September Paladin Complies Complied by Richard Tomlin =================================================================================== Mission Filler of Time Day 4 Stardate 2418 12.19 ===================================================================================== (Dureth Station - Crew Quarters - CMO LT Tian Noble - 0700) (Dureth Station - Crew Quarters - ACSO Ensign (sg) Adrian lanney - 0701) (Dureth Station - Crew Quarters - ACMO Aimee Bracken - 0705) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken- 1330) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken- 1428) (Dureth Station – Runabout – CO ,- Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs- 1429) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Cmdr Clark Hunter- 1431) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CEO LT Ashley Vesper- 1432) (Dureth Station – Runabout – CMO ,- Lt Tian Noble- 1433) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Clarke Hunter- 1434) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs- 1437) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- ENS Councilor Addison MacCaulay- 1437.5) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken- 1438) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei - 14.40) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CMO LT Tian Noble 1441) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters- ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1442) (Dureth Station – Station Bar- CO - Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs - 1444) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1445) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CO, Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs 1445.5) (Dureth Station – Station Bar- CEO LT Ashley Vesper - 1446) Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken – 1447 (Dureth Station – Station Bar – CEO LT Ashley Vesper - 1448) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Councilor Ens Addison MacCaulay  1449) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei - 14.50) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - ACSO Ensign(sg) Adrian Lanney- 14.51) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken  - 1452 (Dureth Station - Station Bar - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei  - 14.53) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – CEO LT Ashley Vesper - 1454) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1455) (Dureth Station - Promenade – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken – 1456) (Dureth Station - Promminade - Councilor Ens Addison MacCaulay  1456.5) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CMO Lt Tian Noble - 1457) (USS Sandog- Sickbay- CMO LT Tian Noble – 1459 (USS Paladin - Bridge – Lt Cmdr Mil Nicolea – 1500 (Dureth Station – Crew quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken – 1501) (Dureth Station - Promminade - CO Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs  1503) (USS Sandog  - Bridge - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei – 15.04) (Dureth Station - Promminade – Councilor Addison McCaulay - 1505) (Dureth Station – Promenade– ACSO ensign(sg) Adrian Lanney– 1509) (USS Sandog- bridge - CMO LT Tian Noble - 1510) (USS Sandog- bridge - ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1511) (USS Sandog- bridge - CMO LT Tian Noble - 1513) ===================================================================================== (Dureth Station - Crew Quarters - CMO LT Tian Noble - 0700) Tian hadn’t said anything yet durning the meeting he was just watching the new doctor. Normally Tian wasn’t a jealous person, but he did feel a bit threatened at this point. Tian knew he had no been given any reason to feel that way. Tian leaned over to Lanney “do you know anything about her?” Tian asked (Reply Lanney) Aimee shook her head, indicating that she had no questions, but spoke up. “Understood Sir, I’m not the best of Techs, but I know the basics, and I’m a very fast learner, just point me toward a terminal.” “If you would rather take my station at medical Doctor Bracken I’m sure I can find something else todo.” (Replay Bracken) (Posted by Richard) (Dureth Station - Crew Quarters - ACSO Ensign (sg) Adrian lanney - 0701) Adrian was stood listening when Tian leaned over and asked “do you know anything about her?” It took Adrian a moment to work out that he meant Aimee. "Not a thing, but I trust Vesper and she seems to trust Aimee so I'm willing to give her a chance. That said, after what happened on the shuttle the other day I'm still going to have a hand on my phaser." (Reply tian, any) (Posted by Adrian) (Dureth Station - Crew Quarters - ACMO Aimee Bracken - 0705) “If you would rather take my station at medical Doctor  Bracken I’m sure I can find something else to do.” Aimee turned to Noble, unsure how to take his offer, but smiled nonetheless. Her offer as another field medic had been born out of a strong sense of duty, but also to prove to Gibbs that she could be trusted and would be an asset. She felt bad enough already about the last, she'd already lied too much. "Kind of you Sir, but he's right. My presence will create problems on the station for you if im around. I've been floating around here a while and my face is known. Marked now too probably." (Reply noble, any) (Posted by Mark) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken- 1330) Aimee looked around the room at the assembled Officers, She only really knew Ash, who she knew trusted her completely, but the trust of all the others was based solely on that. She was as yet an outsider, she didn’t blame them for that at all, she’d be the same. It would make the next couple of hours easier though if they knew her as Ash did. “I suppose it’s time to get into it. I’ve turned up out of nowhere on this station, and I’m now asking you to put your trust into my hands. For that, I apologise, but we don’t have time to hold hands for bonding and circle time. My mother was, until recently a highly decorated Fleet Captain, and my gran was a career BlackOps marine. I myself am a surgeon of no little reputation, but I have run this kind of gig before.” At the back of her mind she hoped that they got her bluntness was partly part of her character and part necessity born of situation, rather than rudeness. “You’ve all been issued with one way aural recievers, these fit invisibly into the ear, and you’ll hear my dulcet tones coming direct into your ears thoughout the mission. You won’t be able to talk direct back to me, but the Commander and I will be able to hear everything that’s going on as soon as I get into the security feed. We may be able to see you, but that will depend on some potentially very spotty security footage. I’m going to be running point under Commander Gibbs. Before we move out, does anyone have questions? Anything at all?” (Reply any) (posted by Mark) Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken- 1428) Aimee shifted uneasily in her seat as she watched Ash and the team enter the bar. She fiddled with the earpiece and microphone that she was wearing, an affectation given the directional speakers and microphones on the terminal that she sat at, but she’d always preferred it. “Team moving into place Commander, no sign of Hunter yet. We have a stable link into video and comms chatter over…most of the station Sir. The rest…I’m working on but they’ve changed some protocols that I may not be able to work round.” (Reply Gibbs IYW) (Dureth Station – Runabout – CO ,- Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs- 1429) Chris sat in the chair, it was odd to be in the runabout that wasn't going anywhere. He heard Aimee's voice as the the first team entered the bar, biting his lips he looked around  =/\=Team moving into place Commander, no sign of Hunter yet. We have a stable link into video and comms chatter over…most of the station Sir. The rest…I’m working on but they’ve changed some protocols that I may not be able to work round.