caused this well laid plan to go awry.