[Raiser, Bridge]

Cathy watched the scans coming from the Alpha vessel, the little dots moving around. She stole a glance back at the Tactical station, it was strange to see neither Koreleon nor Sinclair at the station. As competent as Daniels was as a security officer, he was ill suited to the role of Bridge Tactical officer and it appeared that Nations was assisting his protégée. She had had a meeting with him earlier in the week to discuss Sinclaire's progress as Assistant Chief Tactical Officer - with no XO, she had little choice but to do the duties herself.

The dots betrayed the situation, there was a fire fight going on, her stomach instinctively turning. She had already lost some good people due to this foolhardy skirmish, she didn't want to lose any more people.
"Ensign, maintain an active lock on all the away team. Any sign of severe trouble, deemed as their life signs dropping, I want them beamed out of there."

The Marswoman turned as the young FCO answered her question about the strategy,
"Do you have any suggested strategies for avoiding the attacks, Ensign?" she knew she was challenging the Ensign but she needed to know this replacement was as competent as her superior. Flight was the last hope in avoiding additional damage.

Cathy had once worked on a series of manoeuvres with Cate O'Mally, back when she was still the CTO on the Broadsword. Proposed as a series of tactics involving High Energy Turns and pushing an Akira-class starships manoeuvrability to its very limit also included using the full range of the phaser arrays of the larger vessel. Often, the CO had entertained the idea of revisiting the tactics and improving upon them, adapting them to more situations for more types of ships, but she couldn't find the time - things had changed since she was CTO, there was new technology, new systems, new methods of solving problems and new enemies. It was now up to officers like Sinclaire, Ashford and Koreleon to take up the fight.

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Capt. Catherine Raiser, USS Victoria (ret.)

Cathy Knights