Shoot the Perky One

[Crash Calestorm 0]

Now that she had more freedom of mobility without the entire world going sideways, Captain Calestorm was taking advantage of the quick rest stop to check in individually with her officers. With a couple exceptions, most were located within the immediate vicinity, and not deployed out for various recon assignments as ordered by Commander Wesley.

 

Though he'd been out of it, she was pleased that Lieutenant Mrkath had at least acknowledged her presence when she had spoken quietly to the Caitian CAG. She had also wanted to ask a few more questions of her Kriosian scientist regarding the empathic healing abilities or whatever mojo she had used, but now was not the time or place.

 

Abatement of symptoms aside, Calestorm wasn’t out of the woods (probably not the best comparison considering they were surrounded by foliage) yet; she would take her cues from the CMO, and was still not fit for command duties.

 

The captain kept some of her attention on the distant sounds of a searching VTOL craft and sure as shootin’, that VTOL was searching for the ‘Creek crew, and they probably weren’t friendly.

 

The other portion of her attention was on the question of the Acting Field XO as posed by the CMO in the nearby conversation cluster, as well as the general body language of the away team - wary tenseness. Straight backs. Nervous energy. Some tension brewing among certain officers…not bad, about par for the more uncertain aspects of the situation, with personal acceptance of the situation varying according to the officer. During a career stint in the Starfleet, you didn’t get shot out of the sky during a diplomatic mission, at least regularly. Not to say it didn’t happen or couldn’t happen, especially with a First Contact scenario such as this, and then you were thrust into survival mode.

 

And, they were all pretty young still. At least compared to Crash, they were kids, mind you. Bottom line was she had a young command and senior line crew. The younger the crew, the more chances you had for experience-based reactions to an escape and evade situation, an on the fly CoC change, or varying views as to how things should be done as you were hauling ass out of hostile territory.

 

Though, her Black Sheep weren’t as young with regard to experience as Captain Wonder Boy’s crew, thank you very much. She knew of at least three of the USS Enterprise command crew, including Captain Kirk, that had been fast tracked straight out of their third year at the academy for the Starfleet wide response to the Nero attack at Vulcan. And hadn’t that tactical maneuver worked out real well.

 

At least none of her people were acting all overly perky and happy and stuff. If you ever got saddled with a perky officer on some sort of a ‘behind the enemy lines’ mission it was a good rule of thumb just to up and stun ‘em. Quick. The perky ones were usually the first to snap out, so it was safer all around to just temporarily remove ‘em from the equation and haul them across your shoulder to be carried out.

 

Not that Crash would ever really condone anything of that sort…not really…just sayin’ is all.