Post # 48 " The Informalities"

Posted on Sat Oct 3rd, 2020 @ 10:24pm by Commodore Cyndi Song

Mission: Star Base Mercury
Location: USS Amandora
Timeline: Concurrent to Post 44

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< Amandora >

Will had seen his family arise for the day. Amethyst was doing great as was baby Flora and young Kal. All was good which left Will worried.

Rushing to the bridge he decided to check in with the Commodore to update her on the mission.

" Hello Ma'am. Permission to give my duties report?" her XO greeted.

Cyndi turned from the science console she'd been working on and nodded "Permission granted, let's go to my office," Cyndi led the way to her office and waited for Will to enter.


Will followed her and found his seat on the other side of the desk.

" Formal or informal?"

"Informal," Cyndi replied as she walked over to a locked cupboard and removed a bottle and two glasses. Walking over to her desk "This was a gift from Admiral Snow after he promoted me. It's wine from the planet Kindman. I've never been there but the wine is very good not over powering," she poured some into both glasses and handed him one. "Give it a try. Then give me your report."

Swallows and then a second.

" Wow! Smooth."

"He gave me a case of it," Cyndi said "But I do like it. I'll save a couple bottles for a formal dinner should the situation ever call for it."

" Well here goes. Two days ago myself and Lt Kordell rescued a freighter. We found ourselves in a pickle. Sector 2 has an anomalous chronoton field that trapped the freighter. We discovered that the freighter was fluctuating between it and sector one. Our runabout got jostled, freed the freighter but it sort of altered us." Will reported.

"Altered you how?" Cyndi asked taking a drink of her wine "You look fine to me."

" Damnest thing. Apparently it created a negative energy copy of ourselves. The positive freighter escaped the field but it bumped the negative us to. My much older self realized this and crossed back into the negative zone, ironically sector 2, bumping us out. We deployed caution buoys but some freighter Captains are testing it due to having to go around the black holes outer gravity slew." Will reported.

"Don't they realize that buoys are placed for a reason and that negative and positive cannot coexist. What are the chances of collapsing that black hole?" Cyndi asked.

" Lt Herculoid would be a good one to ask. I had an astro metrics peer at the academy who studied black holes. Good buddy actually, I could give him a call?" Will replied.

"I'll get in touch with her and see what we can come up with. But I think the answer is to collapse it. It's far too dangerous to have it this close to a new star base and a solar system," Cyndi commented

" Black holes are not something to play with. As a pilot I assure you. They're too unpredictable. As for my mission I have trained the new staff and feel confident their shuttle control and ops sections are nominal. How goes the new commander of the base? Captain...I forget the name?"

"Captain Leaf is well in command, Doctor Bjogo and Lieutenant Kahn are out exploring and I'm content to let the crew explore for a time, everyone has been pushed so hard as of late that with the new starbase fully staffed and running there is no need to hurry to get underway," Cyndi commented.

" What in hell are they exploring, sorry Commodore. Who is training the new stations medical staff?" Will's XO voice asked.

"Doctor Bjorgo did quite a bit and so has Doctor Long," Cyndi said "From what Captain Leaf told me the Mercury's sick bay is ready."

" I suppose. Next week should be interesting. The stations new Exec and Chief Science officers arrive.

Cyndi nodded "I heard the same thing, we should be done here in a week or so and then onto other things."

" This sector is full of surprises that's for sure. Ok lastly Mommy,and Baby Flora are doing great so I am rushing back to the station to finish up some orientations." Will added.

"That sounds good, I should stop in and see them. I'm looking forward to seeing what more lies out there. Okay commander keep me posted on things. I'm going to be a scientist for a while," Cyndi commented.

Will stood and exited as he had come in non formally.

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