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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on Apr 27, 2011 15:09:51 GMT -5
"Did it go.. well?" "Of course... it must have gone better than... well, my show."
"Actually it went worse than this." Zack admitted; which was not all that easy to admit, but he felt it necessary in this instance. "I was chosen to fly us from Earth to Mars so we could complete an assignment." Zack began his tale of the first time in the pilots seat. "The shuttle checked out, but I could hardly get it off the ground at first, then after I did I had some trouble flying into space and not crashing back down on Earth. Once I actually got us in space I thought things would go just fine."
Zack let out a chuckle. "Oh little did I know. Flying along, in space I thought it might be fun to amp up the speed, but due to popular demand from all the others I didn't. Anyway, on the way to Mars I got our shuttle entangled with a rather large comet, which we bounced off of, then went spiraling out of control! When we came up on Mars instead of landing ever so graceful like I thought we would, I crashed it on impact. Storm of the planet was something I didn't anticipate."
Tag: Rose
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Ensign Rose Digby
Science Officer
Age: 20 Race: Human
Science's brightest young Ensign
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on Apr 27, 2011 15:26:25 GMT -5
They came to the site of one of the ruins rather quickly while Zack spoke about his experiences when first flying a shuttle, with S'Louk presumably trailing some distance behind. When they arrived there, Rose indicated to Zack that she'd like to sit down, and sat down on a rock near the site. Only then she spoke. "You didn't let the engines fall out inexplicably," she said softly. "I'm rubbish. You learned." She was actually sort of seeking ways to refuse believing she was anything but rubbish.
"Shall we... sit for a while longer?" she asked him. It was the first time she'd looked around her. The scenery was beautiful, all so vivid in shades of green and other colours, with a sky that had a hint of purple. She breathed normally, and calmed down a bit. She wanted to be with Zack a while longer before getting to work; and for some reason, his arm around her felt comfortable. She didn't want him to take it off.
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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on Apr 27, 2011 16:17:30 GMT -5
"You didn't let the engines fall out inexplicably,"
"Neither did you." Zack replied calmly. "Unexpected things just happen. It's no one fault. And if the shuttle is operational again, I'm going to request that you fly her back to the Orion. The sooner you get back behind the wheel the better." That was truth. It was like falling off a horse. The reason one got back on right away is so they would not have the fear of falling off the horse again, or fear of the animal in general.
"There is something else I've learned. You become what you think you are or what you pretend to be. You're not rubbish, and I don't want to hear you say that again. You might end up actually believing it." Zack said keeping his voice even. He hadn't been harsh or mean. He was still keeping his cool. Telling the truth.
"Shall we... sit for a while longer?"
Zack took a breath. "I suppose we can." Zack then handed Rose the tricorder he had picked up for her. "I wonder if we'll be aloud to take back any plant life." Zack pondered out loud.
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Ensign Rose Digby
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Age: 20 Race: Human
Science's brightest young Ensign
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on Apr 28, 2011 5:41:20 GMT -5
Rose decided not to protest, although she wanted to. She just sat silently with Zack on the rock until he brought up the matter of the plants. It was the first time she was reminded of the beauty of the scenery. The flowers were beautiful, and in the most vivid colours she'd ever seen. "I hope so," she said. "The flowers... they're beautiful." For some reason she didn't understand she moved somewhat closer to Zack. In a silly fantasy, she even hoped he'd fetch some for her. It might make her feel better.
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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on Apr 28, 2011 11:48:25 GMT -5
Zack's mind had switched into science mode, since Rose didn't appear to be all broken up about the shuttle incident anymore, so he hadn't exactly noticed that she moved a little closer. He removed his arm from around her shoulder and opened up his tricorder. "Actually I hadn't been thinking about how beautiful they looked, but I suppose you're right on that front." Zack commented as he started to scan a few of them. "No sign of Symbiogenesis; which as you know is a very good thing."
