<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="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mission: Space was cool before it mattered</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Day: 1</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stardate: 2446.04.25</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Cheron CX-01-
interior – Nurse – CPO – Ewan McDonald- 1441)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Don’t think that
just cause of rank we know more than you about some things. I can guarantee you
I don’t. Tell me about the last rescue?”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He paused for a moment
getting the memories straight in his head before he started.</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“You might know this
or not. I am on secondment from a large humanitarian organisation which works over
both quadrants. We were responding to a volcanic disaster at a research station
looking at how to improve large scale geothermic power. They had punched
through a fault line while trying to get a deep power tap operational. It had literally
blown the top of the mountain and the power station was half covered by ash and
debris by the time that we got there. I deployed in one of the ships shuttles with
a four-person mobile surgical team which I was part of. It went from bad to worse
before we actually landed. The explosion had messed up the planet’s atmosphere bad,
so we had to take the shuttles. One of the response teams on the other shuttle
was an ex-marine and she told me that it was one of the worst drops she had ever
been on and she had done many drops under fire.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He paused or a moment
before carrying on.</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“We some how got to
the ground without splattering ourselves into the planet. The research station
was a mess. The explosion had caused mass casualties. There was a lot of burns
as well as people who had been hit by shrapnel as the explosion devastated its
way through station. It’s amazing how training kicks in, in situations like that
and that’s what we did. We deployed our makeshift operating theatre in the mess
hall and began to treat any wounded that we could get our hands on…”</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Images of blood,
pain and helplessness flowed through his mind, and he fought them down.</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“…anyway when we
had not realised due to the problems with the sensors that there was a much bigger
eruption brewing that would obliterate the station and half the continent it
was on. We got the evacuation call late. Trying to transport some to a shuttle
with your finger plugging a hole in a ruptured aorta is not something I would
want to repeat.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He gave a slight
smile.</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“We got as many people
as possible in the shuttles and used trainspotter enhancers to transport off
the station using the ascending shuttles as relay. We didn’t get everyone but a
lot more then if we had not gone down”</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He paused for a
moment.</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Sorry sir. That was
a bit more then you may have wanted for your question.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“... and concerns
for this one now?”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ewan gave a nod. </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“I guess its mainly
how much radiation they have gotten and how bad their symptoms are going to be.
I have a basic understanding as its not my area of expertise you see. If its
not caused physical problems, then we need to pump them full of anti-radiation
drugs and keep them segregated to reduce contamination. If it’s bad then
dealing with their symptoms and we will see how good of a pilot Lieutenant Frost
really is.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Reply Hammerfield)</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Reply Hammerfield,
any)</span></p>
<p class="ydp132824a4MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Posted by Robbie)</span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>