Illegal Portal

Because of the Earth Solar array sabotage and investigation was lead by Commander Leveque which lead to illegal guns being made and then smuggled out to other planets in Alpha Sector via an illegal portal.

While investigating the missing solar array supplies, two of his team tracked an order and discovered that after the crates had been prepared for shipment, they were opened and some of the supplies were removed and illegal guns were added to the crates. Once those crates arrived on Earth a group of fake military security officers intercepted the ones that contained the guns and they were taken away.

Once the security agents discovered the illegal guns, the solar array investigation *became part of a wider Military Security investigation into similar guns that have been appearing over the last couple of years, on Hestia, Freya, and several other problematic worlds in Alpha sector*.”

In *Array 2781*, it was discovered that some CAS members on Academy had been making high quality, illegal guns and smuggling them to crisis points around Alpha Sector. Their method involved disguising the weapons as legitimate deliveries for the Earth solar arrays, causing delays and missing deliveries for them. Once on Earth, the smugglers portalled the weapons to other worlds via an illegal interstellar portal run by a member of the main board of Hospital Earth.

When the CSA officers were interrogated, the military security team discovered that they had paid Captain Bastoc on General Amundsen's staff to assist them with preventing Colonel Ngobi, commander of Earth's Solar Array's from communicating with the General. Captain Bastoc recruited Captain Hansen to help him. Hansen was deeply prejudice against the handicapped so he would help out of spite and Bastoc wouldn't have to pay him. Bastoc thought that Hansen went too far when he reassigned all of Jaxon's teams dart ships elsewhere and sent them to Earth without any ships. Bastoc and Hansen had a series of fights which lead to Bastoc killing Hansen and burying him on Academy. This murder resulted in all controls on Bastoc's trouble making to be removed and he thought up worse problems for Earth's solar arrays.

The tracking of the original two crates containing the guns, lead the security investigation team to an illegal portal. First the fake military security officers that had picked up those crates took them through multiple portals in an effort to muddy their trail, then they replaced the military labels with civilians ones denoting general supplies and with a destination of Hestia. They delivered the crates to another Earth interstellar freight portal. A portal that Leveque could not find listed in the portal network nor were the operators wearing the portal network uniform. The portal operators did no scans of the crates, just dialed their destination and sent them through.

Leveque discovered and arrested the member of the main board of Hospital Earth responsible for the illegal interstellar freight portal. Weslen Mitchall the son of Storban Mitchall the head of the Board of Directors. Storban denied all knowledge of the portal.

In *Sol 2781* Storban Mitchall reacted by saying that Hospital Hearth had jurisdiction over all crimes committed on Earth and stationed people at all off-world sites to block the military attempts to take Weslen to Academy for interrogation.

They were at a stalemate until Parliament of Planets could make a ruling.

In a private meeting with Commander Leveque, Storban Mitchall told him that if the military didn't find his son innocent of all charges he would take reprisals against the military on Earth's Solar arrays. When Leveque pointed out that he could be endangering Earth, he replied that all he would do is forbid the Earth Solar Array staff from setting foot on the planet. Unfortunately, there are precedents where solar staff do not live or visit the planet that they are working to provide power for. The military had forbidden the power array staff for Hestia and Freya to live on those planets.

Storban expects the military to install interstellar portals on the Earth solar arrays, so the staff can commute to and from another world. The installation of the portals will take at least a week so while they are complying with that edict they are frantically working on a plan that will negate the need for the staff to commute, as some of the staff have children with immune syndrome

When all delays by Storban Mitchell are exhausted and Parliament of Planets has ordered Mitchell to turn over his son to the military, Leveque and his security team portal to Earth and escort Weslen Mitchall to one of the off-worlds, where his father is waiting. Storben makes a speech denouncing his son, saying that he knew nothing about the illegal portal and he intends to fully cooperate with the Military.

Weslen felt that he was betrayed so told military security everything, including how Storban bribed members of the "Hospital Earth Appointments Subcommittee" of Parliament of Planets to approve other relatives and friends for the board and they all shared in the profits of the illegal portal.

The final resolution was that Storban as well as several other members of the board were fired and several members from the "Hospital Earth Appointments Subcommittee" were dismissed.

All of those people were questioned by military security in regard to allegations of bribery and corruption.

## References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Array 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 3) (p. 339). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Array 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 3) (p. 343). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.