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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jun 17, 2008 19:46:00 GMT -5
OFFICIAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER USS POLARIS NCC 79590
We have left Earth, and after boarding Polaris, have proceeded to the Volanthi / Kuanna sector. These two people seem to be at war with each other. The Volanthi have approached, and plead for help in fighting the evil Kuanna, claiming vicious attacks, though long range scans show no evidence of attacks on the Volanthi homeworld. The Volanthi seem most anxious we join them, though my take on their plea is that they do not want us to hear the Kuannan side. I have informed the Captain of my opinion thus.
REPORT ON KNOWN VOLANTHI CIVILIZATION IN MISSION BRIEF, POSTED CAPT. DANTARA
Discussion with Engineer Kitona backs up my opinion that the Kuanna should also be interviewed, as the Federation is dedicated to mediation and peaceful settlements, rather than taking sides in a war -- especially a war in which one side is all we have heard from.
I am maintaining long range scans, in case of further possible hostile ships approaching...
PERSONAL LOG Mellisari Recording
I am pleased to note Shian Taris is back on the same ship I am... she seems troubled, but I hope whatever she has been through, she remembers I am her friend.
MELLISARI, OUT
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 1, 2008 19:22:48 GMT -5
PERSONAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER USS POLARIS
We have the Volanthi monarch aboard. Captain called senior staff to meet in the conference room. The monarch called us servants of the Captain, and indeed called the captain servant of the Chief Engineer... I suppose one has the customs of one's civilization, but I think a good ruler would be more careful about what may be differing customs from visiting representatives of a Star traveling civilization.
This should have been even more proper, seeing as Polaris and the Federation are obviously representing many different races.
Personally, I find this a sign of intolerance and even lack of intelligence in the Volanthi... though I will reserve this comment till I can be more private with our own crew.
BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK
I have been summoned to the bridge, Mr. Khambatti has discovered something. ****************************************************************** SCIENCE OFFICER'S LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI RECORDING CHIEF OF SCIENCE USS POLARIS
The Operations officer has been scanning the Kualla planet. Unlike the Volanthi homeworld, the Kualla shows signs of being repeatedly and viciously attacked.
[PERSONAL NOTE: I did not trust the Monarch, I do so less now. She has lied.]
LOG CONTINUES: Mr. Khambatti has downloaded the evidence of damage to the Kualla homeworld to a data pad. I have taken and shown this to the Executive Officer in the conference room, and confirmed the accuracy of Mr. Khambatti's scans.
She will find a moment to show the Captain... and I will no doubt see some interesting developments in the inter stellar negotiations with the Monarch of Volanthi.
BREAK BREAK BREAK
Report of incoming ships from the Kualla system. I want to watch our Captain confront the Volanthi, but I have been dismissed to return to our sensors. Ensign Norton has been relieved and I am back at station.
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 8, 2008 19:39:51 GMT -5
OFFICIAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF OF SCIENCE USS POLARIS NCC-79590
I have returned to station. The captain is dealing with the Volanthi and newly arrive Kuallan officials. I am scanning the homeworlds and ships of both peoples...
PERSONAL NOTE: Only the Kuallan homeworld shows any sign of damage, consistent with attack by space borne warcraft. Also, the Kualla are technologically inferior to the Volanthi, and while there are examples of such, notably the Klingon / Federation wars... where the Federation was technologically superior to the Klingon ships, though numerically inferior... the Klingons had the mindset of dying in battle as the best way to pass, "SUCCEED AND SURVIVE" being their creed.
I have run scans on both peoples' ships. Kualla are less heavily armed, slower, have a more primitive power plant. Even the scans of the lattice network of Kualla hull material show their metallurgy is behind that of the Volanthi.
Also, my instincts do not lead me to trust the Volanthi ruler.
LOG CONTINUES: I am continuing my scans, relaying my data to the Executive Officer / Conn... and to records and operations.
BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK
SENSOR CONTACT: Small object. 30 meters in length, 15 in diameter. Standard warp drive (Power curve, warp signature consistent with Volanthi engineering but not conclusive) entering Kualla system. Close scans reveal very high explosive charge and a complex biochemical payload. Records scan matches object with a planetoforming device called "Genesis" (From records USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701). Chemo scans show compounds in device are consistent with but not exclusive to Volanthi ecosystem.
If this is what it seems, it is a most horrific weapon, it would not only impose another ecosystem on a planet, destroying all native life, but leaving those natives in space without a home. This hits me closely, I can never go back to Orion Prime... though I would not ever wish to return to the pens...
I have relayed this data to the Executive officer, records and Tactical. I am downloading the information to a data pad and seeking permission to get to the captain.
PERSONAL NOTE: I have overstepped my duties, and have fed the data on the device to weapons departments targeting computers.
LOG CONTINUES: I will try accessing the planetoforming devices onboard guidance system. Perhaps I can back track the device to its point of origin.
MELLISARI, OUT
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 15, 2008 19:30:10 GMT -5
Official Log Chief of Science USS POLARIS Lt. Comdr. Mellisari REPORTING
STATUS: ALERT RED
I have a report for the Captain, but I have been diverted to the conference room to attend to the Volanthi Grand Monarch.
I have assured her the captain will soon return, he is adept at diplomacy. The Volanthi Monarch seems concerned she is being held against her will... I have assured her this is not the case, she is free to leave at any time. I still need to get the report about the analog of the Genesis device to Capt. Dantara... this is a most heinous weapon to use on the Kualla... or indeed any planet with it's own life.
The Volanthi has introduced me to her servant, one Shara... I am trying to be friendly. The servant does not seem top know what to do with my overtures.
Data on Genesis analog textmessaged to Captain.
I have been asked to show Shara about the ship.
OFFICIAL NOTICE: I have chosen to petition my commanding officers for asylum for the servant Shara.
I will lay my career on the line to free her.
BREAK BREAK
The Captain has gotten through to the Volanthi, the biobomb has been stopped.
There are political ramifications of the cessation of the Volanthi attack I do not understand... I do not care as long as the genocide is stopped.
Mellisari, OUT
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 15, 2008 19:30:49 GMT -5
PERSONAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI RECORDING
I have attended the Volanthi woman... I do NOT like her. I think I made it clear when she said she was held against her will that she is perfectly free to leave... and I privately hope she will... I am not in foavor of violence... in principle, though I still have my Orion nature. I would love to see the Volanthi fleet meet Federation weapon technology!
I have made my report about the biobomb to the Captain. Waiting reply.
I have also been allowed to take the Volanthi Monarch's servant in two, ostensibly to tour the ship with the captain's "Servants"... Shara the servant has asked how to be freed.
I have taken her to my quarters and told her I will try my best to get her asylum on our ship, Federation retraining and freedom. I know it is my past which leads me this way, but I do not like seeing slaves.
The captain has convinced the Volanthi ruler to stand down the attack... the biobomb I was tracking (and feeding the targetting subroutines the coordinates of) has been deactivated.
The Volanthi woman has lost her status.
May she find a hard path retraining for useful work.
Mellisari, OUT
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 22, 2008 18:30:10 GMT -5
PERSONAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER USS POLARIS
Good news, to the future tense person who will review my logs!
I have been allowed to invite the Volanthi servant Shara to accept assylum in the Federation. I will see to her education, quarters and comm badge, and will take her in hand to school her in Federation ettiquette, though we will not, of course, interfere in her personal / cultural beliefs. In line with Federation regulations, she will be given a choice of customs to follow...
I look forward to this, though I am supposed to be working on the dark matter study project... and of course the captain likes having the Science sensors backing up the tactical station.
I will immediately begin the cultural education of....
