<div dir="auto">I'm just catching up after a weekend from hell, seriously good post you two.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mark</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 30 Jul 2023, 16:19 Tinman JayC via Hades-rpg, <<a href="mailto:hades-rpg@startrekfreedom.com">hades-rpg@startrekfreedom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><p dir="ltr" id="m_2909255415389315793docs-internal-guid-5592148b-a760-0483-6519-25bddc92267b" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">HADESRPG: (1- 1532) CSciO Lt. JG Tinmanrion Jayc and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ACSciO Ensign(jg) Dierdre Lesih collaborative post </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mission: Voices in the Dark</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Day -1</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stardate: 2446.07.06</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(USS Hades - Science Lab 7- CSciO Lt JG Tinmanrion Jayc and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ACSciO Ensign(jg) Dierdre Lesih</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - 1532 )</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“You did a great job with the First Officer. How do you feel?” he asked as he did some intense finger dancing on his trusty foldable padd. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I believe I gave the Commander an adequate hypothesis as to the phenomenon,” Deirdre said, “Or are you looking for how the experience stimulated my Deltan desire for sensation?” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He nodded, “I hadn’t considered that oddly, given the fact that my best friend is a Deltan female. For many, it can be a little anxiety inducing the first few times speaking to the command staff, but you do get used to it. The captain and the CO could both probably still make a Nausican jump if they wanted to,” he joked.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">They moved to the central station of the room where the replication system and design system would help get their work done.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dierdre gave him a quizzical look.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Why should speaking to senior staff cause anxiety?  It is part of almost any job.  One answers questions, offers hypotheses.  Now if it were someone like Emory Erickson, Werner Heisenberg or T’rak, scientists whose theories are foundational for our technology, that might be anxiety inducing.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jayc pulled out his diplomatic training his mother and teachers had drilled into him on Betazed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“In general, Deltan’s aren’t afraid of the array of emotional responses, you have an exploratory nature about them. I had forgotten to consider that. I have to keep my mental shields up as not to violate another person's emotions and thoughts, so I have gotten in the habit of asking questions to make up for what I consider a major blind spot from what I am culturally used to.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Deltan’s tend to focus on the inner space.  The inner awareness, so we are different from many of the other species in Star Fleet.  We relish the emotional connections.  The sensations.  Of course, most races focus on one thing about my species, which they are not equipped to deal with, hence the oath and the monthly shots.” Deirdre said. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I started the computer activating some of the required gear on the way down.  We will create the modifications here and once we hit submit, the replicator will get to work retrofitting the probe in the launch bay. We will have to inspect it in person to make sure that the system and the drones did the work correctly.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Very good Sir,” she said as she looked at the table. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The systems on the table initiated and a working holographic of the central components of the probe appeared. “So besides the corona shielding oh so famously used by the Enterprise-D, what other items do you think we should include beyond standard?”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Shielding will be paramount, especially if there is going to be an X level solar flare.  To detect the fuzzballs, if they are there, we should be looking for verterons and neutrinos,” she said.  “Additionally,  we should try to measure the up and down quark flux from the star.  Since charmed, strange, top and bottom all decay to up and down, if we see higher levels of those two quarks, that would be suggestive of fuzzballs,” Deirdre said as she added requirements to the hologram.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Adding. No matter how much we shield this probe we are likely not getting it back,” he noted as he i put the items. “Would you calibrate as we incorporate please?”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Yes sir,” she replied.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He paused thinking, “Most of my hypothesis will be proven or disproven with  standard displays but I think we need to consider exotic particles and elements in significant amounts.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He looked up at her. “Why Starfleet?”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I excel at mathematics, and want to understand the fabric of the universe.  I achieved all I could on my homeworld, and felt that I would be able to work with the best in Star Fleet,” she said.  “I considered the Daystrom institute and the Vulcan Academy of Science as alternatives, but Star Fleet sounded most appealing, allowing me to do the science I wished to, while expanding my horizons,” Deirdre said. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reply any</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-botto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