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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Apr 6, 2017 23:08:10 GMT -5
Aria lay lounging on an orion day bed dressed in a rather skimpy outfit that looked more like fancy lingerie than a duty uniform. The background is obviously a sparse klingon interior even with all her attempts to make it more amenable with classic orion interior design.
"Computer begin a personal log recording. Ugh what a horrible day. And I'm not just talking about the culinary choices on board. I mean you should know that's a constant by now. Klingons and Cardassians may be good at many things but they are both awful at making food that doesn't taste like it came straight from the waste reclimators. So the Captain and I totally went on a daring and genius plan to get ourselves captured so we could retrieve an asset and steal some info from the ISS Pilgrim. That part went well I mean you know how terrans are. So incredibly arrogant. You make them think they've won and they will buy it hook line and sinker no questions asked. So me and Captain Val get captured." Aria made finger quotes as she said captured. "Anyways everything went to shit when our captors tried to beam us to their ship. Somehow we ended up on the USS Pilgrim in the goody two shoes parallel universe. I mean it wasn't hard to figure out when you know people seemed happy and we had totally different outfits on. How the hell my double puts up with wearing all that drab i'll fitting clothing I don't know. It felt like I was wearing enough cloths to go on a arctic expedition to andor." Aria sighed and rolled her eyes as she thought about her doubles uniform.
"So terrible communal fashion sense aside. The fecal matter then hit the fan as they say. Terran empire twats began fighting well everyone, the Captain well she did Klingon things you know how they are. Fighting and eating worms are their two favorite things and there were no worms in that transporter room. I, well unarmed as I was I strategically avoided combat looking for a opportunity to uh strike. So eventually the peace and love brigade finally mounted a big enough push to stun all of us. So next thing I remember is being stuck in their brig. So unfair. Me and the Captain should have been treated like allied guests. I mean we have worked together in the past even if she may have injured a few of their people, shit happens. I mean last time I was on board Pilly it was like a vacation resort. A all you can eat buffet of various delicious food and all sorts of different races to try out. They are so up tight over there. I mean I offered the guards all sorts of fun if they would let me out until they figured out what happened. Show a little skin and you know what they do make the force field to your cell opaque to discourage you or even ask you to put your cloths back on! So rude. The only good thing was when I asked for food one of the guards brought me a slice of cheese cake with the regular bland prison rations. He looked sort of familiar maybe I slept with him last time I was on board." Aria smiled and shrugged.
"Anyways so besides being stuck in a comfy brig on essentially a space cruise ship full of fun activities just out of reach. Our counterparts totally screwed up our mission. I mean they escaped from the ISS Pilgrim's brig and sewed chaos when the Bortas attacked so it managed to clean their clock pretty good. But they didn't get back our asset or the intel. I can't help but feel it was all messed up by the pent up sexual frustration of my double. Miss oh my gawd I don't want people to think im a slut. Oh no I can't be an Orion I have to manage my pheromones and act like a Terran nun, because expecting others to proactively manage their reactions to a natural biological function is too much apparently. Ugh. I mean come on we are hot go have fun and enjoy the sexual buffet that ship offers already." Aria sneered thinking about her double. "Her sexual frustration probably tore a hole in the fabric of the multiverse and caused all of this. I wonder if she is still pining over that half shaved xindi primate looking Captain guy. Anyways something happened and and all of a sudden bam we go from being in the brig in candyland universe to back on the Bortas. No intel, and no Ilya. So epic fail besides the whole trashing their ship thing. I wonder what happened to Ilya probably lost in the transfer. Kinda sucks it was cute how she'd flirt with me and stare at my assets all the time. I was even thinking about having some pity sex with her post rescue. Oh well." Aria shrugged. "She'd probably have gotten all attached. That's why I don't do females usually, too clingy. I mean no way would I think about settling down with one person until like the biological clock is screaming at me to crank out a baby. Or you know someone who is really hot and good in the sack. Ugh now the Captains going to be extra snarly for a few weeks over this. Only bright side I can think of is maybe Captain will bring on some new people hopefully cardies or a romulan or two, some variety you know. I mean ugh klingons all the time, too rough, and that whole trying to face bite and fight thing not fun." Aria paused then grimaced silently brewing for a moment.
