Posted by Lieutenant Draddok Ahearn (Chief Science Officer) in Observations of a Confined Subject - Arrival of the CSO

Posted by Captain Elora Myles (Commanding Officer) in Observations of a Confined Subject - Arrival of the CSO

Posted by Lieutenant Draddok Ahearn (Chief Science Officer) in Observations of a Confined Subject - Arrival of the CSO
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Normally when new personnel arrive on a ship, some preliminary work had been done. Personnel records sent to Security, medical files transmitted, room assignments made… the standard. What wasn’t standard was the CO and Security Chief receiving a call from Star Fleet Personnel Command informing them that the new CSO had been placed in a shuttle and would be arriving in the next three hours. And he would be carrying all of his files himself. And he was to report immediately to the Commanding Officer with no interaction with anyone else. And he would be escorted to the CO by ship’s security until such time as the Commanding Officer deemed it otherwise. Even more ‘not standard’ was that the only person given his name was the CO… along with a very interesting message from an Admiral Harkness (that no one seemed to know) telling her that her new CSO was one of the best in the fleet… if she could just look past the whole ‘acquitted murderer’ thing; along with a detailed record of his problematic history in Star Fleet.

And so it was that two hours and twenty-three minutes after being notified, a shuttle appeared on the Leviathan’s sensors. Oddly, it wasn’t a runabout or passenger shuttle. It was a high security transport. After being cleared to land in the shuttle bay, the craft settled to the deck and the engines whined down to idle. The rear hatch lowered and down the ramp walked two Fleet Marines on either side of an Orion male wearing the blue uniform of the Star Fleet Science Division. As they stepped onto the deck of the Leviathan, one of the Marines looked at the Orion and said “Remember what the Admiral said. Not a word until you meet the Skipper.” The Orion looked at the speaker and simply glared… but remained silent.

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

Standing outside the shuttle, looking suspicious and annoyed, was the Leviathan’s Chief of security. She was significantly smaller than the science officer, with solid black eyes and bright red hair. Two officers in tactical uniforms stood by the door, weapons held ready. The woman met his gaze. “Follow me.” She turned, not waiting to see if he said anything, simply expecting him to follow.

The Science Lieutenant stepped from between the Marines and started following the Security Chief. As they moved away, he turned and looked back at the Marines. He grinned and gave them a single-finger salute before turning back and walking with his new ‘friends’.

There was no sound, but an amused grin tugged at the COS’s lips. She would not laugh and she would not actually smile. But whoever this was, she liked him already.

The two officers fell into step behind them as they left the shuttle bay and made their way toward the secure turbolift and to the CIC. They followed a corridor outside actual bridge and she stopped at a door and pressed the chime.

Lt. Gadi, CTO/RTF

The CSO had remained silent through the walk. But after the chime sounded, he looked at the Security Chief and said “You look as annoyed as I am.” His voice was deep but had a wholly unexpected accent for an Orion… it was Irish. “Good. At least one person has some fu<%ing common sense on this ship.”

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

A brow raised, “Can’t follow orders?” A truly amused smile flashed in her eyes before dimming behind whatever was annoying her. “Anyone who serves Star Fleet and isn’a annoyed doesn’a have their cornbread done in the middle,” her voice was a interesting mix of Scottish lilt and southern drawl. More specifically - Appalachian.

Lt. Gadi, COS/RTF

The Orion’s scowl seemed to lessen slightly and he nodded. “True… true.” he said. He looked at the door and clasped his hands behind his back. Without looking at her, he said “And I do follow orders, by the way. I just have an issue taking them from idiots.” He looked back at the two security escorts. “And the person that mandated this little exercise is indeed one of that demographic.”

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

She almost laughed, “Tell me you’re incompetent without telling me your incompetent. I have the orders from said person as example.”

Lt. Gadi, CTO/RTF

Elora looked at the last minute orders and almost chucked them across the room,what was intel up too, they were making moves, it was clear, but what they were she had no clue the details on the transfer were so vague that she had almost contacted the admiral to tell him to go stuff himself. She contact Admiral Halsey briefly.

Sir, regarding current XO transfer, id important parts

She heard conversation outside her door, it was time to put on her Captains face, the orders said he was not supposed to talk to anyone before he got to her. “Come” it came out more angry than she had intended. She did not look up from her work as she drank a cup of coffee.

OOC: Is he restrained? or just under escort.

Captain Elora Myles
Commanding Officer U.S.S Leviathan

OOC: Just escorted.

IC: The door slid open and in stepped an Orion male in a blue Science uniform. He had lieutenant pips on his collar and he carried himself with an air of irritation. He looked at Gadi and nodded once, then stepped up to the desk. He pulled an isolinear data chip from his pocket and dropped it on the desk. “Lieutenant Ahearn, your new Chief Scientist… apparently. My orders and files are there, Captain.” He didn’t stand at attention or give any kind of formal greeting. He just stood… and waited.

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

Gadi stepped right inside the door, the escort staying outside. She stood quietly waiting for the captain to either give sign for her to stay or dismiss her.

Lt. Gadi, CTO/RTF

She looked over the Orion a moment then down at the orders, dismissing them for the moment. “Lieutenant Gadi, your dismissed, please get me those S O P changes I requested at lunch.” She stood up, taking her coffee in both hands. She was tall for a human female, taller than average anyway at nearly six feet tall. She was strong, nowhere near as strong as an Orion, but she was packed with dense strong muscle from her religious physical training. Her time as a pro athlete had forced disciplines, the being on tactical, covert teams only amplified. She sat down on the edge of her desk mere inches from the large man, pondering at, and looking rather unimpressed by his attitude.

