Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Counter-Intelligence Officer) in Wedding Bells- An End and a Beginning

Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Wedding Bells- An End and a Beginning

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Counter-Intelligence Officer) in Wedding Bells- An End and a Beginning

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When the need arose, Faye had an excellent poker-face, but the lovely thing about having Alex in her life is that she never needed to use it with him. Well, at least anymore. Her eyes grew wide and then narrowed slightly looking to see if this was some sort of trick. Wait, her project did what? Really? Sure, she had worked really hard to not only create a secondary fire-wall for the ship’s computer network, but her hand-coded programs had then in turn allowed her to make the distortions caused by the wormhole nothing more than blip on a screen.

Shaking her head, Faye looked ahead as they drew close to the dawn’s shuttle bay. “Shit. this is one helluva wedding present. I hate playing the game of comparison, because I know Daggum won’t give two figs, but he wins this one. Again.” She shot Alex a lopsided smirk. “Want to know what my wedding gift to Dag is?”

~Faye Calloway

“Absolutely.” Alex said as he tapped a fee commands into the console and the runabout banked gently to the left and the Harbinger Dawn came into full view.

“Well, I’m no Vash’tur, but… I wrote him a poem,” Faye said, heat touching her cheeks. “And I’m going to read it at the wedding. Probably the reception, because I want the ceremony to be simple so my anxiety is less.”

Now, their home - the Manhattan- was no small ship. In fact, it was not only the largest science vessel in the fleet, it was built on a Dreadnaught frame… making it one of thr largest ships in all of Star Fleet.

The Dawn made it feel positively claustrophobic. With four warp nacelles and over thirty decks ensconced in the saucer section alone, it the definition of massive.

“Holy… look at those forward arrays. They’d punch a hole in the shields of any vessel in the Klingon fleet!” Alex exclaimed softly.

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“Makes the ships I’ve served on before look like toys,” Faye said with a laugh.

The shuttle slipped into the massive flight bay (not just a shuttlebay, oh no), and their shuttle also looked like a toy compared to the fighters that lined the cavernous space. Calloway’s eyes traced the fighters longingly. “Oh, how I wish I had had one of those when I was fleeing two Romulan warbirds.”

“Templar-class fighters. Newest out of the shipyards on Forzia VII. Notice there is no canopy. Pilot is wholly encased in the center of the ship. They are clausterphobic at first… but a hell of a lot of fun.” Alex said with a grin.

As Alex touched the shuttle so gently on the deck, Faye felt the anxiety creep in. Yep, she was nervous. They were apparently meeting up with an Admiral, and Faye wasn’t the best when it came to brass. She usually just pissed them off. But that had bene in her pre-Command training. She liked to think she had better control over her mouth these days. Even just a little bit. But their presence here reminded her she was moving to a new ships soon and all the new things that came with it. For the most part she was trying not to think about her background worries and just enjoy the festivities of her and Dag’s wedding but she’d be worse off if she ignored it entirely.

~Faye

As the runabout powered down, Alex opened the hatch and a Lieutenant in the blue uniform of the Science division looked up from a PaDD, her face almost on fire with excitement. “Lieutenant Commander Calloway? Hello?” and the short but wiry brunette made a bee-line for Faye, completely ignoring Cochrane. “Ma’am? Hi! My name is Lidya Halstead- er, sorry - Lieutenant Halstead. I’m here to take you to the Hub. Commander, I hope its not too forward but I am so excited to meet you. I’ve studied all of your published papers and I read your Academy defense of the continued usefulness of hard-line circuitry inside proto-organic lattices and really that made me want to go into cryptography and I know that you are just gonna really like the Hub and what we have set up here and I can’t wait to show you what we have and get your opinion on a few of the more ‘esoteric’ systems designs we have incorporated into the-” and the young woman rambled on at full speed as Cochrane leaned in and said softly in Faye’s ear “Can you say ‘stalllllkeeeeeer’?” and then laughed softly as the woman kept going, seemingly only seeing Faye in her tunnel vision.

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