Posted May 13, 2021, 8:25 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Dael Stadi (Chief Engineer) (Griffin Day)
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Dael could feel some of the calm that seemed to be coming over the Cadet, and smiled a little at that. He wasn’t always the best with people but “talking shop”, as he’d heard some of his human crew-mates say, always helped and he’d notice a similar trend with a lot of the people on his team. Although you really didn’t have to be a Betazoid to know the best way to open up an engineer was to “talk shop”. He nodded along with the man’s answers and filed them away, and made a few notes on his PADD.
“Well I’m glad we’re in agreement on the approval. It’s nothing personal, just something I try to go over with all of my cadets. As you can imagine there are a lot of eager spanner jockeys who can’t wait to get their hands on a real starship’s systems. I’ve had to temper a few as a team lead.” he said thinking back to when the replicator system went down because a cadet thought he could improve the “tastiness” of the products. It took an hour of troubleshooting before Dael realized he was fighting new modifications and not a random system glitch. He shook his head to wipe the memory away.“Well, I’ll say don’t stop thinking about what future you want in Starfleet. Do the work, and people will start to notice, but don’t solely rely on that. Just like anything here in Engineering, you treat it right and it should go your way. But a clear path of where you want it to go can make all the difference when you have to think of what modifications you want to get it there. If that makes sense… Anyway, I’ve been asking a lot of questions, is there anything you wanted to ask me? No question is a bad question either, this is your first tour on a starship so I want to make sure you feel comfortable keeping it running and working with me and the team.”
-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE
The cadet took the advice to heart and would try to keep it in mind for the future. “Noted, Sir.” The cadet would have to find time for thinking about the future between his duties aboard the Challenger, his personal research, and his sleep. If achieving greatness was easy than everyone would do it He thought. As the Beta-zoid remarked that there were no more questions to ask and opened the floor to questions from Connor, he asked the only question that occupied his mind. “When do I start?” The human male smiled at his CO counterpart. He was ready for this next step in his journey and eager to begin. And under a Chief Engineer like Lt. Stadi, he felt like he could finally stretch his legs and show the depth of his knowledge.
|Cadet Connor Washburne|
OOC: Since you’ve got a good handle for how we post here, feel free to start your threads for you Sickbay and Counselor check-ins. Just start them like you did this one and you’ll be fine. This thread was for me to help see how your posting style was and help you adjust to ours and some of the formatting, and to get you to think about your character as an engineer and officer. The other two will do something similar, though obviously sickbay will deal with your character’s medical history and the Counselor is great to make you think about who your character is as a person. Hope to read those soon. Also, we have new sim starting out, and I’ve called you up to help in Engineering, so check this thread: Main Sim- Engineering, out when you get a chance, you can do both those check ins and start posting in the sim now.
IC:
Dael gave a smile as he leaned back in the chair. “I had a feeling that’s what you would ask, and not just because of this.” he said, pointing towards his temple. The Betazoid looked over his PADD again. “Once you get settled in, do your other check ins with sickbay and our esteemed Counselor, you’ll be on the next duty shift I send out.” He made a note on the device to remind him to add the new cadet to his scheduling and looked back towards Washburne.
“Anything else I can help you with, Cadet?”
-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE
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