Archived Series
Here is my series:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/episode01
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/episode02http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/episode03
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/episode04
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus05
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus06
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus07
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus08
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus09
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus10 http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus11 http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus12 http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus13
http://web.archive.org/web/20160814888/https://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/Daedalus14
http://web.archive.org/web/2013051208/http://sites.google.com/site/meteoarchon/daedalus/theme
Here, I will illustrate more of the now unnecessary to Finish Daedlus Episodes, as well as events and story arcs that will be easily comprehensible here, as this will be more or less what' sbene here since 07', or at the vary least, 09'-10'.
Timeline
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December 14th, 2164: After two monthes of travel with no stops, and before that tailing some suspicious-looking Orions in a wedgelike ship, the Daedalus makes a survey of Alanis Auriga, and mostly the two Petty Officer Lesbos and Ronald and Paul Larson chat with each other on misc. Crew Shift Stories and the various planets they'd seen thus far.
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January 11th, 2165: The Daedalus arrives at System M-002, and at a .9g Planet with 2 moons, the Shuttlecraft Whettestone, carrying a Landing Party composed of Takashi, Daniel, Ronald, Mcguyver, a Lady Biologist, and Leslie,discover some bizarre totemic carvings into the side of a cliff, scouting, they explore the forest, take samples, and see ruins, and hypothesize on where the locals might've gone, if they are still kicking, but have relocated.
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April 15th, 2165: Ronald Fielding takes in some hallucination plant stuff on a hot Class L 1.2g World and hallucinates, paranoidly assuming the others have left him, and he fantasizes wildly about a new life, and strange night and animal life, when he down's even know much about the fauna on this world. After nine and a half hours, he's retrieved by Daniel, Thrallen, Randy Tyne and two Blonde, buff Spacers.
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April 18th, 2165: Ronald and Thrallen talk about this bizarre incident, and they share a Coffee, while the Petty Officer and several other Engineers and Spacers consult with him on some repairs to the Warp Engines, and they watch, and narrowly escape from a scenic purple neutron cloud.
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June 1st, 2165: Ronald does some sketches of some new ships, and a ?-marked Drive he assumes is going to be some kind of 2170s or 2180s new Warp Drive capable of several .Xs or WF or 2 of speed, telling Randy Tyne and Thrallen that he hopes they'll make good use for it when he submits it to the SCE when their tour is up in '67.
They get interrupted by Arinda, to calls Ronald and Thrallen to the Bridge. When they arrive, Arinda and Daniel report some Kind of unknown craft is attacking an Andorian Heavy Cruiser, Takashi and Daniel ordering spacers to Weapons Control, and for Paul and Chang to take the Daedalus to assist it, then the Daedalus shoots it's Lasers and Atomic Missiles, swerving and turning to port to come between the CA and the unknown, cylindrical spotted-filthy orange vessel with two round red-capped nacelles in 2 L-Pylons, and after taking a few minor Laser Hits, and shooting it's Lasers four more times, with some minor maneuvering, the enemy vessel leaves, Arinda and Takashi telling the Andorian Captain, who cheers them on, and who says they'll be all right in about a day, with them being fairly willing for the Daedalus to escort them until they can stop for a rest & a survey in the nearby Beta Thanal System, a rough, asteroid-filled region with 10 planets, incl. 2 Ice Giants and a Class K World, the class K World being surveyed by the Daedalus Landing Party over the next 2 weeks.
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July 4th, 2165: Ronald and Thrallen discuss Independence Day, and Thrallen shares his Holidays; - celebrating a Knife-Wielders uniting three Andorian Clans called Thirek, and another where the Andorians celebrated becoming a Warpflight Starnation, on roughly November 9th, then Ronald fondly daydreams of a Federation Day, then minutes later, he is met in Engineering by Daniel and Macguyver, who tell him they've found some odd Warp Signal trailing them, and that they'll assume the worst, and for him to have sudden orders to make rapid warp changes, and as he does so, changing the ship's speed to Warp 1.7, then Warp 3.5, he, Pauol and Chang get the ship to sublight, and move it to starboard, having it drift 2.1 AUs into some dust cloud and a couple of Meteorites, and this shakes off the pursuer, with the odd ship from earlier, is guessed as being Orion or Nausicaan.