"The worst part. I'm pretty sure the other Aria ended up keeping my favorite outfit. You know that gold pressed latinum and jevonite number. Do you know how much that cost? That thing would make a ferengi drewl even before he noticed my body underneath. All I got to keep was the yucky starfleet cloths. Stupid cloths stealing candyland universe Ugh. Computer end log!"
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Apr 25, 2017 14:40:48 GMT -5
Aria smiled as she sat in a bathing suit with a sarong wrapped around her torso, the background was a simple room at a Risan resort.
"Computer begin log recording. So um I'm married now and on my honeymoon. Li stepped out for a minute for something so good time for a log entry." Aria smiled happily.
"The ceremony was great. I was pretty nervous but it went well. Afterwards some Admirals surprised me with a medal. I guess they decided my actions back in the former choral sea warranted a medal of honor. All around it was great. I hope it helped everyone else relax and shed some steam as much as it did for me. The last few months have been a bit rough. I mean im not much of a fighter I keep having dreams of shooting that subspace alien who was attacking that excelsior class we came to rescue and his head just..." Aria sighed.
"Then when we went to the mirror universe on accident. When Val just snapped that guards neck... We could have just incapacitated him stripped him of his com unit and locked him in a cell. I try not to think about it but sometimes when nothings going on I can't help it. Hopefully these happy memories help push things like that out. Oh also we asked one of the Admirals about the possibility of starfleet allowing families on board ships again." Aria smiled.
"Sounds like the question might bring up a debate among starfleet command about the subject. It would be nice. I mean show that we aren't on perpetual war footing anymore and go back to exploring." Aria paused for a moment before continuing.
"It would be nice you know to start a family. Oh the Admiral gave us permanent quarters on the starbase too. She said thats going to be a new thing for married couples it was a very sweet gesture. Hmm only thing left to talk about I guess is um my medal... I just don't know. I don't feel like I deserve it I just did my job. And with the temporal anomaly that resulted even though I died well um it reverted to a timeline where I lived. I didn't know that would happen but it just. You put that all together it feels like I don't deserve much praise when you factor all that together. I mean Ral didn't get a medal of honor when his face was melted off saving us when we hit a quantum filament. I kind of feel guilty and undeserving honestly most medal of honors are awarded posthumously." Aria sighed. "I wonder if most surviving recipents feel this way? Well Li should be back any time and its time for fun, sun, and happiness. So latter all. Computer end log."
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on May 20, 2017 20:03:31 GMT -5
Aria smiled as she fiddled with he PADD framing the shot she wanted for the entry.
"Computer begin log recording." She said happily when she was finally satisfied.
"So neat day. We set out to explore a whole new galaxy. Even cooler in transit we were pulled out of time and across space by a alien race. Apparently the people who helped the Pilgrim of Choral Sea fame distribute those tarot cards. It was neat one of them through the showmanship of a fortune telling tried to warn the Captain about something. Some of the crew though... well I think they should go over first contact protocols again. I mean hey these people are advanced enough that zap we go from one place to being someplace completely different without any warning. So they are pretty advanced and we aren't familiar with them except for the cards they have strewn around the milky way. But some people were downright rude, and somewhat hostile. Great way to cause long term cross cultural friction. Luckily the aliens didn't seem to be offended at all and it wasn't any of my staff acting up so not my issue to fix. Anyways after the fortune reading zap we were back on the Pilgrim where we were with no elapsed time. Me and Li talked about the event since it happened he thinks the aliens just communicated with us telepathicly. I disagree because Ilya brought back a object she was inadvertently holding when we were zapped back. So my hypothesis is the aliens have the ability to manipulate time and space as they see fit. It was all pretty neat I have to wonder if they created the old time earthy look of the surroundings they took us too just to give us a somewhat familiar environment or if it's parallel development. I guess we won't know unless they reach out to us again some day."
