Post #247: The Network

Posted on Sat Mar 15th, 2025 @ 11:51pm by Admiral Sam Fernley & Lieutenant V'Lar

512 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Secrets
Location: Admiral Fernley's Office
Timeline: current

It had taken Sam all of an hour to find an office space that would be suitable for his needs and thanks largely to Felix a team had worked through the night to make it ready. It looked like the officer of a scholarly professor, bookshelves lined two of the walls, there was a large screen on the third wall and cabinets full of antiques and keepsakes, his desk sat in the back quarter of the room, it was crescent shaped and made of wood. He was up earlier than usual, which considering that it had been the best night sleep he'd had in a few days was mildly irritating. He looked around from where he was looking out through the viewing port when V'Lar walked in.

"You look rough." V'Lar said
"I've been sat around a ship on the bottom of an ocean for a few days trying not to drown of course I look rough." Sam said
"I see you figured out the code." V'Lar said
"Saint of Spain is Santiago otherwise known as James, second Roman Emperor is Tiberius, someone from leprechaun country implies Irish, Kirk is an Irish name." Sam said "James Tiberius Kirk, he died on Veridian III, you wanted us to pick up the saucer section of the Enterprise-D."
"Correct." V'Lar said "So why did you want to see me?"
"Right this way." Sam said pressing a hidden button on the desk, one of the bookshelves hinged open like a door revealing an adjoining room.
"I forgot you love spy craft." V'Lar said with an eyeroll as she followed Sam.

The adjoining room was far more up to date walls lined with screens, a large table with a built in holographic display and enough console panels to sink a battleship. Sam pressed a few buttons on one of the consoles and up came a holographic map of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants with markers on it.
"What is this?" V'Lar asked
"This is what passes for Starfleet Intelligence's source network at this point." Sam said
"How do you have this and I don't?" V'Lar asked moments before the gears in her clicked and put it all together "This is...?"
"This is Section 31's intelligence network as it stood before the Synthulan attack." Sam said "You are the Chief Intelligence Officer of this base I'm granting you access to this information and to these assets. The only other person who has clearance to see this stuff right now is Felix."
"What do you need?" V'Lar said
"Eyes and ears." Sam said "Who's still alive, who isn't, where they are. Get them on a schedule, get them to go to ground and build the picture of what's happening."
"You got it." V'Lar said
"There's an encrypted connection between this room and your office." Sam said "And it goes without saying..."
"That we never had this conversation and that Section 31 doesn't exist." V'Lar said "I know."
"Go," Sam said
"Yes sir." V'Lar said

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Admiral Sam Fernley
Director of Starfleet Security
Starbase Obsidian

Lieutenant V'Lar
Chief Intelligence Officer
Starbase Obsidian

 

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