Decorated with the Ultima Star, one of the fleet's highest distinction, you were awarded a commission to Captaincy on board of a small engineering sup...port corvette attached to the ship carrier Acheron. (75% attrition in its last battles had left the Acheron Expeditionary Force in need of new blood)The Gorgon, an Ophidian corvette newly launched from the shipyards on your homeworld, was your reward for service to the Fleet. The small support ship had been highly modified from a design originally. I went to school there from the 1953 to '59. By the sixth grade, before we moved away, I had been literally every place in the school, except one. It took me a full fifteen years to finally see that one last place. No, it wasn't the girls' locker room; I'd seen that in fifth grade!In the last year of graduate school I made a pilgrimage to my boyhood town. I figured that it might be the last time I would ever have chance to revisit it. That assessment was sound, for I never have had such. Again, he ran his finger along a route before coming to a stop. “From their description, this should be the area where they camped when they were testing their equipment. They said they had gone on a few hours the next day, and that was when they saw the falls in the far distance.”Again, Karl traced his finger along the map before coming to a stop. “Here. That has to be the swamp Dessie told you about on the phone. See, it isn’t far to the main trail from the swamp, but there are steep hills. She not only played the drums masterfully, but she was a total perfectionist as well. Bob smiled and nodded to himself.She looked over to Chelly and Judy and asked if they had four pillows that she could use for the session. She apologized and said that she'd bring hers the next time, but Chelly had told her to leave her stuff at home.Judy went into the house and in a few minutes came out with a pile of pillows for Jan. There were more than the four she'd asked for, but Judy had known what they.