She had put this plan into motion months and months ago, when Randy was still Alden’s yeoman, and Randy and Roman were butting heads and arguing like spoiled toddlers. Yes that’s how Rand saw it. Rand had spent enough time around officers to know that lost work was considered one of the worst possible things to happen to an officer’s career. Roman had let slip that very first day he’d asked her to help in the lab, that he’d lost all his notes, all his work, all his animals on the Ardent.

The animals and samples could never be recovered, but the files could be. She had made an inquiry to a friend back at SF Command, who had found that the wreckage of the Ardent had been sent to Surplus Depot Z15. Rand then got in touch with the depot and found that the ships computer core had been sent to Luna Shipyards. The core was able to be physically reconstructed, but Luna did not have the facilities to restore the digital date. That led Rand to inquire to Starfleet Command’s Fleet Operations Center, Department of Starfleet Corps of Engineers, Sol Sector. It was there she finally tracked down the data. After a few trades, and several months the team was able to reconstruct the data that had been lost. This included personnel records, ship’s logs, officers’ duty logs and personal logs, and being a science vessel there were a lot of science logs. Roman’s included. Well he’d been the CSO so they were all his, technically.

The files were sent to Roman, but a few days before she received word from Eng Corps that they were sending the files out, so Rand was on the lookout for it. She intercepted it and moved it all to a data disk. She warned Randy, just in case, and then finished work early that night, and after changing out of her uniform she knocked on Roman’s door.

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