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[[ Ensign Myne - Bridge - USS Challenger-A ] Ensign Myne peeked back to make sure the new ops was safe as the ship shook. She was glancing about trying to keep check on a half dozen scans when she heard Ensign Lina mention the bogey. Then the foul cacophany of music began to play and she cringed. Despite being from her 'Earths' version of Wales she was never big on bagpipes.]

Lina tried not to flinch at the sound of pipes and gunfire keeping to her tasks as her ears folded against her head tail curling around her waist "must we be so loud in our attack?" she sighs and notes a blip "sir something coming on our 4 o'clock." she shouts to ian as she taps away returning to focus as something caught her eye "coming in at due pace. might be a hostile." she flicks her tail in anticipation as she keeps up the work to make sure nothing goes wrong on her side

[ Ensign Myne - Bridge - USS Challenger-A ]

Ensign Myne peeked back to make sure the new ops was safe as the ship shook. She was glancing about trying to keep check on a half dozen scans when she heard Ensign Lina mention the bogey.  Then the foul cacophany of music began to play and she cringed. Despite being from her 'Earths' version of Wales she was never big on bagpipes.

"Scan was distorted from the Atmospheric issues of the Badlands. Doing a more tight passive... Captain! Two Jem'Hadar attack ships, following the warp trail of the Valiant up ahead of us! Sending to your chair console."

[[Lt JG Fisk - Briefing Room - USS Challenger]]

[Captain Galloway - Briefing Room - USS Challenger]

"œI like the spiked escape pod plan. Serve the wankers right and it fits in with Sun Tzu's axiom that "˜all warfare is based on deception'. Helm, we're ta steer as close ta one of the plasma storms as we can without gettin' caught in the bloody thing. Engineerin', prepare ta vent additional plasma. We've already laid the ground work that we're hurt. You're also ta rig a quantum torpedo inside a half dozen escape pods. Tactical, I'm goin' ta need a spread of a dozen quantum torpedoes released manually and fused ta detonate all at once. We need them ta think we've met our end from flyin' too close ta the plasma storm. Ops, send out a low powered signal, broadband, on a cracked code. Tell them about our genius boffin that can track Melek Nor in transwarp. That's will keep them from simply destroyin' the pods on sight.

"œAt this point, ta carry on with the submarine analogy we've been usin', helm will then drop a half million kilometers below the galactic plane via thrusters only as Ops shuts down everything, includin' life support. There's enough Oh two and heat ta last us long enough ta pull this off. Science, as soon as the passive sensors detect the escape pods bein' tractored or beamed aboard the Breen cruisers, we detonate our little surprise. As the old sayin' goes, "˜play stupid games, win stupid prizes' so let's give those Breen summat that will put a right proper dent in their hat. Dismissed."

[Lt JG Fisk - Briefing Room - USS Challenger]

"Acknowledged, will run down to Engineering. You might hear from my boss but hey he might like the idea.", she chuckled before saluting and heading off quickly.

[Lt. Ruth Sigurdsdottir, CSO - Briefing Room - USS Challenger-A]

Ruth had noticed, even if Captain Galloway hadn't.  As she relieved the other Science officer with a smile and slid into her seat she said calmly.

"Raving is something we don't do on the Bridge.  Raving looney... well you have a blue-antennae'd one standing there by Ops!" she said in an 'indoor voice' not really meaning it of Lahr.  She whispered to Melly now "You know I'm joking about Lahr, and I don't mind you being friendly with anyone but...no foolies on the Bridge where other people might catch you at it and report you ok?!"

Ruth tried to be more of a slightly admonishing big sister in her tone, correcting but not punishing, so that she didn't scare the girl.  It was a mild reprimand, and not worth making a big thing of, but she had vowed to make her the best officer she could in time.

[Ensign Myne - Bridge - USS Challenger-A]

Ensigns Myne's face paled but she nodded, "Yes Ma'am my apologies Ma'am and I will do better next time Ma'am."

After a moment though she smiled, "But he is cute."

