=== Captains ready room=== Keylor sat on the couch across form his desk sipping on a coffee. He had spent the last 6 hours reading over report, and scanning over the readiness reports of the ship and now it was time for a break. After replicating a coffee and a sandwich, Keylor had settled down on his couch, reading some random novel on terran philosophy. He sat his coffee down and picked up part of his sandwich. Just as he bit off a large piece of sandwich, the door chime sounded. Keylor, forgetting about the laws of physice, and eating ediquite, called out, "Com..." He started choking. Lt Foster entered the room a bit puzzled at the site of the general, stretched out on the couch and choking. "Lieutenant Foster reporting." his words trailed off. Quickly Keylor pounded on his chest, trying to help the lump of food down. "Are you. alright sir?" Andersen asked. Keylor waved his hand and took one big swallow, forcing the food down. With a slight gasp, Keylor inhaled a big breath. As Keylor recovered form his mis-adventure, Andersen stood patiently. "No I am ok no lieutenant. Give me a second." He said slowly swinging his feet back around and placing them on the floor. Now with the lump painfully making its way to his stomach, Keylor grabbed for his coffee and took a drik, hoping the now luke warm coffee would some how grease the way to his stomach and speed the lump down. As Keylor composed himself, he looked up to see the Andersen standing their, patiently. As a paused filled the room , Andersen finally spoke. "You wanted to see me sir?" he said reminding Keylor of the reason he had been summoned. "Oh yes, sorry." He replied as he cleared his throat. "Have a seat." He motioned with his hand to a chair near the couch. As Andersen sat, Keylor picked up the pad he had been reading and tapped on it. Pulling up a schematic of a nova class ship, he handed it to Andersen. "Your personnel record indicates you had served on a Nova Class ship." He paused and added, "After a fashion." Andersen replied slowly, "Yes, sir?" he aid as almost in a question taking the offered pad. "Well," Keylor continued," We have our orders for the next mission, and it involves a Nova class ship. Now I know any one can study diagrams, and even practice on holodecks to get the idea of the layout, but that would take time. And that is only the layout, forget the systems on the ship, a lot different than the ones most of us have come accustomed to on the chimera." He said. Andersen sat quietly while Keylor talked. "BUT in the better part of three weeks we will have to board a Nova class ship. Not only will we have to navigate our way through the ship but we will have to quickly take control of her systems." "Is that where I come in sir?" he asked. ""I hope so Lieutenant. I am hoping that the knowledge you have up there," Keylor pointed to his head," will give us some advantage." He replied. "So you want me to help prepare the away team for this mission?" he asked in turn. Keylor smiled and shook his head. "No I though you might like to come along." He paused a second. "The oda will be responsible for leading the charge, and they have engineering specialist that can handle the mechanics on board. They also have computer specialist to get in to the computer systems. But you, you know the ship, and how it should work, or at least I hope so." He smiled. "SO I am to go on the away team." Andersen replied. Keylor nodded, "Yes. First I would like you to pilot one of the shuttles, I figure we will need to take three. Secondly I want you with a team that secures the auxiliary bridge. Once there I will need you to secure the ships systems, tap in to internal sensor and help the rest of the away team to clear the ship. You will be their eyes and ears as they secure the ship." Andersen nodded in compliance. " Now the ship is controlled by a race call X'chi. There will probably be many of them slowing progress down. You will need to help the team you are with to get to the auxiliary bridge as fast as you can, and if that means taking a few Jeffries tubes, I am hoping your knowledge of this class ship will help speed them along. "Understood sir." He replied. Keylor nodded. "Good. Now there will be a briefing once we get under way. Until then re-familiarize yourself with that class ship and be prepared to assist in the planning of the assault. Also don't talk about this with any one until after the briefing. Most everyone is on leave at the moment and I wound not want them to start worrying before the tie comes." Andersen nodded "Aye sir. Anything else?" he asked. "No that is all for now." Keylor replied. Andersen rose for the chair and started to walk back out the way he came. Just as Andersen was about to reach the door, one of the reports Keylor had read earlier popped in to his mind. "Oh Lieutenant." He called out. Andersen stopped and looked over, "Yes sir?" he inquired. Keylor stood up form his seat. "That device you helped orchestrate to get to the oda away team back on the Kzenti mission. Did it work?" Andersen looked down for a second, "No sir. They never used it the way it was intended. One of the oda took a part of it for a small localized field but the entire device was never tested out." Keylor shook his head, "I see. Shame. It would have been interesting if it would have really worked in such a large configuration." He nodded to Andersen. "Good work though. Way to keep thinking outside of that box I keep hearing peoples say we all think in." Andersen smiled, "Thank you sir." He smiled back. Keylor nodded once more and turned to his desk. "Well I wont keep you any longer. I am sure you will like to enjoy what little the base has to offer while you can." "Aye sir, thank you." He said, Andersen turned and headed out to the bridge. . ==End log== BGen Bretam Keylor Captain USS Chimera