Post 151: With a little help from my friends
Posted on Wed Oct 23rd, 2024 @ 9:59pm by Lieutenant Commander Michael McMahon & Lieutenant V'Lar
Edited on on Wed Oct 23rd, 2024 @ 11:36pm
795 words; about a 4 minute read
Mission: Secrets
ON:
"Computer, locate LtJG V'Lar." Mike said as he left sickbay after seeing his Aunt and Uncle. Chris didn't look good at all, and they kept sedating him. Dakota was worried as ever. Everyone was franticly running tests and no one had any answers.
"Lt JG V'Lar is in Holodeck 4." Announced the computer.
Mike made his way to the holodeck. He punched in his access codes and the doors opened.
What greeted Mike upon the doors opening was the site of what looked like an underground habitat of some sort, stone carved arch's, high ceiling, runes all over the place. Those who liked a bit of fantasy would probably associate this with some sort of Dwarven settlement, and right there running around it was V'Lar and her adopted daughter Ruby fighting with a holographic dragon, which was promptly dispatched by Ruby firing an arrow right into its eye. V'Lar smiled and then spotted the Commander "Computer save progress and end program." she said before glancing at Ruby "We'll pick this up later and remind me to pick up the Mithril shirt next time." Ruby stuck her tongue out and left the holodeck, V'Lar looked at Mike "What can I do for you Commander?"
"First, this looked cool. Second, I need your help. You know my Uncle is Admiral Bradley right?" Mike said.
"Yes I do Commander." V'Lar said
"Eight years ago my Uncle was on a secret project here. They were attacked by an unknown enemy at the time, which have been identified as the Synthulans. They basically murdered and destroyed the outpost. They held him hostage and killed crew in front of him trying to get him to give up the secrets of the project. He held out long enough and then the fleet was able to rescue him and what was left of the station crew. He recovered slowly and went back to work. Until the chance to work on the project came up again. He's been here for a while and suddenly he's been experiencing some weird issues - halluciantions, aggressive behavior and other things. He's currently sedated in sickbay. I'm asking for intelligences help. I'm not sure what is happening - if there is a connection between the Synthulans and what is happening, but we need to get an idea as to what is going on." Mike said.
V'Lar thought for a moment "It wouldn't be the first time that trauma resurfaced after years, it could simply be a case of getting another chance at the project triggering an episode." she said "I've never heard of the Synthulans before but we do have the old computer records from the base, we can certainly get into that archive and get an idea of some of what we're dealing with. But I'll need access to the project material."
"I can't give authorization to know what theproject is about. Even I don't know. That you have to ask admiralty about. I just know we need to figure out about these Synthulans. As for the old computer records..." Mike handed V'Lar a padd. "This has the real records of the attacks. Not the fake stuff that was hidden on the computers. They got rid of everything to hide their tracks. But I know my uncle, and I was able to get this information."
"I'm going to need to talk to a few people." V'Lar said "If there is a link, it lies in the past, I'm solid at information hunting but depending on what's in here I may need to talk to the experts to get the full picture."
"I just ... we just want to figure out what is happening to him and who is behind it and to fix it. And you are the best person I know at getting information... besides my uncle." Mike said.
"If there's someone behind it." V'Lar said calmly "Delayed reactions, delayed post traumatic stress are possibilities. The first step is to determine whether this is a case of exposure to the environment of the base being a trigger or if there's something more malicious at play. Once we know what game we're playing so to speak we can start fixing it. I will start by talking with the doctors and other medical personnel, I will have someone I trust trawl through this PADD. Meanwhile can you put together a detailed list of everywhere your uncle has been between the rescue and now? I don't mean postings, I mean planets, ships, missions and so on even vacations."
"I will do that. Thanks V'Lar. I appreciate this." Mike said. "And I'm sure that my Aunt and Uncle will appreciate this as well."
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Lieutenant Junior Grade V'Lar
Chief Intelligence Officer
Starbase Obsidian
Lieutenant Commander Mike McMahon
Chief Operations Officer
Starbase Obsidian
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