=A= Assis to Marou =A=

Commodore, I have just received a distress call from Fleet Admiral Quinn Mallory of Shadowfleet. I tried to reestablish comunications bu have not yet been succesful. He seems to be under attack by unknown hostiles.

=A= Assis out =A=

=A= Assis to Commodore Marou =A=

Commodore, I have just recovered my consciousness at the medical ward. I've tried to reach Commodore T'Hain, but he seems to be off base...

(======Internal Communication System======)

Dear Jnr. Commodore Katie Marou,

I am pleased to introduce myself as the newly assigned Chief Science Officer of StarPhoenix Base.

I sincerely hope that we may collaborate as much as possible to the betterment of our base.

Should you need to speak to me, I'll be at the Research Facility coordinating the building process and I have created aspecial commboard to manage all incoming comm to my department, so feel free to send any messages there that are of interest to myself or the department. Also, if you want to, I can receive messages on my quarters, if the subject is private.

Yours,
          Dr. Pierre Louis Assis, PhD.

(======Incommig transmission======)

To Commander Sutter, CO of USS Lancelot

Encrypted Message ------ Priority code Alpha -------

Dear Commander,

I assure you that this will be tha last transmission that you will receive from me on this mission, but I have to ask you to include in your (already extensive) list of scientific equipment the standard geological and chemical equipment, as well as any suitable archaeological gear. Since I am not familiar with that, I will trust the judgement of Avalon's Science Dept.

Oh, when you arrive, it will be a pleasure to help you repair your warp engines. I guess being towed by another ship is quite boring.

Yours,

Captain Pierre Louis Assis, Chief Science Officer - StarPhoenix base

(======End transmission======)

OFF: I said that you were towed because, considering the distance between Starphoenix and Avalon, you'd reach Avalon on sub-light impulse speed in some 50 years! And I can't wait so long for my gear... lol... http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

(======Incommig transmission======)

To Commander Sutter, CO of USS Lancelot

Encrypted Message ------ Priority code Alpha -------

Dear Commander,

I understand that the Lancelot is currently headed for Avalon Space Station . As the newly appointed Chief of Science Department, I would like to discuss the possibility of you bringin in some material that I will require to build the Research Facility.

The most critical equipment is an experimental warp core that was left on Avalon on my request. The other one is a full HoloGrid with programming modules as well.

I would also appeciate if you manage to find some Science Personell Willing to come to StarPhoenix and work with us.

Yours,

Capt. Pierre Louis Assis - Chief Science Officer - StarPhoenix Base

(======End Transmission======)

(======Incommig transmission======)

To Commander Sutter, CO of USS Lancelot

Encrypted Message ------ Priority code Alpha -------

Dear Commander,

Please remember to deploy the Astrometric Probes that you received from the Avalon Starbase so that we can bring the Astrometrics Station online as soon as possible. They are to be deployed on a scatter pattern omicron at standard probe altitude.

Thak you for your kind patience with my requests and regulations, Commander.

Yours,

Captain Pierre Louis Assis, Chief Science Officer - StarPhoenix base

(======End transmission======)

=A= Assis to T Hain =A=

Commodore, I was running a checkup of the comm array with Commander Brooks and we have just received what seems to be a distress call from Fleet Admoral Quinn Mallory of the Shadowfleet. I asked him to send his coordinates.

Should I contact the Lancelot?

=A= Assis to T Hain =A=

Dr. Kensuke Daishin is reporting to you on my request for an assistant. Though his field of expertise is very different from my own, Dr. Daishin is very well spoken on the scientific community and would be a valuable addition to our staff.

*stands outside the CO office, wlaking from one side of the waiting room to the other*

I hope I am not late to this meeting...

I must say that even though we cannot help them, as we have no combat ships, we are directly threatened, sir. I have not yet determined their exact position at the time of their distress call, but they were less than a day and a half from here at warp 5.

It is still too early to say anything, but we are a very, very vulnerable target. We have not yet established a defense grid and we are somewhat far from help.

From what I have seen from the starcharts and the sparse sensor data I have, since we haven't a sensor grid online and I'm having to get the delayed data from the Avalon sensor network, the closest friendly ship is the USS Evolution, that was heading to the fluidic gate.

They are still far fram us, close to the asteroids, but they are the closest to us, last time I looked. And that data is some two days off...

OFF: I'm new into this, so I'm sorry for any mistakes.. : )

* Walks respectfuly into office *

Good evening Commodore, I'm Dr. Pierre Louis de Assis, theoretical physicist from Cochrane Institute, Paris. I've been looking foward to work with you here at Starphoenix. My fields of expertise include Warp Field Theory and Astrophysics and I am currently researching a way to use a subspace warp field as a shielding device. I hope I can be of some help around here.

*Smiles nervously, trying to be as "starfleetish" as he can*

OFF: Captain Pierre Louis Assis reporting for duty after a long absence... Sorry, but Physics is a demanding subject... On the good side, I'm thrilled to be back with you, and I see that my old post hasn't been filled yet... Could I recover my status as CSO?

*smiles and turns to mah' GNUs*

*whispering really low* So, what now? Do we stay here? I've never received an Admiral before and all Starfleet protocol has always been confusing to me... I'm a scientist after all... http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

OFF: Sorry, but I really don't know what to do... http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Greetings Commodore. I was wondering if I could discuss with you the situation of the USS Lancelot.

It will take some time for it to be fully repaired and as long as it doesn't come back this base is pretty much stalled. At least the Science Department.

Admiral Nocturunus is arriving and, I'm sure he will understand the fact that the Lancelot was damaged on a terrorist action, but I have little or nothing to do with the limited resources we have here.

Dr. Daishin is doing his best to maintain the specimen he collected alive, Mr. Stuart is grounded becouse we have no shuttles and I have to content myself with a holosuite simulation...

Though the holosuite is a very good one, it lacks the computational capacity of a scientific holodeck. I have some obtained data from it, but it is sketchy at best.

I was wondering if you could ask Space Station Avalon to send a supply ship with the cargo the Lancelot would bring. This'd also give the engeneers there more time to fix or even refit the ship, sir.

It has just come in, Commodore