Scene: USS YAMATO

Lisah leant against the doorway, "Got a moment?"

“Certainly what can I do for you?” asked John

Lisah strode into the room looking around, "I need your help with the evil
machines. We will need to gather as much medical data as possible, possibly
under fire or coersion, so it needs to feed directly back to the ship with out
contaminating it.

So I asked myself, who do i know that is a doctor and and engineer and lo and
behold, your name popped up." Lisah grinned.

“Yes must have been a very long list to come to me” smiled Kun

“So tell me what are you

Lisah laughed, "huge." He swung himself on to the edge of the table, sitting
beside John the way lisa had done thousands of times before as they discussed
one piece of equipment or the other, but this time it was different. For one
thing, John had no inclination to lean over and kiss him.

Got any ideas how we could pull the data together quickly?" Lisah asked
softly, obviously aware of the differences too. Everything about their
relationship had changed except one thing, Lisah still trusted John to come up
with minor technological miracles in under 8 hours.

“Well first we need to figure out what are the requirements we need Then we
can figure out what evil machines we need to accomplish those goals” smiled
John relaxing a bit

Lisah shrugged, "Dinner then, I think best when I am eating and if I can not
have you, maybe a trip to the mess will work."

“Sounds like a plan lead the way oh mighty leader”

Lisah laughed, "Not even close, I am so far down the food chain now there are
ants looking down at me."

“Well lets head down to the mess and we can figure what we need” said
John

Scene: USS YAMATO Mess Hall

Seated with food in front of them, they soon decended into think medical speak
so those around them would have only understood about one word in three even if
they were listening. Soon they had schemetics drawn up and a plan. 'So, if this
works, the little drones will all spread out as soon as we hit atmosphere and
get air, water and soil samples from 17 different target areas around the
planet, then beam themselves directly back to the ship. Then we just have to
worry about getting food and drink, maybe biological samples ourselves?" Lisah
asked.

“I agree biological samples will be an excellent idea. In fact I think we
might be able to get away with using some nano technology to collect some
samples.” Said John

Lisah shuddered, "That reaction is not just my own hatred of those devil
things John, this is a protected planet, I hate to think what losing even one of
them would do."

“True we would be taking some risk however something down on the planet has
gone horrible wrong. We can’t risk exposing ourselves to long to the
atmospheric conditions. I think we can rig the nanonites to stay on my body and
still collect samples”

Lisah nodded, "Rather you than me, the things give me the shudders. "

“I agree we need to be careful with the nanonites that’s why we are only
taking a few done with us

Lisah snorted, "There is no such word as a few with those things, it is like a
little bit pregnant, still, you are the tech, if you reckon they are safe, I
will ignore the inner screaming of my soul and agree with you." Lisah grinned to
take any sting out of his words. It was obviously his fear talking not his
mistrust of John's opinion.

“Well unless you can think of another way that will minimize our risk on the
planet” said John

Lisah shook his head, "Not going down at all. but that is out so personally, I
think we will be hit no matter what." he paused, "What do you think we will
find?" Lisah asked.

“That’s a good question, I’m not sure to be honest.” Said John

Well, I suppose we will find out when we get there." He held up his juice, "To
the adventure, eat or be eaten."


Jointly Submitted by

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Karen Fainges
LCDR Lisah Mara
CMO, USS YAMATO

and

Yoni
LCDR John Kun
CEO USS YAAMTO