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Wednesday, March 23

36 Days Later; A New Charting Mission Begins

And… we’re finally back online. It only took 36 days, and some distance between the Enterprise and the Earth 2, to get things working again. Those solar flares and temporal/stellar phenomena were brutal on our communications equipment. The Enterprise was able to launch shuttles and probes outside the star system -- to use as standard message relays, but our PAO office wasn’t that lucky. The only mobile PAO comm system we have (since our system is unique), is installed aboard my civilian runabout, and the SS Terra Nova was needed for transporter support on the planet’s surface. That left me unable to post messages from our page since February 15th. I apologize for the 36 days of silence from the PAO office. That was out of my control.

I’ll try to get an update/recap posted soon, in regards to the final days of our operations down on the surface of Earth 2. Give me a few days to get that in order.

That being said, now that we are well outside the Earth 2 system, the Enterprise is starting to chart a nearby area of space. We were asked, by Starfleet Command, to gather data on this region of space before returning to port. We shouldn’t be out here more than a few days.

After months of exploring Earth 2, I think we could all use some rest, and a change of routine -- our chief engineer, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge included. Earlier this afternoon, he almost fell to his death at the bottom of the warp core. Thankfully, Ensign Jenn Fletcher was there to pull him back up to deck level. With the three officers nearly crushed on the Liberty saucer over a month ago, and now the near-loss of our chief engineer, this crew has been flirting a little too close with death lately. That’s a trend we need to reverse.

With the Enterprise beginning a short charting mission, the ship will be going into platform/base mode again. Auxiliary vessels will be launched from our shuttlebays, to expand the range of our charting capabilities. Those auxiliary vessels will be our three mission-capable runabouts. Captain Picard has asked that the Terra Nova participate in this mission, so I will be piloting a science crew for a few days, while the other two science runabouts do the same. Our remaining two (of five) Enterprise-carried runabouts are transport-only, and do not have the necessary berths and equipment to facilitate a charting mission.

All three of our mission runabouts launch at 0800 tomorrow morning, so, I’ll have to get some early rest. I usually work during Beta Shift, which begins at 1600 hours. The 0800 launch is at the start of Alpha Shift. Thankfully, I have a bed aboard the Terra Nova, and can catch up on lost sleep, if necessary.

I will likely be posting, via the Public Affairs comm system installed aboard the Terra Nova, so be sure to stay connected to my Sam Archer FB page for those updates. We are likely to be out-of-communication-range of the USS Enterprise for a few days, so I cannot count on consistent comm access to our PAO offices. Lieutenant Tessa Kensington will post any pressing updates from our office system, if needed.

We’ve been planet-bound for a few months. Let’s go do some space exploration for a change.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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March 23, 2368 – (Devron Timeline w/ Temporal War Reset)