USS Seleya Mission Transcript 11012.12
Mission Number 621
The Last Ones:  Illusions III

	DRAMATIS PERSONAE
	Lilia Perfeito as Captain Alexandra Margarida Gomes (CO – Commanding Officer)
	Christopher Dickinson as Savar William Dickinson (AMB – Ambassador)
	Peter Keegan as Ensign Jake McKnight (CEO – Chief Engineering Officer)
	Mike Hiles as Lieutenant Commander Max Heller (CTO – Chief Tactical Officer)
	Tim Schols as Lieutenant Dylan Cedric Pandora (OPS – Operations Officer)
	Frank MacArthur as Ensign Frank MacArthur (FCO – Flight Command Officer)
Karriaunna Scotti as Lt Brianna Rose (SO – Science Officer)
	
	Time lapse:  Two Weeks

Ship Manager
	Karriaunna Scotti

Home for now...

A place out of time, a mansion in a section of town that had once belonged to the elite of the T'naehmshaile who had chosen to make their home and build the last of the thirteen cities in Ku-li t'Palass (Valley of Rivers).  As time had gone on, the heads of those family moved to richer homes in more secure areas and these homes were used more for visiting relatives, relatives out of favor, relatives that needed a helping hand, visiting friends or for some just to get away but not too far.

Time flowed on and for some the homes became more permanent residence while others continued to be used for various reasons.  And the city expanded and grew up around them, creating a small haven out of time within an area that bordered the merchant classes and the servant classes.  Those within preferred it that way and those surrounding the area thought nothing of it as they had always been there.  And so it was left alone, forgotten in many ways.

Maor found his way into this area, luck or providence, it is ideal for those of the Seleya crew who have found themselves in a past where they are trying to make sure things do not change in the history of the T'naehmshaile... or at least not enough to change theirs.

The home has four levels.  The roof with a balcony surrounding it has niches where a guard could stand watch unnoticed.  It is reached by stairs that are a bit steep and narrow, from the top floor.  The upper level has many narrow windows that shine back the light.  It has six very large bedrooms with connecting bathrooms, one of the rooms twice the size of the others - the master suite.  The main floor contains rooms of various sizes for various purposes.  And below this level is a basement with many rooms of various sizes.

Outside, the grounds have gone a bit wild, but not by much as it is filled with trees that hide the place from outside.  A driveway winds through the trees toward the house.  Surrounding the whole is tall fence with security and a gate secured as well.  The gate is the only obvious entrance into the grounds.  At the back of the house, out of site is a small three room cottage in fair shape.

Their remained within its dusty and stale interior are signs of its elegant past.  The furnishings throughout are few, but solid and well cared for.

Last time on the Seleya...

As for the kitchen area, Rose and Taliesin had gone out and gathered enough simple cooking and eating equipment to fill their needs as well as the supplies that would be needed to make the ID's the crew would need to live for a month in this time and place.  Earlier, with McKnight they had stopped at the store and acquired food and standard medicinal needs.  That evening Taliesin drew dinner and made an interesting meal served with a very potent, very good wine the CTO had discovered.

The captain and ambassador had scouted the populace in general, getting a feel for the area and the people, noting the various ways that classes were marked.  They discovered a very organized city, one that had been well planned for the most part, and one that had military personnel about and obvious.

Maor not only located the home, but had managed to gather equipment for the purpose of securing their safe house.  A task not as challenging as it could have been, given there were many items and wires in place having once served the same purpose, only with Maor's knowledge and background there would be less need of sentries.  McKnight worked on a large screen he found in what would be the common room, its purpose uncertain but it had all the items needed to turn it into a monitor to be used for going through the information he had collected earlier from the library.

Heller and Pandora found the local equivalent of a book store; antiquated and with a variety of odd items.  Their goal was to gather information on the current political atmosphere.  As with any military government, death probably being the least painful consequences, one did not write negatively about it.  But there are always the tabloids that run beneath a literate society and are basically left alone, especially given most intelligent people know that it is simply filled with imagination and not reality. Gathering what they could, they brought them to their new base.