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July 8th-9th, 2165: the Daedalus rendezvouses with the USS Archon, and Ronald and it's Chief Engineer, a real skinny Black Woman named Nedala Lebutu, study and compare each others' Warp Engines, the two vessels surveying a nearby Double Star with no planets.
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July 25th, 2165: The Daedalus and a Vulcan Heavy Cruiser work together to retrieve a Vulcan Probe, and to survey a huge Star System of fifteen planets and an asteroid belt, Ronald and Randy commenting leery at how isolationist the Vulcans are being, then they, Arinda and Paul play some weird noise stunts on Chang and Thrallen, and Thrallen and Randy try mizing Nutrient Paste, spices, and coffee.
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August 2nd, 2165: A Landing Party, composed of Takashi, Ronald, Randy, and two Science Officers visits a prairie-world of .9gs called Tessek, and wistfully exchange data on various happenings on 22nd Century Sol System, and survey the Planet, then after an hour discover some kind of hermit's hut and belongings, searching around, another hour later they discover some strange, grey-skinned white-haired Mercenary who said he was stranded and with his warfare and planetfall experience, easily survived, as well as stretching out his rations, and he mildly, but merrily prods them into taking him back to the Daedalus, but when they've got back, Takashi and Randy have put 2 and 2 together, and tell him they know why he was there, and that he really was some kind of scumbag con man who was marooned by his crew after they found him to be a problem, and he nervously tries to giggle and deny this, but they corner him, and verbally smack him, then he gives in and they drop him off at a nearby Rigellian Trader's Base on a nearby Moon in the Leo Gamma System, shortening his planned hitchhiking.
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October 1st, 2165: Takashi and Daniel exchange their dfond memories as Lieutenants on different old Survey Ships in the UESPA, and Daniel tells Takashi about the strange mineral counts on two abnormally large 1g Class D worlds, and a .8g Class N Ocean World, and they go to that world with Ronald, the Lesbos, and a Spacer, and as they keep the Shuttlecraft hovering above the water in a mildly turbulent area, Ronald peers out the port window and opens the door, seeing something dark underneath a wave, that something dark shoots him with a silvery beam, and Daniel yells, and some dark shape scoops up Ronald and takes him away, he is slightly regretful, as he tells Tak, and he and one of the Petty Officers discuss a few possible jury-riggings of environmental systems and an Emergency Vehicle made with Survival Kit and various parts in their Cargo Hold.
When Ronald wakes up, he's shocked to find himself in a domed dark Grey Chamber, and an older Scientist, and a younger Woman, both orange, 5"3 humanoids with Purple Hair, and speaking in a language which Ronald had no hope of understanding without Arinda, or even Thrallen there, they monitor and mition to him with their hands, and he kind of gets it, acknowledges, displays his confusion and nervousness about being trapped from the ship, and they kind of understand him, the female seeming excited and eager by him.
Later that night, The Woman comes back and uses exaggerated Face and Hand motions to get Ronald to come with her, with little to go on, they stumble through, sneak past a few technician beings, get to a Crew Lounge Area for some bizarre Italian Pasta-type food and Granola, and she gradually makes ROnald figure out that she likes him, wants to get closer to him, but that he should also be able to come back to the Daedalus, Ronald being smitten, and fascinated of this attraction from an Alien Woman, they motion and interpret each other's movements, with her Sensor, she seems to notice something hopeful, she guides him slowly into a cargo hold, they get him into a part Environmental Suit, part Diving Suit with Flippers, she gets suited up, him watching perversely, feeling little but a woozy, weirded-out feeling, and they get out, and as they do, Thrallen in his ADF Environmental Suit, and Chang Lee in his, operate this custom contraption from Shuttlecraft Jefferies, and go downward, their minor locater seeming to get something, and they drift a little some times in various directinos, and they, and Ronald and the Alien Woman, Seely, gradually get closer and get a fuzzy notion of each others' presence, then they meet, Ronald goes with them the Woman makes some notes on her PDA/Tricorder and in her head and turns back, swimming downward, and Ronald tells Randy Tyne about it, who chuckles heartily, looking at his Nutrient Paste, wishing it was Ham and Hash Browns.
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October 7th, 2165:
The Daedalus observed EM-Storms in a Gas Giant's Rings, and Takashi sadly thinks of all the relatives and friends he's lost, then Ronald asks him, he shares it, and they lean on each other, then they and Macguyver adjust the Sensors and Lab a lot, including a trip in Environmental Suits, to operate the ship's forward sensor, then they slowly, over the course of 8 hours, seek out what appears to be a distress signal and some high-pitched screaming, but which later turns out to be some odd radio and EM phenomena in the rings. They soon explore Class F and D moons of the Gas Giant, our of it's 18, and move on.
