Intelligence officer's log 02

Posted on Saturday April 1st, 2017 @ 1:01pm by Lieutenant JG Azrathiel Voidstar

Mission: Episode Twenty one: Cutting the bad flesh
Location: USS Cychreides
Timeline: 94772.87

Intelligence officer's log 02.

The past few days have been rather... interesting so to say and eerily quiet.
We've had almost to zero reports of action and activity from the cartel, they've gone silent as if they're planning or doing something, most interesting thoughts.

As I previously mentioned, nothing much didn't happen, this has given me enough time to analyze the details and intel what we know on Cartel, it has revealed interesting details which will prove most fruitful for our use.
However, my analyze was soon called to a halt as I received early information of our Captain collapsing and being delirious. I rushed to the Sick Bay where I was greeted by Doctor Sherkar and CMO Sharid, treating and dragging Captain onto one of the medical beds and putting on sleep and anesthesia.

The reason for the events seems to be a very rapidly developed tumor, most alarming as it was detected only at start of the month.
I stayed in the Sick Bay and followed the procedures. CMO Sharid was adamant on starting surgery while Doctor Sherkar was interested in acquiring more information. Before being put to sleep though, Captain was wailing in agony and in delirious state that he needs the link, they are talking to him. These motions ushered me to apprehend the Captain via my mental skills, I tried to reach to him in his mind but some one else answered. I was shocked and surprised of this sudden discovery and dropped the connection, the doctors noticed my shock and reaction and became curious. I informed them that what ever is this tumor, it just talked to me in plural form. They both were surprised... and shocked.

We soon agreed that there is an entity of some sorts inside his mind but physically resembling a tumor. For what purpose? Who knows but Captain seemed to be adamant on keeping it for some reason before slipping into sleeping state.
Doctor Sherkar suggested a synaptic tracker to be placed on my head because I was to create a connection with the Captain, I was.... very uncomfortable by this notion as it is in our culture tracking and tampering with our kind's mind is a highly frowned and uncomfortable norm... both mentally and physically.

I reluctantly agreed into this... procedure, because it would help the Captain.
I laid down in the bed next to Captain as the tracker was put on my head and tendrils, I relaxed and closed my eyes as I prepared for bigger mental interaction, ensuring my own psi barriers were intact.

We began on the procedure, I began to drift as I formed the mental link between me and Captain Dima's mind where the entity was residing. We began to talk and converse together. The moment was.... interesting and hard to describe. Eventually I learned that the entity was there for a reason, it was fully self aware and had a purpose. The Captain had to remember a message... a warning and plea of help so to say but he needs to be conscious.

As I was conversing with the Entity, I sensed the arrival of Chief Petty Officer Kara who soon also joined to help us. Even in my established mental link I could sense and hear the others around the room. It was agreed that Kara was to be a sort of speaker for me, should I needed to interract with others in the room. I found this motion... helpful on her part. I could understand for example Doctor Sherkar's reasoning that he wouldn't want me to directly message him in his mind. I will respect the good doctor's mental privacy and acted through Kara what I could, her mental signature is tricky due to the temporal disturbance, it was tricky to get a hold of her but eventually we succeeded.

I kept communing with the entity for a while before acquiring all information what I could but I agreed on helping the Entity, because I felt and sensed a much greater plot behind these events, Captain wanted it, he has carried it now for a while and willingly perhaps?
It was a risk... but I am no stranger to risk as I calculated the odds and chances. I soon shortly departed from his mind and closed the deep mental link between each other and woke up.

I informed the others what I found out, the entity wanted Captain awake and in control, if he would remember, the entity cease to exist as a tumor and wither away, not posing any longer threat to Captain's brain.

CMO Sharid wasn't too pleased with the news, I understand on her case, she wishes to only safeguard our good Captains health and well being, I will not blame her adamant attitude what she was putting up but she worked with us. We began to plan a way on storing and planting the tumor in an artificial brain to save the Captain, of course it required an extensive surgery and preparation and lots of time... time what we didn't have and surgery would ruin the bigger picture... something else was at stake here, more than what we could see now.
I briefly communicated with the Entity as we were preparing, the Entity was begging that Captain is to be waken up... because the entity has no control over the growth process.

I sighed and turned to CMO Sharid and pressured her into waking up the Captain, she agreed only if there would be ways to contain the Captain and the environment, thanks to Doctor Sherkar's suggestions we artificially paralyzed the Captain fully from neck to toe and raised a high level containment shield around him before we woke him up.

He woke up... and he was in control now but he was cranky and tired. He was confused on where he was, what has happened. We informed him of the events and what has happened, he seemed to be confused and lost. I stepped in and began to usher him on trying to remember and slowly push deep into his memories and thoughts which he did. We quickly traced event of origin to the Peace Conference which he and Lieutenant Commander Dovok attended. From there he received the entity from consuming specific food that was reserved for him. But there was a discrepancy in his memories... something what off in the picture.

We had little time, the tumor was growing but it had slowed down as we made progress, CMO Sharid pushed me into attempting harder and gave me only small amount of time before she would forcibly operate on him and remove the tumor.

I began to push the Captain and try to guide him deeper, we soon discovered that the memory was a fake, deep down was a message, a warning for him. The cartel had moved much faster than anticipated, most of their Chief leaders and second in command are now in control of the main body of the Rh'ti Government and they have captured the President, Prime Minister and the ruling party chairman, holding them hostage. As we learned this, the time was very short as the Doctors were now preparing for surgery and activated a surgery drone. I tried to protest and I needed more time, I stepped in and now accessed the Captains mind, projecting myself into his memories as I boosted his mental capabilities and tried to offer clarification, which did pay off. The process was much faster as the entity had a detailed location where they held the prisoners. An ancient temple... but where? It was on Rh'ti but where? I quickly accessed my mind palace, pulling various charts of the capitol building and capital city and surrounding regions... it was close, very close and we finally found the location of the temple, I saw it in his mind, through Captain and into the Entity I saw every detail and inch of the map and region and inside structure. As we reached to this point, Captain began to convulse and shake, I closed and departed from his mind, I had what I wanted.

I woke up and informed the others that I know where the Government is being held hostage and then the Doctors began to operate on the Captain, quickly discovering that the Entity indeed did keep it's promise and was shrinking and withering away.
I gathered the other officers what I could and talked with them, we had to act NOW and assault the temple. It was going to be tricky... Cartel has a lot of force and firepower down on Rh'ti now. However... I might be able to conjure a relief to our predicament for this.

We are close on ending and exposing the Cartel... now it is just a race against the clock.
-End of log