jossman
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I left the Level 1 diagnostic doing its own thing and transported down to the planet surface, Gosport, what a godforsaken place, it had once been a core hub of the fleet operational support but was now just a run down depressing place. After 50 years of cold war peace had been negotiated and at a high cost, the fleet! It had been reduced dramatically and now most of it had been sold or scrapped, the Ferrengi paid top credit for a space carrier, and the Chilean dictatorship had a bargain basement supermodern fleet of formidably armed transwarp cruisers, our own fleet was now just a small part of the federation, inconsequential, under manned and barely able to patrol our diminishing empire.
I was due planet side for three whole days, my first non-operational break for months, looking around I wished I had taken a holodeck vacation at least I could have chosen an exotic beach somewhere, after all the galaxy is a large place and there must be somewhere better than this. My comms chip beeped, the PC had powered down unexpectedly.
I walked into a bar, the pain was instant, I reminded myself that the Gosportans were a short stocky people with a southern gutterall whining speech. Ducking I entered and ordered a beer, at least it was cold and in a clean glass. It tasted bitter, as I sipped it the barmaid was watching a view screen of a humanoid who appeared to be a cannibal playing a torturous game of kick a ball and bite, not my favourite game. I finished my beer and decided to transport back on-board.
I stepped off the transporter pad and checked the time, what should have been a mere few seconds had been three days, either the beer had been spiked or there was a problem with the transporter buffer, as I checked the buffer files I realised that the level one diagnostic was completed and my PC was running normally but like a junkie was asking to download KB2919355, desperation was evident and I now understood without this my PC would run normally, if slightly slower than it should, so I flipped the switch and Windows updates powered down.
I think I'm going to take that holodeck break after all!:shade::s16:
I was due planet side for three whole days, my first non-operational break for months, looking around I wished I had taken a holodeck vacation at least I could have chosen an exotic beach somewhere, after all the galaxy is a large place and there must be somewhere better than this. My comms chip beeped, the PC had powered down unexpectedly.
I walked into a bar, the pain was instant, I reminded myself that the Gosportans were a short stocky people with a southern gutterall whining speech. Ducking I entered and ordered a beer, at least it was cold and in a clean glass. It tasted bitter, as I sipped it the barmaid was watching a view screen of a humanoid who appeared to be a cannibal playing a torturous game of kick a ball and bite, not my favourite game. I finished my beer and decided to transport back on-board.
I stepped off the transporter pad and checked the time, what should have been a mere few seconds had been three days, either the beer had been spiked or there was a problem with the transporter buffer, as I checked the buffer files I realised that the level one diagnostic was completed and my PC was running normally but like a junkie was asking to download KB2919355, desperation was evident and I now understood without this my PC would run normally, if slightly slower than it should, so I flipped the switch and Windows updates powered down.
I think I'm going to take that holodeck break after all!:shade::s16: