Enola
Intelligence
[TI39]
Posts: 341 Likes: 4
Rank: Ensign
Species: Romulan-Vulcan
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Post by Enola on Aug 30, 2021 8:56:58 GMT
[ Ensign Enola - LZ-1] Enola nodded once as Harmon told her to help him, and also braced herself against the door. No, there was absolutely no movement, but the Klingon had already made that realization abundantly clear. The Part-Vulcan finally broke off her attempt as well, and then looked back at Bremmer to see if she was having trouble keeping her cover up. Apparently a lot of Tritters were coming through the tunnel right now. She looked back to the Lieutenant-Commander and her fingers moved to her phasers. Finally, she returned to the two women and tried to back them up against the Tritter. Next, when she felt a biting pain in her left arm, she raised her arm and held it in front of her eyes as she raised an eyebrow and first shook the thing off and then shot ist. Seriously?
Tag Eliska Bremmer Shavan Th'zhaar (Jurgha) Matthew Harmon
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Matthew Harmon
Intelligence
[TI42] Frontier's Most Malcontent Malcontent
Posts: 540 Likes: 18
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Intelligence Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Matthew Harmon on Aug 30, 2021 13:09:35 GMT
[LTJG Chloe Hudson - The Shittle]
Chloe nodded as they brainstormed ideas for drawing the tritters away. Costa appeared to have the most experience with them, so that plan seemed like a good idea. "Klingon Opera it is," she decided, "Can you hook up a transmitter to play the most unpleasant Klingon opera you can find?" he asked Miren and Costa. "Rin, I need you to be ready to shoot at them if need be." She then reported back to the Captain. =/\= Hudson to Captain Eastman. We're almost back at LZ-1 and have a plan to try and draw the tritters away. What is the situation on the ground? =/\=
Tag: Judith Eastman, Charlie Fox, Rin Zakir, Syl O'Connell
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Matthew Harmon
Intelligence
[TI42] Frontier's Most Malcontent Malcontent
Posts: 540 Likes: 18
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Intelligence Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Matthew Harmon on Aug 30, 2021 13:32:06 GMT
[Matthew Harmon - LZ-1]It seemed the stone door wasn't going to budge, and as the hordes of angry monsters kept flooding in it began to become clear that had a special interest in Matt, seemingly bypassing the others to go for him. Like the others he continued firing at them with his phaser but they just kept coming. A couple of them eventually made a breakthrough and went right for him. One leaped for his head, but he managed to block with his arm, preventing the talon from sinking into his neck and instead tearing through his left arm. At the same time, another decided to take a bite out of his satchel, his equipment and rations fell out, and with them the idol he had recovered, it then broke under the weight of the tritter who made another run for Matt but was stopped dead in its tracks by a well placed shot. "We aren't going to last much longer! Where's your backup?!" he yelled over the commotion between shots. "I hope someone packed a grenade or something! We need a break to try and get deeper into the tunnel, might have more luck back there!"
Tag: Eliska Bremmer, Enola, Shavan Th'zhaar, Judith Eastman
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Anastazia Volkova
Civilian
Posts: 64 Likes: 1
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: "Technician"
Species: Humanish
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Post by Anastazia Volkova on Aug 30, 2021 20:28:05 GMT
[Staz Volkova - Front Ear - Brig]Ugh... Did this man ever stop talking? "First off, I did not steal anything!" she snapped at him, reverting back to her native language. "I borrowed your shuttle to escape those things that were trying to eat us. And if you had only listened to me in the first place, then neither of us would be in here!" That, she knew was a fact. Staz had told him damaging the planet would bring the Fleet on their heads. But he had to let his ego run the show. And now she was stuck with his whining until she could convince someone that she had nothing to do with the fire.
Tag Eliska Bremmer Judith Eastman
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Judith Eastman
Civilian
Grandma
Posts: 2,593 Likes: 84
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: Civil Servant
Species: Human
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Post by Judith Eastman on Aug 31, 2021 0:03:05 GMT
As the idol broke, an item fell out of it. It was a modern Caldonian data-stick, at most 7 years of age, which couldn't possibly have been placed there had the idol truly been ancient. The Tritters seemed to be quite interested in that data stick, oddly enough.