"Now for non mission related stuff." Aria took on a seldom seen grumpy look. "So after shift me and Li went to have dinner in the mess hall and Val and Ilya joined us. I know no big deal pretty normal right? Well it wasn't it was actually a pretty memorably bad meal and it wasn't the barbecue ribs fault they were pretty good. Me and Li were talking about the possibility of starfleet changing the regs so we could start a family on board. Apparently that totally triggered Val because then she starts talking to us like we are dumb kids for even thinking something like that. Ilya went into grade a witch with a capital b mode too and basically said it would be cruel for me and Li to even think of procreating." Aria let out a an angry sigh as her eyes closed to angry emerald slits for a moment. "I almost jumped over the table and slapped the stupid smirk off her face over that. So Li argued with them for awhile. I just finished my food in silence because I was too angry to respond in a respectable manner. I mean hello we live in a time where the technology exists to temporaly wipe whole civilizations away from existence. In the past hundred years tens of billions have been slaughtered all over the galaxy be it by the Cardassians, the Borg, the Dominion, the Klingon Empire, the Undine, the Iconians, and probably some I'm forgetting. Yet oh my gosh I'm stupid for thinking it would be ok to have a kid on board. Yeah you are totally right Val better for a child to never be born in the first place because there's risk involved. Only planet side like Earth is acceptable, you know the planet that has had hostile forces attack it with the intention of a orbital bombardment twice just in the limited time I've been in Starfleet." Aria rolled her eyes as she continued. "Or let's bring up wolf 359 cause that's totally relevant. Not like that was back when starfleet was pretty naive and didn't have any forces dedicated solely to combat and just figured ships doing other stuff could handle any defense matters if need be. Oh wait that changed in the wake of that mess up and was cemented by the dominion war which happened before I was even born and cemented again by the Klingon war. Yeah now we have warships dedicated to stuff like that Pilgrim is a science ship. If we are engaging in regular combat operations well then our whole civilization is already threatened like the Iconian war. I wouldn't be so mad if she wasn't so condescending about the whole thing. I swear if policy changes in me and Li's favor her and Ilya will be the last two to know about any children. Eventually she got off her soap box and the rest of the meal was somewhat salvaged but still." Aria growled slightly in frustration. "Lastly that begs the question where does she hide her parachute because that soapbox had some freaking altitude... No no I'm done I don't like being angry. Bye for now computer end log."
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Jul 9, 2017 1:39:51 GMT -5
((Entry is made shortly after the indeterminate date of the July 4th episode))
Aria almost stumbled as she continued her rapid pace on the treadmill in the otherwise empty gym as she multi tasked both her workout and setting up her PADD for a recording.
"Whoops." Aria laughed then tapped a button lowering the speed significantly as she finished getting everything just right. When she had the angle set to show just her head and neck bouncing with each step carefully avoiding a closeup of anything lower she began shortly after once again raising the speed of the treadmill.
"Computer begin log entry."
"Ok so interesting day. Just a lazy resupply right? Well it was supposed to be. Then I noticed a power spike that was unaccounted for. That means usually something's broken and needs fixing before it catestrophically fails or you get a cascading failure. So I track it down. It was from an unexpected transport. I check who activated it to see what's up. No info. Full stop that's like a huge red flag. Have internal sensors take a look. Guess what someone is jamming them. The red flag now has like a siren, flashing lights a automated audio warning on loop like as big a clue of something going wrong as can be right. So Li, Jill, and I arm up wait for security then check it out. Instant fire fight infiltrators dressed in starfleet uniforms. I get hit in the shoulder pretty good and I'm down but they neutralize the threat. Ended up being mirror universe Terran agents trying to steal info on the artesian gateway. Good thing they weren't subtle and made it obvious I guess. Mirror Ilya aka Cassandra was there too to help. Weird but hey it worked out. If these agents were smart snuck on the station and infiltrated a restocking team they might have gotten what they wanted. Heck if they had faked the credentials of the station being the origin point showed up with boxes of supplies and played dumb when confronted it might have even worked. They were so blunt though it was just too easy. Oh well a win for the good guys."
Aria paused a moment, "Computer I need to vent a bit this next part Mark it private until I'm no longer on active duty." The computer beeped to acknowledge.
