08-08-2025, 05:42 PM
"Understood, Captain," Jaein said, and closed the channel.
As it happened, he agreed with her. Changing plans mid-stream was rarely a good idea, and having to move the IFF so soon didn't seem constructive to him. So, he instead double-checked the connections. He made sure that the system was receiving constant telemetry, both from the sensors and from comms, so it could detect and then reply to any challenges that the defenses issued.
Once he was sure of that, though, there wasn't a lot left for him to do. He walked out of the lab and back out into main engineering, then, and called over his team leads. "Alright, people," he said, regretting that he hadn't had more time to learn everyone's names, "I don't know what we're about to get into, but if I know anything, it's quite likely we're going to be busy here in a minute. So, let's make sure that 'busy' doesn't mean 'trouble'.
"Make sure that damage control parties are at all critical junctions, ready just in case. Start freeing up any extra power we can find to go to shields or structural integrity, though we can wait on actually distributing it there. You've done this all before, we'll do it all again; let's just make sure that everyone stays safe, alright?" He got a chorus of nods, though no one seemed terribly enthused. He wasn't terribly good at this pre-battle speech making, like some people seemed to be able to do.
Part of him was glad for that. Another part said he was probably going to get more experience at it if he stayed here for long. I'm getting too old for this, he thought uncharitably, but instead gave his own nod. "Alright, then, let's get to it." The group broke up and started organizing the rest of the team.
Now, the question was just what exactly the Captain was planning.
As it happened, he agreed with her. Changing plans mid-stream was rarely a good idea, and having to move the IFF so soon didn't seem constructive to him. So, he instead double-checked the connections. He made sure that the system was receiving constant telemetry, both from the sensors and from comms, so it could detect and then reply to any challenges that the defenses issued.
Once he was sure of that, though, there wasn't a lot left for him to do. He walked out of the lab and back out into main engineering, then, and called over his team leads. "Alright, people," he said, regretting that he hadn't had more time to learn everyone's names, "I don't know what we're about to get into, but if I know anything, it's quite likely we're going to be busy here in a minute. So, let's make sure that 'busy' doesn't mean 'trouble'.
"Make sure that damage control parties are at all critical junctions, ready just in case. Start freeing up any extra power we can find to go to shields or structural integrity, though we can wait on actually distributing it there. You've done this all before, we'll do it all again; let's just make sure that everyone stays safe, alright?" He got a chorus of nods, though no one seemed terribly enthused. He wasn't terribly good at this pre-battle speech making, like some people seemed to be able to do.
Part of him was glad for that. Another part said he was probably going to get more experience at it if he stayed here for long. I'm getting too old for this, he thought uncharitably, but instead gave his own nod. "Alright, then, let's get to it." The group broke up and started organizing the rest of the team.
Now, the question was just what exactly the Captain was planning.