== SB Bragg meeting room == Keylor walked in to the meeting room where he had been instructed to go. He had no idea what the meeting was all about, only that he was to be there at 07:30. Dressed in his Marine uniform and his General rank on his collar he stepped up to a small triangle shaped table . There seated at it was a female Starfleet officer wearing a captain's rank. As he stepped up to the table , the woman looked up from a pad, "Ah General. Good. Glad you could make it. Please have a seat." She motioned to a chair. Keylor sat down and scooted the chair up to the table. He adjusted himself and became comfortable. Looking over to the captain he asked. "So what is this all about. No one has told me anything." He said. The captain smiled, "Really? Oh well no matter. I will bring you up to speed. But we are waiting for one other to show up. Once she gets here we will begin." She said with smile. Keylor only nodded in compliance. {Well either they have selected a real hatchet man to punish me about my little trip to sefra II or this is not about my little endeavors.} he thought. Keylor sat emotionless and waited to be 'informed' as to what this was all about. He did not have to wait long and with the quiet hiss of the door behind him he heard the faint footsteps of some one entering the room. As the foot steps grew louder he remained motionless, catching the faint outline of some one walking past him to the other side of the table. When the woman sat down, Keylor looked over and noticed who it was. {The woman from the bar last night!} he thought. His expression changed form a blank one to a half smile. With a slight nod he acknowledged her presence. Well if she is here, this must have some thing to do with temporal mechanics. GOD! I hate temporal mechanics. } he thought keeping the slight smile on his face. The female captain tapped don her padd, "Good we are all here. Let's get started." She pushed her pad to one side. "I am Captain Amanda Peckinpaugh, with the intelligence branch. General Bretam Keylor, let me introduce you to LtCmdr Samantha Palmer. " She said motioning a hand to Samantha. "She will be accompanying you on your next mission, which is the reason we are gathered here today. Lieutenant commander, General Bretam Keylor." Keylor looked over to the captain, "So this has something to do with time travel?" he asked. Amanda looked over to Keylor, "Why yes. How did you." she started to say when Keylor interrupted. "A good guess, seeing that the commander here is a specialist in temporal mechanics." Amanda looked a bit puzzled. "I was not aware that you tow knew each other." She stated quizzically puling her padd back to her and looking over it. " Keylor placed a hand on the table near Amanda, "W just met recently." He said in a reassuring tone. Amanda stopped looking at her pad, "Oh well, then good. Let me continue." Amanda tapped on the table in front of her and pulled up a holographic map, it was of the spinward marsh. " You next mission will take you here , the spinward marsh, know for its temporal anomalies. " Amanda tapped on the table top again and a Starfleet ship was displayed. "This is the USS Gott, a nova class science vessel. She was last seen near the marsh 6 months ago until she was attacked by the X'chi. " Keylor reached in to his mind. He remembered a mission when he was a mere private, his first assignment after boot camp. That mission they had expected to encounter X'chi, and he and his platoon mates trained vigoursly for combat with them. Though they never did encounter the X'chi, so he never had really seen one. He nodded, "Aye a insectoid race." He added. Amanda nodded back. "Yes sir." She tapped on the table once again. A map of that quadrant of space was displayed with a blinking dot. "The Gott was conducting test on a new technique, called temporal viewing. When she was attacked she was just about to perform her first test. Over half the crew perished in the attack by the X'chi and the remainder of the crew drifted in life pods for over a week before being picked up." Keylor looked at Amanda and asked, "Temporal viewing?" He heard Samantha speak up. He listened to her and tried to focus on the core principals of the theory . But it could have been Klingon as far as he was concerned. But he tried his best to understand. He looked at Samantha with a concentrated look as she explained the theory. " Ok so we can look in to the past, are you implying that the X'chi have now taken an interest in to viewing the past?" he asked Amanda. "No sir, we think the capture of the gott was just a chance opportunity the X'chi happened upon. Though capture of federation ships in not commonplace, the X'chi do capture them from time to time." Amanda replied. Samantha chimed in, and explained how the temporal viewing theory would not be useful except for viewing the past and only localized to where the viewing portal was located. Nodding in compliance Keylor spoke out, "Ok so what does the chimera have to do with this?" Amanda Pointed to the map, "Long range sensor stations have detected the Gott transponder emerging form the marsh a week ago. For various reasons, we want to retrieve the research performed on the gott before her capture. Your mission is to board the Gott, recover the data. If you can retake the gott, or destroy her if you cannot." Keylor looked puzzled. "Why the chimera? I am sure there are bigger ships with a larger crew complement that could board the Gott and retake her with out a problem." He asked seeing quickly the task at hand would not be an easy one. Amanda tapped on the table top and pulled up a schematic of the Gott. "A standard nova class vessel, with standard compliment of phaser and torpedoes. Should not be a problem for the Chimera. Any way you are the only vessel we have that has not already been assigned a mission. And." she trailed off for a second. Keylor looked impatiently, "AND?" he said. Amanda looked down at her padd for a second and then back up. "Well, the region of the marsh the Gott was spotted in is highly unstable and riddled with many temporal anomalies, For a ship to travel in there they need to be fitted with a type of shielding that will help protect the ship form these pockets of anti time and accelerated time. We have prototypes, but only enough to outfit a small ship, no bigger than an intrepid class." Keylor nodded, "And the chimera is an intrepid class ship. Right." Amanda added, "The chimera docked last night. We have an engineering team waiting to start the modifications." "how long will it take?" Keylor asked. Amanda tapped on her pad and pulled up the figures. "Uhm well two weeks here at the base, and then your engineering team can make the fine tuning adjustments while you are underway to the marsh." Keylor nodded at the information. He looked over to Samantha. So if this is a standard snatch and grab, why are you coming along? Any flat footed leather neck could try to over take an X'chi controlled ship." He looked to Samantha for an answer. ===End log=== Bgen Bretam Keylor Commanding officer USS Chimera