Captain's Personal Log: <Begin recording>
Last two months have proved a busy time for Cromwell's crew. The Mission to New Kyushu undertaken by
Jack West and Lt Commander Martis, was unfruitful. Colonel Keishi is still a War Criminal in Starfleet's eyes.
And now Martis and West were able to add a connection between our first officer Lt. Commander Sinjin and
Keishi, through his father Tenu Sinjin, a historical traditionalist and another businessman Taji Kimio, a hotelier
in Keishi's prefecture tourist sector. I had hoped they would have been able to clear him, and allay their
suspicions of Sinjin. I fear it may have backfired.
This mission was called off, and West resigned his commission. Lt Martis returned home with no additional
information, but Admiral (Name redacted) sent one of his proteges; Fletcher Harris has been reactivated from
long term undercover work, and is now commissioned on Cromwell. How I am suppose to protect him from
dangerous duties on Cromwell is beyond me. Cromwell can chew up and spit out crew.
Speaking of which, we have regained two prior crewmembers. First, Rose Petalosa, from New Kyushu. I have
been contacted by New Kyushu's Shogun. The Masemune, and priceless sword has been returned. With a
wink, the Shogun has thanked the DFA for it's assistance. The only DNA on the sword was similar to Rose's.
Or possibly Lini, and a number of other clones, many of whom live on New Kyushu. There are rumors in the
Yakuza Clans of an uncovered alliance of Ninja and Yakuza clan (Interestingly associated with clan Saito,
Rose's family associates) which guarded the Masemune, but broken when one thief was able to get in, and
recover the Sword.
Rose, whether again running from trouble, or back into it, has returned. This time as Fleet Lt Petalosa, and
placed in charged of the 14th Space Fighter group. Sinjin is disappointed, but taking it as a professional. It
had been promised to him as a condition of service aboard Cromwell. I think giving Command to Thorn will be
good for both of them.
Dr Clark has had his hands full. Rose came back injured, many bladed weapon injuries. I inadvertently
insulted her, saying I should have been with her using the swords, to which she took offense. I believe the
Shogun's Comm message, the return of the priceless antiquity sword and Petalosa's return to Cromwell are
somehow tied together.
The second Crewman to return, and again under Dr. Clark's ministrations, but healing well, is Commander
Banor MarQ. Severely injured and lamed, Banor still jumped into the lead to help recover crew members on
Haedreon IV. But I am getting ahead of myself.
We have provided a small assistance to the Federation in rescuing, and helping to transport Ambassador
Sanchez through to his mission. He was unable to provide much information, but he will be meeting with a
local tribal leader. He unfortunately was ambushed by Starfleet Intel in the Starport of Justice on the Haedreon
IV. Col. Reynolds was able to intercede on his behalf preventing the assassination. Ambassador Sanchez
was caught up, and delayed by, the turmoil of Port Saiodh which is further detailed below.
Cromwell continues to orbit Haedreon IV. Reynolds and I have dispatched Ensign Kaden Rol, our newest
scientist, a betazed, and Lt Hemstum, our Denoubulan Marine, on an undercover mission. They made contact
with and met with a Mr. Bariss, and were able to convince him they were interested rebel miners. They worked
with him to replace good parts with faulty parts on mining equipment. Then, as the scam played out when the
parts failed, the confederates were able to sell the good parts back to the mining company. Their help in this
operation allowed them to become trusted to act in a new operation with Bariss, who had been looking for a
pair of confederates to become employed with a sector gangster. The Andorian, going by the name Mr Ice,
hired the trio to place pattern enhancers around the Anti Air Pulse Phaser in the Marie Compound which had
been set up to defend the mined resources of Port Saiodh. They helped carry out this mission, and were
transported to Ice's Secret Hideout near the north pole of the planet along with the AA Phaser. <Side note to
DFA Marine Command; DFA Marines under Colonel Reynolds direction, had disabled the unit if it were
captured. It will not be usable by the enemy even though the theft was successful.>
Hemstum and Rol in the Ice base learned that they were actually part of a distraction, even if they were
successful. Taken by a Klingon Bodyguard, they were taken deep within the Base through several layers of
security to the most remote and deepest part of the base. Behind a double forcefield was Six of Twelve, Lt
Norris and another Borg, designated Four of Seven, and a DFA Borg Scientist, named Dr. Joshua Jacobs.
