Commodore's Log 011

Posted on 01 Dec 2014 @ 2:37am by Rear Admiral Lirha Saalm

426 words; about a 2 minute read

Commodore's Log, Stardate 67429.6

With the ship now secured at port and finishing its decontamination procedure, I have had some recent free time to myself. It has been nice to be able to relax a bit. Daily status reports and intelligence briefings are still on the agenda but the daily routine and maintenance of Galileo is out of my hands for the time being. Instead, I can now look forward to a brief vacation. A month, to be exact, and the rest of the crew outside of the senior officers will get a few extra days to enjoy themselves.

Of course, my recent proposal to my fiance means now is a perfect time to return to Vajripam for our wedding. The weather is very nice this time of year and it will be good to visit home for a week. The wedding itself...well, I am excited. And nervous, I suppose. I am taking Nesh with me and Mother will be traveling from San Fransisco to meet us there. This will be the first time she has met Siren in-person and I hope it will not be too awkward. Many Humans find her to be a bit eccentric, but then again, I suppose it runs in the family.

I am scheduled to depart in two days, but because the journey to Rigel VII will take a significant period of time, I have managed to book passage aboard an Intrepid-class starship about to depart from SB-80. The captain and I are old colleagues from the Academy and he was happy to provide accommodations for me. Besides, a Federation starship is much more comfortable to travel aboard than the average freighter.

A small group of crew from Galileo have expressed interest in joining Siren and I for the trip. They are always welcome to come, but I always wonder how outsiders will fare in the city. Not many of them have spent any sort of significant time around Orions and the culture can be a bit difficult to adapt to for the inexperienced. It will be interesting, to say the least. Hopefully everyone behaves themselves and no one ends up as a guest at the local penal institution. It would be most embarrassing and no doubt inconvenient.

All worries aside, it should be a relaxing trip. It is always good to break up the monotony of starship duties from time to time, and if there is one thing Orions do well, it is leisure and pleasure.

Computer, end log.

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