Njessa returned to her command chair as they approached their target system. “Status reports, all stations.”

“No unusual comm chatter though we did fly through a barrage of Ferengi ads about an hour ago,” said Irij. “But they were part of a wide dispersal through the sub-sector as far as I could determine, not specifically aimed at us.”

Miala snickered despite her preoccupation with her console. “Tactical standing by to vaporize a transmitter or two if need be.”

“Wide scans are quite… busy,” Storrok announced, tapping away at his console, “it seems there were several ships here not too long ago and sensors are picking up several particles above natural baselines, including neutrinos.” he glances over towards the science station sending them full readouts of particles found.

Njessa listened to the report. “Optimize a pair of probes to run down those traces. We do not want any surprises if we can avoid them.”

“Amen to that,” Nancy muttered.  She’d spent too much time in Romulan space or its edges not to start expecting a cloaked ship once she heard neutrinos.

“Probes away.” Storrok reported, “They should reach those trails in approximately 1 minute 4 seconds.”

Njessa nodded. “Tactical, are there any additional precautions you recommend?”

Miala shook her head. “I already have tactical systems on soft yellow and am monitoring short-range feeds. I’m all for pinning down those neutrinos’ source, but recommend keeping our posture vigilant rather than expectant of trouble. If it’s a cloaked ship, rummaging through the area with everything hot may trigger fight or flight in its crew. Putting out probes also might, but at least we’re not definitively asserting intent to blow them out of the stars.”

“Hopefully it will not come to that,” said Njessa. “But being prepared for combat is what is most likely to prevent such.”

Njessa looked to her acting science chief. “How do you want to proceed? It will be your show once we get to the moon.”

Calen sighed, nodding, “Once we reach the moon, I’ll run a full sensor sweep. The probe telementry would give us a starting point, and I’ll correlate that with any residual particle traces. We’ll know what we’re dealing with.”

“Then let us get to the moon,” said Njessa. “Helm, ahead, warp two, dropping to impulse to take up a stable orbit around the moon.”

“Yes, ma’am,” replied Soola, making the appropriate adjustments.