RED ALERT RED ALERT
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 22, 2008 18:45:20 GMT -5
OFFICIAL LOG SCIENCE OFFICER LT. COMDR. MELLISARI REPORTING USS POLARIS
STATUS: ALERT RED
I have had to leave the recently freed Volanthi servant, Shara in charge of the room monitor. Red Alert has sounded... I shall contact the Social Worker as soon as I reach my post and log in.
****************************************************************** LOG IN MELLISARI, LT. COMDR., COS
I have signed in, show Mr. DeCandido off duty.
Labs report secure, sensors online operating at normal levels. Scans show the Volanthi fleet has begun to move to the Kuallan home world... as has the bio bomb probe. I am tracking and updating hostile fleet composition, course, speed and shield capacity and relaying to Tactical an Operations. Comparison with Polaris armament shows us the propbable winner in a battle.
I am feed the readings on the biobomb not only to Tactical and Operations, but directly to the targeting computers. If I had the access, I would have fired on the probe already.
Tracking and standing by.
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Jul 22, 2008 18:53:20 GMT -5
INTRASHIP MEMO TO: SHIPS COUNCILOR CC: SOCIAL WORKER FROM: SCIENCE OFFICER MELLISARI
SUBJECT: NEW PERSONEL RETRAINING
We have taken aboard a new person, former servant to the Volanthi Monarch, name of Shara.
GENDER (WHERE APPLICABLE): FEMALE AGE: UNKNOWN RACE: VOLANTHI
She is presently either in my quarters, or about the ship... comm badge has been issued, and she has inturctions on how to access ships services and replicators.
SCIENCE OFFICER on RED ALERT status cannot attend new person. Request Socail WOrker and Councilor meet with person Shara and begin her assimilation.
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Aug 5, 2008 19:30:14 GMT -5
SCIENCE OFFICER'S LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI RECORDING CSCI USS POLARIS
STATUS: ALERT GREEN
Things are quiet... we are in search of a long lost Federation starship (USS DOMINION) involved in long range high speed warp trials.
Sensors have been tuned to look for older warp engine power emissions. I am, as usual, trying to coax more power into the sensors, but Star Fleet did not leave much adjustment room. Report no anomalies or unaccounted for contacts. All science sections report normal activity or secured.
BREAK BREAK
Unknown cloud has appeared close aboard... scans indeterminate.
BREAK BREAK
Report of Klingon dog beast on lower deck. Executive Officer attacked... no serious wounds. No phaser damage to beast -- identified as Klingon canid. Canid has proved to be holographic in nature. Source unidentified. Canid disappeared when holographic suite emitters taken off line.... source of programing undetermined. Suspect cloud. No energy sources or trails apparent.
Continuing internal and external scans. Though it is not my department, I am also scanning holosuite computer records and relaying data to Operations.
Will report when something found.
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Aug 12, 2008 19:34:34 GMT -5
SCIENCE OFFICER'S LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI REPORTING CSCI USS POLARIS NCC 79590
The problems with the holographic intruders has been identified. Thanks to Engineer Kitona, who noticed that the holograms appeared only when the doctor went off line, and that all holograms were from the original Dr. McCoy's encounters... I woke up and surmised that the McCoy imprint subconscious memories -- which should have been suppressed when EMH was off-line -- were leaking through a malfunctioning buffer filter.
Investigation proves last time EMH unit was serviced, mistakes were made in replacing operation wiring.
Engineer Kitona should have things fixed in short order.
Returning to scans for missing ship USS Dominion. No signs of engine emissions, power plant trace, fuel residue or wreckage so far. Contiuing search.
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Aug 12, 2008 19:48:12 GMT -5
PERSONAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF OF SCIENCE USS POLARIS NCC 79590
I am not pleased with my performance in the discovery of the leaks from the EMH recorded subconscious memories combined with a faulty rewiring of the EMH unit.
Perhaps I should have made a study of the Template for the EMH, the original logs of Leonard McCoy. I feel remiss, but it was not my department.
