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       / || \         UCIP Starfleet Command,  Fifth Fleet
      /  ||  \             U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
   .-/   ||   \-.     Captain Tebrun Lora Kor,  Commanding
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   .-_-. || .-_-.              Simulation Teaser
   .-_  \||/  _-.             -[ SD  240009.18 ]-


 Attendance:             11 out of 15		0 late (*)
	Commanding Officer:           Capt. Tebrun Lora Kor      (Jester)
	Executive Officer:            Cmdr. Jarod Bentall        (Alffred)
	Marine Commandant:            LCol. Jeremy Ironside      (Fraser)
	Chief Tactical Officer:	      Lt. William Daren          (Daren)
	Assistant Tactical:           Cdt. John Grimms           (John)
	Chief Flight Operations:      LCdr. Fornan Dejat         (McC)
	Squadron Leader:              1Lt. Thomas Wayne          (Masters)
	Chief Engineer:               Lt. (JG) Zunite Oswald     (Sonya)
	Assistant Engineer:           Cdt. Skylooker Aramis      (Lewis_Sharp)
	Assistant Engineer:           Cdt. Jack C. Farley        (CCC)
	Chief Medical Officer:        Lt. Dalton                 (Heiwa)
			
 Guest Simmers:          1
	Phishie as 2Lt. Natalia Petrovna

 Observer Count:         1

 Excused Absenses:       3 out of 15
	Platoon Leader:	              Maj. MayTa                 (MayTa)
	Platoon Leader:               2Lt. Darius tr'Onto        (Ragarok)	
	Chief Science Officer:        Cmdr. Velorna Tal          (Tinky)
	
 Unexcused Absenses:     1 out of 15
	Assistant Tactical:           Lt. Aurel Ian              (Aurelian)

 On Leave of Absense:    1
	Command Liaison Interface:    Savant / EMH / EEH         (Mouse)
	
 Sim Duration:           80 minutes

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 Notes from the Captain:

 Another big welcome to our new crew members!  Both CCC and John seem to
 have jumped in with both feet.  ;)  Welcome again, gents, and may your days
 aboard Coronado be long and productive indeed!

 In addition, I have it on very good authority that we're going to have at
 least one, and quite likely two past Coronado simmers rejoining us on a
 permanent basis starting next week, in addition to being able to welcome
 Ragarok back in a new role!  Assuming that's true, then I'll be once again
 locking down the roster and we'll see how we do for a while.  ;)

 On top of everything else, I think we had a terrific sim this week!  I must
 admit to laughing out loud when I got to tell Daren that there were several
 *hundred* Traxati probes heading for us.  ;)  We'll be learning more and
 more about the Traxati's behaviour in the weeks ahead.  Expect this plot
 thread to run for at least another month to six weeks...  As I pointed out
 last week, this plot is part of an overall Fifth ("Epsilon") Fleet plot
 that many of our sister ships are also taking part in!

 Promotions:
    Aramis Skylooker, from Cadet to Ensign
    Last promotion date: 12-Jun-00, 3 sims
       ::grins::  Cadet Skylooker has the honor of holding that rank
       longer than nearly every other Cadet in Coro history (his department
       head holds the record).  After a long absense after his first two
       sims, I was pleased to be able to promote Skylooker after his third.
       Welcome back, Ensign, and hope we see a little more of you!  ;)

 Recognitions:
    None this week.

 Academy Completions:
    None this week.

 Exchange of the Week, OOC edition: This one speaks for itself.  ;)
    <CPCO_LoraKor> And finally, all the world trembles at seeing that Ragarok
    has returned to us after his move!  :)  He'll be jumping back in next week,
    I suspect.  ;)
    <CLMC_Ironside> So upgrade your life insurance before then.

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 Sim Title: "Where You Can't Escape", Part 3

 After escorting the Erasmus into Starbase 742 and confirming her safe
 arrival, Coro stopped there only long enough to pick up a few new crew who
 had been awaiting the ship there.  In addition, Lieutenant Ji'Kohr, the
 Fifth Fleet Science Advisor, remained on board to assist us in the
 investigation of the starship disappearances which have been plaguing the
 long run between Starbases 247 and 742.  With that mission in mind, Coro
 turned and proceeded "north" again at slipstream velocity, looking for
 clues into the disappearances.

 Our course returned us to the Talos Star Group, where we recently uncovered
 evidence of the presence of both the Traxati and the mysterious insectoid
 species that seems related to them somehow.  Entering the group, Coro's
 officers contemplated a holographic display: on the display, flickering
 lights indicating stars, other astronomical features... and the last known
 locations of more than two dozen missing starships.  The Captain focused
 his attention on one of the missing Gorn freighters.  After a somewhat
 involved analysis of both the back-trail of the Gorn ship and Gorn
 personality, we were able to identify two stars which seemed to warrant
 further investigation.

 Entering the area around the two stars in the Talos Star Group, we
 encountered not one, but two Traxati hypergates.  One, orbiting a red giant
 star, was a relatively routine gate... as much as any Traxati hypergate can
 be routine.  As we watched, five warp drive-equipped Traxati probes leapt
 out of the gate and sped toward Starbase 247.  After warning the base, we
 proceeded to more closely investigate the second gate, orbiting an orange
 star.  This gate was very unusual...  it appeared to have several hundred
 large objects clinging to it!  The objects were somewhat reminiscent of
 squids or octopuses, and looked very much like the creature that attacked
 the Away team on the doomed planet on which the freighter crashed.

 As Coro did not detect any probes at first, the ship slipped close to the
 gate in order to investigate the other side.  The investigation was... very
 brief.  Just as we were getting into position, several *hundred* Traxati
 probes dropped out of warp, presumably deployed from the other gate.  All
 of them began producing clouds of neutronium needles!  Coro screamed away
 from the gate, sure we were under attack.  Fortunately, the Traxati probes
 ignored the ship completely, passing as a group through the orange star
 gateway!  Sending one of our own sensor relay pods through the gate only
 gained us one piece of information: the pod didn't return...

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Crew Roster:
	Commanding Officer:           Capt. Tebrun Lora Kor      (Jester)
	Executive Officer:            Cmdr. Jarod Bentall        (Alffred)
	Marine Commandant:            LCol. Jeremy Ironside      (Fraser)
	Platoon Leader:               Maj. MayTa                 (MayTa)
	Squadron Leader:              1Lt. Thomas Wayne          (Masters)
	Chief Engineer:               Lt. (JG) Zunite Oswald     (Sonya)
	Assistant Engineer:           Cdt. Skylooker Aramis      (Lewis_Sharp)
	Assistant Engineer:           Cdt. Jack C. Farley        (CCC)
	Chief Tactical:               Lt. William Daren          (Daren)
	Assistant Tactical:           Lt. Aurel Ian              (Aurelian)
	Assistant Tactical:           Cdt. John Grimms           (John)
	Chief Flight Operations:      LCdr. Fornan Dejat         (McC)
	Chief Science Officer:        Cmdr. Velorna Tal          (Tinky)
	Assistant Science:            Ens. Tempus Phontam        (Ragarok)
	Chief Medical Officer:        Lt. Dalton                 (Heiwa)

 On Leave of Absense:
	Command Liaison Interface:    Savant / EMH / EEH         (Mouse)
	
 Positions Available:
	Squadron Leader
	Assistant Medical Officer
	
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Ross Glenn aka Jester
Captain Tebrun Lora Kor, U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
http://www.jestertrek.com/coro2400/
Acting Deputy Commander in Chief, UCIP (OOC)