“Aye, Captain.” Gadi turned and stepped out the door. As it closed she dismissed the two officers that had come with her. Then she stepped into the CIC to make sure the transport shuttle got underway.

Lt. Gadi, COS/RTF

“What the hell am I supposed to do with you!” she stated looking at the man, genuinely not sure what to make of intel’s little push into her new command, could he be trusted? Or like her had he been sent to subvert the ships effort by no doubt section 31 to gain control of the ship. She was on the fence.

Captain Elora Myles
Commanding Officer U.S.S Leviathan

Ahearn didn’t move away, standing his ground and looking the woman in the eyes. “Hell if I know. I just got here meself.” the scientist answered, the Irish accent making itself more known. “And aside from ‘investigatin’ an categorizin’ anomolies’… I haven’t da faintest idea what this ship even is other than yet another giant example of Star Fleet over-engineering.” He crossed his arms on his chest and said “So I take it ya didn’t exactly ask for my services, den? Figures. Harkness does so like his dramatic entrances… even t’isn’t him personally.” and he shook his head slightly.

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

She looked at him a long moment, trying to decide if he was just a pawn or if he knew what the admirals games was. “Tell me then, ” she said. “You were Aquited of the charges brought against you, so why the escort?” she asked.

Captain Elora Myles
Commanding Officer U.S.S Leviathan

Ahearn still didn’t move. “Acquitted t’isn’t tha same as ‘innocent’, now is it?” he asked rhetorically. ” And as I never have said anything other than yes I did that and I’d damn sure do it again if the circumstances so dictated it; well… wouldn’t ya know it, but that seems to make some’a tha brass a bit nervous.” He crossed his arms on his chest and said “Hence the honor guard, as it were.”

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

She looked at him, “Take a seat” she said, moving to the other side of her desk. “Most the dam file is redacted, can you tell me what happened?” she asked, Harkness was one of her least favorite people, he was always plotting, he pushed “Thirsty? Hungry?” she asked. “Help yourself to the replicator she said pulling out a small burlap bag, a small pot and a coffee press.

Captain Elora Myles
Commanding Officer U.S.S Leviathan

Ahearn took a seat as directed and said “No, thanks. I’m fine Skipper.” He took a deep breath and then said “I was conducting experiments on a trans-phasic bridge. The CSO and I had always gotten along okay, but for the few weeks before the ‘incident’, he had been acting really strange… off, as it were. Well, I started running my experiment and suddenly he became super aggitated and aggressive. Telling me I had to make the bridge bigger, last longer, more stable. Ya see Captain, I was testing the theory that field harmonics on a quantum level could be manipulated to form a kind of bridge or tunnel to the quantum realm of matter. We are talking smallest building blocks of our reality small. And the CSO, well, he was pushing me to make the damn thing big enough to move people. That was so far fetched and idiotic, and it was totally outta character for him. So I started looking at his work… and it turned out he had started manipulating my experiments when I wasn’t in the lab. And manipulating them in ways that made no sense. None. So that was when I started investigating him. He was… different. I pulled his lab records, and he had shut down every study he was a part of to focus on me and my work. And then it got weird. I thought maybe he was having a mental health issue so I went to the Counselor. They said they’d talk to him, but two days later the Counselor transferred suddenly and then their shuttle was lost in a warp accident. I didn’t really put any spin on that, but I told the Security Chief I had concerns; but she blew me off as ‘scientists being scientists’. No one would listen. And the one night I couldn’t sleep, so I thought I’d go get some work done.” He paused and took a deep breath.

“I went into the lab and the whole place was lit up with some kind of bluish light. It was coming from my lab. I went to look, and I say the CSO standing in front of my field generators. The field was bending into him, and I saw this… this… thing sticking out of his side. It looked like it was feeding on the field. I watched it for a few minutes and then it’s eyes opened up and it whipped its head around. I was just barely able to duck behind the wall before it saw me.” He shook his head. “I went straight to security, told them what’s what. And they blew mw off again. Next morning I went to pull the vid feed from the labs… all scrubbed. Nothing there. The CSO must have been alerted that I was looking because he came in and gave me this weird look and a smile. Said we had had a EMP discharge in the lab last night. Screwed up a lot of stuff. Told me to get to work, that that night was gonna be a big night for me. I went in my lab and saw that someone had messed with my calibrations. I know it might seem like much, but with the amount of energy I was using, those calibrations would have set off a chain reaction of quantum energy that would have ripped a hole in space-time. And thats when I figured it out. The CSO was compromised by whatever that thing was, and that thing was trying to open a portal to the quantum level of existence. That would worse than a black whole, Captain. So, since no one was listening to me… well… I did what they say I did. But I was trying to get that thing outta the CSO, seperate the two. BUt when I had them in the phase-field, its showed that they had been merged together on a quantum level. Couldn’t seperate them without destroying them both. By that point Security was breaching the brig doors, so I had a choice. Let that thing do whatever it was going to do and rip open a hole that could destroy… well… everything. Or just delete them both from existence. I chose the latter. And I’m payin’ for that choice every moment since.”

Ahearn, Chief Science Officer

She looked at him her eyes show not really reaction at all, she was used to weird, what is odd is that start fleet was treating him this way. “That is quite the story, ” she said holding up her hand. “And I believe you, it’s to unbelievable to be made up and for Starfleet to be treating you this way.” she stood taking her cup to the port hole. “My ship my rules” she noted. “Clean slate Mr Ahearn, I will judge you by your conduct on my ship and under my command” she said, “Piss me off and you’ll spend your time doing nothing but paper work in my brig”

Captain Elora Myles
Commanding Officer U.S.S Leviathan