<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="ydp26a7785fMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mission: Space Was Cool Before It Mattered</span></p>
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<p class="ydp26a7785fMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Day: 2</span></p>
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<p class="ydp26a7785fMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stardate: 2446.04.26</span></p>
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<p class="ydp26a7785fMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Exeter – CTO Office – CTO – Lieutenant – Ire Williams – 0940)</span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Ire looked at the image of the dropship now parked
in shuttle bay one via the ships security system. He looked at the dropships design
and smiled to himself. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">~She must be amazing to fly. The thrust to mass
ration must be impressive especially when fully loaded~ </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He pulled himself from his thoughts as a small
indicator blinked on his screen and he glanced at it. He had put tabs on the marines
since they had arrived, and he had been tracking their progress through the
ship. It was not that he did not trust their capability they were marines after
all, but it was the party hard part of the work hard party harder mindset he
was worried about. He had heard the stories of marines on shore leave and see a
few on mars so he would keep an eye on them for a bit until he was happy.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“Okay the marines are using the holodeck. I guess
they are running training scenarios it would be good to see how they operate.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">He stepped out of his office and looked up and down
the corridor which joined one part of the security department to the another.<span> </span>He spotted Harmon coming around the corridor.
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“Ensign Harmon?”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">~I bet the poor guy wishes he stayed on nights~</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Reply Harmon)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“Are you busy?”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Reply Harmon)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“Good, good.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">~He’s going to start heading in the other
direction when he sees me coming~</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“I guess you know that we have a group of marines
coming to live with us?”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Reply Harmon)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">“Have you had much experience working with Marines?”
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Reply Harmon)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Reply Harmon, any)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp26a7785fyiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">(Posted by Robbie)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"></span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>