Ops and Intell.

Posted on Sun Jan 12th, 2020 @ 7:07pm by Lieutenant Laural Hawke

Mission: Promenade
Location: USS Majestic, Intelligence Situation Room - Deck 14
607 words - 1.2 OF Standard Post Measure

M'Jart made her way down to the Intelligence Situation Room. She had an encrypted message that she'd unable to decrypt, so she was taking it to an expert, one Lieutenant Hawke.

Approaching the ISR, she was met by a security officer. "Chief, this is a restricted area, what is your business here?" He said.

"I have a encrypted message for Lieutenant Hawke to decrypt." M'Jart replied.

"Does Lieutenant Hawke know you are coming?" He asked.

"Yes, we made an appointment earlier today." M'Jart said.

"One moment." He said and consulted his PADD. Looking up he said. "Chief S'Rem, Lieutenant Hawke has arranged limited access for you, you will find her in her office, her name is on the door." He then opened the door and let her enter.

looking up from her console, Laural nodded to the security officer as she stood up to greet M'Jart, "Welcome Chief, let's have a look at this message you've got" she said, holding out her hand

"Thank you, Lieutenant." M'Jart said handing over a PADD containing the message. "I believe it is encrypted with a Romulan code, but it is not one I am familiar with."

Looking the message over, Laural quickly got to work decoding. Romulan Encryptions were something she was quite familiar with after all. "can you tell me where you came across this message? This encryption is definitely not from the Republic though it is similar to an older Tal'Shiar code" she said, making her way back around to her chair, "take a seat if you wish"

"I purchased it from a Yrridian trader, he said it contained navigational data for a sector of space where we lost one of my people's space fleets." M'Jart explained. She then added "I prefer to stand."

"hmm..." Laural responded, watching the format of the message begin to form, "well, there are some sets of coordinates here. do you know what your people were doing in the area?"

"They were to establish a colony on one of the planets, but contact was lost just before the Dominion War broke out." M'Jart said.

“They may have been casualties” Laural speculated, “what can you tell me about your people? Did they choose systems to colonies for a specific reason?”

"Our homeworld is mostly jungles and we live in small tribal communities, our technology is on par with the Federation, but most of my people live an agrarian lifestyle and hunting is an important part of our culture." M'Jart began. "So, we look for planets that have large jungles and mineral wealth." She added.

Laural nodded, taking in this new information, "Well, hopefully we can find them."

"Yes." M'Jart said. "My people are quite hardy."

after a moment, Laural gave a sigh before transferring the information she'd managed to decode onto a separate PADD and handed it to M'Jart, "well, this is all I can manage to decode right now. I will continue to work on it, but these coordinates and headings should help with the search at least"

"Thank you, Lieutenant, my people will be most happy to hear this." M'Jart said.

Laural nodded, “that’s good to know. If there is anything else I can do for you, you know where to find me”

"If you wish, I will let you know what my people find." M'Jart said.

Laural smiles, “that would be appreciated” she said, standing up from her deck, “if there is nothing else, I have other matters to attend to. If you would excuse me”

"Of course, thank you, again." M'Jart said before leaving.


Chief Petty Officer M'Jart S'Rem
Assistant Chief Operations Officer

Lieutenant Laural Hawke
intelligence encryption specialist