=/\= "Very well Bracken, keep an eye." Chris turned and looked at the small team of officers "they've gone in"  (Reply any on runabout) Chris looked over at his phaser rifle placed a hand away laying against the console, he then checked his small cricket type one phaser in the pocket of his civilian clothing. None of the officers seemed to be holding their weapons other than the small side arms of varying degrees. Something about the tone in Hunters voice caught Chris and he listened more intensely. =/\=You see Lt Ashley Vesper, Cheif Engineer USS Paladin I have someone you're looking for. I assume you all know your Cheif Science officer? Well, he isn't going anywhere and to be frank neither are any of you. That's you included Lt Commander Gibbs, currently listening in from one of the stations runabouts.=/\= "What the hell....how does he know?" Chris turned to face the other members of the team. (Reply any) ( (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Cmdr Clark Hunter- 1431) Clark stood centre of the bar, he watched as the small team walked in. He handed the PADD back to his short companion, they nodded to eachother, the plan was falling into place.  As the officers stopped centre of the room Clarke walked down to meet them. "Your timing is impeccable Ashley. I see you decided to bring your friends back. A little drink before we start?"  Hunter said looking around the room.  (Reply any) "Very well" Hunter nodded as the bar staff tended to the requests.  "Now, I understand you have something I want, and I have someone you want, sorry something you want. Who goes first"  (Reply Vesper, any) (Posted by Mat) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CEO LT Ashley Vesper- 1432) "Your timing is impeccable Ashley. I see you decided to bring your friends back. A little drink before we start?"  Hunter said looking around the room. "Something stiff..." Ash replied looking up at him gesturing her hand to her colleagues. (Reply any) "Very well" Hunter nodded as the bar staff tended to the requests. "Now, I understand you have something I want, and I have someone you want, sorry something you want. Who goes first" Ash looked at him and pulled out a small holographic projector, "This is the flight path of the USS Sentinel for the next week - its shield frequencies and first officers computers access codes. I have this for two other ships passing through this sector." Flipping the projector back off her gaze met Hunters. (Reply Hunter, any) "How i got these doesn't matter. That i have them does. Now if you find that uncomfortable im sure there are other people who might want to know these - I hear Romulan Intelligence is always looking for this sort of stuff. Just so happens you have something that i need that i dont think they can give." she replied back "So now that ive showed you mine, why don't you show me yours if you are serious about this?" (Reply Hunter, any) (Posted by Adam) (Dureth Station – Runabout – CMO ,- Lt Tian Noble- 1433) "What the hell....how does he know?" Chris turned to face the other members of the team. “This is bad” Tian said standing from his station they had missed something or had a spy.  (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Clarke Hunter- 1434) Hunter watched with a dull expression as Vesper showed him the details and eventually looked at him "And how exactly did you get those details?" He asked playing along with the game for a moment, biding his time. "How i got these doesn't matter. That i have them does. Now if you find that uncomfortable im sure there are other people who might want to know these - I hear Romulan Intelligence is always looking for this sort of stuff. Just so happens you have something that i need that i dont think they can give So now that ive showed you mine, why don't you show me yours if you are serious about this?" Vesper said seeming sure of herself. Hunter locked eyes, things had turned quicker than he expected. "Oh I have something of great interest to you, or maybe even someone" Hunter motioned across to his aids.  The doors to the bar were sealed from the outside, members of the station crew and Hunters team took their positions. The only person visible to the Sandog Crew walked forward holding a tricorder and handed it to Hunter. Clarke opened it and tapped a few buttons, the blue haze of the transporter appeared next to him and Lt Alyl appeared, bound and gagged. A few of Hunters men blocked Vesper and her teams ability to reach him. "You see Lt Ashley Vesper, Cheif Engineer USS Paladin I have someone you're looking for. I assume you all know your Cheif Science officer? Well, he isn't going anywhere and to be frank neither are any of you. That's you included Lt Commander Gibbs, currently listening in from one of the stations runabouts." Hunter said as he pulled out his phaser. (Reply any) Hunter nodded again as the same blue haze filled the room, this time Chris and the teams appeared next to eachother as more of Hunters men raised their weapons to block entry.  "The Orions don't take kindly to anyone trying to push onto thier patches and they take less kindly to anyone trying to stop it. Let this serve as a strong warning to all of you. Don't mess with the syndicate." As the new officers were trying to find their bearings Hunter raised his weapon, placed it against Alyls head and fired. The body fell to the floor as once again the blue haze filled the room and Hunter disappeared. (Reply any, all) (Posted by Mat) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- ENS Councilor Addison MacCaulay- 1437.5) "You see Lt Ashley Vesper, Cheif Engineer USS Paladin I have someone you're looking for. I assume you all know your Cheif Science officer? Well, he isn't going anywhere and to be frank neither are any of you. That's you included Lt Commander Gibbs, currently listening in from one of the stations runabouts." Hunter said as he pulled out his phaser. Addison’s eyes widened as she say Alyl she didn’t even notice that the rest of the team were beemed in she didn’t even hear anything that happened after all she knew was Alyl was in danger and she needed to save him. "The Orions don't take kindly to anyone trying to push onto thier patches