A Bird's-Eye View (Part 3 of 3)

Posted on 21 Feb 2012 @ 5:05am by Rear Admiral Lirha Saalm & Lieutenant JG Robin Hilyer MD & Command Master Chief Markum Quinn & Captain Jonathan Holliday

619 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Episode 00 - Pre-Deployment
Location: San Francisco Fleet Yards, Shuttlepod 8
Timeline: MD 05 - 0915 hrs

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Inside Shuttlepod 8...

Clambering into the shuttlecraft, John listened as he heard the thrusters of the opposite vessel begin to power up, and watched as his CO and Chief Engineer headed skywards. Settling into the right hand chair, John began to run the start up sequence, watching as each system in turn delivered a green symbol to confirm that it was operational. As the doctor joined him onboard, he thumbed a control, and the shuttle door slowly levered itself up and locked into position.

"Well doc, lets take a look at this shall we? Those sharp surgeon's eyes of yours should come in handy." He smirked to his companion, and then slowly powered up the thrusters. After a slight jolt from the initial liftoff, the intertial dampeners kicked in and the shuttle returned to its usual serene feeling as it floated towards the sky.

"Heading for the dorsal side, Mr Hilyer, would you mind passing the sensors over this section of the hull, we don't want to be lifting off with microfractures!"

Turning back to the control panel, he tapped onto the communications array.

"Pod 8 to Pod 7, hows it looking over there Ma'am? Everything looking good here so far"

Lirha's voice came through the comm channel in reply. "We're finishing up with the ventral saucer section, about to move on to the secondary hull. There's a piece of hull plating which looks loose around the forward torpedo launcher, but everything else appears to be in excellent condition."

"We're rounding towards starboard. Several microfractures," The doctor replied hurridely. "I am sending the log to you now 'Cap'. It doesn't look like it will take the repair crews too long to fix."

"That was a good call Chief," Robin turned quickly towards the Engineer. "My surgeon's eye was a little off."

Inside Pod Seven, Lirha looked down at her PADD and scanned the data the doctor had just sent her, making note to inform the dock crew as soon as they finished the systems check.

"Looks like the engineers did a pretty good job back here...I can't see too much else out of place back here" The commander commented as he slowly brought the shuttle around for another pass.
Slowly, the pod, tiny in comparison to the Nova-class starship began to head back towards the area they had just passed over, just to make sure nothing had been missed.

"Ready to call this a day Dr. Hilyer?" he commented, whilst still keeping his eyes locked on the panel in front of him, afterall, it wouldn't have been the best of omens to graze the hull of a brand new starship before it had even left port!

"I think so," Robin said as he shut off his console. "I don't think there's anything else we can do from here."

"Pod 7, we're about done here, ready to head for home?" He called out to the comm once again.

The captain's voice came through the comm channel again. "We're finishing up as well, Commander, about to head back. See you on the tarmac."

"Confirmed, setting landing vector, see you on the ground" Entering a short sequence of commands, he began bringing the shuttle back down to its earlier starting position, after a slight jolt which confirmed contact with the surface, he quickly disengaged the thruster systems, and began the power down routine.

That was enough of the ship from outside, time to get this bird into the sky....

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CMDR Lirha Saalm
Commanding Officer
USS Galileo

LCDR Jonathan Holliday
Executive Officer
USS Galileo

LTJG Robin Hilyer MD
Chief Medical Officer
USS Galileo

CWO Markum Quinn
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Galileo

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