It was the first time in two months that Darmus walked through the doors of the Coruscant ranger office and he did so with a heavy heart. A lot of things had happened in the meantime, including a devastating attack on the prison on Corellia, but Darmus was determined to focus on the future now. He'd spend the last few months drinking himself into depressions in between bacta treatments and he was in a desperate need to change his own outlook. Solving a case would be a good start.
When he arrived at his station, however, Darmus showed a first crack. Ofcourse, he though, he didn't have any open cases right now. When he was injured he had to return all of them to the pool so other rangers could pick them up if they had the time and most leads would've gone ice cold by now anyway. Already craving a stiff drink, the forty-something ranger sat himself down in his chair with a sigh and grabbed the datapad from the table.
It was dead. His work-datapad had been idle for so long he needed to plug it for it to start up and only then did the bright red notification flash up.
<<Task Expired: Sign After Action Report Doctor's Orders>>
"Damnit, Captain-" Darmus growled, "-couldn't you have just signed it for me?" Another, even deeper, sigh later and the ranger leaned back in his chair and began reading the report that the young Corran Velt had written while Darmus was lowered into a bacta tank three districts away.
"Assigned to protect Dr. Zafina Strop. Key witness."
So far so good, kid. Smart of you to keep out the part about my suggesting you sleep with her. Appreciate you looking out for your elder, Darmus thought with an amused grin. Reading the report might just be the thing he was needing..
"Guards spotted three gunmen, but were unable to confirm due to network breach."
Darmus was beginning to remember the details of their mission. He'd been too busy with current events to really bother looking back at the mission that got him shot, but now that he need the change in scenery he started to recall his slice-off with a criminal slicer they gunmen called "Kal".
"Ranger Onn got shot and needed immediate repatriation. I took all three gunmen into custody."
"Good work, kid-" Darmus smiled and tried to scroll down to the recordings of their interrogations when he spotted there weren't any. "-maybe not. Rookie mistake, I'm sure." This not being the first time a ranger forgot to add links for convenience's sake, Darmus knew his way around the network and after a minute scrolled down the interrogation files of two months ago. "Huh?" there was a gap on the morning after their mission. "They never interrogated them?" he looked further into the archives to find at least any reservations of interrogation rooms and there he did find one, but only the one.
"Lieutenant Titch, Interrogation room three. Doctor's Orders."
By now he was getting the distinct feeling that something was really kriffing wrong and he dialled up Lieutenant Titch only to find that his number was disconnected. Rising up from his chair and looking around to the other present rangers, Darmus raised his voice "Anyone know if Lieutenant Titch is around?"
A ranger three desks over looked up and over to Darmus, recognizing him and then, suddenly saddened, shook his head. "Kriff, Darmus, I guess you don't know. Titch got in an accident a month ago. He's dead."
Darmus' shoulders dropped and he fell back into his chair. What the kriff was going on here? Feeling utterly confused, he decided to ask the rookie if he could shed some light.
<<Corran, if you can spare the time come meet me at my desk at your earliest convenience.>>
While he waited, Darmus decided to continue his search for the missing files.
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When he arrived at his station, however, Darmus showed a first crack. Ofcourse, he though, he didn't have any open cases right now. When he was injured he had to return all of them to the pool so other rangers could pick them up if they had the time and most leads would've gone ice cold by now anyway. Already craving a stiff drink, the forty-something ranger sat himself down in his chair with a sigh and grabbed the datapad from the table.
It was dead. His work-datapad had been idle for so long he needed to plug it for it to start up and only then did the bright red notification flash up.
<<Task Expired: Sign After Action Report Doctor's Orders>>
"Damnit, Captain-" Darmus growled, "-couldn't you have just signed it for me?" Another, even deeper, sigh later and the ranger leaned back in his chair and began reading the report that the young Corran Velt had written while Darmus was lowered into a bacta tank three districts away.
"Assigned to protect Dr. Zafina Strop. Key witness."
So far so good, kid. Smart of you to keep out the part about my suggesting you sleep with her. Appreciate you looking out for your elder, Darmus thought with an amused grin. Reading the report might just be the thing he was needing..
"Guards spotted three gunmen, but were unable to confirm due to network breach."
Darmus was beginning to remember the details of their mission. He'd been too busy with current events to really bother looking back at the mission that got him shot, but now that he need the change in scenery he started to recall his slice-off with a criminal slicer they gunmen called "Kal".
"Ranger Onn got shot and needed immediate repatriation. I took all three gunmen into custody."
"Good work, kid-" Darmus smiled and tried to scroll down to the recordings of their interrogations when he spotted there weren't any. "-maybe not. Rookie mistake, I'm sure." This not being the first time a ranger forgot to add links for convenience's sake, Darmus knew his way around the network and after a minute scrolled down the interrogation files of two months ago. "Huh?" there was a gap on the morning after their mission. "They never interrogated them?" he looked further into the archives to find at least any reservations of interrogation rooms and there he did find one, but only the one.
"Lieutenant Titch, Interrogation room three. Doctor's Orders."
By now he was getting the distinct feeling that something was really kriffing wrong and he dialled up Lieutenant Titch only to find that his number was disconnected. Rising up from his chair and looking around to the other present rangers, Darmus raised his voice "Anyone know if Lieutenant Titch is around?"
A ranger three desks over looked up and over to Darmus, recognizing him and then, suddenly saddened, shook his head. "Kriff, Darmus, I guess you don't know. Titch got in an accident a month ago. He's dead."
Darmus' shoulders dropped and he fell back into his chair. What the kriff was going on here? Feeling utterly confused, he decided to ask the rookie if he could shed some light.
<<Corran, if you can spare the time come meet me at my desk at your earliest convenience.>>
While he waited, Darmus decided to continue his search for the missing files.
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