===== Captain's ready room, USS Chimera, a week after leaving the Kzenti system ===== Shane took a sip from the large cup and placed it back on the table. It was tea of course, green ceylon one. As Rangi uses to say ... 'green evil tea'. It was rather funny, she was an excelent doctor with vast knowledge about human and alien physiology and still she failed to acknowledge the positive effects of a cup of green tea on one's mind. "Computer, start recording" Shane commanded. The Computer bleeped back in response. "Acting Captain's personal log , stardate 240505.09. The Chimera just docked at starbase Bragg in the Omega system after almost a week way from the Kzenti system. We flew with activated cloak, cause we could risk any 'misfortunes' with the data about the Kzenti chameleon technology on board. Trully the technology itself is a most remarkable one. From the little research the Science department was able to perform, it seems that the Kzenti have found a way how to 'turn' the biological material in their ship's hull into an another form and structure. This ability is distant similar to the Changeling's ability to imitate other objects. We are still far from understanding the way it worked, but the chameleon process appears to be a very effective one. Our sensors are not able to distinguish between the original and the copy. One weaknes of the technology seems to be the requirement of exact programing what shape should the ship assume by chameleoning. The ship needs very extensive data about the 'copied' ship structure and materials as well as the ship's layount. We are still not sure what exact connection is there, but it appeared that the Kzenti bioships lost the chameleoning ability with the destruction of their research station. We can only guess that the ship are in a constant need of data from the station and without this data the chameleoning ability degrades rapidely. For a long time we were unable to access the scientific data Captain Walsh's team gathered. They were heavily coded with an fractal encryption algorithm. We almost abandoned the research when LtCmdr. Summers brought the idea of using one of the stargne access codes LT. Wellington was repeating while in state of transe. The exact way how she knew about those codes is still a mystery, but the codes were exact right for the decrypting. Once decrypted, we did preliminary examination data of that technology. Unfortunately SSF Command ordered me to abandon our research and to lock up the gathered data. The Science branch od SSF will continue with the research on a safe SSF location. The Chimera was double chacked by the SSF on her way back to SSF HQ in the Omega system. My report about the events in the Kzenti empire and the evidences of 'copied' ship's appearantly caused the SSF be on alert about the ship. I had the feeling that SSF wants to be sure that we are really we and not some Kzenti assault troop. Upon getting the second clearance I was able to comunicate directly with SSF Ops and learend several news. The first and most happy one was the fact that Brigade General Bretam Keylor was on board SB Bragg and was about to resume command once docked. Personally I am very glad about the general's return and will gladly hand him the Command back. There is quite a large number of new crew waiting for the ship at Bragg and we will soon meet many new faces on baord. On the other side, I received several transfer notes and some of the crew will leave the ship soon. I just prepared all the forms and recomendations for a number of promotions and awards and after approving by SSF Ops or the general himself I will arrange a promotion party on board. It has to be done soon, cause with about two weeks of leave on the station, I am not sure that there will be all the crew on board till the department day. Something that startled me a bit was a formal request to report personally to SSF Ops office tomorrow at 9 am. Official reason is to 'clarify some points of my report' but knowing the Intel guys there will be more on the table then just a cup of tea." Taking an another sip from his tea, Shane had to smile about the obvious disliking of the tea by his beloved Rangi. Shaking his head slightly and wearing a smile he thought how nice it will be to have some free time spare to spend with her. "Computer, stop recording" he ordered. The computer bleeped in response. ===== End of log ===== Cmdr. Shane Guzman XO/ACO USS Chimera