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<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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 –MCO's Office – CTO – Lieutenant – Ire Williams – 1549)</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">"Actually Lieutenant we were discussing our sinister plan to over
take the Federation for the Supreme glory of New Romulus." </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">Ire was not great with Romulan humour. Ravok was a more outgoing person
and he had gotten use to understanding his humour, but he had not got a hand on
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Na’Rel</span>’s yet.”</p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">“Okay Colonel</span><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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">He watched as </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Na’Rel</span>
started to laugh and relaxed the tension that he had not know was there.”<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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">" I'm joking Lieutenant Williams, please take a seat. " </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">Ire took the seat that </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Na’Rel</span>
had offered.</p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">"Lieutenant S'Kor and I weren't discussing a little bit of our
backgrounds. " </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">“I understand.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">Ire looked at the holographic display that opened in front of him.</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">"This is my proposal for the utilization of my marines. " </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">Ire nodded.</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">" The standard away team is to have no less than one marine,
landing parties or away teams that are pre-planned to split up will have a
marine to with each segmented portion or team. It's all actually very simple,
Lieutenant." </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">“Okay that makes sense for away missions.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">" My marines are not here to take the jobs or dilute the importance
of your security personnel. If anything they are here to help them and by
extension the crew as well, by adding a little more…meat around the
edges." </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">“Understood sir.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">He looked at the information that </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Na’Rel</span> had give him. </p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">“What’s it your plan for your marines during shipboard
action stations? I know that on some ships they are used as part of the damage control
teams as well as marines with specific qualifications work with their fleet counter
parts. Are you wanting them to have specific duties stations with security or would
you prefer them to be together as an independent unit?” </span><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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">(Reply Na’Rel)</span></p>
<p class="ydp5563cb79MsoNormal" 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">(Posted by Robbie)</span></p></div><div><br></div><p></p></div></div></div></body></html>