Hitting the Foundation

It's been a long road until we got here, sitting on standby above Cressidium on the UNSC-V Light Carrier, the Rio Grande. Currently, we got people on the group negotiating with the old holdouts from SecComm to bring them into Third Comm and greater Union. Their tech is way behind, thankfully, and we shouldn't need to intervene -- so our CO tells us.
 
Then, we got the call. The entire ship shrieked to life, klaxons blaring, and outer guns firing.
 
PERSON came over the comms: "PERSON has been attacked. Since Cressidium isn't a member of Union yet, we can't do anything officially. As such, we've decided to deploy a rescue operation. Find the diplomat, and get them home."
 
We launched, amidst gunfire, and it was a rocky landing. We were all in one piece -- and we were on our own.