Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Luke Wyatt (Incoming Security Chief) in Pre-Sim - Some call it snooping, I call it intelligence

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The Manhattan offered little in the way of services for the security personnel on the ship, and when it came to the day to day duties Luke had to get creative which fortunately for him, he was very good at. Today however Luke found himself running a security sweep of all the systems ensuring that none of their systems had been inappropriately tampered, broken or used since the last one which was typically every 48 hours but for Luke, this would be the first time. Standing on the bridge, using one of the spare support stations he set the sweep up and then turned, to observe the bridge.

The bridge was your a-typical Starfleet style, viewscreen at the very front of the bridge with forward-facing command seats, three off and then those surrounded by various stations some occupied but most not at this time. The viewscreen was on and showing the stars as they cut through them so after a few minutes, even that didn’t satisfy his curiosity.

Humming quietly to himself Luke rhythm was cut short when the console he had been leaning on chirped drawing his fall attention, there was a station on deck 13, computer science lab two which was no responding to his authorization and refusing to feedback its status. Deciding that he had nothing better to do and the idea of actually having a job that may pique his interest was not something the security office was going to pass up. Prompting the sweep to skip that station he set it to silent, locked it, and made his way to deck 13.

With the use of turbolifts getting around starships was relatively quick and meant that the amount of walking was cut considerably that said it did take some time for Luke to finally come about the door to the science lab which opened as he neared it.

The door however wasn’t on the same page as he because it refused to open, he pushed the door control panel several times but still it didn’t open. “Computer, scan Computer Science Lab two for life signs”

“Unable to comply” Came the computers voice.

“Playing hard to get are we?” He said prying off the emergency release panel and giving it a triumphant pull but when the door didn’t he groaned and kicked the door. He was getting in that room.

• Lieutenant JG Luke Wyatt

Suddenly the door opened and a woman in a sciences uniform with two solid pips appeared, blocking the doorway, with her hands braced on either side of the door. Medium brown hair was tidily pulled back into a french braid and her grey-green eyes reflected a storm at sea. “You know, most people would just knock,” she said dryly, taking him in rather intensely. As airy as her voice was in this moment, her body language said unequivocally ‘back off!’.

~~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist