EXETERRPG: (16 0914) MS CFO Lieutenant Ire Williams

[Robbie Gray]

Mission: The Flames ofPurity
Day: 16  
Stardate: 2445.09.16

(Runabout Broken Bow – CONN - CFO-  Lieutenant – Ire Williams- 0914)

“Okay Ire lest do thisagain.”

He`s fingers moved acrossthe console. The Runabout was in standby mode and he was running a flightsimulation through the conn console while he was waiting for an update. Heturned the runabout into a tight turn as he watched the indicators on theconsole start to blink in alarm. He pushed it tighter and cut power so that itwas dropping like a stone. He began a full engine restart as he watched the altimeterbegin to rapidly spool down. His fingers moved with practiced routine, but hecould feel the slowness.

~Come on, come on, you needto be faster than this~

The engines restarted, andhe pushed the impulse engines to maximum as well as kicking in the maneuvering thrusters.The altimeter slowed as the impulse engines went to maximum. His eyes were on instrumentcontrols making sure that the strain on the impulse engines did not put theminto emergency shut down.

~Up you come~

He smiled to himself as theinstruments showed that he was back in level flight and that everything wascalming down. He paused the simulation and ran through his program again thistime critiquing his performance.  

~You were too slow there…..youneed to react quicker there…..too much power there you were lucky that the structuralintegrity held~

He looked at his hands as heclenched and unclenched them. He had been 1000 meters lower then when he hadpracticed the same maneuver with the Exeter on the holodeck before he was captured.He had expected to have dropped more with Exeter are it was a large starship comparedto the runabout. 

~Not so fast at the momentare you~

He was still safe to fly bythe regulations, but he would have to keep an eye on to see if there is any degradationin his hand eye coordination. As the safety of people, he was flying was farmore important than a bruised ego for being taken off flight duty, it would notbe the first time. His mind drifted to the second battle of Wolf 359 and horrificexperience that mission was. 

“This is not the time orthe place for those memories.”

He stood stiffly from hisseat and headed out of the Runabout to stretch his legs and get something todrink.

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