Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Main Sim - Planet 1 - Wolf 359
El had been back in her machine shop after the initial ‘ooohs and awwwws’ as they entered this new system. Before they had been shooed back to work for status checks on engines that had been running at sustainable warp speed for nearly a month, it was time for most engineers to ensure that these Cochranes had come through in not just good order, but best order. But that would be for the others; El was still in partial exile in the machine shop. Perhaps it was a stubborn part of her coming out or simply a contentment in where she was (or so she tried to tell herself that) that she hadn’t completed the requisite security course and what remedial tests for the Sojourner operation. Did she look at the material? Yes. Could she pass the exam? In her sleep. Did she traverse the ship - all but the bridge - to learn by experience what she had studied? Yes.

And so it came as a surprise when she was called to be a part of the away team, seeing that on the single computer bank on the bulkhead just inside and to the right of the door to the machine shop. She had preferred standing at the console and so had not yet attached the chair to it. Strangely, it had not been installed but was there with the rest of the inventory. It was now sitting, boxed, next to the console. It had beeped, indicating a message was waiting for her. She presumed, albeit incorrectly, that it was a maintenance issue as she had not yet been relieved of the service sup position. Instead it was a call for an away team.

At first El glanced at it thinking it must be for someone else, but she was wrong. It was lacking in much detail, however. Planet 1. That was all it said and to report to the shuttle bay. She supposed that she would find out what she needed then. Grabbing together a basic engineering kit in a shoulder pack, El worked her way down to the shuttle bay. When she arrived she found that there were people there around one of the shuttles but that she herself was the only one by the other - well she and, she guessed, a pilot? El recognized the face from the galley but didn’t know his name. “Where are we going?” she asked. “I didn’t see anything down on what I was supposed to do and what it would be like.”

The surprise was wearing off and being replaced by an underlying excitement mixed with the anxiousness from the unknown. Who else was she going down with? Did she know them? Outside of engineering and the helmswoman Helena she didn’t really know many. She knew the support staff more, she had to admit, and some of the others who had come from the Bonaventure. They, however, were scattered about this 7 decked ship.
El, Eng

OOC: Hi Rob .. beyond the note of planet 1 not having an atmosphere .. did I miss anything more that was learned about it?

OOC: Bump .. anyone else coming to the planet with me? :) .. Gene