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dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mission: Prelude</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Day: 1</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stardate: 2446.03.23</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Mars Perimeter - Fighters – Pilot- Ensign Vic 'Raid' Montero – 0958)</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">With the kid out of the fight, it was three on two. Not sure it was fair. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">=^=Ok Raid, Spuds is on my tail,” he said in their comm channel. “I want to bring him in closer. We’re heading your way. I’m going to hit the brakes and he’ll go right by me, right into your sights.=^=</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Copy," he replied. "Mandy, get ready," he said to his AI.</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Affirmative Vic]</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Montero looked at Snoopy's course and dropped down towards Mars. Matching speeds, he started his climb towards the kill zone. As promised, Snoopy hit his RCS and flipped behind his pursuer. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vic's fingers hit the fire button, but Mandy was quicker. A pulsed phasers shot out from the fighter and lit up the target. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Direct hit. Kill] came the call from Mandy.</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vic didn't have time to celebrate, as their play had taken too much time, the remaining two fighters regrouped and were getting ready to attack. "Mandy plot speed course around the perimeter of the combat zone, 20 meters from the edge please. "</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Course plotted]</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Snoopy, going to rabbit around the box, course sent to you now."</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[ Course received. Plotting matching course to give best support.]</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Thanks Lucy,” Arthur said. “We’re with you Raid.”</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vic pushed his fighter to speed, and started the course, speeding up to start driving around the edge of the combat zone.</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">=^= What wrong Raid? Getting cold feet? Ain't nothing but a family thing =^= came a voice over his com.</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Nothing there Deuce. You still got your training wings on?" Vic replied "Or is Snake eyes going to save your sorry ass again?"</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">=^= You wish Raid. How did that work out for Bulldog? =^=</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">At the mention of his dead wingman, Raid saw red. “You know Deuce, even dead, Bulldog is three times the pilot you will ever be.”</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Taking a couple deep breaths, "Mandy, weapons free, target Deuce."</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Affirmative Vic. Your vitals are dangerously high. Are you ok?]</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Fine Mandy, Deuce just crossed a line and I'm going to make him pay."</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Snoopy," he called on his com, "Deuce is mine," he said through clenched teeth "Watch my six."</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Snoopy had listened to the banter and smiled. He heard the dangerous tone in Raid’s voice and was glad they were on the same side right now. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“CYA, you’re covered,” Snoopy confirmed. “Take it to him.”</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vic flipped on the targeting computer, and pushed his fighter away from the boundary, flipping it to move away from Mars, and into a spiral loop jinxing away from stray weapons fire. Mandy confirmed Snoopy had his back. Flipping out of the turn, he moved the fighter left towards Mars and released a spread of micro-torpedos. As expected Deuce moved away from them. "Snoopy, take the shot," Vic called as Deuce crossed into his wingman's crosshairs. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Suddenly the Mako was in his sights. He fired his pulse cannons and struck a direct hit on his drive section. Somehow, sparks started flaring out of the tail end of the ship. There must have been a system failure in his shielding and the ship took a direct hit from Snoopy’s cannons. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vic saw the pulse cannon lash out and hit Deuce’s Mako. Something was wrong. [Mako will explode in 10 seconds] came Mandy’s dispasioned voice. </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Deuce, get out of there now,” he called over the com. “Mandy, try to override and get him out of there.”</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Working Vic] </span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Suddenly the Mako exploded into a thousand pieces. Vic flew through the debris trying to avoid getting hit. “Mayday Mayday, Mayday.” he called “Did anyone get Deuce?”</span></p><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Reply none?)</span></p><p
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