[SRR Aylhr, Rihannsu Neutral Zone]
As tr`Rok heard Jarok give a dev siuren warning
of their imminent rendezvous with the Sentaire,
he scanned the area to analyse the strategic
implications of their position.
tr`Rok looked up as the Leih of the Sentaire
appeared on the view screen to speak with
Conn'Hae. The report on the t`Rakla was vague,
only that the ship had not changed position in
sometime and that this EnArrain thought the
people who stole the ship and killed 5000 rihan
in the process were too stupid to understand the
technology of the vessel. A small grin pulled at
the side of Thuryn's mouth as he thought, "What a
fool!"
"Mnekha, EnArrain. Au will receive instructions
from my Hddael'Ifvehhr'Saehne to form up on our
flank. When we move off, we will be going in fast
and deadly. Au will await further orders."
As he heard this order tr`Rok complied and placed
the foolish leih and his vessel at the rear of
the current flight pattern to ensure that the
man's obvious cutting edge tactical ability was
in the most appropriate place. It would not be
too soon he thought till the Tal'Shiar agent on
that ship would be standing over one very
ineffectual and dead Leih. He had noted the gleam
of 'soon' in the eyes of the political officer
when he was on the view screen earlier.
Arrain tr'Rok didn't need instruction to form a
battleplan in his head. If the t'Rakla remained
without its vital systems then the whole mission
would be over before it had begun, a swift and
deadly retribution for the massacre at Koahht
Versailles. But then he was still ready to err on
the side of caution, his long years of experience
tell him that more than once ships had merely
played dead only to turn on an unprepared
starship and destroy it. Thuryn chuckled to
himself, Areinnye, he'd even done it himself back
in his Agency days.
But why remain in the Lloann'su side of the
border??? Knowing he did not trust these wort-a
made this even more of a suspicious point to
investigate. Thuryn scanned the local sectors on
both sides of the zone. There were five locations
where squadrons of ships could be concealed from
sensors behind planets and in stellar phenomena.
There were no indications of cloaking signatures,
suddenly vanishing warp signatures or impulse
drive ionisation trails.
Slowly Thuryn put together a plan, a small
cloaked vessel alone, might get close enough
without detection to put 'it' aboard the t`Rakla.
He reviewed the squadron's flight manifests, and
suddenly a glint appeared in his eyes. Fingers
flashing across the console he downloads a
scenario to the ISD beside him and crosses to the
Leih.
"Rekkhai reh believe reh have a delivery method
for 'the package'!" He looks in the direction of
the Ready Room door, and holds the ISD in front
of the Leih's eyes.
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