<<ooc:: ok everyone lets start wrapping things up. This briefing is the turning point. Write your logs getting you back on the chimera and any thing else you need to do before the briefing. All senior officers will be at the meeting. Feel free to recommend any course of action to help stop these aliens. >> ===Keylor's quarters 2 hours after returning=== Keylor walked out of the sonic shower, his ordeal on the station over for now. He bussily moved about his quarters finding a change of cloths and preparing himself to tackle the problem at hand, the aliens. He had been picked up by the CEO Lieutenant Nick Quayle. Apparently Shane had decided to mount a rescue of the rescue party. Thought Keylor was happy to see Lt Quayle and his shuttle, it did not sit well with him that some one thought they needed rescuing. And even though they did need rescuing in a way, it was not the fact that some one was coming for them, but the fact that Keylor could not control the situation to prevent it. He sat on the edge of his bed and pushed his legs through the openings in his combat style overalls. He knew they would have to return to the station to stop the aliens from doing what ever they were doing, and Keylor knew he would be going with them, he felt he had too. As he dressed, his mind swirled with all of the known information that He and his team had collected. The good thing about their botched mission on the station was that they had discovered several things. First of which was the device that seemed to mask a persons presence to the aliens. Even though it was not a force field, it would be handy to use to help avoid detection for the intruders as the next away team. Keylor had alerted Nick of this fact and instructed him to get hold of the device and replicate several of them for use. Next was the protoplaser that Rangi had been using on the ship. Keylor was not sure why that seemed to work on the aliens, may be because it was a less focused beam of energy and a lower frequency. But then everything low frequency seemed to be part of the solution to this current problem. He was no scientist, but it made sense since the aliens appeared to be from a region of sub space. After nick had docked the shuttle on the chimera, Keylor contacted Kilpatrick and instructed him to tear apart the protoplaser and see how the current weapons could be modified to use the advantage the protoplaser seemed to give over the standard phaser. Keylor then slid on a pair of boots and stood up. He quickly moved to his desk. Even though he had only been away from the ship for a short while, it seemed like forever, and he had to get caught up with what had been happening on the ship since his departure. Nick had briefed him quickly back on the shuttle about the state of the ships mechanical shape. Basically most of the repairs had been made thought they were still running off of generator power for precautions. He had also told Keylor that the oda had been chasing a rather elusive intruder around main engineering which had slowed the repairs down. Nick had made a sarcastic remark about how he could have had the repairs done sooner had it not been for the oda engineering specialist entering engineering ad siphoning off anti protons for their experiments. Keylor was not surprised and the lack of reports form the various departments. He noticed one form science noting their latest theories in to how the portals were being formed and how they might detect and counter act them. Then there was a medical report from Ens Fisher about their latest efforts to stabilize the wounded. As he scanned thought the report, he noticed a mention of a marine engineering specialist that had devised a method to materialize alien devices in to our space and how they were trying to use that information to some how cure the wounded. Keylor noticed a personnel report he had neglected to read a few days prior. Out of curiosity he opened the report and scanned through the new crew assigned to the ship. As he reviewed the new crew, one stood out to him in particular. It was a marine private, a Vandetta Rose. The reason this person stood out was not because they were a bad marine, or an experienced combat soldier, but because of the unique specialty this person possessed, they were a linguist. He chuckled at the apparent irony of the need for a linguist. Here they were, faced with an alien race who apparently was hell bent on attacking them, and Keylor had recorded a conversation between tow of said aliens on the station. It was a hope that the new marine would be able to make sense of the conversation and some how they could open up a dialogue between himself and the aliens to stop the mindless aggressions, if possible. Keylor tapped on his console and requested a yeoman to find the pad and deliver it to Rose for analysis. Having thumbed through everything of importance, Keylor stood up from his desk and walked to the door of his room. He quickly walked out of the door and headed straight to the briefing room. +Taps+ "Bretam to all senior officers. Report to the briefing room immediately. Also have TCN Morgan report there as well. Bretam out." ===Later in the briefing room=== Keylor walked in to the empty room. Tired and hungry, he replicated a coffee and a hasperate form the replicator and sat down at the head of the conference room. Greedily he dug in to his food as he waited for people to show up. In ones and two's, people showed up to the briefing room. Keylor acknowledged them as they arrived but kept his attention on his hasperate and coffee. Once everyone was assembled and seated he pushed his plate away to one side. He then leaned back in his chair and looked everyone over. "Well now that we are all back together on the ship may be we can put our heads together and figure out what is going on here. " he paused for a moment. "Right now we know the aliens control the station. Dr summers and Dr Carpenter have observed the aliens working with a quantum torpedo, as to what purpose we do not know." Keylor then looked at Shane, "Commander. Please give me a brief account of the ships status. " he then looked around to everyone else. "Then I want everyone to give a report on their latest discoveries in to the aliens, their technology, and any thing else that can help us stop what ever it is they are doing. Mister Morgan, tell us how you have been able to make the alien technology stay phased in to our space, and how that might be adapted to the problems on the station. I want to hear suggestions people. This has gone on long enough." Keylor looks stern and then nodded to Shane and waited for him and everyone to report. ===End log== Col Bretam Keylor Captain USS Chimera