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It was sometime later. Well to be honest a few hours of sleep, a change of uniform, fresh makeup, doing her hair and such and then a breakfast which was supposed to be an omelette with cheese and andouille sausage but had turned out somewhere along the way into something quite different. So it was that somewhat newly refreshed and somewhat satisfied that Stella found her way to the bridge as ordered.

She went straight to her station and sat at the seat there. She turned on everything, put in her earpiece and sighed as she started listening to the songs of the universe. All the different sounds of different sorts of radiation, along with the residuals of crashes and collisions. And every once in a while, a voice trying to communicate through it all.

As Stella sat at her station, while the Captain was meeting with the Commodore, her board pinged with an incoming packet from K5 Ops. It was labelled Ardan V information.

GM Nosferatu
Your Darkest Nightmare

Dariusz sat at Navigation (minding Helm at the same time). This was the graveyard shift. Then was little to do at either station while they were docked at DS K-5 except for some recalibration of the instruments measuring co-ordinates and headings. He wanted to get to know the new Helm officer, Eros, better, and he looked forward to working closely with him. From his surname, Dariusz thought Eros might even come from the same region of Earth as he did. However Eros had a different shift pattern and had been visiting the space station this morning. Dariusz was beginning to get bored. He had performed every test and downloaded every new update. He might be tempted to open up his new game on his console if something more exciting didn’t happen soon.

When Stella got a “ping” Dariusz asked, “Is that anything interesting, Stella?”

• Dariusz, Nav