Editing Eian O'Neill (section)

===2. [[Touch of the Eidolon]]===
After their mission on Irlix, the Rosenante docked at [[Starbase 989]] for shore leave.  Eian decided to participate in the station's upcoming martial arts tournament, and also continued his work on a personal project of his.  He had the thought that if two people could see each other over subspace, a subspace signal might be extended to allow the benefits of a holodeck program.  The participants would be able to not only see and hear, but also touch, their companions who were [[Light Year]]s away.  His motivation for doing this was his wish to spend Christmas with his family, whom he had spent Christmas with every year for his entire life.  

The first martial arts tournament match left Eian greatly disappointed.  His opponent was a Kresteegan man three times his weight, and Eian spent the first ten minutes attempting to calm his opponent down and convince him that the pairing was not an intentional cultural insult.  After doing fairly well for being greatly out-weighted, Eian received an unusually low score, and was especially disappointed at the lowest number of all--"conduct."  He felt that after having to calm his raving opponent, he deserved a far better conduct rating.

It was about this time that Eian received his Christmas present from his father and brother, a new puppy who he named Murphy (which is Gaelic for 'hound of the sea').  Murphy was about two months old, and is German Shepherd / English Foxhound mix.

Soon after this, there was a murder on board, and Eian inserted himself in the investigation in an attempt to prove to Lt. [[Ben Soma]] that he had the skills necessary for tactical work.  Eian profiled the murderer and participated in the search for whoever stole and used his thumb print signature for a low-level engineering request to make the Rosenante fully holo-capable.  He realized, after seeing the details of the medical exam and participating in the investigation, that the murderer was most likely a hologram.  He helped Soma question the suspicious Romulan [[T'Sek]] aboard the Orion vessel [[Harveq]].  He then helped formulate the plan to catch the true culprit, the Ferengi [[Quol Nor]].  His plan would allow them to trap the holoprogram while simultaneously tracking its source and shutting it down before it could hurt anyone else.  

After Quol Nor's arrest, shore leave was extended aboard the Rosenante and Eian was promoted to Lieutenant (jg).