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SB 257 Senior Officers Lounge

Posted Sept. 27, 2020, 7:10 p.m. by Commander Jason Harn (Executive Officer) (R Smith)

Posted by Captain Sidney Parker (Commanding Officer) in SB 257 Senior Officers Lounge

Posted by Commander Jason Harn (Executive Officer) in SB 257 Senior Officers Lounge

Posted by Captain Sidney Parker (Commanding Officer) in SB 257 Senior Officers Lounge
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The Captain waited for his ship to return. He had a mixed feeling. His XO’s of the past had been in command before, and Kolar had too. It was just this time he was not entirely sure they missed a beat without him. Which was good but also off setting for a captain. Harn had, by all accounts, done very well.

Parker CO

OOC: Never would have made it without Kolar.

OOC: Ouch. Should we describe the Olinski’s arrival at the Starbase? (Assuming that nothing stops us from arriving of course). And I forget, what number is this starbase?

OOC: Well its always been SB257 but it looks like its being called just Meridian Station now.

Sidney

OOC: If the Olinski decides to role play the arrival at the starbase, I would do the role play. However, if you want an express route, I could do that too. Any way, may I suggest a between sims activity as we journey to Meridian Station?

Kenson Koh

OOC: I’m a fan of the holodeck. There’s something very meta about simming about characters simming in a sim. Roleplaying officers who are terrible actors and don’t know a thing about their planet’s own history or archaic technology is humorous to me, and has the added benefit as something that can be dropped at a moment’s notice to be resumed later and have our characters as well as our players going “what was this holonovel about again?”. Of course, there’s nothing to stop us from having a picnic with “team building exercises” like trust falls and three legged sack races. Now that I think about it, “team building exercises” might be good for helping some of our new players get used to posting and interacting with the “old hands.”

R Smith

OOC: Good. I will just let you set it up and then see if I am needed. I will just post there as a side character …

Kenson

OOC: Well I will be waiting right here for the arrival.

Sidney

The Captain went to the SB CIC and talked to a few people. He basically wandered around getting in the way. His brief dalliance as a defense attorney had been exciting but he missed the Captains chair and the starship life.

Parker CO

He had though showed a great skill in the legalize world and would consider trying his hand at it if the need arose again. However he missed his crew. Men and women he had known for a long time now. “Good to get away but better to return” he thought to himself.

Parker CO

Starbase 237 had a massive layout that was designed to harbor numerous starships inside its upper, mushroom-shaped section. The interior docking bay could be accessed by four pairs of large space doors evenly spaced along the outer hull. Each set of space doors was located directly between two of the docking structures located inside. One of these pairs of space doors was wide enough to allow passage of an Excelsior-class vessel, while another could allow the passage of a Galaxy-class vessel. Passage through the outer doors and docking was handled by a dedicated docking control facility. The center of the internal docking space featured a column-like structure with three berths allowing a starship to dock on either side, for a total of six ships. The lounge Captain Parker was presently in was within this column-like structure and featured large windows, offering a panoramic view of the spacedock’s interior.

Slowly before Sidney Parker’s vision, the whalelike distinctive hull of the USS Brain A. Olinski, came into view. The first of its class, Olinski featured the”dish” that poked into view first was a diamond-style arrowhead shape, with the aft triangle being two-thirds the size of the forward triangle, if the aft triangle were allowed to run its full length. However, the aft point was aborted, replaced by a flat surface. The two nacelles were beneath the long whale like vessel on the ventral side, each 200 meters from the midline, and the pylons on the nacelles sat on a sixty-degree angle. One-third of each nacelle was beneath the dish, while the rest of the length extended behind it.

Sidney was not the only one who would have a reaction to the long titanic vessel. A child accompanied by a patient and gentle guardian immediately pointed and started chattering in a high pitched voice. The activity of such a large vessel in the surreal aquarium like view of the spacedock interior had excited her the Olinski dwarfed the shuttles and “worker bees” that had formerly been the only craft moving.

OOC: I’m making the assumption that Starbase 257 is a large “Spacedock” style space station orbiting a class M planet like in the various TNG episodes “11001001”, “The Measure Of A Man”, “Remember Me”, and “Phantasms”.

Jason Harn XO, attempting to create a cinematic moment

OOC: Incredible bit of descriptive narrative Kenson. Made feel like I was there. I like the analogy to a whale amongst smaller sea life. Or at least that vision appeared in my mind from the narrative. Yes in very early versions of the fleet MOTD I remember the traditional SB design being the one used for 257.
IC:

Sidney turned toward the kid and he too remembered the first time he saw a starship come into a dock. No matter the ship it was always impressive. He was somewhat jealous of the child because he would never get a “first time” again to see the Olinski. However being away from it for so long had conjured a similar feeling from him. Plus he rarely saw the ship come into dock. He was always in the chair watching them arrive to the SB.

He wanted to board right away but thought it best to let Harn finish this out. He sent a message for Harn to meet him the next day in the Captains Ready Room to debrief. After all by the account he had Harn had done as good as any Captain could. A successful mission as a CO of an Olinski Class Starship was quite the accomplishment.

He watched as the ship made its dock and then slowly turned away. He too had the feeling of the kid in the aquarium watching the biggest fish of all swim through its environment effortless displacing everything in its way. He made his way back to his SB quarters and not so patiently awaited to take back the command of his ship.

Parker CO

OOC: I agree, R has a way with words. Are you a GM as well, R?

Kenson

OOC: Nope. I can’t really say so. I did run a ‘holodeck adventure’ a while back though.

R Smith, who has no idea where to take the scene from here

OOC: Lets move to the SB Lounge where Harn and Parker have met up.
IC:

Sid was at a bar table already. The ones where you stand more than sit. He had the advantage on Harn since he was already on the base. He just messaged him to come and join him. He wanted a drink with the man who had taken his ship out and successfully brought it back in better shape than he had usually returned with it. His drink of choice was an old whiskey called Jim Beam. He sipped it as he waited.

Parker

Jason walked in, his impressive height made him easy to spot. He paused step aside to let a couple move past him and exit before smiling and striding over to Sidney to stand next to him at the bar. Sidney’s XO was in his uniform. In the age of interstellar travel fashion was defined as much by space as well as time. What was out of fashion in one solar system could be still be in style in another, or just be coming back into fashion for that matter. With a uniform one didn’t have to keep track all that, and a starbase was a place one could wear a uniform without getting stares.

“Hi boss,” Jason grinned as arrived. “Got the ship back in the same condition you left it in.”

Jason Harn, XO

“If not better.” Sid answered. “Good work Jason. Get a drink and lets talk.”

Sid had wanted to get to know the man, who in reality was much older than he, better. He said older but that was true and not true. Just because Harn was born in a certain century did not necessarily older than anyone in this one.

“How did the crew perform? I hear we lost the good Dr Doolittle.” He asked and stated.

Parker CO

“They performed admirably, and that is really something when someone could paralyze them and take over their physical actions at any moment,” Jason replied wryly. “I don’t know if anybody from my… erm… from history could have carried on as professionally.”

Jason preferred to be an open book, but he was still struggling. Even though Captain Parker knew about his past it was still hard for Jason to open up about it, particularly in public. The problem was that as long as he kept his past a secret, he could never really get close to anyone, and Jason was by nature a social animal and not a thoughtful introvert. The internal struggle made social interactions needlessly difficult and it didn’t take a ship’s counselor to see that Jason was holding himself back.

Jason Harn, XO


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