Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Lounge - Side Sim

Posted by Civilian Melaia Reez (Scientist) in Lounge - Side Sim

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Mel gave a lopsided grin. “I did, and then I talked to Jonathan. He was… unexpectedly enthusiastic about it. I was trying to coordiate it with the Xo, but with people coming and going, it got lost in the transitions. But I was just added to the department’s staffng list and I’ve spoken with Tresex recently.” She shrugged. “I’m in, and I’ll be going down to the surface, so-“she leaned-“I’m really quite excited.”

Sitting upright again, Mel sighed. “I know it’s a good thing, for all of us, but is it bad that I’m this excited about it? About being away from the ship and doing something, anything, else? It honestly makes me feel like abad mother.”

~Melaia Reez

Willow listened grinning despite herself. “No! I was exactly the same when I was offered this command, and my first command I was convinced I was going to implode,” she smiled slightly sadly as she thought back to the day she had transitioned from XO to CO the first time.

Willow Taylor
CO

The telepath sensed the shift in Willow and immediately understood the complicated set of emotions that some people like them experienced. It should be an exciting thing, but it wasn’t for some. “I was the XO of the Apollo, an Academy ship. We were on a mission and suddenly we and another ship found ourselves stuck in a minefield and badly damaged. During this time, our CO is injured severely and our Chief of Security is out of commission. We manage to finally find ourselves free of the field and Command goes me a field promotion to Captain and telsl me I’m officially in Command! So we limp back to Earth, only to be attacked randomly in the Sol system by unknown assailants. Next thing we know the warp core injectors are locked up and we can’t eject the core. And then I’m giving the order to abandon ship. It was fortunate we were so close to Earth because we were able to get help pretty quickly after corralling the cadets in the pods. We get to safety on the USS Goliath only to find myself also down a Chief Medical Officer and a Counsellor. The moment I gave out the orders and had a second to myself, I stole away to a meeting room and tried to compose a message to my then-fiancee slash partner and just crumbled into a hot mess. Days into being a new captain and my ship was destroyed and I lost four crew members. Not exactly how I imagined being promoted to have gone.”

Mel then smirked. “Incidentally, the counsellor to the Goliath came into the room to see if I was okay. He was transferred under my command to help with trauma counselling. That counsellor was Jonathan…”

~Melaia Reez