The captain paused in the log; "I need to now mention two additional events ongoing, to explain Six's capture,
and why MarQ was searching for our crew members."
Six and Lt Norris of the DFA Marines were also on a search, although not undercover. The DFA intelligence
community had heard chatter on the dark comms of interest in the Borg, and Borg tech. An intercepted coded
message was successfully decoded by Jack West, Micheal Reynolds, Dri Martis and Kit Taylor. It read:
"Shipment 2 is expected in sector 12 in 5 days" and had been in a file was called "Bravo Oscar Romeo George
6 One 2: (Borg 612) (reference Prior Monthly Cromwell reports). While it was deciphered, the message was
unable to be understood until too late. Even now, we are unsure its intended meaning. There are a few
current theories; The first is that it was related to the interception of Borg Tech being moved by the DFA. A
large amount of Borg Tech had been captured from an unregistered DFA Freighter in the sector. The Borg
Tech may have been brought to and/or pirates based out of Haedreon IV. A second hypothesis is it was
reference to Four of Seven, who came from a wrecked scout ship... 612. Or possibly, it was a reference to Six
of Twelve? In any case, it succeeded in bringing Cromwell to Haedreon IV, which may have been the intent
from the beginning. <Side note: On Further investigation, The Borg scout ship 612 from which came Four of
Seven, may have encountered the same Species 8472 that nearly destroyed the MarQ brothers Krenim time
ship, which we found drifting nearly derelict.>
Back to Six of Twelve and Lt. Norris, who were investigating the theft of Borg tech, and then looking into the
breakdown/sabotage of mining equipment. (Which ironically, was due to the undercover work of Hemstum and
Rol). They, with Lt. Green from Security, first confronted the Governor of Port Saiodh; who developed an
unhealthy interest in using Borg for miners. Governor Ash also expressed a distrust of a local miner named
Jorda. It seems Jorda was fighting for worker rights, safety and fair pay, and safe working conditions for the
miners. Six and Norris went to the mining camp to further investigate. After assisting Jorda repair, in the
most efficient manner, a broken transport blocking traffic, and then the conveyor belt, Six and Norris began
work as miners. There was a miscommunication, and Jorda began speaking to the Miners. The miners
thought Six was Ash's Experimental Drone, and began rebelling. Six and Norris were snatched out of Mine
Camp One by transporter and sent back to Port Saiodh. They had to try and stop the miners who had moved
on to rioting within the town from the mining camp.
Lt Commander Martis, on her return to Cromwell, was immediately dispatched to the Port Saiodh Governor's
tower. There, while the miners approached, took refuge in the tower when Raiders, who continue to harass the
corporate mined materials, attacked, indiscriminately firing on Cromwell, marines and Rioting Miners. KC,
Ambassador Sanchez, Lt Green and Lt Commander Martis took refuge in the governor's tower during the
attack.
Hemstum, Rol and Bariss were notified by Mr Ice that the riot would make good cover to make their move on
the AA Phaser. This may have been cover to distract marines from their real target. Six of Twelve. Three
individuals (On later questioning of miners, were unrecognized as miners of Local 401, the Port Saiodh Union
Miners) placed Pattern enhancers around Six, and transported them to Ice's secret base, in a well coordinated
kidnapping, much like the theft of the AA pulse phaser. It was Six's confusion of "Borg Contact" that allowed
them to snatch Six, and place her and Lt Norris (An unintended hostage) behind force fields with Four of Seven
and Dr Jacobs.
Mr. Banor MarQ and Lt Commander Sinjin began immediate attempts to locate Six and remaining crew.
<Aside: Please see report on Mr MarQ's physical and psychiatric health, n.b. no signs of impairment, unlike his
brother, who has now begun showing signs of the Temporal Psychosis of the Krenim.> This was confounded
by a malware virus/worm placed on Cromwell's computer. <Aside: See operational report by Bynars 100 and
011; Virus, and malware insertion through malware embedded within space holding sections of the Borg 612
message.>
I do not like to admit, but feel it necessary for the complete report, that it was my action of opening the coded
message with the malicious Worm within the intel office, synergistic with viral programs in Banor's programming
that allowed the encoded message Malware into Cromwell's system jumping into and from the Intel computer
sandbox. Jinx's Watchdog programs held the virus in check, but it was the Bynar crewmen's actions, much like
on New Kyushu, that was able to eradicate the virus. <Commendation for Bynars submitted>
Sinjin and Banor MarQ had jumped into action, placing themselves in the midst of the Watch tower/Governor's
Tower of Port Saiodh and the rioting Miners. They were accompanied by Ensign Taylor and Doctor Clark.
Miners were rioting and rushing the tower and batering the door to take hostage any inside. <Aside
commendations entered for Sinjin, MarQ, Taylor and Clark for bravery into the unknown situation>
Meanwhile Cromwell had traveled towards the North pole of Haedreon IV, leaving the away teams stranded
inside and outside the Governor's tower. The Bynar's had gotten Sensors back on line, and while they did not
find the base they suspected hidden within the Jungle, rebooted sensors detected ships fleeing from the north
pole. Moving Cromwell to investigate, we were able to pick up a signal from Ensign Rol and Lt Hemstum.
They had stunned the Klingon bodyguard, and released the two Borg, and Lt Norris and Dr Joshua Jacobs.
Like most Klingons, this one had a natural resistance to stunning, and this Klingon's size, made him even more
resistant, mitigating the worst of the effects. He was able to awake, and sound the alarm for the hidden base;
Borg were loose. Defense measure and evacuation immediately began. Dr Joshua Jacobs, the last of the
DFA Scientists captured with the Borg Tech on the freighter, was incinerated in the anti borg defense Plasma
Flamers, but not before he was able to give Four of Seven a power converter to keep Four alive in a
regeneration alcove.
Six of twelve, Four of seven, Lt Hemstum, Lt Norris and Ensign Rol were able to fight their way out of the borg
defenses and rear defense teams. <Aside: Please see after action combat reports from DFA Marines Norri and
Hemstum, and the ever verbose Six of Twelve personal logs.> <Aside two: Commendations have been
submitted Ensign Rol, Lt's Hemstum and Norris, and notation for Six of Twelve>
Cromwell having recovered the two captured away teams, and Four of Seven, returned to geosynchronous
orbit over Port Saiodh. While the Miners surged around the tower, attempting to batter down the door, the first
away team trapped within, including Martis, Federation Ambassador Sanchez, DFA Diplomatic Attache KC, and
Lt Green from Security were pulled out by Transporter. While the chaos in Transporter room one that ensued
with Four, and the two away teams of Hemsum/Rol and Six/Norris mixed with Martis/Green and diplomats,
Transporter room two was beaming the Sinjin/MarQ away team back away from the miners. Taylor and Clark
had set out to investigate the transporter enhancers that were used to kidnap Six. At this juncture in time,
Martis requested to be sent down to calm the miners and work on release of MarQ'S away team. Lt
Commander Martis arrived, and was able to distract, and diffuse the situation even before the away team had
been captured. <Aside Commendation entered for Lt Commander Martis>. Commander MarQ's away team
was able to be extracted on Sinjin's timely orders combined with Lt. Commander Martis' distraction of the
miners.
On return to positioning of Cromwell over the Southern Hemisphere over Port Saiodh, Cromwell was able to
support away teams there, but unable to interdict the escaping forces of Mr. Ice at the far northern pole of
Haedreon IV. The VFS-14 Squadron, with Lt Petalosa and Lt. Red S'Hirt arrived during this active period as
well, and could not be deployed on active duty, also holding Cromwell in orbit.
The captain paused. It was a long report. And that was the short story. Back stories of children, like MJ and
Toby, awaiting parents return with the holographic nanny Miss Clara, introduction and settling new crew
members on Cromwell-B would have to wait for personal logs. Admiral Sesgaard summarized.
We have safely recovered all Cromwell-B crew. But Mr Ice and his chief lieutenants have escaped; was this all
an elaborate attempt to kidnap Six of Twelve? I don't know.
...And we have a new Borg; Four of Seven.
Stars help us all.
<End recording>
Fleet Captain Carson Sesgaard
Commanding Officer
DFA Cromwell-B
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