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/ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ 

 Coronado entered the Longshot system with four braids aboard. 
 Before her first day in the system was over, there were none.  What
 happened to Caring-Thoughts was typical.

 The braid Flight Operations Officer was coming off its duty shift,
 really looking forward to nothing so much as relaxing in ten pieces.
 Flying in the Longshot system was difficult, and required virtually
 all of Thoughts's concentration (and not a few of the extra limbs
 its species was known for).  Splitting up into cords would be just
 what the doctor ordered.  Thoughts could let anything more
 complicated than food and sleep fall by the waysid--

 The braid officer turned the last corner, heading for its quarters
 when it nearly tumbled into the impossible.

 A figure stood there, translucent and shadowy, obviously only partly
 there.  Caring-Thoughts did better than the other three braids
 aboard Coronado... two came to pieces when faced with the impossible
 apparition.  Instinctively, almost as if it had been genetically
 programmed, Caring-Thoughts knew what it was looking at.

 "You're Jjaro!" Thoughts exclaimed.  The figure nodded, clearly
 amused.  "But you're-- that's impossible!" the braid said.

 The figure only smiled, and gestured toward Thoughts, and something
 that could have only been a portal appeared.  The braid could no
 more ignore that portal than it could the beating of its ten hearts. 
 Caring-Thoughts stepped through and vanished.

 Coronado's Flight Operations Officer was only unique from the other
 braids that disappeared from the frigate in one respect: Thoughts
 was the first braid that someone noticed was missing.  Its
 disappearance set off a search that swept through Coro's decks
 twice... and came up empty.

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 Commander Savant "turned" her attention from the search for the
 missing braids for a moment.  Almost from the moment Coronado had
 entered M64, her avatar had felt as if she was being watched by a
 series of presences.  One had turned out to be a watching S'pht,
 gently guiding her thoughts.  Another was still unexplained.

 This one was new.

 The S'pht had been interested in Savant's perceptions, and in
 guiding her actions.  The second presence, to date, only seemed to
 be interested in watching.  This one was different.

 The S'pht and the second presence hadn't been amused by her.  This
 presence clearly was.

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 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ 

 U.S.S. Coronado Crew Roster:
    Commanding Officer:        Capt. William Daren       (Daren)
    Executive Officer:         Cmdr. Darek Smith         (Aggie)
    Marine Commandant:         Col. Jeremy Ironside      (Fraser)
    Raptors Squadron Leader:   Lt. Colonel Thomas Wayne  (Masters)
    Chief Tactical Officer:    LCdr. Kyle Marcy          (Marcy)
    Assistant Tactical:        Ens. Stefan Bjornson      (Stefan)
    Science Officer:           LCdr. Isamu Dyson         (Isamu)
    Company Commander:         Maj. Jacob Prescot        (Shadow-FjP)
    Flight Leader:             2Lt. Mikhail Petkovic     (Archyyt)
    Chief Engineer:            Cmdr. Zunite Oswald       (Sonya)
    Assistant Engineer:        LCdr. Jack C. Farley      (CCC)
    Chief Medical Officer:     Lt. (JG) Jason Vogel      (Thompson)
    Assistant Medical:         Lt. Lauren Dyson          (Natty)
    Civilian Liaison:          S'buuth                   (rev)

 On Extended Leave of Absence:
    Assistant Tactical:        Ens. Tamarith             (Tamarith)
    Assistant Engineer:        Lt. Aramis Skylooker      (LewisSharp)

 Positions Available:
    Chief Flight Operations:                             (---)
    Flight Leader:                                       (---)

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Jester

Rear Admiral Tebrun Lora Kor
Commanding, Defenders Task Group 85.3, "Whitestone"
embarked on U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
http://www.jestertrek.com/coro2400/