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Joe seemed to nod to himself as if proud that he’d done that well before he took a breath looked at the screen and once again with a smile he asked. “Any further questions?”

Lt. Cmdr. Joe Milligan XO

Where the XO stood afforded Tia the ability to lightly touch his arm without folks seeing on the screen. She whispered from behind him, “They’ll have several. Be patient, Sir.”

She tried her best not to laugh as the poor man stood there in the spotlight, the representative of the entire Fleet.

Tia CE

Joe smiled at Tia and spoke saying Blarney I have its patience I’m short of although I’m trying my best.”

Lt. Cmdr. Joe Milligan XO

After a pause, the lead media announce spoke, =/\= Thank you Lieutenant Commander Milligan and your brief but concise introduction yourself, your ship you serve on and your space agency. I personally do not have any questions so I will open our media broadcast line to any call ins! =/\= She said.

A beep was heard within the news studio and an audio driven male voice likely some local caller on the habitat spoke, =/\= Uh good evening! Thanks for taking my call. I am Gal Free 2nd lead engineer among one of our Habitat’s hydro-electric generation divisions and waste reclamation facilities. If you could indulge me and my fellow workers we are curious how your ships and Federation handle hydro reclamation and waste management? As well as how these points of power generation and waste management are handled through your Federation? =/\= he asked.

Joe looked around for Tia so that she might field this one. It was certainly nothing he wished to address. Making one think of things like this made a person want to carry your own crated supplies on board a starship.

OOC: Not sure Tia will reply and need to move this on. -Dave

George stepped up to answer this one, having spent some considerable time working in waste reclamation, “Whell, we have this here mowleculaar synthesizuurr device that there uses matter-energy conversion technology ta create food ayn’ some objects, but witch also wawks on waste ta produce feedstock too. There are some heavy metals ayn’ some fowevuurr chemicals remaining aftuurrwarrds, but they get recycled too being as they are rare elements and mowlecules.”

• George, Engineer

Joe grimaced at how close George may have come to giving away some hints to their technology. But you couldn’t put the words back and how much can leftovers advance a society anyway? At the end of the day there wasn’t much could be done differently to recycle things that most people didn’t want to know about anyway.” Ah there we are! That was our expert George. ” Turning then to George, Joe said cheerily, “Thank you George, when it comes to waste no one does it better than you!”

Then despite his overwhelming urge to get to his quarters, get a shot of whiskey and good meal Joe kept on as he turned toward the viewer and spoke saying, “Well that was a great question. We have anymore?”

LtCmdr. Joe Milligan XO

Another pause then the news lady spoke, =/\= Ah yes seems we have a call in from one of our Sybl friends listening in.=/\= She said.

A second later a hyper active sounding female voice spoke, =/\= Yes yes! I am Lu from the Sybl merchant ship near you! I help run our trade and appraisal systems for current and new clients for our records. How does your Federation handle trade and coinage or credit systems?=/\= She said.

GM CockRoach