"So mirror Ilya or Cassandra as she likes to be called. Total creeper. She's like the kind of person who's totally into you and you obviously don't return those feelings but they think they are in the friend zone just waiting to step in if your relationship fails. I'm not a homosexual, I'm not bisexual, the chances of us being together are zero. On top of that I'm happily married. But still even in my drug induced state after getting worked on in the sickbay I could tell she was trying to give me inappropriate compliments in front of my husband and like oogling me. Add to that the touching and kiss last time we ran into her in the mirror universe where she took advantage of me trying to play the role of my mirror counterpart and I don't feel at all comfortable around her. So hopefully we don't run into her again. I mean I don't know how to react if we do. Do I smile and ignore it while she's super creepy being all 'you're special to me I'd hurt Li if he let anything happen to you.' Special to you? We've never had anything and you barely know me. Do I just throw off being polite and go off on her? I just don't know and I don't like it. It reminds me of highschool after the nasty rumors got spread and the way guys would look at me or talk to me. I hated it then. I hated it enough to test out of school and into the academy a year early to get away from it. I sure as sh.... heck. Don't want to be treated like that here. I'm me. I'm not some Orion slave girl who exists just to fufill other people's sexual desires." Aria frowned and shivered for a moment shaking off bad memories.
"Computer end log."
With that she amped up the speed some more as the screen faded to black.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Jul 23, 2017 22:29:26 GMT -5
((Entry is made after Ilya's 2nd guest GM episode))
Aria walked into the middle of the thoroughly trashed mayflower's interior and looked around slowly in a circle before roughly dropping the tool boxs she carried in each hand onto the deck.
"This is going to take awhile." She said with a sigh before retrieving a tricorder from one box and scanning with its probe in one hand while the thumb on her other hand danced interacting with the UI on the main devices screen.
"Correction a long while." She added shaking her head before collapsing the tricorder and placing it on her belt. Aria then grabbed a tool that looked like a ancient squeegee but with the rubber blade replaced with long narrow emitter of some kind. She pressed a button on the handle causing the emitter to send out a soft curtain of violet light which she swept over a console a few times before turning off the device. Aria laid the device down then tapped the console tentatively as though she was poking a venemous snake. She winced as there was a series of pops and sparks for a moment before the console came to life.
"Yay well we still have some function left. Let's see how your internal sensor arrays are doing while I work." Aria beep hooped on the console as she talked to herself setting the battered shuttles internal sensors to record a log entry manually.
"Ok are we working?" Aria asked out of habit knowing the shuttles computer was far to damaged to respond to verbal commands as she checked her work. After a few moments a window popped up on the console showing a live stream of the interior of the shuttle. The angle shifting every few seconds as automated algorithms tried to find which sensor had a view of her face. Periodically the picture went to static as the system cycled through a blown sensor. Finally it settled on a angle and Aria smiled.
"Ok let's get started. Well we went on a long duration mission in the aero shuttle. It kind of reminded me of the academy and the multi day missions packed like a sardine in a shuttle not ment for as many long term occupants as it had that the academy is so fond of. Mine were always cut a few days short because of um... medical issues." Aria paused at that for a moment before continuing.
"Anyways that mission was fine and we were thankfully on our way back home. We spotted an anomaly and set course for it and then the Captain woke up. Now given how long I had um gone without a bath I um, used a tricorder for a quick scan to make sure I wasn't releasing undue amounts of pheromones. I didn't really like the idea of modifying my body chemistry long term to um limit that aspect of my physiology so after Sovek left I went back to old faithful of good hygiene and pheremone inhibiting body wash. So cramp me in a tin can for a prolonged period with no bathing... Yeah. Anyways either the Captain noticed me scanning or the rumors about Vulcan females having noses like a bloodhound are true because after that we had a awkward conversation. She tried to be discrete but with eight or nine people crammed into the bridge I think everyone heard." Aria paused and shrunk a bit hunching over some her pride clearly wounded as she picked up her squeegee like contraption and begain sweeping all internal surfaces in the shuttles bridge with the beam it emitted. The camera feed changing periodically as she moved for a better angle.
