Unto the Breach Once More

[Sheng-ji 0]

Lt.(JG) Sheng-Ji Mairsh

Asst. Engineer | USS Reaent

SD 0411.24

 

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The warp core buzzed in Sheng-ji’s ears, calming him. He was frustrated with the lack of respect he often got from among his peers, but the growling and anger eased as he focused on his work at hand and pushed those other matters from his mind.

 

Once again, Sheng-ji had found himself in ‘command’ of Engineering in a dangerous situation. Of course this time at least McLean was conscious—just no where to be found. The Gods apparently enjoyed testing him. What was the human phrase “what does not kill you, will only maim you,” or something like that.

 

He released a deep breath as he rapped his claws over the “center” consol in Main Engineering. It was the nerve center for the entire Engineering section, and from it he was up to speed on every little power transfer, every out of alignment EPS Manifold.

 

Running his clawed fingers over the consol, he felt, perhaps for the first time, that he had found a place for himself.

 

Everyone was on edge, being so close to Romulan Space, and he was no different. While relations had improved between the two species, things weren’t as the humans would say “hunky-dory.”

 

Not to mention they were in the middle of the Neutral Zone, in some sector of space with very little known about it that wasn’t ‘classified’ beyond the Dameon Engineer’s clearance level.

 

He supposed that they might get lucky and nothing at all happen on the mission that was not supposed to happen—but then that seemed to rarely ever happen. He wondered if he was the Jonah…or if it were someone else that carried the bad luck to the crew.

 

Relaxing ever so cautiously, Sheng-ji leaned back against the lightly padded chair, continuing to monitor the situation to assure that if anything happened he could react quickly to it.

 

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