<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="ydpa403101dMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mission: Gone in a
Flash</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Day: 2</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stardate: 2446.01.02</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Black Sight Facility
– Interrogation Room – Inmate 1982– 1305)</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">Her hands were manacled and
secured to the table. She looked up as a man entered the room. </span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Inmate 1982 I am Lieutenant
Commander McGuinness. I am here to ask you some questions.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Not again.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She saw his hand touch a icon on the console as
a stab of pain as lanced up through her manacled hands and into her body. Her
body twitched uncontrollable for a few seconds until she regained control of
her body. She took a few deep breaths to steady herself before she looked at
McGuinness.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“You quite finished?”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She glared at him.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Yes sir. Of course, Sir.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Good.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She watched as he took out a
PADD and placed it on the table in front of him.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“So from our records you worked
at the R&D centre on the Wallace space station?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Along with a lot of
others.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">His finger twitched to hover
above the icon and she glared at him but nodded.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Tell me about Project Sacred
Shift.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“I have told the other people
who was her before all about it.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“That maybe so but I want to
know.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“What do you want to know?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Why was a Neurogenic
Interface used rather than a Neural interface?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She paused for a moment
thinking back to the time that she had been given the project. A time of her
life that she had tried to forget.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Control.” </span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She said simply.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“What?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“I said it was about
control.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She saw him frown and sighed
inwardly.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">~Do these idiots not read
any of the other interrogations~</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“The project was designed to
run a Prometheus or Indefatigable class starship using only one crewmember…”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">Starfleet had, had a large
surplus of hulls but not enough qualified crewmembers at the time.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“….it was found that using a
neural interface did not provide a strong enough connection with the ships
computer that we had wanted during high stress scenarios. Which meant that we
had an unacceptable failure rate.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“What caused this failure
rate.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Disconnection in the face
of mortal threat.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">He gave her a quizzical
look.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“You mean that people were
abandoning ship.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Yes.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“And that was a problem?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Yes.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">He frowned at that answer.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“So why use a neural
interface?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“The interface of the
crewman with the ship is more complete as they almost become one entity. This
increases computing time as well as reaction time.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Even when the ships were in
multi vector assault mode?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Yes, there was a slight degradation
but not enough to cause any significant complications.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“How far had the project
gone before you left.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“We had gotten into phase two.
We had obtained fifteen candidates as part of phase one and out of those only nine
were viable for the next phase. We had tried compatibility with different
classes of ships and it was found that Prometheus or Indefatigable class were
the best compatible as well as the most promising tactical choice.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“So it never went into full
production?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“I don’t know about what is
happening now but at the time that I left we have two prototype Indefatigable
ships and four Prometheus ships.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">A buzzer sounded as McGuiness
was about to speak. She watched him as he got up, took his PADD and began to
head towards the door.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Hay where is my part. You wanted
information and I would get something in return.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She watched as he paused at
the door, tapped a command on his PADD and through it onto the table. She
picked it up and looked at the image on it. </span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Hope you enjoy that. It’s the
last time you will see it.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">She frowned.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“What do you mean.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“His ship has disappeared.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">~What has happened~</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“What do you mean disappeared.
What’s happened?”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Tell me what I want to know
and I will tell you more.”</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">He grinned smugly as the door
to the interrogation room closed.</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">(Reply None)</span></p>
<p class="ydpa403101dMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">(Posted by Robbie)</span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>