Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim - Head of the Ship (CO Check in)

Posted by Ensign Juliet Anders (Security Officer /RTF) in Side Sim - Head of the Ship (CO Check in)

Posted by Ensign Juliet Anders (Security Officer /RTF) in Side Sim - Head of the Ship (CO Check in)
Juliet stopped at her quarters and changed her tunic top. *There was probably nothing wrong with it,” she thought to herself, washing her face. But she would never go see the Captain in a uniform she had been wearing all day, if she could help it.

Drying her face and slipping the fresh top on, she made sure her hair was still plaited and coiled and moved into the hallway to head for the lounge. It was the place the computer had said the Captain was. If she was too late to talk to him tonight, she would make an appointment for the next day, first thing.

After several more double takes from those she passed in the hallways, she entered the lounge and looked around. She knew the Captain from her check in file. But it was hard to concentrate when so many were staring at her like she was some two headed anomaly they would need to box up in a containment field… if they could ever get close enough to catch her.

She saw the Captain by the fish tank. Tugging down the front of her shirt, despite not needing it, she straightened up and made her way towards the man.

Ensign Juliet Anders
Sec/RTF
“Jewels”
((corrected Capt gender cause I ran with a cell phone typo and never fixed it lol… done now))

Sanctuary was something hard to come by in any corner of the quadrant and most definitely on a ship like the Leviathan. But in the initial weeks of their voyage out, post-refit, it had been found by many of the crew in the Jörmungandr Lounge. The captain could not lay claim to the nautical theming, although to his delight it recalled his beloved Nantucket. And indeed, so popular had the space been, in those easy, more carefree days, that Cobb had chosen to stock the bar from his own, personal collection.

But then had come the incident with Ullr and, for the crew, a terrifying reminder that on this vessel, there existed no escape from anomalies. The nitrogen-based creature was now secured on the containment deck but still, with the memorial plaque to the fallen officers taking up a large part of the right-hand wall, it seemed as if the crew’s desire to relax and gather here had waned.

But for Cobb, one draw still remained. In the centre of the room, stood the old M/ARA reaction assembly repurposed as a colourful, tropical aquarium. And every evening, once his shift in the CIC had concluded, the captain would retreat to the lounge and to his favourite, aquarium-side couch, to nurse a drink or several and allow his consciousness to swim amongst the beautiful, graceful fish.

In fact, so engrossed was he in the fish at this moment, that he remained oblivious to Anders’s approach until she was right upon him. At which point he turned with a start and fixed blazing, blue eyes upon her.
“Ah, Cas,” he began, before realising his mistake. “Ensign Anders. How…can I help you?”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

The fact that he startled was more surprising than that he mistook her for the same woman everyone else did. It was polite, but her response had a bit of an edge to it. “Yes, Anders, Sir. I see I am interrupting so I came to ask what time tomorrow you would like me to report for my check in with you.” By the time she’d finished, her voice and posture had settled once more.

It was hard to imagine, but she hoped her entire time here wouldn’t be in being mistaken for this woman everyone thought she was. It was already starting to grate on her nerves. But she pressed it back and absently opened herself to the Captain’s surface thoughts out of habit. Non intrusive and certainly not something he’d be aware of unless he was of a kind like herself.

Juliet
Sec/RTF