Gentle Throbs

[Tachyon 0]

“Gentle Throbs”

Stardate 0702.18

Lt. Cdr. Tandaris Admiran

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The yawn encompassed the passage of an entire thirty seconds. Tandaris was not just tired; he was exhausted. He was willing to bet that his entire staff was exhausted after the amount of double (some, even triple) shifts being pulled to repair the Excalibur. Yet he had to commend them, for it was through their efforts that the ship was starting to regain her former glory.

 

The last of the rubble was being cleared out of engineering as he finally returned to his office and sat down. The PADDs upon PADDs of reports, requests, complaints, and inquiries were haphazardly stacked in one corner of the room, to be dealt with . . . well, at some point in the future. They were just paperwork, after all.

 

What mattered now was to find a way to level their playing field. The Scorpiad offensive advantage bothered Tandaris—and he was getting tired of having to fix the ship every time the Scorpiads showed up. They needed an edge, something that the Scorpiads were not expecting—something that they could not combat.

 

The gentle throb of his achy body mirrored the gentle throb of the restored warp core, and Tandaris remembered that this was no time for thinking. It was time to sleep, to rest, and to recover. After all, even once they restored Excalibur to 100% of her former efficiency, there was always one system in need of refreshment: her crew.