Tag Matthew Harmon , Shavan Th'zhaar , Eliska Bremmer , Enola [ Ilario Matteus Alfonse Vierdeau - Calypso -> Brig]Finally! The guards were paying him his due attention! But, of course, that vile woman was there to threaten him no less! And impugn on is honour with further calumnies about his supposed crime. Well, there was one more person he'd see in the courts all right! "My beef? My beef?! I will tell you what that beef is! This woman stole my shuttle! And now you have me locked up with a goddamned pirate who has just threatened my life! I demand to be moved to a different cell and I will have charges pressed against her!"Then, he took a deep breath and sneered. "You know what, I'm through dealing with you. I demand to speak to the Chief of Security! Actually, make that the Exe... no, I'm going away above all your heads! I demand to speak to the admiral in charge of this sector!" [Staz Volkova - Front Ear - Brig]Ugh... Did this man ever stop talking? "First off, I did not steal anything!" she snapped at him, reverting back to her native language. "I borrowed your shuttle to escape those things that were trying to eat us. And if you had only listened to me in the first place, then neither of us would be in here!" That, she knew was a fact. Staz had told him damaging the planet would bring the Fleet on their heads. But he had to let his ego run the show. And now she was stuck with his whining until she could convince someone that she had nothing to do with the fire. [NPC - PO2 Kevin McDonough - Brig, Front Ear Station]Kevin was unimpressed by the man's entitled screeching, nor by the woman's defensiveness.
"So it sounds like you have some history together," he observed wryly, understating it. Then, thinking back to his very limited understanding of psychology and counseling, he chose to guide the conversation. "Take me back to the beginning of that history."
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Judith Eastman
Civilian
Grandma
Posts: 2,593 Likes: 84
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: Civil Servant
Species: Human
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Post by Judith Eastman on Aug 31, 2021 0:06:22 GMT
[LTJG Chloe Hudson - The Shittle]
Chloe nodded as they brainstormed ideas for drawing the tritters away. Costa appeared to have the most experience with them, so that plan seemed like a good idea. "Klingon Opera it is," she decided, "Can you hook up a transmitter to play the most unpleasant Klingon opera you can find?" he asked Miren and Costa. "Rin, I need you to be ready to shoot at them if need be." She then reported back to the Captain. =/\= Hudson to Captain Eastman. We're almost back at LZ-1 and have a plan to try and draw the tritters away. What is the situation on the ground? =/\= [Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams), PhD - LZ-2]Judy, in the meantime, had beamed back to LZ-2, having come to terms with the fact that she couldn't do much just screaming at a pit. She could coordinate things much more effectively from the command post here. =A= "As far as I can tell, they're underground," =A= Judy answered. =A= "But I've left the site. I know as much as you do. Just do what you can, and quickly." =A=
Tag Matthew Harmon , Syl O'Connell , Rin Zakir , Charlie Fox
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Eliska Bremmer
Security & Tactical
[TI14]
Posts: 358 Likes: 7
Rank: Petty Officer 3rd Class
Position: Security
Species: Human
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Post by Eliska Bremmer on Aug 31, 2021 0:58:57 GMT
[ PO3 Eliska Bremmer - Square, LZ-2 Colony -> LZ-1, Kerelia ][ Ensign Enola - LZ-1] Enola nodded once as Harmon told her to help him, and also braced herself against the door. No, there was absolutely no movement, but the Klingon had already made that realization abundantly clear. The Part-Vulcan finally broke off her attempt as well, and then looked back at Bremmer to see if she was having trouble keeping her cover up. Apparently a lot of Tritters were coming through the tunnel right now. She looked back to the Lieutenant-Commander and her fingers moved to her phasers. Finally, she returned to the two women and tried to back them up against the Tritter. Next, when she felt a biting pain in her left arm, she raised her arm and held it in front of her eyes as she raised an eyebrow and first shook the thing off and then shot ist. Seriously?
Tag Eliska Bremmer Shavan Th'zhaar (Jurgha) Matthew Harmon [Matthew Harmon - LZ-1]It seemed the stone door wasn't going to budge, and as the hordes of angry monsters kept flooding in it began to become clear that had a special interest in Matt, seemingly bypassing the others to go for him. Like the others he continued firing at them with his phaser but they just kept coming. A couple of them eventually made a breakthrough and went right for him. One leaped for his head, but he managed to block with his arm, preventing the talon from sinking into his neck and instead tearing through his left arm. At the same time, another decided to take a bite out of his satchel, his equipment and rations fell out, and with them the idol he had recovered, it then broke under the weight of the tritter who made another run for Matt but was stopped dead in its tracks by a well placed shot. "We aren't going to last much longer! Where's your backup?!" he yelled over the commotion between shots. "I hope someone packed a grenade or something! We need a break to try and get deeper into the tunnel, might have more luck back there!"
