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       / || \         UCIP Starfleet Command, Fourth Fleet
      /  ||  \             U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
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 Commander Lora was napping in his Ready Room when the call came in, and it
 took several seconds for him to reorient himself to where he was.  By that
 time, he recognized the sound: it was the doorbell.  "Enter!" he called,
 pushing himself off the couch into a sitting position.

 Lt. Commander Tal entered the Ready Room, using that quick stride of hers.
 "Captain," she said, voice betraying a mixture of excitement and anger, "I
 think we've come up with something you're going to want to see."

 Lora nodded and followed her back onto the Bridge, nodding at Drexler as he
 passed.  "How long until variation 43 reappears, Lieutenant?" he asked.

 "Forty-two minutes, Captain," he replied.  Lora nodded and followed Tal the
 rest of the way to the Science stations.  "OK," the Captain said, "let's
 have it."  Savant picked that moment to snap into being nearby. 

 "Based on your request for me to 'expand my programming,' Captain, I spent
 several hours searching Federation theoretical databases for information
 about our current situation," the hologram said.  "I believe I have
 discovered something that might be of interest," she finished with a benign
 smile, the one that drove Mr. Dalton wild.

 Lora found himself more or less immune, and looked from Tal to Savant to
 Trq, sitting at Science 1.  "Go on," he said, amused.

 Tal looked at Trq, who did, after clearing his throat.  "Based on...
 Savant's search, we have uncovered a 200-year-old article in the Journal of
 the Vulcan Science Academy."  The Dekora pulled up the article on the
 screen, which featured several pages of equations punctuated by the
 occasional picture of a large construct... a ring-shaped construct.  The
 graphics and equations were further embellished by pages and pages of old
 Vulcan ideograms.  Clearly, this article hadn't even been translated into
 Federation Standard for inclusion in the Federation Memory facilities.

 Lora nodded.  "Translation, Mr. Trq?"

 "Well, we're still working on that, Captain -- as you can see, the article
 is fairly esoteric and lengthy.  However, it describes how a neutronium
 ring, spinning at near the speed of light, could theoretically be used as
 a... well, a transport device."  Trq looked up as Lora's eyes swiveled to
 the holographic tank and nodded.

 "As far as we can tell, the gravitational stresses inside the ring create
 a sort of micro-singularity.  Within that singularity, the laws of time and
 space no longer apply," he finished.

 Lora went pale.  "So what you're saying..."

 "What he's saying, Captain," Savant said calmly, "is that Blinker's
 variations are no doubt not only scattered through space, but scattered
 through time as well.  There's no telling when variation 43 reappears
 whether our Away team will still be there, won't appear for hundreds of
 years, or will have been dead for decades."

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Crew Roster:
	Commanding Officer:           Cmdr. Tebrun Lora         (Jester)
	Executive Officer:            LCdr. Velorna Tal         (Ol Army)
        Command Liaison Interface:    Savant                    (Mouse)
	Marine Commandant:            LMaj. Jeremy Ironside     (Fraser)
	Chief Tactical:               Lt. Sieven Drexler        (Garstini)
	Assistant Tactical:           Ens. Timothy Bruce        (Phoenix)
	Chief Flight Operations:      Lt. (JG) Fornan Dejat     (Ryan)
	Chief Engineer:               Lt. Jarod Bentall         (Alffred)
	Assistant Engineer:           Ens. Titan                (Eric)
	Company Commander Alfa:       1Lt. Stephen Sirius       (Sirius)
	Chief Science:                Lt. Traqzis Trq           (Nephy)
	Assistant Science:            Cdt. Zunite Oswald        (Sonya)
	Chief Medical:                Callie Dakota             (Callie)
	Bartender:                    Dalton                    (Heiwa)

Positions Available:
	Squadron Leader:              Available                 ()

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Ross Glenn aka Jester
Commander Tebrun Lora, U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
http://www.ussrenegade.com/coro2400/