First impressions

Posted on Sat Jul 8th, 2023 @ 11:12pm by Ensign Karla Martell

Mission: New Horizons
Location: USS Liberty- Corridors / Ensigns quarter. Security Department

Karla found the time difference a bit vexing when getting up.
She just arrived and was told that the formalities and reporting to her CO would happen on the next day.Karla did not even bother to unpack so much. Crawling straight into the bunk was more alluring.
She already roled her eyes at the notion that some young trooper would try to score brownie points by putting on a freshly replicated and pressed uniform. She deliberately put on a uniform that she made sure was devoid of any novelty. It was clean but a bit frayed and one or two spots had wrinkles. "Let them get upset over that. I will see how this will upset them." Karla did only believe in credit by merrit. She had not seen much of that with some cadets.

She put on her portable pattern buffer. She enlisted the help of the ships engineer building it when she was a deck hand on the "Fleeting Moment", buying her way off to Earth thusly. It was a belt under her tunic and the controls were a wristband hidden under her sleeve. It contained some firearms from Nova Aix that she now kept for sentimental reasons only. Projectile weapons hen out of style by at least two centuries.
However, the weapon she found more essential to carry around where a sword that would extends itself to a proper fighthing lenght via nanites. "can´t wait to have the next Klingon bite into the grass. "- she thought.

The sword and the buffer worked. She applied some minimal make up. Less was always more. As she stepped out, she took a padd and navigated through the corridords until she stood before the door of the security office. She needed to collect herself for a moment. Then she rang...