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NRPG: Welcom back Frank!</p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Day: 4</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">(USS Illuminar - Deck 8 - CSO Office - CSRD Lt. Bohb and CSO Lt. Lanista- 1500)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Bohb had followed the advice of Tegian and collected some samples of the soot and residue from the explosion. As he analyzed it there was something
there that just didn’t make sense. Bohb had been around the universe once or twice, so when he met something he’s never seen before it created a need to know. This was outside his area of expertise. He needed help.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">He made his way to the new CSO’s office and rang the door chime.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“Enter with business,” the half-Vulcan/half-Klingon said.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">When Bohb entered he got his first look at the CSO took him by surprise. It was rare for him to find anyone that came near to his size, and she
did. She looked almost as much Vulcan as she did Klingon. He wondered if her temperament was equally split.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“Lieutant Lanista,” he said stepping forward, “I require your services.)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“What is it you require, and in what amount of time?” Lanista asked.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Bohb stepped forward and put his PADD down, “The explosion of the Klingon shuttle left this residue in the soot. It is a substance that I am
unfamiliar with, which is making a statement. I was wondering if you knew it, or might be able to tell me something more.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“I’ll put my best personnel on it. And the implication is that this is a Security matter, and therefore critical. My ‘best personnel’, until I
get to know my staff, is me. And I’ve got some direct Security experience. I shall have an answer for you in short order.” Lanista paused. “Is there anything else?”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Bohb was a little perplexed. This was the first time the two had actually met, and had hoped that there would be more interaction than this.
Perhaps she was more Vulcan than Klingon in these matters. He needed to think more like if he were talking with Saleke. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“Well, I did think that we should have more interaction, since I was recently moved to the Chief of Research and Development,” Bohb said, “Perhaps
we can set up a time, when we are not busy, where we can discuss the department and how it will work with the science department?”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“Wonderful,” Lanista said, using a word not ‘natural’ to either Vulcan or Klingon discourse. “We can confer over chess, if you like. The dialog
and the dynamic of the game, together, will show us both how the other thinks.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#201f1e;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Bohb smiled and laughed, “Chess? Do you know Admiral Saleke? He tried to teach me the game, but I found its complexities a little… difficult
to master. If you play well you will find me a poor opponent.”</span></p>
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People reveal themselves in ways of which they are unaware. Life is </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#5f6368;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">Klin zha kinta</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">,
‘the game with live pieces.’”</span></p>
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if you want to try and peel my onion feel free. I’m just afraid you won’t find much.” </span></p>
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sir. Perhaps it is the custom of your species’ culture to downplay oneself. It is not that way among my father’s people, however. To my mother’s race, though, an empty onion would be a surprise, to be sure. Maybe we’ll both discover something we do not expect.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Bohb shrugged, “Perhaps. Down play? No, it is
the custom of the Magillan people to know your limitations. What is the expression, “Know thyself? Perhaps I’ve spent too much time with Doctor’s Penn and Teller.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“Ah, yes. Penn and Teller. I’ve heard of them but
not had a chance to contend with their idiosyncrasies yet. Nor this other man — Vermyx — who appears to believe science is some kind of dodge, at least judging by his reputation so far.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Bohb rocked on his feet with a chuckle. “Idiosynchracies?
That is the word to describe the doctors. Be prepared to know your trivia, as they speak in a brand of Tamarian that is a mix of standard phrases and phrases from their collective experiences together. As for Mr. Vermyx… he apparently live by the motto that
it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“Don’t all Humans, though? ‘The word is “No” —
we are therefore going anyway,’ ~ James Kirk, 2285.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“I have not made that same sweeping generalization,”
Bohb said. “I have found the humans to be most reasonable. However, Vermyx is Iotian, and not human. Our two species probably have more in common than either of us might agree upon.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“IDIC is as IDIC does, I suppose. I think, though,
that I’ll fare better with the Doctors than the gangster. In either case, a mind-meld would be more efficient. But my expertise in that aspect of my Vulcan side tends to be … shall we say … inartistic.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#4d5156;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">“A dangerous prospect indeed, then,” Bohb said
with a nodd. “The good news is Doctor Penn is quite articulate in both Tamarian and Standard. So you might get more from him without such a need.” </span></p>
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that tells, but the ‘teller’ should be the least forthcoming.”</span></p>
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is quite articulate, too much at times. You just have to figure out what he’s saying. But then again, even with his standard, Penn might have a similar issue. However, that is for another time. I would like to know about this residue.” he tapped the PADD.</span></p>
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doors are open to you for this, and any other such, ship’s business. At any time, day or night. Once my analysis is complete, you’ll be the second to know.”</span></p>
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have a feeling that there may be more to this than, to paraphrase Mr. Vermyx, we have bargained for.”</span></p>
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but I do understand the reference. Iotians may look Human, but they behave far more like Ferengi.”</span></p>
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I will leave you to it.”</span></p>
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then.”</span></p>
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