[Lt. Ruth Sigurdsdottir, CSO - Briefing Room - USS Challenger-A]

The CSO reiterated what Galloway had said in the Briefing Room to Melly and Lina. She beamed at Melly and thumbed over her shoulder "By the way, Captain Galloway called you '...our genius boffin...' in there.  He wasn't talking about me since he made mention of tracking the Melek Nor in transwarp blah blah.  To be honest you're going to have to teach me half of that stuff too.  Good show Ensign, if'n he hasn't thought of it already, when this is over and we're all in one piece I'm doing one of two things.  At least if you keep up the good work and no foolies..." she said giving Melly a mock stern look, the upward twitch of her mouth belying the sternness of the look.  ".. first that you are put in for a commendation on your record, that goes without saying, and that can come from me as far as I'm aware, but if further endorsed by the Captain that will look good and... contribute to the second thing,  Promotion to j.g.  Any more of this and I might have to watch my back for you overtaking me!"

[Ensign Myne - Bridge - USS Challenger-A]

Ensign Myne's face brightened at the praise and the compliments, she didn't care about commendations or promotions but it was a sign she wasn't being gotten rid of anytime soon. So that brightened her to no end. But then a look of confusion crossed her face.

"What is a boffin?", she asked confused.

[Lt. Ruth Sigurdsdottir, CSO - Briefing Room - USS Challenger-A]
Turning slightly more towards Lina she smiled.  "You've been working well with the atmospheric stuff... keep an eye on the storms as we're going to be flying as close as we can to them.  While I'm confident in our helmswoman, I'm sure she won't take it amiss if we help steer her right!"

[(Restricted Races) - Requires a Compelling Story- Androidhttps://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Android]

(Restricted Races) - Requires a Compelling Story
- Android
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Android

- (Any) Delta Quadrant Species
See Below

- Breen
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Breen

- Founder/Changeling
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Founder

- Jem'Hadar
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jem'Hadar

- Liberated Borg
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg

- Nausicaan
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nausicaan

- Onlie/Only
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Only

- Preserver
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Preserver_(race)

- Tarellian
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tarellian

- Tholian
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tholian

(Known Android Types)
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[Noted and alerted the CO.]

Noted and alerted the CO.

~Ships Rep~

[[Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge] Ensign Myne gripped her head and put her hands over her face as he scanned and said he wasn't a salt succubus, she squirmed and struggled in a lot of extreme pain before she parted her hands and stuck out her tongue with her eyes closed in a giggle. "I am so glad Dil. There are bad things in there... so never dig too deep please. I don't care for my privacy, but I don't want you upset.", she sighed world heavily.]

[Ensign Aarwendil  - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

Aarwendil smiled at Myne. Even if she was probably older than him, the Only seemed to be so happy and excited with new things that the Betazoid could easily believe that she was still a child. However, the brief shadow of sadness that crossed her mind when she talked about her uncle Wendel reminded him that the Science Officer had lived through several situations that a kid would never be able to deal with.

"œYes, I'm a Beatazoid." the Ensign said, but before he could say anything else Myne was already asking him to read her mind. Aarwendil bit his lips, uncertain of how he should answer that. The first thing that he learned when he joined the Academy was that non-telepaths disliked when their thoughts were read without permission, but since she was asking for it, the young man concluded that there wasn't any problem with it.

Besides that, Myne was thinking so hard about what she wanted him to hear that the young Betazoid was sure that he would be capable of reading her thoughts with a superficial scanning.

"œRight, I'll do that." Aarwendil focused on Myne, trying his best to not make the experience uncomfortable. He would soon hear what was going on her mind, with his cheeks getting a bit red after hearing that the Only thought that he was cute. The Ensign immediately laughed when he heard about the part of him being a succubus. "œNo, I'm not a succubus."

[Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

Ensign Myne gripped her head and put her hands over her face as he scanned and said he wasn't a salt succubus, she squirmed and struggled in a lot of extreme pain before she parted her hands and stuck out her tongue with her eyes closed in a giggle.

