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      / || \              UCIP Starfleet Command, Fifth Fleet
     /  ||  \                 U.S.S. Coronado,  NCC-97901
  .-/   ||   \-.       Fleet Captain Tebrun Lora Kor, Commanding
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  .-_-. || .-_-.                   Simulation Teaser
  .-_  \||/  _-.                  -[ SD  240107.16 ]-

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/ Simulation Teaser                                                        |
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 Again and again, the blue-green beam reached out and touched the grey
 platform.  In many cases, it deposited a member of Coronado's senior crew on
 the platform.  In other cases, people that were there were for some reason
 snatched away.  Nikkos, the Reorsan liaison, was on the platform for the
 shortest amount of time, appearing for mere seconds before vanishing again.
 Commander Daren frowned as Nikkos disappeared, then muttered, "That
 figures."

 "You've thought of something, Commander?" Savant asked him over her
 shoulder, voice curious.

 "Oh, it's just a hunch," Daren said.  "But we seem to have been
 systematically deprived of anyone with any sort of proven mental
 disciplines... anyone who might be able to read the intent of our captors,
 wherever they are."

 Savant nodded but didn't turn from where she was standing near the simple
 wooden table, her hands pressed against the surface.  Suddenly, Savant also
 frowned.  "Commander, the number of copper coins on the platform seems to be
 changing almost constantly," she said.  Daren walked over and looked... and
 found that it was true.  As he watched, a coin appeared.  A flash of light
 made him look up in time to see Lieutenant Skylooker appear at virtually the
 same time.  The engineer looked around in confusion, then looked down at his
 empty hand as if he had lost something.

 Colonel Ironside, also standing near the table, voiced Daren's thought
 before he could: "Apparently, everyone gets a coin," he said with a smirk.

 "Not quite," Savant said.  "There are eleven coins here..."  She looked
 around, then nodded.  "And twelve people on the platform."

 However, both the number of people and the number of coins changed several
 more times -- Skylooker disappeared, one of the coins disappearing with
 him -- before finally settling down.  Daren looked around the assembled
 group, nodding at each of the new arrivals and first asking if anyone had
 arrived with any technological artifacts (no one had), then quickly
 explaining what information the first away team had managed to gather...

 Not very much.

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\ End Simulation Teaser                                                    |
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 Crew Roster:
        Commanding Officer:          FCapt. Tebrun Lora Kor     (Jester)
        Executive Officer:           Cmdr. William Daren        (Daren)
        Marine Commandant:           Col. Jeremy Ironside       (Fraser)
        Command Liaison Interface:   LCdr. Savant               (Savant)
        Chief of the Boat:           MCPO Olme Tlaloco          (Tlaloco)
        Chief Tactical Officer:      LCdr. Sieven Drexler       (Garstini)
        Assistant Tactical:          Ens. J'aren Mayo           (Spork)
        Assistant Tactical:          Ens. Kyle Marcy            (Marcy)
        Intelligence Officer:        Lt. (JG) Kariasa Ma'Aru    (Kari)
        Company Commander:           1Lt. Eric Moore            (Alffred)
        Squadron Leader:             Maj. Thomas Wayne          (Masters)
        Squadron Leader:             1Lt. Natalia Petrovna      (Phishie)
        Chief Flight Operations:     Cmdr. Fornan Dejat         (McC)
        Chief Engineer:              LCdr. Zunite Oswald        (Sonya)
        Assistant Engineer:          Lt. Jack C. Farley         (CCC)
        Assistant Engineer:          Lt. Aramis Skylooker       (Skylooker)
        Chief Science Officer:       LCdr. Kathryn Janeway      (Kath)
        Assistant Medical:           Lt. (JG) Ungtae Brie       (Aggie)
        Reorsan Liaison:             Lt. (JG) Nikkos            (Heiwa)

 On Extended Leave of Absense:
        None!

 Positions Available:
        None!

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Ross Glenn aka Jester
Fleet Captain Tebrun Lora Kor, U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
http://www.jestertrek.com/coro2400/