As soon as I was awake - for the second time, not that the HoloDoc knew that - our Captain was issuing orders. 'We have an unidentified ship approaching at extreme warpspeed, with a Starfleet shuttle in tow. Could you report to Docking station 13 immedialey.' He cut off the transmission.
Grr I need to talk to him urgently. 'Captain 8472 is currently in DND mode. Please leave a message.' Cursing, I made my way to the outer hub of the station, where the docking ports are. On the way out I noticed one of the 'inmates' here had altered the notice outside Sickbay to read 'Suckbay'. Oh well, i'm sure Security will fail to find them.
Docking station 13 was, like the rest of this scrap station, separated from the hard vacuum of space by little more than some duct tape and chewing gum. Well maybe a little more, but not much. I preferred to stay away from the outer sections when possible, at least further in the emergency doors might just work if something came unstuck. I was even less pleased to be told the ship and shuttle would not arrive until early morning.
Some things had to be sorted out now with Captain 8, including the disappearance of my Singularity generator. 'Computer, location of 8472 please' 'Location unavailable.' 'What do you mean? clarify.' 'The energy pattern corresponding to Captain 8472 is no longer on this station.' 'When did he leave, and how?' 'He did not leave the station. Energy pattern ceased to exist at 7.35PM 10-25-3994'. Well that made sense. Another sensor failure, or computer error. No doubt the memory bank holding his energy pattern data fell off.
Nearly an hour later I made it to his private quarters. No answer. Tired out by the last few days, despite the rest in suck-oops Sickbay I made my way back to my cabin.
The alarm woke me at 6AM exactly. At last, something was working. In the lab on Deck16 by 6.20, I was pleased to see it almost completed. Back in front of my terminal it was easier to forget recent events. Time to catch up on the work that should have been done, the priority transmission from Starfleet I received the day after arriving gave me a week to prepare for the arrival of some unknown threat, still unknown without the high-security logs hidden in the Singularity gen. That week was up yesterday, and everything still appears normal - well what is accepted as normal here. No massed invasion fleets or unstoppable energy forces had materialised off the starboard bow, so to speak. (How wrong I was.)
'Computer, locate Captain 8472 please and don't tell me you lost him again' 'His reading appeared again at 6.05 AM. He is currently in his office and this computer does not lose anyone. The unidentified ship you were expected to meet has docked at bay 13, the captain has left orders that you examine it and see if any of the technology can be ripped off'.'He also said if you're not there by 6.30 he will display screenshots all over the station of the time you...'OK OK, i'm on my way.
Hurrying out of the lab I almost bumped into someone outside the door. I tried to ask what he wanted here, as Deck16 has a resticted access, then he collapsed. 'Computer - get the HoloDoc to send an emergency team out to Deck16 lab'.
The ship was a thing of beauty - a single piloted craft capable of travelling 5 times faster than the average Starfleet craft. Not as good as my invention, but at least this one worked. I lost track of time as I started carefully pulling it apart, it would have helped if Thrakhath hadn't decided to take some leave right now. Well with any luck the owner would be staying for a while. 'Are you going to the funeral' a voice startled me. One of the ground crew. 'Funeral?' 'Yes sir, TO Deepershade. He was murdered last night sometime.'
Whilst at the bar after the funeral - which thanks to Beerbaron's obsession with antique weapons was almost all our funerals - I heard a rumour that Radium was the murderer. I kept quiet, but despite the fact that many here don't seem to trust him I know he isn't capable of gunning anyone down, especially in a fight such as that. 'Computer, locate Radium' 'Radium is on Holodeck 3 practicing tactical skills'.
I decided to pay him a visit. 'Hello there. Want to try against a real opponent instead of these computer-controlled pushovers?' 'err no thanks, I really should be getting back to Deep - er my office and see what I need to do next'.
I'm convinced he had nothing to do with the killing, so who did?. Deepershade was investigating the Goshen monks, could they have something to hide that a goshen head just wouldn't cover?.
It was late afternoon by the time I found 8472, finally a chance to start working on whatever it was we were supposed to do here.'Captain we need to..' ARG it's that woman again - what's she doing here? I need to get rid of her.
'No civilians are allowed here. Leave Ops now, or I will call security'
8472: "She is an exception'
'But sir...'
