Day 10:

Jones and Tomlinson are on board with my zero G parasite removal plan. For once they actually agreed on the best approach, we have enough remaining crew to send four combat squads to push the parasites out of key systems which will allow the two capture and repair teams to get those systems back online. Our first objective is to make our way to the comms room to get a message to the empire. It’s been almost two weeks by my count so we’re on the clock now for this message otherwise protocol dictates that a fleet be dispatched to our last known location, which given what we now know about the weapons being used there would be a death sentence for that fleet. If we can get the message out in time we can save an entire fleet and I won’t have to live with the guilt of having let hundreds of thousands of people die on my watch. George wasn’t happy with my request for intermittent gravity, he says that starting back up the gravity field as many times as we would need to would put enough stress on the reactor to potentially blow the reactor if not careful. After who knows how many hours of arguing I told him to suck it up and make damn sure he didn’t blow us all to hell. I hope this plan works because if it doesn’t we’ll most likely all be dead.

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