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       / || \            Starfleet Command, Second Fleet
      /  ||  \             U.S.S. Coronado,  NCC-63100
   .-/   ||   \-.     Fleet Captain Brian Aldur, Commanding
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/ Simulation Teaser                                                             |
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 Nothingness.

 Later, a vague sense of being surrounded by fog... it swirls and coalesces
 around your body.  You are weightless, surrounded and supported by the fog,
 caressed in its tender embrace.  Thin strands touch your bare skin and slip
 underneath without pain.  Tendrils all around you, a heavy concentration
 near the base of your skull...

 Timeless and weightless, you float in the mist, a sense of ultimate comfort,
 ultimate knowledge.  The needs of your body are fulfilled before you are
 aware of them.  You realize that you are nude, but there is no sense of
 shame -- you continue to float, almost reexperiencing the womb.  Your eyes
 are closed, and there is no noise, heat, or smells... and yet you can
 vaguely sense experience that spans the universe all around you.

 Slowly, tenderly, you relive your life, through your memories.  They are
 played back in order, all of the days of your life passing before your eyes.
 You sense a presence watching with you, but you are neither proud nor
 embarrassed.  The presense doesn't judge -- it just wants to experience.
 Particularly joyful or painful experiences are repeated with great care,
 bringing forth in you the emotions you felt through those experiences...

 The odd sense of playback stops, and you are filled with the peace of
 contentment.  Slowly, the scenes of your own life fade, and you have a
 growing sense that you are floating in an immense library of thought and
 experience.  The knowledge and emotions of thousands... no, *millions* of
 beings is stored all around you!

 After a moment of awe, you stretch out your consciousness to access them.

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\ End Simulation Teaser                                                         |
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Ross Glenn aka Jester
Fleet Captain Brian Aldur, U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-63100
http://www.ussrenegade.com/coro2400/