The society part five

  The security team serounded the comadore. They had hand lazers on stand by. They escorted him back to the shartle. They got him inside.
While kelly w picked up styles and got him into the shartle. The body of the late commander was then brought abored. The door was sealed.
Kelly w took the pilots chair and the craft lifted off. The vessel headed right for the x. The craft then returned to the hanger bay.
X 1000
Infirmery
“Trajaten to dr. Renelds!”he said. “Go ahead ensign!” She said. “There was an incident on the planet. We have woundered!’the com tech said. “We will be standing by!”she asured him.
She feared the absolute worse. She loved her husband very much. She was woried about him. She chided herself. This was her crew,her family . Whoever was injured,it was no less serious. She felt bad for feeling that way. Whoever it was,it was someone loved one. Her feeling were understandible but she still did not like it. She did not like it at all.
They roled him in. “Oh no”she thought. It was the captain.while not quite as bad as if it were her husband ,this was bad. She had great respect for the captain. Everyone in the crew did. She and her staf got right to work.
Bridge
“What happened?”!bryce asked. “Suicide bomber! Vulcan female ! The captain was injured! I am assuming command of this vessel efective imidiatelly ! ” engstrom said.
This made everyone very nervous. No one would say so.” Get me the Vulcan ambassador to babel! I don’t care if he is trying to acheve kolinar. I want to talk to him!!”engstrom said.
“He is responding!” Trajaten said.”on  screen !” He said. “You don’t want it in your office?” He said. “Negative! Maine viewer! ” he said.
“This is ambassador vosok! “The Vulcan male said. He looked about 60 wich meens he was probably a hundred and 60 or older.
“As a dully empowered representive of united earth and her colonies, i deliver the following message ! The attack on our colony near vega and the assasination atempt on the life of myself and my team constitutes an act of war! We demand a formal apology and reperations. I want full disclosure of the operation including those who planed and caried it out or prepare for a military response !” Engstrom said.
Everyone was a gasp. No one dared show emotion. No one suported this but he was a superior officer. Like it or not he was in command.
“I can asure you this operation was not aproved or sactioned by the Vulcan government. I have evidence that the ships were decomisioned. They vanished from a suply depot. Thr facility was raided by orion scavingers. We have documentation of all of this. “He said
“How do you explane the suiside bomber?”engstrom asked.”she is a Vulcan x patriot who lived on a planet under the influence of the intergalatic under world. She had ties to orion and other orginized crime. “The ambassador said.
“You have an answer for every thing. You know what i think.the Vulcan don’t like us. We are irational,ilogical, we act on whim,if we continue to expand our two races sphere of influence will colide. I doubt this will make you happy ! I think you don’t wait for to advance technologically. I think you want to attack now! Soften us up. Either conqur us or slow us down!”engstrom said.
” I assure you we are peacefull people ! We were not involved !”the ambassador declared. ” is there your oficial response ?” The commadore asked. “We will fully coperate with any investigation. If Vulcan nationals were involved ,we would be willing to extridite them! “He said. “Not good enough end transmisson!” He ordered.
“Arest miss tivora,suspicion of sedition and treason. “The commadore said. “Woa! No way. There is no evidence she is involved !”shumar said. “She could be a plant! The comadore said. “These are paralous times bryce!” Julie said. “He is making them worse! I am taking command of the x!” Shumar said.
“This is mutiny!”he said. “Yes it is! Jason take this man to his qurters! ” he said .”gladly!” Jason said. “This is wrong bryce! We have a chain of command!” She said. “We have a constitution and a uniform code of justice! As an earth citizen and a eller employe she has rights. “Shunar said.
As the comadore was escorted out,he screamed at the top of his lungs. “You will regret this shumar!” He said. “I am taking command. I will go to batt for all of you at the court marshal !”he said.
“Alright jasson take tivora! Go hand hold the Vulcan ambassador. This orion end i think it is conected!” Shumar said . “You got it!” Jason said.
“What are you doing?”julie asked . “Jewles ! I am convinced that a third party is trying to put a wedge between earth and Vulcan ! Either the orions are behind it or they know who is. “Shumar said.