"I am so glad Dil. There are bad things in there... so never dig too deep please. I don't care for my privacy, but I don't want you upset.", she sighed world heavily.

She opened her mind and gave the briefest glimpse of a hundred years of slavery, branding, pain, and then being Borged while awake but also of hope and optimism threw each and every time. A view that no matter how bad there is never a reason to give up.

[CPO - Lahr USS Challenger-A - Bridge]
Lahr glance back over to M when she replied to his check on her.

"That's great to hear! And you are welcome.  Later, when we're celebrating a successful mission, you'll have to come to one of my DJ'd sets.   I'm thinking of getting Grelek to book me as the entertainment du jour once this is all done.   Figure the crew will need to vent some energy after all this - and no better way of doing that then Raving."

[Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

Myne looked to Lahr with the happiest of smiles as her emotions flooded out overwhelmingly of joy to be around Lahr. Her emotions tended to be overwhelming, so Dil would be wise to put up shields around the Onlie.

"What... is raving Sir?", she asked very confused. "If you reccomend it then sure! But no clue what that is."

Ensign Myne did not notice the Captain returning and possibly seeing her little 'foolies' with the Betazoid Op when he scanned her.

[[Lt JG Fisk - Briefing Room - USS Challenger]]

[Lt JG Fisk - Briefing Room - USS Challenger]

Lieutenant Junior Grade Fisk paced even more as the Science Department Head explained some variations. "That could work Ma'am, we would need maybe a half hour to make sure everything can be done safely, half that time if we forgoe too much safely. I think its a great idea but not sure what the others would think."

She smiled and cringed thinking what the Chief Engineer would say, something loud, obscene, and shaking a spanner during the saying of such.

( Sorry for the short post I'm just still not doing well. )

[[Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge] Ensign Myne smiled and waved, "Hello Ensign Dil, your name reminds me of a Uncle I had a long time ago named Wendel." She sighed looking down projecting a feeling of sadness but then smiled looking back up to him. Hey your black eyes? Your a betazoid! Can you hear this?"]

[Aarwendil Cheizex - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

"œIt's nice to meet you, Myne." he said, before smiling at the girl. If it wasn't for his telepathic abilities, the young Betazoid could have thought that she was joking. Her name sounded so much like the word "˜mine', but he could feel that she was being honest to him. The Onlie name was really different, but was he to argue with it? His name wasn't one of the most common.

Besides, it also could be difficult to pronounce.

"œI'm Aarwendil Cheizex, but you can call me Dil." he wouldn't mind if she preferred  to call him with a nickname that was easier to pronounce.  "œHow long have you been serving in the Challenger?"  the Betazoid asked, feeling curious about the Onlie.

While he wasn't reading her mind, he would never do that without permission, the Ensign could sense that her feelings were very vivid. They flowed easily from her and were like those of a child. However, there was also something more behind them. A pain and darkness that showed she wasn't a kid at all.

[Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

Ensign Myne smiled and waved, "Hello Ensign Dil, your name reminds me of a Uncle I had a long time ago named Wendel." She sighed looking down projecting a feeling of sadness but then smiled looking back up to him. Hey your black eyes? Your a betazoid! Can you hear this?"

She thought real hard, "Your cute. But if your really a salt succubus you have to tell me. Thats the rules!" She smiled again and bounced her head as her pigtails bounced again before she turned to the scanner and found a few clouds to evade threw sending the data to the helmswoman.

[CPO ShranLahr ch'Verret - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]
"Heya M!  How are things?"

Though he greeted the Science officer with a wave, he headed to Ops first.

[Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

Turning after sending the data she smiled and waved. "Hey Sir! So much better now. Not being menanced by a slaver or locked in sickbay! Thank You again for the treats!" A feeling of happiness projected out of her.

[Ensign Myne offered up the plate she was eating, it was unpleasent to view and smell wise and it likely tasted bad too. "This is my meal. I eat it several times a day. But I love hearing all of your meals. It helps me to learn more about my fellow crewmembers. Thank You everyone. Your all so nice."]

