The New Threat [Tigh] }{ [Admiral's Office]

[Sibil Tucker]

[February 24th 2523 - After the events of 'Off-Duty Time']

Sibil wasn't showing any signs of rushing or panic as she walked to the Admiral's office. Hopeful he was in there. The anger inside her was swirling though, part of her wanted to just go put a gun to that piece of trash's head and pull the trigger.

When she reached the office door she paused, taking a deep breath before knocking. Once she was told to enter, the neutral look on her face faded and the anger showed. Sibil stood in front of the Admiral's desk, locked her eyes on his "I need to talk to you immediately sir."

No salute had been offered, no greeting for anyone else that may have been in the room. There was no room for pleasantries right now. Not for the Chief of Security.

[tigh]

Tigh had been in her office working up paper work as usual. It seemed every few minutes someone showed up with some business theny needed him for. It was getting to that point where he was ready to just turn people away from his office. he needed to focus on his business.

He heard a knock at the door once again. "Enter." He said loadly. Shortly it was followed up by Sibil entering the room. Normally he was happy to see Sibil she always had good news but this time was different. She seemed upset about something.

Tigh didn't stand up from his desk, instead saying in his seat. He noticed she even lacked the salute that she would normally offer. Something was definatly wrong with her, and had this been any other place thne his office he would have jumped her for he attatude. Here though he was willing to offer a bit a concessions on it. "Proceed Lieutenant Commander, but I would suggest you take a deap breath first and calm down."

He honestly didn't want her to cross any line in what she said, she was a smart officer and a top quality one. The last thing he wanted was to have to repremand her for going beyond what she should be doing. Once she was calmer then she would be able to get the issue out correctly to him.

[Sibil Tucker]

Sibil sighed slightly at the Admiral's request of her to 'calm down' but she did what he asked and took a moment to center herself. Hopefully he would understand why she was acting the way she was once it was explained. Though she didn't have very much in the way of exact details, she was definitely not going to keep the information from Tigh. Usually if someone asked that something be kept secret she would oblige, but this was different, the situation was much more serious. Lives were on the line on this one and she couldn't keep her mouth shut about it and keep a good conscious.

"We have a problem, with White Arrow...or at least some of them." Sibil sighed again, crossing her arms across her chest while she took a moment to figure out how to word everything. "Truthfully sir I didn't get a whole lot in details, but I was told that Warden Cravski is planning something that will take place after the Duke's visit."

Now she was starting to pace slowly back and forth in front of the Admiral's desk. "Basically they're going to try and take over the Esteem by force. I'm not sure how to handle this Admiral..Drevin Bendis took me aside and told me. He doesn't even know who all is going to take part, only that it's going to happen." There was more but Sibil took a few moments pause to let her mind process and for her words to sink into the Admiral. Her security team would be no match for the mercenaries, really very few on the Esteem probably would be. The Alliance made a terrible mistake putting these men on her ship and now they were going to pay the price.

[tigh]

Tigh began to understand Sibil's frustration and his demeanor relaxed from being focused at her and now on to that of White Arrow. They were a threat to them if they were planning something but Tigh had faith in his ability to stand up to a small force like this. He would set things up a it differently with the crew specs. "Pull some of your men back from planet side. We can lesses the number of missions conducted out side the main city, until we have more details." Tigh was very calm on the exterior about it all. Though he had never faced a thread directly on a cruiser before.

They had hundreds up men off the ship and the majority of the security crews were on the ground White Arrow would be able to do quiet the damage to the ship and her crew as they currently were. "Take your time about it though, we don't want to alarm them to our knowlege of their plan." He thought things over as she finished talking about it all.

"If Bendis has told you about this then I would like you to try and get a chance to talk to him more about the matter. He could be on our side or this could just be part of their power play so don't take anything at face value. Lets just keep calm about it and I will talk to Lieutenant Owens to get us all the details he can on them then we will move forward from there." It was always possible that Bendis was a little off his rocker and was just making things up out of anger from a dispute that him and the Warden had. Anything was possible and it was time to start getting thnigs in order. WIth a few more men on board they wouldn't be able to take the ship unless it was done while the security team was distracted with something else.

[Sibil Tucker]

Sibil continued to pace slowly even as the Admiral began to respond. Her mind was going in twenty different directions, playing out the damage that could happen because of this. The officers they might lose. She nodded to acknowledge that she was hearing him. Another sigh escaped the chief, "Yeah I was led to believe that would be bad for my health if I let on to the Warden that I know anything." She was no trained mercenary, she was a soldier. While she had faith in her skills as a soldier, mercenaries tended to be more brutal and ruthless when they fought. Sibil could admit that she probably wouldn't fair to well against the more seasoned White Arrow members.

Stopping as Tigh went on, her eyes meeting his. "I'll do my best sir though I'm under the impression he can't tell me anything further at the moment. Perhaps as whatever date this is going to happen gets closer. As far as involving anyone else sir..I know it isn't my place to say, but we need to keep a very tight lid on this. I was told to not even tell you about it; if what we know leaks it could get back to the Warden." Sibil didn't need to point out the potential that held. If the Warden found out that they had been told it would go very badly for not only Drevin but Sibil as well; and whoever else the Warden saw fit. They would need to play this situation very carefully.

[tigh]

Tigh was greatful that Sibil had brought this all to his attention. He needed someone he could trust dealing with this situation and he had no one he trusted more then his Chief of engineering. "I trust you will be able to handle it Lieutenant Commander. Keep me informed of anything that does change or any new news. Also if there is any resources you need to keep this under control let me know."

They had one hell of a situation on their hands and they needed to keep it under control as best they can and with everything coming up it was even more important that they managed to do exactly that.