“Why would anyone want to stop earth Vulcan relations. Our people are crodjial. I think long time alience seams far fetched. They view us as too driven by emotion. We think of them as too stuck up. ” She said.
“In the last few years our two peoples have begun to work together. There is talk of full normilization,embisies,exchange of ambassadors,mayby even joint science missons and border security. Despite our diferencea,both sides have a deep respect for the rule of law. Right now there is distrust. In fithty years i can see our two people coexcisting working together. In a hundred. I see that bond getting stronger. I imagine that makes people nervous. Mayby Orion mayby someone else. “Shumar said.
“This is all speculation. It is all quite a leap. We have a good case against the Vulcan. If you hear a quack you should think horse!”she said.
“Unles a hourse is using duck noise!” He said. “I have no response to that! “She said. “Jules let me check this out. If im  wrong you can say i told you so !”he said. “If it were any orther man i would be staging a counter corps against you! 24 Houers!” She said. “Ok!”he said.
Tivora’s quarters
“Alright ! I will do the talking. Your a bit of a cowboy!  Not to mention that the ambassador is probably being pushed on all fronts!”she said.
“Me a cowboy? I resemble my remark ! Ok i will be the jr partner! “He said. “We had better get going !”she said.
“Look! The captain and i talked about it before he was attacked. We won’t alow a japinese style internment of earth citizen of Vulcan discent. You have proven your loyalty and themselves. You should not have to. I want you to know beyond a shadow of question that i never doubted you for one seccond!” He told her.
“I am sory that i backed away! ” she asked. “The crew is a family. Your my family tivora. “He said.he started to hug her. “Sory!”he said. She huged him back.
Vulcan embasy
“I stand by my previous satement!”vorshock said. Tivora spoke in vulcan. “Someone is trying to put a wedge between our worlds. “She said.
“The attacker came hear from rigal 9. She spends most of her time on coridon and worlds used by the orions. She met with man named ardilon. He is a tiburion. He does not apear to have ties with the orions. We know little about him. “Voshek said. “You have been a great help! “She said.
” Please lt! (English ) don’t let it end this way!” The Vulcan said. “I won’t ambassador !”he said.
End of part five

The society

Planet rygal 9
The capital citty was as usuel a flutter of activty. There were several marketplaces. Dr. Aridon erdilon a tiburian was not hear for comerce.
Like most in his race,he had large ears. Manny in his race were philosophers, scientist and interlecual. Manny were idelest. Manny were very esentic. This one had some extreme views.
He travaled to the outskirts of town. He went to the door and knocked. The door opened. “Dr. Erdilon. You have been expected !” The butler said.
He was let in. He has led to a parlor. The door opened,”he will see you now!” The doorman said. He was led into the den.
“Come on in dr. Erdilon!” The man said. “Thank you!” Erdilon said. ” are you familer with the drathic oricle?”the man enquired. “Of course. It is a myith. Most republe historians have concluded that it never excisted! ” erdilon said.
” It excisted. It stil does. It is not myithical. It is not even mystical ! I studied it before i was inducted into the order. I suspected it scaned time. It does not. It scans radio signals. It performs a physchological profile of the universe and then determines the future well atempts to. It is called pyscho history . It predicted some kind of turning point on vulcan around the time of surek. It predicted upheval on qonos about the time of kayhless. It is not totally acurate but the closest thing known to excist. “The man said.
He showed him an iner chamber. “Behold the future!”he said. ” The order has had it all this time?” The tiburon asked. “We aquired her 450 years ago. It is one of our most hevily gaurded secrets. Now that you are a patrone you may know of it. “The elder said.
“Are we at a turning point?” Erdilon asked. “What do you think? Do you believe we are?”the alien asked. ” Things seam to be changing. Races we have heard of are becoming regonal powers. Older empires are deminising. The old is making way for the new. ” Erdilon said.
“There is an event none of us anticipated. A race called the humans have begun to venture into deep space. They have diplomatic relationship with the vulcans. They have conducted comerce with the galideriens and have some contact with the andorians. The oricle says that there is a 60 percent chance that the humans will some kind of perminent alience with the vulcans. This presents a threat to our plan. If the humans enter into full diplomatic relations with the andorians something the orical says could happen. We could be looking at an influential shift towards vulcan and andorians. This would change intergalatic politics for a long time. ” The elder said.
