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“Any news from Commander Milligan about their status,” Glen asked Lt. Lovejoy and the others on the Bridge who were monitoring coms and scanning the planet surface.

“It’s been very quiet, Sir!” Dariusz replied from the Navigation station.

However, just at that moment, as if Joe Milligan had been able to hear his name mentioned, there was an incoming message:

=/\= Away team stay where you are. Merrimac beam all away team members up immediately along with the female creature thing I’m now holding! I repeat beam us up now the mission has been compromised! =/\=

Glen reacted immediately. =/\= Transporter Room. Beam the Landing Party back ASAP!! =/\=

Glen stood up, ready to go down to the Transporter Room himself.

Glen rushed to the doors and into the Turbolift. What kind of ‘creature thing’ has the landing party brought aboard? he thought as the lift made it’s way below decks.

• Glen, CO