<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 style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">Mission:
Space was cool before it mattered</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">Stardate: 2446.04.25</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">(USS Exeter – CTO Office – CTO – Lieutenant -Ire Williams - 1246)</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">=^=No
time like the present Lieutenant. If you’re free I’m headed down to the Nine
and Dine for a bite to eat. You’d be welcome to join me if you don’t mind a
working lunch?=^=</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">Ire paused for a moment the nodded to himself.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">“Thank
you sir.”</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">=^=No
rush, give it twenty, we’re not exactly rushed off our feet are we=^=</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He smiled
to himself.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">“No sir
we are not. I will see you in twenty.”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He smiled
to himself as the comm channel closed. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">~Okay now
I need to make sure I don’t come across like a total idiot~</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He picked
up his PADD that he had been doodling ideas on over the morning and scanned it
again.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">~Just
like squadron training apart from it not in space, not in a fighter and we are
using hand weapons~</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He
grinned</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">~So,
nothing like squadron training~</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He stood
and headed out of his office. It would not be good to have the Commander
waiting.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">(USS Exeter - Nine and Dine - CTO – Lieutenant -Ire Williams - 1303)</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"></p><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: New, serif; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">re slowed as he entered Nine and Dine and scanned the room trying to find Jones</span></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">and saw a hand raise over by the widow. </span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">~Ow there
he is~</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He weaved
his way through the room and stopped at the table that Jones was sitting at.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">“May I?”</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">(Reply
Jones)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">He nodded
and took the seat offered.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">“Thank
you for seeing me Sir and sorry for disturbing your lunch time.” </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">(Reply
Jones)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">(Reply
Jones, any)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: New, serif;">(Posted
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