Posted by Ensign Kastarak (Doctor / Counsellor) in Main SIM: Inside the Romulan ship!

Posted by Lieutenant Commander T’Aria (XO / Navigation Officer) in Main SIM: Inside the Romulan ship!

Posted by Captain Chris Taggart (Captain) in Main SIM: Inside the Romulan ship!
After everyone passed security and Chris let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding, he went to the bridge of the Romulan Bird-of-prey. Sitting down in the Captain’s chair he pressed the com. [O]All hands hear this. All hands hear this. Complete your changeover and report to me once all systems are a green. Priority given to Engineering and Tactical. That is all. [O]

Captain I forgot his name already! Lol

“Aye, sir…” T’Aria echoed from the helm, where she dragged her fingers over the wave-like script in vertical arrangement that, if not for the context of their mission, could have been mistaken for an earlier Vulcan dialect. It was similar, but was it similar enough? Navigation used starcharts and awareness of a vessel’s orientation in space and time – reference points – that required only basic proficiency in the host language. Other fields, however, did not have such privilege. Had Section 31 outfitted the Bird-of-Prey with a Federation Standard setting? Or would the crew need to adapt to Romulan? T’Aria quirked a concerned eyebrow. Though she did not doubt the crew’s flexibility and ingenuity, she did appreciate the learning curve and potential for grave error that came from navigating an unfamiliar environment with an unfamiliar language under high pressure.

“Captain,” T’Aria turned once she checked nav and helm systems, then located a starchart from which to plot a course to Qo’noS, “navigational and helm systems are operational. Shall I begin plotting a course, or do you have a specific path in mind?”

— T’Aria (“Lt. Commander Asil”)

Ensign Kastarak, or Lieutenant Solvik as his ID had it, hurried into Sickbay, to make a quick inventory of what was there. He remembered the argument with the captain, earlier, on the captain’s yacht, where the captain was adamantly against bringing any Federation technology on board. In the end, Kastarak had convinced the captain that a few medical tricorders and synthesisers would be allowed in, if suitably disguised in case of boarding.

After performing the inventory, scribbling everything on an actual pen-and-paper notepad in Vulcan letterings (it was an odd experience, but the alphabet was more or less ther same when in handwriting, and he knew it would all look fine in case of boarding, and Symar, the CMO could definitely read it), he went to Sickbay’s cloakroom, and found a Romulan medical uniform, which be put on. He looked at himself in the mirror, and thought, I look like those who eradicated my planet and killed my family.

– Ensign Kastarak (“Lt Solvik”, codename: “Rateg”)

Tinker headed to engineering to check on systems and making sure the vessel was ready for flight in all flight configurations. It took him a bit to get a handle on the Romulan Language since it was not his first language but luckily he had some training in the language during school to have a fair understanding of it. He could easily understand it as the emulsion to the language sank in. “If I am reading this right all is green.” He said to himself as he looked casually around the engine room. “Bridge this is Tinker. All looks good from my end. All systems here show green. I can check things on your end on the bridge for comparison.” Tinker said calmly and collected. As an observation. As he waited for orders from Chris.

Tinker Jo Engineering Assistant