"Still nothing from the Odyssey, sir,"
Vice Admiral Pedretti took a stiffly deep breath, "When was their last check-in?"
The young lieutenant fresh out of OCS expertly fingered through an ocean of data, formulated his response, then answered accurately.
Another stiffly deep breath from the Vice Admiral, then he continued, "Okay--divert the Voyager and the asset to their last known coordinates; search pattern Alpha-Alpha-Zero-Five."
The lieutenant expertly acknowledged and carried out his orders.
Pedretti determinedly beamed at the surrounding displays, realizing what the mountains of metadata pouring in were telling him. . . What-the-heck is going on?
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