Brenn entered the conference room, not bothering to hide his irritation at being summoned.  That attitude only further soured upon not seeing either the ship's Captain or even the XO, but two lowly officers.  The indignity.  "You demanded my presence and here I am," he said. "Now what do you want?"

Jason glanced over as came in and rested his hands on the table, nodding to a chair on the other side. "Please sit," he said politely, voice suddenly steel. Bi-colored eyes appeared icy towards the Takaran. "And I asked for your presence." He glanced briefly at Kate before returning his attention to Brenn.

Leaning on his arms, he peered over at the man almost imposingly. "I apologize for my eagerness at your labs but the security of this whole test was just that, security. I do not like being lied to, specially when it almost kills me because you couldn't bother to say anything."

He straightened up and paced on the other side of the table while speaking. "Now your lab is destroyed, the warhead might be on its way across the Neutral Zone and we have no answers except a pack of Klingon B'rels almost killing us. And your people are adamant on pulling the Federation into a war. So either I get answers from you or we can assume this was intentional to pull the Federation in."

He stopped pacing and faced Brenn again. "Makes me wonder if this wasn't the intention in the first place." Hopefully that ratted the Takaran a little for Kate to step in.

Kate held her head slightly and sighed at Jason, before putting on a friendly smile and placing a hand gently on his shoulder. "Ensign Walker, first off, even assuming you're right and all of that is Dr. Brenn's fault.  I'd like to remind you, there are two other investigations going on into different parts of what just happened.  Dr. Brenn, may not be pleasant and has been under a lot of stress. Which no doubt just went from one to one hundred with what just happened.  Let's just talk to him, and get our facts in order." Kate gets up and lowers her hand putting on a tense smile.

She slowly walks around to sit next to Dr. Brenn and looks him directly in the eyes with a look of sympathy and understanding. "We're currently looking over everything we can on both the B'Rel attack and the explosion.  You have my apologies for Ensign Walker's outburst, we're all concerned and want to get to the bottom of this.  Our medical team will be beaming over as soon as they can to treat any injuries that occurred during the blast.  Hopefully, its just material losses and everyone is fine."


16:14, Today: Katherine Seward rolled 18 using 2d20 with rolls of 5,13.  insight 12 + Security 2 = 14 (please pass).
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In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 3):

"Thank you, Ms... Seward, was it?" Brenn said, appreciating Kate's more sympathetic approach.  "Ra'Gul spoke well of you.  It's nice to know some here are more reasonable than others, unlike some..."  He glanced at Jason.  "Who make baseless insinuations."

He looked back to Kate.  "That said, I don't know what you expect from me.  These Klingon raiders are obviously the ones responsible for this."

Jason gave a brief glare to Kate for her words and picked up his padd. Before he could say anything it beeped and he looked down at it. While Kate talked to Brenn, he walked away from then, looking at something on it. His expression grew darker briefly before he typed something out and then walked back, still standing and looking over what was sent to him as if trying to understand something.

"Excuse me, Mrs Seward," Jason said, interrupting the two though it was to offer his padd to her.

The results that showed the signatures of each ship came from Duras family showed on the padd.

Kate glances at the ship data on the PADD and her frown intensifies. She types on the PADD ~~Wasn't Duras the house that betrayed the Klingon empire to the Romulans?  Since their B'Rel class, do you think they were sold by House Duras or acting on Romulan orders?  The headings would put them on a course toward the  Romulan Neutral zone.~~ she asks putting pieces together.

She turns her attention back toward Dr. Brenn, a frown still on her face. "Thank you Dr. Brenn, can you think of anyone or anything unusual during the project?  We just verified that the three ships were here when we arrived, meaning they had been observing the project for at least some time.  The question is how long, and if they had anyone on the inside to set up whatever explosive went off.  Were shipments searched when supplies were delivered?"

Jason typed just three letters, Yes, before picking the padd up and walking away from her and the Doctor. He was looking up some things on his padd, letting Kate be the sympathetic ear.

