From the blue skillet, into Jay's fantastic inferno planetfall...

Who - White Wolf
Where - The Captains 'unready' room
When - Sometime between then and now ...
The overgrown hamster sat facing a computer console, and was rapidly
touch clicking his way through the touch sensitive screens prompts,
and flitting through his online personal address book to locate where
he could contact one of his old military buddies.
He paused slightly as he came upon several different entries, as he
mused outloud to himself, "So many of these old names bring back
memories... Ahh, here's one that will give me a good starting
point.", then the corpulent hamster spun around towards a bigger wall
screen and used his fore claw to tap a button on the desk before him.
Alota's face appeared on the big view screen as she inquired, "Yes,
Commander White Wolf?"
"Hello Alota, would you please arrange a long distance point to point
call for me? I wish to speak with the Captain of a space frieghter
named the 'hellstrom' as soon as possible."
"Sure, Thing..." replied Alota typing away at her console, "It looks
like the JMC flight plans list it enroute from Earth to Pluto, so if
you'll just give me a moment, I'll get ahold of the galactic
operator, put you thru."
Holly suddenly replaced Alota on the screen and spoke, "Aye up,
Captain! I've got a urgent message for you from that new scary
security bloke named Cain, he says he wishes to speak with you about
some darkness."
Holly paused, and then continued, "Or was it blackness? It was
something like that..."
The stalwart hamster shook his head at Holly, and turned back to the
computer console and touch clicked the prompts to bring up the Blue
Dwarf crewmen records, and search for name 'Cain' & 'security'. The
screen came back with one hit, 'Edward Luther Cain'. White Wolf
selected it, and read through the record, and muttered himself, "His
record is spotless, I wonder what he did to wind up on the Blue
Dwarf?" Then he turned back to the big screen with Holly, "Tell Cain
he should be reporting in to Phil, first."
"I think He did that already." Replied Holly.
"oh... Well, in that case, could you just play back his exact request
to me? His wording might be important."
"Alright... give me a moment, I have to hit the rewind button."
replied Holly bobbing his head down off the screen while
commenting, "You don't know how difficult it is do that without any
hands and a sore nose, even for a computer with a IQ of about 6
million TV show schedulers..."
The Scene popped up on large wall screen;
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"Holly."
"Yes... who are you?" The computer AI said as his bold head appeared
in a screen in the wall.
"Deliver a message to Commander White Wolf." Cain ordered. "My name
is Cain and I want to talk to him, matters including 'Darkover'."
"Errr.. okay." With that Holly disappeared some sight.
"A ship full of idiots." Cain muttered before starting off toward
the Command Deck.
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"Darkover?" Muttered the hulking hamster while taken aback.
There was a long silence, as dozens of long buried memories flashed
through his mind which were associated with those words.
Then Alota's face suddenly replaced Holly's, and she
said, "Commander? I've got ahold of the operator, he says he's
putting it through, and it should be just about one more minute."
The stout hamster suddenly snapped out of his reverie, shaking his
head, and then said, "Thanks Alota, Just pipe it in here as soon as
it comes through. Holly?"
"Yes, oh rodent one?" Said Holly as his bald head replaced Alota's.
"Tell Cain that Abel is off sharpening his Axe, But I would like him
to accompany the Chief of Security to the planet Amadues 5 so we
could talk about this 'Darkover' further later."
"Okay." Said Holly before disappearing off the screen, leaving it
blank for a for few moment before it was replaced by the image of a
clean cut man who looked like he was from India who burst out in a
smile and pratically yelled, "Fur face!"
"Hey Hindy, How's it going? Is that sorry pack of wooden barrels
strapped to stick of TNT of yours still pulling to the left as
always?" Replied the capacious hamster happily.
"Nah." The man called Hindy waved his hand dismissively,"It hasn't
since Harrelson tuned that main drive unit, She's been pulling down
instead. Makes for a helluva hairy landing each time we go
planetside."
"So how is Harrelson? Is he still coaching his daughter on becoming
the galaxie's best engineer?"
"I wouldn't exactly know, he's currently got a nice cushy engineering
gig over at someplace called 'New Ibiza' for six months. I hear it's
a fantastic place, we should swing by there sometime."
"Oh? I'll have to remember that, If the Dwarf ever gets shore leave.
Say, Did you ever find that case of Gran na's Chocolate ice I left
for you two in Engineering before I got transferred out?"
"Yeah! Right after the case caught fire and nearly blew the engine
room to smithereens because Harrelson was red lighting the main drive
while we were trying to make it through a worm hole before it closed
up. With our drive disabled we had to fly in on a totally manual
stick atmospheric glide."
"Oh, that must've been one bumpy ride..."