"So she starts asking me how I control my pheromones, if it will be a problem, stuff like that. I even heard someone at the front of the bridge joking about it while we were talking. That hurt. Then things got worse. When we reached the anomaly in question we found it to be an alien ship under attack by other aliens asking for assistance. Then we got in a huge fight and this is the end result. We managed to save the aliens who were under attack and flee. Hopefully we learn the full story behind their conflict, and what the object they were carrying that they were obsessed with was. It would really such if we like saved thieves or something. This little shuttles pretty tough we took hits from two ships at the same time some with out shields down when we were beaming out the aliens we rescued. Everyone got thrown around and injured to some extent. Me I bounced my head off a wall console shattered the screen and a shard cut my scalp open so I bled like a what's the ancient saying? Like a stuck pig? Well I got blood everywhere you know how headwounds are. It wasn't serious though. Li hurt his arm some but Ilya got the worst she suffered some pretty significant burns all over. Everyone had to do their duty to keep us from being destroyed so she kind of burnt for a bit. It was pretty terrible. But we made it out safely and saved many of these local aliens we hadn't met previously so it wasn't all bad."
"Now I need to get this nearly totaled shuttle back in working order. First I'm sanitizing it to neutralize and biohazards from the various species blood and potentially other body fluids being thrown about during the battle, plus any lingering pheromones. Given um that situation and how stressful it was I kind of saturated the shuttle interior with them before we made it back to pily. I'm kind of expecting stinky Orion jokes or ones about pheromones now." Aria sighed.
"The only one I saw them absolutely affect was Li he was like a brainwashed puppy after the battle. Hopefully if I gave any of the other crew or guests a migraine or other symptoms they were properly treated by the Doc by now." Aria paused then turned off the device and dropped it roughly into a tool box before unclipping her tricorder.
"Well now that we have handled the bio hazard aspect time to create a full list of the damage and create a roster of assigned engineers to fix it from each shift. Should only take a few days to fix her up good as new. Oh plus one modification. In one of the restrooms I'm adding a extra lock to the door and a sonic shower wand so we could theoretically bathe one at a time on prolonged missions in the thing. I'm also updating the air filters in that lavatory to handle pheromones that theoretically get kicked up by said sonic shower wand... Just in case. That's probably a good test to see what I'm working with on the internal sensor status." Aria said as the camera cut to her looking at the console she was previously working at for a moment before she poked a button and it went to black.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Jul 27, 2017 23:22:58 GMT -5
((Log entry follows Ilya's third episode))
Aria was sprawled out on a massage table, set out in the middle of a tropical beach, a small white towel on her rear the only thing blocking any of her green flesh from the tropical sun. Aria beep booped on her PADD as a male masseuse materialized out of thin air sprayed some massage oil on his hands and went to work on Aria's exposed back.
"Mmm" Aria cooed happily. "Computer tripod for a PADD please." the computer beeped and a tripod appeared. "You stop for one second and set this up." Aria said to the holo masseuse not wanting to get up and expose herself.
"Good." Aria smiled after it was set up and laid back down resting her head on the padded table. "Computer begin log recording."
"So busy busy busy day. I totally earned this massage so don't judge me." Aria chuckled as her masseuse started her massage from the beginning again. "Best program evah." Aria chuckled. "Anyways so Pilgrim was ordered to go check out the anomaly where the aero shuttle encountered the alien ships. The Captain was preoccupied with checking up on the wounded in the sickbay. Valkriss was busy with something too so I was in the big seat. I was kind of worried about being in charge of a big operation where we had a higher than normal likely hood of getting in a fight so when Val showed up when we were in route I tried to pass command to her but I guess she decided I needed the practice because she um didn't relieve me. So I was in charge for the whole mission that's a first. I've pretty much only warmed the Captains chair with my butt during off shifts in the past." Aria paused and squirmed a bit smiling happily as the masseuse concentrated on a particularly tense muscle in her back.
