Posted by Captain Marceau Renault (Commanding Officer) in side - sim: Boarding the Sojourner

Posted by Lieutenant Helena Laursen (Helm/Nagivation Officer) in side - sim: Boarding the Sojourner

Posted by Commander Heather Grace (Executive Officer/Chief Science Officer) in side - sim: Boarding the Sojourner
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“Lt Helena Laursen, ships pilot and navigation officer. A pleasure Cmdr Grace.” She held out her hand. “I’m familiar with the ship’s layout and the duty officer at the air lock told me where my berth is.” Of course the XO had things to discuss with Cpt Renault. Helena was still a Lt but that was because she was happy with her position and doing what she loved. She was, however, a seasoned officer and knew how things went. “I can find my way there and meet up with you later, Cpt?”

Nodding Heather took the offered hand.

“Oh, euhm… If you wouldn’t mind her joining us, we were going to quickly tour the ship together.” Marceau smiled at Heather again, “It seems you already know your way, perhaps you could show us around? Then we’ll get to work.”

~ Captain Renault

Helena grinned, oh wasn’t this wonderfully awkward. She stood their waiting to see if she should stay or go.

Lt Laursen, pilot

“Of course not, please join us. I didn’t mean to interrupt any plans you had already Captain, Lieutenant, so my apologies.

“Not at all,” Renault replied, “I am glad you came to join us.”

Helena shook her head smiling at the Cmdr. “Not at all. I am always happy to meet people I’ll be working with. We’re all going to know each other well in a couple of months.”

“As for the ship, I can give you the nickel tour, but I’m still finding my ways into all of the different corners. I’ve spent most of my time in the science labs since arriving, as they just dropped all of the supplies and ran.”

Marceau nodded, “The… nickel tour, as you say, is better than no tour. It is a new ship after all, what can one expect?” And then he chuckled good-naturedly. “We will have more than enough time to sort and put everything away on the way. As long as it makes it on board, I will be happy.”

Helena shook her head as she followed behind them. The stories were always the same. Items get dumped with no rhyme or reason no matter how much of a hurry things are or not. Helena had found the best to hope for was the items ended up with the right department.

Heather turned and started heading down the hallway towards the lift. “I hope you had a pleasant trip to the ship. Though I suspect it was a bit nicer then the transport ship that most of the crew arriving later this morning will be on.”

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

Helena perked up a bit at that. “Do they need anyone to run a second transport?” A chance to fly more, even a short transport run, Helena was all for it.

Marceau flashed a little smile to Helena and then nodded. “It was a pleasant trip, yes. The rest of the crew should report in by 1100 this morning, and after that, we already have somewhere to be.”

~ Captain Renault

Helena smiled and shrugged a single shoulder. “I am to please, Cpt.” She was eager to know where they were going so she could get the course planned out, but she would be told when she needed to know.

Lt Laursen, pilot

Heather had to laugh slightly at Helena’s excitement to get back at the helm. “I think they have it covered for now. But don’t worry I’m sure you’ll get plenty of time at the helm of this ship soon enough.”

“Cmdr, do you know if both shuttle pods are docked onboard yet? I would really like to do test flights on both before we leave space dock. I would hate to find something is wrong, first time we have to land somewhere.”

Reaching into her uniform, Heather pulled out her datapad and looked through the inventory report that she had been last sent. “They are marked as both having been delivered. But I haven’t been down to the bay yet to see them for myself.”

Laursen nodded, making a mental note to hit the pod bay when their tour was over. It would go faster with an engineer to help, but they would all be busy getting the engines ready to go. She would need time to plot their course out as well.

As they all stepped into the lift, Heather hit the control for Deck C. “Senior officer quarters are on Deck C, with Junior Officer and non-comms split between Decks C, E and F. If we end up with a MACO team at some point, there is space set aside for their birthing on Deck D. Unfortunately for me, the science labs are also on D Deck.”

Heather tried not to think about that, hopefully they would stay out of her labs.

It wasn’t long before the lift opened up on C Deck. “Here we are. Captain, you are up this way,” Heather said pointing one way up the hallway. “My quarters are next door. And I believe Lieutenant, you are down this way.” Indicating the other direction from the lift, Heather made her way down the hallway.

