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Following his meeting with Delaney. Captain Glen returned to the Merrimack Bridge to update Commander Kord on the new mission. Actually, his plan was to hand over the preliminary research to Kord. Just like his crew, Glen needed some R&R too, and his First Officer had all the time in the world, on account of him never sleeping and living practically forever. Who knows, Kord might have even have come across this new species before. In any case, looking through old contact records from that Sector to see if a ship had left some contamination, or cleaning up and then searching through old records of subspace radio transmissions from that Sector, or just formulating their plan for First Contact, all of that was boring administration work, which Glen was not prepared to do and could easily delegate.

Glen exited Space Station K-5, walked through the docking ring and took the turbolift straight to the Bridge. He walked out towards his chair.

“The meeting went well?” Kord asked looking over to Glen.

• Kord, XO

“All the meetings went as reasonably well as could be expected,” Glen replied. “The Commodore was the usual pen-pushing careerist with no clue. He told me to get some R&R and that he had no ulterior motives for calling us here. Then I got accosted by this she-cat who designed the ship and thinks we aren’t looking after it. Kord, I’d like you to know that hold you personally responsible for missing the Merrimack’s maintenance schedule. I want you to get that service history restored before she gets her claws into me. Apparently, counting all the self-sealing stembolts was far more important than saving the galaxy, and she’s on the team that is currently refitting us, so expect to see her a lot more. After that, I met a Commander who briefed me on our next mission. It is a First Contact mission and we all know how our last one went, so I’m taking my R&R and I’m handing the planning of this one over to you! Here is everything you need to know! Please, we can’t afford to start any Quadrant wide wars this time!” Glen handed Kord a set of data chips.

-Glen, CO