Wallace looked around and found his team, all together, waiting for Wallace to say move up or backwards. Richard quickly pulled out his tricorder and scanned for the direction of the town. It was 1 kilometer to the west of their current location.
"Alright lets move out in a standerd formation, phaser rifles on safety, hand phaser's the same. Keep about 3 meters apart. Cadet Razek take point. your out ahead 5 meters from me and the rest of the formation."
Razek gave a look of being confused, at why he was placed in the front.
"Lets move people."Wallace said starting to walked off through some of the many woods that made up the planet.
The group walked at a very good pace and saw the smoke coming from the town only 200 meters away. Richard made a motion to Razek and the others to get down. Richard pulled out a telescope, and looked ahead towards the town. He saw a few buildings, mainly in the residental area on fire, and one burned completly. "Okay, Razek, Sovick, and Doctor your with me, the rest of you move up when I give word." Richard dropped his pack, and got off his knees and brought his phaser rifle to his midchest. The four did a sprint and Wallace, along with Sovick took cover along side the building near the town square.
Sovick pulled out his tricorder, and scanned around the town square. He shook his head in a manner that let the Captain know that no life signs were present. Richard stood up, and motioned for the rest of the detachment move into the town. To look around for anything. "Sovick I'm heading into the Governer's building and taking a look." Richard said slinging his rifle over his shoulder. The walk didn't take long, as niether did the search in the building. He looked in at the main office, and saw furniture turned over.
The governer was laying to the right of his desk, with phaser burn and exit wound on his left shoulder, the hole was 8 inches wide. He also lay in a pool of his own blood. Richard then checked the bedroom, and saw the governer's wife laying half off the bed, and on the floor.
[Doctor Cherrin here,come in Captain]
"Wallace here, what is it?" Richard said walking out of the Government building.
[Sir I just foun 45 men,women, and childran, all dead some 5 centimeters apart. It looks like mass murder.]
"I know Lieutenant, gather the dead and form a burial detail, and lets bury them. Looks like Nevar is the one that will be running into any one alive here."
[Aye Aye sir.]
Wallace then walked over into a shop of sorts, and found a dead alien he had yet to encounter. The alien was 6'5" tall, 245 pounds, lizard like,dark brown skin. He head was covered by a face guard that only went over his mouth, he had body armor on. Richard pulled out his tricorder, and scanned and stored the data, for future study.
"Commander Nevar come in." Wallace hoped he could reach him on the comm channel.
[Captain, good to here you sir.]
"I want you to bring back the other colonist to the town to make a stand. Better then fighting in the hills."
[Fine sir we haven't reached their location yet, be another three or five hours. And then it will be dark. I don't want to venture down the mountain at night.]
"Okay that's fine, get there, and leave with them tommrow at 0430 hours. We are going to make defense preprations."
[Nevar out]
"Sovick get some men and dig a trench to the south of the town, I want it 6 meters deep, and 2 meters wide."
Sovick looked towards the rear of the town and pictured it in his head and then took off.
"Cadet, I want you to build fortifcations around the town square, rocks sticks logs. Fill the gap between the governer's office, and the 6 other buildings." Razek took another ensign and went to work picking up cut wood and pieces of sheet metal.
Wallace looked at Doctor Cherrin, and saw he wanted to put his pitch in to help.
"Okay doc, I want enough supplies for about 100 people, to last one week in a siege, gather what you can around the town.
"I want three men to dig fox holes infront of the town square, and same around the resident quarters. I want 2 men on guard duty, one take a postion on top of the store over there. The other needs to watch from the woods."
Richard went about finding barracades, such as desk and beds, and dressers,tables, and chairs. They worked or 4 hours and the hour of twlight came. And at that time most of the defenses were still needingwork.