<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="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Mission: The flames of purity<br>
Day: 17<br>
Stardate: 2445.09.17<br>
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(USS Exeter – Personal Quartets – CFO – Lieutenant – Ire Williams -04:36)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He was not able to sleep, he had slipped out of the
bed room and walked quietly into their living quarters leaving Greta to sleep. He had about an hour before he had the conn shift and had a couple of things that he needed to
work out before he took control of the Exeter again. After everything that had
happened the day before, he was glad that they had gotten through it mostly unscathed.
He thought about Ryelle for a moment before moving on. He grabbed a cup of tea
and sat down on the sofa.</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">~Time and place Ire. Time and place~</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He spoke softly glancing at the doorway into the bed
room so that he would not wake Greta. </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Computer using sensor date from the Runabout Brocken
Bow as well as any date that was retrieved from Ensign Page`s suit please show from
three minutes before the pods hit the runabout”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He watched as the figure of Page exited the Brocken
Bow`s airlock.</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Spin forward.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He watched as the time index moved quickly, then suddenly
the pods moved.</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Hold go back ten seconds and then play.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He watched again. </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Pause, in large the image of the pods thrusters.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He watched as they fired, the pods lurch forward and
slammed into the Runabout. Ire closed his eye and in his mind’s eye he could
see it all unfold again. His fingers move across an imaginary console as the
thrusters fired as he tried to bring the Brocken Bow under control. He opened his
eyes again.</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Computer run analysis of Ensign Rylee`s injured compared
to the maneuvers of the Brocken Bow. Is there a way that her injures could have
been reduced?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[Running analysis……Affirmative] </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">~Ow crap~</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Please show me how.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He watched as a simulation and then ran it a couple of
more times comparing it to what he had done at the time. </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Computer if I had followed this new set of maneuvers
what injures would have been avoided.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[Cerebral Hematoma reduced to Concussion]</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">He sat there stunned </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">~Only a concussion dam. By the Prophets what did I do~</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Computer what would have been the damage to the
Brocken Bow if I followed those maneuvers.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[Major hull breach along starboard side causing damage
to structural integrity and loss of internal pressure in all starboard side
compartments] </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“So I nearly kill Rylee with my maneuvers or save
Rylee but sentence me, Billy and Janey to suffocate to death inside.</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">~Bloody Hell~</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">It was like the bridge officer’s exam with the scenario
of killing one crewmember to save the ship. He had really hated that one and
hoped that he would never have to choose between the life of a friend and the safety
of the ship.</span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">A soft chime sounded from the bedroom indicating that
he needed to get up and get ready for his shift. He shut down the terminal and
headed for the shower. </span></p>
<p class="ydp6c25a874yiv9041824097ydp88e1d39cmsonormal" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">~There is no point second guessing yourself. You did
what you could with the information that you had at the time. It does not make
it right or easy, but Rylee is alive. So, you need to stop kicking yourself
about what happened and learn from your mistakes and make sure it does not
happen again~</span></p>
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