Final Preps

Posted on Tue May 16th, 2023 @ 4:04am by Lieutenant Sheela Swiftpaws

393 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Ethics, Morals & The Prime Directive.
Location: Dreadnought

Sheela sat at the helm of the ship as her hands moved over the console. Her claw tips making a soft clicking sound from the soft impacts against the protective layer to the console.

She slowly powered up the drive warp nacelles and activating impulse drives to move the vast ship into que for departure as the ship had already been cleared from SFCoE and assigned an mission.

She spoke softly with Orbital Flight Control of the moving the Dreadnought-B into it new assigned position, signaling other ships that were bringing supplies, the last of crew and civilians that the Dreadnought was moving to its departure point from the system on it's first mission.

A soft smile graced her face and eyes twinkling with anticipation for the trip outbound and the beginning of the ship's many future assignments.

Her secondary at the helm listened in the chatter from other ships, shuttles and other crafts. He would occasionally reply to inquiries from various shuttles that had business with the ship.
Allowing entrance to the various hangers and those shuttles that were departing as the Dreadnought slowly moved through space.

While ship was moving to its new location, her third at helm was running diagnostics and test on various systems that was related to flight.

Sheela glanced occasionally at her third at helm, waiting for that dreaded moment to abort flight. Knowing he would sound out if anything developed that would cause them to abort the movement of the ship. She could see him, glancing at various screens just long enough to make a quick assessment before moving to the next screen that was displaying various diagnostics and tests.

She felt comfortable to relax into easy routine of moving a ship this size. It was beautiful as ship responded to her commands as the Moon slid silently into view and then disappeared off to the right of the ship. Bringing the ship up within system cruising speed to make the short hop to Jupiter Fleet yards for the final loadings of armaments for the ships arsenal. Antimatter for the Warp Core Reactors was also a waiting from the final loadings to bring the ship up final mission standards.

She hoped that Captain enjoyed the brief view of the moon from his office as she moved the ship to keep within departure schedule of the Dreadnought.

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