Captains Log: July 18th 2156

I have successfully persuaded Empress Sato to believe that Captain Tucker was captured by a rouge Terran vessel. Knowing that she would immediatly track down this ship and destory it, I gave her the ID signiture of the I.S.S. Druid, who is captained by Commander Sar'vak, a Vulcan. We had encountered his ship many days ago as they were doing a routine cheack on one of the orbital defences of Betazoid. I told the Empress that the ship had been equipted with a cloaking device and that it had appeared without warning and taken Captain Tucker Captive. I expressed my own concerns that perhaps Captain Tucker had been working alongside the traitors while in command of the Paladin. I theorized aloud (in order to influence the Empress) that Tucker was involved in an anti-Terran rebellion, that is known to contain his old flame, T'Pol. I suggested that Commander Sar'vak was in collaboration with the rebellion and that Captain Tucker had no doubt realized my intentions to turn him over to Empress Hoshi Sato herself. So he contacted Sar'vak to use stollen cloaking technology from The Defiant and retrieve him before he was apprehended. I recounted how I apprehended Tucker and placed him in the Agony Booth, before he escaped aboard a shuttle. I then told the Empress that Tucker had no doubt betrayed the Empire and that he was now onboard the I.S.S. Druid alongside Sar'vak. The Empress was so enraged that her one time loyal officer would betray her, steal her technology, and work against her Empire, that she immediatly left to find the Druid.
The Druid is a Terran Empire ship that is mostly crewed by Aliens. If I know Empress Sato as well as I believe. She will not speak to the Druid before destroying it. She will then asume that Tucker was killed in the ships destruction. That will give me time to find where Tucker is acctually Hiding and kill him before he contacts the Empress and explains that I was the one who betrayed him. I was able to convince Sato of the conspiracy so well that she is planning to issue an Imperial decry dictating that all non-Terrans will be removed from any Empire ships and stations and be detained until a full investigation is completed. Which hopefully will take months.

Captains Log: July 17th 2156

Captain Tucker has illuded me for some time now, we have been in orbit of the Y-class planet for seven hours with no clue as to where he is.
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The Defiant has just decloaked, Empress Hoshi Sato herself has contacted me! She inquired about Captain Tucker, a long time friend of hers, and i told her that I had destroyed him along with the shuttle when he tried to escape. She bought it for now. It gives us a few hours of searching. However she insisted on staying and assisting with repairs. I can only pray that Tucker has not been able to contact her, or else we will be dead within hours. The Paladin is a formidable warship, but it is no match for 24th century technology. I have made arangements for Empress Sato to dine with me tonight, perhaps I can discover more of what she knows of Captain Tucker.

Captain’s Log: July 16, 2156

Captain Tucker is becoming a problem. My transporter chief is having problems adapting the Defiant’s Technology to our systems. So logically I had Mr. Tucker removed from the brig and forced him to assist in the maintenance. Mr. Tucker did not enjoy that. He found a way to bypass the security protocols on the transporter and beamed directly to the launch bay. The bastard stole the prototype NCC shuttle, with adapted Defiant technology. He fired on my ship, my ship! Taking out the warp drive. The Paladin is now in pursuit of the fugitive captain. It appears that he has set course for a small Y class planet. He won’t survive very long if he lands so he must be planning something else. The enemies of the empire will fall at my knees.

Captain’s Log: July 14, 2156

As expected Voltmit thought it would be wise to rise against me. Fool! I had everything planned out, my personal guard was nearby and when he pulled his phase pistol on me he had four pointing directly in his face. I then took his phase pistol and burned his skin with a minimum close range yield. He endured fifteen minutes of the booth, quite impressive for a fool. I killed him with a dull batleth blade, in public display to make sure that no further uprisings occur. I have decided not to promote anyone else, perhaps some enjoyment will come from their attempts at proving their worth.

Captain’s Log: June 22, 2156

The former captain of the ISS Paladin NCC-803 is in the booth right now undergoing severe torture by out good doctor. The Paladin is now my ship. I control the most advanced ship in the fleet, with the exception of the Defiant, commanded by Empress Hoshi Sato herself. I command the allegiance of the crew, I have placed all non-terrains in crew quarters for now. Captain Tucker was too lenient toward their kind, I have taken it upon myself to make sure that he or the impure do not interfere with the will of the empire. In engineering I have placed my loyal right hand, Fredrik Voltmit. A skilled technician and worthy of promotion, his advancement threatens my own, however and I may be forced to dispose of him before he rallies too many to his side.