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<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: Discussion and Discovery</h3> | |||
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by | |||
Andrew Catterick 3-25-1997</h4> | |||
SD: 90325.1300<br> | |||
Scene: Planet Surface<br> | |||
MD: 6.0820<br> | |||
<I> | |||
Zane remained silent. Soon both men returned their attentions to the | |||
horizon. The first rays of dawn were creeping up shooting its tendrils | |||
all over the sky. | |||
"There is something I do want to say though Captain," interrupted Loren. | |||
"Being a Captain requires one to be strong in the face of all kinds of | |||
dangers and circumstances. It builds trust with the crew. Other things | |||
build trust too. Remember our first pysche session? You said that you | |||
were the type who strove to be approachable by any member of your crew. | |||
It would go a long way in not alienating your crew if they saw someone who | |||
had strengths and weaknesses like themselves; someone who could feel a | |||
loss as much as them." | |||
Zane once again prepared to open his mouth in some sort of reply, but | |||
Loren cut him off before he was able to speak. | |||
"I'm not saying that you are doing anything amiss in this area. From my | |||
understanding, I'm probably just reminding you of something you already | |||
now."<br> | |||
</I> | |||
Zane considered what Loren had said. He was of course right but it | |||
didn't mean that Zane felt any less guilt over his internal struggle in | |||
sickbay. He thought back to the picture of Glin'kharr sprawled out dead on | |||
the sickbay floor. He had knelt over him consummed with emotion But | |||
quickly the voice of his command instructor at the Academy had broken into | |||
his grief and chided him for it. People under your command died. It was | |||
tragic but you had to move on. And above all you had to show your crew that | |||
you had to move on. And so he had risen and put it behind him. But he | |||
didn't want to put it behind him and part of him felt ashamed. | |||
The two men sat in silence, each lost in his private thoughts. The | |||
sunrise was spectaculer with the swirls of the nebula as its backdrop. | |||
Slowly the rays of light creeped across the world-encompassing ocean slid | |||
across the soil of the small island to greet them. The commander in Zane | |||
emerged again and he broke the silence. "Lt. Jerran spoke very highly of | |||
you in his debrief." | |||
Loren shrugged. "Just doing my job sir. We all did." | |||
"Nonetheless you did and exceptional one and I have added a | |||
commendation to your record. But I'm curious about your job as you put it." | |||
"Sir?" | |||
Zane reached into his duffel and retrieved the thermos to top up | |||
both of their coffees. "Why are you a counsellor?" | |||
"I'm not sure I follow." | |||
"Well your actions since you've joined the FEYNMAN, this past | |||
mission especially, haven't actually been in the traditional realm of a CNS. | |||
Volunteering for a covert operation designed to strike at the enemy isn't | |||
exactly in your job-description." | |||
"I've been trained to be adaptive and assumed that I was expected to | |||
serve in any way I could." | |||
"Oh I agree. I expect all my senior officers to be able to perform | |||
a variety of tasks. I don't want people who are pigoened holed. The | |||
question wasn't meant as a criticism. As I said, I commend your performance | |||
but that doesn't mean that I'm not a little surprsied. Very few councillors | |||
volunteer for combat missions so when I come across one that does I wonder | |||
what makes him tick. I've looked over your Academy record and its clear | |||
that you could have entered any branch of the service and excelled, security | |||
especially, so why counselling?" | |||
"Captain"! One of the security officers shouted as he jogged | |||
over. "We've found something." | |||
Zane and Loren stood tossing the contents of their mugs on to the | |||
shrubs beside them. "Report." | |||
"Over to the north, just over the rise there, there are some caves. | |||
One of the geologists went in to retrieve some samples and found a entry way | |||
of some sort." | |||
"An entry-way?" Zane asked. | |||
"You better see for yourself sir." | |||
<nowiki>____________________________</nowiki><br> | |||
Scene: Just inside the cave opening.<br> | |||
Zane and Loren entered to find most of the landing party milling | |||
about the find. The cave was filled with a number of crates and containers | |||
of all shapes and sizes. Hearing the captain, Geologist Nicks pulled her | |||
head out of the box she had been looking through. "Captain I don't | |||
recognize alot of this equipment but I'd say this is for surveying. Someone | |||
here was preparing to do some extensive exploring." | |||
"The Husnock." Loren stated. | |||
Zane nodded and looked over to a security officer emerging from the | |||
darkness at the back of the cave. "Captain I found a lift at the end of the | |||
cave. According to my tricorder the shaft goes down a little over 2km and | |||
opens up into a huge cavern." | |||
"Well counsellor, care to do a little spelunking?" | |||
<<<NRPG>>> | |||
Kevin: I left room for Loren to continue the career discussion if your | |||
interested. As for the discovery, I can't really see the Husnock not | |||
exploring the world beneath them. All the equipment points to the fact that | |||
they must have found something. Either way I leave the first phase of our | |||
exploration up to you. | |||
Respectfully,<br> | |||
Andy<br> | |||
<nowiki>---------------------------------------------------------</nowiki> | |||
-Captain Zane, Commanding, USS FEYNMAN<br> | |||
-Commander Horatio Sinclair, Fleet Intelligence, BLUE FLEET<br> | |||
-Commodore Robert Steele, Commanding, TASK FORCE ZINDERNEUF<br> |