and they take less kindly to anyone trying to stop it. Let this serve as a strong warning to all of you. Don't mess with the syndicate." Addison knew her old friend was saying something but her head was so full of worry and concern that she couldn’t move she couldn’t focus. As the new officers were trying to find their bearings Hunter raised his weapon, placed it against Alyls head and fired. The body fell to the floor as once again the blue haze filled the room and Hunter disappeared. “NO!” Addison Screamed a bit to late her tears falling down her face as she watched her lovers body fall to the floor. Her eyes filled with hate locked on to Clarks. Rushing forward not taking her eyes of Hunter she wanted him dead and she was going to make that happen. He wasn’t the same person she knew he wasn’t her friend and she was a fool to think he still was. She felt pressure holding her back from Alyl body as two of Hunters man held her back she fought them with as much force as she had at that point it was a lot. She wasn’t really in control of her body she didn’t even know what she was doing until it had already happened. Addison grabbed the man’s hand to her right moving and forcing him to fire his phaser at the other one. Without missing a step, she slammed her elbow into the other mans gut before he knew what hit him she had his phaser and fired again. Addison moved forward toward the Alyl body stopping looking right at Hunter “MOVE!” she hissed pointing her phaser at him. (reply Hunter, any) (posted by Richard) Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken- 1438) As the minutes ticked by she watched Hunter and his goons enter the bar, She and the rest of the room heard everything that was said, and recoiled in horror a second later. “Shots fired. Repeat, Shots fired, hostage down.” (Reply Gibbs) Aimee shook her head, as she watched surges of data flash across her screen, the pattern she recognised. She spoke aloud, both to Gibbs and to Ash in the bar itself. “Negative Sir, bar is shielded, beam out not possible at this time. Repeat. Beam out not currently possible.” Her fingers tapped across the screen, trying anything, everything to bring down the field that was preventing the transporter beam. (Reply Ash/Gibbs) “We have very serious problems.” (Reply any/all) (posted by Mark) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs- 1437) Before Chris could get an answer they had been transported to the Bar, trying to work out what was going on Chris looked up and saw Hunter killing Alyl, reacting he tried to pull his phaser out but the pockets were too deep and there was too much movement for him to concentrate. =/\=Shots fired. Repeat, Shots fired, hostage down.=/\= Aimee's voice filled his ears as the room erupted into Chaos "Hold" Chris bellowed into his comm trying again to pull his phaser out as one of Hunters men made a dash for him.  Managing to fire his small phaser in time Chris watched as the man fell to the ground, grabbing the man's riffle he stood and watched as MacCauley dashed across the room towards Hunter. "Ensign, stand down" he shouted as Addison rushed taking no notice of her CO. As she made it to where Hunter was stood then Hunter beamed out of the room. "I'm here Bracken, Hunter has beamed out of the bar, beam us to his location." Chris called dodging the butt of a phaser  =/\=Negative Sir, bar is shielded, beam out not possible at this time. Repeat. Beam out not currently possible. We have very serious problems.=/\= "You and me both Aimee" Chris threw himself behind an upturned table as he hid popping up to fire. "Trei, Flagg cover fire in Ensign Maccaulay, Vesper, Lanney cover fire on Alyl, Dr get to Jayton!" Chris shouted out as he made his way across to Addison dodging the phaser blasts. "Well Bracken, what's the issue?" (Reply Bracken, Flagg, Noble, Trei, Vesper, Lanney) (Posted by Mat) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei - 14.40) When he beamed into the bar, he saw Hunter kill Alyl with his phaser.  It turned into a firefight he was not expecting to happen this way.  He thought to himself the kind of action Hunter took reminded him of a Romulan rather than a starfleet officer.  He will deal with Hunter when he has the chance to but now his action is to provide cover fire so Gibbs can stabilize the situation.  He dove behind the cover of an overturned table and popped up and down providing the cover as ordered.  He will process his emotion over his comrade being killed later.  When the scene is contained and controlled, he can possibly honor Alyl with the Klingon Death Ritual.  He shouted over the roar of phaser fire to confirm he understood the orders. "Understood Sir.  Continuing fire until further orders." (Reply Gibbs, Any) (Posted by Edward) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CMO LT Toan Noble 1441) "Trei, Flagg cover fire in Ensign Maccaulay, Vesper, Lanney cover fire on Alyl, Dr get to Jayton!" Chris shouted out as he made his way across to Addison dodging the phaser blasts. "Well Bracken, what's the issue?" Tian moved quickly over to the body of their fallen comrade. Flipping a near by table for some cover he Pulled his tricorder out of his pocket he did a scan knowing well what he would see.  “So commander I know this is a bad time and all, but I really need to get to a med bay if you want me to save the symbiont.  (Reply Gibbs, any)  (Posted by Richard)  (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters- ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1442) =/\= Well Bracken, what's the issue? =/\= Aimee had never seen a situation go south so quickly, there were a lot of things that had made no sense even as they had happened, but she pushed those to the back of her mind for the moment. “Fighting for control in the system Commander. I have no idea what Hunter did, but the system is crawling with top end security now. I’m running bio traces all over the Station where I can looking for Hunter, but nothing at the moment.” (Reply Gibbs) “Understood, scans running. I think that I can punch through the shields, but at the moment they are serving as much an ally as an adversary; they’re keeping backup out of the bar. However, even when I bring those down, I can’t beam you out, transporters are crippled. We’ve been played big time Commander, he knew we were here.” (Reply Gibbs) “I still have visual. Gibbs, Vesper. They’re concentrating on the centre, suggest a slow flank each side, covering fire, pincer movement, pattern bravo two. That should buy me some time.” (Reply Ash/Gibbs/any) (posted by Mark) (Dureth Station – Station Bar- CO - Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs - 1444) =/\=Fighting for control in the system Commander. I have no idea what Hunter did, but the system is crawling with top end security now. I’m running bio traces all over the Station where I can looking for Hunter, but nothing at the moment.=/\= "Understood, scan the exterior of the station as well he may have beamed off onto a craft. Run a scan if you can for any Starfleet biosigns on the station, if we can't get him perhaps someone on shoreleave might." Gibbs called moving closer and closer to his target.  =/\=Understood, scans running. I think that I can punch through the shields, but at the moment they are serving as much an ally as an adversary; they’re keeping backup out of the bar. However, even when I bring those down, I can’t beam you out, transporters are crippled. We’ve been played big time Commander, he knew we were here.=/\= Aimee said, Chris didn't think she sounded overly deflated but there was so thing in her voice that worried him "Can you still see us, we need to land these guys and start trying to get out."  =/\= I still have visual. Gibbs, Vesper. They’re concentrating on the centre, suggest a slow flank each side, covering fire, pincer movement, pattern bravo two. That should buy me some time.=/\= "Thank you Bracken, now can you send a coded transmission to the Sandog, I think it's time to call in the heavyweights, even if you need to leave the station on our shuttle, call the Sandog" Gibbs motioned to the officers present to change to the suggested formation and close in the few remaining guards.  (Reply Any, all) (posted by Mat) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1445) =/\= Thank you Bracken, now can you send a coded transmission to the Sandog, I think it's time to call in the heavyweights, even if you need to leave the station on our shuttle, call the Sandog" Gibbs motioned to the officers present to change to the suggested formation and close in the few remaining guards. =/\= “Acknowledged Sir.” She then opened a communications window and sent the coded transmission to the Sandog that would immediately request their support. Sandog Ops would have it as soon as it was sent. Aimee didn’t know how far out they were, that information wasn’t in this terminal. (Reply Sandog Ops) As she began the scans of the outside of the station, a calm began to settle over her, she didn’t know where it came from, but she somehow knew that it was a part of her heritage that both sought out situations of intense danger, and finding the peace that being in complete control during those situations have given both her mother and her gran. She’d felt like this a few times before, during some of the most high pressure, dangerous operations that she’d performed. Ash’s brain surgery had been one. Removing a small piece of metal from the most complicated organ in existence had been up there. Aimee’s eyes flicked between the security feed and the data from the scans she could see that there were only a small number of targets left in the bar, and their resistance was ebbing. The scans for bio-signs were still progressing, there were a lot of people on board the station, and cross-referencing them against known Fleet personnel was taking longer than she’d like. Gibbs, Noble. Sandog en-route, coming in full steam. I heard mention of a Symbiot – Noble do you need a hot extraction to Sickbay on the Sandog? I might be able to drop shields to facilitate.” (Reply Gibbs/Noble) Aimee’s eyes had been flicking over the different screens in front of her. The scans for Hunter and other Friendly Fleet crew were on their way to completion, but not yet finished. It was for that reason that her eyes wandered over the station scans. Aimee would be the first to admit that she was a hell of a surgeon but didn’t know one end of a spanner from the other, but she’d come to recognise patterns in the flow of energy in the conduits in ships and stations, patterns that looked wrong here. There were paths of energy going into places that the schematics had said were abandoned how long ago. Other patterns emerged, and spectra that she recognised instantly. It was with mixed fortune that the channels to the other two officers were still open, as they heard her reaction live and visceral. “Whole bloody place is rigged to blow.” (Reply Gibbs/Noble/any) (posted by Mark) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CO, Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs 1445.5) "So commander I know this is a bad time and all, but I really need to get to a med bay if you want me to save the symbiont." Tain called across to Chris "Dr you're right, this isn't a good time. Do what you can until we get the situation sorted" Chris didn't want to have to tell the Dr he couldn't get the symbiont out but the reality was exactly that. =/\=Gibbs, Noble. Sandog en-route, coming in full steam. I heard mention of a Symbiot – Noble do you need a hot extraction to Sickbay on the Sandog? I might be able to drop shields to facilitate.=/\= Bracken's voice suddenly filled Chris with confidence "Affirmative Bracken, as soon as!" Chris called not really giving the Dr a chance to reply. =/\=the whole bloody place is rigged to blow=/\= Aimees voice chilled Chris to the Bone and he just froze. "What?!" Chris shouted firing at the final person and realising it was just them in the room now.  "Commander we dont have much time before this place goes. If this is right hes getting ready to put a feedback surge into the main reactor and crack this station like an egg from the inside out, It would take Ensign Flagg and myself ten minutes to stop the breach - we are past that point. Hunter knew what and when he was doing things." Ashley said as they all slowly started to make their way to the middle of the room  =/\=have them Sir…couple of decks up, disused hanger, 300 lifesigns. A number of StarFleet Personnel, plus others. Hunter is in a different hangar on that same deck - Sir, there has to be a way? EMP pulse? Eject the core? Anything?=/\= Aimee questioned, her voice spinning Gibbs head "Hes too smart for that and fused the eject shut, See if you can flood the reactor with plasma coolant, rupture the conduits if you have too. That might give us a little more time. The reactor casing is melting - its too far gone - as soon as the presure builds up enough this station goes pop. Commander we need to leave now!" Ashley replied as Chris looked around the room. "What is he doing, how can someone go that wrong?" Chris asked himself aloud.  "Right, Aimee do what you need to do, Vesper, get us out of the bar. Noble ready for emergency transport, Trei stay with Noble do not leave his side. The rest of you stand ready. (Reply Any) =/\= Okay, I’ve regained control of the majority of the systems, I’m leaking coolant conduit 1 of 4 now and going to do this as slowly as possible. With your permission, I’m going to drop the shield now and initiate an evacuation warning now Sir? The rest of the station will be far too busy to get in our way then =/\=  "Make it so Bracken and beam all of us out of the bloody bar!" Chris called raising his weapon "Slow is good - it'll temper any thermal shock," Ash looked over at Gibbs nodding she was ready to leave. =/\= Current time limit…30minutes based on current rate of release and internal pressure…which is a bit elastic I appreciate. =/\= "Indeed - I wouldnt take thirty as gospel. Depending on how bad the reactor is it could be any time,"  Chris listened as his crew worked the problem out, he was proud. Looking down he saw Addison, walking to her he put a supportive arm on her.  "We will get him, I promise"  (Reply Addison) "Ready to extract Bracken, leave Noble, Trei and Alyl in the bar their safer here than out there. Second the Sandog is in place beam them over." Chris looked at Noblr and Trei to ensure they understood (Reply Trei, Noble) "Very good, let's get this bastard, Energise" (Reply Bracken) (Reply any, all) (Dureth Station – Station Bar- CEO LT Ashley Vesper - 1446) Ash popped out from a pillar she had taken cover behind and continued to lay out some covering fire as Gibbs had ordered. The makeshift weapon she had originally received wasnt built to handle the sustained fire and she could feel it start to heat up. She couldnt feel it from the adrenaline but it was slowly burning the skin on her hand. Over the fire she heard Aimees voice in her ear. =/\= Whole bloody place is rigged to blow. =/\= "What!?" she thought for a second, "Whats he done?" Ash took cover again and flipped out the holo unit she had earlier and looked at the station diagram sent through, "Commander we dont have much time before this place goes. If this is right hes getting ready to put a feedback surge into the main reactor and crack this station like an egg from the inside out," A phaser blast ricocheted off the beam she was behind, "It would take Ensign Flagg and myself ten minutes to stop the breach - we are past that point. Hunter knew what and when he was doing things." (posted by Adam) Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1447) =/\= What!?” Ash’s voice came through, What’s he done? =/\= “Place is rigged with explosives. His aim is to set a cascade of some sorts through the structure. Sending you the details to your holo now Ash. This is your bag, not mine.” Aimee leant forward on her hands for a few seconds while Ash was talking. =/\=…It would take Ensign Flagg and myself ten minutes to stop the breach - we are past that point. Hunter knew what and when he was doing things.=/\= The terminal in front of Aimee started beeping indicating scans finished. All her channels still open, she spoke to everyone. “I have them Sir…couple of decks up, disused hanger, 300 lifesigns. A number of StarFleet Personnel, plus others. Hunter is in a different hangar on that same deck - Sir, there has to be a way? EMP pulse? Eject the core? Anything?” (Reply Gibbs/Noble/Vesper/any) (Posted by Mark) (Dureth Station – Station Bar – CEO LT Ashley Vesper - 1448) The terminal in front of Aimee started beeping indicating scans finished. All her channels still open, she spoke to everyone. “I have them Sir…couple of decks up, disused hanger, 300 lifesigns. A number of StarFleet Personnel, plus others. Hunter is in a different hangar on that same deck - Sir, there has to be a way? EMP pulse? Eject the core? Anything?” "Hes too smart for that and fused the eject shut," Ash thought for a brief moment, "See if you can flood the reactor with plasma coolant, rupture the conduits if you have too. That might give us a little more time. The reactor casing is melting - its too far gone - as soon as the presure builds up enough this station goes pop. Commander we need to leave now!" (Reply Gibbs/Noble/Aimee/any) (Posted by Adam) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- Councilor Ens Addison MacCaulay  1449) "We will get him, I promise" Addison looked up at Chris tear still flowing down her face. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t stop them. She was gripping tight to the weapon she had in hand she tried to respond to lie and tell the commander she was fine but no words came out of her mouth when she tried to speak only a small sob. "Ready to extract Bracken, leave Noble, Trei and Alyl in the bar their safer here than out there. Second the Sandog is in place beam them over." Chris looked at Noblr and Trei to ensure they understood (Reply Trei, Noble) "Very good, let's get this bastard, Energise" (Reply Bracken) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei - 14.50) He moved in as ordered when he could go in behind the cover fire.  He found a closer flanking position while maintaining the cover fire actions.  He heard that the station was rigged to blow.  That was troubling indeed.  If the station was near blowing up, they needed to get out of there now.  It was not a prudent move to risk being hit himself so he continued the cover fire.  He did however have some flash grenades he will use when he located the remaining guards. (Reply Any) (Posted by Edward) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - ACSO Ensign(sg) Adrian Lanney- 14.51) "Trei, Flagg cover fire in Ensign Maccaulay, Vesper, Lanney cover fire on Alyl, Dr get to Jayton!" Chris shouted out. Adrian looked over to the Dr and saw one of hunters men behind him. Adrian stepped to the side to get a shot and fired, the first shot burning the wall beside the man and the second catching his shoulder and forcing him into cover. He fired again to keep the man down as he moved to behind a table the doctor overturned. “So commander I know this is a bad time and all, but I really need to get to a med bay if you want me to save the symbiont." Tian said. Adrian looked over and was about to reply when he over heard Aimee say that the room was rigged. ~has anything gone right this mission? It seems Hunter is always 5 steps ahead of us. ~ He thought to himself as he gave some more covering fire. (Reply any) (Posted by Adrian) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken  - 1452) =/\= He’s too smart for that and fused the eject shut, see if you can flood the reactor with plasma coolant, rupture the conduits if you have too. That might give us a little more time. The reactor casing is melting - its too far gone - as soon as the pressure builds up enough this station goes pop. Commander we need to leave now! =/\= The words ‘leave now’ sat uneasily with Aimee, she’d do all in her power to give everyone as much time as possible to be able to rescue as many of the hostages as possible. “Okay, I’ve regained control of the majority of the systems, I’m leaking coolant conduit 1 of 4 now and going to do this as slowly as possible. With your permission, I’m going to drop the shield now and initiate an evacuation warning now Sir? The rest of the station will be far too busy to get in our way then” (Reply Gibbs/Vesper/any) As she spoke she remotely opened the valve on the first coolant line, she immediately say a reduction in the core pressure, but with the sealed doors, it would only buy them so much time. “Current time limit…30minutes based on current rate of release and internal pressure…which is a bit elastic I appreciate.” (Reply Gibbs/Vesper/any) (posted by Mark) (Dureth Station - Station Bar - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei  - 14.53) Gibbs gave the order for him and Noble to stay in the bar.  It was safer there at the moment.  He understood the orders though he would have liked to track Hunter down and blast him to space dust.  That will have to wait.  He was fine for now to pick off Hunter's rats leaving their leader.  