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She looked ahead and saw the treeline. Sakura and Tifa were already out in the open, hands held in anonthreatening way as soldiers came running up on them, rifles at theready. Jed and Inno had placed MrKath's litter down, and were stretching; Crash and Radar likewise. T'Aral was just inside thetreeline, watching the point team. Satisfied, she took a step backand to the side. Her heel caught on something, and she pulled...and darkness.

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Voices...shouts and screams...orders given...cold, so cold...a feeling of being lifted, of being bounced around over rough terrain...still cold...a jab in her arm, even colder where fluids were entering...a sensation of swaying in the air...more voices...warmth...cool gasses entering her nose and mouth...bright lights...curses in different languages...a wet warmth on her arms...cool gas flowing in through her nose, beeping with an occasional BING...softness under her...

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Opening her eyes, Audraya blinked several times to clear out the sand. Darkness filled the hospital room, save the streetlights outside her window and the monitor above her bed. Dressings wrapped her right leg, but it was the brunette weight on her left arm that drew her eyes. Tifa was asleep, her head resting on her lover's arm.

Reaching over, Audraya pushed the swath of brown hair off to the side. Even in the darkness, she could see the tear tracks that were running down the Creek's communications officer's face. "Goheno nin (Forgive me)," she said quietly in High Kolari. "Le melon (I love you)."

tbc?

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Elvishis being substituted for High Kolari...and can be foundhere:

http://www.arwen-und...sh/phrases.html

OK, let's try this one:

 

 

(P.S. I'd love to have this in RL)

You know you're a geek when you have OCC customize up the USS Enter-trike

Epsilion Scorpii IV

Villageof Tee'Nek

Major Tu'mino stood at the map in hiscommand trailer. The battalion commander looked at thereconnaissance reports from both his own nation's Raptors and theAmadacian fighters, as well as what the engineers were reporting. Explosive ordinance disposal had cleared out 100 improvised explosivedevices and land mines around the town, since they got there twoweeks ago to clear the area out for the Landeswher. Quite alarge number of the mines were leftovers from the Meredan Civil War30 years ago, which caused the country to just implode. The otherswere IEDs emplaced by the Se'an Chan, but were of such shoddyquality, not many were even going to detonate when they tripped.

The deployment was a prescheduledsummer training mission for the reserve unit but with the crash ofthe Federation shuttle additional units were suddenly attached,primarily for ADCON¹ purposes. And the orders from Joint Force Headquarters were changed. Instead of summer camp, it was full on, federalized support mission. Live ammunition was issued out to all personnel, not just those onthe perimeter of the encampment.

MAJ. Tu'mino moved over tothe reports from the perimeter guards. They'd had heard noise in thetree line, and were dispatching out scouts to investigate. Abrunette and a pinkette (!) had exited the tree line almost on top ofthe patrol. He was just about to issue orders when a muffled BOOMrolled through camp. "That didn't sound like EOD. Captain, weneed to investigate what just happened. And have medical personnelstanding by."

"By your command, Major," the overweight reserve XO replied and trotted out of the expandabletrailer. A four litter ambulance was already rolling, the medic crewheading towards where the pinkette was standing, out in the open.

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1ADCON- Military acronym for "Administrative Control". The controlling unit provides administrative services that the attached unit cannot normally provide.

52 years to the Vulcans. ;)

I'm thinking more along the lines of Borg, Klingons, or the Empire.

Domani and Amadacian Militaries intensify Searchand Rescue

Wei Joint Forces (Prov.) News Services

Domani and Amadacian militaries have stepped up search and recovery efforts after reports of Se'an Chan irregulars were confirmed within the search grid. Amadacian Field Colonel Kei'Tal, spokesman of Joint Forces Headquarters stated that “every effort, every asset in our inventories will be used to find the crew of the Federation ship Comanche Creek, living or dead. We will regret any loss of life of the brave Federation personnel, and will hope that this does not prevent future negotiations for our membership into the larger, interstellar community.”

Supporting ground operations in the crash zone, elements of the 42d Landeswher, including the 250th Support Battalion, have entered the operations area, centered on a small Meredan village of Tee'nek. Joint Forces Headquarters has confirmed their presence, and the 42d units will be providing medical and other combat support assistance for ground forces, as well as its secondary humanitarian mission for the village.

Civilian news service Domani Brocasting Corporation has reported that it has received a statement from Se'an Chan leader Asamu al bin Nid, believed to be hiding somewhere on the Meredan subcontinent, again taking credit for the launch of the nuclear warhead that brought down the Federation space shuttle, as well as disrupted communications over a 2000 kilometer wide area. Joint Forces Headquarters has confirmed inventories on all Domani and Amadacian special weapons. Intelligence sources believe that the Se'an Chan device was left over from the recent Meredan War, and may have additional launchers and warheads. Joint Forces Headquarters as stated that a retaliatory strike with special weapons may be considered if another launch is detected coming from Meredo.

