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| ==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Did We Get Them?==
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| ===by Brian V. Mansur===
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| SD: 2260.325
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| MD 6.000
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| Scene: Planet Surface
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| <START SNIP: From "Betting on the Numbers">
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| [We're ready captain.] Hemux's calm voice cut in. [Counting down now. 10,
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| 9, 8.]
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| Steele flipped the communicator closed. "Good luck gentlemen."
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| <END SNIP>
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| Steele looked up, wondering if he would see the ionization trail of the nuke
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| spread as it dove in. And then there was light all around him. Steele shut
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| his eyes instinctually. Then he felt his knees buckling as a final EMP wash
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| hit his nervous system. As consciousness faded, the transporter snatched
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| him up and wisked him heavenard on an invisible beam of pure energy.
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| /////
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| Scene: Shuttlecraft NIMITZ
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| He fell dead away to the deck of the Shuttlecraft Nimitz along with the rest
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| of the landing party survivors.
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| It seemed like hours, but as he roused to the voice of Mother giving orders,
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| he saw the chrono showed just a few minutes had gone by. He heard coughing,
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| a slapping sound, and someone (Corbett?) groaning.
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| "Damn woman, did you have to hit me so hard?" the cowboy complained.
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| Steele stiffled a laugh. "Status."
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| Beside him Hemux was there from the HOOD. She helped him up to a chair.
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| "Did it work?" he asked.
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| "I don't think so, captain. If you'll look at this panel."
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| The display showed an expanding ball of vapor and dust rapidly lifting from
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| ... a completely intact pyramid.
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| "Son of a bitch," Steele murmurred.
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| NRPG: Quick one to bridge Andy's post with the group JP we've begun.
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| Repectfully Submitted,
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| Brian V. Mansur
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| LCDR Sean Merrick
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| FO, USS HOOD, NCC-1703
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| ASR: ORIGINS
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