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Arrival - A Sea of Stars (Open!)

Posted Sept. 30, 2021, 4:55 p.m. by Ensign Tak (Scientist) (Riley W)

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“Incoming transport… Energize.” The transporter technician swiped the control and three patterns materialized.

Three very strange individuals stepped off the Transporter Pad. One was four and a half feet tall, the other two were 3’ and 2‘6”. The tallest of the trio wore a Starfleet uniform in Science Blue, altered to fit her small body and allow for their tail to emerge freely from the pants. The other two had simple robes, generally obscuring their forms. The taller’s robes were a pale green with blue embroidery, while the smaller had pale purple with silver embroidery. Their feet - or paws, at further glance - and the ends of their long tails left wet trails on the floor, and their clothes were dripping slightly. The small ones reached up to grasp the hands of the tall one.

“We apologize for the mess,” Tak spoke, looking up at the Transporter Technician with a smile. For a moment, the trio looked like a family of otters, but the technician tried to wipe the thought from his mind before he could let out an unmanly squeee from how cute they all were.

“It’s fine, Ensign, um…”

“Tak,” they replied with a smile, glancing down at her children. “Were our quarters adapted as requested?”

“I can check with ops?”

“It is fine. We will find out on our own. Thank you, officer,” Tak nodded cordially, then led Kota and Paku out of the Transporter Room. Time to welcome their new life aboard this new vessel.

Tata, I don’t like this ship,” the smallest complained in their native tongue, a series of clicks and whistles. “It has no heartbeat.

Tak chided their child briefly, “You promised to practice your Human speech, Paku. I feel your discomfort. This vessel is not alive. It hums beneath our paws and tails with gears.” She slapped the deck with her tail, making a small splash of water. They were still dripping.

“Sorry, Tata,” Paku dipped his head.

“It is very quiet,” the other child commented, holding tightly to Tak’s hand as if they were afraid to let go.

Tak nodded slightly, looking from side to side. “Very quiet and very big. It will be hard to adjust…”

Ens. Tak, Science

A voice suddenly spoke, and a bright blue ball began projecting from holo emitters in the ceiling. “Hello Ensign Tak and offspring, I am Mazie the USS Memorial’s Entity AI Unit. I look forward to working with you.” it said in a monotone and mostly androgynous voice, though there were subtle feminine inflections indicating the AI was progressing towards a Feminine identity.

Maize

Tak jumped back in fright, looking up at the weird blue ball. Paku and Kota hugged tighter to their Tata’s hands, Paku sliding behind her back. “Hello… Mazie,” Tak replied, eyes wide. They had read up on Federation technology, including their ‘holographs’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ and hadn’t really understood it all. Now she definitely understood a little better. Tak glanced down at their children and nudged them.

No fear. Chin up. Say hello to the nice voice,” she murmured, their words sounding like an odd whale song to anyone who didn’t understand the language. It was incredible that such rich and musical sounds could come out of such a small being.

Kota looked up at them, then up at the big glowy thing. “Hello, voice.”

Paku echoed the greeting. “Hello, voice.”

Tak and offspring

“Sorry if I startled you and your Offspring” the audio waveform on the front of the orb matching the words that were being spoken “Would you like some help finding someplace on the ship?” the orb asked trying to also be helpful

Mazie

Tak’s whiskers vibrated slightly as they sniffed the air. No scents. “We are going to our quarters,” they replied, looking up at the orb. “I know my way. I was given a, what is the human word… map? A map of the ship.”

Tak


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