<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="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mission: Space was cool before it mattered</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Day: 1</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(USS Exeter – Sickbay – Nurse – CPO – Ewan McDonald - 1410)</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“And there he was standing totally covered in it from head to toe. It
was absolutely disgusting but that was not the best part?”</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Really.”</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ewan grinned widely at his colleague.</span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“That’s not the best part.”</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“No, the best part is that he was…”</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The comm channel clicked into life.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">=^= Nurse McDonald, please meet the one and only Dr. Kruze in shuttle
bay 1 right away=^= </span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">All humour vanished in an instant as both of then became professional
again.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~Ow this can’t be good~</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Yes, sir on my way.”</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He stood up from the nurse’s station and nodded to his colleague.</span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Looks like I’ll hear the rest of the story when I get back.”</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He grabbed a large medkit that was placed on a trolly by the doors to
sickbay for this kind of situation and slung it over his shoulder as he ran out
of sickbay. </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Cheron CX-01- interior - Nurse – CPO – Ewan McDonald - 1417)</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ewan entered the Cheron and paused for a moment to get his bearings. He
had not been on board before but found an empty seat and sat down on it. As he stowed
his medical kit beside him he looked at the other people who were going with
him. </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~Okay Ewan just because they are all Lieutenants, and you are a CPO you are
a professional just as they are. You also have 18 years of experience under
your belt so get your game face on~</span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">"The distress signal says that they have a build-up of Radiation in
their environmental support systems and that according to their sensors of the
exterior of the facility beaming out may be a little dicey." </span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~This could get nasty quickly~ </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br></span></div>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ewan paused for a moment before speaking.</span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Excuse me sirs. Do we know if there are any other injures apart from
the radiation?” </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">~Plan for the worst, hope for the best and
always have a plan b~</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">(Reply any on the cheron)</span></p>
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<p class="ydp82ee388eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Posted by Robbie)</span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>