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rest of the ship. hopefully,
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whoever posts next can bring us up to speed.
whoever posts next can bring us up to speed.
<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."
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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>
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-Captain Zane, Commanding, USS FEYNMAN<br>
-Commander Horatio Sinclair, Fleet Intelligence, BLUE FLEET<br>
-Commodore Robert Steele, Commanding, TASK FORCE ZINDERNEUF<br>