A Question of Trust

Posted on Mon May 2nd, 2011 @ 11:17am by Vice Admiral Quinn Androski

Mission: Episode 2.2 - "Resistance"
Location: Noventum's Office, USS Orlando
Timeline: Mission Day 01

On: Noventum's Office, USS Orlando

Caleb felt very good about his meeting with Ens. Aharonov, or Yehonathan as he called him now. Growing up on the religious colony that he did, trust had always been a big issue with Caleb. The colony did not teach one to be open to strangers. If you were an outsider, that is where you needed to remain, on the outside. Noventum had never learned to deal with other people on his colony. He even invented a special language they could not understand to set himself apart. As an analyst he was just someone in a pod, looking over reports and sending them on to the next person without any real contact. It was probably the best job for him at the time, but it certainly didn't help him identify with people.

When he was out in the field, that was different. You learned to depend on the other people you were assigned with or it could mean death. He never really got to know anybody there either. Everyone was playing a temporary role. Perhaps that was why Caleb had done well there, he never really developed a sense of self.

Now he was on the Orlando and for the first time he felt part of a team. When he first turned down Aharonov to receive the information it was because he was seen at first as an outsider, someone coming to disturb his place with his family.

The information they had gone over was mostly speculative. It was also very pessimistic. How positive could someone be about the Romulan home planet being nearly decimated? It would take years for them to recover from the catastrophe. The conservative elements of the Romulan government would fight to keep the outer systems in check. There would be battles for independence, piracy, and people desperate to protect what was theirs. Even more than when Shinzon assassinated the entire Romulan senate, the central government was chaos. It was an empire without a capital.

The Orlando was liable to run into almost anything, and they might need the new diplomatic officer's skills and the admiral's experience to deal with them. Caleb was going to need to be a sourcebook of information going forward. If that was the case he better get some food to keep him going. He would need to find out some information from some contacts on the other side of the wall.

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Lt. JG Caleb Noventum
USS Orlando, Chief Intelligence Officer