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Engineering - Kalos Onovren reporting for duty

Posted Sept. 30, 2021, 10:28 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Dael Stadi (Chief Engineer) (Griffin Day)

Posted by Cadet Kalos Onovren (Engineer) in Engineering - Kalos Onovren reporting for duty
The loss of his father the previous week had left Kalos grief stricken. His father had served on the front lines during the dominion war and it had traumatized him so severely that 20 years later the PTSD had gotten the better of him.
The Service had been agonizing for Kalos, he was very close to his father and he was taking it very hard.
There were tears in the eyes of his mother and sister as he stepped back onto the transporter pad. He knew that his mother was worried she might loose Kalos in the service too, but kalos felt an obligation to follow where his father had led.
Kalos watched his family disappear in a blue haze as the transporter took hold and he dematerialized. The next thing he knew he was on board the challenger and stepping down off the transporter pad.
Walking to engineering Kalos couldn’t help but think of his father: he would be so proud to see his son going off to the academy. But Kalos felt somehow out of place. he hesitated before crossing the threshold into engineering, wondering if service was the right path for him, maybe he should have stayed in ship design. As soon as Kalos stepped into engineering all doubt left his mind, he could think about this later but from this moment foward he was on duty.
“Cadet Onovren reporting for duty”
(OOC: thought it might be interesting to start a character off in a different state emotionally. not your normal eager cadet.)

OC: Welcome to the Challenger! Glad to have you aboard, I play the Chief Engineer here on the Academy ship. This is a place for you to learn the ropes of how we do things here while growing in confidence in your posting. Great job on your first post, really getting into the head of your character and it looks like I don’t have to go over OOC and IC interactions. Bonus! Also, don’t forget to sign off on your posts, don’t worry, sometimes it’ll even slip my mind, but it helps everyone know where you post ends and when you get to multiple people in a thread it helps to know who said what. Since you’re up to speed on our OOC/IC use, I’m going to show you another thing we do here, using Nameless Ensigns (NE) or Nameless Cadets (NC). I like to give them names but they’ll be denoted by those initials, these are NPCs that we create if we need to fill out an away team, repair crew, etc… or use to show some roleplaying with a quick conversation. I’ll show an example of that below in my response post as well. I’m looking forward to posting with you and helping you develop your character. Don’t let any of this intimidate you, all of us on the Challenger are here to help you grow as a roleplayer and a member here on STF. I always enjoy having another member of the Warp Core Repair team!

IC:
NE Dawson looked up from her PADD to the young cadet that had just entered the Engineering deck. “Oh, you must be looking for the Chief, he’ll be back in a few minutes if you want to wait over there.” She pointed to a corner alcove that lead to a door. “That’s his office right there.” She gave a quick nod and headed towards the warp core.

A few minutes passed, and around the far corner the figure of the Chief Engineer strode onto the main deck. He looked over at a nearby crewmember and got his attention with a quick nod. “NE Burton I know you looked at the EPS converter earlier today, but it’s acting up again. Best take a look, there may have been a blockage you missed.”
The engineer acknowledged Stadi and began walking from the way the Chief had come from. Continuing his movement through the deck, Dael felt a different mind on the general wavescape that was his Engineering room. He looked around and noted the new figure and headed that direction. After finally slowing down in front of the newcomer, it was obvious that he was holding a machine component. And it was vibrating, a lot.
“Hello, cadet. You must be the new member of the team, welcome. I’m Lt. Stadi, the Chief Engineer.” he said quickly as he moved towards the door to the office. “You mind holding this intercooler? It’s getting really hot.” He extended his arms to the cadet and dropped the part, waving his hands to cool them off while he pressed the door unlock to his office.
“Alright, in you go, you can set that down on the desk.” He pointed to the table in the back of the room. The room was filled on each side by engineering consoles, some spare uniforms and toolkits and parts strewn across the worktables. The main desk sat in front of a similar readout of the ship’s systems as the one in the Main Engineering deck, and the only really personal item in the room was a sphere that seemed to change shape and color depending on the angle it was observed.
“Anywhere will be fine, and then maybe we can try to stop it from heating up even more… or possibly exploding.”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, Chief Engineer


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