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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">Stardate: 2446.03.23</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">(USS Illuminar - Deck 5 – Corridor - Pilot- Lieutenant Arthur ‘Snoopy’ Corday– 1131)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">Corday and Dyson were about to get into the turb olift when their comm badges beeped.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">=^=Montero. Corday and Dyson to my office for a debrief. =^=</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">Arthur looked at Alex, “Well that doesn’t sound good. Let’s go. We don’t want her to be mad that we kept her waiting.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">He tapped his badge, “Corday and Dyson are en route.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">They stepped into the turbolift, and the door closed behind them.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">(USS Illuminar - Deck 2 – FSXO Office - Pilot- Lieutenant Arthur ‘Snoopy’ Corday– 1126)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">They the FSXO’s office and noted that Montero was not there yet. There were three chairs set up in a line in front of Grey Wolf’s desk.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">“XO,’ Corday said with a nod. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">"Take a seat," Tempest said, looking at them with cold eyes. "Have your reports been finalized and if not why not?"</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">"Sorry Lieutenant," Montero said, "Waiting for some information from the engineering team."</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">Corday sat down, “No, ma’am. They have not. Dyson and I had some business to take care of and have not had time. And I wanted to ensure that since this was his first
time that he knew how to file the report correctly.” He didn’t want Dyson’s transgression of protocol cause a rift between him and the XO, so it was just easier that he took the fall.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">(reply Dyson)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400">Grey Wolf asked for their explanations of what had occurred, or as she put it, what went wrong. Montero was the first to give his report.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">"The Mk III performed as expected,” Monteros said. “Seems the Mako maintenance records need to be looked in, but there was no sign of issues when
Snoopy took the shot. I am sure the computer geeks will review Mandy's records to see if we missed something, but the exercise was run by the book."</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“I concur,” Corday added. “I’ve downloaded the data from Lucy, but I know what I saw. When I took the shot it should not have caused any actual
damage to the Mako. There must have been some kind of flaw in its shield systems. I’m just thankful we were able to pick up Duece before he was killed.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(reply Grey Wolf)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(posted by Al Muir)</span></p>
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