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Side Sim - Relaxation and Exercise in the Holodeck

Posted March 13, 2019, 11:40 p.m. by Ensign Kavox Monsant (Science Officer) (Mike Bourdaa)

Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineer) in Side Sim - Relaxation and Exercise in the Holodeck

Posted by Ensign Kavox Monsant (Science Officer) in Side Sim - Relaxation and Exercise in the Holodeck

Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineer) in Side Sim - Relaxation and Exercise in the Holodeck
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They stepped through into the new space, which was a fully floored room with stairs leading upwards on one side, and downwards on the other side. Covering the exterior walls was a huge collection of bookcases, and within each case was a small library of books. It was a huge collection of knowledge. “It’s even more beautiful in real life,” Kaia said softly. “I wasn’t able to bring the knowledge of the books with me, just the image of their covers. I miss this city…”

Ensign Kaia, Eng

“A shame,” he said; that cancelled any temptation he might have had to remove one of the books from the shelves. It wouldn’t have taken up that much more data space really to fill the books with the correct text, but he realized the difficulty might have been in computerizing all the ancient paper records in the first place. Something Edasich, as such a new world, never had to face, but old Bajor certainly did; there were still ancient texts that could only be viewed in their original paper format.

“How long have you been away from your homeworld?” he asked

-Ens Kavox Monsant

OOC: NOTE, when transliterating the galdori language, “i” represents a long e as in bee, and “y” represents a short i as in win. vyn is pronounced like the vin in vin diesel.

IC: Kaia nodded quietly at his comment. The truth was that this was one of only a few simulations she had been able to bring with her on a very small data crystal. When there was a choice between filling books with text and adding another location, she chose adding another location. “You wouldn’t be able to read it all anyways,” she commented. “Most of these books are written in Dra’ka’vyn, the ancient language of my people. Some are in Dra’wan’vyn, some in Dra’le’vyn, some in Dra’ku’vyn. And some in Gal’do’vyn - the language we speak in modern days. But still not English or any language you would know,” she smiled slightly.

His question brought her pause, causing the small alien to stop in her smiling reminiscence and think more solemn thoughts. “Since I lived at home, just under four years. Since my last visit… about a year? I haven’t been off the Manhattan since I joined this crew, except for the occasional away mission, due to our being halfway across the galaxy from Galdor… These simulations are a great help to me,” she smiled slightly. “I grew up in the outskirts of Ba’slu city.”

Kaia, eng.

“Ah… right. That reminds me, I need to record a letter to my mom back home. I haven’t been able to send her one since just after graduation…” He shook his head a little. “Is this city a representation of your hometown then? Or is it a different one?”

-Kavox Monsant

“This is Ba’slu,” Kaia gestured around them. “I grew up in this library, in that cultural center, in that theater,” she smiled, nostalgia clear on her face. “If I had a proper simulation of the city I could take you everywhere,”she said thoughtfully. “Unfortunately this is a very small simulation. Just the library and the art museum…”

Kaia, Eng

“Better than I have,” Monsant said with a chuckle. “I don’t have any holorecordings of home. There’s probably a few of Bajor somewhere in the main databases, but at this point I’ve actually spent way more time on Earth than Bajor, because of the Academy.” He shrugged a little. “Well, I suppose the art museum might be worth a look. Can’t read books here, but we can look at paintings and sculptures right?”

-Kavox Monsant

Kaia nodded, stepping forward, deeper into the library. In the center of the room they were in was a large column, and around the column was a gap of a few feet with bridges. Kaia effortlessly crossed a bridge and stepped through a doorway, entering another, smaller chamber within the larger chamber.

Kaia, eng

Monsant followed across the bridge; being only a few meters above wasn’t that bad, after all. It’s not as if he was hundreds of meters… ugh… stop thinking about that!, he scolded himself. Once he had made close to the smaller chamber, he turned backwards briefly to look at where he had come from. No problem. “So it’s in the same building then?” he wondered.

-Kavox Monsant

Kaia nodded. “The art gallery is in the center of the library,” she said, and the new room immediately made her statement make sense. The room was a round chamber, with stairs going up one side and down on the other side. Between those stairwells was a collection of beautiful artworks. Paintings, carvings, sculpture, photographs, even framed sheet music and other forms of artistic expression were featured in this display. “A collection of the greatest artworks of my world. I came here all the time as a kitten. All the books, and all the artwork… for the Raka, artistic expression and story-telling are the highest forms of expression and achievement, so this whole structure holds an honoured position in our culture…”

Kaia, eng

He raised an eyebrow. “Was that a universal translator glitch, or did you call yourself a kitten?” he asked, a little grin on his face, once he got his bearings in the room. His eyes were instantly attracted to one of the sculptures in the room. “Some kind of reptile, it looks like… one of the other species on your world?”

-Kavox


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