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November 4th, 2165:
The Daedalus rendezvouses with the Icarus again, and the crews share Survey and Engineering data, Ronald and Cathy snuggling together and she teasing him, she tells him that the Icarus has explored 7 Worlds, 5 Class M, 2 Class L, and only one had a sentient Race, who traded Lithium Crystals and bars as well as Some Bread and a small, wooden disc with them, and their Japanese Commm Officer Linguist Mariko Aoshikawa had a Blast, she, Cathy and the Helmsman Indramira Satyavana were happy to actually be participating in what they'd seen on wallscreens and read about in their childhoods, and Ronald tells her of his hallucinations and the Woman on the Ocean World, and she teases him of this event, and tells him of her past, and how she and he should keep sharing their pasts, and probably go back to Earth, or to a Starbase, possibly quitting SF, which Ronald kind of likes, and she tells him of her merrily operating the Equipment and Ship's Sensor/Lab Gear, using it heavily, imagining herself charting a third of the Entire Galaxy in a Month.
Daniel and the Icarus's Sciience Staff discuss some alien ships, including the ones stalking both the Daedalus and Icarus, and they discuss plans to meet and to evade them, with Randy Tyne and 2nd Lieutenant Allen Harmon eager to chip in their tactics, and with the Icarus's Spacer Danny Williams, eagerly anticipate Trouble from the Intruders.
As Ronald, Cathy, Thrallen and Arinda share their observations, they return to both their ships with a notice from Takashi, and after both vessels observe a Nebula and a small Black Hole, they Part Ways, once again.
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November 26th-December 3rd, 2165:
The Daedalus spendsover a week observing a methane-atmosphere Class Q Ice World, Ronald, a Science Officer, and two Spacers in Environmental Suits, with Randy Tyne and Thrallen boasting of shore leave exploits, and as they make promises of outdoing each other next time, and after they, Paul and Chang wander the Stardrive fiddling with Supplies and displays, and daydreaming, the Landing Party returns, and Ronald tells them that he's found it intriguing to walk on a very alien world.
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December 7th, 2165:
The Daedalus gets a short-range Radio Transmission from a nearby Class G Cargo Ship stuck in an unusual pull of a neutron field similar to a Tractor Beam coming from a Gas Giant, The Daedalus probing, finding a way to use some sensor and Laser Emissions to disruptor the Neutrons, and use it's own Tractor Beam to pull the Ship, the SS Alaska, off to the side, the Whettestone, with Daniel Macintyre, Ronald Fielding, Arinda Asephas, Randy Tyne, and two black guy Spacers go into the Gas Giant, after an Hour and a Half, discover a Jellyfish-like Alien Ship, and with many minutes back and forth, and some interpretation and responce by Arinda, they kind of work out the misunderstanding, the bizarre attempt by the ALiens to assist and examine the Alaska, and to further make clear both Sides' moves and motives.
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December 8th, 2165:
The Daedalus studies a Quasar, and Daniel,Douglas and Macguyver friendly chat about Science Studies.
Arinda and Thrallen talk about Humans; - from an Alien's point of view!
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January 14th, 2166:
The Daedalus, escorting two big, boxy model reuse/8 long lego-box ships, Freighters/Transports, slowing to Warp 2.6 to accomodate the Freighters' Warp 2 Drives, is breezing thru' Morning, Arinda and Ronald are chatting, Arinda after two minutes, finds a strange sensor signal, reports it to Daniel, and the three soon go off work and to the Holds/Crew Lounge.
The next hour has Thrallen, Paul and Chang talking about Spacers, and Tak and Ronald discuss Jellyfish, Regulan Sifters, and other weird Animal possibilities on new reports.
The Sensor Signals return at 1800 Hrs, and Arinda notices, tells Daniel, then they, getting Larson and Lee to maneuver the ship to port, Takashi FINALLY gets to the Bridge, with Thrallen and a generic Blonde Spacer, and they unexpectedly brush near one of the two Skydancer Raiders, and they fly at High Impulse, and use Lasers 21 times, and fire an Atomic, and destroy one, the other leaves, and it semes that more of the Orions, and dubious underworld Cyber Activities are coming more and more to...
