An undeniable possibility

[Travis Kroells 0]

“An undeniable possibility”…Kroells’s logs

 

Travis watched Geovanie weave the shuttle up and down out of the waves.  The young Lt. Seemed preoccupied, or rather to much in doubt that this mission would succeed.  He was worried and Travis could see it.  Maybe because Ridire wasn’t here and because of it Travis was placed in command of the away mission, or maybe just because of the nature of the mission it self.  But there wasn’t much he could do; it wasn’t like he could pat him on the back and say, “Hey its ok nothings going to happen.”  Well he could but he’d be lying to ensign gerb and Revolone.  Travis had already voiced his concern about leaving enough room for the trailing cable as for it not to be caught in the mysterious waves that were too much for the Reaent to handle.  

 

Travis sighed as he went over what could happen if the cable it self got caught in a wave while it was being dragged behind.  In the best case the shuttle by a miracle of bad modifications on the engineer’s part would just cause the cable to rip out of the mounting placed on the back of the shuttle.  He doubted that the engineers didn’t test the structure that held the cable at least 3 or 4 times, no he knew it.  Lt. McLean was not one to let something like that happen.  And that was what worried Travis.

 

After the unlikely possibility of the cable just “coming out” the structure it just got worse.  The next best or worst in some eyes would simply have the modified structure on the back of the shuttle just rip off.  Well that’s bad in many a sense the idea that entered right after his last one took the cake.  In Travis’s mind just about the worst thing that could happen would be that at the speeds that the shuttle were currently traveling at, and if the cable was caught in a wave and wasn’t ejected from the shuttle, well the whip lash effect would be enough to most likely tare the shuttle in two.  

 

It was the departed Garnoopy’s last act on this ship in fact.  Both he and Kroells had discussed the possibility of something like that happening.  At the touch of a button the cable could be disengaged but of course something like that would take time and well, it would be too slow if used for an unexpected wave.  

 

But Travis knew that all of these were undeniable possibilities, but he also knew that if he told the away team what might happen they’d probably lose it.  He wasn’t afraid to say they were fresh.  But either way he had to work with them.  And so the shuttle slowly weaved up and down towards the mysterious moon they had been sent to find.