Guest of Honor Part 2

Posted on Thu Sep 11, 2025 @ 10:01am by Captain Liam Pope & Commander Jack Aeyers & Lieutenant Commander Gerald Reeves & Lieutenant Matt Hartley

584 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: 1. Trouble Brewing
Location: Various
Timeline: Mission Day 1 - 18:59 Hours

[Starbase Icarus]
Operations Center]

5 hours ago, a guest from the Cardissan Union had arrived with a demand. The capture of the Bajoran freighter Ja'lek for a terrorist. 5 Hours later, the Federation's first line of defence, Starbase Icarus, jumped into action. It's inactive Captain phoned Starfleet HQ directly and was told, "Standby Icarus." Meanwhile, her First Officer caught up with the Intel Chief and scoured the databanks, discovering the wanted Bajoran ship, the Ja'lek, was connected to a restricted operation called "Sugar Horse." Altogether, the Security Chief rounded up the crew and placed them on ship lockdown.

"Starship inbound!" Cried the Greek-Cypriot Alexandros Mextaxas from the comms console, an earpiece could be seen sticking through his messy and needing a trim brown hair. "USS Iron Lady on approach... transporder confirmed... She states she has orders for Captain Tel's eyes only and requesting permission for emergency docking."

The Iron Lady was a Soyuz class, an armed version of the Miranda class designed to replace to outphase them instead, due to the bad economy, it was turning the other way around. The Iron Lady was commanded by the infamous Captain Liam Pope, known as the "Butcher of Starfleet's Outpost 12", the "Ravager of the New Berlin System", and most recently the "Killer of 47" - 47 the total of Starfleet troops he ordered dead on Miranda IV.

|Starbase Icarus, Traffic Control
|Concurrently

In traffic control, Hartley was taking a moment from a jampacked day to enjoy a coffee. A fleetingly quiet moment was replaced with a summons from Saket, who had joined the rest of the team on a double shift. Matt watched his screen, and directed the Vulcan to open a dock as he put through a call to the operations centre.

"Traffic to Ops."

(=^=) "Go ahead, Matt." (=^=) Aeyers replied.

"Commander, we've got a Federation starship inbound. USS Iron Lady. Soyuz Class." Hartley replied.

|Starbase Icarus, Operations
|Subsequently

Captain Tel jumped out of the CO's ready room, the door was wide open, and she could see into main ops and straight ahead to her XO's ready room. "Tell traffic, green light, and permit them to the Ops docking bay." She ordered, clicking her fingers. The Ops Docking bay was for a ship to dock and make an emergency evacuation when needed.

"Matt, they're clear to come in," Jack began.

(=^=) "Gate 3 is already open for them. We're notifying them now." (=^=)

"The Iron Lady." Jack began, looking between the staff assembled at the map table. The Commander tugged down his uniform tunic and gave the assembled officers a hard look. "Liam Pope's ship. Both have been in the news lately. Is this a surprise visit, Captain?"

"Yep..." Helena replied, slightly worried, a Captain with a reuption arriving at her station meant she had a foot out the door. "... Whatever happens, may whatever God we believe in have mercy on us... Captain Pope will take this situation to the brink of war and avert it while having a cup of tea with the Mad Hatter."

Gerald Reeves looked around the room. This was definitely an interesting set of events taking place. He only Captain Pope by reputation. Which was basically cleaning things up by almost any means necessary. The Captain seemed a bit shaken, but I suppose most would be if a man like Pope showed up unannounced.

"Grant them emergency docking, put them on the command deck." Helena quipped, the docking ring on the command deck was for evacuation and emergencies only... This was an emergency.

To be continued...

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