<USS Avalon> The Aeroshuttle - and the Start to the Envoy

The  Aeroshuttle - and the Start to the Envoy
by Keith Ketchum and  Patrick McEntire
 
Mac waited nervously for  the rest of the Camelot assignees to arrive, 
counting heads as it filled up and  waited to take off and awaiting word on his 
wife 
and children. He'd have given  anything to be on the shuttle with her, but 
orders were orders and, especially  at a time like this, you just didn't argue.
 
Keith walked from the  front after seeing to Phillipa, and headed back to the 
seating area.   Seeing Mac, he approached.  "Are we about ready to go?  All 
assignees  aboard?"
 
"Yessir," Mac answered,  taking his seat at last. "By my count, that's all of 
us."
 
"I hope so, will be  tough, new crew, spouses, kids, and so on, the counts 
might be more on some of  the shuttles."  Turning he made his way back to 
Phillipa, "Open a channel  to the runabouts and the shuttles."
 
"Channel  open."
 
"Crew, once you have  loaded, exit the ship and meet about one thousand yards 
off the front of the  Avalon.  We will then head as an envoy to Izar to get a 
ship to come  back and get items from the Avalon.  I would have called ahead 
for one to  be sent but they have limited staffing there at the ship building  
facility.  Make sure that once your shuttle or runabout is at the meeting  
point, that all your assignees are aboard.  Ketchum out."

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