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: : : : : In the background James idly played with a yo-yo. "By the way" he said to no one in particular "Once the beam is down you guys are all to get back to the Vicky. I'm gonna stick around and see if I can find out whats going on." He looked at Henry "What d'you reckon? Can you disable it?"
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: : : : : Lt. Eagle COS
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: : : : "I don't know." He said, as he scanned the funnel to get an idea of what he was dealing with. "Also, I'm staying. You never know what could happen and if you need an engineer, better to have one here than on the Vicky."
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: : : : Lt jg Patnick, CE
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: "Au contraire hank-a-doodle." James said walking the yo-yo along the floor and snapping it up into his hand. "Quirst wants everyone back on the ship once that thing is down, no exceptions. Well... except me. But I suppose there could be locked doors and as incredibly flexible as I am-" he glanced breifly at Tamar and winked "-I don't fancy my chances of crawling through debris-clogged tubes, so I guess you can stay." he conceded.
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: Lt. Eagle COS

Tamar gave an involuntary shiver at the thought of crawling through a small tunnel choked with debris. So far they had not encountered anything resembling a confining tunnel and she hadn't considered that would be a possibility as they continued to push into the heart of the station.

But Tamar had a job to do and wouldn't let her own personal demons put others at risk.

"If you two jokers think your going without me you're sadly mistaken," Tamar said. "If one of you gets hurt, it may be hard for the Vicky to beam you out of the core of the station even with the energy source disabled. And I don't want to have to tread through this grave yard twice to mount a rescue. "

The determination on Tamar's face would have dissuaded anyone from trying to talk her out of it. Her mind was obviously made up and set in stone.

-Lt. (j.g.) Mora Tamar, med