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==COMORIGINS: Falling on One's Sword== | |||
===by Scott Lusby=== | |||
SD: 2261.092 | |||
MD: Current | |||
Setting: CO's Office, Starbase 6 | |||
Vice Admiral Joseph Carstairs leaned back in his chair, and tried very hard | |||
not to curse. | |||
Things were getting complicated...some of which was by his own hand. | |||
**That's what you get for trying to play the hero, Joe,** he told himself. | |||
And he knew, deep down, that he deserved what had just happened. He thought | |||
he was doing right: everything that CONSTELLATION had uncovered at Mirra | |||
Bella spoke of conspiracy within the ranks; the business with the lowly | |||
Petty Officer Ballantine- like a Starfleet Admiral should be thinking about | |||
petty officers- seemed to confirm it. | |||
And that's where it began: the sniff of conspiracy made him keep his cards | |||
close to his chest, and not send anything upstairs. He didn't know who he | |||
could trust within the fleet... | |||
The capture of Commodore Berlen seemed a godsend- if he could find out who | |||
she was working for, who was directing her, he could bring down the | |||
conspiracy himself... | |||
And so he issued an order- an order that was an illegal one, he knew: he | |||
ordered Captain Veld to have Lieutenant Sefal get the necessary information | |||
by forced mind meld. He thought the end result- the uncovering of the | |||
conspiracy within Starfleet- would justify the means he used to get the | |||
information. | |||
It was only when he found himself covering his tracks- destroying the | |||
records of the issued order by deleting the communications logs and then | |||
writing over them- that he started to realize his mistake. | |||
If he was justified in what he was doing, why was he committing crimes to | |||
cover his supposedly justified actions? | |||
And then, finally, was Veld's call. How Jack had uncovered what he had done | |||
wasn't important; he was pretty sure the science officer was involved, but | |||
Carstairs had no desire to take on a Brooks right now. And while Veld | |||
certainly didn't have the connections of a Brooks, Jack himself was | |||
well-known enough on his own, with a solid reputation that was growing | |||
seemingly by the day. | |||
And, of course, the evidence was irrefutable. So, in the end, Veld had | |||
him-and if Veld wanted to ruin his career, he could. | |||
The worst part, Joe finally realized, was that he would absolutely deserve | |||
it. | |||
He leaned forward in his char, and depressed the secure comm link button. | |||
"Get me Admiral Kommack," he said, his tone soft, defeated. | |||
He leaned back in his chair, fingers steepled in front of him, as he waited. | |||
Suddenly, the graying, wizened visage of Admiral James Komack popped up on | |||
the screen. [[[What can I do for you, Joe?]]] | |||
"I have something I need to go over with you, Admiral," he began, "and | |||
you're not going to like it." | |||
<<NRPG>> | |||
This is an outgrowth of a CONSTELLATION plotline that actually came about by | |||
complete accident; everyone's getting it because, as Carstairs is | |||
effectively COMORIGINS (though we obviously wouldn't call him that), this | |||
might affect some of the background stuff for your units. | |||
I don't know where I am going to take this; I may end up switching to a new | |||
COMORIGINS character, or let Joe survive it. But he's coming clean as to | |||
what he did to his boss. We'll see where this goes. :) | |||
Respectfully Submitted, | |||
-- Scott Lusby | |||
/\ VADM Joseph Carstairs | |||
Commander, Starbase 6 | |||
(COMORIGINS) | |||
STAR FLEET: ORIGINS | |||
