The Bridge would have been informed that Captain Glen had returned from Deep Space K-5 and of some altercation in the Docking Rings. Captain Glen had gone immediately to Sickbay upon his return.

=/\= Bridge. This is Captain Glen. Set co-ordinates for the system given by the Ship’s Anthropologist from their decipher of the child’s stasis box. I want us to leave immediately, once we have all the crew back aboard from Deep Space K-5. Notify me when we are ready. Glen out! =/\=

Dariusz Pokorski, Ship’s Navigator was immediately on the case. Unfortunately, the Captain wasn’t quite correct, and far be it for him to correct the Captain. It appeared that the Ship’s Anthropologist had figured out the symbols for the star constellations visible in the sky from the planet that made the pod. These were etched on the stasis pod. The problem was it did not match with a system on Vulcan Science Academy or any other star charts that Dariusz could get hold of, and he would have to find it by a comparison when they reached the correct system. Still, they did have the direction of travel of the returning Alstairean Sleeper ship, and they could follow that course back to it’s origin. He laid in that course and would carry out regular scans along the way to look out for a system that matched the star patterns. Still, it would be a lot easier for him if they just woke up the child and asked it.

Once all the crew had returned from Deep Space K-5 the Merrimack got underway and the Captain was informed that they had left.

With neither the Captain or XO on the Bridge, the senior officer on watch was Hercules Kahuna. Kahuna ordered the Merrimack to maintain a Warp factor 5 and to follow the direction in which the Alstairean Sleep Ship had come from. With no Stella Cartography to make use of, Pokorski was ordered to make regular Astrometric checks as they progressed, and to measure and study when stars, planets and spacial anomalies fell into a pattern that matched with that etched upon the child’s stasis box. Whether the child was woken up or not, this methodology ought to eventually find the original star system of the child.

Kahuna was aware that once again the Merrimack was travelling through unknown and unexplored space. They were in a new region of the Beta Quadrant, seeking out new life and a new civilisation, going where no man had gone before.

-Kahuna, Bridge