Thank you Commander Brown! Here we go - have at it Folks.

That which has been seen, cannot be unseen...

The latest genetic engineering plan- Self-Dyed wool

So I'm wondering if I'm both a trekkie and twi fan ( I know, I know ) what does that make me ?

Insane and well adjusted? Or sane and maladjusted?

USS Comanche Creek

Orbiting Epsilion Scorpii IV

Amadacia Broadcasting Company Evening News broadcast:

“A combined Amadacian/Domani search and recovery team located the burned out remains of the Federation shuttle. No survivors were found in the immediate vicinity but no remains were found, Allied headquarters spokespeople stated in an earlier news brief. Crash investigation experts from both nations are enroute to the crash site to determine cause of both the crash and fire. Amadacian and Domani Special Forces will be continuing to search for crash survivors.”

It's Pi Day!

One Chirakis to rule them all, One Chirakis to find them, One Chirakis to bring them hense, and in the darkness bind them.

 

Chirakis is too much like a Chakra, which is too much like a wheel, which is too much like a ring ... the connections! I See The Connections!

 

 

( Pauses ... decides it's time to take her medication. )

I thought *I* was the Evil One? ::pouts::

As the landing party stopped for a couple of minutes, Audraya sat, sipping some water from one of the ration bottles. Escape and Evasion were difficult enough, but the dress black uniform skirt and gogo boots made for an even trickier time. It also didn't help that two of her officers hadn't bothered to listen to either herself or T'Aral, and right now the CAG was paying the price for it. Time to get serious.

Motioning for the healthy and walking wounded to her position, she glared at each and every one of them. “Alright folks. Playtime is over,” she all but growled. “We have an unknown enemy, with an unknown number of forces and equipment chasing after us. We're cut off from communications with both the Creek and the nascent Wei government. And you're acting like a bunch of cadets on a summer hike in Yosemite. This is escape and evasion. This is the real deal, not SERE School at Fairchild SFB.

“From now on, T'Aral's acting XO; sorry Doc but you've got the medical experience for the wounded. You follow her orders to the letter. If she tells you to jump, you ask how high. She speaks with my authority. We've got assorted injured, some serious, some not.

“Silk, you should know better when it comes to listening to a senior officer. You've got a member of your team seriously injured, and carrying him like a ruck is not doing his injury any good.

“Jed, I ordered you to grab the litter with Silk and carry Mrkath. And you ignored a direct order from your now commanding officer. Ensign Akade can manage on her own, even with the concussion right now.

“Now, the two of you will find me two branches, about 2 meters long, and about as straight as possible. If you have to hack them down from a tree, do so. You'll then strip out of your uniform jackets, and turn them inside out, placing the branches through them and their sleeves, making a litter out of them. And you will carry that litter, until either we're rescued, captured, or dead.

“Before you ask why can't Tifa do it, she's on point. Simply because she's got Innogen's tricorder, and not because we're dating. Why can't I do it? I'm covering our rear. Akade's got a concussion, but is apparently stable enough to carry a phaser. T'Aral and Innogen are carrying the Captain.

“Now jump to it you two, or I will kick your ass up and down every corridor and Jefferies tube on the ship, regardless of what martial arts skill you possess. Do I make myself clear?”

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

21 February 2011 Last updated at 05:31 ET

'Printing out' new ears and skin

By Jason Palmer and Matt Danzico

BBC News, Washington DC

The next step in the 3D printing revolution may be body parts including cartilage, bone and even skin.

Three-dimensional printing is a technique for making solid objects with devices not unlike a computer printer, building up line by line, and then vertically layer by layer.

While the approach works with polymers and plastics, the raw ingredients of 3D printing have been recently branching out significantly.

The printers have been co-opted even to make foods, and do-it-yourself biology experiments dubbed "garage biotech" - and has most recently been employed to repair a casting of Rodin's sculpture The Thinker that was damaged in a botched robbery.

But at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, the buzzword is bioprinting: using the same technique to artfully knock out new body parts.

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James Yoo, of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University, told the meeting of his group's aim to print skin directly onto burn victims.

"What motivated us to start this programme and development is the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq," he said.

"Up to 30% of all injuries and casualties that occur from the war involve the skin, and using bioprinting we thought that we could address some of the challenges they're facing with burn care."

Professor Yoo's group is developing a portable system that can be brought directly to burn victims.

"What's unique about this device is that it has a scanner system that can identify the extent and depth of the wound, because every wound is different," he said.