"It certainly was, We could've used someone with a good piloting
touch. Hey, I hear the Dwarf's got some hot shot pilots, Got any you
can loan me now that your her Captain?"
"No, No, you got it all wrong, Hindy.... I'm just the first officer
here, and just Acting Captain until we find our own Captain again."
"Still losing your Superior officers, Huh?" Hindy lounges back in his
seat and laughs out loud, "Now that's are our old Fur face! So what
are you calling me for, I know it's just to reminisce if I know you."
"Your right, Hindy. Though I would like to get together with the ol'
Gang sometime, but I've got a favor to ask of you right now." Replied
the amplitudinous hamster getting to the point of his call, "One of
my crew people informed me they think they overheard a conversation
between General Anders and some guy named Tobasis planning some sort
of conspiracy involving our and the Admiral Buttecus's emergency oil
shipment mission to Amadeus 5 and breaking up the crew of the Blue
Dwarf and giving it to a new Captain. Specifically, I wanna know what
this Tobasis guys has to do with it, if anything."
Hindy suddenly sits up and quickly asks, "Your running the ship that
the JMC high command recently debated back on earth whether to send
out another ship to replace and complete Earth's emergency oil
transaction instead of? Ho boy, I'd hate to be in your boots, fur
face. I understand theres some big time brass watching that mission
like a hawk because thier running low on the reserves. If you don't
make back in time, your really gonna be in it up to your eyeballs.
Let me hit my terminal here, and see what I can find out about this
Tobasis guy for you."
Hindy turns away and starts typing furiously at the keyboard in next
to him, pausing every now and again, then he turns back.
"Hmm, sounds this guys got a lot of connections. He's an old money
Commodore, though he got divorced last year from some rich woman
which has left him a little high and dry. But apparently, his Son,
who has taken his mothers maiden name, Drechmeah, is a real social up
& comer. A quick look at his JMC files shows that He's a newly
promoted to Captain and is waiting for a open ship to become
available for him to command. And according to the society section
of the Jupiter Sun paper, Captain Drechmeah's getting engaged to a
Eunice Anders sometime next week. Eunice just so happens to be the
daughter of this General Anders of yours. So it sounds like you got a
motive, if General Anders is trying to get a ship for the newly
promoted Captain. I'm still waiting for my Auto hacker to get into a
batch of the Commodore's recent JMC files flagged Top security. Hey,
It's coming up now..."
Hindy turned away for a moment, then quickly turned back with a
worried look on his face, "I think you've got trouble, Fur fur. These
files say Tobasis has sent a guy named Cain in to investigate you
guys, and I'd say from his service record that I can see here, that
he's a section 42'er. He's certainly got the high level access codes."
"Mmmm, perhaps that explains why he's just dropped the name of one of
my missions that 'never happened'."
Hindy's Eyebrows nearly leapt off his forehead, "This could be bad.
Should I IM the gang, and tell them to scare up some deep cover for
you?"
"No." The huge hamster shook empathetically, "I've going to have to
ride this storm out in the open because I've got some pretty good
friends here who need my help. But thanks anyway, Hindy."
"You get in touch with me if need anything, Ok?" replied Hindy.
"I will, Hindy." Said White Wolf getting up from his chair, "Now,
I've got get the admiral to Amadues's court for a traffic ticket."
"That old codger? Speeding? You certainly are a weirdness magnet.
I'll see you later, Fur Fur. Maybe at New Ibiza..." replied Hindy
before cutting the connection.
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Who : Phil, MP etc...those on the shuttle (still)
Where : Tween Dwarf and court
When : Just after Phils strange call to Effof
"No Admiral, I am not going to shave, even if you order me to!"
Yelled White Wolf from the back of the shuttle, "Just take a seat
please, and eat your peas."
As Jay piloted the Shuttle into Amadues's atmosphere and hit some
turbulence.
"Oh dear, I believe I'm going to..." suddenly came the Admiral's
voice.
"Admiral if you insist on standing, maybe you should grab one of
those over head straps to steady yourself... NO! DON'T GRAB THAT!!!"
Yelled the hamster in panic.
>REND... SPRIONG... KKKKEEEERRRRRRCRASH<
"opps! Was this supposed to come off?" remarked the Admiral as the
shuttle suddenly when into a nose dive.
"What the?!?" yelled Jay wrestling with the unbelievably sluggish
flightstick.
The huge hamster suddenly dashed into the cockpit and quickly
explained, "We're losing the hydralic pressure to all the avionics!
Buttecus accidently yanked the all tubes open when he fell and it's
spraying all over back there. So everyone grab hold of the flight
stick, because in a few seconds, Jay ain't gonna have enough strength
to move it by himself!"
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