Tag: Eliska Bremmer , Enola , Shavan Th'zhaar , Judith Eastman As the idol broke, an item fell out of it. It was a modern Caldonian data-stick, at most 7 years of age, which couldn't possibly have been placed there had the idol truly been ancient. The Tritters seemed to be quite interested in that data stick, oddly enough.
Tag Matthew Harmon , Shavan Th'zhaar , Eliska Bremmer , Enola How bloody long did it take for a fully-charged phaser to overload? Well, she knew how long it should take on paper, but under the current conditions, Eliska Bremmer could not tell how much time had elapsed, but it certainly felt a lot longer. In fact, it was long enough for a few tritters to get past the ragged party's defensive fire, and for Harmon to say something about having a grenade handy... until the whine of the phaser reached its peak and it finally exploded. Now, an overloading hand phaser was no joke, everyone knew this. However, in the mass of tritters, much of the force of the explosion was absorbed into the press of flesh and teeth and claws... but there was still a wave of scorching air coming through the door they were desperately defending, bringing with it the stench of burnt flesh and the screams of wounded predators. And given the proximity of the explosion, the density of the tritters probably saved the lives of the party, for that matter. But, now that there was some breathing room, Eliska pointed her rifle at the door's lintel and fired a long burst until the roof caved to block that particular entrance the hard way. "Sir, we are your backup." The Petty Officer was gulping in air in greedy gulps as she considered their next course of action. The way they had come was blocked, so it meant they better found another way through... And then, she saw it, on the ground. "Sir, is that an isolinear rod?"
Tag Enola Shavan Th'zhaar (Jurgha) Matthew Harmon (Matt) Judith Eastman (tritters!)
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Eliska Bremmer
Security & Tactical
[TI14]
Posts: 358 Likes: 7
Rank: Petty Officer 3rd Class
Position: Security
Species: Human
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Post by Eliska Bremmer on Aug 31, 2021 1:09:45 GMT
[ Ilario Matteus Alfonse Vierdeau - Calypso -> Brig]{Quoted Posts} [Staz Volkova - Front Ear - Brig]Ugh... Did this man ever stop talking? "First off, I did not steal anything!" she snapped at him, reverting back to her native language. "I borrowed your shuttle to escape those things that were trying to eat us. And if you had only listened to me in the first place, then neither of us would be in here!" That, she knew was a fact. Staz had told him damaging the planet would bring the Fleet on their heads. But he had to let his ego run the show. And now she was stuck with his whining until she could convince someone that she had nothing to do with the fire.
Tag Eliska Bremmer Judith Eastman [NPC - PO2 Kevin McDonough - Brig, Front Ear Station]Kevin was unimpressed by the man's entitled screeching, nor by the woman's defensiveness.
"So it sounds like you have some history together," he observed wryly, understating it. Then, thinking back to his very limited understanding of psychology and counseling, he chose to guide the conversation. "Take me back to the beginning of that history."
Oh, of course that woman was going to plead innocence! She didn't have to take a shuttle by herself, she could've joined them in his own private craft. But no, she saw an opportunity and jumped on it! Well, he could respect someone doing just that... just not with his property! And now, that meathead on the far side of the forcefield wanted more? Well, he would get more all right! "Up until she stole from me, we were partnering towards finding that treasure! But the moment we hit some difficulties, she decided that stealing from me was the right thing to do! That's the history!"
tag Judith Eastman Anastazia Volkova
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Syl O'Connell
Flight Control
[TI8]
Posts: 662 Likes: 9
Rank: Lieutenant Junior Grade
Position: Flight Control/Caldonia 5
Species: Human
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Post by Syl O'Connell on Aug 31, 2021 3:22:51 GMT
[Lt. JG Cerjess Miren - Kerelia - Shuttle]Hook up a transmitter? Great. They had a scientist, security, intelligence, treasure hunter... And what they really needed was an engineer. Wracking his brain, Cerjess fumbled with the tricorder and his com badge while pulling a panel off a console. "Find a song in the database. We'll know as soon as I get it working!" he called out to the others in the shuttle. Then he paused and glanced over his shoulder at Rin and Costa briefly. "If either of you actually know how to do this, feel free to shove me aside." They didn't have time to be polite, or discuss steps. His focus returned to the exposed panel and he began to enter commands and rewire connections.