SECOND PROBLEM: I wonder what I should do about the obvious, though completely gentlemanly attentions of Mr. Khambatti... we have gone to India to meet his family, sightsee and dinner. I am unversed in human customs in these matters, and I have my own baggage... I must think on this.
MELLISARI, OUT
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Aug 19, 2008 18:38:07 GMT -5
SCIENCE OFFICER'S LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI REPORTING CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER USS POLARIS
STATUS: ALERT GREEN CSCI HAS CONN
Contact has been made, first tentative, then confirmed... contact is missing Nebula class star ship USS Dominion. Scans reveal ship has depleted deuterium and antimatter chambers. Impulse operating. Crew compliment, life support and ship systems normal. Hull wear due to interstellar dust minimal. I have checked stellar positions, we have not displaced chronologically. Weak contact made on subspace channel, recommend we reply.
Contact made, Dominion seems unaware of time displacement. Command staff and engineer beaming over.
BREAK BREAK
I have been placed in the center seat. All stations report operating at normal status and parameters. Captain and executive officer dealing with recently located ship USS Dominion.
Before being placed in command, due to captain transporting to Dominion, we had located the missing star ship. Also discovered an (as yet) unidentified multi gigaguass magnetic anomaly, which is causing coalescence of metallic asteroids from large to planetesimal sized. Astrometrics lab assigned to monitor anomaly, I will supervise when I am returned to my station.
Ensign gallery has taken my station, all data being relayed to Operations, Tactical, Command screen, and copied to engineering. I have ordered a minute scan of Dominion. She seems to have displaced in time. Theory: Perhaps the chronological compensation device has gone out, allowing Dominion to age more slowly due to Lorentz-Fitgerald time contraction equations. I will look into that.
Monitoring Polaris functions, continuing scans of Dominion, surrounding space and nearby magnetic anomaly.
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Aug 26, 2008 18:30:28 GMT -5
SCIENCE OFFICER'S LOG USS POLARIS LT. COMDR. MELLISARI REPORTING AT CONN
We are with the lost ship USS DOMINION. Crew seems intact and healthy. I have the conn... Ensign Gallery has completed scans of DOMINION... sensor readings show DOMINION to be authentic, no metallurgical, biological, or circuitry anomalies... normal hull wear for a ship that has only been out of dock for a few months.
Captain and Engineer have arranged refuel of DOMINION...
I have ordered a class II Probe prepared by astrometrics to survey the magnetic anomaly in the nearby asteroid drift. Telemetry has led us to no conclusion as yet. Scans continue, Atrometrics chief Leinster is most competent. I am also having library computer compare readings of anomaly, history of any similar anomalies and possible temporal displacement.
Ordered to move ship in to direct scan range of anomaly.
BREAK
Chief engineer has objected to moving ship too close to magnetic anomaly... orders amended to close only to half as far as we are. Order given.
Report will continue
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 2, 2008 20:04:12 GMT -5
SCIENCE OFFICER'S LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI REPORTING CSCI: USS POLARIS
I have been relieved at Conn. Returned to my board.
Ens Gallery has done an exemplary job at the Science command console. I have logged in. All Science labs working at projects, coordinating with anomaly project or secure.
Command has been given to correlate data with probe and move the ship into close scanning range. Readings have to be taken now, as conditions will not repeat for two years Federation Standard.
Ship moving in... Astrometrics and astronomy labs, physics and physical sciences tied into main sensors.
ALERT: EMP we are being pulled into the anomaly position. Great danger from magnetic field, and from large mass of metallic planetisimals converging. Conn has ordered full reverse on thrusters.
BREAK BREAK
Sensors indicate tractor contact. USS Dominion has come to our aid... readings indicate she is overloading her systems. Command unable to persuade Dominion to back off.
Tractors effective... Dominion engines overheating.