Ensign Myne offered up the plate she was eating, it was unpleasent to view and smell wise and it likely tasted bad too. "This is my meal. I eat it several times a day. But I love hearing all of your meals. It helps me to learn more about my fellow crewmembers. Thank You everyone. Your all so nice."

[[ Ensign Myne - Quarters - USS Challenger-A ]]

[ Ensign Myne - Quarters - USS Challenger-A ]

(After the incident in Quarks but before the briefing)

Ensign Myne was shaking like a leaf when she entered the shared quarters. "Computer Lock the door.", she said waiting for the comfirmation the front door was locked. She then hurried to her room of the shared two bedrooms and said. "Computer lock Ensign Myne bedroom door." She then hurried to the side of the untouched bed, her heart was racing as she slipped in to the side between the bed and the wall where she had set a pillow fort up. Wiggling in she started to calm and feel comfort. Her heart rate began to calm but her blood pressure with it dropped causing shivering and teeth clattering. Knowing it would pass she sighed.

"Computer, replicate the sound of the inside of a Choraii. The computer began a loud but not overwhelming thumping of a heartbeat and an eerie flute like sound as the Choraii sung to it's pets inside of it.

Calming more she reached under her bed and took an object from her bag. An old, broken, metal ring with a injector system on the inside. It was an Orion control collar. If the wearer fought or showed resistance the injector would hit them with a compliance drug. An addictive one. The more behaved the more it would give. If it was tried to be taken off without an Orion multi-tool a shock would occur. A hell of a shock as she remembered.

She just sat and staired intently at the device, the same one 'that man' had put on her so long ago. When it was taken off her she buried it in a box with some other reminders of her past that she dug up before going into Starfleet Academy.

How so much easier it was when she was wearing it she thought...

She opened the rusty collar and looked hard at the inside, 'How so much easier back then....'. She thought again. No more reasons to be scared.

[[ Ensign Myne | Bridge | USS Challenger-A ]]

After the Captain called the department heads to the briefing room, Aarwendil would use this opportunity to get to know some of his fellow officers. "œHey! What is your name?" he asked the Only. While he waited for her answer, the Betazoid would use his console to identify any possible anomaly that the Badlands could throw at them. This place was treacherous.

[ Ensign Myne | Bridge | USS Challenger-A ]

Myne turned as addressed and smiled to the Betazoid, her mind was full of wonder but also painful darkness. The Ops officer could also detect if he looked that she found him cute. "My name is Myne. Whats yours?", she smiled brightly as her pigtails bounced. The word myne sounding like 'mine'. The girl looked and sounded about eight human years old. "It's such a pleasure to meet you!" Her enthusiasm and joy for meeting him was genuine.

[[ Lieutenant JG Rebecca Fisk | Ready Room | USS Challenger ] Lieutenant JG Rebecca Fisk was not used to being in the Ready room on the spot like this. A much more ideal place would be in Engineering listening to the hum of the warp core as it was soothing to her. There were Breen after them and she could hear in her head the Angry Tellerite Chief Engineer if she came up with a bad idea that might hurt his ship.]

[Briefing Room - USS Challenger]

Ian took his seat and looked around the room. Here were Lieutenant Hector Espada from Flight; Lieutenant Commander T'Kel for Security; Lieutenant Ruth Sigurdsdottir for Science; Lieutenant jg Rebecca Fisk from Engineering; Lieutenant Adelle Booker covering for Lieutenant Commander Fernando CatalÁ¡n at Ops; Lieutenant Evan Buehler representing Medical; which caused him a sharp pang of concern to know Jess was on the away team and in danger, along with Lieutenant Gemma Mills as Ship's Counselor.

"Okay, I will get right ta the point. I'm nae worried about bein' able ta handle those Breen cruisers, especially if'n we can fight them singularly. Even if'n we had ta fight the pair, I'm nae worried about that either. My only concern is if'n we get into a scrap with either or both, they'll call in Melek Nor and we are nae capable of fightin' that beastie.

