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Cptn Corizon

Sleeping Dog

Corizon sat in the ready room in darkness. That could have gone better. He was trying to recount when the last time he'd lost his temper on the bridge to one of his own crew members had been and failed miserably. The man had a sharp memory, and while he'd occasionally barked at the crew, pardon the pun, he'd never wanted to claw them.

 

What had caused the flare up was actually the most troubling part. Had it been that junior officers were being sarcastic and arguing with the Captain as if they were equal? Possibly. Perhaps it was the role-reversal. Corizon for a change didn't want fly in guns blazing, but wanted to achieve some modicum of a peaceful solution and was met with stiff resistance by many of the same people who either behind his back or to his face made crass remarks about him being 'gun-happy.'

 

A long, deep sigh escaped him as he lay on the maroon leathered couch of the ready room with a cloth over his face. So much for having a good relationship with the crew. Now, not only was he a gun-toting , erratic Captain with a history in the dark side of the fleet, but he was an ass. Oh this was going to be a fun mission.

 

Which brought about the main crux—how the hell did they solve the current issue? There was no solution being offered forth that didn't carry risk either to the ship, the child, or both. If they went in guns blazing, the Boganary could decide the kid wasn't worth it and kill the kid, or worse they beat the Excalibur. It was unthinkable thought to be sure, but even with every support craft aboard the ship fight off more than 5-6 of those ships and god only knew how many they'd have. Nor did they have the intelligence to insert a stealth team.

 

There was a suggestion to steal a Boganary ship, Corizon wasn't sure what that would do beyond giving them another dangerous task.. (Even with a cloak, stealing a ship isn't as easy as taking candy from a baby.) Information they gained would be useful, sure, but not enough to justify the risks of capturing a ship.

 

And then there was the peaceful solution, which banked on the greed of the Boganary and Auntie Wort. There was not telling if once they approached the system, if a dozen or so Boganary ships would jump them and well, boom is never a good thing. Now, alternately there was the advantage that the cloak (and he wasn't even going to touch legal issues there) could give them enough stealth to approach the planet and ask for the kid back, but there was still no guarantee of them not going boom as soon as they decloaked.

 

Again with the risk.. Irony abounded; Corizon was the risk taker. Well at least, he was willing to make choices that needed to made to accomplish a mission. Why then could he not sort out which amazingly awful plan and go with it; why was he doing double and triple takes and engaging in an argument with his junior officers about it? Perhaps it was the continued questioning of his own judgment that seemed to only lead to worse problems?

 

His head hurt. No mater how long he lay around asking the questions forming in his head, he'd not be any closer to a solution to the problem at hand: get the baby back, and if possible the crownstone. The next thought was that his eye-lids were heavy. Very. Heavy.

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