<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Mission: The Flames of
Purity<br>
Day: 16 <br>
Stardate: 2445.09.16<br>
<br>
(Runabout Broken Bow – CONN - CFO- Lieutenant – Ire Williams- 0914)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"></span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Okay Ire lest do this
again.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He`s fingers moved across
the console. The Runabout was in standby mode and he was running a flight
simulation through the conn console while he was waiting for an update. He
turned the runabout into a tight turn as he watched the indicators on the
console start to blink in alarm. He pushed it tighter and cut power so that it
was dropping like a stone. He began a full engine restart as he watched the altimeter
begin to rapidly spool down. His fingers moved with practiced routine, but he
could feel the slowness.</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">~Come on, come on, you need
to be faster than this~</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">The engines restarted, and
he pushed the impulse engines to maximum as well as kicking in the maneuvering thrusters.
The altimeter slowed as the impulse engines went to maximum. His eyes were on instrument
controls making sure that the strain on the impulse engines did not put them
into emergency shut down.</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">~Up you come~</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He smiled to himself as the
instruments showed that he was back in level flight and that everything was
calming down. He paused the simulation and ran through his program again this
time critiquing his performance. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">~You were too slow there…..you
need to react quicker there…..too much power there you were lucky that the structural
integrity held~</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He looked at his hands as he
clenched and unclenched them. He had been 1000 meters lower then when he had
practiced the same maneuver with the Exeter on the holodeck before he was captured.
He had expected to have dropped more with Exeter are it was a large starship compared
to the runabout. </span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">~Not so fast at the moment
are you~</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He was still safe to fly by
the regulations, but he would have to keep an eye on to see if there is any degradation
in his hand eye coordination. As the safety of people, he was flying was far
more important than a bruised ego for being taken off flight duty, it would not
be the first time. His mind drifted to the second battle of Wolf 359 and horrific
experience that mission was. </span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“This is not the time or
the place for those memories.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp78bb12daMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He stood stiffly from his
seat and headed out of the Runabout to stretch his legs and get something to
drink.</span></p>
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