Posted Dec. 13, 2020, 10:29 a.m. by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Lieutenant Robert Mason (Chief Engineer) in USS Calypso, 2394- When Things Go Awry
Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in USS Calypso, 2394- When Things Go Awry
Posted by Lieutenant Robert Mason (Chief Engineer) in USS Calypso, 2394- When Things Go Awry
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻(snip)
“It’s definitely shifted. It seems to new trajectory that would cause it to collide with the sixth planet, a gas giant,” Soto reported. Glancing at the XO briefly, he actually reported to Siterra. “Captain, while our scans are not as accurate as we’d like in this instance, it does seem that there was an explosion on the asteroid. That is what has shifted it out of its orbit.”
“They need help now,” Myqian tossed out there, though it was likely obvious.
Elise nodded slowly. “How long till it reaches the gas giant? Can we navigate the asteroid belt?”
~Lt. Cmdr Myqian, CNS and Calypso crew
Ensign Nurell kept talking from the conn: “Approximately… two hours? I’m reading a potentially relativistic velocity…” In other words, it was traveling far faster than any natural object besides light had any business traveling. She pushed the console forward and swiveled in her chair to face the Captain.
“The belt is too thick for us to navigate at the required velocity for intercept, Captain. We’d need to go at Full Impulse to catch up with it, and if we were to collide with an asteroid at that speed…”
“Well, why don’t we just meet it when it comes out on the other end?” Bill asked.
“It’s accelerating as it approaches the planet,” Nurell immediately answered. “We’ll have less than thirty minutes for a rescue if we wait that long.”
“Let’s decelerate it with the tractor beam when it gets there,” Bill offered.
“It’s too massive.”
“Can’t we do that gravitational constant… thing?”
“Sir?”
“You know… the thing…”No, she didn’t know ‘the thing’, but if she did, she would know that would at best have only bought them a small amount of time before burning out the tractor assembly…
– Commander William Franks, Calypso XO
Dira shook her head in slight frustration. “We’re wasting time,” she said evenly. “We can just take a shuttle. It can navigate more deftly and can land on the asteroid safely.”
“We still don’t know where everyone exactly is at the facility,” Siterra pointed out. And it was a valid concern. Without the ability to pinpoint where people were, they risked an away team being on the asteroid too long and everyone going down.
“I’ll go,” Myqian said simply. It seemed the most obvious answer.
“But-” Soto began.
Dira cut him off. “I’m a telepath. The closer we get, the stronger the emotions and the stronger I can feel individuals. If I’m down on that asteroid I can pin point where conscious people are, much like a homing signal.”
Siterra gazed intently at Dira for a moment and then nodded. “Okay.” She turned to Franks. “Commander, form a rescue team. Take all precautions and see if you can find survivors.”
~Lt. Cmdr Myqian, CNS & Crew
“Okay,” Franks repeated somewhat thoughtlessly; he was thinking about the task at hand. “I mean, ‘Aye aye, ma’am,’” he corrected himself a moment later. He stood up started walking to the turbolift. “Let’s go,” he said to Dira.
As he was walking he started talking over the comm system:
=/\= Franks to Engineering. Have whoever is at the top of the duty roster report to the Main Shuttlebay. =/\=
=/\= Engineering acknowleges. =/\=
=/\= Franks to Sickbay. Prepare to receive wounded, and have a medic report to the Main Shuttlebay. =/\=
=/\= Understood, Commander. =/\=As the turbolift door shut with the two of them standing there, he looked at her for a moment before asking: “You can double as a medic if you have to, right?”
– Commander William Franks, Calypso XO
Careful to maintain a professional demeanour, Myqian nodded. “Better than yet. My medical degree makes me also a qualified doctor, even if I don’t practice regularly in that field. I can help wherever needed,” she said simply. It was weird being alone in a space with him again. Her body instantly remember the discomfort of their last interactions in her office. Of course, any therapist worth their credentials understood that transference was a legitimate situation, but she had yet to have it happen to her after all these years. To have it surface so strongly and from someone she technically reported to had made a perfect storm of a situation. And she being a telepath made it that much harder because she was acutely aware of his feelings towards her, even if she wished she didn’t.
No one knew. Not even Elise. If anyone ever learned anything, they would only know that Dira had been his therapist and no longer was. Confidentiality and all that. Embarrassing the man wouldn’t help him deal with the serious issues he was facing. If she were honest and a less… scrupulous person, she’d want to punch his father in the nose for being such an ass to his family at every turn, but she wasn’t and she never, ever would. Still, admitting that she sympathized with William’s feelings about his father had led to a strange shift in their working relationship that was wasn’t sure they would ever recover from.
~Lt. Cmdr Myqian, CNS
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