"As with smugglers, the Maquis, and malcontents since ships knew of the Badlands, we're ta hide here among the plasma storms and gravitational anomalies. As little as I like ta say it, we're the mouse and they're the cats. We've got ta make ourselves disappear.

"However, you all ken me well enough ta know I'm nae for waitin' passively. If'n we can lure the cats into a plasma storm or manage an ambush, that is my preferred option. And is the crux of why I've called this meetin'. I need ideas, plans, schemes, and whatever skullduggery you lot can come up with ta make my plan happen. The floor is open."

[ Lieutenant JG Rebecca Fisk | Ready Room | USS Challenger ]

Lieutenant JG Rebecca Fisk was not used to being in the Ready room on the spot like this. A much more ideal place would be in Engineering listening to the hum of the warp core as it was soothing to her. There were Breen after them and she could hear in her head the Angry Tellerite Chief Engineer if she came up with a bad idea that might hurt his ship.

She paced back and forth a moment and came up with a simple solution. "Vent some plasma, simulate a small explosion on the ships from the Badlands interfeerance, send out a distress call on a comprimised channel, and launch a series of escape pods full of explosives enough that when they scoop them up as prisoners it can internally damage them or remote detonate it near a prime plasma cloud? Play hurt and lure them in. Maybe in the distress call mention we have that officer who can track Melek Nor when it Transwarps, play that up a lot so they want to capture us not blow us up. Anything to keep the Chief from throwing spanners at us!"

[[ Ensign Myne | Bridge | USS Challenger-A ]]

[ Ensign Myne | Bridge | USS Challenger-A ]

Ensign Myne used passive scans because of the instability of the badlands. Anything more would be ineffective. Scanning the plasma storms, the gravitational anomilies that plague the badlands she tried to find a ionic nebula big enough for the ship. But staying there would wreck havok on systems. So she continued her scans hoping to have something by the time the Captain exited the ready room. So she scanned and scanned as her stomach caused a whimper from where the belt caught her. But she was strong, she was a survivor.

[[ Ensign Seyefa - Sickbay - USS Challenger-A ]]

"Are you yourself injured at all, Ensign ---?" Evan asked, not finding any visible marks as he gave the kid a quick once over. He turned his attention back to the woman on the biobed, running a scanner around her head to check for internal bleeding. Thankfully there was none, and the gash on her forehead, though considerable, wasn't quite as scary as it looked. Flesh wounds on the face tended to bleed like a stuck pig. The concussion, however, was another story.

[ Ensign Seyefa - Sickbay - USS Challenger-A ]

Ensign Seyefa rubbed her head, "Hit my head, felt like it cut, disoriented and throwing up, trouble standing. I think thats it. Pounding headache. Any way I can get back to work soon? Or least tell the Chief Engineer I am not reporting for duty?"

[[ Ensign Seyefa - USS Challenger-A - Sickbay ] The Ekosian Ensign whimpered as she steadied while the young Betazoid officer helped her to the biobed. With a smile. "Thank You Sir..", she said sitting back shivering rather clammy. "Your a hero, please know that. I doubt I could have.. gotten here alone..."]

[USS Challenger-A - Sickbay]

He was forced to hold all her weight against him. "œDoctor, she needs help!" Aarwendil screamed, while passing the woman to one of the nurses in the Sickbay. At this moment, the other wounded started to enter the room. With how crowded the place was starting to get, the young Betazoid decided to slip out of there. Since medicine wasn't his area of expertise, he decided to get out of the doctors way.

Besides that, he didn't want to get hit by someone's vomit.

[ Ensign Seyefa - USS Challenger-A - Sickbay ]

The Ekosian Ensign whimpered as she steadied while the young Betazoid officer helped her to the biobed. With a smile. "Thank You Sir..", she said sitting back shivering rather clammy. "Your a hero, please know that. I doubt I could have.. gotten here alone..."

As the Betazoid Ensign headed out the Ekosian waved before turning to wait for the Doctor.