"So my first order of business I set up a cultural outreach group aka Serris and Li and had them talk to our guests from last mission. the Devali. So we could learn about their conflict we got sucked into and what was up with that piece of tech they were so keen to protect. They worked on that while we made our way. Eventually we reached our destination and found out something was weird. The Devali the people we saved and the Leneci the people who attacked us are from the same solar system they are in fact neighbors. Also their planets were orbiting near a singularity which was dilating time on the planets themselves. We sat around for a bit waiting for Li and Serris to make some progress and scan the area some more. They took a long time. Eventually I ordered them to the bridge because we were in danger of Cinderella's carriage turning into a pumpkin before they finished. When they got to the bridge they informed everyone that the Devali were originally the more advanced and peaceful of the two worlds and developed warp drive independently. Their neighbors the Leneci asked for them to share the technology but the Devali refused because the Leneci had recently united under a global aggressive tyranny. This really ticked off the Leneci. Shortly after being spurned by their neighbors an alien ship crashed on the Leneci home world and through reverse engineering they were able to quickly jump decades ahead of their neighbors overnight. Still holding a grudge over the Devali for holding out on them they launched a genocidal war meant to subjugate the Devali people. The device they were so protective of was a piece of the alien tech they believed could be used to revert the timeline to just prior to the Leneci peoples rapid technological rise. Some members of command staff were keen on using the device and calling it done to stop the rise of such a dangerous race. Since that would be a clear violation of the temporal prime directive I sought an alternative." Aria paused enjoying her massage she took a deep breath as the masseuse worked his way down her back when the tips of his fingers disappeared only slightly under the towel covering her butt she spoke up loudly. "Too low start on my legs now."
"So I tried diplomacy. Knowing they were a tyranny and how unstable tyrannies usually are and how trying to appease them like Chamberlain did on earth only emboldens them I tried to exude strength. I put on my best Orion pirate queen act on and hailed them. I pointed out how much stronger we were than them, and all the benefits they would reap from ending their war with the Devali. When that failed I threatened their place in the galaxy hoping there would be a coup to topple their mad leader, I even let Serris fake a show for them that we could destroy their whole planet if they insisted on continuing the conflict. Instead of cracking the people rallied around her and it was on. They actually said they would rather die then surrender as long as they could take their neighbors down with them. I tried one more bluff that failed. So their fleet charged us and they set their station that was altering the artifical singularity near their planet to expand the wormhole and destroy both of the inhabited planets. After Serris alternated between coming up with a million not very feasible plans then shooting down every plan by just listing how it would go wrong while time was ticking he finally came up with a good safe idea to defuse the situation. I love Serris he is awesome but oh my gosh me and Val were on the edge of murdering him for a bit their maybe I should send him some command practice exercise holoprograms so he can practice making and sticking with decisions during crunch times instead of continuing to throw various ideas at the wall when its well past the time to act. Anyways the singularity was already so destabilized it needed to be dampened by our main deflector until its emissions wore off otherwise the singularity would have went up like the hobus event. We tried to keep as many of the attacking ships alive as possible but they were so fanatic. We even developed a new tactic we are calling the science punch." Aria giggled, "Using probes as kinetic weapons to push suicidal ships off course. But their ships were sooo primitive like early NX class junk level. Some were destroyed during that. In the end we succeeded. The Leneci are no longer a threat for now their fleet is destroyed they don't have their alien database oh yeah turns out thats what the device actually was to help them advance, and their artificial singularity manipulating station is out of commission. After this we reached out to the Devali and offered to help them draft and submit a federation membership packet and federation protectorate packet. The idea being that after one science ship stopped everything the Leneci had to throw at us even knowing that the Devali might be able to call on us again will keep them in line. I still feel bad that the whole thing couldn't be solved peacefully. Val says I did great but I think the Captain would have handled it better if she was there calling the shots." Aria paused and remained quiet for a long moment.
"This whole thing has me thinking though its kind of funny how different our first interactions with various species will shape their perception of us. For the Devali they will probably view Orions as a selfless, brave, reluctant warriors, a diplomatic race because of how we saved them from subjugation and annihilation but attempted negotiation before using our superior weapons. The Leneci probably think of Orions as a mercantile, warlike, totalitarian people because of the show I put on for them in the attempt for peace. Well that and the fact that Pilgrim stomped them and I was the poster girl in the talks leading up to that. Two worlds two completely different views. Hopefully we make more friends and I can help make the popular wisdom on how Orions act different in this galaxy than back home. Oh that reminds me I should talk to Val about seeing if we can put people in for rewards for their performance. Anyways im going to enjoy this massage and try not to hammer myself over all the mistakes I made so that's all for now. Computer end log and you mister magic hands start from the top again."