...Something.
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February 3rd, 2166:
The Daedalus Surveys a World of Jungle and Plains, with Takashi and Ronald watching some East Indian Natives, and nearly getting caught twice, but they don't want to sully them (much), and them and the other Landing Party and Scientific Group on the NCC-150 finishing compiling.
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February 27th, 2166:
The Daedalus, with a few Shuttle Recons with the Marines, and some intense Sensor Work by Daniel and Arinda, break up illegal Orion Mining in L-171, one small ore-driller, one large freighter, one Skydancer, also Thrallen and Daniel casually discuss the Spacelanes.
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May 4th, 2166:
After a long journey, with only examining a few asteroids and moons, the Daedalus discovers a Class L Planet, and Ronald, Daniel, Leslie, and a few others take the Jefferies to it, survey the flora and fauna of the Forest world for over an hour, and then Ronald and a Spacer enter a cave, find strage runes, they find the runes, or something beind them, lite up, and then something disorients them,
the others come looking for them, they find some odd indications in geologics, and in some of the linguistics, operate some crude buttons/consult more runes, and find some hidden rooms, corridors, and sta-pointy areas, then theorise that this was some kind of study/preserve by the Preservers, and Daniel, Arinda, and the other Science Officers ponder this, Arinda being happy, and surprised by this.
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May 10th, 2166:
The Daedalus is diverted by a Distress Call from the U.S.S Vandalia, a Powhatan-Class CL, and quickly swerve to port, and move at .12c for over an hour before meeting the CL at Agraria Minor, a non-aligned farming and trading world, and the captain and Head Marine of the Vandalia, Marion Curtis and Lieutenant Colnel Sara Solman, arrive by Airlock and tell Takashi and Daniel that they've destroyed a Skydancer, and uncovered a major conference on this world about to begin, and due to the suspiciousness, and some minor energy and jamming signatures, this could likely be more of someone related to teh Romulans or part of of the "rogue" Orion buildup, with Takashi, now more confused and worried, orders one shuttle with a normal landing party to go down to check out the fields and markets, and the other with marines to go stealthful, to prepare for any ambush. Ronald gets eager, argues on his going, gets frustrated and he, Takashi and Changfinally come to some kind of agreement, then three hours later, at 1400 hours, he, Thrallen, the two Petty Officer Gals, and two GOld/BLue Shirt Non-Coms go down in one shuttlecraft, the marines coming down in the Whettestone as they're browsing the markets, 34 minutes later.
Finally, after some casual comments and idlly wondering where the Orions are lurking, Ronald and one of the spacers come across a big, seemingly abandoned building, looks sucpicious, call Thrallen to have him warn the other members of two parties, and they sneak around the building, then get on some boxes and through a crumbling section of wall and broken window, then they sneak around, after about 11 minutes or so, they encounter a few box-filled rooms, a bathroom, and some odd sounds;
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This comes from a meeting being held: the bald-headed assholish gruff-voiced man who's Holzan Oesher, head of Penzance Cartel, and Ruddy-Skinned Bolnar Ulanar, Green-Skins Torzes and Aliana, and a seemingly alien looking Blond-Haired Orange-Eyed cloaked soft-voiced bloke, who's evidently part of the Syndicate, all give long, vain speeches (esp. from Holzan and Aliana), and give intricate progressive details, on these new Orion raiders, trade groups, and disgruntled businessmen and politicians, and a few space convoys forming cartels > more attacks/looting > loose Cartel Alliance...
They make a soft noise which teh Alien notices, then gives away, they hide in the bathroom, listen and examine for anything they can use, feeling their communicators, then the spacer knows, and prods, hissing to Ronald, then uses his Communicater to contact Corporal Sanders, and they get out, peering uneasily, and they get to the room with the boxes, as some guards yell out, then they find fuels and some Laser/Particle weapons in the boxes, which they use to injure two of the guards, then blow up the unstable chemicals after climbing past most of the boxes, killing one more Orion, and knocking almost everyone to the ground, and as they escape out a window, and some building ladder/walkway smeg, they get shot at, the Spacer dies, Ronald falls a few meters, gets up, gets his ankle twisted, stumbles, moaning, then the Marines aarrive and chase off the Orions.
