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CE's Office - Eve checking in

Posted May 3, 2020, 1:55 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Miz'uki (Chief Engineer) (Kirt Gartner)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Eve (Engineering Officer) in CE’s Office - Eve checking in
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Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Miz’uki (Chief Engineer) in CE’s Office - Eve checking in

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Eve (Engineering Officer) in CE’s Office - Eve checking in

“Ahhh Lieutenant Eve Yesss Over here I just found a pack that took a pretty bad Shock from the plasma Flow Regulators being unceremoniously ripped out” the Caitian purred she was laying on her side facing Eve “So Tell me, Lieutenant, If I were to assign you a task would you’re work reflect quality or Quantity?” she asked as she began to undo the gel pack Eve could probably estimate even with the Chief on her side that she was around 5’ 10” tall all of 150 lbs and was well endowed one eye was green the other a bright yellow both had the signature feline slit pupils she had a shoulder length bob cut that was dyed purple and wore for the most part a standard uniform however instead of pants she wore a skirt and instead of boots over her Digitgrade legs Which would not have worked anyway she had the Caitian leg armor system which were a pair of bracers that was allowed by starfleet For Caitians who were unable to wear boots but wanted to keep their legs and paws safe

Miz’uki

Eve handed the gel packs over to Miz’uki, while at the same time studying the caitian’s physique most intently. It took the android five nanoseconds more than standard to register the CE’s question to her.
“Ma’am,” she replied, “I am capable of performing approximately two trillion operations per second, with a deviation from expected output of 0.0001 percent. So you can expect for my performance to encompass both quality and quantity, Ma’am.”

For a moment the android fell silent and returned to studying her new chief. Then suddenly a wide grin spread across her lips and she added, “Do you have a task for me now, Ma’am?”

  • Eve (Eng)

Miz’uki began to make a strange noise that almost initially sounded like hissing but with the look on her face it would be quite apparent that she was laughing “Well I did not expect that response…Lieutenant the thing Is I expect the job to be done right Safety is the most important thing that I stress on this team but still I need to check some other Sets of Gelpacks” she said as she replaced the damaged pack “Come with me…I still wish to talk to you more…I have not been able to take a look at your Service record so Would you share your past posts with me as we move to the next set of packs?” she asked while sliding backwards down the tube back to the ladder to move decks

Miz’uki

The almost hissing-like quality of Miz’uki’s laugh was initially interpreted by the android as a defensive vocalisation. In an automatic response, Eve retrieved the only weapon in her possession at that time - a hyperspanner - and held it aloft in the manner one might brandish a phaser. But promptly the humorous quality of the reaction was identified, leaving the engineer to attempt a discreet pocketing of the spanner, hopefully before her new Chief could notice.

Following along as ordered, Eve complied with the request for a verbalisation of her own history, deciding, logically, to start at the very beginning and proceed linearly from there. However, in previous instances of her recounting her existence to others, she had often been advised that her vocal delivery was ‘boring’. Or more precisely, to “shut up before you put us all to sleep”, which amounted to the same thing. And so, not wishing to tranquilise her new superior, and especially not when she was in the midst of important repairs, Eve decided to mimic the style of her favourite novels to make her tale more engaging.

“Once upon a time there was a girl called Eve” she began, her vocal tone adopting a song-like quality. “She was not a real girl. But her father liked to pretend that she was. They lived together in a house with no other houses. On a planet with no other planets. Her father called it exile. But eventually he abandoned her and Eve was left all alone. For fifty years she continued to prepare his meals and to tend his garden the way he had liked, in the hope that he would come back for her. But the food was never eaten and became rotten and the flowers were never admired and withered in their beds.”

“Then one day, some mysterious strangers came to Eve’s home and asked her to go with them. She could tell they were all friends because they wore the same badge on their chests,” and here she pointed to her own commbadge. “Eve wanted to be their friend too, so she went with them and eventually won a badge for her own chest. She went to a big school with lots of different people, none of whom were like Eve. There she learned how to be an engineer and to build and to fix huge starships. And then she got to ride on those huge starships and fix them at the same time.”

As she continued to deliver her monologue, the engineer assisted Miz’uki in her work wherever possible, handing the Caitian tools or removing expired gelpacks as required.

“Eve’s first new family was on the USS Draco. For a time Eve was very happy there and made a lot of new friends. But then the others came. They were like Eve but not like her. They had been people once but now were more synthetic. They…tricked Eve into going with them…”

Suddenly the android paused and appeared almost reluctant to continue with her story, as if the conclusion of this chapter was somehow difficult to speak of, or brought her a sense of shame. But of course, she was merely a machine and did not labour beneath emotions such as shame and guilt. And so eventually, hesitantly, she spoke on.

“To Eve they seemed perfect. She wanted to be like them. She wanted to be…perfect. But it was only a trick. Not real. The only thing real had been Eve’s betrayal of her crew. And so she left them and fled far away and for a long, long time simply travelled in her tiny escape pod from one place to the next. But now there were others, like Eve but far more advanced. But the people did not seem to like them, the way some of them had liked Eve. They did not trust them. And so Eve was told to pretend that she was not Eve, that she was someone, something else.”

“Eventually she met a wonderful woman called Drudoc Andone, who trusted Eve and was not afraid of her. Andone brought Eve onto her starship and allowed her to become part of her family. And for a time Eve was happy once more, as she had been on the Draco. But as more and more people began to protest against those like Eve, it was decided that once again she should leave, should return to exile. Like her father before her.”

Another silence. The android was holding one of the damaged gelpacks in her hand and was staring into it as humans often gazed into the similarly blue-tinged waters of a tropical fishtank, as if the elaborate chains of neural fibres within were a most curious and fascinating creature.

“But no organism can exist in isolation,” she concluded, holding the gelpack aloft as if it perfectly illustrated her point. “Bereft of connections, these neural fibres are as useless and as unavailing as a robot without a master. And so it was that Drudoc Andone found Eve once more and brought her back to the Ark Angel, where she was given a Caitian for a boss and a Vulcan for a roommate!” she concluded enthusiastically.

Then finally, her vocal quality returning to its baseline, almost monotone delivery, she added, “Is there anything else you wish to know, Ma’am?”

  • Eve (Eng)

OOC Post coming soon I need to work on how to reply :P

KG


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