With that the recording ended.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Oct 25, 2017 18:03:40 GMT -5
Aria tapped away at a padd typing out a written log entry the old fashioned way as she sat in the Captains seat, feeling far too self conscious to make a verbal one in front of the bridge crew.
Log entry: What a day. We went to go meet the Starship Cho'sek to make diplomatic contact with its people. Well after doing so everything seems to have gone down hill. Both vessels are stuck in some sort of pocket dimension created by beings that are hostile, telepathic, and capable of just appearing anywhere sort of like those tarot cards we dealt with in the past.
We did make diplomatic contact with the Cho'sek and her Captain who is called a Prelate. He invited us over for dinner after our vessels where stranded together. He told us what he knew about this race that has us trapped. Dinner was strange and these people are in my opinion not suitable for federation membership. They have a rigid class system in place to the point that their leadership sees nothing wrong with denying lower castes medical care, and leaves them with sub par, extremely dangerous work stations aboard the ship when even a modicum of extra expenditure could substantially improve workplace safeties. They have exposed EPS conduits in the hallway's, and their warp reactor isn't even properly radiation shielded for Pete's sake! Anyways that isn't for me to decide anyways just something that should definitely be included in our reports back to Starfleet.
Currently I am in command as everyone who outranks me is currently busy. This is rather dubious given recent events but I am trying to do my best. After the diplomatic away team returned from our diplomatic dinner on the Cho'sek I went back to work in engineering and decided to get some hands on time fixing a broken coms relay in deck six junction 3b. When I arrived I found tools sprawled on the floor, and Meru, Li's Mother standing there. Seeing how out of place she was I asked her what she was doing there thinking maybe this anomaly we were trapped in transported her here somehow. At first her answers seemed reasonable but then she began talking about things that she had said in a recent nightmare I had, which she was in. She then tried to talk me into committing suicide. I am afraid to say for a moment I honestly considered her proposal. At this point I believed that I was having a mental breakdown and after shocking myself pretty good while attempting to fix the com relay I finally got it working she then promptly disappeared. At this point I informed the bridge of my mental state and relieved myself of duty before being transported to sick bay for an assessment. Doctor McCoy gave me some sedatives so I could rest for a few hours while he tried to figure out what exactly was wrong with me.
Shortly after being awoken by Dr. McCoy some hours latter he informed me I had been the target of a telepathic attack, and I was not crazy. I then went to my quarters to freshen up, and wait for clearance to return to duty. Instead of going back to engineering I ended up being put in charge of the whole ship. Probably not the best candidate given what had happened mere hours before but you have to rung with what you've brung not wish for something else. I've assigned Jill, and Li to creating a countermeasure to block the alien intruders ability to breach our defenses at will. They have seemingly succeeded, I have also assigned Angel, and a Romulan security team to work together and sweep the ship just in case one of those aliens was trapped on board when our countermeasure was brought online. The idea being that if one of them is compromised the others will be able to spot it, assist them, and still potentially engage the intruder. I also have the crew looking for weak points in this pocket dimension and so far we have one promising lead. I haven't ordered engineering to send the meat and potatoes of their idea to the Cho'sek yet because I think that's something the Captain should order directly. Just in case she has issues with the prime directive aspect of supplying a alien party with the technology to stop another alien party from interfering with them.