The Vandalia monitors traffic, and sends it's own marines in a shuttlecraft, too, Thrallen and the two Lovers chat with them & each other, tho' they're still minor in this one.
When everyone returns, Arinda says she's picking up some Orion signal, and a glaring Holzan threatens Takashi, telling him they've got more knowledge of the routes, and a new load of illegal PBs and Nuke Missiles, and Takashi grimly acknoeledges this, and vows, as the Vandalia returns to Earth to warn the Admiralty, and the Daedalus heads to Galvamax Zeta, to passively, but vigilantly reduce these raids without going to War.
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June 4th, 2166
After travelling at constantly accelerating/decelerating speeds, mostly sticking to Warp 2.9, the ship arrives at Galvamax Zeta, and Takashi, Ronald, and four Science Officers take the Whettestone there,
And Takashi, being familiar with Amelia Vestram and her horitultural and biological staff there, chats with her, they work out some supplies to be brought to help them, They go back and forth delivering them, Ronald, Chang and Thrallen stroll, lie looking up at the evening/night sky, and casually talk of Chang's Midshipman Romance with Bethany Marple, and All Three's love of breaks going off into the woods.
Then there's some talk of screwed up genetic work, and something getting at the animals, the Landing Party looks around, finds some nasty Wolf-Bear thing with Orang-Brown fur they shoot with a Laser in the leg, and Stun-Gun hits three other places, then Chang and Thrallen search for more plants, and more traces of this creature's violence, and they tell Amelia, Zack, and the rest of this, and they carefully scan and take samples, and find the creature's developed some awful Rabid Stinkspit Synndrome, they find and repair the kinks in the vast Plant Genework, and Ronald learns of, and comments on Colony and Farming.
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June 25th, 2166
The Daedalus meets with a nomadic Earth Galactic Survey Cruiser from the 2120s, and Ronald converse with, and learns of, independent, long-term dull travel in Fusion Warp 1.7 craft, and he, Paul and Sandra exchange Family pranks and quirks, there's minor maintenance on both ships, and fin.
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August 3rd, 2166
The Daedalus sends Daniel, Paul, Arinda, and Three Marines to survey Candice IV, and in the process, discover sandy beaches, comfy climate, and nearly get kille dby some vicious, duel warring Medieval Hawaiian/French looking people.
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August 24th, 2166
Makoto comments on recent things in his Captain's Log about how things are developing in the long run, and how Ronald is already learnign much, with clipshows and proper formatting. Then he, Ronald and Thrallen share mildly familiar Jokes and Summertime Adventures.
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October 5th, 2166
Takashi, Tyne and Ronald find some odd fossils after some digging and exploring at a Montana-like .7g world in System L-222, and then they speculate on them, chat with the Science officers, then they and the Petty Officer gals take anouther survey wher ethey nearly don't escape from a nasty Hurricane.
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January 27th, 2167
The Daedalus arrives at Starbase 10, and after a particularly mediocre orange/blue Nutrient-Paste Breakfast, and glad that they'll have REAL food for a little while, and to get the first coffee since the ship's stock ran out 10 monthes before, and a filk song on Flowers and mischievious Mexican women by Randy Tyne, with Paul contributing much of all this, the crew shuttle/Travel Pod down, and Takashi gets into Vice Admiral Uzumaki's office to discuss a Three-Week refit of the Daedalus Class, first, some significant interior: the Stasis Booths are being taken out, and the crew, with somewhat improed supplies, with more than double from 96 to 229, and the Marines will train the Crew in use of the new Hand Lasers, and will become sideways Naval Personnel, with the Daedalus getting animprovement to the new FW-4AK, which can do Warp 4.5 for around 2 Hours, 15 minutes.
Plus, there are BIG CHANGES. Uzumaki tells Takashi that due to great expansion into the great frontier, He has been promoted to Commodore, and reassigned to Administration of Galaxy Exploration Command at Starbase 10, and Takashi is understanding of this responsibility, and leaves to think it over, feeling uncertain, and having trouble picturing how his crew will grow and move on without him.
Meanwhile, Paul and Chang enjoy themselves at the Bar, exchanging War Stories with several officers of various Comet and Powhatan-Class Ships, Arinda visits a Centauran named Gan Mecras who was her classmate at Alpha Centauri, and Sandra goes over some data on several new diseases.