“What is thy bidding ?” The tiburion said. “We intend to drive a wedge between the humans and vulcans. If we can convince the humans that vulcans cannot be trusted. If we can even spark a war. The humans and vulcans must be at odds. We must break any chance of a. Vulcan human allience!” The elder said. “I asume you have a plan?”erdilon said. “I do indeed!” The elder said.
“I want you to cary it out! I want you to cary out an attack on the humans and blaime it on the vulcans!” The elder said. “I can handle that!” The tiburon said. “!I thought you could !”the elder said.
Near vega colony
Uspa convoy
Vessel northward
Bridge
“All ships are functioning at peak efecientcy commadore'” the com officer reported. “Very good ! Steady as she goes helm!” Comadore bob engstrom said. ” Sir! I have incoming. Seven vesels. They are not yet in tracking range!” The science officer reported.
“No orher ships of convoy were sheduled to be in this area!” The comadore reported. “That is correct!”the science officer said. “I don’t like it!”the helm reported.
“Sir! Vesels are now in range! They are vulcan. They are older vesels, solaya class. “The science officer said. “Ship to ship!” Engstrom said.
“Sending commadore. No response!” The comm oficer said. “What are the Vulcans doing hear?” The helm officer asked. “I wish i knew!” Engstrom said.
The vulcan ships took a defensive position. “They are weapons hot!” The science officer reported. “Order them to lower there weapons !”the commadore ordered. “They still are not responding ! “The com tech said.
The vulcan ships opened fire on the ships trying to protect the convoy. “Break formation. Blow those turds out of the sky!” The commadore said.
The human vessels fired on the vulcan vessels. The human vessels fired multiple voleys on to the enimy ships. The vulcan vessels ignored the attacking ships. They absorbed the weapons fire.
The vulcan ships fired a few rounds but there intetest was in the freighters. One of the vulcan heavy crushers fired on the freighters. It fired on the cargo bays in such a way that weekond the overall infulstructure of the ship. The human vessels tried to protect the freighter but they were no match for the attackong ship. The attacking ship returned fire on the vessel.
The vulcan heavy crusher returned to the freighter. The vessel fired multiple volleys on the freighter. The freighter was left awreck. Its cargo unusable.
The rest of the vulcan ships chose a freighter and ponded on it. The protecking ships were spred too thin. They decided that they had to protect some of the ships. They focused on taking out one ship the one closest to them. They had inflicted some damage on the enemy unfortunately not enough.
On commadore engstrom’s flagship the vessel had taken damage. Several deck were on fire. The overall structure of the ship was intact.
The bridge was hit. The pilot was killed in the blast. He shielded the com officer from being hit. The vessel fired on the attacking vessel. The vessel hit the engines. “Warp drive is off line!” The science officer said.
The commadore was going to ram the vessel into the enimy vessel nearest to him. The vessel headed for the vessel. Then the vulcan vessel went to high warp.
“Report!”  engstrom ordered.”sir! Enemy vessels are withdrawing. There speed is beyond our capibilities ! ” the science officer said.
“Lets evaluate our damage!” The commadore said. The com officer activated the viewscreen. The fleet was in ruins. Out of nine freighters,only two went unscathed. The freighter woodstock had to be sctuttled completely. The freighter greenwood had to be towed back to vega colony. The rest were operational but barely. The cargo on three vessels were uterly destroyed.
Off the seven vessels asigned to protect them,three were in bad shape. The vessel bryent pound had to be abbandoned. Several would require weeks of refit. Several might not be worth repairing.
The destinations needed these suplies. The attack thretened the stability of these colonies. They also adversly afected trade and comerce. Manny freighter compinies would be reluctant to risk there ships to ship more cargo. The earth cargo service would be streched thin.
Relief ships were imidiately dispatched from vega. The commadore transfered her flag to u.v bethel. The commadore was very angery.
“I am sory about this bob!” Captain jammison roykirk said.”Jamison i will get revenge. Those vulcan s.o.b will pay dealy for this. If i have to diploy atomic mistles myself at vulcan,i will. So help me they will pay'” he said.
End of part one