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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mission: Space was cool before it mattered<br>
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Stardate: 2446.04.25<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(USS Exeter - Chief Operations Officer's Office - COO, LT Janice Hammerfield - 0704)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
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"No business on my end. Things might be busy for you with all the scans and experiments, but while mundane, this is just the right kind of boring. So I want them to do less work, but I'd rather them keep you busy than give me fires I have to put out." Trip
said with a laugh. "Sorry, is that too selfish?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"Quite selfish,” she laughed a bit, “don’t you worry we will make sure we have the right kind of boring as long as we can,”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"I was just in the neighborhood, so I thought I'd just say hello. No ulterior motive." Trip smiled a soft smile. "Ok, I lied, mainly, I just wanted to see how you were, making sure you were ok."<br>
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"Yea yea. All good down here. Got a message from my parents the other day. Looks like they are relocating to the USS Iota. Something about some new fauna on a remote planet they are going to catalogue. I never understood any of that mumbo jumbo. Still they
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"How's the work/life balance? Are you able to get your work done while still haning out with friends? You've got friends right?"<br>
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"Eh, a few long days. There is always someone after something but that just comes with the territory – not a lot you can do when your trapped in a tin can with as many people,” she gave a little nod, “Don’t you worry about it though I make sure there is enough
to keep it all in check. I could ask you the same – gotta imagine everyone wants your ear at all hours of the day.”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Oh that reminds me,” she pulled up her computer a bit from the desk a typed a few things in, “The USS Armstong is back on schedule. They reported a brief delay yesterday but looks like they have made up the
time. It’ll be nice when they get here – they are bringing a few of the essentials to get us back up to stock from the last mission.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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