Niomo's Response

Niomo took in the Fleet Captain's information with a sense of foreboding.

“Thank you for the information. A bit out of my department, but I can understand the gravity of such an anomaly. It also makes the strangeness of Sela’s response clear. The anomaly may be parsecs away, as the good captain pointed out, but if it can expand at all, eventually it will reach into Romulan Space. I think we all know that the Romulans have always been the proponents of a First Strike mentality. It is unfortunate they do not want to give us time to analyze it on our own. It would probably be wise to split our task force between defense and analysis. That way, even if the Romulans do show up, we will have ships at the ready to protect our lesser armed vessels.”

Niomo was sure that his task force idea was already floating in their briefing at a later slide, but he felt it was always good to plant seeds of ideas early and make sure they sprout on time.