The tricorder relayed that they were quite similar to Earth flowers in structure and nutrients, and the likes. Seeing as Rose commented that they were beautiful Zack picked one of the flowers whose pedals were short, round, and swirls of the colors: purple, white, and emerald green. He walked back over to Rose and slipped in into her hair. The colors were a nice contrast with her ginger hair color. "When we get back from the ruins we'll have to get some sample containers." Zack said as he extended his hand to help Rose up.
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Ensign Rose Digby
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Science's brightest young Ensign
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on Apr 29, 2011 16:31:23 GMT -5
Rose giggled as the flower was put in her hair. She had relaxed. I wish I had a mirror now... the gesture looks rather romantic, though. "Yes, let's get some samples to take back." She stood up, picked up a tricorder, and went to work on scanning the ruins. Back and forth between both ends, a certain spot. "Hmmm..." she mumbled. "Particularly high levels of background radiation here..."
She started looking down, rummaging through the undergrowth. "Ah! Look at this!" she exclaimed, motioning Zack over. On the ground, there was a machine that still emitted a faint light. The signature looked like nothing she'd seen before. Unless... wait, it's faintly... "Faintly Borg?" she wondered aloud. "But nothing we've seen before." Zack would know: he had a kind of boyish fascination with the Borg that scared her a bit, truth be told.
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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on Apr 29, 2011 17:31:06 GMT -5
"Hmmm..." she mumbled. "Particularly high levels of background radiation here..."
Zack started scanning the ruins as well. He picked up the same thing. Nothing extraordinary...yet. Just routine. Well it was just routine until Zack heard the next words that came out of Rose's mouth. "Borg? Did you say Borg?" Zack's face appeared to light up. Almost like a little boy in a candy shop.
Zack continued his scans walking up to the piece of machine. He bent down and scanned it more. "Looks old." He commented. "I don't think it's giving out a signal. I'm going to try and deactivate it." Zack looked at the piece and saw a few buttons. "Well this is interesting..." Zack pushed a few of the buttons. The thing turned off.
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Ensign Rose Digby
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on Apr 30, 2011 6:24:42 GMT -5
"I don't know what it is beyond the fact that the energy signature resembles Borg patterns," said Rose. "Do you have a clue?" That was a stupid question. Of course not, and it scared her. Borg already gave Rose the creeps. Unidentified ancient Borg technology was even worse. She scanned it with her tricorder. "Odd," she said. "Where are the assimilation tubes? I'm not reading any nanoprobes in there."
She wondered aloud. Despite being a bit afraid, she was intrigued by the mysterious object. "I've never seen Borg tech without nanoprobes..." she said, wondering aloud, "do you think we should take it back for analysis?" She didn't wait for his answer: he'd arrange things if the answer way yes, judging by his boyish excitement.
Rose continued around the ruins. It was a vast complex, only partially visible above ground. "Judging by the time stamps," she said, amazed. "This place was at the zenith of its power while homo erectus was still developing speech. It's ancient."
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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on Apr 30, 2011 12:36:14 GMT -5
"Not all Borg tech has assimilation tubes." Which was true. They had tech to help advance and integrate into other mechanical systems; such as the incident with the Docs mobile emitter when it created a drone in the science lab. Tube were only involved in that instance because Seven's nanoprobes had been thrown into the mix.
While Rose was scanning the rest Zack got an idea that might scare the pants off of her. He grinned and laughed inwardly. "I'm not detecting any-" Zack began, but stopped abruptly snaking his hand underneath the Borg object, making it move. "Ah! it's got me! Help!"
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Ensign Rose Digby
Science Officer
Age: 20 Race: Human
Science's brightest young Ensign
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on Apr 30, 2011 13:40:13 GMT -5
Rose jumped at Zack's startling cry for help, turned abruptly, sprinted in his direction, and impulsively, she didn't know where she'd got the courage from, jumped at Zack. Who, it turned out, was not being attacked at all. Boys, thought Rose, annoyed. If he thinks that's funny, he's sorely mistaken. She didn't know whether to slap him in the face or laugh, though. She was upset, anyway, so she might as well show her.
"You scared me!" she said accusationally and just a little annoyed. Then, more calmly: "Will you never do that to me again?"
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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on May 1, 2011 15:42:44 GMT -5
"You scared me!"