Tag Matthew Harmon Charlie Fox Rin Zakir
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Charlie Fox
Civilian
FOX NEWS
Posts: 730 Likes: 81
Position: Journalist
Species: A human of some kind
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Post by Charlie Fox on Aug 31, 2021 11:26:45 GMT
[LTJG Chloe Hudson - The Shittle]
Chloe nodded as they brainstormed ideas for drawing the tritters away. Costa appeared to have the most experience with them, so that plan seemed like a good idea. "Klingon Opera it is," she decided, "Can you hook up a transmitter to play the most unpleasant Klingon opera you can find?" he asked Miren and Costa. "Rin, I need you to be ready to shoot at them if need be." She then reported back to the Captain. =/\= Hudson to Captain Eastman. We're almost back at LZ-1 and have a plan to try and draw the tritters away. What is the situation on the ground? =/\=
[Lt. JG Cerjess Miren - Kerelia - Shuttle]Hook up a transmitter? Great. They had a scientist, security, intelligence, treasure hunter... And what they really needed was an engineer. Wracking his brain, Cerjess fumbled with the tricorder and his com badge while pulling a panel off a console. "Find a song in the database. We'll know as soon as I get it working!" he called out to the others in the shuttle. Then he paused and glanced over his shoulder at Rin and Costa briefly. "If either of you actually know how to do this, feel free to shove me aside." They didn't have time to be polite, or discuss steps. His focus returned to the exposed panel and he began to enter commands and rewire connections. [Costa - Shittle]Costa groaned loudly. She was very injured, and people were expecting her to do things. Things for Fleeters she had no feelings about either way, and who had managed to get themselves trapped in a tritter cave. She tried once more to push herself back up into a stance. It was a struggle and the skin on her back felt as though it was being ripped like a torn dress, but she persevered. Using the walls of the shuttle she made her way toward the scientist at the open panel. "Need to alter the comm array to receive the signal we create. Gonna convert the song's frequency to say, E-band, sasa? Then all we need to modify is the specific antenna assigned to E or EM." She very awkwardly, and with a rapidly paling face, positioned herself next to the officer. With a practiced ease and familiarity that only someone very familiar with Starfleet technology could have, she began to deactivate the transmitters they would not need. "Computer, play Gav'ot toH'va." Despite herself and her sorry state, she grinned as the opening strains of the aria began to play in the shuttle. She supposed she'd just outed herself as a fan of Klingon opera. "Now just reverse the hemi-nadion emitter from incoming to outgoing... Yaya... Direct the beautiful recording to it, and..."The sound of the song in the cabin muted, and the jungle outside was filled with the noise of Klingon opera. Costa fell back on the floor, staring up at the ceiling of the shuttle as a wave of dizziness overcame her. She started singing along.
Tags: Syl O'Connell , Matthew Harmon , Rin Zakir
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Anastazia Volkova
Civilian
Posts: 64 Likes: 1
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: "Technician"
Species: Humanish
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Post by Anastazia Volkova on Aug 31, 2021 16:23:02 GMT
[Staz Volkova - Front Ear - Brig]"Oh come off it!" Staz fairly shouted, quite sick of his holier-than-thou attitude. "You are an idiot! First you burn down several acres of forest to create a new landing zone. I told you that Starfleet would have our heads for that, but you thought you were smart enough to get out of it. Then you walked us straight into a horde of hellspawn! So no, I did not trust you to get me out alive. And I was right - because you couldn't even get off the ground without starting a wildfire! This is your fault! No amount of misplaced ego is going to change that!" During her tirade, Staz had been stepping towards the weasle of a man, until she was inches away from his face while she shouted at him.
Tag Eliska BremmerSoft Judith Eastman
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Rin Zakir
Security & Tactical
[TI21]
Posts: 112 Likes: 5
Rank: Lieutenant Junior Grade
Position: Security & Tactical
Species: Bajoran
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Post by Rin Zakir on Aug 31, 2021 16:31:32 GMT
[ Ensign Rin Zakir - The Shittle] Zak was surprised when Costa offered him the claw instead, even though he had just been joking around and trying to make her feel a little better. His humour did take a little getting used to for people, but it seemed as though she had at least appreciated the sentiment. "You sure you don't want to keep it? The science guys might not let me", he asked, making sure that she would be okay with that. he very much doubted that he would be allowed to keep such a thing. Besides, he'd just watched her pull it out of fresh, bloody wound. It wasn't the kind of packaging he was accustomed to for a gift, but that was the joys of being out in the frontier. Always expect the unexpected. "Well, thanks. First time I've been given something straight out of a wound, but I'll consider the extra tissue an added bonus!", he added with a grin. Whatever happened, it was only polite to accept a gift offered in good faith. Back to the bigger problem, it seemed as though they were on to something. Blast them with klingon opera, they won't know what hit them, he thought but kept said thought to himself. Considering his own people had chants and prayers that could last for days, he really couldn't say much. He handed over his tricorder, now very glad that he hadn't had to dispose of it planet side. They would definitely need a much higher frequency, but he supposed that they had that covered. Costa seemed to know what she was doing, although he would rather have continued to treat her injuries. Either that metropan stuff was better than he remembered or she was pushing herself, which would be unlikely to end well. He could see her paling from the blood loss, and sure enough, once her task was completed she appeared to succumb to the inevitable dizziness. He was immediately back by her side, making sure that she hadn't sustained any more injuries in the fall and if allowed continue to treat and dress her wound. It seemed she was a fan of klingon opera, judging by the fact that she was starting to sing along, but that could also be delirium. "Stay with me", he urged her. He wondered in brief bemusement just what people were going to think about them playing klingon opera over a burning forest, but then turned his attention back to his 'patient'. "I should learn klingon, though I don't think I'll be singing arias in any language any time soon", he then spoke in an effort to hopefully distract her and keep her awake long enough to receive more adequate medical intervention.
