Posted by Lieutenant Bethany Kovra Gadi (Counselor) in pre-sim - Unexpected Assignment - Shuttle Athena
Bethany had been moving from assignment to assignment for awhile, years actually. She enjoyed the work and her role in the bigger picture. She was ready for a change though. She loved being with Intel and she didn’t want to leave, but she was ready for something different. She spent a lot of time on easy pre-gathering missions and then on helping to debrief other operatives. She was good at what she did and she…well to say she liked the work made it sound like she was a psychological mad scientist. She’d always wanted to work with a ship’s crew though. She had the skills, but not the experience to be a ship’s Intel officer. Her skill set had prevented her from being sent on the more intense missions. She’d joined expecting it to be high adventure all the time. What she discovered was a department that was much more complex and fulfilling than that. She’d found her stride and her place and she excelled at it.

She had NOT been expecting to be given the CNS position on the USS Dresden. So now she was in her shuttle leaving Norda III after having visited her mentor. Retired Admiral T’Jal had been the CNS of the Dresden, A, and B. She’d also been the captain at one point. Her husband Jake Smith had been XO, CO, and COO. When she had received the news of her new assignment, she’d taken some leave time to go visit T’Jal and tell her in person where her new duty assignment had been.

T’Jal was a half Vulcan, half Human, that enjoyed her Irish heritage a lot more than the logic of being Vulcan. She had a love of life and a temper to prove it too. She was fond of reminding Bethany (and her other proteges as well) that she might be old, but she’d still kick their butt’s all over the Nordan landscape. The first night she was there, they had spent the entire night at the Clearing of Remembrance. Even F’actar came. T’Jal’s best friend, Recon Alpha XO, and the previous CSO of Dresden. Bethany had listened fascinated as they talked about their time on board. The hardest was to listen to T’Jal talk about infiltrating a Borg copy of the Dresden to rescue not only Jake but his Borg created clone as well. The clone had sacrificed himself to save her life, and then the real Jake, her husband, had to be de-assimilated. And that wasn’t the only time Jake had been presumed dead. Bethany didn’t know how they did it, over and over. She felt extremely lucky to train under someone so skilled.

She’d spent several days with T’Jal and Jake. Then she had gathered her gear and got back in her shuttle and headed out to meet the Dresden. One day out, she got notice that the Dresden was shipped out early. She’d have to meet up with them on their way rather than the star-base. She adjusted her course and a day later she came Maverick class warship. She didn’t care what anyone said. Dresden was a warship. =^=Shuttle Athena to USS Dresden. Requesting permission to dock in the shuttle bay. This is Lt. Bethany Gadi, the new ship’s CNS.=^= along with the hail she transmitted her orders and identification codes.
Lt. Gadi, CNS

-=^= Dresden Coms acknowledged, Shuttle Athena standby for Dresden control
=^=

The Dresdens flight control officer came online with just a slight delay.
=^= Shutle Athena this is Dresden control, be advised we have CAP deployed. Come to heading 314 for shuttle bay two. Do you need assisted recovery?=^=

The Dresden hung in the dark lite buy only her running lights and the glow of her nacelles.
As the shuttle came about to match corse a fighter slid into view for visual identification as her wing slid in high and to the rear. Satisfied they accelerated away.

=^= Standby to give us access to your systems-=^= the unsaid warning, they had no intention of dropping their shields during the landing operations.

Threading the turbulence created buy the impulse drives was always a tense moment, but honestly it was more hype than reality. As the shuttle bay doors begins to open their is a bump and a low vibration the Athena slips threw the Dresdens shields and then into the waiting bay.

As the shuttle settles into the indicated landing zone suited crew come out from their protected revetments to secure the shuttle, then later they will move her to the elevators and on to her berth.

=^= welcome to the Dresden, Athena. Control out.=^=

Stores watched the landing operation from the airlock with the security officer who would be verifying the new counselor’s ID, thus clearing the way for the Dresden to recognize her as crew. Pulling his tunic front down he turned to the officer beside him “Do I have this thing on right?”

Clinton”Stores”Reed, Supercargo