<div dir="ltr">Thanks Todd, I had forgotten that one.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 03:58, Todd Holladay via Hades-nrpg <<a href="mailto:hades-nrpg@startrekfreedom.com">hades-nrpg@startrekfreedom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The term "Advanced Escort" was thrown around as well....</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 2:17 PM Mark Howard via Hades-rpg <<a href="mailto:hades-rpg@startrekfreedom.com" target="_blank">hades-rpg@startrekfreedom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_8143167744010073610m_7212511294954733596gmail-docs-internal-guid-82a162e2-7fff-c0e0-aa2a-54455d07ede0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mission: Temporary Respite</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Day: 3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stardate: 2446.06.13</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(USS Hades - Captain’s Ready Room - CO Cpt Ailynn Bracken- 1351)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Not for the first time in her career, Ailynn began to wish her office was considerably harder to find, however people’s nature was to take an issue to the top, so she supposed it was her job to make herself available. On the other hand, she’d often mused, a highly complicated and utterly random suite of offices that she’d occupy for only 14 minutes at any random time of the day, was still awfully tempting.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Enter.” She called, and the door opened.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Good afternoon, Captain."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Ensign. What can I do for you?” she asked gently.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Captain, I'm here to discuss..." He paused, looking for the best way to phrase his concerns. "Captain, I don't know what Starfleet is calling the Hades on paper. But for all intents and purposes, she is a warship. And I have a teenager daughter. I think I don't have to tell you about this being a far from optimal mix, ma'am."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ailynn sighed, but nodded. “The official designation Ensign, is a ‘Heavy Tactical Cruiser.’ Slightly more spartan than the Exeter was, but rather faster, larger, and more appropriate for the changing ethos of the Post EVENT Federation. Now…” She sat up and leaned forward, “I understand your point regarding your daughter, I have three week old twins on board so believe me when I say, I understand your point.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Reply Dyson)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“The Hades isn’t a warship, though I forgive the insinuation, she’s the newest face of a changing ethos in the Fleet. The Fleet, and Federation, pre-Event had turned its back on the systems outside of the inner spokes of its wheel. Ships like the Hades, and her sisters are built to be larger, tactical ships for exploration, Diplomacy, and to send a message out to the outer rims, that no more are we navel-gazing. Issue is of course, that we’ll be headed toward some areas that haven’t seen a Fleet ship or anything like it for perhaps fifteen years, there may be…resistance.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Reply Dyson)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Posted by Mark)</span></p></span><br></div>
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