8472 'That's my last word about this. I allow it.' So still no chance to recover the singularity generator.
Grr I need to talk to him urgently. 'Captain 8472 is currently in DND mode. Please leave a message.' Cursing, I made my way to the outer hub of the station, where the docking ports are. On the way out I noticed one of the 'inmates' here had altered the notice outside Sickbay to read 'Suckbay'. Oh well, i'm sure Security will fail to find them.
Docking station 13 was, like the rest of this scrap station, separated from the hard vacuum of space by little more than some duct tape and chewing gum. Well maybe a little more, but not much. I preferred to stay away from the outer sections when possible, at least further in the emergency doors might just work if something came unstuck. I was even less pleased to be told the ship and shuttle would not arrive until early morning.
Some things had to be sorted out now with Captain 8, including the disappearance of my Singularity generator. 'Computer, location of 8472 please' 'Location unavailable.' 'What do you mean? clarify.' 'The energy pattern corresponding to Captain 8472 is no longer on this station.' 'When did he leave, and how?' 'He did not leave the station. Energy pattern ceased to exist at 7.35PM 10-25-3994'. Well that made sense. Another sensor failure, or computer error. No doubt the memory bank holding his energy pattern data fell off.
Nearly an hour later I made it to his private quarters. No answer. Tired out by the last few days, despite the rest in suck-oops Sickbay I made my way back to my cabin.
The alarm woke me at 6AM exactly. At last, something was working. In the lab on Deck16 by 6.20, I was pleased to see it almost completed. Back in front of my terminal it was easier to forget recent events. Time to catch up on the work that should have been done, the priority transmission from Starfleet I received the day after arriving gave me a week to prepare for the arrival of some unknown threat, still unknown without the high-security logs hidden in the Singularity gen. That week was up yesterday, and everything still appears normal - well what is accepted as normal here. No massed invasion fleets or unstoppable energy forces had materialised off the starboard bow, so to speak. (How wrong I was.)
'Computer, locate Captain 8472 please and don't tell me you lost him again' 'His reading appeared again at 6.05 AM. He is currently in his office and this computer does not lose anyone. The unidentified ship you were expected to meet has docked at bay 13, the captain has left orders that you examine it and see if any of the technology can be ripped off'.'He also said if you're not there by 6.30 he will display screenshots all over the station of the time you...'OK OK, i'm on my way.
Hurrying out of the lab I almost bumped into someone outside the door. I tried to ask what he wanted here, as Deck16 has a resticted access, then he collapsed. 'Computer - get the HoloDoc to send an emergency team out to Deck16 lab'.
The ship was a thing of beauty - a single piloted craft capable of travelling 5 times faster than the average Starfleet craft. Not as good as my invention, but at least this one worked. I lost track of time as I started carefully pulling it apart, it would have helped if Thrakhath hadn't decided to take some leave right now. Well with any luck the owner would be staying for a while. 'Are you going to the funeral' a voice startled me. One of the ground crew. 'Funeral?' 'Yes sir, TO Deepershade. He was murdered last night sometime.'
Whilst at the bar after the funeral - which thanks to Beerbaron's obsession with antique weapons was almost all our funerals - I heard a rumour that Radium was the murderer. I kept quiet, but despite the fact that many here don't seem to trust him I know he isn't capable of gunning anyone down, especially in a fight such as that. 'Computer, locate Radium' 'Radium is on Holodeck 3 practicing tactical skills'.
I decided to pay him a visit. 'Hello there. Want to try against a real opponent instead of these computer-controlled pushovers?' 'err no thanks, I really should be getting back to Deep - er my office and see what I need to do next'.
I'm convinced he had nothing to do with the killing, so who did?. Deepershade was investigating the Goshen monks, could they have something to hide that a goshen head just wouldn't cover?.
It was late afternoon by the time I found 8472, finally a chance to start working on whatever it was we were supposed to do here.'Captain we need to..' ARG it's that woman again - what's she doing here? I need to get rid of her.
'No civilians are allowed here. Leave Ops now, or I will call security'
8472: "She is an exception'
'But sir...'
8472 'That's my last word about this. I allow it.' So still no chance to recover the singularity generator.
