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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Mission: Andromeda's Chain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Day: 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stardate: 2446.01.03<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(USS Exeter – Deck 5, The Dog House – aFO, Lt. Cmdr. Keira Merek – 0520)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It didn’t take long for Keira to alter the food replicator into an industrial replicator. Not wanting the replication of potentially harmful devices to trip off any sensors or searches, she was forced to replicate individual components and splice them together haphazardly with the engineering kit she brought with her. With the addition of catabolizing the two phaser rifles she was able to make four stun grenades and a dozen or so isolinear capacitor traps.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Did you manage to locate or contact our CO?” Keira asked, finishing up her physical tasks.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“So, she’s not on the bridge?” Keira said. “That’s good, that means that she’s not in-charge of this coup.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Who’s on the bridge?” Keira asked. Knowing Erin had locked out the internal sensors, right now she was the Queen Bee of the happenings on board the ship.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>She listened for the list of names, when she got to one…“Billy? That doesn’t make any sense. Is he in charge of a mutiny or merely being controlled?”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Well, if Ailynn is on our side, then by regulations it will take myself and her to enact my plan.” Keira said.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“By protocol, if a foreign power gains control of the ship. We have to initiate the self destruct. I just need to talk to Ailynn, in person preferably.” Keira said.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I know, but this is serious.” Keira said. “ I have a method of gaining us some cover, a distraction. If you can talk to Ailynn, send her a message, arrange a meet up place. I sent out my Mo’Kai worm a while ago, it will have slithered it’s way into the systems by now. That will be our distraction.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I’ll ready a message of my own to play when the worm finally is defeated, it should take them a while to break it, an hour or two at least.” Keira said.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(reply Erin)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As Erin got to work, so did Keira. She sat on the lower bunk with the PADD, to give commands. “Computer begin recording.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[Speak to begin]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“This is Lieutenant Commander Merek, acting First Officer. To the mutineers of this ship; I don’t know exactly who you are, and I don’t know what you want. If it’s ransom you’re after, I don’t have any latinum, but what I do have are a particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired from an arduous and grueling childhood. Skills only honed and made razor sharp by Starfleet. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.” A quiet rage builds in the Romulan woman’s voice. “Taking the ship from her rightful controllers have set things in motion, things that threaten my family. Threaten everyone on this ship, and I can’t abide that. If you turn this ship over and go to the brig, that will be the end of it. We will ask the courts for mercy. If you don’t. I will hunt you down. I will find you and I will kill you. Make the right choice.” Keira pushed the button to save the recording.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply Erin, any)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Posted by Todd)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<span style='color:black'>The only way to defeat fear is to tell it 'No'." No - we will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness. No - we will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts. No - we will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.” - Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“No, I’m from Iowa, I only work in outer space.” – Adm. James T. Kirk, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Todd Holladay<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SGT, IA ARNG (Retired)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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