He took a defensive position as he usually did and waited for the rats to scurry away.  He was ready for them with 2 charged phaser rifles set to heavy stun.  He wished  Gibbs's team luck. (Reply Gibbs, Noble) (Posted by Edward) (Dureth Station – Crew Quarters – CEO LT Ashley Vesper - 1454) =/\= Okay, I’ve regained control of the majority of the systems, I’m leaking coolant conduit 1 of 4 now and going to do this as slowly as possible. With your permission, I’m going to drop the shield now and initiate an evacuation warning now Sir? The rest of the station will be far too busy to get in our way then =/\= "Slow is good - it'll temper any thermal shock," Ash looked over at Gibbs and enthusistically nodded about leaving. (Reply Gibbs/any) =/\= Current time limit…30minutes based on current rate of release and internal pressure…which is a bit elastic I appreciate. =/\= "Indeed - I wouldnt take thirty as gospel. Depending on how bad the reactor is it could be any time," She cast her mind back to some engineering classes where a reactor had leaked breifly onboard old the USS Chalanger and the heat and presure had created an insitu seal with the rest of the casing. It was fragile and temporay. She feared that the same thing was happening here. (Reply Gibbs/any) (posted by Adam) (Dureth Station - Station Bar- ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1453) =/\=Ready to extract Bracken, leave Noble, Trei and Alyl in the bar their safer here than out there. Second the Sandog is in place beam them over=/\= A memory flashed across her mind, an old boyfriend. *(StarFleet Academy – Jazz bar – Cadet 2 Carena Ptaquiloside – 1930 – date unknown)* *“What do you see in him Carena? He’s a straight flunk – out this year for sure.”* *Carena lifted her eyes up from her drink, watching the male figure leave the bar, smiling gently she answered “I don’t see anything – we aren’t an item Gabe and I. He…”She paused, stopping herself saying what it was on her mind. He’d said something about system security on a random blind date that a mutual friend had thoughtlessly set up. ~there’s a crack… somewhere… In every system, regardless of how secure. A back way, packages of data always behave the same. Where people are involved, egos are too. Every writer has an ego, a stamp, a signature. Know the writer, know the cracks.~* *“He makes me laugh, he’s a friend, a distraction, no more, and he knows that.” The younger Carena/Aimee had said.* *“You need one too Ptaq. Additional courses in year two? Academy not hard enough? Ops procedures? You transferring from med?” Mel had replied. She had never understood her friend’s desperate need to keep learning.* *“Don’t be obscene. Curious, that’s all. Gives me a break from surgical rota.”* *Mel had snorted derisively, “You need help Ptaq.” She looked at the beers on the table. “Chaser?”* *Carena’s eyes closed slightly, her mind shifting around one or two things that she’d heard this last week, “yeah why not, I’ll get them.” She got up, and started walking across the pub, headed toward the bar, smiling despite herself. The figure hugging red chiffon catching a gust of air behind her, even as her ears caught a snatch of conversation.* *“Yeah sure Bracken. Professors know nothing about extreme pressure neutron flow in neutron stars. Especially the ones that are experts in…I dunno NEUTRON STARS?”* *“Speggett…Shpaggghetti…Ribbonification. Telling you.”* *“Maker be with me... Dale how many have you had? You have KM this week. That’s not even a word. Bed. Now.”* (Dureth Station - Station Bar- ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1455) The bar dissolved in her mind as the claxons hit Aimee’s ears, she’d never had such a full memory of that night come to her, let alone at an inopportune moment like this. She had to see someone about this soon. It would be the nightmares next. “Understood;” Aimee said aloud as she changed screens, and forced the system to drop the shield around the room. Dimly she wondered what the crew on the bridge would be thinking, but she pushed the thought away ash she initiated the transfer of Gibbs and his team to the promenade.” She then opened a channel to the Sandog, “Sandog Ops this is Bracken on Dureth Station, three being transported aboard two able, one injured, coming direct to sickbay Copy and repeat?” “Copy Bracken acknowledged. Three coming aboard sickbay bound.” “Thank you Sandog Ops, dock at…” She sent some co-ordinates “…this docking bay.” Aimee then reopened the channel to the Officers still in the bar; “Noble, transfer to Sandog medbay for you and two others initiating in 3…2…1…transfer. Godspeed.” (reply Noble, any) Aimee then took a deep sip of her long cold coffee, a deep breath, and returned her attention to the chaos that she had started on the promenade. She was sure that a proper Ops Officer would have this under control, Aimee was horribly aware that despite her experience, she was grossly winging it. (Reply any/none) (Posted by Mark) (Dureth Station - Promminade - Councilor Ens Addison MacCaulay  1456.5) Addison stood at the room changed and Gibbs next words seemed a bit ironic since her eyes haven’t been clear for some time now. She knew deep down that she should have requested to stay in the bar that was her duty as the councilor, but her judgment wasn’t there only the need for revenge. "Keep your eyes clear, hopefully Hunters men will have realised what going on and will try to leave, but no doubt some will remain loyal. Forward" “h..e.. he’s smart” Addison finally got out “he won’t stay in one place once he knows his planned failed he will have a backup.” Addisons words came out more easily now the tears where slowing but still there. At this point she was going to give any information she knew about Hunter even if it let her little secret out. Chris and the team pressed forward through the mess towards the turbo lifts to make their way to Hunter. =/\=Commander Gibbs, this is Commander Nicolae of the Admirals Office, in temporary command of the Paladin, long story but I believe you may need some assistance?"=/\= Addison looked over at the commander she couldn’t help but wonder what happened to the command team that took over the paladin, but at least she knew they had enough backup if something big happened. (reply any) (posted by Richard) (Dureth Station - Promenade – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken – 1456) Aimee had taken the few seconds respite from chaos to grab a fresh coffee from the replicator. A luxury that she appreciated, her friends on the promenade did not have. She countered this guilt however, by the thought that if she weren’t on her absolute best, in a field that wasn’t hers, then people…more people would die. =/\=Commander Gibbs, this is Commander Nicolae of the Admirals Office, in temporary command of the Paladin, long story but I believe you may need some assistance?"=/\= ~What the…~ Aimee’s blood ran cold, her gut twisted, and her heart sank; at the same time, her skin went clammy and her mouth dried out instantly. ~Mil?~ she drew in a sip of coffee, more to moisten her mouth, her need for caffeine had long since abated. ~Mil my darling, please not you, not now.