Returning.

Posted on Monday November 28th, 2022 @ 11:25pm by Lieutenant Finchley Kerr

"Finchley Kerr, Personal Log. The last few months have been traumatic to say the least, the sudden orders from Starfleet Itelligence HQ to leave the Oberon for the extraction mission, not being able to tell anyone as to why. The kick in the teeth for me was not being able to say goodbye to Niali, and knowing she'd take my disappearance personally as some kind of afront.

I did my best to tell SFI HQ that this would look like abandonment of duty on my behalf, and that of Karadis, but it basically boiled down to us either following orders or being Court Marshalled for failing to do just that. I knew there would be hurt, but what was I to do, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place...follow orders as I'd always done, or throw away my career, one I'd spent the better part of twenty years building up.

The mission...oh, that was something else. It was a cock up from the start, it wasn't planned correctly, neither Karadis nor I were involved in it and when we found out how it was to be executed, we told them it would go pear shaped, and it did. The aftermath was a stitch up as well, someone had to take the fall and I was the lamb to the slaughter. Even Valarien couldn't help, much as they tried, the 'powers that be' saw to it that they covered their own. So now it's back to the Oberon, minus a rank, but hey, one day this'll come back to bit them, I'll see to it that it does. Nobody on the Oberon will know what really happened out there, except Karadis. The stitch up has left us with little recourse...for now...but to return here and carry out our duties as per the Command Teams orders. On the bright side, Karadis and me both know the truth and as my grandfather always said, the truth will out. End Personal Log."