Matthew was jostled awake by turbulence in the shuttle. Looking out the port side window he saw a binary star system taking shape. “Fascinating.” He remarked. The pilot, a veteran runner looked over as well. “Good. Your awake. We’ll be at the Saracen in a few hours.”

Matthew nodded. “That’s good. This is my first Department Head job with a major ship. I’m trying to just still think of it as a smaller vessel and just scale up what I need so as to not get overwhelmed.”

“Sounds like a good idea Commander. You’ll do fine.”

“Thanks.”. Was all Matthew got out before being jostled again. A few hours later he finally saw the Saracen in the main viewer. It was big and he gulped. “You got this.”. He whispered to himself.

After the pilot got the clearance for docking and landed safely inside he shook the pilots hand and grabbed his bags and walked out with a couple other passengers. “So it begins.”

Matthew Quigley CE