EXETERRPG: (1, 1707, 2110) 2O/CEO, Lt. Cmdr. Keira Merek

[Todd Holladay]

Mission: A new day dawns
Day: 1
Stardate: 2446.01.28

(Earth - Lower Atmosphere - Personal Shuttle, 2O/CEO, Lt. Cmdr. Keira Merek
- 1707)

Keira sat at the controls which she kept at the standard Romulan interface.
She hadn't read her second native tongue in some time. She thought more in
Federation standard, as it was used more on her homeworld of  Carraya IV as
over half the population spoke it. She suspected, now that with Carraya on
the verge of joining the Romulan Republic as a member world, that she'll
get to practice more when she returns home, or maybe they already are, in
all the activities she's done since hearing the news, she actually forgot
the timeline.

She punched the craft to half impulse, and executed a tight roll. She
pushed the nose down to use the dive to gain momentum and then angled up by
over fifty degrees and started a climb. She continued East.

Venus put her muzzle on Keira's lap, and had wedged herself in between the
port panel and the pilot chair. Keira had no idea what the canine's senses
were telling her, but she didn't like it.

"It's OK, girl," Keira tried to comfort her animal companion, with a
scratch behind her ear, "I promise no more stunts."

Keira eased the craft in a more steady course and placed it on autopilot.
She wanted to avoid causing arrant shockwaves if she went supersonic in the
atmosphere, so she set the speed just under the speed of sound. She used
the flight time to reserve a place to camp. Surprising, to her at least,
there were numerous options. She selected one that boasted views of a
waterfall, close to the ocean, a heritage museum, a hiking trail that led
to something called the "troll's seat", it even had facilities to take a
shower before she showed up to Trip's so she would have plenty to do in the
morning.

~Four hour flight...~ Keira patted Venus's head, and waited to arrive.

(Earth - Iceland, Westfjords - 2O/CEO, Lt. Cmdr. Keira Merek - 2110)

Keira approached the island called Iceland; she had been able to see the
lights of civilization dotting the landscape for a while. She just now got
close enough to plot a proper approach vector. She had even spotted the
verdant swirls of the aurora. She executed a tight slow turn to land in the
designated spot. She found herself in the Tunguskogur campsite outside of a
town called Ísafjörður. She looked down to see Venus moving to put her
muzzle back on Keira's lap.

"It's OK, girl. Almost done here." She said finishing up the post check as
she powered everything down. The whine of the engine subsided. As the rear
hatch opened a blast of cold air assaulted them. Not nearly as cold as
Alaska could get, yet still much cooler than she was used to. Keira and her
animal companion made their way to the camp grounds.

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(Posted by Todd)

-- 
Todd Holladay
SGT, IA ANG (Ret)

"There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk
awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek
revenge when those we love are taken from us, but that's not who we are." -
Captain James T. Kirk
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