Tag Charlie Fox (costa), Syl O'Connell (Cerjess Miren) and Matthew Harmon (Chloe Hudson)
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Judith Eastman
Civilian
Grandma
Posts: 2,593 Likes: 84
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: Civil Servant
Species: Human
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Post by Judith Eastman on Aug 31, 2021 16:46:43 GMT
[ Ilario Matteus Alfonse Vierdeau - Calypso -> Brig] Oh, of course that woman was going to plead innocence! She didn't have to take a shuttle by herself, she could've joined them in his own private craft. But no, she saw an opportunity and jumped on it! Well, he could respect someone doing just that... just not with his property! And now, that meathead on the far side of the forcefield wanted more? Well, he would get more all right! "Up until she stole from me, we were partnering towards finding that treasure! But the moment we hit some difficulties, she decided that stealing from me was the right thing to do! That's the history!" [Staz Volkova - Front Ear - Brig]"Oh come off it!" Staz fairly shouted, quite sick of his holier-than-thou attitude. "You are an idiot! First you burn down several acres of forest to create a new landing zone. I told you that Starfleet would have our heads for that, but you thought you were smart enough to get out of it. Then you walked us straight into a horde of hellspawn! So no, I did not trust you to get me out alive. And I was right - because you couldn't even get off the ground without starting a wildfire! This is your fault! No amount of misplaced ego is going to change that!" During her tirade, Staz had been stepping towards the weasle of a man, until she was inches away from his face while she shouted at him. [NPC - PO2 Kevin McDonough - Brig, Front Ear Station]Truthfully, Kevin wanted to hear the two arsonists go on until they lit each other on fire, but he was a professional. He had to maintain safety in the Brig. =A= "Computer, release anesthizine into cell A8. Standard dose for two occupants, human." =A= It would take a bit for the gas to kick in, but it would do it soon enough, and the potentially violent prisoners would be subdued for long enough to clear out some of the local disorderly drunks and move these two to different cells.
Tag Eliska Bremmer , Anastazia Volkova
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Shavan Th'zhaar
Science
[TI35]
Posts: 800 Likes: 19
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Assistant Chief of Science
Species: Orion/Andorian
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Post by Shavan Th'zhaar on Sept 1, 2021 2:41:38 GMT
[ Jurgha, daughter of Khar - LZ-1] The tritters kept coming, and dying when they got too close to her. Still, even with all their combined efforts they were being swarmed. At least that was the case until Eliska set off the explosion and forcibly collapsed the tunnel entrance. One of the last tritters fell to Jurgha’s phaser, and she began to agree that the best way forward now was to keep going through the tunnels. When the explosion ringing in her ears died away, the remaining silence was eerie. Surely it had not killed every last one; where were the tritters? “Looks like it” Jurgha muttered, and since no one else had yet, picked up the data stick. She began to walk deeper into the tunnel. “Well, come on.” Very faint and distant, on the edge of her hearing, she thought she heard music. Was it just her imagination, or was someone playing one of her favorite songs? “Does anyone hear that?”Enola Matthew Harmon Eliska Bremmer Judith Eastman
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Matthew Harmon
Intelligence
[TI42] Frontier's Most Malcontent Malcontent
Posts: 540 Likes: 18
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Intelligence Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Matthew Harmon on Sept 1, 2021 10:53:27 GMT
[LTJG Chloe Hudson - The Shittle]
As The Shittle reached LZ-1 blaring out a truly ungodly chorus of Klingon opera, the tritters on the ground and in the caves slowly began to withdraw chasing the music. Unfortunately they could not contact the Captain or ground team, but at least it looked as though the plan seemed to be working.
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