USS Excalibur

[Rue Wydown 0]

Cptn Swain -> Evening

Rue Wydown -> Hmmm...wonder where our medical department is tonight

Cptn Swain -> Got a text from Tyr...

Cptn Swain -> Let me know she'd likely be late.

Cptn Swain -> Our Orion has intermittent internet at the moment as well.

Cptn Swain -> We can wait a little bit longer for some more peeps if you all want.

Rue Wydown -> ::sneaking behind the scenes::

Rue Wydown -> Happy Father's Day to those who it's applicable to. :)

Cptn Swain -> Well

Cptn Swain -> Let's get started then.

Cptn Swain -> MISSION BRIEF: Excalibur continues towards the Endorin system at crusing speed. We're still several days out and everything is going quietly.

Cptn Swain -> Questions?

Cptn Swain -> BEGIN SIM

Cptn Swain -> BEGIN SIM

Cptn Swain -> BEGIN SIM

Fae -> :: At OPS, keeping a general eye on things ::

Tandaris Admiran -> ::in engineering, running a test suite on one of the probes he has built::

Tandaris Admiran -> ::there is a sign on the door outside saying, "Warning: Experimental testing in progress. Contents may be warm and/or radioactive."

Ryan Mesner -> ::in his office doing paperwork, as there was nothing else to do on this pleasure cruise::

Rue Wydown -> ((What just warm?))

Rue Wydown -> ((There's supposed to be a comma in that sentence))

Cptn Swain -> ::Drinking tea, on the bridge::

Rue Wydown -> ::in the lift, flipping a coin:: Heads or tails, Ms Wydown.

Rue Wydown -> ::slaps the coin......well, really it's an old medalian thing her ex-husband gave her supposedly for "luck", once side has engraving, the other side blank....slaps it down on the top of her hand:: Heads. Well, shucks. Going south then. Computer, deck ##

Cptn Swain -> Status report, Fae?

Fae -> Nothing unusual.

Rue Wydown -> ::rolls her right shoulder, still smarting even with medical's lovely care, chuckles to herself as she exits the lift and heads down the corridor::

Fae -> Crusing at seven. Drives look good. Nothing but a few echoes of warp trace on the edge of long range.

Fae -> ETA is just under two days.

Rue Wydown -> ::pokes her head into main security, hoping not to face her torturers so soon after her last disasterous run, and yet wanted to see how things were running::

Fae -> :: Half turns in her chair to look at the captain. ::

Ryan Mesner -> ::Ryan could been seen behind the office glass studiously looking over a padd::

Cptn Swain -> ::Nods:: Very good.

Rue Wydown -> ::glances at the ceiling and mouths "thank you" before she weaves through security and knocks gentle on the glass to get Mesner's attention::

Fae -> In poorly written holo drama's some minor character would say, 'quiet', pause a bit, then say 'too quiet.'

Fae -> :: smiles a bit, then turns her chair back forward ::

Cptn Swain -> ::Smirks:: I've learned to expect the unexpected in space.

Ryan Mesner -> ::if he was startled by the tapping he didn't show it as he casually glanced up to notice his XO standing outside. After a moment of confusion over why she was here, or what she could want, he waved her in::

Cptn Swain -> Especially when you don't expect it.

Fae -> Yah. That happens. Good thing we're expecting it, isn't it?

Cptn Swain -> ::Wonders when he turned into talking nonsense despense::

Rue Wydown -> ::pokes her head in cautiously Ryan Mesner at first:: Whotcha. ::she grinned, then stepped just inside the door:: Never seen someone concentrate so hard on something.

Cptn Swain -> I am not really expecting anything to be honest.

Cptn Swain -> I mean, anything beyond the normals of a deep space survey mission.

Cptn Swain -> Why, are you?

Fae -> ::Half turns back :: I don't expect any specific thing right now. Have no real reason to.

Ryan Mesner -> I'm a work hard, play hard sort of guy. ::he grinned, leaning back into his chair:: What brings you down today Commander?

Fae -> But the last several times Excalibur set out on something routine, we seemed to walk into political troubles.

Tandaris Admiran -> That's good so far. Bring the input levels up to 75 vbd.

Cptn Swain -> ::Nods:: Well, you have my asurances, that so long as I am Captain, I will try to keep us out of political trouble.

Cptn Swain -> I don't even like to vote, let alone get into politics.

Fae -> That would be a pleasent change.

Rue Wydown -> ::leans against the doorway:: Just checking to make sure you got settled well enough. How's it been going?

Tandaris Admiran -> ::keeps an eye on his tricorder as the probe begins to smoke:: Ooookay. Bring it down.

Cptn Swain -> ::Takes a sip of tea:: So, Lieutenant... you're Deltan, yes?

Tandaris Admiran -> We'll need to recalibrate the capaciator. ::sniffs:: Wait, no, we'll need to replace the capacitor. Then calibrate it. Properly.

Fae -> Irish. Or Boston Irish. Or Mutt.

