<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Mission: Andromeda's Chain</span><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></span></font><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"></span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">Day: 1<br>Stardate: 2446.01.03</font></span></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana" size="3"> </font></span></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">(USS Exeter –Broken Bow – COO LTjg Paul Sleeford 04:40)</font></span></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">“Yes we can do it but it dose depend on what we find when we get there.”</font></span></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">Paul looked through the screen in front of him.</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">“Well yes that’s the problem is it just one person again, or has something or someone taken the entire crew.”</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana" size="3">“Hopefully it’s just one individual rather then somethings happened to the whole crew.” </font></span></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;">Paul placed cupped his chin with his hand tapping his nose gently with his forefinger while he thought.</p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;">“The Bridge, Engineering and Security deck would be my choices to control, you have navigation, environmental controls, the core and the armoury. Total control”</p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;">Paul fell silent as Ire began tapping at the console, a series of bleeps had him looking up</p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">“It looks like we can go at low warp. I don’t want to over stress the engines.”</span></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;">“ Low warp is okay. Takes longer “</p><p class="ydp575fb2d2yiv2175940594ydpa403101dmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">"Look at it this way. We will either make it back or experience a cataclysmic warp core collapse. Either way is better than sitting here doing nothing "</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2yiv2175940594ydpa403101dmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">He gave a slight smile as his fingers hovered over the warp engine icon.</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2yiv2175940594ydpa403101dmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">“Shall we?”</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">“Do it, just get us on board, I’ll get us to the armoury”</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">Sitting back as the small ship launched into FTL flight and the stars streaked passed, in his heart he hoped the problems they’d had where just poor maintenance due to overworked crew and not a hostile act of sabotage, the later coming after Shore leave on Risa and Qs trials along with Maxine going rouge a couple of months back, would be the culmination of a series of disasters that had seemed to haunt the Exeter. Turning to Ire, Paul laughed. </span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">“Home James and don’t spare the horse’s”</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">(Reply Williams)</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">(Reply Williams)</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">(Posted by Alistair)</span></font></p><p class="ydp575fb2d2MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40);"><br></span></p><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>