RidOv Chpt-30

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 30 - Week 1; Devil's Breath system...==
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===Feeling Dizzy in the Morning===
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"...does this happen every time...
...we jump??" Amanda's head swam as she tried to sit up.
"It happened last time." Sam mentioned.
"Check...our coordinates, Mister Samuel." she groaned, her head throbbed and scrambles of numbers flickered in her vision, as something like static hummed in her head.
"We're right where you put us, Captain." Samuel answered, while one of the loans from Northsun...Bedwyr? That's his name right..?
<<"I'm fine, Amanda, and yeah, that's Luther Bedwyr, your new fighter commander.">> Desmond sounded a little different in her head.
She felt the harness restraints holding her in the command seat. "Good. Mister Bedwyr, tell our deck people to have my shuttle ready..." she unfastened her harness, "...for a deep pass at high velocity, have your flight crew do a ballistic slingshot approach to the main planet, by the time they see your trail I want 'em running cold on a drift, use the recon cam that replaced number two medium laser, I want imagery of the planet on infrared, visible light and UV spectra. Look for structures, ordered patterns, and human-size heat signatures as they make the pass. Then, Have two more take Fatso, the Aquarius escort smallcraft, and do the same thing on a tilted polar pass. Three orbits each and radio silent until the third pass, when both come back. we'll be using the telescopes and the 'big ear' receivers to do the same on the approach...since we're off-axis to the zenith if I got my sums right. The first step of a good raid, is gathering intelligence, we need intelligence." Her mind clarified, "Then get my light fighters out of the barn with the recon-camera pods and drop tanks, sweep for what you can see at the jump point so our guys arrive safe and unmolested."
'Ah, ah...yes..ma'am." Bedwyr swallowed, "You were spasming-"
"My imaginary friend has difficulties with JumpShip travel." Amanda told him, "it's what it is, and why I like to have good people with me." she reached down, "At least this time I didn't soil myself....you've got your assignments, folks, let's get to work! main job, locate and identify possible threats and hostage targets on the planet, we've got two days before the rest of the taskforce gets here!!"
She anchored her boots, and unlocked the harness to stand up in microgravity of the command deck. "Miss Lori, wake the XO, we need to be ready to look at the data from those recon passes, and we'll need to plan the after-action reports from the recon flights."
"Ayeh, Mum...you need a laydown?"
"Yah..." Amanda nodded. "I think I do."
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