=== Captains quarters === Keylor lie in his bed unable to sleep. Thoughts of ships business, the current situation and all around crew welfare darted in and out of his mind. He rolled over on to his side, trying to get comfortable for a few hours sleep before heading off to tackle the problem on the station once again. But the constant worrying of events kept him form becoming comfortable. Violently he rolled over to his other side, cramming a pillow under his head and jerking the sheets high up on his shoulder. {What was she thinking? She should have staid on the starbase until they had cleared her.} he thought of Athena. Before taking a nap, he had reviewed the report Shane had compiled on Athena's unexpected return to the ship. Thought it was creative how she arrived on the ship, it was a bit uncalled for, at least in Keylor's mind. But his concern was less with her going AWOL and having some freighter captain track the ship down in the middle of a potentially dangerous situation, but her physical status. With the mission on Drakanus, Athena had not seemed herself once they had left the planet. Keylor had hoped that the federation doctors and specialist would be able to help her with any ill effects the machine on Drakanus had caused. Keylor rolled back over to his back and stared up at the ceiling. {Can't blame her for wanting to leave the infirmary on the station. After all who likes doctors any way. If it is not a simple scratch or broken bone, they seem to want to poke and prod you all the time.} He thought. Deciding not to attempt to try to sleep any more, Keylor sat up in the bed. "Computer, Lights 75%." He called out in the room. The lights quickly brightened to the commanded level. "Computer, any new messages." He stated. He figured that if he was nt going to get any sleep, he might as well be caught up on his work." [There are 3 new messages.] the computer chirped back. Keylor leaned over and picked up a pad that was on top of a near by night stand. He then turned it on and tapped on it to access the messages. The first was a status report form Lt Quayle who had completed replicating the devices. The report also included a description of how the devices worked and why Lt Quayle felt the devices masked the doctors presence form the aliens. Not even bothering to try to understand the technical nature of the explanation, Keylor skipped over the remainder of the report and started on the next one. The next report was from Lt Acheson. It was a true marine style sitrep ( situation report) about the interrogation of the alien they had managed t capture. Acheson had reported that progress was continuing on trying to communicate with the alien. Of note was the new communication specialist who had so far compiled what she believed to be a list of 25 words that the aliens used. The report also noted that because of the clicks and squeaks that the aliens obviously used for communication, the progress had been slowed by fine tuning the audio sensors to be able to determine the discrete difference in their apparent language. And even though they had not compiled enough words to be able to hold a conversation with the alien, they had noticed one word that seemed to be of importance to the creature, "Attacked". Keylor made a mental note to go down to the holdign cells where the creature was contained and personaly check up on the communication specialists efforts. He then moved on to the third message, this one was from Dr. Summers. The message was about the marine they had brought back form the station, the one with the phaser burn. Though Keylor had suspected that the phaser burn was not accidental, he had forgotten about it until now. Keylor read over the statement recorded by Rangi . Nothing in the corporals statement surprised himm, not even the events leading up to the aliens arival at the station. But with Hathaway in a coma and possibly on the verge of death, he chse to address the issue zat a later time, When things were not so crazy. Keylor placed the padd on the night stand and stood up form the bed. He walked over to a chair wherehe had placed his relatively clean uniform he had had on not more than an hour before. He picked up the uniform and laid it out on the bed. He then changed back in to his uniform and prepared to leave his quarters. {I should probably have a talk with Athena first. Don't want her thinking that officers of the chimera can simply go AWOL any time they please.} He thought as he pulled up his trousers. {And then I think I will take a close up look at the creatures trying to inflict injury on us.} After pulling on his boots and straightening his uniform, Keylor walked up to the door that lead in to the hallway. "Computer, location of Counselor Wellington." He called out. [Counselor Wellington is in the sick bay.] am back the antiseptic female voice. Keylor nodded to himself. {I wonder if any one has ever changed the voice on these federation computers. Have any of the other captains customized the voice to suite their personal preference?} he thought as he walked out the door. {Probably best not to tamper with shuch things.} he continued thinking as he headed to a turbo lift. ===End Log === Col Bretam Keylor Captain USS Chimera