Cannon explains himself...

Who: Jay, Dean, White Wolf, Seymour, Phil and the ex-Captain Cannon.
When: After the starbug deposited the 'uncharmed' ones back on the
dwarf.
Where: In the Drive room.
<Snip>
It was at this moment Dean walked in, trying to find WW.
"Ah, sir, we had a bit of a problem involving the ambassadors being
arrested, but it's all sorted...." he trailed off..."Uhm.. sir, you
are aware we have a complete stranger on the bridge?"
"Stranger? Where?" asked Jay, looking under the command chair.
"Not there Jay, you smeghead. Standing next to you!"
"Who? Captain Cannon?" asked WW
"Captain who sir?"
"Ah. Yes" said Niples, coming out from the shadows by the door, where
he had been watching the conversation with intrigue, "I can see that
this may require explanation..."
"And the prize for the bleeding obvious goes to..." said Dean,
facetiously.
<end snip>
An Angry look flashed accross Cannon's face for a moment as he turned
towards Niples and recognised his Ex-first officer - then he suddenly
grinned and extended his hand in a handshake, "Seymour! It's been too
long a time, since I've seen you, my old friend."
"You mean you don't want to devest me of my Dingleberrys for having
killed you back on that asteroid?" asked Seymour somewhat tensely.
"No, No... not at all. I'm all past that." Says Cannon jovially, as
he taps his forehead with his right index finger, "The JMC
psychiatric division put the ole Noggin through some really intense
anger managment programming, when they re-activated me back on Risa.
I've completely come to terms with theatbit about the Gelf's slaying
my wife & family. And since you were only acting in the best
interests of the Blue Dwarf & the Space core while I was topped out,
I don't blame you one bit for what you did Seymour. The psychiatric's
back on risa told me, I was out of my head - and I didn't know what I
was doing at the time. You were right, Niples. I shouldn't have done
what I did then, and I hope you all can forgive me."
Seymour was simply at a loss for words.
"Alright, I'll have accept what you say is true for now - But you
still need to tell us what the smeg you were doing down there on
Tattooed Ian, Cannon." cuts in the Huge hamster.
"Oh, I can explain that. For obivious reasons, the psychiatrists on
Risa thought it would be best not to reassign me to the Blue Dwarf,
so the JMC posted me to the Ulysees where my vast captains experience
could best put to use on the JMC's latest FTL drive research project,
using a experimental temporal statis field generator. The plan was
for the Ulysees to create a static temporal bubble around the ship to
offset the effects of relativity, while it proceeded to FTL speeds.
Unfortunately, our first trial run ended in utter disaster...
Everything seemed to have got accelerated in time instead. The
Ulysees crew rapidly aged to thier deaths in mere seconds, and since
I'm a hologram I wasn't affected as quickly. And in order to escape
the effects of the field, I activated my automatic distress beacon
and vented myself from the nearest airlock towards Tattooed Ian.
Luckily, my hardlight system was able to withstand the heat of re-
entry, though the landingh impact did put me mostly out of
commission."
"Hmmm..." Murmurred the hamster turning towards the XO, and Chief
pilot/navigator, "What do you think two think Jay, Phil?"
<Tag Seymour, Phil, Jay, Dean?>
OOC - Hey, I know it's short, but I wanted give a few people a chance
to post thier reactions to Cannon's story.