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As folks filed out talking excitedly about what could happen next month in the serial a general announcement came over the comm =/\= Captain Glen of the USS Merrimack please report to Commander Delany’s office =/\= Some female NE said.

GM CockRoach

Glen was glad that he had sat near to the back, otherwise he would have had trouble leaving in the heaving throng. He was surprised at the page. He had no idea who Commander Delany was and Commodore Brians hadn’t mentioned her. Is she part of the ship refit team too? Ready to give me another ear-bashing like Emi’ko? Commodore Brians had promised R&R but Glen had knew that was too good to be true.

The Captain left the Movie Hall and walked towards the nearest turbo-lift. Once he was out of the crowd he punched up directions to Delany’s office and made his way there directly.

-Glen, CO

When Glen was cued into Commander Delany’s office by the NE, he found the Commander was indeed a woman, in her late 30s. She was a woman who had seen her fair bit of action both in front and behind a desk. Despite her age she had lines and grey hair of a woman twice her age oddly. Turning though showed despite this she was still fit and trim and no slouch despite her desk job. “..Ah Captain Glen. Good to meet a man of many tales around the coffee pot. Please come in and take a seat.” She said offering Glen a pastry or drink of coffee.

”..I got a mission for you that I think is right up your ally. I’d like to task the Merrimack with following some bread crumbs of echoed radio and possible warp signature pulses we’ve picked up near to the region you explored in the Beta Quadrant this past year. Follow up surveys and probe scans indicate a possible newly warp capable species out that way but the inhabited systems we’ve pinged as targets come up empty.” She said showing a display on the wall of space highlighting several ID’d systems. They formed a conical funnel like shape oddly enough with the point leading further into unexplored space.

”..The radio transmissions show to be at least 10 years old, translations are still crude but take a listen does anything sound familiar to you from your bout out in space a few months back?” She asked cuing up an audio log. =/\= This is unknown words. We of the planet unknown word wish to convey our unknown words, we hope that to the listeners of the Great Void unknown words....to one day concentrate together =/\= The computerized female like voice said. Glen unfortunately didn’t recognize it off hand, though depending how versed he was in dialect he might detect an almost serene like tone quality to it.

After his reply Delany nodded, “..While I can’t order you off on this bread trail Captain. I would hope the prospect of a First Contact might whet your appetite to get back out there sooner then your R&R might provide. So what do you say?” She asked with a creased smile.

GM CockRoach