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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Mission: Exogenesis </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Day: 4</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Stardate: 2446.06.04</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">(Shuttle Leif erickson - Pilot Cockpit - Csec/Tac- Lt. Commander T’Mur - 1129)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">The sensation struck T’Mur like slap in the face. She had felt it before… from Sienna. It was a sense of despair and sadness. She
glanced over at Sekal for a moment but he seemed completely focused. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">The “feeling” was not from anyone on the shuttle. It was from… outside. For a moment she felt the urge to cry, but managed to contain
herself. Then she had a desire to find her mate and hold her for an unmeasured amount of time. She
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to feel her love. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Sekal’s voice brought her attention back to what she was doing. "Cast off!" His voice seemed strained as well. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">“Casting off,” she said, once again focused. But that feeling of loss still nagged at her. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">She released the docking clamps and veered the shuttle away from Ixtal at half impulse. It took a moment for the inertial dampeners
to kick in. Suddenly there was a lurch as if something had struck the shuttle. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">She heard Sekal saying, "We must get far away quickly." Then he appeared at the navigator's seat. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">T’Mur was already accelerating to full impulse, but it was barely keeping them ahead of the shockwave of the Ixtal’s explosion. Tendrils
of energy licked at the shuttle's nacelles, causing it to buck and spin. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">T’Mur looked at the captain briefly then turned back to her controls, “We are getting caught up in the outer limits of the Ixtal’s
warp core breach, but will be clear soon.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">True to her word the ship regained full control. There had been a glow growing around the shuttle that subsided and T’Mur was able
to slow the shuttle down to make the ride smoother. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Dr. Kyllee appeared to deliver his news. The feeling of despair seemed to lessen just in time for their own to begin. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">“I am invoking a quarantine doctor,” Sekal said, “all aboard the shuttle will be isolated from the rest of the ship until it is determined
whether we are infected with or are carriers of the contagion."</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Stev nodded, “A … logical action. I’ll start preparing the others.” Then he went back to the passenger section as Sekal gave his
orders to the Illuminar. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Five minutes later T’Mur parked the shuttle on the bay plating. She tapped her comm badge. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">“T’Mur to Commander Verin, we back on the main Shuttlebay. Commence medical transport when ready.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">(reply Verin, Aggie)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">(Posted by Al Muir)</span></p>
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