New Beginnings

Posted on Fri Mar 24th, 2017 @ 3:11pm by

1,163 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Unknown Life, Unknown Dangers
Timeline: MD 1 || 1000 Hours

It was only a couple his ago that Lieutenant Kaia Calder received her new orders from Starfleet H.Q. Orders that would have her serving aboard a starship once more. The former Security and Tactical officer turned Intelligence officer was looking forward to the next step in her career, not that things hadn't been interesting before. In fact, the day she graduated from the Academy twenty-six years ago, things had been nothing but exciting for her.

First thing on her very long list of things to do was to meet the ship's Commanding Officer. This was going to be interesting since she found no two COs were truly the same except in the way they were all in charge.

With a PADD in hand, she looked over the deck listings for the Ascension class vessel and mapped out how to get to Commodore Hood's Ready Room from her present location. Once that was done, the raven haired woman was on her way, thinking about the kinds of changes she'd want to make to her new department along the way. Of course, the Commodore had the ultimate say, but when it came to the safety of the crew, some of them would be necessary.

Her journey was a short one thanks to her mind wandering, and now she found herself standing at the COs door. Taking a deep breath, Kaia let it out slowly. First impressions were everything to her, and now she hoped things would be smooth sailing from this point forward. She reached out to touch the chime on the panel beside the door and waited to be granted entry.

Hood sat in his Ready Room reviewing the scores of information and reports that needed his attention. Engineering reports, medical updates, technical requests from the maintaining facility, crew manifest updates. It was alot to take in a most than what he was expecting for a ship of this size. When the door chime sounded it rang like a welcome break to an otherwise frustrating past hour.

"Come." He spoke, sitting back in his chair waiting to see who would be the first of his many no doubt, visitors since his arrival on board.

Kaia walked through the door and looked at the man settled behind the desk. "Commodore Hood? I'm Lieutenant Commander Kaia Calder, your new Chief of Intelligence. I'm not interrupting anything important, am I?" She asked, moving away from the proximity sensors so the door would close behind her.

"No, no. Nothing I can't pick up later Commander." William stood up his hand out to her. "William Hood." Though William suspected coming from Intelligence she probably already knew that if she was going to be his new Chief. "Place, take a seat."

She took his hand and shook it, then released it before taking the offered seat. "It's rather commonplace for new arrivals to introduce themselves to Command staff, so you are my first stop before I continue to move down the list," she said. "I suppose I'll jump right into things. I know what my job entails, but what are your expectations of me?"

"Exactly as the job entails frankly." William spoke. "You will find or already found out that I'm not your typical flag officer, I've been....known to flex the rules a little when the need calls for it, skirt the regulations from time to time. I'm not out for my next pip, too old for that now anyway but Im here to do a job." Will leant back in his chair having sat down.

"That said, to do my job well I need to know all the elements in the equation which is where you come in. I need to know information that you feel is suited to the situation at hand. I know I have other experienced officers but you have taps in areas they do not." William added but then came another point. "Now I know we all wear the same uniform, colours change but I need to know you wont be going behind my back and spilling every single tibbet of information back to the black hats at SFI?"

Trust went both ways and to William that trust was one way if the other was whispering behind his back.

"So, you're basically asking me to falsify my reports that go back to Starfleet Intelligence?" Kaia asked simply.

Ahhhh, so that was the state of play? "So are you spying on me or the ship?" William asked. "As I understand it Admiral S'iraa fought hard to keep Intel of his ship, now hes gone Intel swoops in toot sweet. So what are you reporting on?"

Kaia arched an eyebrow as she rose to her feet. "Let's get one thing straight, Commodore... I'm not here to spy on you or anyone, and the fact that you're standing there and accusing me of that is pure bullshit," she snapped, her Scottish accent thickening. The man didn't know her from a hole in the head, and now he was going to accuse her of things. That wasn't going to fly. "Perhaps, I should show myself the door and leave you to your delusions. It seems you've got more than your fair share." Shaking her head, and with anger in her Kelly green eyes, she turned to move for the door.

"Now listen here darlin', this is my ship now. The fact your even here is because Admiral S'iraa isn't. Now frankly, and lets be frank since you opened the door there. I dont much like Starfleet Intelligence, they tell you just enough to do something but not too much to prevent you tripping up." William paused.

"I know, they did it to me before. So if you want to leave, there is the door, or you can stay and before you wonder what you have to lose, consider the class of ship this is and all the fancy state of the line toys it has that other starships don't." William spoke in a calm collected voice, he truly did hate SFI but knew they were a necessary evil at times.

"You, your ship and your fancy toys don't impress me," the raven haired woman said as she turned to look at him. "And don't address me in such an informal manner. I'll get you whatever you require as far as future missions go. I'll even suck it up and show you respect in the presence of the crew, but that's as far as this goes. You don't have to like me. In fact, I can return that favor." On that note, she walked back out of the office. The look on her face had others turning their heads to avoid the potential of turning to stone.

Exactly as William expected it to go, he didn't like SFI and this just reinforced his notion why. "Going to be interesting working with that one to be sure. With a temper like that, no wonder she is unmarried."

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