~ She closed her eyes against the hope that there were two Nicolaes in such a position, and this one she hadn’t torn the heart out of. Aimee felt her heart quicken, the caffeine was not a great help now, but she had to pull together, she allowed herself a second to hold her breath and try to depress her aching heart. =/\=Good to hear you Chief, Nicolae I have support from an intelligence officer, she will tell you where I need Marines beamed to, but a small security team to my location would help about now. We need extraction of an injured officer in the stations bar, and about 300 crewmen, I will get you patched into the chatter. =/\= =/\=understood Gibbs, five man team on the way to you, we have the injured coming on board now=/\= Mil said. =/\=Bracken can you patch the Paladin into the secure comms, a Commander Nicolae is in command to support give them the locations for the marines and who needs to beam out bring them up to speed=/\= She’d been monitoring the transmission, so had heard every word up until now, the good, the bad, and now…her hand shaking, the knowledge that her first word would broadcast her identity to the bridge of the Paladin, she opened the channel and spoke, though she couldn’t stop the fear encroaching on her voive for the first time in as long as she could remember. “Paladin Ops this is Dureth Rogue, Confirm over” (Reply Paladin) Aimee ignored it, a tear welling. “Advise, Sandog is loose docking at 13, one three, please station at about 15, one fiver, immediate backup required deck zero one fiver, coordinates incoming. One hostile. Station core rigged to blow at approx. twenty that is two zero minutes, immediate assistance required repeat immediate assistance required.” She paused, in her mind hers was the only voice in the universe, and only one set of ears destined to hear it, a set of ears that she had no right asking to hear it considering all that she had done. “Help” She finished, her nerve breaking at last, the strain of the last months encompassing her. (Reply Paladin) (Posted by Mark) Mission Filler of Time Day 4 Stardate 2418  12.19 (Dureth Station - Station Bar- CMO Lt Tian Noble - 1457) “Noble, transfer to Sandog medbay for you and two others initiating in 3…2…1…transfer. Godspeed.” “Thank you” Tian said as the bar vanished and the med bay appaired. Tian looked around expecting a big medical team to be around him forgetting that there was very few people who where left on the sandog and that the marines where in charge. (USS Sandog- Sickbay- CMO LT Tian Noble - 1459) Tian grabbed the different tools and things he need. “Lieutenant you can report to the bridge and take over the tactical station.” (reply Trei) “Oh and let Major Kgrik know I’ll be there as soon as I can.” Tian paused he wasn’t sure what he was doing if this was even going to work. “Trei I’m sure you know this already, but we need to move this ship to a safe distance incase this station blows. DO NOT! Get out of transporter rang of the away team” (reply Trei) Tian pulled a status chamber over to the bed and grabbed a laser scalpel. Taking a deep breath to steady himself and made a pfannenstiel incision  and removed Alyl from Jayton body placing the symbiont in to the small chamber. Tian had no idea if this was even going to work he knew the symbiont only had a few hours at best before he would die as well. Tian sit on a bio bed he was shaking he knew if he stood now his legs wouldn’t hold him. Taking a deep breath for the second time Tian got up from where he was sitting and made his way to the bridge. (reply Trei, any) (posted by Richard) (USS Paladin - Bridge – Lt Cmdr Mil Nicolea – 1500 Standing in the centre of the command area Mil had been giving commands and tried to really understand exactly what was going on. The phaser burn marks were clear on the wall and Mil assumed they were very much the same across the whole ship. From what he understood the crew posing as Starfleet officers had managed to infiltrate the ship and attempt to take over, seemingly unaware of the amount of Marines aboard.  Having been pulled away from his rest days Mil was stood in a mismatch of half uniform and half civis, his phaser attached he managed to get to the bridge and help coordinate the defense. "Mil we're patched in now" Janey said as she pulled her hair into a light ponytail hoping to keep it off her face. The last few hours had been a real mixture, the bruses were starting to show from being shoved into holding areas in the cargo bays. "Marines confirm that all areas on Paladin secure." She finished. "Thanks Cheif." Mil motioned as he moved to the Operations table "get me a map of the station" Janey nodded. =/\=Paladin Ops this is Dureth Rogue, Confirm over=/\=  Mil froze as he heard her voice. Moments that felt like hours passed,  He felt Janey gently touch his hand in an attempt to pull him back.  "Mil" Janey said gently "the mission"  Coughing Mil tapped the comms  "Dureth Rogue, report" he said with mixed emotions trying to work out what to actually do.  =/\=Advise, Sandog is loose docking at 13, one three, please station at about 15, one fiver, immediate backup required deck zero one fiver, coordinates incoming. One hostile. Station core rigged to blow at approx. twenty that is two zero minutes, immediate assistance required repeat immediate assistance required....Help =/\= "I've got the coordinates Sir, Marines standing by." Janey said a little louder than needed but in an attempt to break the moment.  "Understood, erm Brack...dea....Aim..Rouge." Mil stumbled over the words trying to keep things in check. "Advise Marines two squads to beam to required location, Engineering team enroute and security team beamed to Gibbs. Once advised safe we will start to beam out friendlies." Mil finished moving to the centre again. (Reply Bracken) "Put us in holding pattern above docking 15, stand by multiple transports." "Sir, Vesper is on the station." Janey shouted more delighted than anything finding her friend alive. "Nicolae to Vesper, I have Engineering teams on standby, what do you need?" (Reply Vesper) (Reply Bracken, Vesper, any) (Posted by Mat) (Dureth Station - Promminade - CO Lt Cmdr Chris Gibbs  1503) As the team moved forward accompanied by the additional officers Gibbs slowed down and looked at Addison, her words registered eventually with him. "What do you mean he's smart?"  (Reply Addison) (Posted by Mat) (Dureth Station – Crew quarters – ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken – 1501) =/\=Understood, erm Brack...dea....Aim..Rouge. =/\= Mil seemed to stumble . =/\=Advise Marines two squads to beam to required location, Engineering team enroute and security team beamed to Gibbs. Once advised safe we will start to beam out friendlies.