Horizon Children?

Posted on 02/17/2012 @ 12:16pm by Captain Oseno Jureth
Edited on on 02/17/2012 @ 5:49pm

Mission: Azimuth Horizon: Crusade - Chapter 3: Preparations
Location: SB10

Oseno's ears perked up at the mention by Captains Kheren and Crist of a third party to all of the Azimuth Horizon drama. He wondered why he hadn't heard anything about these Horizon Children before now. Perhaps he wasn't reading Starfleet's intelligence reports close enough, something he made a mental note to correct. While Captain Crist was still speaking Jureth connected his PADD to the Alsea's computer and accessed the intelligence reports the ship had received. As the chief tactical officer his access was relatively high though there were still reports marked captain's eyes only that he could not access.

He combed through several mundane reports on things he was already aware of until he came across a general intelligence bulletin for all starships. The bulletin detailed recent actions of the religous cult named the Horizon's Children including several of their recent hostile activities. Starfleet Intelligence had classified them as a bona fide threat and warned all starships to steer clear of the area of space the Children considered theirs. Jureth wondered how he had missed such an important message and scolded himself for not being more thorough. Then he fired off a note to his assistant Cat Steele to focus the security training sessions on repelling boarders.

Finally Jureth began digging through the Federation network pulling down everything he could on the Horizon's Children. He pulled several newsnet articles, and public statements by the group. Then, while he waited for Fleet Captain Samji to continue the briefing he began to read...