OOC: Sorry about the delay. Partially it was because I've been working on getting
Issue 14 of the Star Frontiersman magazine on-line and partially because I've been lazy
BIC:
"Greeting in the name of the station administrator, we'd like to facilitate the Royal Marines in their mission but we're uncertain as to reason for declaring martial law and locking down the station? What may I do to help clear up this unpleasantness?"
"Mr. Viddick," Tanar responds, "I'm Lt. Tanar Daagron, first officer on the CMS Pelican and our captain is in command of this operation. We've been detailed to find something. What it is, I'm not a liberty to say. We have reason to believe that it is either on this rock, was here recently or that there is information concerning it's whereabouts to be found here.
"We'll be searching every inch of this station until it is either found, or we have conclusive evidence that the item in question is not here and have gathered every bit of information we can on the item in question. Until that time, no one leaves Plerion and all communications will be routed through the CMS Pelican. Any unauthorized transmissions will be dealt with directly.
"We don't want to be here any more than you want us here but we're not leaving until we are satisfied that our search is complete. As for how you can help, the first thing you can let everyone on-board this station and the ships currently here know that we are staying until we leave, however long it takes. The more they cooperate, the faster this will go and the quicker we'll get out of your hair (or whatever the equivalent Vruskan expression is
). Any resistance to our work, either active
or passive, will be dealt with appropriately. Too much resistance and this temporary situation may become permanent.
"Second, we will be searching every cubic centimeter of this station until we're satisfied. You will provided us with up to date schematics of the station. Every nook and cranny had better be documented. If we find
any areas not on the plans provided,
you", Tanar pauses to make sure the point gets across, "and whoever is directly responsible for the areas providing access to the uncharted areas will be held directly responsible.
"Third, we will be granted full access to all computers, logs and records. Just as in the physical search, any resistance to the data search will be similarly dealt with. In addition, all data currently on this station is to be preserved. If we find that any data has been purged since the time of our first message locking down this station, anyone who had access to that data will be dealt with appropriately. This applies to
any data, corporate or otherwise, so I suggest you get that word out quickly as well.
"We have marines coming in from the other ships as well. We'll start with the hangers, both main and auxiliary. Once they are secured, we'll move level by level until our search is complete."
(I'm going to assume Dudd stayed on board the Pelican) Turning to his team Tanar starts to issue orders: "Bodger, Savrax and Mantin, you meet up with the team from the WarHawk in the main hanger. Secure the hanger and Flight Ops and then start working your way down. Liam, Grelude and Slayerin, you meet up with the team from the Nightingale and secure the auxiliary hanger and then start working your way up. I'll take Niss and Ventura to Main operations with Mr. Viddick and start work on the data retrieval."