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Vanessa laughed at the engineer, turning to him with a smile. “Good to see you too, Lieutenant Stadi,” she returned his greeting. She watched him closely; he didn’t seem the nearly the nervous cadet she had seen so long ago (yet so recently!). “It’s good to see everyone,” she added, moving the brilliant smile across the table. She folded her hands, waiting for the Commander to continue, softly tapping one lacquered thumb nail on the other.

OOC: You are correct - Rodier’s present and accounted for ;)

Gavin

CNS Lofton

Aaron laughed at Lofton’s comment. “Well I’ll try not to keep you from your very busy schedule for to long then,” he said with a grin.

Swinging his feet off the table, he sat up and placed his mug on the table.

“Since we’ve had some downtime on the way to our next assignment, I wanted to take the opportunity to get us together. See how all of your departments are doing, if there are any lingering items that need to be cleared up. Questions, comments, concerns, all those sort of general things. So who wants to go first?”

Cmdr. Foley - XO

A couple moments of silence passed before Henry sighed and brought himself up to his full sitting height. “We’ve been doing pretty well. The new cadets seem to be doing well, though we won’t know for sure until our next mission.” He paused, considering his wording carefully. “I have one in particular who’s command-focused, I’d like to get him some space-based experience.”

~ Lt. jr. gr. Rodier - CoS

“Thank you Lieutenant. Pass his information along and we can see about getting him some extra training before he rotates off of the Challenger. How about the rest of the ships crew? I know we have a much higher turnover then most ships, but how does the rest of the ship stand in readiness?”

Cmdr. Foley - XO

Dael watched the security chief speak up resting his hand against his temple. He was glad to not be the first one to break the silence. Sure he was in a command position now on the ship, but that still didn’t mean he was a fan of speaking in front of everyone. At least, not to go first. Hearing the prompt from the Commander, he spoke up.
“Well, the Engineering department is doing well, even after the altercation that happened during the outbreak. We’ve managed to get everything back to standards, working on getting them back to my standards. We lost a good member of the team with Cadet Hobbes graduating, but I have a good feeling about our new transfers. We’ll see when we get our next assignment, but I trust they’ll prove me right.”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE

“How long till you are happy with the way the ship is running? And I’m currently waiting for the Academy to transmit the next batch of cadets we should be expecting.”

Picking up a PADD from the table, Aaron made a few notes for the future.

Cmdr. Foley - XO

“Well that’s a loaded question for an Engineer.” Dael said with a slight laugh before continuing. “But I think after some spot checks and touch ups, I’ll have things back to what I feel comfortable with, Commander. Few days would be the most I see it taking.” He leaned back in his chair and went through a mental list of things he had just seen in Engineering. A few days was a decent estimate from the few last tune ups he had in mind, though there was always room for improvement. Dael never liked to sit too long without doing something, and he made sure his team felt the same. Idle hands had no place on an Engineering deck. “Cadet Onovren has completed his onboarding, I’m sure he will be an asset to the ship, and I’m looking forward to seeing what new additions we have to the crew. New rotation, new team, it’s like the Academy knows how terrible I am with names. That’s all I can think to add for the Engineering team, sir.”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE