With the ship nearly deserted by it’s crew, most of them on leave and his days admin work complete, for now, Dante stepped out of the turbo-lift and onto Deck 10 where the ships personal holo-suites were found. For this, meeting, he knew he could have just turned on a console, but the unique circumstances here meant that he felt that at least he should do this somewhere that a proper meeting and discussion could take place.

What that actually meant, he had no idea, and reading the reports of previous Captains concerning the matter did nothing to put his mind at ease about the level of access this, person, entity, AI, he had no idea what to call her, had on his ship. It was to the extent that he had little idea if it was actually his ship, or belonged to the ships Avatar. As he moved to the door of the holo-suite he had to grin despite himself. The thought of the ship dropping out of warp, shields, engines, phasers and replicators going offline because the AI was having an all-too-human like tantrum was kind of humorous, but in his mind an all-too-real possibility that his command codes wouldn’t be able to fix and he was never the best negotiator as Nat kept telling him.

Stepping through the doorway, Dante moved to the center of the room and looked about him, leaving it blank so that if she appeared, she could create whatever she wanted. Dante himself was in civilian wear, dark blue jeans and sweater top and dark chocolate high necked, open jacket. While he had been working on the ship and was technically off duty, he preferred to go incognito. “Computer” he began, then paused and started again. “Lieutenant Dalton. Are you here?”

Captain Knight, CO