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+Ship   : Lantashi Dance
+Log    : 004
+Date   : 2496-10-20-10
+Status : He Broke the Bloody Ship!
+
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+
+/* TRANSMISSION START */
+Sarah West's Report:
+
+#### Help!
+
+This is Sarah West. I am making this report with the
+permission of Captain Lantashi, though she didn't tell me
+what I had to say. She basically said, "You fixed it.
+Have fun!"
+
+I am an engineer on the exploration vessel Lantashi Dance.
+The ship is limping around in an unexplored section of
+space. The crew seems... unstable, having spent way too
+much time in statis. There is some strange entity on board
+that has now endangered all our lives!
+
+And we now have a moron who is put in charge of landing
+teams. More on that below.
+
+#### New Landing Team Lead
+
+Thane Biomax, yes that's his real name... he's cute. Very
+cute. From southern Missouri, he is tall, well over 2
+meters, and strong as an ox, even after having spent
+eternity in stasis!
+
+But he shouldn't be put in charge of anything! He
+definitely show never touch anything electrical,
+mechanical, edible, or, well... he should just not do
+anything at all!
+
+#### What Happened
+
+Mr. Biomax cannot wire his way out of a paper-bag! What
+was he *thinking*?? He nearly killed us all with his
+bright idea of how to restore full power to the ship! "Oh,
+all I have to do is create a feedback loop in the fusion
+reactor, disable a few outdated safety protocols, power
+the ship, and feed the excess energy out into space!"
+
+I told him no! Yonas told him no! Bearth told him no! Even
+Captain Lantashi got out of her tree in The Garden and
+said it was a bad idea. Everyone told him no! 
+
+But he claimed he got the idea from a sentient life-form
+that materialized to him, just *HIM* mind you, and gave
+him the schematics. And this... *thing*... appeared to
+him in the form of a cute blonde girl, and says she is a
+higher life form. It said its name was Rachel, which just
+happened to be the name of one of his college sweethearts.
+
+I'll "higher life-form" *her* if I ever get my hands on
+her. I tell you that.
+
+What Mr. Bio-NoBrain managed to do is fry the life-support
+systems, completely knocked out the fusion drive, sent our
+AI into pyscho-mode, brought down navigation, and blew a
+huge hole in the back of our ship. Oh, and knocked out the
+QED system for *months*.
+
+#### Repairs
+
+We lost two crewmen from the blast. And it took the entire
+engineering staff three days, *THREE DAYS*, to get life
+support back online! We nearly all froze and sufficated to
+death while bringing life-support back online. Most of the
+garden perished, putting everyone on emergency rations for
+over a month until it recovered. And the fusion reactor is
+now being held together with duct tape and super-glue.
+
+(No, really, duct tape is involved)
+
+#### Back on Course
+
+The ship wandered off course, due to the strong solar
+winds in the nebula. It would not have been good for us
+to try to enter orbit anyways, or even the Kelev 01-072
+system, when we couldn't "see" anything.
+
+Finally, the hull-breach is repaired the best it is going
+to be. I have half the ship systems wired up to a pair of
+Amigas. We passed 072, and had to slow down and circle
+back to it, all the while hoping our repairs held.
+
+#### Preparing to Land
+
+We've now entered orbit around 01-072.4, and the sensors,
+such as they are, seem to indicate plant-life similar to
+what is now growing in the garden. The planets in the area
+must be affected by the radiation of the nebula.
+
+Our ship is equipped with a small shuttle to land on
+planets. The ship itself supposedly can as well, but until
+we know exactly what is down there, that might be
+imprudent.
+
+And the person being put in charge of the landing team?
+Thane Biomax. Yonas wanted to throw him in the brig, but
+we don't have a brig. 
+
+Yonas was dragging Biomax to the airlock for an early ship
+departure, but two things prevented that. First, Chief
+Security Officer Dothmer wanted to go with Thane, out the
+airlock, without a suit! What is up with that Elephant
+Man? I would have been happy to see them both spaced, but
+the Captain was having none of it.
+
+Captain Lantashi said that Thane showed "initiative"...
+that was her word. She said he had the qualities of a
+"leader". Uh huh.
+
+And I have been asked to go down to the planet surface
+with the team as well! "Keep the shuttle running, Sarah,"
+Yonas said to me. "And keep an eye on wonder-boy."
+
+My only consolation is that he is going down on the planet
+with a red shirt. That should stand out, and if there are
+any monsters down there, maybe they'll go after him first.
+
+~Sarah West, Engineer
+
+/* TRANSMISSION END */
+
+--------------
+
+Wiki System
+
+Missouri - Independent country in the middle of the north
+American continent. Used to be part of something called the
+"United States". Main exports - grains such as corn, and
+propusion systems for ship.
+
+Red Shirt - Rumor has it, from the 20th century, that red
+shirts are dangerous to wear on planet surfaces. But for
+some strange reason they were popular in the 20th-century,
+and costs a lot of people to die while exploring outer
+space.
+
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