<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="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Mission: The Flames of Purity</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Day: 16 </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Stardate: 2445.09.16</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Runabout Broken Bow – CFO – Lieutenant –
Ire Williams -1059)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">"But what do I know, I only have 30
years experience in shuttle design and operations." </span></div><div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><br></span></div><div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">"today is
definitely not a good day to die"</span></div><p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Ire looked at Brown.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“No it is defiantly not.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~Your decision this is why you are the
boss of the flight. Isn’t it wonderful~</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">He looked at the others as he made up his
mind.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~Dammed if I do Dammed if I don’t~</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Okay we’ll do it. Rylee get suited up.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Page)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Billy, You will be her back up eyes in
case there is something untoward over there. I’ll position the us to give you
the best view of the escape pods with the visual sensors. <span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Alexander)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Chief Brown I want you working the transporters.
If we do find someone in there I want you to transport them to the pad make
sure the proper protocols are in place as I don’t want any weapons or
explosives coming on board with them.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Brown)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">He looked over at the small airlock, main
hatch on the right side of the runabout past the science console. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~It’s going to be a squeeze but she will
be okay~</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif">As the others got themselves ready, he
fired the maneuvering thrusters rotating the runabout so that if approached the
escape pods vertically with the pods horizontal to them. It was the safest approach
due to their different sizes and it also gave Page the shortest distance to
transverse if need be. With a last few gentle firing of the thrusters the
Runabout was in position. He looked back at the others and nodded to Page.</font><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Rylee we are in position. I am correcting
for the slow spin of the pods and we are about a meter to a meter and a half
away. If any thing seams off come back and I’ll move us away.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Page)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Okay let’s be about it.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">He turned back concentrating as he made
minor corrections to their movement to keep the runabout as steady as possible.
He saw the outer hatch icon blink green as the airlock finished its cycle and
Page opened the outer hatch.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“How’s it looking Page”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Page)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">A few moved pushes with the thrusters moved
them closer.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Billy anything untoward from your side?”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Alexander)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Chief Brown ready on your end?”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Brown)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~Relax Ire stop micromanaging. They know
what they are doing~</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">He needed to show that he trusted the people
he was working with and let them know that he was not peering over their
shoulders all the time.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">His fingers moved over the console to
perform another minor correction to keep them in place.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~Okay, we are doing okay~</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">The Runabout slammed sideways with out
warning the alarms screamed as the fought to get the runabout stable.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~What the hell~</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Chief if there is any one inside the
pods transport them now or they will die of exposure.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Brown) </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“Billy where is Rylee, is she still
attached to the hull?”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Billy)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp486253ceMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">(Reply Alexander, Brown, Page, any)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
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