Chandel sat in the passenger seat of the runabout and listened to the quiet conversation from the front as the two other crewman conversed as they piloted the Liberty shuttle. Ensign’s Daniels and Rubik were two Ops personnel from Outpost 42 that had been assigned to ferry her to the Magellan. Their voices were the backdrop to her thoughts as she stared out the viewport at the stars they glided by.

Here she was again, moving to another place to begin another phase of her life. Sometimes it seemed that she was always traveling in between somewhere. First it had been with her parents on their freighter the Archimedes as they had another run as they star hopped from base to planet back to base again. Ferrying goods for the highest bidders.

After her training with the Starfleet Marines she had travelled as Communications officer with no place to call her own which continued until she returned to the Academy to earn her Counselling degree because she was tired of all the moving about and wished a place to call her own.

She thought she had that on the 42, a station that was rooted and had a community. But she was moving again. Would she find what she craved at Magellan? Magellan would be a known entity to her as it served as a supply base for both merchant and explorer ships, like her parents. It was an environment which would be familiar to her. Could she find a place among them? A place to put roots down herself? Only time would tell.

Her new assignment would take her into new area again as she would both counsel the crew and be a Diplomatic Officer. Diplomatic Officer to whom she wasn’t sure. The merchant Captain’s? The Romulans or Klingons of whose space they straddled? More than likely all three.

Her attention was caught by Ensign Daniel’s voice as he hailed the base they approached.
=^=USS Liberty to Starbase Magellan. We have a crew transfer for you, Magellan. Requesting permission to approach.=^=

Chandel CDO
Daniels