BREAK BREAK
Reporting: Polaris broken free from pull of magnetic anomaly. It is with consummate grief I report loss of Dominion, due to overheat of engines and subsequent explosion. No survivors. Scans indicate no life pods or shuttles.
Report ends. ***************************************************************************************************
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 2, 2008 20:05:11 GMT -5
PERSONAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CSCI USS POLARIS RECORDING <<IN QUARTERS>>
I am saddened. Sad beyond what was said in my report. In Star Fleet logs, I must be dispassionate, accurate.
The beings on USS Dominion rescued us, gave their lives for our crew.
This is most noble... and certainly unnecessary. I believe their sacrifice to be premature, as we had only backed down on thrusters, we had not yet tried impulse or the more powerful reverse thrust of warp drive. Perhaps... perhaps I just feel that I myself am not worthy of such selfless giving of lives.
LOG INTERRUPT
The green woman heard the door chime... called come in. Chief Khambatti was there, he to looked sad.
Mellisari was more than a little glad to see him. He was the first humanoid male who had approached her that she had not felt.... On guard with.
They talked a bit, and Mell alluded to the fact the dieties that she had grown up with were cruel and unfair, and certainly not worth calling on for the Tao...
Amir gave her the datapad with the report on the destruction and readings from other departments... she read and was further saddened.
Amir suggested they go to the lounge and celebrate, not mourn. The Toa did not go out with sadness, only selfless generosity. Toasting and remembering with honor were the order of the day. She suggested he tell her of India and his family... she envied anyone who had had a family and a past better than hers.
Amir escorted them to the ship's bar. **************************************************************************
Instead, Amir told her of his days in the impostor wars. They sat an ordered drinks. Mell went for the Bolega, she needed a good jolt. She remembered three were her limit, Orion slave girls were trained to keep up with even the heaviest drinking spacers who hired them, but she didn't LIKE getting drunk.
Mell then told him of having been in the pens... glossing over what she had done to survive... of being bought by the mad Reverend Wagner from the atavistic Interstellar Church of the Helping Hand... the travails of beings socialized, educated... the old man's stubborn patience. She had prevailed, getting grades good enough to get her into Star Fleet Academy. There she had prevailed, coming in (with the remedial classes) Fifth in her class, aptitude for Science.
She lightly touched on how happy the ship made her, people treated her as a person, not a piece of merchandise.
Amir applauded her for the way she had pulled herself up. She did not disabuse him... she KNEW how much of a war it had been with Reverend Wagner, the long days and nights of his persevering, teaching, correcting... fighting her savagery with patiences and kindness. She even made light of it, claiming 100 pull-ups a day.
She was losing her reserve with the man... frankly and honestly attracted to him. When he suggested dancing, she told him she still kept up with the dancing she had done as a slave... and the Kluu-mar - a mixture of dance and a rather nasty martial art form the girls had developed over centuries in the pens to protect themselves or fight for position.
She steered the conversation back to his family, how she admired and liked them. How she wished she had not been sold into the pens after birth. Amir told her she had made a favorable impression on his people too.
He kissed her. On the cheek, nothing provocative, but she (to her surprise) did not flinch away from him. Relaxed.
She even offered to dance for him, he told her she only danced by choice now. He queued up a hologram and took her out on the floor... dancing close with her. She felt close, was this the man that perhaps she could feel safe with, the one popular lore suggested... "there is someone for everyone"?
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 9, 2008 19:25:27 GMT -5
PERSONAL LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF OF SCIENCE SECTION USS POLARIS
We have held a memorial service for the Toa and the Dominion crew that they had brought back to life.
I am not religious, like many of the Federation peoples... I have only my primitive gods from the pens. Yet... it helped. I feel better for having spoken my feelings to the Alpha shift.
Yet... I feel unworthy, what did a girl from the Orion pens do to deserve being freed, educated, and even made a Star Fleet officer? What did I do to deserve saving by the Toa, who did not even know me? I am honored beyond my worth.