Fae -> No one in North America seems pure bred anything these days, but in Boston it's fashionable to be Irish.

Ryan Mesner -> Suprisingly mundane actually. I expected more of the crew to be...wanna-be cowboys. Security has been rather easy to whip into shape.

Cptn Swain -> ::Smirks:: Only been a few times.

Fae -> Then ye can ardly av eno blarny in ya, no?

Cptn Swain -> Earth was never really the playground for me that I think it is for a lot of Cadets.

Rue Wydown -> And the rumor about the Marine and Security dust up?

Tandaris Admiran -> ::helps a crewman replace the capacitor and then calibrates it:: These units weren't designed for this, of course, but we don't have any of the proper units on hand, and building them would have taken weeks....

Fae -> :: Nods :: For me Boston was home well before Academy. In fact, to most of my tech trak courses in Boston rather than San Francisco.

Fae -> (took most)

Cptn Swain -> ::noods::

Cptn Swain -> Just something about it seemed... strange.

Ryan Mesner -> I wouldn't call it that, simply a mix up in a weapons shipment when we left Mars. ::he smirked:: I didn't know the Major wanted those weapons back so badly.

Cptn Swain -> I mean, I grew up on a kind of backwards planet.

Cptn Swain -> Low-tech, only what we had to have.

Cptn Swain -> I mean, we had an Orrery for heaven's sake.

Fae -> :: Small laugh ::

Fae -> Don't know that the best of Earth is it's tech.

Rue Wydown -> You know Marines and their toys. They don't share well with others. I think they flunked that skill in kindergarten.

Fae -> I mean is started as a musician. One can go with a guitar, or you can have a computer make most any noise you want it to make.

Fae -> Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the guitar.

Cptn Swain -> ::Smiles::

Ryan Mesner -> Well, he should polish those diplomacy skills too. ::he smirked:: I heard most Marines lack that quality as well.

Fae -> But learning how about harmonics and signals and whatnot.... Well... Starfleet let's me play with some pretty fancy toys.

Fae -> But you still wonder if the guitar isn't close to the core.

Rue Wydown -> Did you all get it sorted or am I to expect a ransom notice to be coming across my desk soon?

Fae -> What brought you off your homeworld, if I might ask?

Cptn Swain -> ::Smiles:: The stars.

Fae -> Ah...

Cptn Swain -> I used to lay outside in the field on hot summer nights and gaze up into the stars.

Cptn Swain -> Counting them for hours.

Cptn Swain -> ::Smirks:: Kind of silly, I know.

Fae -> Yes. No. Maybe. You can go to a star catalog, but some numbers coming out of computers aren't just the same.

Ryan Mesner -> I told him I'd get the weapons back to him, after we had a chance to play with them. Cross training you know.

Fae -> The stars sing, you know.

Rue Wydown -> Sounds fair. Just don't use the Marines for target pratice

Cptn Swain -> Yep.

Cptn Swain -> By training, I am astronomer.

Ryan Mesner -> Darn, I was working you up to that.

Cptn Swain -> My senior thesis at the academy focused on using quasar harmonics for subspace navigation.

Rue Wydown -> ::laughs:: Oh that's a way to build shipwide harmony. ::smirks::

Fae -> :: Mild surprise, then a harumph :: It wasn't published widely enough. There are enough loud and unique things out there that there is no excuse for getting lost.

Fae -> :: Sighs :: Or does that really only happen in holo dramas?

Fae -> Have you ever really listened to the harmonics?

Cptn Swain -> ::Nods::

Ryan Mesner -> ::shrugs:: They all hang out in their barracks wearing "members only" jackets anyway, I don't think we'd be losing much.

Fae -> That's part of how I ended up out here. Music in the sky. Long time, tried to feed the songs of the stars into a synthisizer and make music that one can listen to.

Fae -> I guess it's an aquired taste. People have gotten further with whale song.

Cptn Swain -> ::Smirks::

Cptn Swain -> << two minute warning >>

Rue Wydown -> I bet they feel the same way about us sometimes. ::pushes away from the door:: At any rate, is there anything else you need or, ehm, negotate personnel wise? ::has a mental note of Marines in Member's Only jackets running willy nilly on the holodeck while the security team uses them as target pratice and it's hard for her to keep a straight face::

Fae -> Anyway, got into the habit of turning any sort of signal I run into to a sound file, and just listening to it. Sometimes it's helpful. Other times, not so much.

Ryan Mesner -> Oh no, I think I can handle myself. ::he smiled:: Besides, I wouldn't want you to think badly of me...this early.

Cptn Swain -> PAUSE SIM

Cptn Swain -> PAUSE SIM

Cptn Swain -> PAUSE SIM

Fae -> :: paused ::

Cptn Swain -> Thank you all for coming tonight :/

Rue Wydown -> :D

Cptn Swain -> Hopefully next week we'll have the whole crew here.

Cptn Swain -> And we can ... you know...

Cptn Swain -> Move things along.

Cptn Swain -> Have a good night!

Fae -> Night!

Rue Wydown -> G'night folks :)

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