===== During the battle, Astrometrics, USS Chimera ===== It was several days after the senior officer meeting. And after her unexpected promotion. Oriana wasn`t attention-seeking and people of her department knew, she wished not any congratulations or celebrations. So, the life in astrometrics went farther. They prepared all sensors at the work, which they had. The ship droped to impulse. They were in Kzenti system and all the people in astrometrics worked busily. The Kzenti system represented on the big main screen. It was large system, the sun was 1 star, ten planets, four of them class M, two class A, two class B, one class C and one class J. The population was about hundred milliards. Seven of planets had moons, there were several asteroids and comets. Simply one normal star system. Nothing unusual, sir. Shall we scan the system with tachyon pulse because of cloaking ships? asked one of the people, Adorian Themian. No, mister Themian, we shall not. It would not be friendly action she remained silent, when she noted Themian`s face. She turned to the main screen and saw there a ship. It appeared from nothing. Themian turned quickly to his console: "Disruptor cannons, photon torpedo tube, Duranium/Tritanium Double hull. Romulan warbird." Themian worked for a moment at console, then he drew away his arms: "They .. are arming their weapons!" The whole ship dimmed in 1,524 second. Only the lights of red alert remained to twinkle. And the floor under their legs shook in the next 2.651 seconds. Half of people ended on the floor. Since the battle began and the red alert was engaged, the Astrometrics make a bit spooky impression. It was quite a big room with large wallscreens and several pannels and now only poor lit and the flasking red alert lights on the wall gave the room a 'spooky castle dungeon' look. Petrel looked sideways at his boss, the newly promoted Acting Lieutenant Junior Grade Oriana and examined her for a second or two. He hated to admit it, but Oriana radiated a strange but surely a positive aura in the last few days ... and the odds were good that the cause was the young Guzman ... the ACO's brother. Even now, as the battle was in full 'play' and the ship shook from time to time, Oriana gave an stable impression, like someone sure about the future ... a future she liked. Petrel looked away from her and concentrated on his console again. For already 5 minutes he tried to make a detail scan of the attacking romulan warbird. The warbird itself wasnt much important ... it was a classical serie model of the Romulan war ship, no visible enhancement to the design or functionality ... just the average ... like cut off the starfleet manual about romulan technology. He frowned at the panel as he got the same result for the third time. He tried to identify the ship and even when he was able to decrypt the 'RSE' belonging to Romulan Star Empire ... to get the actual name of that ship was beyond his knowledge. Turning to Oriana he asked: "Ma'am have you been able to decrypt the name of the warbird?" he had to grab the edge of the console fastly as the ship shook violently ... he instinctively looked in the direction where one of the wall panel blow up in a fountain of red and yellow sparks ... The secont shook of ship came. One of the panel exploded. One of the people flew around the whole room and remain to lie by the oposite wall. Oriana tapped her commbadge: + TAPS+ Astrometrics to sickbay. We have one wounded, send the medical team. +TAPS+ Sickbay here. We are on the way. Oriana stood from the floor. When the people saw her, they made the same and continued in their work. Oriana looked back at Petrel. {He asked something before the explosion.} No, mister Petrel, I have not, she turned to the console: And I tried GRI test. And when she saw his face, she added: Ist vulcan test. It`s not possible, but there isnt any error. There is nothing." Petrel noded. Oriana's answer just confirmed his own results. No matter how strange it sounded, the Warbird had NO identification. It was something Petrel saw for the first time. Till now every ship he ever saw had some identification. Fleet ship's had both names and registry numbers, Klingon or Romulan registry numbers ... even smaller word ship's had an identification of some kind on their ships ... till now. It was increasingly harder to concentrate on one's works, cause the ship shook now more often and more hard. Just next to Petrel an another console blow up in a fountain of bright sparks. But still Oriana's people stayed calm and every one did his best. "Mr Petrel" Oriana spoke up, "please do a spectral analyse of the Warbird's debrises." Oriana's tone was casual like always, but Petrel could swear she thought like {Lets see what wonders are we against to...} ===== End of log ===== ALtJg. Oriana CSCiO USS Chimera & WO Petrel (NPC by Mumacik) ASCiO USS Chimera