Now, I am thinking... perhaps it is time to tell Mr. Khambatti I too care for him. He seems to like me for myself, not for being Orion. Perhaps... I am so unskilled in personal relationships... I have only one thing to fall back on.
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 16, 2008 19:29:59 GMT -5
SCIENCE OFFICER LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI CHIEF OF SCIENCE USS POLARIS
Docking at Star Base 266 aborted. While I have filed reports, and requisitioned replacement materiel, we were ordered out to ANGEL ONE... pre warp technology planet -- reported under attack. Science section placed back on alert, stand down canceled.
Proceeding under Quantum Slipstream Drive... sensors clear. ************************************************************************** REPORT ARRIVAL ANGEL ONE
Have detected debris consistent with wreckage of unidentified ship. Also detect Akira class ship, no IFF. Akira does not show standard engineering characteristics. Engaging - main sensors tied into targeting computers.
REPORT MULTIPLE HITS UNIDENTIFIED AKIRA
We have disabled the Akira. Report BREAK BREAK Akira overloading Matter Anti-Matter Mass Activated reactor (MAMMA) self destruct engaged... Akara has destroyed herself. Scans show no life pods or shuttles, no life signs. Scanning and letting computer classify organic remains.
Meeting called... Turning Science Station over to Ens. Moran
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 23, 2008 19:06:12 GMT -5
SECOND OFFICER LOG LT. COMDR. MELLISARI RECORDING CHIEF OF SCIENCE USS POLARIS
OFF ANGEL ONE
We have detected and fought -- successfully -- a ship identified as a transport of the Impostors. We are teamed with Star Ships Gahenna, Taurus, and Minotaur. Taurus heavily damaged, taking survivors aboard. Engineer Kitona has successfully rescued trapped bridge crew USS Taurus.
Medical is infusing the life support system with an enzyme, known to be fatal to Impostor life forms. Crew being inoculated with same enzyme.
Sick bay inundated with wounded. I am informed that Polaris will be joining with joint task forces of Federation and Rihannsu ships.
While not a battle trained officer, I will attempt to comport myself as an adequate second officer.
We proceed...
Mellisari, out
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 23, 2008 19:37:41 GMT -5
Amir had left... it had been a tough time. Mellisari had opened up to him fully... shown him her scars, reminded him of what she had been before Reverend Wagner had rescued her from the pens...
She sat on her chair, bare green feet folded under her. She cried. This human wanted her... for herself. No because she was green, a plaything of any spaceman with the cash to rent her, not because he was an Owner, or a penmaster who wanted to use her for the moment.
Not that she hadn't offered... she was not skilled in relationships, she had avoided entanglements since the School, fended off the advances of others while in Academy... concentrated on making Rev. Wagner proud.
She did not know why a pen girl had been taken and given the chance she had had, but she was not wasting it.
She had met Amir dressed in the not much (or less) of a slave. She had plead her case, offered herself... even redonned the hated discipline collar, and it's shock controller. Offered him the control device... and he turned it - not HER - down!
He hugged her, he held her, he wanted her for herself. She would make him the best wife she could, if he wanted. If he wanted, she would give up her commission and become his... property.
She had made up her mind. She cried, but was not sad.
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Post by Lt. Commander Mellisari on Sept 30, 2008 19:41:50 GMT -5
SCIENCE STATION LOG STATUS: ALERT RED LT. COMDR. MELLISARI
OFF SYSTEM 10 - 41 NGC
We are in battle with the impostors. I suggested a toroidal dust cloud in orbit about this star offered a hiding place. It seems I was right.
We are tasked with a battle group. Impostor ships have attacked, taking disruptor fire. Astrometrics and Long Range sensors have detected a planet in the dust cloud, possibly artificial. The impostors seem determined to defend it, friendlies may be onplanet.
I am tracking torpedoes, our squadron and hostile ships.
Reporting to TAC and OPS... will report further as developments require
Mellisari, out
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