He added: "That scan gets converted into 3D digital images; that determines how many layers of cells then need to be deposited to restore the normal configuartion of the injured tisue."

Hod Lipson, director of the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University, brought a 3D printer to the conference, to demonstrate how his well-established project, named Lab@Home, is branching out into bioprinting - by creating an ear.

Ear today

The machine starts with a computer file with the 3D coordinates from a scan of a real ear.

For the demonstration, the real cells that the group would normally use have been replaced with silicone gel in order to bioprint the shape.

The team has also published its results from bioprinting repairs in damaged animal bone.

But the method is still in its infancy, and several technical hurdles lie between the groups' current efforts and a future in which injured body parts are repaired digitally on-site or simply printed out fresh.

"Some tissues can be handled more easily than others," Professor Lipson said.

"We and our colleagues have started with cartilage; it's amorphous, it doesn't have a lot of internal structure and vascularisation - that's the entry level point to start with.

"That has been fairly successful in animal models, and that would be the first thing you'll see used in practice. From there we'll climb the complexity of tissue, going to bone, or perhaps liver."

Another concern is that bioprinted tissues aren't easy to connect to the real thing.

"One of the advantages of using the computerised printing is that you can create a tissue construct in a more accurate manner than when you're trying to build something manually," Professor Yoo said.

"But how can we create and connect those tissues produced outside the body?Whatever you put in the body has to be connected with the body's blood vessels, blood supply and oxygen. That's one of the challenges we'll face with larger tissues."

Whatever the challenges ahead, Professor Lipson told BBC News that he believed bioprinting will overcome them to become a standard technique.

"If I have to guess, I'd say that in 20 years this technology will be mainstream, absolutely," he said.

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Well, I feel the need. The need for speed. Now, if I can just avoid writing checks that my body can't cash, I'll be good to go. =P

::headdesk::

Sweet concept ship Dread Pirate - it looks quite capable of being the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. Got any openings? :D

Geez...show you a fast ship Crash, and you go gaga over it.

We better get Lucy Liu love bots out of this.

Michelle Yeoh fem-bots

Domani Broadcasting Corporation News broadcast:

“In a tape released by Se’an Chan leader Amasu al bin Nid, the Se’an Chan are taking credit for the downing of a Federation shuttle today over the Merado subcontinent. ‘The devils from the stars will not take our planet into their imperialist ways.  We call on all of Wei to fight these invaders, in whatever manner necessary,’ he is reported to say.  Domani and Amadacian military spokespeople have confirmed that a suborbital detonation of a 2Mt device occurred over the Merado subcontinent, resulting in power disruption up to 2000 kilometers away.

“In a joint statement to the press, Domani and Amadacian military spokespeople state that all their special weapons are in the process of being accounted for, but believe that the Se'an Chan have developed their own warhead and launcher systems. Stay tuned for further news.”

::snerks:: I dunno, maybe Ms. Spalding won the award because she has actual talent.

That's why I don't listen to pop music. There is no talent.

Can you take my second-born? I don't like that one as much.

Considering its been up for almost a month...

VR you win

Oh and by the way...I still wish you'd add those little pop up guns on the saucer. Great anti-fighter defense. One of things I really liked about the Kelvin which TNG era craft never bothered with.

 

Precip

 

-Woah..I just told you to change your ship when I am not even simming on it. Shame on me!

Who says we didn't add the phaser CIWS systems of the movie? ;)

Considering we did. Don't forget to check out the ship's specifications.

So you abstaining upon the DVD specs from the movie? BC, Bridge Commander? The smaller scaled version they use makes a heck of a lot more sense, visually. Those darn shuttles in the movie has the Starship freaks going nuts on scaling. Probably don't use shuttles on ST:BC hence, you don't need the controversial size..the Paramount DVD gives you.

 

(Well unless you need a big flight deck!)

 

-Precip

Indeed we are. And it never made any sense to have TOS ships scaled to the TNG-verse. Starfleet's still young, and growing. Not all the ships in Bridge Commander have the capability of the scripts to launch shuttles, but even the JJ-verse shuttles are still scaled appropriately.

And as for a big flight deck, that's what artificial gravity's for.

I'm still trying to figure out how big she (Kelvin) is.

 

-Precip

As we all are. The gang of 3rd party mod creators for ST:BC have scaled their JJ-Verse ships to their Classic TOS counterparts.

Hmm...one would think we're "running silent, running deep" from a Dreadnought.

And yes, WoW is very addictive. :P

Tried WoW a couple of years ago. Didn't do anything for me, as I prefer the Theatre of the Mind for my role play experience. It reminded me, in fact, of the old D&D 'Hack-n-Slash' games from the early 90s.