Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Garth (Chief Science Officer) in CSO’s Office - Cadet Kyneln Ril Reporting

Posted by Cadet Kyneln Ril (Scientist) in CSO’s Office - Cadet Kyneln Ril Reporting

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Garth (Chief Science Officer) in CSO’s Office - Cadet Kyneln Ril Reporting
Posted by… suppressed (3) by the Post Ghost! 👻
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Ril accepted the outstretched hand preparing himself for a strong grip that he knew would be coming and he took the squeeze in his stride and shook. “It is good to meet you Lieutenant, I have been looking forward to my first posting for several months now and have been preparing for this day for a while now.”

“So if I can ask, what are you working on?”

Cadet Kynelin Ril, Science

The chief science officer turned back to his work suddenly, remembering why he had requested the particle stabilizer in such earnest. A small flame had erupted from a piece of the partially-constructed mechanical tube. He cursed under his breath and fused the wires with the implement. “It’s a portable interstellar telescope. Primarily for use on long-term away missions that don’t have the direct support of a vessel but whose party members want to observe stellar phenomenon from a planet’s surface.”

Kyneln smiled, “oh I had one as a kid! But I’m sure yours would be slightly more powerful, mine was little more than a toy.”

Garth grunted as he returned to his work, sliding his goggles down to cover his eyes once again with some difficulty. “Computer, execute Lieutenant Junior Grade Garth personal protocol C-1076.”

From overhead, the computer’s much more soothing voice responded, “Activating ‘Appropriate Cadet Greeting’ program.”

From the same speaker as the computer’s voice had come, Garth’s baritone rumbling emerged. “Greetings, cadet. Congratulations, you have arrived on the Challenger for your cadet cruise prior to graduating from Starfleet Academy.” His voice was deadpan and unnatural, having obviously read off of a script for this recording. Garth himself was concentrating on the project in front of him with his back to the cadet as his past-self continued.

“The Challenger is a Discovery-class vessel outfitted with a plethora of specialized labs, including areas designated for the study of astrometrics, geophysics, stellar cartography, biochemisty, bioscience, genetics, microbiology, and botany. The lab you are currently standing in is my lab, do not touch anything unless instructed.” Garth pointed up at the ceiling without looking away from his work as if to emphasize that point from his disembodied voice.

To which Kyneln raised an eyebrow at the Lieutenant’s preference to play a recording over actually talking to a new officer.

“As a member of the Challenger’s crew, you will be expected to perform the duties of a standard Starfleet officer. This includes assisting with ship-wide crises, collaborating with an interdisciplinary team including medical, engineering, and security officers, and contributing to the mission of the Challenger as stated by its captain.”

An audible sigh echoed from the recording. “And this is the part where I am supposed to remind myself to talk to new cadets specifically about their personal project.” The recording cleared its throat before saying in a more nasally tone, “Using tachyon beams on class B itinerant pulsars is doomed to failure because of instability in their inner cores and the unpredictability of subspace particle exchange.”

Garth looked up and scoffed, startled out of his work by the apparently ludicrous statement. “That’s absur- ah. Urm, yes.” He turned to look at the cadet, tearing himself away from his project. “You will become very well acquainted with one of those labs mentioned earlier during your time here, as you will be required to complete a personal experiment aboard the Challenger under my supervision. Let’s hear your ideas.” Garth crossed his arms and stared expectantly, expression mostly masked by his goggles.

(Lt. J.g. Garth, CSO)

OOC: Because of this post, the thread would become rather long, causing a LOT of scrolling on our part! I have “snipped” the thread, where I have removed the less recent posts that are not directly important to the current action to reduce the clutter of the thread on our screen. You can note that I put a (SNIP) note at the top of the thread. Try snipping the next latest post in this thread when you respond to this post! Also, great job interjecting speak into the breaks between my paragraphs, I was going to suggest that but you beat me to it!
Ben

Lowering his eyebrow Kyneln would be further taken aback from the brashness of Garth, reminding him of his grumpy old neighbour as a kid who always kept the balls Kyneln and his sister had accidentally kicked over the fence.

“Well Sir… As I’m sure you noted in my file, I’m not a physicist or subspace researcher, I’m an archaeologist and a sociologist…” He explained in a solid tone. “I am of course trained in Starfleet interdisciplinary science practices but for a project I’m not going to be doing anything relating to pulsars.”

“However,” he continued, “I was aware of this requirement as a part of my final assessment and did some background research into the Challenger herself. If I recall you’ve had various contact with species foreign to the Federation and taken various archaeological data which I would be very interested in analysing and preforming a cultural study on.”

Kyneln now waited the response of the Lieutenant wondering if he was going to be made to work on physics and subspace geometry after-all.

OOC: Haha thanks, I’m just that good. Not sure what to write specifically about this project, are there previous missions that the ship has been on that I could talk about or should I make something up that’s new to fit my story? Cheers.

Cadet Kyneln Ril, Science

Garth tilted his head slightly to the side. “Of course you’re not doing anything related to pulsars. Every scientist has their specialties. Stellar phenomenon are mine. You’re lucky that our interests don’t overlap, or else it would have been a very difficult project for you indeed.”

Pulling off his gloves, Garth rummaged around in the pile of scrap on the table in front of him until he pulled out a PaDD. “I recommend consulting with the astrometrics and stellar cartography labs, they would have the starting information you’d need to start your case study of whichever culture you find most relevant. What would be your methods to conduct this study? Can’t be anything too invasive if we’re talking pre-warp, of course.”

(Lt. J.g. Garth, CSO)

OOC: This is all you! Part of the STF experience is making your own scenarios and mini story-lines. As long as you stay pretty believable from a lore perspective and don’t present a scenario that would directly and significantly impact the ship without approval of the captain, you should be totally fine! Furthering your character’s story is always important. As with Star Trek episodes, there are some where it’s about the main plot, and others were it’s about a specific character and their story. This is an invitation to make an adventure for Kyneln in specific! The sky is the limit, really.
Ben

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