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“Welcome Lieutenant. I was about to start a pool on what might be in the container. Do you have any guesses?”

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

Catt looked at the Engineer. And couldn’t help wondering why medical hadn’t rebuilt his face. The protoplaser was designed with just such jobs in mind. But she wouldn’t ask. There were cultures that honored scars after all. Klingons came to mind immediately. Her own people she reflected honored being civilized and would permit no blemishes however minor to exist.
Her personal demons tried to rise in her mind again but she remained in control. In control and civilized.
And about then she realised she was staring at the Engineer the whole time she was wallowing in her own thoughts.

"Sorry sir. "

She whispered in a voice quieter than was normal even for the normally quiet Caitans.
Her ear flickered defensively in her distress at having possibly caused offence yet again.

Cadet Catt Bennet. Sciences. USS Challenger.

The station commander smiled at his assistant and then at the new captain of the Challenger before slapping his meaty hands together in an attempt to get the crowd’s attention. “Cadets, a moment of your time before I turn this over to your esteemed Captain.”

He then walked over to the box and put his hand on it and patted it with a large grin. “First,” he began, “I must apologize for Fleet Captain K’hal’s duplicity. You see he is a paranoid man of sorts but also he was evaluating this crew on its abilities to follow orders along with several other dimensions. Owing to the fact that you have delivered me an intact box and not a pile of rubble I am going to assume you were good officers and didn’t do anything untoward.” He grinned again before he winked at the crowd, leaving off the part where he knew full well that they had certainly tried something.

“Now! As good cadets surely you were all taught to hum the anthem, correct?” Jackson said. “Surely at least one of you can otherwise we may never be able to get the box open.”

GM Wombat

OOC: Bump

Catt looked about at her fellow cadets all of whom did not look inclined to start.

And she stood noisily and started to hum the anthem. The hum ead shy and a near whisper buy in the silence of the hall after the Station commanders request it carried.
Growing stronger as NE Cadets joined in. It gained a confidence that Catts dulcette Caitan whisper of a voice couldn’t carry. So Catt switched to singing the lyrics to add the counterpoint that the straight appacello version lacked. She was still mostly drowned out. But she was contributing. She just hoped that the first verse was enough as she had never learned the entirety of its multitude of verses and variant verses in alien languages.

Max turned to look at Catt and gave her a nod. He was glad that someone had started, otherwise he would have had to pick someone instead.

Catt flcked an ear amused with herself and the fact that for someone who hated attention here she was in the center of it all. But then it was likely nobody would notice that she had started the anthem.

Catt Bennet. Sciences.

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

The Lt. Cmdr. looked at Catt and noded as well. He was inwardly surprised it was she who had taken up the instruction first, but he was pleased… although his face remained flat and expressionless.

Lt. Cmdr. Korczak, CNS

And like that the box popped open with a small his. When Jackson turned his back to the crowd he pushed the two halves open to reveal what looked like a filing cabinet. In the first drawer was a cushioned box that looked like a modern version of a pelican case. Carefully the station commander withdrew the box and handed it off to his second in command with a smile.

“This, cadets, is the first thing you delivered. It is a special lens component for our long range observation scanners. Not really a lens in the traditional glass sense but this piece of equipment is still referred… oh you don’t care I suppose. You engineers and scientists learned all about it in your classes I am quite sure. Now for the second part,” he explained before motioning the CO to come to the front of the room. “Open that top drawer please. I think you will like it. Or at least I like it.”

GM Wombat

Max grunted, a lens is definitely not what any of them had expected. He wondered why it gave the scanners and transporters the readings that it had. Maybe it was in the drawer.

He watched as the Captain headed for the stage to open whatever the second part is.

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

OOC: Bump for the CO

GM Wombat
OOC: Bump. Active thread.

Catt settled down after the anthem was hummed. She leaned forwards as the box unlocked itself. A lens? Rather a old fashioned bit of technology. She thought to herself. Definately nothing that required the kind of security against scann9ng this box had evidenced. She could only think that either this was a ruse to attract 5he attention of someone or it was not what the commander really wanted from the cargo.

“Why all the fuss and bother for a 6000 year old technology that every power in the universe already had? And why use a starship even a cadet 5rain8ng ship to transport it?”

She sa8d quietly not r3ally expecting an answer. The fact it was being unveiled publicly after all that security just baffled her no end.

Cadet Catt Bennet. Sciences. Uss Challenger.

Lens was more a descriptive term for a part of a long range sensor. The model in question referred to the component that collected and processed the graphical information as the lens though it didn’t have the refracted glass of the bygone era.

GM Wombat

Max leaned over towards Catt. “It’s not a lens like a glass lens. Probably some sort of new way to focus information coming into the sensor array. My best guess is that it allows for some deep space intelligence gathering that we had not had available to us before.”

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

Catt nodded to XO. She couldnt quite help geeling disapointed in the expose anyways. So she said.

“All the security on that thing and then they make a grand exposition in front of both crews of ship and station sir. Doesnt add up. Either starfleet intelligence wants someone looking at the Challenger or they are running a game to draw out a spy. Or sir there has been a very serious screw up. Nobody tells cadets anything important. In four years at the academy I have yet to be told why using a small mouth instrument cleansing tool to clean a waste facility is a duty rotation let alone see or hear about any advanced technological nreakthrough. “.
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And she cocked her head. And looked back at the box on the stage.

“It ,mrrr, is just not done and defies all logic.”,

Het quiet voice would not have carried far in any case but she couldnt help but look to see if anyone was listening other than the three senior officets at her table.

Cadet Catt Bennet, Sciences.

Korczak’s face remained passive while the object was revealed. Inwardly he shrugged and thought that it was a bit overboard, but that was the way of some of the higher-ups. And that was something the Cadets would have to get used to if they were going to stay in Star Fleet for any extended time.

Korczak, CNS

Max stood, not fully comprehending what was transpiring before him as he joined the Challenger midway through their mission. Besides, his time on the ship thus far had been spent largely with boarding physicals and treating burns and scrapes and cuts and the occasional hangover. This sort of thing seemed like the jam of his engineering colleagues, even the scientists with whom he felt a closer professional kinship.

He strongly suspected that whatever came out of that drawer would impress those with the technical knowledge to appreciate it. For him? He was just trying to catch up and overcome what he had felt since his first day at the medical academy was a distinct separation between the medical corps and the rest of star fleet. Still, it was nice to have a change of scenery while all of this unfolded.

Cadet Max Woolley, Medical

“Cadet, it’s not just Cadet’s that Command doesn’t tell everything to,” Max told Catt. “It goes a long way to sometimes not question Command, because it will save you a lot of headaches.

“As for cleaning the bathroom with a toothbrush, it’s character building Cadet.”

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

Standing from his seated position to one side of the main group, Felix furrowed his brow in thought and made his way to the front and the mystery box. The Commanders words earlier still rang in his ears and he nodded to Jackson and then looked at the seated crew of the Challenger. “Well then, lets see what you transported all the way out to this neck of the woods shall we ladies and Gentlemen?” With a glance at Jackson, Felix reached forward and pulled open the drawer to reveal the next item.

Captain Felix Rhodes, CO