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They were on their way to sickbay during the zero-G period when last seen   by Ligang

I put R.J.’s usually odd behavior aside, and glanced at the Commander’s indoctrination file, but decided the newest missing persons report had to be given precedence. Ann Marie had already forwarded it to the screen in front of me.

It was an odd assortment of people, one engineering assistant, one planner, two maintenance workers, and one clerk/typist. At first, there seemed to be nothing common. I brought up a correlation program and ran it. It came back with a single word: Sickbay. They were on their way to sickbay during the zero-G period when last seen.
I buzzed security. A moment later a coordinator’s face appeared on the screen.

“Yes?”
“These missing persons reports. They were all headed for sickbay. It was a madhouse down there. There’s a good chance these people aren’t really missing. Ask the first shift coordinator to assign one person to each of these cases and have them report back as soon as possible.”
“Right away.”

I leaned back and opened the manila file folder with the Ex/O indoctrination instructions. It was dry reading, including the brief on the emissary. They were so advanced just reading about their lifestyles was boring. Isolated individuals who existed as a community for appearance’s sake only. Their philosophy held that by participating in the education of developing cultures in their sector of the galaxy, they could minimize the need for any other contact. Their own explanation for helping us was brutally honest.

I found the access code sheet and programmed the designated numbers into the secure-systems start-up data. There were password requirements for the Armory, Amplight engines, Tachyon drives, thruster control enable, life support, fuel storage, and the escape pod system. Next I disabled the individual escape pod deployment options and redirected them to security control as the Captain had instructed. As I finished the last of them, a call icon appeared in the upper corner of the screen.

It was Paul Kusama, the lead propulsion engineer. “Commander, we received notification of your upgrade and new assignment. Sorry it wasn’t under better circumstances. We were under orders to report directly to the Captain, but have not been able to raise him.”
“What’s up?”

“Well, sorry about this. In the confusion that’s been going on, we overlooked the fact that when you de-cable a thruster, you lose a mandatory handshake and that makes the thruster inoperative. It’s a check so they can’t misfire without a control system attached. We can still do the manual firing, but we need to fabricate a black box for each of the thrusters we intend to use, to fool the thruster into thinking it’s still hooked up. That’ll take say, about half a day. Say twelve hours.”

“I’ll notify Grey, myself. In the meantime, assume he will want to do that and go ahead and get going on it.”

“Already have, Commander. Kusama out.”
Before I had time to wonder about the Captain, another call icon flashed on. “Tarn, go ahead.”
“Adrian, what the hell’s going on?” It was Frank Parker. He looked perturbed. “We need to speak with Grey. Where is he?”
“What’s up, Frank?”

“We were supposed to deploy the two scout craft at 12:00. We’ve got the pilots tucked in, their cabins pressurized and the engines idling. But, we can’t get the hanger to depressurize. Where is Grey? He was supposed to be monitoring this op.”

“Have you been able to analyze the problem?”
“All we know is, all of a sudden the environmental control system for the hanger won’t accept commands. We expected to have problems opening the big doors. We were going to do a manual on that. This is the first environmental system on the ship that’s been affected, that I know of. So what do we do?”

“Keep working on it. Let the pilots sit. I’ll go find Grey personally. I’ll get back to you shortly.”

I cleared the screen and rubbed my eyes. There had been barely enough time to get through the indoctrination procedure and already I was left with more problems than one person could handle. Grey couldn’t actually be part of the missing persons list. Just for verification, I tried to reach him myself. No success.

Accompanied by two armed guards, I headed back to Grey’s stateroom. Each time things seemed to be as bad as they could get, they got worse. Grey had recently been exposed to Tolson in his transitory condition. Neither R.J. nor I seemed affected, but the Captain may have been more susceptible. Outside his stateroom, I opened the control panel and punched in my newly received access code numbers. For the second time in one morning I would be entering the Captain’s quarters, a place I had not even seen before today.

The room was deserted. I asked the guards to wait outside and shut the door. I went to Grey’s terminal and found one still in use. The Captain’s log was displayed there. The last entry was a lengthy description of Tolson’s condition, and the method by which he planned to deal with it. There was also an unfinished paragraph detailing the Captain’s misgivings about the future. Midway through the last sentence something had interrupted him.

I closed the log and looked around the room. It appeared undisturbed. There were no other clues to be found. I shook my head and turned to leave, but was startled by the sound of a panel sliding open. The mysterious door behind Grey’s computer had opened, revealing a corridor of darkness.

From within a brilliant, cloaked figure hesitantly emerged. It stopped at the door and seemed unwilling to go further. Grey had neglected to mention

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