12-10-2005, 09:40 AM
Here's the entry I submitted:
"It was a dark and ion-stormy night, and the stalwart crew of the NSS White Hat trembled as the badly underestimated weapons of the Doomian fleet assailed their underpowered, overworked and exhausted vessel. "Shields!" snapped Captain Valiant, straining to appear confident and in control, yet knowing that the impending demise of those all of those good and faithful men, women and sentient constructs under her command would torment her conscience for eternity. "There must be a way," she thought. "There's always another option…"
"It was a dark and ion-stormy night, and the stalwart crew of the NSS White Hat trembled as the badly underestimated weapons of the Doomian fleet assailed their underpowered, overworked and exhausted vessel. "Shields!" snapped Captain Valiant, straining to appear confident and in control, yet knowing that the impending demise of those all of those good and faithful men, women and sentient constructs under her command would torment her conscience for eternity. "There must be a way," she thought. "There's always another option…"
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