Takashi tells Ronald, Daniel and Thrallen of his new promotion, and despite his uncertainty, Daniel firmly affirms that he should take the Administration Post, with Ronald, although a little light-headed, earnestly saying that he'll do fine, and Thrallen then wonders what he should do, if returning to an Andorian world would be good, but Daniel and Ronald encourage and inform him, and as a result...
By February 17th, 2167, Makoto Takashi has completed his new reassignment, Daniel Macintyre has been promoted to Captain, and is the new Captain of the Daedalus, Ronald and Sandra get promoted to Commander, Paul, Chang and Arinda all get promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Randy Tyne and hsi Marines transfer over to Starfleet, donning their 1st new Blue-Shirt Uniforms, and Thrallen transfers to Starfleet, a Hand Laser and Communicator at his belt, his shirt light Brown, like Ronald's.
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February 22nd, 2167
The Daedalus surveys Epson Maxia, a Class L world loaded with Phosphorus and Xenon, Daniel, Ronald, Thrallen and Randy all exchange their fascination and progressing experience in this new mission, Ronald and Daniel go over the Planetary Data, Ronald being taught some of the more boring, long-term aspects of Planetary Surveys, and Paul explains notions of perverse glee and how some people dream to Thrallen. The Stardate Monitor is reset, as of 2-22, it's 009.1
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March 24th, 2167
The Daedalus surveys Mintaka III, 32 ly from Earth, and avoid notice from the VUlcanoid natives, with Ronald and Paul wondering how similar they are to Vulcans, how by sideways/casual living/neuro development (refer. in a later episode; - it's not one)
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March 31st, 2167
The Daedalus arrives at a newly formed Centauran colony, and chase off Orions in two small, wedgelike ships, with Ronald telling Thrallen that he's not used to ships being so packed full of people, and Thrallen telling him of his old childhood friend, Maris, on Shral's World.
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April 15th, 2167
The Daedalus arrives at System K-012, and Ronald, Daniel, Leslie, a Science Officer and the Lesbos arrive on the system's Class L world, exploring and having a long chat, getting closer to each other.
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April 22nd, 2167
The Daedalus arrives at System K-013, and Ronald, Macguyver, Haggerty and three Science Officers arrive, observing the natives, and making observations of the Highland-esque climate and odd, jackelope-like creatures.
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April 23rd, 2167
The Daedalus engages in a fight with a Skydancer-Class Blockade Runner, the two vessels firing Lasers for an hour and a half.
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May 7th, 2167
The Senior Officers are in the Crew Lounge, watching an "Ensign Dumpy" PSA, where Dumpy is fooled by what turns out to be Sensor Ghosts, and his ship goes up in a mushroom cloud, soon afterward, Randy cheerfully comments on the Secter being mapped by the USS Daedalus and USS Voyager, and Daniel calls Ronald, Randy and Thrallen to the bridge, and there, he informs them of the Class L Planet they have arrive at, and tells them that they're picking up some bizarre EM signals from the planet, and as Ronald, Randy and Thrallen are preparing, Randy shows Ronald his Hand Laser, and shows him how to twist the wheel to change the Setting and charge, range, overload and maintenance, and Thrallen comments on how his ADF lasers were better reinforced and easier to maintain, and they left in the Whettestone, touching down on the planet Gerry Alpha III nine minutes later, getting out and walking aways on the barren plains, Ronald and Thrallen commenting on how this place doesn't look like it has anything, and how it's like Thrivik Meta, part of an Andorian system only good for mining, and finally, Ronald, Thrallen, Randy and the Marine and two Science Officers arrived, at what appeared to be a large transport container, in the middle of nowhere, and as they approach, Randy cheerfully orders the Marine to circle the Container and check for people or traps, and Ronald and Thrallen go up to the container and examine the door, it being unlocked clicks open, and they, with the science officers, go in, and see some filing cabinets with raggedy carpeting and an office chair in front of a computer on a desk, and as they approach, they hear clicking, and they look up at the corner, seeing a camera moving to watch them, Thrallen saying "We have to walk softly, my Friend", and they slowly walk over, looking arond, and not seeing anything too unusual, Ronald sitting down in the chair and closely examining the screen. It has green, technical text on it, mostly numbers, os, cs, and xs, on ablack screen, resembling a file-sharing service. At first, Ronald can't understand it, but then he gradually recalls some of what he learned in High School, the older Programming Language Alephas comes to his mind, and he gradually makes out the text, then, Thrallen goes over to the filing cabinet and peers in and soon gets alert, swiftly darting to Ronald and hissing "We have to get out of here, NOW." and grabs Ronald by the elbow, pulling him out, and when they get out, they tell Randy that Ronald figured out the Coding on the computer was data transferrance to some kind of Rigellian or Orion ship or base, using Alephas, which had been around and distributed by the Centaurans for over a century, and Thrallen had found some stolen Federation Blueprints and plans on some kind of a slave ring. Randy nods grimly, and the party returns and tells Daniel and Arinda, who plan on sharing this with Takashi at Galaxy Exploration Command Headquarters at Starbase 10.
