<<OOC: please take note of the subjet line. When you are on a away mission please add something to the subject to indicate your location>> == Shuttle cockpit === Gary would have been happy sitting in a jump seat closer to the back of the shuttle. Though he had some shuttle flight training, he was by no means a good pilot. He half expected one of the officers to pilot the shuttle, but obviously Walsh had other ideas. Gary would have felt better if one of the offiers were piloting the shuttle. Though Lieutenant Foster had plotted a nice flight plan to take the shuttle out from the chimera and away in a direction as to draw the least amount of attention. They were still a small fish in some one else's pond, and some one was bound to notice. That in itself could draw the attention of some one better suited for combat than an overcrowded type 10 shuttle. Foster's course had them flying away form the planet, the location of the Kzenti facility, the romulan warbird and the chimera. But once in side the asteroid field the course weaved in and out of the asteroids, some as small as the shuttle, others the size of a galaxy class starship, this mad Gary some what tense. But Gary did as he ordered. Gary was some what surprised to see the vulcan sitting in the cockpit when Walsh commanded Gary to pilot the ship. Gary was not quite sure why she was there, or when she got there. He figured Walsh had requested her presence to help analyzing the Kzenti technology, or better yet why the Kzenti were scanning the chimera. Gary did not mind thought, the extra pair of eyes would come in handy because in Gary's mind, there was one major fault to this entire trip, the fact that for several hundred kilometers the shuttle will be visible, to the facility at least. This means once the emerged form behind the last asteroid, they were visible, and there was no telling what kind of defenses the facility had, the shuttle could never reach its destination. With every seat taken up front by Walsh, Mcknight and Lieutenant Oriana, and a overloaded rear of the ship with 12 oda members and plenty of gear. The shuttle was acting like a beached wale at time. The flight path took the shuttle extremely close to several asteroids to help mask the shuttles presence. On the larger ones, the gravitational filed around the asteroids seems to want to suck the shuttle down in to each of them. Gary tried his best to fly smoothly, but the ride turned out bumpy enough. After several minutes, Gary finally was able to relax. They had reached their first waypoint, the asteroid closest to the Kzenti facility. As Gary eased the shuttle in close to the asteroid he rolled the shuttle over so the sensor arrays could peek over the edge of the asteroid, while exposing the least amount of the shuttle. They had arrived, and Gary hoped that no one knew that they were there. Now it was up to the officers to decide how to continue. Still a bit tense, Gary monitored the controls, doing his best to keep the shuttle hidden, but the sensor array able to scan the facility for possible dangers. ===End log=== PO1 Gary Williams ODA Ops. Specialist