The original T'naehmshaile, of Vulcan stock, brought their language and customs of the time with them.  As with all things through time, there has been both genetic and cultural drift between them and the Vulcans and even among the thirteen provinces, though that is less.  Just as modern Vulcan is different from its past, so is this one.  But as with both, there are enough similarities that those who read or speak Vulcan to some degree will have little trouble working their way through it.

It is morning, the sunrise is tinting the sky, bringing color back into the world.  Inside their new home, the Seleya crew begins to stir.  Rose, drew breakfast and was up early, the scent of it flowing through the home.

Captain's log, Stardate 11012.12. This is our second night in T'naehmshaile. I fear we are no closer to determining the central point in time and space that changed the future. I can only hope the information the crew gathered yesterday will help answer that. At least we now have the ability to create documents and should, in theory, be able to take any role in this society.

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SO Lt Rose says:
:: In the kitchen, finishing a type of buffet style breakfast.::
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::Starts to sit on a sofa in the common room::
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Sitting on the edge of his bed, looking out the window at the breaking daylight::
SO Lt Rose says:
:: Placing the last of the cooked eggs, at least an egg was an egg, onto a platter, she turn off the stove and takes it into the dining room.::
CO Capt Gomes says:
::Sitting outside with a mug of what passes for coffee around here. Reading some of the historical background of the T'naehmshaile and trying to make sense of what will happen in the original timeline::
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Comes back into his room after making an early morning inspection of the grounds::
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Stretches his back and stifles a yawn before getting up and finding his clothes::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: How is the coffee?
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::As he sits up a number of small wires and computer chips fall off of his chest:: Self: I really should clean up mess.......but something smells good.
SO Lt Rose says:
:: Placing the coffee on the buffet board, she takes a plate to serve herself.::
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Puts on a shirt and looks up at the CTO as he enters the room:: CTO: Good morning. You had an early start today.
CO Capt Gomes says:
::looks up at Rose with a sad smile:: SO: I prefer not to answer that. But it seems to help me wake up so I can ask for little more. This is much worse though :: points at the PADD:: SO: I still don't understand how the assassination and the Udundian arrival connect and lead to the T'naehmshaile going out into space.
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
OPS:  Always am up early when on a mission.
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::staggers into the dining room, rubbing the back of his head::
FCO Ens MacArthur says:
::Lifts the covers and wonders where the CEO is::
Amb Envoy Savar says:
:: Exits the home via the front door and notices the Captain ::

SO Lt Rose says:
:: With a glass of tea and her plate, she takes a seat at the table.::  CO:  From what I gathered, the assassination attempt went two ways.  In one, it divided the people and created a civil war that kept them at home.  The civil war lasted several years and did serious damage.  Somehow, they managed not to totally decimate their world.

OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Nods:: CTO: Good policy. ::Puts on his jacket and heads over towards the door::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: It took a long time for them to rebuild and in that rebuilding, the faction who had assassinated the leader, his idea of expansion, was tabled.
FCO Ens MacArthur says:
::Gets up and puts on his shirt and wonders out into the room where the rest of the crew is gathering::
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Removes his heavy coat and heads toward the door.:: OPS:  Something smells good, hopefully it’s a bit better than what Taliesin cooked last night.
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  The other time line, when the Udundians arrived, shortly after the assassination, in their attack, it was believed they assassinated the leader.  So everyone instead of splitting, gathered together under one flag so to speak and destroyed them.
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::sniffs:: CTO: Indeed.. The smell is promising though... Let's find out... ::Leaves the room and heads down the stairs::
SO Lt Rose says:
:: Wrapped her hands around the hot cup, letting the warmth flow through her.::
CO Capt Gomes says:
::nods slowly:: SO: A threat from outside will always be a unifying factor. I get that. But what did the Undundians gain with the attack?
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::takes a plate and loads up it up, he pauses at the "coffee" and takes a mug::
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Follows Pandora down the stairs toward the kitchen.::
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Looks around as he takes the last step down the stairs, then turns towards the kitchen, following his nose more than his knowledge of their accommodation for the next month-or-so::
FCO Ens MacArthur says:
::Finds himself a cup of coffee and helps himself to some of the food - he thinks to himself that it looks wrong without black pudding::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  That is the part I do not get.  From the letters the CTO retrieved, the Udundians chose to go back into the past and stop the T'naehmshaile from attacking.  I can only surmise to possibilities.  They erred in their jump and went much further back than planned.  Or they knew something about their enemies...
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: I am assuming the T'naehmshaile were the ones that attacked, that we have yet to learn.
FCO Ens MacArthur says:
::He takes his plate over and plants himself on a chair::
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: Do we have a way to prove to the Undundians that their plan will fail?
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  We have the sensor readings we took at the time and of course we have the two histories, the outcome showing they did not make it and why.  I copied down everything I could about what we had on the two races.
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::In the kitchen, he looks at the array of breakfast food items and grabs a plate, taking a little of everything, followed by a cup of coffee::

CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Enters the kitchen and picks up a plate and puts together a plate and grabs himself a cup of tea before heading into the dining room::
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: Maybe as a backup plan we can try to show that to the Undundian fleet. It might make them turn back ... though I wonder what they would do then. I really wish we had a computer able to run time simulations here ::looks up at the CEO:: CEO: I don't suppose you can build one.
SO Lt Rose says:
:: Putting down her cup she picks up a fork and tries what is meant to be a pancake.::
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::nods as he waits till he can speak:: CO: I've already rigged us a monitor to display our padds and tricorder data on.
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Takes a seat at the table and digs into his food.::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  We will need to be there when they arrive.  Thankfully, most of us do not look like T'naehmshaile so that hopefully will catch them off guard.  And they did have a chance to speak with the people they took from the attack... and overall where unhappy they had to attack them.  They were desperate people.
CO Capt Gomes says:
CEO: For time simulation we would need heavy processing capabilities to run through the consequences and respective probabilities of all possible scenarios
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Sits at the dining table, mumbling his 'good morning's to those present::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  Maybe we could offer them some kind of help in the future... negotiate so what happened would not need to occur.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: The problem is, we have little more than our word to bargain with.
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  Isn't something better then total annihilation?
CO Capt Gomes says:
All: I hope you all had time to catch up with the information gathered in the past day.
SO Lt Rose says:
:: nods to Pandora::
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::takes a sip of his coffee to kick start his brain:: CO: I'll go on a scavenger hunt and see what I can find.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: Yes, but do you think they will just take our word that attacking the T'naehmshaile will actually make their situation worse?
SO Lt Rose says:
CEO:  I can help... some, there.
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Starts eating his breakfast quickly, as he always does, mixing the various components on his place::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  I like the idea of a holosuite... unfortunately, we can manipulate it like anything.  That is all we have at the moment.  I don't know.  Would you in their shoes?
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  Wait... :: looks over at the CTO::
CO Capt Gomes says:
All: As I understand it, in the original time line an assassination led to a civil war that prevented the T'naehmshaile from aspiring to more than their homeworld. In the alternate time line, they united against the Undundians and after that decided to go after the rest of the galaxy. We can either try to prevent the Undundians from attacking, prevent the T'naehmshaile from uniting or both.
SO Lt Rose says:
CTO:  What did you do with those letters?
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: A holosuite? For a whole Undundian fleet?
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: Oh... no.  I was thinking of giving them a showing of what happened.  Maybe just a big screen would be just a good.
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
SO:  I did copy them onto my tricorder in case we needed the information they contained.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: That may give a stronger visual response. But if it were me, I am not sure I would believe something just because it’s projected in a screen or in 3D
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: What about the letters. That is proof in their own hand.  At least that we were there.
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Looks up from his food:: SO/CO: What is to keep them from thinking or saying we falsified them? Anything can be fabricated, it's more a question of how likely it is that they would take our word..
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
CO/SO:  Even if we can prove to them that we know their future, how exactly do we make contact with them.  From what I've seen of this world the military controlled and most equipment we would need to contact them isn't likely to be easy to get a hold of.
CO Capt Gomes says:
::nods to the CTO:: CTO: That could be a real problem too yes
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  I should be able to discover their entry point.  We could be waiting for them, everything ready.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: Didn't they shoot the planet from orbit?
SO Lt Rose says:
OPS:  Their own people wrote them... they should be with the group.
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  There is a limit to size to go through the Guardian.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: I thought they were using Undundian ships from this time with technology from ours
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: Udundians did not bring ships through.  Perhaps if they had, they might have been on a more equal footing and this would have been a different story.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: Then how did they attack the T'naehmshaile?
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Finishes eating his breakfast and leans back to drink his tea and listen to the conversation::
SO Lt Rose says:
:: Takes the padd and skims through to the records she wants and hands it over.::
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
SO:  So they brought ground troops here?  If we were able to find their entry point into this time and meet them there and somehow convince them to not go through with their plan, how do we send them back?
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Sips his coffee after finishing his breakfast, listening to the discussion::
FCO Ens MacArthur says:
::Finishes his breakfast and sips his coffee for the first time - realizing it wasn't the same he looked down at it::

