Home (Part 3 of 3)

Posted on 22 Dec 2013 @ 3:48pm by Rear Admiral Lirha Saalm & Captain Jonathan Holliday & Commander Scarlet Blake & Lieutenant Commander Dea Mialin & Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim & Lieutenant Theron Rhodes & Lieutenant Ammar Fahad & Lieutenant Asahi Kita & Commander Norvi Stace & Lieutenant JG Delainey Carlisle & Lieutenant Min Zhao & Lieutenant Olsam Mott & Lieutenant JG Victoria Crawley & Command Master Chief Markum Quinn & Commander Luke Wyatt & Chief Warrant Officer 3 Alexion Wylde & Senior Chief Petty Officer Keval zh'Erinov & Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Stark & Petty Officer 1st Class Camibree Christoph & Verity Thorne

1,111 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Episode 05 - Solstice
Location: USS Galileo - Main Bridge, Various
Timeline: MD 01 - 1335 hrs

Previously, on Home (Part 2)...

Shen smiled, "Yu Zhen said your new ship was coming in and I figured I'd walk over and watch the landing from here. He's got Isha for the afternoon so we're free if you wanted to wander around San Francisco."

Min motioned to a seat nearby. "You want to sit for a bit? That's quite the walk from the condo to here."

"I'm fine. I normally walk this every morning after you've left. Doctor says the exercise is good for me anyways." Shen chuckled. "And speak for yourself girl. You're just as pregnant as I am and you walk the same distance every day."

"Point taken."

And Now, the Conclusion...

[ON]

Deck 1 - Bridge

As soon as the ship touched down, Quinn deactivated the engines then sent a confirmation to Main Engineering as he took the Bridge Mains offline and began to first step of the shutdown procedure.

Ammar's fingers flew over the console, checking and rechecking the system status. He began the process to shut the warp core down. Almost every system on the ship ran on the power generated by the core. The necessary systems required a battery backup, and they switched seamlessly. Getting the non-essentials switched to batteries was slightly more difficult. Though only slightly.

It took about a minute, but the sound of the whooshing throb of the warp core slowed and stopped. The pulsing blue light that usually filled engineering died. Somehow the warm lighting, though entirely sufficient, seemed dull and boring.

"Nicely done, Miss Mialin," Lirha said to her conn officer after the successful landing attempt. After some of the rougher landings her ship had had in the past, it was a relief that this one had gone without a hitch. Privately, she thanked the Le'kt for their competent engineering skills. "Take our navigational arrays offline and set thrusters to stationkeeping," she instructed.

"Thrusters at station keeping," Dea reported as her fingers danced across the controls for the Flight Control console. Quickly checking the data coming to her console to confirm nothing had been missed.

"Thank you, lieutenant. I would not want a yard engineer to accidentally press the wrong button and send the ship floating away," she replied with a light laugh to herself at the mental imagery.

"Deflector dishes offline," Scarlet confirmed, sitting back with a small smile now the job was done, taking a chance to try and catch a glance at the new view.

Rhodes began to power down all sensors, shield, and capacitor systems for weapons. After a few seconds he leaned back in his chair with hands in his lap and pivoted toward Dea, "Well done Commander."

Dea turned to Rhodes with a smile, "Thank you Lieutenant. You did a nice job as well. I owe you one for helping us get back in on piece." A lot had changed in a year.

Biting her lip in concentration, she pounded away at the console. "Sensor arrays offline, Captain," she called out.

Lirha thumbed the internal comm switch on her chair's console and spoke to the crew. "All hands, we have just arrived at San Francisco Fleet Yards. Power-down process is in progress, please secure all your stations and shut down all non-critical systems. Civilians and enlisted officers, please collect your belongings and disembark through the starboard airlock. Junior and senior officer, disembark through the port airlock." She paused and looked around at her bridge crew with a satisfied and appreciative smile for what they had managed to accomplish since they had first departed from this dry dock.

"Welcome home. Saalm out," she finished, then stood from her chair and stretched her legs and arms.

"Thank you everyone. See you planet side. Computer, this is Commander Holliday, assume planetary lockdown mode, authorization Holliday Tau Omega 9-4."

With a single bleep the computer complied, slowly starting to shut down non-critical systems and allow Starfleet engineers stationed in the docks to begin interfacing with Galileo and remove external access ports without sounding off a dozen different fail safe alarms.

"We'll be back in space before you know it."

With that task done, Rhodes turned and walked away from the Tactical station and headed to the turbo lift for other duties.

Quinn stepped forward to Lirha and Jonathan. "Skipper, XO? I know I'm not the Chief Engineer any longer for her. But...I'd like permission to be the last off of her as I was the first one on her while she was still in drydock."

Lirha looked back over her shoulder, then to her XO, then back to Quinn. "I think we can arrange that. What do you think, Commander?" she asked John.

John had to applaud the engineer's dedication to the Galileo - he could still remember the first time he met Quinn a year ago, buried underneath the Captain's chair busily finalising Galileo's installations, before producing the ship's dedication plaque after a strictly unauthorised poker game. From that moment on, the XO had known he would grow to respect the man who kept their ship ticking over.

"Permission granted Mr Quinn. Just make sure you turn the lights off and lock the doors when you leave."

"That's affirmative, XO." replied the CoB, with a boyish grin spread across his face. "The card game shouldn't last much past midnight."

"I didn't hear that of course CoB." John replied with a smirk before picking himself up from his chair and heading for the turbolift.

"Take good care of her. We'll need her back in working order."

Ammar sighed with relief. They were well and truly at port. There was still a lot of work to do, but he wouldn't have to go without sleep to get it done."

[OFF]

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CAPT Lirha Saalm
Commanding Officer
USS Galileo

CMDR Jonathan Holliday
Executive Officer
USS Galileo

Lt Allyndra illm Warraquim
Chief Medical Officer
USS Galileo

Lt. Jr. Grade Asahi Kita
Engineering Officer
USS Galileo

Lt. Theron Rhodes
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS Galileo

CPO Luke Wyatt
Secuirty/Tactical Officer
USS Galileo

Lieutenant Junior Grade Norvi Stace
Chief Research Officer
USS Galileo

LT Dea Mialin
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Galileo

Lt. Delainey Carlisle, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Chief Counselor/Doctor
USS Galileo

Lt. Cmdr. Scarlet Blake
Chief Counsellor/2XO
USS Galileo

WO Alexion Wylde
Doctor
USS Galileo
[PNPC Blake]

PO2 Gabriel Stark
Security/Tactical
USS Galileo
[PNPC Blake]

PO2 Verity Thorne
Chaplain
USS Galileo
[PNPC Blake]

Command Master Chief Markum Quinn
Chief of the Boat
USS Galileo

...and others

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