Response to Niomo

"Thank you for your input, Captain Kheren," Fleet Captain Samji then said first. "While not exactly an alternate plan, it will help supplement our main one and give us more time and allow for our ships to more safely skirt the edge of the Anomaly."

Turning to Niomo, he then said, "If you can get it to 9.5, essentially four ships at that speed would be preferable. We would designate this route as the main trench and you would go from Starbase 10 around once, and then another quarter to deal with the Romulans if they are making trouble in Quadrant Two. The other ships will be able to supplemental trenches that will not be quite as attractive to the anomaly's path, but will be our backups. If you can't get it to near that speed, it will not be enough to get around even once, and at that point the 2 ships travelling together at 9.6 would be the better option."

"The Artemis will also be able to carry the most amount of warp cores for detonation around the main trench," he added, then realizing he needed to mention another task. "I need a volunteer to coordinate the collection and distribution of those. We'll need to attach computerized thrusters to each that will allow them to stay at the designated area, and we'll also need to time their overloads so that the explosions will occur synchronously."

"We may need to go around to many of the civilian cargo vessels and strongly encourage them to donate their warp cores to the cause. We will, of course, build each a new one at a later date."

"To answer your second question, Mister Lire, no one yet knows how it the Anomaly came to be... only that it happened centuries ago and has only now become a problem due to our high warp travel routes. Our best bet for the future would be to catch it sooner if it happens again and use our plan, if it works, when it is smaller."