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Post-landing, the team broke into 2 groups; Rox and Herrick went in search of supplies while TK and Nilsen stayed back to effect repairs - with the comms array down, they would be out of contact until they returned. As Rox and Herrick started to get to know each other better while they walked towards the settlement, they encountered strange tricorder readings and an abandoned dwelling. During their investigation they heard strange screeches but were unable to attribute them to a source ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/bU2u9wyuoWE/m/6T3qdmT1AAAJ 7]). The pair decided to head back to the shuttle, and as they made their way back, contact had been reestablished. On their journey back, they, Josh got a view of the lizard-man hybrid monster, which hastened their pace. They were able to make it back to the shuttle, narrowly escaping the clutches of the monster, and returning back to the {USS|Oumuamua} ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/8D9hJyxExIM/m/lSSceLX9AAAJ 8]).

A week after the farewell party was the awards ceremony, where Herrick receive a promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade, as well as the [Legion of Merit] and [Captain's Commendation] for his service during the Esh-o mission. The recognition and quick promotion had caught him off guard, but he gratefully accepted and had told the Commodore that he wouldn't let her down. It would be an interesting shift, where a more junior engineer would be leading a whole department, but he was willing to take on the challenge ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/aOAbA_NJ8-A/m/LOfRcqEMBAAJ 31])

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With the immediate crisis on board solved, and a quick shower later, Josh was sent with an away team along with [[Kammus Corelli]], [[Anton Richards]], and [[V'Len Kel]] to assist with a dire emergency - the nebula was having ill effects on a remote Esh-o mining colony ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/gMoEQKFPklc/m/c8WVT5UyBwAJ 9]]. With TINFOIL hats in addition to the injections from the Doctor, the team was now in a more emotionally stable position. As the shuttle flew towards the colony, warning lights went off several times on the shuttle, seeming faulty at first. As they got closer, they also detected that the nebula had been dissolving the colony and started exploring options like tractor beams to separate the healthy and 'infected' portions of the asteroid the colony sat upon ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/uZA13U0qkCo/m/5YVMbjj0BwAJ 10]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/r-x2UEH2nDM/m/WJdDqXFPBAAJ 11]). Just before landing, the shuttle's fuel lines had reported being compromised and the away team was forced to make an emergency landing ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/qBLy1JvOgvc/m/w7o5XEzlAQAJ 12]).

Making it back to the surface, they struggled with options to get the shuttle off the ground, relying on several crew members that had absconded with worker bees to rescue them. While the explosion had worked, it hadn't created enough distance between the two pieces of rock, and they needed to think of options fast ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/BVEKw45r66c/m/wC8fWEkNAQAJ 22]). When it seemed like all hope was lost, the experimental ship with the designation Nautilus appeared and both the shuttle and worker bees were transported aboard. As the team emerged from their vessels into the large bay, they witnessed a holographic twin of an experiment running aboard another Nautilus from a parallel universe. The 'real' Nautilus that the team was one was tasked with preventing the other ship from causing a cataclysmic explosion that would wipe out life, and the holo-version had encountered difficulties with their holo-safeties, potentially putting the crew at risk. However, the other ship appeared to be unsuccessful in its attempts, and with the crisis passes, the 'real' Nautilus returned the away team back to the {{USS|Oumuamua}} ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/YAcLLf1Lfdc/m/ErR813O4AgAJ 23]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/_3TM3GWTYvk/m/xLjKySR3AgAJ 24]).

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To aid in bonding with fellow lower deckers, Josh was invited to the JOPA where he met many of the junior officers he'd be working with in the future and was encouraged to pull a prank on one of the senior officers but wasn't quite sure what might be an appropriate one that wouldn't land him in too much hot water ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/xFr4S4kKUXw/m/S7KGMhHHAAAJ 13]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/6wJOJoZ0KcE/m/7i81rFHMAAAJ 14]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/kNVk1KSHLlw/m/0FufsYrMAAAJ 15]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/ggxXxFkDllo/m/8LCr3MvMAAAJ 16]). After his recovery, there was an attempt by an officer from Humanoid Resources, Lieutenant Commander Klaaf, to put him on report for a Form B-74-Tango following the incident in the jefferies tube, but he was quickly dispatched by Commander [[Etan Iljor]] ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/h8VNFeNHR1o/m/CNY1rrC4AQAJ 17]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/M_VDekNsK7g/m/KUX1CuJdAgAJ 18]). He also had a brief run in with the [[Charles Tyber]], a security officer onboard who seemed unable to wake up from a deep slumber, and luckily kept his life ([https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/8LL9ScObU-o/m/OU4wqrLpAQAJ 19]|[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-oumuamua/c/DlxMkK2dOZM/m/wS99TpZgAgAJ 20]). The crew finished shore leave with an awards ceremony, where there many officers were decorated for the achievements on the mission previous to Josh coming aboard.

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