Dead Letter Engineering

[Lerak trPexil 0]

From: Lerak tr’Pexil

Acting Chief Engineer, RES Talon

To: Laehval t’Temarr

 

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First off I will be surprised if the ISD au read the previous letter from me is na smashed into tiny pieces. So on a new ISD I wanted to bring au up to speed on things in engineering. The Talon has gotten herself into trouble here and there. Nothing our team can't repair. Our most troubling engineer, t'Ditsy, no longer holds that title. I believe there's an engineer on the flight deck now with that distinction.

 

Motivation is ultimately her weakness. I mean she probably does na want to be on the Talon at all. After getting to know her better: watching her remotely and asking others, I spent some time altering her consoles. Now many of her duties of monitoring and resource allocation are, for the lack of a better description, a game. I searched the database for games suited for mimicking ship operations.

 

Her performance on these new engineering games is remarkable. She is better than I. Don't give her the 'big table', she'll take over. Given her recent performance increase and actions down on a planet I have given her a field promotion. More importantly, and perhaps more dangerously, she is in charge of the late shift. The ship has na exploded and I am na writing this from an escape pod.

 

So, about the previous letter. One one hand I'd like to take some of it back, but on the other hand I should just leave it like it is. For me na saying those things would have just formed an emotional tumor in the pit of my stomach. The more I dwelled on na telling au how I feel, the larger the tumor would have grown. Engineering would have suffered, blah, blah.

 

I guess I had such hopes of speaking to au plainly and honestly during shore leave. I went to the window of my parents home more than a dozen times hoping au were just down the road. I even got a strange place of my own. You'd na know where that is either.

 

Before I go on let me just ask au for simple dinner, or lunch. I don't know if au need to get anything off your chest but I do. I don't give a vurul's foot what t'Rexan or the others think about us. If there is an "us." Just so au can relax for elements sake! I don't know what secret mission au were sent on. No on will tell me where au have been.

 

I'm being called to another part of the ship. Think about my offer. I'll not even cook if that makes au feel better.

 

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[KhreRiovtRex 0]

Dinner should be easy, just plug in a new IV bag......

[Lerak trPexil 0]

Dinner should be easy, just plug in a new IV bag......

 

I have beet flavored or creamed corn IV's.