Zack laughed as he pulled his hand out. "That was kind of the point." He said still laughing. When he did things like this to his sisters they usually threw something at him, but that never gave an incentive to stop; he just did it more. Perhaps it was because it was way too easy to get them to jump. The bright side in scaring Rose was that nothing came hurling toward his head.
"Will you never do that to me again?"
"Uh..." He grinned. "I make no promises." Of course if she really protested and got very upset by his jokes, Zack would stop. He wouldn't want to take something too far or make her feel really uncomfortable. This was just 'all in good fun'.
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Post by securitycadet on May 14, 2011 8:59:39 GMT -5
S'Louk had remained silent all through the flight, and when the shuttle had crashed, his survival instincts had kicked in. Although everyone else was chatting away making plans he had stayed silent and simply observed the planet they were stuck on. When he was ordered to go Syda and Digby, he had said a simple "Aye Sir", picked up a tricorder and followed the other two.
He allowed the other to go on ahead for two reasons. 1: He knew that Ensign must be feeling bad about the shuttle crashing and obviously it was best left to Cadet Syda to cheer her up. And the second was, at moments like this, he prefered to be left alone to contemplet his thoughts. But when the two had stopped, he had decided to continue oh ahead and see what he could find. Nothing. However a couple of minutes later, when the two of them had cought up to him, a machine was found. By the sounds of it, it had a Borg signiture. S'Louk walked over, cautionsly, Tricorder in hand, his other hand gripping his PHASer. When Syda pulled his trick, his PHASer was instantly in his hand, and ready to shoot. However it was soon placed back at his side.
"Will you never do that to me again?"
"I agree with Ensign Digby. Such jokes are not needed." Now Zack would probaly think of him as being a spoil-sport, but he was just being Vulcan. A thought came to him. One which he immdeiatly vocalized "Ensign Digby, as the highst ranking officer present, you could simply order him not to pull anymore practical jokes"
TAG: Zack/Rose
OOC: I aplogize for the lateness of my posting. I have exams coming up and I'm a little pre-occupied. If the situation arises and it is needed to move things along, you may god-mod me.
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on May 15, 2011 15:15:13 GMT -5
"I agree with Ensign Digby. Such jokes are not needed." "Thank you, S'Louk," she said. She much appreciated the Vulcan's intervention, as it made sure she didn't have to say anything. But he wasn't finished yet. "Ensign Digby, as the highst ranking officer present, you could simply order him not to pull anymore practical jokes" That went a bit too far. "And thank you again, Cadet," she said. "But er... I won't. Zack's my..." She thought for a while what she'd call him, even though she was not sure why. "... friend."
Well, they were done here, and the sun was setting, filling the atmosphere with a golden light. "Well, er... what do you two say? If we're finished, let's get back to the shuttle."
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Post by Cadet Zackery Syda on May 15, 2011 17:17:06 GMT -5
Vulcans. Party poopers of the galaxies. Zack thought; semi jest, semi for real. He hadn't met any other species that was dry as toast. Dry as toast? That sort of described the planet too, didn't it? When S'Louk said that Rose could order him not to do that again, well it was true. But personally Zack didn't think she would...Good natured Humans usually didn't unless something went way too far. And when she had a hard time bring up the word 'friend', it made Zack feel a tad bit uneasy for some reason.
"Yes. Well, friend, I'm all finished." Zack looked at S'Louk. He supposed his fellow cadet was finished as well, but one could never really tell. Zack put his tricorder away. He was so tempted to ask if they could bring that Borg tech with them, but seeing as how he'd already scared Rose, and remembered her telling him how she felt about Borg back on the ship...it might be best not to.
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Ensign Rose Digby
Science Officer
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Post by Ensign Rose Digby on May 19, 2011 14:37:39 GMT -5
"Yes. Well, friend, I'm all finished." No, apparently not, Zack, she thought, looking around and fixing her eye on the Borg tech which was still there. "There's still the mattert of the device," she said, pointing it out. "Do you think we should take it?" She looked at S'Louk. "S'Louk, you are Security. Any security problems from bringing the device back for study, and any precautions we should take?"
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