That wraps up what has been happening work wise since my last entry. Personal life wise, well its been even worse. Li and Jill have been VERY close since her return. Given his statement of feelings for her in the past well I was a bit worried. I mean staying out all night with her, spending all of his free time with her, taking her to see special holoprograms he has been working on forever that hes never taken me to. Well it made me suspicious. I mean Li has more romantic relationship experience than me, he had to know what this all looked like. Anyway's a week or so ago he finally made some time to spend with me, and we went to this big beach simulation since we where docked at the station. It was great crew from a bunch of ships relaxing. Li, and I had fun, drank quite a bit then we talked about Jill. He told me he was helping her with her social anxiety, and I bought it. I bought it up and until I let him know of my fears on the subject, and how I felt better about it after talking with him. He didn't respond by saying that they don't view each other like that. No Li responded that they wouldn't do that out of a sense of duty to me. Basically saying they have chemistry, and they would give in to it if he hadn't screwed up and married me, at least that's how I took it. That started a huge fight, and well I'm in temporary quarters now. I don't know if this is something we can work past, I honestly believe at this point that him, and Jill were having an affair. It hurts just to think about it, I trust both of them with my life and they do this to me? At first I just kept asking myself what I did wrong to drive him into her arms. Now I think I'm at the anger stage, and I am having a hard time looking either of them in the eyes without feeling upset, hurt, betrayed, and angry. I just hope the scuttle butt around all of this and my "mental breakdown" doesn't get too bad. This ship may be a fill in for Pily while she gets fixed but her and Pily are my home now I don't want to be driven off like a pariah because of the rumor mill making it impossible for me to be a good leader. Hopefully everything turns out ok, but I would be lying if I said my sense of optimism wasn't severely damaged by recent events.
End Log Entry.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Nov 8, 2017 17:38:43 GMT -5
Aria stirred gently her eyes fluttering open to take in one last morning on the romulan ship. With a grunt she stretched out from the cramped fetal position she had fallen asleep in the night before. After a few minutes of deciding between getting up and falling back asleep she finally kicked her legs off the side of the bed and got up. As she stood she noticed the PADD on the other side of the room sitting precariously on the floor and the memory of her tossing it against a wall the night before after looking at pictures of her and Li flashed vividly for a moment in her minds eye. With a sigh she made her way over to the cast off device and picked it up only to find the screen spider webbed with cracks.
"Great job Aria way to act like a child." She said to herself as she walked with the device over to the quarters replicators. With a few swipes of her hand the replicator materialized a new romulan PADD in front of her. Sure she could have gotten a federation one but Aria found the aesthetics of the Romulan device more appealing, plus it would serve as a good souvenir. With the new device in hand Aria pecked away at its screen copying over the contents of the damaged device before letting the replicator turn the damaged device into pure energy via the replicators recycle setting.
"Computer begin log." Aria said in a melancholy tone, not even bothering to change into something more official looking than the undergarments she went to sleep in the night before.
"Today im going back to the pilgrim. Shes finally fixed. I don't really know how to feel about it. It will be nice seeing all the friendly faces who didn't come along with us on our temporary vessel. But I don't know how many rumors from here have already spread to there. You know what they say there are no secrets on a star ship. Anyways we managed to get out of that pocket dimension by finding that dimensions Artesian gateway and it sent us home. It was actually way easier than I thought it would be. But the gateway did not let the Cho'sek through. That brings up a lot of questions but for now we have no answers. After that me and Li kind of had it out in the mess hall." Aria paused and sighed.
"I went to get a drink, because well recent events meant I really deserved a nice large alcoholic beverage I think. So who comes in to bother me? Of course Li. He basically claimed to be as innocent as new fallen snow and that the only mistake he made was spending so much time with Jill. That made me so mad. Even now he wont come clean, and the fact that he still doesn't get it. It's like he has absolutely no empathy whatsoever! I don't even know what to do at this point. Anyways after some heated back and fourth I went to the bar to get a refill and be well away from him. He follows and starts to get angry at me and offers to request a transfer... Even through all of this I have tried my best as a starfleet officer to remain impartial and not let my anger over the situation affect how I treat Li or Jill during our shifts. So I told him he didn't need to do that and I brought that up. Li fired back with a roundabout way of saying im not a professional, that this is all my fault, and that all the rumors going around of him and Jill's affair are my fault as well for getting mad at him back on the beach simulation. I guess in Li land his dumb orion wife should just shut up, look pretty, spend all of her time alone except when he feels like having sexy time, and completly ignore him running around with another woman he has feelings for. