Stardate: 21.0117
Scene: Starship DarkSky, E'ertu Sector
Time: A few weeks ago

The Juun Bounty Hunter, sat hunched the pilots chair of her small
hard to detect craft. She had just left a 'Job Fair' on what

The civil war that was beginning to erupt between the corporate houses
all across the territories had already weakened the Combine Central
Command, and the Combine CC, in the traditional form of capitalist
outsourcing, had opened the flood doors to the army of Bounty Hunters
and People Snatchers that operated freely in the Telmarc Empire.
Almost every Federation Command Officer known to the Telmarc had a
bounty on their head. Even those that weren't on the lists, Starfleet
Officers could fetch a high price.

The DarkSky sped towards the Neutral Zone, back to Federation space.

Attalla, who was not a Juun Bounty Hunter, but a Juun Starfleet
Security Operative. She now had a list of her own , bounty hunters
and people snatchers that were all headed for Federation Space. An
army of assassins with every Starfleet Officer on their lists. She
sped back to OMEGA, her course took her around the Malandros Nebula.
She carried other valuable information for those at OMEGA: about the
civil war that was breaking out.

An alarm sounded on her console. She was being targeted. Had she
been made? Or was it just someone who thought she was competition,
and wanted to eliminate her... she touched some keys on her console.
She had some tricks up her sleeve.

*****
Scene: SB OMEGA - Admiral Tergin's Office


"...You are dismissed Lt. Attalla. Good work. I look forward to
your full report..." Admiral Tergin said, to the Operative that had
barley left the shadows of the room. Science Station B1573 was lost
as they had suspected... but the crew as MIA, it was not known if they
were dead or captive. According to Attalla it had been turned into a
hub for bounty hunters and other non official military individuals
seemed to converge... The threat to his Fleet had just increased by
hundreds fold, based on how many Bounty Hunters Attalla reported.

***
Time: Moments Later


"Come..." Tergin said, knowing as he often did, who it was.

Fleet Executive Officer Admiral Misha Piper and Starbase CO Captain
Burke came through the doors. "Did you hear?" Misha asked.

Tergin tilted his head.

"A civil war has broken out among the Telmarc Corporate Houses.
There are slave uprisings on two slave worlds..." Burke said. There
Shadow Cold War with the Telmarc, to maintain the integrity of the
Federation boarder, had been going on for many years now, this might
actually mean the end.

"Oh," Misha said looking at the El-Aurian's face. She was good a
reading people, even a Listener, "You knew..."

"Was it...?"

He shook his head. "Those orders didn't come out of this Station."

"Intel," Burke said.

"Look at these," Tergin said, handing them a padd. Burke and Piper
examined the... ads.

"It's good to know my bounty didn't go down b/c I moved to OMEGA,
in fact, it raised my stock." Burke said dryly about the price on his
head.

"My goodness, One Million for an Ensign, Ten Million for a
Captain... and the Names... how did they get these...?"

"So, it looks like, despite the collapse of Parts of their Empire,
we are still facing a grave danger," Tergin said.


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geoffrey

Fleet Admiral Tergin
Commanding Officer
Cocoon Fleet /HWF