Scenery:  On the screen, scenes of fighting are seen.  In it the Udundians are losing badly as they had only the items they had brought through.  The T'naehmshaile were equal if not more advanced then they had thought.

SO Lt Rose says:
CTO:  I do not think they realized who they were getting involved with.  Perhaps they thought they were less technologically this time, not realizing this is an ancient people who had been in space long before them.
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Finishes the coffee and sets the cup down on the table, then sits back in his chair::
CO Capt Gomes says:
All: It’s hard to understand how they would do this without a better plan. They bothered to steal the Guardian, one would think they thought things through. They even managed to destroy both a Starfleet ship and outpost
CO Capt Gomes says:
All: But not T'naehmshaile from the 21st century
SO Lt Rose says:
:: simply nods::
CO Capt Gomes says:
CEO/SO: Try to work on this computer and a holodeck or viewscreen
SO Lt Rose says:
:: looks at McKnight::
CO Capt Gomes says:
CTO: If we determine their point of entry we will need a way to at least temporarily ambush them.
CEO Ens McKnight says:
::nods:: CO: Yes ma'am.
CO Capt Gomes says:
OPS: I still want to work on the T'naehmshaile angle. I want you and the XO to try to infiltrate their government and figure out who might have been assassinated.
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
CO:  Me and my team will come up with a plan, do we have any idea how many we might be dealing with?
OPS Lt Pandora says:
::Nods:: CO: Aye captain...
CO Capt Gomes says:
CTO: All we have are those images ::points at the screen where Rose showed the attack::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO: Do you have an idea of the roles we will play here?  I can get on the paperwork after breakfast.  Someone else gets dishes.
CO Capt Gomes says:
CTO: They are also our only hint as to what their point of entry might be.
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
CO:  Understood, I'll review the images and see if I can come up with an estimate.  I may have to go shopping for some items to assist in the ambush.  I'll have my team study the images in detail and we'll start scouting out the area to see if we can determine where they enter.
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: OPS, XO, CIV and myself should be registered as part of the government class. I don't know enough about this society to give you more details now. You and the CEO will need access to maintenance and computer parts. The CTO will need the freedom to move around the city...perhaps part of the security force
SO Lt Rose says:
:: nods as she makes notes to her padd::
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: On second thought... we might need someone of the religious caste. Do they have one?
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  Yes, they do.
CO Capt Gomes says:
::nods at the CTO:: CTO: Do what you need to do. You have freedom to decide what is best to accomplish your task...you all do

CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
::Takes out his tricorder and padd, making notes of assignments for his team, also shares the files he has downloaded of the letters he recovered.::
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  The ambassador for religion?
CO Capt Gomes says:
SO: They are usually trusted members of society, we might need them. Put me and the CIV as high ranking clerics if possible.
SO Lt Rose says:
:: alters her notes::  CO:  Aye...
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
CO:  Understood captain, I've also shared the copies of the letters I retrieved, you should be able to find them on your tricorders now.
CO Capt Gomes says:
::nods: SO: That will give us the ability to move around
SO Lt Rose says:
CO:  Give me a couple of hours... I want to make these look as official as I can and give enough background so that they will pass.  If everyone will come to me one by one, we can co-ordinate that.
CO Capt Gomes says:
::nods:: SO: Take the time you need. These documents will dictate the success or failure of this mission to a large extent.
SO Lt Rose says:
:: nods and bites her lip as she looks down at the padd, not seeing it but contemplating it.::
CTO Lt Cmdr Heller says:
SO:  If you could transfer a copy of those images to my tricorder and my teams we can get to work.
SO Lt Rose says:
:: nods and sends the file.::

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