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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Mission: Prelude</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Day: 2</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Stardate: 2446.03.24</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(USS Illuminar - Deck 11- CEO’s Office - CEO- Lt. Bohb- 1322)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Bohb’s head had begun to spin as he tried to understand what he was being told. His brow
furrowed and his lips pursed. He wondered how long it took for Vermyx to learn to speak in a manner that was so difficult to understand, and how he made it through the academy without an instructor beating him to death. Or at least learning to use a more
common language. It was almost as difficult as conversing with Penn and Teller. Almost.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">When he stopped with, “Get me?” Bohb shook his head to clear it.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“Sooo,” he said in an effort to put the information together in a way he was clear of,
“let me make sure I got this straight. You have always been good at fixing things. I can relate to that, as I had a similar experience of taking things apart to put them back together again, Then you worked on a Pakled ship. Very interesting, as I have
found that Pakleds are… not very bright. But you were unhappy there and left. You wound up with the Ferengi. Then you were… arrested?... and given a choice between joining Starfleet or prison?”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(reply Vermyx)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“That’s fascinating,” Bohb said. His own experience was not nearly as colorful, but
still very similar. He had a rare gift on his own homeworld and was unhappy, so he did what nobody had expected, he left. And he had a variety of experiences on different ships until he wound up on Vulcan at the transport hub until he ran into Sekal.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“Could you clarify a couple of things for me?” Bohb asked.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(reply Vermyx)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“What exactly,” he searched his memory for the word, “simoleans. They sound like some
kind of infection since you have to scrape them off to make things clean.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(reply Vermyx)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“Okay, one more,” Bohb said, getting excited that he was starting to understand this
fellow. “Flivver? You stole one? What is it, and why would you take something that did not belong to you.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">Magillans had a low sense of ownership, so stealing things was a very difficult concept
to them.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(reply Vermyx)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">“I see,” Bohb said, not really sure that he did. “So what would you consider
to be your main focus in engineering?”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">(posted by Al Muir)</span></p>
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