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Hal also went to the bridge. He took the tactical station, where he began to run standard diagnostics on the weapons and defensive systems.

“It sure feels good to be back home,” he remarked to nobody in particular.

“I’d have liked to have achieved a little more, Hal” Glen replied to Hal, “but I think we did good. Find out what’s holding up the team on the sleeper ship for me. I had expected that to be a quick rescue and salvage mission.”

Cross realized she had not yet informed Glen =/\= Captain the medical team is back ,their injuries have been treated and we got our crew back=/\= Cross sounded out of breath =/\= Though not all have been cleared for duty as of now .shall keep you informed once out of ................=/\= she tailed off as the doctor made her way to the theater to scrub before a patient bled to dead.

“We can have comms contact that sleeper ship, Sir, to get their status report,” Hal said. “We can also have Science run scans on them.”

“Make it so!” exclaimed Captain Glen.

=/\= Thank you, Miriam! =/\= Glen replied to the garbled message, =/\= …but I need those wounded Alstaireans patched up and ready to leave this ship pretty soon. We can’t take them back home with us. Glen out. =/\=

Cross rolled her eyes,she was about to tell Glen what he thought they were doing in sickbay but instead took a deep breath and started surgery on the patient with a ruptured spleen.

“Actually, Sir, I’ll run the scans from my security console. It should give me any pertinent information about that second sleeper ship,” Hal replied.

“Very good! Let’s go get some answers,” Glen replied.

-Glen, CO