The Wildcard

Oseno listened as Fleet Captain Samji relayed the orders that the Alsea and the Artemis were to take on the Admiral Tomalok and the perhaps less than sane Empress Sela. As soon as the order was given Jureth began pulling what data he could on the Romulan Scimitar battleship. It would be a formidable opponenet for the two ships to take on if it came to battle. Diplomacy was not Jureth's department however, unless of course Commander Rivers were to become disable in which case the Alsea's fate would rest on his shoulders. He shook that thought off though not even wanting to consider losing another senior officer in battle. Oseno already felt as if he'd failed in allowing Captain Siduri to become injured.

Jureth also pulled docier's on Tomalok and Sela to his PADD for reading later. He wanted to analyze the leaders of Romulans to see if he could gain any insight into their battle tactics. He also entertained the thought of asking Commander Rivers to substitue some of the science and ops personnel for trained security officers or even their own complement of marines in case they had to repell boarders or possibly even board a Romulan ship. Oseno was also thinking it was a good thing he had added transphasic torpedoes to the Alsea's weapon complement. In a fight if they used them first it would take the enemy by surprise.

Oseno then stood to be recognized as he had a couple of questions about the Romulans,

"Sir, do we know the location of the Romulan Admiral Donatra? She aided Captain Picard when he defeated Shinzon three decades ago, perhaps she could be convinced to join us as well. Along those lines Sir do we have any further intelligence regarding the size and disposition of the Romulan forces?"