Posted by Lieutenant Helena Laursen (Helm/Nagivation Officer) in Side sim: Bringing The Team Together - The Pilot

Posted by Captain Marceau Renault (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Bringing The Team Together - The Pilot

Posted by Lieutenant Helena Laursen (Helm/Nagivation Officer) in Side sim: Bringing The Team Together - The Pilot
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Marceau returned to the Smuggler’s Cove Bar after his chat with the Commodore, looking for Helena. He’d read through the ship files, there were a few key crew members the ship was missing. Thankfully, he already knew who to ask for both. He figured Helena would be easiest to find, so he started with her. His head was still spinning. Yes, he was ranked Captain, but now he was actually Captain of something. Of a ship. A Warp-4 ship.

Helena had been hanging out at the bar talking and dancing. Her duty assignments always had her rotating through San Fran, so she knew a lot of people. She was back at the bar for the moment, another ice water in her hand, sipping from it. Helena never liked the feeling alcohol caused and any hint of alcohol in her system would ground her for the day, and that was a fate worse than death.

When he found her, he took a seat next to her and folded his hand on the surface in front of him. He looked excited and nervous as he sat quietly for a moment, deciding what to say. “My meeting with the Commodore went well.” He said at last, then he turned and smiled at her. “I’m getting a ship. A lunar rover-class starship.” In his hands was his own PaDD, loaded with the ship specs and information.

~ Captain Renault

Helena turned to look at Marceau, waiting. She was curious what was going on. They had been pulled off Titan with no warning in the middle of a training exercise. She was just the pilot, but she was curious. She nodded, she figured it had to be what the brass considered good news since no MPs we’re waiting when they landed.

Then he finally told her. “Marceau! That’s wonderful!” She hugged him quickly with a huge smile. A warp 4 ship. She was jealous, she really was but she was really excited for him. “Wait, a Lunar Rover? All four are crewed and deployed. Which one?” She didn’t think any of their captains were ready to step down, at least there was no scuttlebutt about it.

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He hugged her back with a smile. “Lunar Rover V, a brand new ship called the Sojourner. The crew of a ship that was decommissioned will be transferred aboard. The Captain of that ship was called away. However… there are a few vacancies in the crew.” Marceau said excitedly, letting her see the PaDD. “Helena… how would you like to pilot a star ship?” He would be happy to have a person or two he knew well on board with him. “It’s stocked for a year’s worth of travel, so we’ll be out at most that long.”

~ Captain Renault

Helena almost glared at him, waiting to see if he was pulling her leg. She brushed her hair back over her shoulder and then greedily took the PaDD and looked it over. There had been a lot of talk about the Lunar Rover class. Very versatile and the science and engineering types were all abuzz about it. Helena and the other pilots shared that interest as far as the engineers went and the new Warp 4 engine and the upgraded nav controls and impulse drives. Helena had been one of 3 pilots that got to test those systems out and she had been dreaming about flying one again ever sense.

“Of course I want to pilot a star ship! You’ve known that for years,” She grinned like a kid at Christmas.

Lt Laursen

Marceau grinned at her. “Then the spot is yours.” He had known she’d want it but he was enjoying her grin. “We can board tonight or tomorrow morning. I will go up tonight après I make one more stop.” He said, accidentally replacing the word “after” with its similar sounding French equivalent.

~ Captain Renault

It looked like it was all she could do to not bounce in her seat. Helena could kiss him! She wouldn’t though. “Marceau you better not be messing with me.” Then…did she pout slightly before grinning again? “Guess this means it’s Captain Renault from now on.”

Marceau smiled, a light blush colouring his lightly freckled cheeks. “On duty. We won’t be on duty twenty four hours per day, you know. And I am not messing with you.”

She drummed her hands on the edge of the bar. “Après? After what? When you want to head up? Absolutely no one else is flying you up to your first command. Absolutely not.”

Marceau shook his head. “Not at all, not at all! No pilots. I will ask Logan, the man you met earlier to be our head engineer.” Then he smiled again, “Do you really think I’d want someone who isn’t you flying me up there?”

She didn’t drink and neither did Marceau, but this was a big deal for him. They had to celebrate. “Come on,” she grabbed his hand and dragged him off the stool and into the crowd and music to dance. “We are going to celebrate.”

Lt Laursen

Then she grabbed his hand and dragged him off the stool and Marceau was protesting the whole way. “Helena, no, I was happy over there. What are we doing?” Then they were on the dance floor, and he looked at her and smiled warmly. “Okay. A little celebration,” he said, overexaggerating his accent purposefully on the word celebration.

~ Captain Renault