<<USS Athena>>
<Bridge, Conference Room>

Quinn pulled at the collar of his uniform, he hadn't been up this early in the morning for some time. With Dorian, their Betazoid Operations Chief on leave, that left Quinn in charge of the department. He had only been promoted 3 weeks ago and was still working getting adjusted to his new role.

Everyone else was already sitting around the table. Caleb Summers, their chief engineer was scowling at him again. Jessik, their chief flight control officer offered a smile, she was one of the few that liked Quinn. Quinn guessed that it had something to do with the fact that she was an Andorian and could relate to Quinn's problem with authority on occasion. She was also fairly attractive and Quinn would admit that he would have liked to have gotten to know her better. Now that they were on even footing, maybe he could.

The last to enter was Sam Takiharra. Sam was short, standing at about 5'7. He had a well muscled build, dark hair, and dark eyes. He was their tactical chief. If Quinn remembered he as actually raised by shaolin monks on Earth. He was never gloomy, something that Quinn found rather irritating.

"Good morning, I hope that everyone slept well last night because we have a big week ahead of us," Amanda stated. "One week ago the New Titan colony was attacked by Breen and Orion Privateers. Command has ordered us into the area to look into these attacks. Apparently a number of components were stolen from the colony, they did however leave more tempting targets behind."

"More tempting as in how?" Jeremy asked.

"All the weapons stores, food stores, medical supplies, pretty much everything of value."

"Interesting," Sam stated. "And they took nothing else?"

"What they did take doesn't make much sense," Amanda reported, pulling the list up on the larger viewscreen. "Micro power converters, spatial sensor arrays, and some old sensor probe casings."

"You couldn't do much with those," Caleb grunted.

"Exactly, which is why command is concerned," Amanda stated. "Jessik, how long to get to the New Titan colony?"

"At our present speed, 14 hours."

"Increase to warp factor 8."

"Aye sir."

"I'm sending you each a list of everything that was stolen, get together with your staff and see if you can come up with any idea at all of why they would want these parts."

Quinn nodded, along with everyone else. Today was certainly going to be an interesting day.

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