<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="ydp278eae26MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Mission:
Space Was Cool Before It Mattered</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"><br>
<span style="background:white">Day: 1</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Stardate: 2446.04.25</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background:white">(Exeter – Shuttle Bay One – SMO – Ensign – Ciri Kovak
- 1501)</span></span></p>
<div><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Ciri
walked the deck. She knew that she was doing it and that her maintenance crew
new that she was doing it. She knew that shuttles trips were dangers and unexpected
as well as living in space was not the please cruise that it seemed too some people.
She had heard it from the skuttle bucket that the Charon was on a rescue mission
which is itself was not a problem it was the reason who they were rescuing
which had caused her to feel this anticipation. Her mind drifted back to the
past where a much younger Ciri had been transiting with her family and the freighter
that they were traveling on had come across a stranded cargo vessel whose engines
had failed flooding the living compartments with lethal radiation. They had recued
the crew but the freighter had no facilities to treat them. The engines were pushed
way past safety limits to get them to some kind of treatment facility. She had
slipped away from her parents and had gotten into the area where the wounded
were dying. They had found her a little time later stroking the hand of a dead
crewman asking why he would not speak to her. It had taken a long time to come
to terms with that she just hoped that this would not be the same outcome. <span> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">There was a sharp crack which pulled herself
out of her thoughts and looked down as her hands. She saw the electricity dance
between her fingers. As an Ornarans she had the ability to naturally generate
electrical discharges. She had a very tight control of her ability as discharging
near something explosive would not be a good idea. She took a few long steading
breath to calm her worries as she knew that if she stressed too much more she would
have to earth herself into something harmless or risk electrocuting something
or someone. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">She looked over at the pad which was the Charon’s assigned landing
spot. She knew that the Charon would bring them home safe she just was not sure
how many of the miners would be with them. She reached the far wall turned and
headed back across the shuttle bay ignoring the glanced of the Master chief who
was running through a thruster repair with a pair or new arrivals.</span></div>
<p class="ydp278eae26MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">~I
hope that they will not take too much longer~</span></p>
<p class="ydp278eae26MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Reply Any)</span></p>
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