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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">Day: 2</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">Stardate: 2445.12.02</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(USS Exeter - Day 2 – Bowels of the Exeter - Ensign Janice Hammerfield - 1247)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Laying on her back in one of the many tubes of the ship Janice was slowly reconfiguring a power conduit. Pulling out a chip from a computer panel her com badge went off.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">=/\= Cortez to Hammersfield. =/\=</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“Dammit!” she jumped from the sudden loud sound and lost her grip on the chip as it fell onto her and bounced off to the side. She tapped her badge giving a short annoyed sigh
beforehand, “Go ahead!”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">=/\= Could you come to my office at your earliest convenience? =/\=</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Will do – I just need to finish up some calibrations and ill be right over,”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">=/\= Thank you, Cortez out. =/\=</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Janice closed the channel and began moving her hands about on the metal grating until she found the chip – gave it a quick scan and slotted it back into place.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(USS Exeter - Day 2 – </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">Main Science Lab - CSO Office </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Ensign Janice Hammerfield - 1303)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">"Lieutenant Cortez? You wanted to see me?” Janice said popping her head into the office and then walking in taking a seat.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">“The items that were stolen from my department. Two of them were, by themselves, innocuous but together under the right environment, would make a pretty powerful explosive.
My concern is that they would be used in engineering. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">I was advised to contact yourself by Lieutenant Ravok as he states that you not only have a background in Engineering but security as well?”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">"Mmm I see?” she replied thinking for a moment.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">“What do you suggest that we do?”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">"Sorry im not to sure on what was stolen – was it some instrumentation or chemical compounds?” she looked for some more information before giving her opinion.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Reply Cortez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">“And I presume you have some indication it may be related to the murder earlier today?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Reply Cortez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“As you know the warp core, weapons magazine and anti matter storage pods would be prime targets for an explosive device – but I think it more likely that if it was this persons
intent to blow the ship up why bother committing a murder and giving the game away? More likely I would use it to create a distraction or a means to escape.” She left a pause for Cortez.
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Reply Cortez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“As a knockout gas I would target the shuttle bay, transporter room or possible the life control systems directly. A means of escaping the ship with minimal resistance. As a bomb
or distraction in a non taking out everything with me I would put it somewhere that would cause the most superficial damage. The engines would cause a fair amount of disruption and prevent the ship from potential catching a fugitive should the try to escape
and the ships computer core would also have a similar impact affecting much of the ships systems. Of course there are backups but... if you had a particularly clever and driven person.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Reply Cortez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“Indeed and as much as I say that it would be unlikely to target the ship as a whole – maybe they could place it in a sensitive area as a last resort to get off the ship. A let
me go or I take everyone with me approach” she added in.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Reply Cortez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“I also presume you’ve not had any luck scanning the ship for the items too,”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Reply Cortez, any)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1D2228">(Posted by Adam)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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