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[Date] January 6, 2642 [Event] 
Immediately following negotiations between the fleet's leadership and representatives of the insurgency, the ship on which they are meeting—the Discovery-7—is destroyed, taking the lives of all 592 aboard including Mission Commander Tom Connery and Colonel Richmond Morgannis. Lieutenant Commander Brent Waterson is named Provisional Commander.
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