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Main reception room Perkins meets River at the Christening of the New USS Atlantis D

Posted Feb. 13, 2020, 4 a.m. by Lieutenant River Styxx (OIC Marine) (Nathan Derricutt)

Posted by Fleet Captain Kelly Bordeaux (Commanding Officer) in Main reception room Perkins meets River at the Christening of the New USS Atlantis D

Posted by Lieutenant River Styxx (OIC Marine) in Main reception room Perkins meets River at the Christening of the New USS Atlantis D

Posted by Fleet Captain Kelly Bordeaux (Commanding Officer) in Main reception room Perkins meets River at the Christening of the New USS Atlantis D
OCC. okay you don’t have to RP this if you don’t want to. I was just trying something past the boring meeting or conference. I am going to set up a scene just to get it started. If you don’t like it please erase what I said about what you were doing and create your own setting. I will role with it. I am doing these all simultaneously so that people have a chance to post if they want to. I also went into your bio and pulled the stuff about Archeon paraphrasing it. I wanted it to seem like Perkins knew of it but allow you to elaborate. If I got anything wrong we can just lead me where you need it to go.~Kate.

Admiral Perkins surveyed the room. Kelly’s crew seemed distinctly loyal but there was always one. One officer that could be tempted to see the benefits of a casual relationship and the perks random updates could bring. Information was always more powerful than weapons. As he surveyed the room Perkins debates where to start. He had the dossiers on everyone. Now it was time to play on the cracks in their armor. Power was all about promises and Perkins was all about promises.

Lt. River Styxx was in a small corner staring out the window with a drink in her hand. Perkins had no idea if it was being drunk or merely held for decoration. He knew of the marines career and the events on Acheron. Archeon was a shining jewel of a colony until it came under attack form a race of merciless aliens unknown to the Federation at the time. Six months of daily heavy fighting leveled the once thriving city was destroyed.

Her actions at the battle had not gone unheard by the normal marine. Her reputation grew giving her the nickname the Devil of Acheron because of her brutal tactics, merciless attitude and her unwavering courage. Perkins found almost a kinship with the woman in the respect of her single minded determination to accomplish a task and leave as many bodies behind as she needed to win. As her superior officers fell she stepped up replacing them until she won. He knew she had received the highest medal for a marine and promoted. There was no way she would have a clue Perkins wasn’t invovled in her getting that so maybe it was time to make her think she had a silent partner always backing her. People liked intrigue and there was no way she would know he had no

“Lt. Styxx,” Perkins walked up to the woman extending his hand. “I want to say thank you for all you did on Archeon. Many had no idea of the trials you endured but I did as did many others. Your loyalty and sense of duty is something the Admiralty took notice of. The decisions you had to make there showed all of us you have the strength to lead the Federation into the future. It might not be easy for people to understand but those not in power never understand the trials of command.”

Perkins

River heard the footsteps before the admiral spoke she slightly rolled her eyes and then turned to him “Really Sir” she said “I was under the impression most of the admiralty wanted me hanged for my actions. My tactics being marked as crimes against star fleet and the federation. Or was my trial just a formality? and if so why did Admiral Garder pursue the harshest judgement possible?” she asked still keeping her false tone of respect. She was trying to catch him out, but make it look like she was just being curious.

Lt Styxx (Marine OIC)

“Because Admiral Garder is an arse,” Perkins said without pomp or circumstance. “Your tactics were brutal and maybe you could have been a little less sever but you did what no one else could do on Acheron. You held the line. In the heat of battle you make decisions. Are all the decisions correct,” Perkins asked rhetorically, “not necessarily but neither is Monday morning quarterbacking if you know the term. Admiral Garder wanted to make a case of you to further his clout among the babbling buffoons that can clog the upper echelons of our ranks. With rank comes power and privileged. Not all those that have it use it wisely. Do I think you should have received the highest commendation that we had…yes. Do I think you should have had a debriefing to ask about your actions and choices…yes to. Life is all a balance,” Perkins snagged two drinks from a passing tray. “We can live in the past or talk about the future. So tell me what does Lt. River Styxx see in her future,” Perkins asked wearing an expression of pure interest. Normally he had to hide his emotions from the world. Right now he was genuinely interested in River’s response. It would tell him how to work this new potential asset.

Perkins

River sipped her drink “Battles, bodies and blood” she said pointedly “The federation has enemies on all fronts and form places we could never think of. While we have a time of ‘peace’ for now, i doubt it will last. Even the so called peace is not entirely true, how many ships go missing? or how many planets go dark? Their not all accidents and random anomalies.” she added. River was pessimistic by nature and she made no attempt to hide it.

Lieut Styxx (Marine OIC)


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