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May 10th, 2167
As the Daedalus warps back at Warp 3.7 to Starbase 10 to deliver the Warning, Ronald is interestingly tending his Giant Reactor when the ship is route-hijacked by two wedge-like ships with ovular sections on top, and Ronald and Chang are knocked onto some railings and into some walls without a chance, and the Daedalus feebly fights back with a few lasers, as it's armor has some line and jagged claw marks carved into it by the reddish ships, one docking to the Daedalus by airlock, the other getting an atomic missile and five laser hits, taking moderate damage and leaving, the docking vessel having some mercenaries of Kzinti decent knocking aside a Marine and Technician and kidnapping Ronald Maxwell Fielding and several others and knocking them out with some hard blows and pikejabs.
They take them to Gamma Aurelia III near Speld, a barely notice, mostly Tropical world, and when Ronald wakes up, he barely gets a few fragments, and soon makes out his crewmates and the passengers of a Rigellian Transport and a two-man Freighter and his crewmates being given off to various pirates and private rich creeps by a bunch of his vaguely studied, Kzinti raiders, one guard taking a surprising hauling of and caring of, him, a big Cat named Cat-Who-Nuzzles-With-Zany-Glee, and Ronald subtlely says that some of them should be treated better: "Don't you like me...?" "OH, I like you, you'll be my Favourite Slave!"
The next three monthes are spent with Ronald, two of his shipmates in Engineering, and a scrawny, pale Centauran Miner picking up various junk, minorly adjust some routine machinery, and Ronald gives short frustrated speechers to Cat-Who-Nuzzles-With-Zany-Glee, while petting him.
Finally, Ronald searches for a few areas by a foliage-wall, and some hills, to escape the furry Bastard, while looking quite, inconspicuous, nearly escapes then changes his mind then turns back at the last minute, then, the Kzinti angrily tells him that someone is trying to buy him, and with two other groups of 1-8 people negotiating routine passage and orb transport, Ronald jumps his head forward and sees Thrallan and a tan jumpsuited Leslie and Arinda, the two women acting drunk and swinging and playing with Cat-Who-Shakes-on-Laibeans, and Thrallen flies in a darting path towards Ronald, grabbing his arm, and the two leave, heading towards an area the Sun is shing upon, getting into the Whettestone, and with Corporal Sanders at the helm, they go back to the Daedalus, and Ronald and Thrallen share some data with Daniel and each other, and with in-system Radio, reveal that they've slowly mapped out and rescued one Science woman from a barely popuated farming world, and four most finds on uninhabitable worlds, and they found some warp signals, and followed a Freighter, with help from a Tellarite freighter, reacing Gamma Aurelia, some Industrial synth-materials and Macintyre's oldBobby Mcferrin Cassette traded to them in return.
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September 3rd, 2167:
The Daedalus encounters two Class H Cargo Ships, carrying informants who take on their Hacker-Murk Base Orion Message, and Ronald strikes a casual chat with the captain on Freight runs and sitting in the holds, and Paul Larson tells him and Sandra of their past years on freight. They survey System K-16 soon after, a Class K world where their jackets do good in the near arctic levels.
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October 15th, 2167:
The Daedalus surveys Holm 5G, the combined Science/Marine Parties excavating some odd-emissioned Crystals and detecting some salty/sulphurous new minerals buried 11 miles below the ground, Daniel Macintyre leading the party, and Ronald and Arinda tossing around Dull Electronics Jargon as a Jokey Talk-Thing.
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October 21st, 2167:
The Daedalus surveys System K-130, with LCDR Macguyver leading the Landing Party and teaching Ronald some things about Geology and Astrophysics, the two with various non-coms commenting on some odd, dugout regions and a small desert, comparing it to Mars, and finds on Rigel VII.