Commander Kelly was heading towards the docking bay where the runabout Delaware was as NCO Murphy run up to Kelly yelling. "Sir wait up."
Kelly stopped and turned to see Murphy running up to him. "What is Mr. Murphy?"
"I wanted to inform you I made a few modifications to the Delaware, sir"
"What kind?"
"I've enhanced the warp drive to point .45 more out put and the phaser's to have a bit more of a bite. Also the shields have been enhanced to give more survivability to 75%."
"Thanks, and I'll be seeing you soon."
Kelly made his way into the Delaware and sat at the tactical station and made a quick check on the upgrades that Crewman Murphy had made. Call then came in and sat the helm station and pressed a few buttons to power up the Impulse engines.
[ Supply Base 901. You're clear to leave Docking Bay 2]
"Roger that SB901." Kelly said.
The Delaware lifted off and cleared the docking bay doors and cruised out at quarter impulse power. After clearing the Station by some 500 meters Call took the Delaware to full speed. Twenty minutes later, after leaving the station the two officers relaxed. Kelly went and grabbed a cup of coffee and Call ran a few sensor sweeps.
"So tell me honestly Call what do you think of good 'ol Supply Base 901."
"It's a good assignment."
"Yeah but slow".
"However Commander I think it'll get a little busy here soon."
"Sure hope so."
Three hours later the Delaware came to the planet's area of space which the colonist wanted to colonize. "Entering the area of Space on our sensors."
"Come to a stop above the planet slated for colonization."
The planet was huge, three times the size of Earth. It had 3 continents, and 5 bodies of water. Call then walked over to the science station and scanned the planets surface. He was amazed by the findings. "Commander get this."
"What?"
"On the western continent there is about 200 caves loaded with dilthuim. And on the Southern Continent there is all kinds of steel and iron."
"Well no wonder the colonist are eager to set up home here. Why don't you check out the planets third moon."
"Sure okay."
The moon was Class M but only had one land mass on it and it was the size of the State of Alaska. it also had a rich deposit of Iron. "Okay Call lets scan the surrounding area around here for Son'a activity."
The two worked hard and saw nothing to warrant alarm and commander Kelly sent a message to Supply Base 901.
[Commander good work now it's time to go, and head home]
Call then made a course back home at warp 3 and then took it easy by sitting back and eating some food from the replicator. Kelly went ahead and made a report to give to the Admiral and included every detail of the planets surveyed.
"Well this is turning out to be interesting." Kelly remarked to Call.
"Let's hope the Son'a stay out of this for awhile."