Amazon said she is going to try and get a post up today... My Mistress has a very busy schedule what with all that partying she does.<br/><br/>I really enjoyed that post... I didn't think it was worth duplicating your post as to how the ship got blown, but I did figure using a timer was a good idea.... unfortunately it meant she lost a man - two if you count the one who didn't make it back from the alien ship...<br/><br/>I wanted to prove a point...  LT and the Sarge had that discussion about unnecessary sacrifice of men. I wanted to point out that the sarge will not risk the ship for the sake of one man - she could have overridden the automatic close of the seal, and saved that one man, but doing so would have put the entire squad at more risk, and possibly the entire ship. The obvious point being that she will sacrifice men where necessary, but she will not do so unnecessarily, and if ordered to do so, the officer in question had better be prepared to shoot her or watch watch his back.