=/\= Aimee’s mouth had gone completely dry at hearing Mil’s voice once more, time was she’d have killed to hear his voice once more, saying…anything, now though. She could hear the confusion in his mind, she could utterly detect the confusion in his voice, perhaps unwelcome to hear her own even as she was dreading hearing his again. A scan drew her attention, the pattern had drawn her attention earlier, but she hadn’t really noticed it, now however, she’d seen big differences. As she reviewed the scans again she noticed a pattern, something that she wouldn’t have noticed save for her natural sense of rhythm. She thought for a few seconds and then opened a channel. “Lanney, I’ve got a couple of somethings for you. Firstly, assist Vesper in coordinating all the extra hands that you’re going to have now. Secondly…I’ve stumbled across the weirdest thing. I’m sending it to your tricorder now. See what you can make of it. I’m picking up a repeating pattern in the bases EM field. It’s regular, but the pulse period is decreasing though. I’ve no idea what it is or what it’s linked to. Assume that this could be important Lanney, can you hear me?” (reply Lanney) (Posted by Mark) (USS Sandog  - Bridge - CSEC  LT(SG)  Detron Trei - 15.04) Detron materialized on the Sandog in a defensive position as if he was still fighting at the station bar.  He stood up from the defensive crouch and made his way to the Bridge.  He reports to Major Krig before taking the Tactical station. "I am relaying orders from LT Noble to move a safe distance away from the station in case of explosions but stay in transporter range of the away team.  Mr. Noble will be here shortly." He took a seat at the tactical station and waited further orders. (Reply Krig, Any) (Posted by Edward) (Dureth Station - Promminade – Councilor Addison McCaulay - 1505) "What do you mean he's smart?" Addison looked at the commander for a moment before saying anything she knew exactly what she was trying to say but she didn’t know how to say it. Addison thought back to too an earlier time of an away mission gone wrong. “Life “support failing, haul down to 25%” Addison called from the operation station to the four-man team “I got this” Addison heard form a distance. “life support stable…. Haul holding… Clark how did yo..” Addison turned and was cut off as his lips met hers. “I’ll show you later” he whispered. Addison touched her lips and looked at Commander Gibs “just that Smart he’s going to know this station like the back of his hand he is going to know the systems better then we do. Sir I’ve never seen him fail he has always been miles ahead of his enemies knowing what they will do like it’s what he wanted them to do.” Addison noticed to late what she just said (reply Gibbs) “It wouldn’t be surprise if he had another command area set up for just him he is probably controlling everything that is happening I don’t think we are in the amount of control we think we are. I could be wrong of course.” (reply Gibbs) (posted by Richard) (Dureth Station – Promenade– ACSO ensign(sg) Adrian Lanney– 1509) =/\=Lanney, I’ve got a couple of somethings for you. Firstly, assist Vesper in coordinating all the extra hands that you’re going to have now. Secondly…I’ve stumbled across the weirdest thing. I’m sending it to your tricorder now. See what you can make of it. I’m picking up a repeating pattern in the bases EM field. It’s regular, but the pulse period is decreasing though. I’ve no idea what it is or what it’s linked to. Assume that this could be important Lanney, can you hear me? =/\=Aimee said over the comm. "I hear you, stand by" Adrian replied. He checked his tricorder to see the readings. ~EM fluctuations... common in the use of transwarp technology, could the station... no, starbases can't move like that, they would tear apart. High energy shields maybe, but we haven't encountered any of those. A deliberate attempt to jam transporters maybe... but there are much easier ways to do so and we can still transport anyway. What ever is causing this I don't think it's an accident~ Outloud he replied: "I have a few theories but nothing that makes perfect sense. If you have any lightbulb moments or if the EM field changes massively can you let me know? Lanney out." (Reply Bracken) Tapping his comm to open a new channel he spoke, "Lanney to Gibbs, Bracken has found a strange EM signal. While its origin is unknown I wouldn't put it past hunter to be causing it for some reason. I recommend all our crew on the station and our ships be alerted to watch out for any traps." (Reply Gibbs) After closing the channel Adrian turned to Vesper. "How can I help LT?" (Reply vesper) Adrian nodded and got to work. Pausing for a moment he turned back and asked her "From an engineers point of view what would you use to make a regular EM pulse and what would its purpose be ?" (Reply Vesper) (Reply Vesper,  Gibbs,  Bracken,  any) (Posted by Adrian) (USS Sandog- bridge - CMO LT Tian Noble - 1510) Tian walked on to the bridge as he straightened his dirty blood-stained uniform. “What is our location” he asked as he walked over to the communication station. (reply any) “Send a message to the trill inform them that Jayton is dead and we have removed the symbiont but it is only barely holding on and we need a replacement host ASAP. Also let them know we are in a hostel situation and set a rendezvous point 10 light years from our current location” Tian said then looked at the rest of the bridge crew it was weird still seeing the small crew of marines running the show. “It is good to see you Major” Tian said as the communication officer let him know the message had been sent. Tian pressed a few keys on the communication PADD “Dr. Bracken what is the status of those explosives?” (reply Bracken, any) (USS Sandog- bridge - ACMO Lt(jg) Aimee Bracken - 1511) =/\= Dr. Bracken what is the status of those explosives? =/\= Aimee had pulled herself together in the last few moments; Nicholae’s arrival really had pulled the rug from under her feet emotionally. “At the moment the explosives are stable, they’re really stable until detonated. It’s the core that is going to cause us the most problems going forward. The second coolant conduit has almost emptied itself. We’re running out of time Noble; the engineers aboard the Sandog and Paladin are going to need to come up with something. I’m running out of ideas Sir. We’ve got 15 maybe twenty minutes” (Reply Noble, any) (Posted by Mark) (USS Sandog- bridge - CMO LT Tian Noble - 1513) =/\=At the moment the explosives are stable, they’re really stable until detonated. It’s the core that is going to cause us the most problems going forward. The second coolant conduit has almost emptied itself. We’re running out of time Noble; the engineers aboard the Sandog and Paladin are going to need to come up with something. I’m running out of ideas Sir. We’ve got 15 maybe twenty minutes=/\= “Understood” Tian replied turning to look at Trei then the rest of the crew. “Suggestion?” Tian asked looking at each of the officers on the bridge (reply Trei, any) “pull up the layout of the starbase layout.” Tian said stepping next to the operation officer. He kinda felt bad he probably smelled of death knowing he was covered in blood. “okay here is what we have this area is covered with explosives how can we disarm them before the station is turned into space dust,” (reply any) (posted by Richard)