From: Katie T (kayteese_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 12 2007 - 05:58:43 PDT
=/\= "Leaving the Nest" (Continued from Rahul's "Prepping Before R&R") =/\= Location: SFA Stardate: 2.70511.2205 Scene: Sevlock's Office The day after the holodeck simulation, Ginny was called to Lieutenant Sevlock's Office. The half-Vulcan instructor was seated behind his desk when she entered the room and looked as unemotional as a statue. "Cadet LaGrande, your performance during the simulation was satisfactory," he stated. "You are hereby authorized to move onto the second phase of the training, which will take place in the field." He handed her a padd. "These are your orders." "Thank you, Lieutenant," Ginny said formally as she accepted the small device. "Cadet LaGrande, you are dismissed." And that was it. No word of congratulations, not even a "well done". No "good luck", either. After four years at Starfleet Academy and the first part of Advanced Command Training, she was rated as "satisfactory". Ginny shrugged mentally, then executed a sharp turn and left Sevlock's office. After all, what else was there to expect from a Vulcan? =/\= Scene: Memorial Gardens In the Memorial Gardens Ginny found a secluded bench off one of the main walkways. On her way out of the ACT Building she had met her class mate Cochrane Stephens who told her that he had also passed the first phase of training and received his assignment. Ginny could not recall the name of the ship he had been assigned to (or maybe he hadn't told her?), but they had wished each other well. Now she was curious to find out where her own orders would lead her. After activation the padd first displayed her official transcript of records and training evaluation. Then came her assignment and itinerary. Ginny briefly checked her grades and then, with barely restrained curiosity and excitement, skipped directly to her assignment. "USS PATRIOT," she read out half loud. "Nova-Class Destroyer. Crew complement of 500. Commanding Officer: Captain Helice Jones." There were more details about ship specs and the crew roster, but Ginny quickly scrolled down and searched for one important bit which at first seemed to be missing. Finally she found a note at the very end of the document. "Position assignment to be determined by commanding officer after arrival." The partial Caitian cadet sighed. She hoped for an assignment in engineering, but she also knew that ACT cadets had to be prepared to serve in any capacity that a CO determined. She had heard rumors about other cadets being assigned to department head positions for the second phase of their training, an image which made her smile with incredulity. **Oh, sure. And the *real* department heads will be looking over their shoulders, checking their every moves. They'll probably be posing as one of the assistant department heads, or maybe technicians. In any case there's no way anyone would be assigned like that without supervision.** Ginny liked the fact that the ACT training gave her the chance to prove herself in a department head position much sooner than the average SFA graduate could ever hope for, but at the same time she wondered about this - in her opinion - blatantly transparent plot which was designed to make her think that she would actually have some real responsibilities during the training phase. It couldn't be. It was hard enough for some seasoned but low-ranking officers to accept it when a fresh ACT graduate was placed in a department head or assistant position and started giving them orders. Those same orders coming from a cadet still in training must then seem like bordering on insubordination. All the same, Ginny hoped that the PATRIOT crew in whichever department she would be working were a friendly lot from whose knowledge and expertise she could benefit. Cadet Eugenie LaGrande checked her itinerary and found that she was supposed to make her way to STARBASE 1 where the PATRIOT was expected in two days. The ship was coming back from a mapping mission in the Karashi Nebula, which sounded like a fairly boring and routine task. **With any luck,** Ginny thought, **my training will be a tad more exciting than that.** =/\= Location: SB1 Scene: Docking Port Time Index: Two days later Ginny stepped from the short range transport which had shuttled her from EARTH to SB1 and immediately inquired where the PATRIOT was docked. It wasn't too far away, and within ten minutes she had reached her destination. A member of security stood guard at the hatch and inspected her orders, then invited her to go aboard. As Ginny took the first tentative steps inside her new home, she felt an immense feeling of excitement. Curiously enough though, there was also a tinge of sadness about leaving EARTH after four years. She had never before stayed that long in any one place, and although it had been very hard in the beginning, she had come to really realize the meaning of "home" in the end. Her time at SFA had quite literally help to ground her in ways she had never thought possible, and she felt sorry now about losing that feeling again. She consciously straightened. **Time to make a new home somewhere,** she smiled to herself and confidently moved forward. =/\= NRPG: Hi everyone, I look forward to writing with all of you and meeting your characters! This post gets Ginny aboard, and she'll start exploring and possibly/hopefully meeting members of the crew in my next. =/\= Katie T. Cadet Eugenie LaGrande ACT Candidate USS PATRIOT From HyperNews_at_youth.net
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