Good Help

Posted on 03 Feb 2021 @ 12:24pm by Commander Calliope Zahn & Lieutenant JG Rhiannon Hokir
Edited on on 03 Feb 2021 @ 12:38pm

Mission: M1 - Emergence
Location: Obsidian Command, CiC
Timeline: MD 06 0900
672 words - 1.3 OF Standard Post Measure

Calliope returned to the CiC , where nothing was different from last night except for her own embarrassment and anxieties. She looked at Corvus' door. Normally she'd invite herself for any morning catching up, but today? Let Corvus request it.

She walked past the Marine guard without nodding or acknowledging him. Maybe everything would be easier, she told herself, if they were just fixtures, not people. Just stare straight ahead and keep it together. Maybe this was dealing with it.

Arriving at the center of operations, Calliope began questing the computer for departmental status updates from the day before, to catch up on what she'd missed while on Obsidian's surface. there was another officer already there.

"How did you manage yesterday, Lt. Hokir?"

The response, 'by the skin of my teeth' played at the tip of her tongue, but Rhian dialed the emotion back to more appropriately assess the question. "I managed, Commander. It wasn't exactly a situation I've been in before, but rather one of those things they train you for in school and yet never expect you to utilize outside of a holodeck."

Calliope looked toward heaven with whimsy. "Ah, such fond memories of counting casualties while trying to build fortresses from toothpicks. Or spin space stations from bailing wire, as the case may be."

Rhian's mouth quirked. "I think they've updated things a bit since then, but about like that."

"Want some new drudgery?" Calliope offered.

"Sounds like an oxymoron, but I'm good for a challenge." While not usually so free with a senior officer, something about the woman set her at ease. "What do you have for me, Commander?"

"The Marines have been suiting up and pulling supplies from abandoned decks. I need you to inventory everything they recover and get it logged and cribbed. We received some new Operations personnel this morning, so it should be a good opportunity to meet up with them and go right to task."

Cataloging existing materials rather than constructing manifests from proposed deliveries sound a good deal less taxing on the imagination. "Oh nice, new blood. Well, at least we're breaking them in easily."

"And I need your input on this." Calliope swiped a file and transferred it from her own padd to Rhian's workstation. "It's my preliminary plan for restart tomorrow. We'll switch to reserve power for comms, life support, and computers. Everything else will be powered down. The repaired reactors will be cycled back on and then we'll be restarting systems. Our priority restarts are shields and weapons. Maintenance teams have been helping tactical focus on readying them. But that's not the recommended restart order according to the station's manual, so we'll have to run an alternate grid power restore. I need you to check my work and make any suggestions for changes."

Rhian had a feeling the woman had worked through the schematics with a fine-toothed comb, but from her angle of the grid, it never hurt to have another set of eyes just in case. "I'll double-check the grid to ensure any authorizations or adjustments are in place. Do you have an approximate time we're looking at for the cycle?"

"The reactor restart sequence begins at 0800. Once the power is stable and the containment proved, we'll begin the power up. After that we should be out of the worst of the situation here. Maybe even run some replicators and showers."

Calliope watched as Rhian leaned into the assignments she'd handed off to her. So far Rhian seemed to her a genuine and uncomplicated sort of person, able to grind through the tasks with a generally positive attitude. It would have been easy to be flustered and overwhelmed by the conditions, but Rhian went from one task to the next with out any seeming panic about the pile up of work, just reorganizing her priorities accordingly and carrying on. It was good to have real help.

"Don't be shy. Kick me any questions. I'll follow up with you in a bit. Thank you Lieutenant." Calliope said, stepping away.