Posted by Cadet Kiasees Las (Engineer) in Main Engineering - Cadet Las Check-In

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OOC: Glad to have you back! This is also a good chance for me to touch on snipping, like I did above. When threads start to get overloaded with posts, to avoid scrolling through so many to see a new reply, we snip them! When you feel a thread is beginning to get long, just go back a few posts to leave for context (good rule of thumb is two or three unless the have critical information earlier than that), delete the old stuff earlier than those and write “<snip>” in their place so we know what happened to them.

IC:
“Yes I’m the new head of Engineering. Sapeth was a great mentor but every now and again on Academy ships, department heads are reassigned after a time, giving cadets a chance to learn leadership roles and an experienced officer to the Fleet.”

Dael looked at the young cadet, remembering when he was back in her shoes. He tapped the PADD in his hand rhythmically on the desk as he continued. “But don’t worry, we’ll get you a tour sorted out after you’re done checking in, and access to the ships specs. Can’t be a good tech without those. But what I’m curious about is what brings you into Starfleet, and the field of Engineering specifically?”

-Lt jg Dael Stadi, Chief Engineer

The cadet thought for several moments before responding. “I scored high enough to qualify for both Science and engineering. I had intended on science but after I joined with my symbiont, I was greatly discouraged from it by the Symbiosis Commission. I enjoy taking part in Engineering though. Often the question has a yes or no answer. In science, its almost always maybe.” she responded, relieved to no longer be tied to the plant.

-Cadet Las

Dael considered her response and put down the PADD to clasp his hands in front of him. Joined Trill, that explains the thought patterns she’s been putting out he thought. Since she’d come in he’d almost registered a few “shadows” of people was the best he could describe on top of the Cadets own surface thoughts. He’d met a few Trill, but not many who were Joined.

“That is true, a lot of our job can be boiled down to ‘does it work or not’, though I do know there are times pushing the boundary of what might be seen as possible also comes with the territory.” He gave a small chuckle at that, remembering the last missions attempts to communicate with a synthetic being.
“What do you think you bring to the team here on the Challenger, that we might not have already? And if you don’t mind my asking, why were you discouraged from your first choice, had your previous host been a scientist? I have to confess I’m a little in the dark when it comes to Trill symbiotes.”

-Lt jg Dael Stadi, CE