OOC Out of character discussions
In reply to Lt (jg) William 'Fast Billy' Xelox (msg # 134):
Well, the Away Team was undercover with an SI group in the Klingon city, and while they were scoping out one of the suspected subversive movements, they were attacked by real subversives. Once that was sorted out, they captured three of them, but suffered some non-fatal casualties. While these were being treated, the Captain debriefed the unwounded team members and introduced them to Billy (who was in semi-NPC mode just to get him introduced. Evidence indicates Romulan involvement, which Billy was able to confirm, as he recognised something Lt Sloane overheard—a particularly obscene Romulan insult. The officer who was injured (slashed with a poisoned knife) is now out of sickbay and the team is having a late supper and have a chance to get to know Billy.
They know little about him, just that he recently arrived at Dyson Base as part of LCdr Glaucus's First Contact staff, but Capt Samson has decided to assign him to work with the USS Thames II, an Atlantic class runabout's crew as he is knowledgeable about Klingons and speaks the TOS Klingon dialect Klingonaase (or tlhIngana'aS in modern thlIngan Hol) as well as Okrandian Klingon and Romulan (which comes as a bonus as they didn't know until now that the Romulans were involved). The entire Starfleet mission is now on Red Alert due to the presence of Romulans, and the Thames will return in a few hours to protect the Federation/Klingon diplomatic mission at BortaS city. Two members of the Thames's crew, a Caitian and a Mirak (analogous to Kzin), who could not have gone undercover as Klingons, are already assigned as Security to Ambassador Worf, Emissary Klaang and Dr. KeH'lef, the afore-mentioned diplomatic mission.
Anyhow, your timing is impeccable since I'd paused the game for the holidays, and since today happens to be the Orthodox Christmas, I've decided the hiatus is over. The game will resume in the thread titled The BortaS part 2.