[b][i]Iuvis Sector
Asari Controlled Space[/i][/b]

Commander Riel is standing on the bridge of the ASN Cyclone, illuminated by the blue light that the big galaxy map in the middle of the room projects, staring into a big, empty void of darkness, pondering. A faint voice can be heard as she thinks heavily about something. 

“Commander?” the voice says, barely audible.

“Commander!” Riel and her surroundings suddenly snap into focus.

“Oh!” she says out loud. Surprised, Riel turns around and find Ensign Jelia Drisus, the communications officer, standing in front of her.

“Commander!” she says once again and salutes.

“Oh. Ensign.” she responds with a slightly gloomy tone. “At ease.”

“Priority message from the fleet, Commander. Fleet Commander Teli is waiting for you in the communications room.” she advises Riel.

“Thank you. I’m headed there now. Lieutenant Avero! Watch the bridge for me!” she shouts loudly across the room.

“Yes, Commander!” the Lieutenant answers back.

Riel walks past all of the bridge staff and up a ramp in the middle of the room leading to a door at the back end of the room, meanwhile, Lieutenant Avero takes her place on the bridge. Ensign Drisus returns to her post at a computer console. 

Riel walks through two rooms, mainly quarters designated for command staff, until she arrives at the communications room. As she enters the communications room, a huge screen can be seen at the wall towards the back of the room with a small ring in the middle just before it. Riel looks at the screen, then down at the small ring and steps onto it. Out of nowhere, small, blue lines appear and start moving downwards from head to toe, like a scanner. The room turns black and the lines disappear. A figure with their back to her appears on the, now, brightly lit screen.

“Well, well. If it isn’t Commander D’ysentis.” the figure says, in a commanding voice.

The figure turns around and Riel realizes that the figure is, of course, none other than Fleet Commander Teli S’heha.

“Fleet Commander Teli!” Riel quickly salutes.

“At ease, Commander.” Teli replies.

Riel drops her hand and proceeds to stand with both her legs at shoulder width and with both hands behind her back.

“Commander. I’m going to cut right to the chase here. This is an urgent request coming straight from the top and I’m rather busy at the moment with this issue myself!” Teli says.

“There seems to be a situation developing in the Sirius Sector. Reports are coming in as we speak and we aren’t fully aware of what is going on over there, but preliminary reports suggest some kind of pirate activity near the planet Central. It doesn’t sound pretty.”

“Have we made any contact with any other allied vessels in the area?” Riel asks.

Riel notices that a crew member comes up to Teli and hands her a datapad. She turns around and speaks something unintelligible for a couple of seconds, then she returns her attention back to Riel.

“We are in the process of contacting other allied vessels nearby, in an attempt to figure out what the hell is going on. In the meantime, Commander. I need you and your ship to travel the Sirius Sector, conduct a reconnaissance mission and report back. If you are able to establish contact with anyone, do so.”

“At once!” Riel answers.

Teli salutes “I have to go. Be careful, Commander. We will be sending you relevant information as soon as we have it, Teli out.”

The screen turns black and the room goes back to the normal white lighting that is standard across the ship. Riel steps off the ring and moves towards the door. She stops for a second and looks down at the floor. She inhales, then exhales, deeply both times, and starts walking towards the bridge.

Riel arrives at the bridge and stops at the galaxy map, looking at it. 

After a brief pause, she turns around, facing the ship's navigator and says “Navigator, set a course for the Sirius Sector.”