EXETERRPG: (16 - 1013) MS - CSO Lt JG Erin Cortez

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Mission: The Flames of Purity

Day: 16  

Stardate: 2445.09.16

 

(Shuttle Michelangelo - Cockpit - CSO Lt JG Erin Cortez - 1013) 

 

As the shuttle began to freefall, Erin felt her stomach drop and she gripped her console. Fighting the urge to panic, she closed her eyes as the sounds of the cockpit and alarms swirled in her ears.

 

“Everyone OK back there?” Merek asked

 

Erin gradually released her grip on the console, keeping her eyes closed, she replied, “Yeah.”

 

“I’m setting us down about half a kilometer from the crater. Get your gear ready landing in two.” Erin heard the voice but something else as well. A sound filled her ears that she both had heard before but yet, it was unfamiliar.

 

Everything was quiet except for a steady beeping that felt familiar. Tilting her head slightly, she opened her eyes and sighed. The scene infront of her was different. Different console, wide open laboratory, definitely not federation. 

 

Looking around, the place was recognisable but not in the same vein. Looking down, it was then that she realised what was happening. The reflection looking back at her from the console screen was not hers.

 

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The data on the screen was something that meant a lot to him. She could tell that from the smile that looked back at her. This was something that he had been working on for a long time. The readouts were different but only slightly. Subtle little differences that Erin knew. At that moment, she realised that this was a memory but not one that belonged to her.

 

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Closing her eyes, Erin’s breath trembled in her. She put the pieces of the puzzle together. Unwittingly, Dulon had helped her. Helped her to understand the science that had been eluding her since the briefing on the ship. The realisation of what the cultists were doing or, at least, attempting to do filled her with terror. Not just for her and the ship but for the others.

 

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Opening her eyes, she realised that she was gripping the console again, her knuckles white. Releasing her hold on the console, she turned and with a tremble in her voice, she replied,

 

“I know what they’re doing…. Trying to do.”

 

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“They…. Doing something that Dulon was working on… he stopped because he couldn’t get it to work.”

 

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“The Chronoton Tacheon antenna…… It’s pointing to the wormhole… they’re not trying to destroy it.”

 

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“More so they’re trying…. I think…. To damage something inside …” Erin said quietly.

 

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“I’m fine.” she replied. Taking a deep breath to steady herself, she looked at her friend and said, “We need to stop them.”

 

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(Posted by Jackie)

NRPG: Having a megalomaniac cardassian scientists memories can be useful sometimes lol.  And i did check and was given the go ahead to run with this. 


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