Posted by Lieutenant Commander Relann Fell-Drayke (Executive Officer) in CoS Quarters - Moving In (Stop By and Say Hello)

Posted by Lieutenant Gravel Mardusk (Chief of Security) in CoS Quarters - Moving In (Stop By and Say Hello)
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: Relann laughed lightly. “I always love how those things work out,” she said with a grin. “My adoptive parents live on Earth, so that’s where I settled after I fled. My father is Vice-Admiral Jerome Cates and he’s semi-retired these days. He’s actually the first Starfleet officer I encountered at Starbase 87. Poor man couldn’t understand half of what I said to him because it took years for the Universal translator to be able to fully translate my native tongue,” she said with great fondness.
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: Fell-Drayke, XO

“Cates… Cates. I think I met him once. Function on Jupiter Station my Mom dragged me to. Seemed like a decent guy.” Marusk said. “Did you live on Earth long?”

Mardusk, CoS

“Nine years, including my time at the Academy,” Relann said with a smile, though she was also pensive. “Jerome actually didn’t like the idea of my joining, but it was one of those rare times I began to talk about life back on my homeworld and I think he began to understand. And I think the part I didn’t fully understand was that it was my way of giving back, of saying thank you for the new life I was given. It could of gone so many different ways after I fled, but I’ve been incredibly fortunate.”

Fell-Drayke, XO

“My mom always said we make our own fortune. I believe that. I doubt fortune, or luck, or fate had anything to do with it. You made the change you needed.”

Mardusk, CoS