[Lt. Ruth Sigurdsdottir, CSO - Sciences 1, Bridge - USS Challenger-A]

Ruth smiled across, reassuringly.  "20 seconds is brilliant, it's probably saved us in all honesty.  5 seconds wouldn't have been and yes, hopefully when we get out of this, we can work on refining it.  Quite possibly this might go fleet wide if you can get it up a little more."

She saw how valiantly Melly was hiding obvious pain and was super proud of her.

"That will probably bruise, see medical once you can for something to alleviate it, and, if it's something which could make your life easier, after all you're not going to suddenly be 5ft 7in tall or something.  My knowledge on Only biological information is limited but I don't know any that tall, then we will need to see if we can get something sorted regarding some protective padding. After all, you are an officer, you will have Bridge duty... that's not something which is going away... we work around problems, we Science our way around it... or engineer it!  We can sit down with Mr ch'Verret and work out practical yet Bridge decorum-ready solutions.  We can't have you looking like the Marshmallow Man from those old Earth movies."

[ Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge ]

Ensign Myne smiled hearing Lieutenant Ruths words. She was happy that she could find something useful to do even if she would have more trouble refining it further. It was pretty niche but you never know. But then she listened about the pillow and nodded, "Yeah it hurts I will get it checked and I am eight Ma'am.." She then looked around panicing, "I am four hundred and forty three years old!"

She whimpered and kept looking around hoping none heard.

[Ensign Aarwendil Cheizex - USS Challenger-A - Bridge]

With the wounded Engineer safe in the sickbay, Aarwendil decided to follow his original plan: see if the people at the bridge needed help. When the turbolift finally stopped, the young Betazoid took a deep breath before walking out to present himself there. "œEnsign Aarwendil Cheizex from Ops presenting for duty. Is there any way that I can help?"

[ Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge ]

Turning from her revealing faux paw she saw the Betazoid (which she didn't know till she saw his eyes) Officer enter. He was cute! But she smiled and remains on her knees in her chair leaned up and hitting buttons. When he came close the red pigtailed little Onlie Ensign waved to the man and continued her work.

[ Captain Galloway - USS Challenger-A - Bridge ]
Science, you're ta find me pockets of instabilities or anything else that will scramble sensors. We're ta disappear and make the buggers find us."

[ Ensign Myne - USS Challenger-A - Bridge ]

Ensign Myne turned to her department head quickly asking, "Do you want to scan or should I? I don't think we need transwarp tracing now Ma'am?"

[[Ensign Myne - Sickbay - USS Challenger]]

[Kina Nural - Sickbay - USS Challenger]

Kina smiled and hugged Myne back gently. "œI know you will. I have complete faith that you will do your best no matter what." Once their hug was finished, she began to pull out the items for the game. She looked to the Lieutenant and nodded. "œOf course. It's rare to meet anyone who is interested in this game. Many of my friends at the academy found it a little confusing." She then turned to Myne. "œIf anything is confusing, let me know, and I'll try and explain it as best I can."

Kina began to show the board and what each space meant and did. She then showed off the pieces and explained their ranks and how to use them. Finally, she explained the dice and what each roll did. She explained the rules, how to play and a couple of strategies that her father taught her. "œThat's the basics of how to play. Do you feel like you would be ready for a game?"

[Ensign Myne - Sickbay - USS Challenger]

Ensign Myne was quick to pick up games do to her love of learning and this was a unique chance. It was so complicated but so wonderful to experience. She would make errors at it, but it was something she would happily work on mastering one day. It may take ten or eleven thousand years but she had the time. She also especially had the drive. A hundred small questions were asked as she examined and learned about each piece with genuine interest.

[Lt. Ruth Sigurdsdottir - Sickbay > Buehler's Office - Deck 7

The redhead sighed slightly in pleasure at the girls playing the game, and wistfully at having to leave Lahr temporarily.  She caught his hand as she went by and gave it a quick squeeze.  "I'll see you later as well!" she said bestowing a loving look on him.

[Ensign Myne - Sickbay - USS Challenger]

Myne looked up as Lahr headed out and she softly said her thanks again. Then she saw her department head go off with the doctor. Not wishing to pry she instead went back to focusing at the game.