Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Adebowale Mbala (Dentist) in Main Sim -Briefing at the ready room
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The female doctor nodded ‘’Sorry Captain my bad’’ and sat down again ‘’Anyway is it not both beneficial and crucial to have the counsellor present?’‘.

“Do you mean that Joe Milligan should be here?” Glen asked. “I must admit, I hadn’t thought of it, but I have no objections. There isn’t a great deal of room left in here for him though!” Glen thought, All joking aside, and once this is over, I am going to have to ask Mullins why he decided to hold this meeting in my Ready Room!

“Could someone page him and ask him to attend please?” With the whereabouts of his current XO still unknown, Glen could use the advice of a previous Number One on this, even if he had retired from the service.

‘’I’ll do it Captain ‘’ she took out her cell phone =/\= The Captain needs your expertise as a counselor make your way to the ready room=/\=.

It would seem as if Joe had been waiting right outside the door. About the only thing he had had on his plate at the time was answering questions from D’Nesh which seemed to come at the rate of twenty a minute. She was like a dry sponge, thirsty for information. He did however come into the room with an expression of puzzlement on his face. He stood looking around the crowded room for a moment before finally turning to the captain and asking cautiously. ” Yes, sir captain you wanted something?”

“Ah! There might be some room over there?” Glen said indicating the galley/cupboard where Faith was serving coffee. “It was really Dr. Cross who suggested it. She thought that since most everyone else on the ship were crammed into this tiny room, it would be fun to invite you along too! …no not really!” Glen laughed, but no one else seemed quite as amused.

“It’s about our next mission,” Glen continued. “While we’ve been waiting for the official briefing we’ve been speculating a little. We are tasked with discovering what, if anything, has happened to an independent colony outside the Federation border. They are a group who have refused any contact with the Federation in the past, so we can be sure of a frosty reception if they have simply turned off all their communication devices. They may refuse our help in any case, but we are bringing medicines and agricultural equipment in case they need them. We do have some people with experience in how they think - Faith lived among such a group, and Cara, the ship’s xenoanthropologist has studied such groups, but the insight of a Counsellor might be useful. I think my time to ask questions during the briefing might be very short, so I want to be sure to ask the right questions, and your input into that would be helpful too. I could always depend on your insight as a COS and an XO to be useful.”

OOC: Sorry for the delay in replying everyone, things got hectic this past few days for work, my grandfather, and my mother got surgery removing her gull bladder. Getting caught up here now and hope to post fully in the next day.

GM CockRoach

The time for the 0100 briefing came and passed by. At this point, Ade, the Ship’s Dentist stuck his head through the door. “Aha! Is this where you are?” he exclaimed.

“Yes, I’m here for most of my time aboard ship,” replied Glen, then added, “I’m practically a hermit! And I’m sure that we can also use a Dentist’s perspective too! I’d offer you a seat, but I don’t have one! I used to have a table somewhere too. We could have all sat around it!”

“Hey! Don’t blame me! I just went along to Joe’s bar and thought it was odd that there was no one there. My first thought was that the ship had been abandoned rather than a meeting!” replied Ade

Returning to the business at hand, Glen asked, “Can everyone see the viewscreen clearly? It shouldn’t be long now before subspace radio reception clears.”

• Ade, Dentist

‘’I’d rather use my ears then my eyes ‘’ Cross chirped in ‘’Captain can you lower the temp in here? Preferable below zero ‘’.

Cross CMO.