Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Roger Ferguson (Chief Science Officer) in MAIN SIM pt 1: Intriguing Nebula - Bridge

Posted by Commander Wulf Baumann (Intel Officer) in MAIN SIM pt 1: Intriguing Nebula - Bridge

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Elizabeth had arrived on the bridge just as the ‘shimmy’ happened and came out of the lift a bit off kilter. “Well, guess we know who needs to go back to piloting school, eh, Kenneth?” She smiled at the Helmsman teasing. Moving up beside Baumann, now back in Intel since her ‘disaster’ with the other security officers, she shook her head. “Thought I may be of some use to you or the Chief,” she nodded over her shoulder to the Armory Chief, “up here rather than in your office. Unless you want me there monitoring anything.” She kept her voice low so no one but Baumann would hear her. Not cause of a conspiratory thought, but more to keep from disrupting whatever was already happening that she had walked in to.

Prescott
Sec/Intel

There was a lot going on and Sanks had already reported that he was up and running so El moved to slip off the bridge back down to engineering to report to the chief.
El, Eng

(Assuming discussing with XO is over)

Ari walked back on to the bridge and looked around with a smile. “I can’t leave you guys alone for a minute and you jerk the wheel too hard. Status report.” She moved to her chair to have a seat and dial up the nebula results so far, setting the front view screen to show the nebula as they skirted the edge to begin with.

Ari sat in her seat and glanced at the console. Seeing that the CSO was also on the shuttle bound for the station, she sighed and shook her head. Tapping her comm, she realized it was time to field promote someone. She and the Science Chief had been discussing promotions earlier that week, so it wasn’t a hard choice. [O]Bridge to Ferguson, please come to the bridge.[C] It was a calm voice as if nothing was wrong, but a small smile curled the corners of her lips. This was turning out to be a more interesting mission already. And they hadn’t even gotten into the mission briefing action, yet.

Ari
CO

Baumann kept a sharp eye on the computer, waiting for the translation of the Morse Code. His background gave him a passing familiarity with the system, but at the moment he was kicking himself for not paying more attention.

Baumann, Intel

The doors to the Bridge open, and Roger made his way inside. He noticed the Captain sitting in her seat and made his way over. He hadn’t spent too much time on the Bridge, just the occasional late night shift at the Bridge science station whenever he was assigned to it.

“You called for me Captain?” Roger asked curiously, looking around. It felt a bit as though everyone was looking at him, but he knew that was silly. Everyone was clearly working on their own tasks on the Bridge. His eyes shifted back to the Captain, awaiting her response.

-Lt jg Roger Ferguson, Sci

Ari smiled as Fergeson arrived. “Ahhh… very prompt, a good sign in a Lieutenant,” she said smiling and nodded to the seat beside her. “Have a seat. It won’t take long but is certainly less embarrassing than standing there.”

Once the man had seated, she turned to him. “The previous Science Chief has been called away with shuttle that came to fetch Commander Millet. And while I do not have the proper items and venue for doing such a thing, it’s been logged into the ship logs. As of right now, you are the new Science Chief and hereby promoted, as well, to the rank of Lieutenant. You will have all the rights and privileges of your rank as of now. But I will have to ask we hold off the celebration till we are done with the current assignment. Right now we need those new sensor pods to give us as much information as we can about where we are and what’s around us, without straying so far out as to alert anyone out here we may not be aware of.” She glanced at the viewscreen, with its look of the nebula and sighed. “You were not at the briefing, so I will give you the quickest rendition I can. We are out here to discover why this nebula is so unique. And we are also to keep an eye out for possible 21st Century transports that may have cryo chambers of augmented humans on board.” She looked at him to see if he understood the gravity of the situation. We must be very careful. There is a chance they are here for the special properties of the nebula. And if they are, we cannot be certain they still sleep. So caution must be our first priority. Do you understand?” She laughed lightly as she shook her head. “It’s a lot to take in, I know.”

Ari
CO