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Side sim: The Meeting in the Service Ducts

Posted June 16, 2022, 3:03 p.m. by Lieutenant Hannah Lori Asimina (Medical Officer) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Lieutenant Siarram Ch’Thaanaq (Chief Engineer) in Side sim: The Meeting in the Service Ducts

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“Written languages fascinate me. How a specific shape came to represent the sound of a letter or a whole word. Much like how specific hand gestures came to represent specific words in sign language.” Hannah waved her hands in a back and forth twisting motion just to draw attention to them, indicating what she had been doing while they spoke.

Siarram had just assumed she liked to talk with her hands in the metaphorical sense. He hadn’t realized the motions meant something. “Sign language?” He asked curiously.

Hannah nodded as if his question made sense. “Sign language is a type of manual communication commonly used by people who are deaf or unable to speak verbally. Different physical gestures, or signs, represent specific words. For example,” Hannah made two fists and held them side by side and then extended her thumbs to touch and stuck out her pinky fingers. Then she rotated them back and forth in opposite directions, “This means engine.” Then she held her hand open palms facing and moved them out, “and this is the sign for ‘person’. So you put them together and you have a person who works with engines, or an engineer. Then if we add this sign first,” she made a claw type shape with her right hand and tapped her right shoulder twice, “which means boss or chief,” and then she made the sign for engineer again, “We get Chief Engineer.”

She smiled her thanks. “Thank you. I’m also on the rapid response and search and rescue teams. Reading a map and using it to navigate in an emergency isn’t quite the same as being familiar with the Jefferies tubes.”

Asimina, med

Siarram nodded. “Oftentimes those maps, while accurate, don’t quite capture the intricacies of the tubes. I’ve seen too many take a wrong turn, trying to follow the maps, and get all turned around. You like to be prepared in case of an emergency, don’t you? A logical decision.” He commented, remembering this was the doctor who had insisted on attempting to replicate his blood in case there was ever an emergency in which it was needed.

~Lt Ch’Thaanaq, CE

“I do. It cuts down reaction time and if someone is hurt or lost, being familiar with the area can reduce critical minutes until help arrives.” Hannah grinned, “It’s good exercise too. How are you settling in?”

Asimina, med

He smiled, “I’d want you on the team if I ever find myself hurt.” Then he shrugged. “It’s been busy.” Really, Siarram was just a bit of a workaholic, though he tried not to be. “I’m starting to have more time for hobbies, now that I’ve had time to settle in and get to know the rest of the Engineering staff.”

~ Lt Ch’thaanaq, CE

Her right fingertips touched her chin and moved outwards, “Thank you.” Hannah didn’t know if he was saying that just to be polite but she would take the compliment. “Saracen always seems to stay busy.” Her first day aboard had been a whirlwind. They had traveled through a rip in space-time and there had been a lot of casualties. She hadn’t even been checked in before she was put to work. “What types of hobbies do you enjoy, Siarram?”

Asimina, med

Siarram thought about it a moment, “I practice Vulcan meditation and martial arts, and I ehm…” He trailed off, looking… embarrassed? Instead he changed the topic back. “Meditation and martial arts work well together to keep me calm. Separately, certain… troublesome emotions tend to become overpowering.”

~ Lt Ch’thaanaq, CE

“Well that makes sense, you must train both your body and your mind for discipline. I would imagine otherwise one of those could distract the other from helping you. I guess that’s why I like rock climbing. When you’re up there you have to let go of all the extra stuff, focus on your breathing and your body and nature. You can’t allow your mind to become distracted by other thoughts or worries or your body to work on instinct, you have to focus and place each hand and foot exactly or disaster happens.”

Asimina, med


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