In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 6):

Brenn regarded Kate a moment as if she had asked the silliest question in the world.  "Everything we did came through proper channels.  Shipments arrived through your station, so if there was a security lapse, the fault lies with the Federation.  Perhaps you should be questioning your station personnel, hm?"

Kate gives a sympathetic smile to Dr. Brenn. "Unless you have anything to add Ensign Walker, I think we're done with our initial questions until we have more facts.  If you or the station need any assistance beyond what we're already providing don't hesistate to call us. Alright Doctor?" shes ays politely with a slight nod of her head.  Already writing her report in her mind.

Jason glanced over a moment, staring hard at Brenn. "How many died in the explosion in your lab one wonders...?" He gave a flippant shrug of his shoulder and motioned towards the door, dismissing Brenn. "Since you "don't know anything" at all I reserve the right to speak to you again after we have more information." Not only was there was a implied threat but the dismissive gesture said that likely Brenn was too stupid to know anything.

"We are done here," he said and stared at Kate a moment, not backing down. "I have a job I need to do. He's useless to help us. I'll get it out of him later." He couldn't be bothered with the scientist but each word was calculated to get at the man. Either way, he tucked his padd under his arm and ignored the both of them as he headed for the exit to the conference room.

Kate types out her message and sends it to Jason's PADD, ~~ "I agree he knows something about the explosion, but right now he has plausible deniability and until we have something that can directly prove a connection.  He won't give us anything and we'll just dig ourselves a deeper ditch for when we need what he knows later.  Honestly with what I'm reading from his body language, he doesn't know very much if anything about the theft though. I have a report to file, then I have to meet with either the captain or commander Geary to decide what I can and can't say when we report this to the Klingons, as a posible treaty violation."~~ she rubs her forehead for a moment as she considers everything.
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In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 11):

Jason paused in the hall at the message and then responded. I hope I've rattled him enough that you get more from him. Otherwise I might have just killed my career with the attempt. Good luck.

"Typical Federation arrogance," Brenn snorted, surprisingly calm given Jason's outburst, or perhaps meeting Jason's dismissal with his own.  "You fail at the one thing you were here to do and seek to blame others."

Glancing over at Kate, who seemed to be tapping something into her padd, he stood and scoffed, "Well, if you are done wasting my time, I'll be heading back to the station to see what's left of my lab and my work."

Kate nods politely at him with a sympathedic smile. "I understand, our medical teams should be over there helping who we can.  Thank you for your assistance Dr. Brenn."

Continuing on gathering up all the information he could on the issue, he checked the system to find where Dr. Brenn's location, "Transporter Room, no one is to leave this ship without Command Staff authorization."

He then sent a request to Dr. Dupont, "Dr. Dupont, can you give a preliminary report on what killed the four members of the development team?  Please and thank you."

Brushing up on his Tarkanian so he can tell the good doctor to "shut the fuck up" if need be, he was ready to confront Dr. Brenn and headed to the transporter room.

OOC 21:13, Today: Decker Geary rolled 31 using 2d20, unique dice with rolls of 13,18.  Insight 11, Conn 5,  Linguistics Focus.
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"Commander, Cellular disruption due to radiation effects is all I have so far. 4 dead, 2 of whom should have lived by all reports. I'm about to return to the station medbay to check on the other survivors and render aid." Alex quickly replied.

(Assuming Alex did not hear the order about leaving the ship...)

Stopping at the officer's lounge to grab a panini and some snacks suitable for the Takaran palate, he heads to the conference room. "Ms Katherine Seward, Commander Geary here. will you please escort Ra'Ghul to the conference room?"
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Kate will go and fetch Dr Ra'Ghul if he is on the ship and politely request he come to the Conference room with her.

While Geary waited, the familiar - if not somewhat exasperated - voice of his Captain came over the comm.  "Status report, Mr. Geary."