From nitefitr@cyberhighway.net Fri Jun 19 12:36:41 1998 Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:18:32 -0600 From: Mike Groner To: Dante Expeditionary Force List Serve Subject: [DANTEXF] SB ALIGHIERI: Grumpy Commodore [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] DANTE Expeditionary Force Official E-mail BEGIN TRANSMISSION *********************************************** SD: 100519.1457 GMT Scene: Command & Staff meeting Room Starbase 230 (ALIGHIERI) *********************************************** FMD: 4.0900 <<>> Yssar asserted himself merely by stepping forward. Clearing his throat, he said, "Gentlemen, excellent work. Considering the wolves are lying on our doorstep, I would suggest you get started outfitting as many fighters as possible. If you're lucky, you'll have twenty-four hours at best." A look of pride passed between Tao and Merlin as they acknowledged Yssar's command and made their way toward the door. Before they could leave, CDOR Mirtox called to the two. "Enlist the help of the flight crew engineers. That should speed things up." "Yes, sir!" Roebuck said. "Hold on a minute." Tao and Roebuck stopped at the door. "No one excused you two." Mirtox said. "Have a seat." The Commodore was grumpy. The two eager officers gave a quick glance at Yssar, who looked blank. They thought this was important enough to get on this right away. They were right, but "the Commodore's always right" too. "Captain Katz. Commander Yssar. How many Class IV probes do you each have on your posession?" Mirtox asked, beginning to pace. Katz and Mirtox each referred to their PADDS and called up the data. "I have 38 Class IV probes, and another 20 Class III probes that could be upgraded if need be." "I have 45, Commodore. No Class III's I'm afraid." Yssar added with a slight growl. "Mister Roebuck. How long would it take to modify the class IV probes to carry the warheads you are talking about?" "About an hour. And an additional 2 hours for each Class III that was upgraded to Class IV." "O.K., so we're looking at 83 hours to arm the probes, another..... 40 hours of upgrading class III's. Tha'ts 123 man hours." He looked sternly at Roebuck and Tao. "We don't have near that enough time. I suggest you find every Engineer or anyone who's even thought of being an Engineer to start working on this. Train YORKTOWN'S Engineer staff, Mister Roebuck, so he can then take over operations on getting YORKTOWN's stores ready to go. This is our number one priority, aside protecting the Huladians and the Station. When you know how many men you have working on this, I want your ETA on when you will have things ready." Mirtox paused, looking at the new XO of ALIGHIERI. "You are NOW dismissed, Commander." With a quick jerk of a nod, shiny almost metallic hair moving silently, Tao stood and walked out, Roebuck in toe. Mirtox continued pacing. "Did you get some rest, sir?" Yssar asked the Commodore, sensitive enough to say "were you a little hard on them?" without saying "were you a little hard on them?" "Yes, I got enough." He paused, and looked around the room. The command staff officers from Starbase ALIGHIERI (except the XO who just left), USS YORKTOWN, the Marine contingency, and 716 NAW were all sitting around. Mirtox could see the fatigue of battle on everyone's faces. "Mister Ulfsson. I understand it was your idea to put the warheads on the probes. Probably because of maneuverability? Can you explain this? "O.K., and what's the latest on the position of the Dalriada and their progress toward us?" "Very well. Gentlemen, I suggest you take the next few hours and brief your crew as quickly as possible, and then try to get some rest. Let your auxilliary staff do most of this grunt work. We'll need your leadership during the up and coming battle. I will call an emergency meeting as soon as we get a sufficient progress report on the missile upgrades. That's it. Dismissed." Respectfully, CDOR Dirkas "Happy Face" Mirtox Commander, Dante Expeditionary Force (COMDANTEXF) SB ALIGHIERI (DS-230) Indigo Fleet ________________________________________________ <<>> FMD: 4.0900 Staff meeting continues Mike G. Let's keep it movin', guys!!!! Hey, you CEO types... You're on! Get those crews of yours movin'!!!! Chop Chop! Mike Groner nitefitr@cyberhighway.net AKA's CDOR Dirkas Mirtox, Commander, Dante Expeditionary Force CAPT Jim Ericcson, Executive Officer, Starfleet Public Affairs CAPT Marcus Delaney, Commander, USS HERAKLES NCC-25001 CDR Mudoro Bochu, Executive Officer, USS CONSTELLATION NCC-1017-F LT Tholar Sheltaz, ALB Instructor, Holodeck 3 END TRANSMISSION This message sent by an official member of the Dante Expeditionary Force Are you also posting your messages to the newsgroup?!!! END TRANSMISSION