Posted by Commander Nivor Rhansi (aCO/Executive Officer) in Pre-Sim:
“I relieve you, sir,” Commander Nivor Rhansi, now acting commanding officer, Starfleet vessel Leviathan intoned the official words.

“I stand relieved,” Captain Conrad Mackenzie, former commanding officer, Starfleet vessel Leviathan completed the ceremony. Nivor placed a fist over his heart and extended his hand. Mackenzie shook it, then glanced around the confines of the ready room. “Take care of her,” he said simply. “And her crew.”

“I will,” Nivor responded, releasing the man’s grip. “And you… don’t let the brass push you around too much.” Mackenzie nodded, took one last look around and walked through the doors, off to whatever assignment the ARU or whatever branch of Starfleet was calling him away. Rhansi sighed, leaning against the desk. He was only nominally in command; the ship was docked at the ARU Starbase, offloading anomalies for containment and research in the secret facility. They would be here for two weeks, the crew getting some deserved R&R (even for a secret facility, it still had first-class amenities), at the end of which the new CO should hopefully have arrived.

Nivor sucked a deep breath across his breathers and then rose, circling around the desk.

“Computer, open a channel to Foremost Fleet Command. It’s time to report in,” he ended with a mutter.

aCO Rhansi

The channel opened fairly quickly, almost as if the person in the other side was awaiting the call. The woman who appeared on screen wore the uniform of a starfleet rear admiral, a pair of fuzzy black panda ears on a headband over her hair and an expression that could sour milk.

“Commander Rhansi, good morning.” She said sternly. “I’m going to start this conversation very frankly, I do not approve of having the strange anomalies dealt with in any part of a fleet under my command. Tell me these things are well contained and I’m not going to have to worry about some NE getting themselves possessed by a weird necklace they happen to pick up.”

RAdmir Reilly
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