<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><p>Kylee moved about her office, searching for the data she needed about the<br>asteroid field, including both the data from the probes, and that from<br>previous records. Digging through a collection of PADDs, she uncovered the<br>
one that contained the past records. She let a sigh as she grabbed the PADD<br>containing the info from the probe, lift a hand up to push a strand of hair<br>back from her face. She took a seat behind her desk, tapping the screen on<br>
her computer to pull up a map of the asteroid field. Moving that to her<br>PADD, she climbed to her feet once more.<br>"Time to see if I can head to study the asteroids.." she stated, exiting her<br>office and continuing down the hallway. She tapped her comm badge as she<br>
walked, wanting to determine where the captain and commander were, though<br>she assumed they were on the bridge. "Captain, where can I find you and<br>Commander Blake?" she asked.</p>
</div><div class="im"><div>Vilqa was waiting eagerly along with Blake for information on the away team;<br>
no news wasn't always good news as in this case she was on pins and needles<br>like a mother waiting for the child who was late for curfew. She would wait<br>
however to get comms. There was a time in her head, and that was 2 hours<br>from departure that she's get the vessel to comm down and but not before<br>then. There were no warnings or true cause for alarm from the Vimy Ridge's<br>
own monitoring of the situation and yet still there was a feeling of unease.<br>The Captain was actually grateful for the interruption from Nix's comm,<br>"Lieutenant." she replied calmly, defying her emotions, "We are both on the<br>
bridge however if this is about what you approached me in the shuttle bay<br>meet us in my ready room in ten minutes."</div></div></div><div><div><span><br></span></div><div class="im">
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<p>Kylee nodded as she walks through the hallway to the turbo lift. "Yes<br>captain.. I will see you two there in ten minutes," she said. She glanced<br>down at her notes for a second time, making sure she had all the data as she<br>
paused before the turbo lift doors. Unlike the captain, she wasn't worried<br>about the shuttle, because she knew that many of the best were on the ship,<br>and they would make it safely to the planet. She chuckled softly as she<br>
thought about Takis, sure he was extermely excited to be on such a mission.<br>As the turbolift doors opened, she stepped within, waiting for the short<br>ride up to the correct deck to end.</p>
<p>Vilqa glanced toward Toby, "Let's see what she has to say." Standing up the<br>Captain actually felt her knee pop but continued forward only muttered a<br>curse word or two loud enough for her to hear. Passing the whooshing doors<br>
of her familiar office she glanced toward the replicator, "Want anything?"<br>For herself she got a sweetened chai.</p>
<p><br>Toby followed K`y into her ready room, the perfect fatherly match to her<br>motherly worry about the away team. "Coffee please." He looked around the<br>room then at K`y, "They'll be alright. Marcus, Cait and Justin are all quite<br>
competent." His words were for both of them.</p>
</div></div></div><div><div class="im"><div>Kylee stepped out of the turbolift a short time later. Taking a deep breath,<br>
she walked forward, making her way to the captain's ready room. She pushed<br>the chime, letting the captain know she was there, assuming it would be wise<br>
to show respect to make up for the incident in the science lab.</div></div></div><div><div><span><br></span></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>
<p>The Captain had just handed Toby his coffee as the chime rang, "Enter." It<br>was of course the spitfire of a science department head. The pair had split<br>hairs before but there was no time to dwell on that; the captain felt that<br>
she had made herself clear the previous time they had a formal talk. Taking<br>a seat in her chair behind the desk she motioned for Toby to get comfortable<br>on the choices of chair or small sofa in the room.</p>
<p>Toby took the coffee with a soft murmur of thanks and moved to sit on the<br>couch, sipping from his cup, as he sat back and stretched out his long legs,<br>taking a casual pose. Not too coincidentally, making sure that Kylee would<br>
be between the two of them meaning she would have to split her attention if<br>she wanted to be polite, or would allow him to watch her unobserved as she<br>spoke with the captain.</p>
<p>Kylee stepped in to the room, the doors making a soft whoosh as they close<br>behind her. She nods to both the captain and the commander as she takes a<br>position that allowed her to look at them both. "Captain, I was hoping to<br>
discuss my wish to venture out to the asteroids to try and find any clues as<br>to who is sending them at the sun," looking from her to Toby. "I've brought<br>the notes of all the data I've gathered, showing how the composition of the<br>
iron matches that of the asteroids, as well as a few points that I have<br>selected where the asteroids could be coming from."</p>
<p>Vilqa nodded, "Tell us Lieutenant..." She could have read the information<br>however it would be far easier to get a overview verbally that she could<br>followup afterward by reading the more detailed report. Her hands clasped<br>
together, elbows on the arm rest of her chair and chin leaning to rest on<br>her knuckles.</p>
<p>Sitting quietly, Toby sipped his coffee and waited to hear what the<br>scientist had to say. He knew of the clash between the two earlier, of<br>course, and could sense Kylee's concern over it, but since there wasn't any<br>
overwhelming fear or nervousness he chose to remain quiet than to reassure<br>her. She'd soon learn that while K`y had a temper and didn't like being<br>challenged, that she didn't hold a grudge once the matter was settled. If<br>
that were the case, she'd never had asked Toby to be her executive officer.</p>
<p>Kylee nodded, pulling up the correct data in her PADD. She offered the<br>diagram to K`y to look at as she spoke. "If you look on the layout of the<br>asteroid field, you'll note that several areas are farmed by both planets<br>
for the different ores in the asteroids, therefore limiting the amount of<br>areas where smaller asteroids can still be found. From the info sent by the<br>probe, there are three such areas, within 50 to 100 km of each other," she<br>
explained, looking between the two of them. She tapped her other PADD,<br>pulling up the info on the iron composition and offered it to Toby. "On<br>here, you'll note the iron within the asteroids are paired with multiple<br>
other elements, and that the breakdown of those elements from the sun match<br>to a simulation I performed with a test asteroid."</p>
</div></div></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p>"And do you believe the only true way to run the tests necessary to determine</p><div><br>this is by going out via shuttle?" The captain looked toward Nix with a<br>
questioning gaze, "There are no probes that can do the job for you?" The<br>
captain knew she had to cross off and over every possiblity,</div><div>
<p><br>"After all, Lieutenant, if you are out there in a shuttle by yourself, and<br>find something someone doesn't want you to, you'd be pretty much a sitting<br>duck, as the saying goes. We don't want to put you in a situation of<br>
unnecessary risk." Toby's voice was calm, soft, and gentle one might even<br>say concerned for her physical well being.</p>
</div><p>Kylee bit back her initial response to Toby's words, her
Klingon heritage pulling her towards performing the more risky
situations. "I believe that the only way to properly locate the exact
location is to go out there and search for any signs that the probe may
be unable to run, due to the effects from the flares as well as the
area itself, which the shuttle, with access to more power, may be able
to detect," she said, trying to word it so that she would be allowed to
go, since she was going a bit stir crazy on board the ship, wanting to
test this theory in person, not stuck staring at more data.</p></div></div><p>A brief glance toward Toby pulled the Captain's attention away from Nix for a few moments. "Have you spoken with the security on the matter of possible dangers you may be facing not of the natural kind of the flares?"</p>
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