“The shipyard crew had been labeling most of the quarters to help with move in. We don’t have a large crew, but with so many new people coming on board, anything that might help speed up the move in period is going to be needed.”

As they walked Heather pulled a small datapad out of her uniform pocket. On it she had a copy of the ships roster, with scheduled arrival times, quarter assignments, etc. Everything needed to hopefully make the move in go smoothly. It didn’t take her long to find Helena’s name on the list, just before they stopped in front of door number 10.

“And here you go Lieutenant.”

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

Helena slipped passed around Grace, “Thank you, Cmdr.,” and she keyed the door and dropped her bags inside before the door shut again. Time to get settled later.

Lt Laursen, pilot

“So any requests on where to next? Bridge? Pod Bay?”

Cmdr Grace - XO/CSO

“Let’s see the bridge,” Marceau replied with a smile. “It is good to see where the action will happen.” He wanted to see the med bay too but that could wait. It wasn’t where he would be working, not on this ship.

~ Captain Renault

“I am all for getting a glimpse of the controls for this baby. I heard the final design for the helm control is much more intuitive than the original design. More compact than what was in the Freedom class design.” Helena could go on for hours about flight controls and design.

Lt Laursen, pilot

“It is definitely more compact, as for more intuitive, I’ll have to leave that up to you to tell us,” Heather said as she led the way back towards the lift. “I know enough to hopefully not crash or blow up the ship in the case of an emergency, but I think there are many more qualified people on this ship to be at the helm before me. But it does pull some of the design cues from the Freedom class.”

As they all stepped onto the lift, Heather hit the controls for A Deck. “So you entered through the docking ports on A Deck. If we had continued past the lift access from the docking ports, we would have entered the bridge.”

Timing it just right, the doors to the lift opened in front of them on A Deck. “Captain, why don’t you do the honors,” Heather said pointing down the hallway towards the Bridge.

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

Marceau nodded, smiling just a little bit as he headed down the hallway and onto the ship’s Bridge. It was quite impressive for the time, and of course, after pausing at the door he went ahead and tried out the captain’s chair. Then he stood and looked to Helena, wanting her to check out the Helm station. To Grace he said, “It is an impressive bridge, is it not?”

~ Captain Renault

Helena followed along behind, watching. Marceau take in his shinny new bridge, with a grin. She stared at the helm taking in the design and layout and then glanced at the situation area where the navigational computer was. She could access it from the helm, but the larger more detailed work could be done from there. When Marceau glanced at her to check out the helm she practically skipped the first few steps and then slipped into the chair. It was more compact than the Freedom class and the controls had been moved around. She liked the yoke, it slid out from under the console for when she needed it rather than being in the way during warp travel. Her seat also moved on a track and locked down rather easily. Her hands glided across the console taking in the position of each control. “I can not wait till 1400.”

Lt Laursen, pilot

“They definitely made a pretty impressive bridge Captain. I can’t speak to most of the design, that’s outside my specialty, but they definitely streamlined a lot of the features from the previous designs. I noticed that they took out some of the extra redundancy on the science console, which gave us some more room to actually look through the data.

“And hopefully the controls are to your liking Lieutenant.”

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

Helena nodded, “Oh yes. The early prototypes we’re quiet an improvement but this is,” Helena’s fingers ran across the console again, “pure magic and appears absolutely intuitive. I can’t wait to to get familiar with it.” But it would have to wait until later in the day. She swiveled in the seat and stood moved toward the door. Not before glancing at Renault in the center chair. “It suits you, Captain.”

Laursen, pilot

Marceau grinned… but it was almost a shy grin? A little half smile, really. “Can’t wait for 1400, hum? It will be exciting, yes?” Then he turned to leave the bridge with the both of them, “We will be spending more than enough time here. What else would you two like to see while we have the time?”

~ Captain Renault

“Well I’ve been able to poke my head around a decent amount, is there anything in particular that you’d like to see? We can swing by engineering.” Heather paused to look at the clock on a nearby console. “Or you are of course free to do some self exploration of the ship. I recommend not to expect much out of the science labs yet as I’m still trying to get them organized.”

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO