<strong>Day 1 - 0930 hours</strong><br/><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c4/BenDuskfire.jpg)</div>Character: CSO Ben Duskfire<br/>Location:   Bridge<br/>With:    Captain, Wade, bridge crew<br/>Doing:  Working<br/>Tagging: none or open<br/><br/>Ben Duskfire was lounging quietly in the chair before his sciences console through the announcement of their new mission.  He had arrived early for his shift, as was becoming customary for him.  He slept lightly and little, usually rising an hour or more before the alarm and getting a generous breakfast well before ship's "dawn".  And he was usually early on shift simply because that was where he normally liked to be.<br/><br/>This was now<em>his</em>science console -- not someplace he served a shift or performed queries on -- this was now his tool for exploring the unknown.  He was acutely conscious of the responsibility and opportunities of his promotion to bridge staff, and was mildly surprised to find himself relishing it.  And this console had quickly become his home aboard the Phoenix, even more so than his quarters.<br/><br/>Duskfire did not comment on the exchange between the captain and engineer, but he had his own questions.  He was used to Starfleet being extravagant with resources, but he had heard the captain's frustrated comments about a cruiser being tasked as a taxi.  He wondered idly for a moment if there was anything suspicious in that, and then wondered if it might be deliberately demeaning, given the captain's history with fleet command.<br/><br/>He quietly turned to his library computer and pulled up all the information he could find on Dr. Nuress and Obi VI, in the hopes of finding something illuminating.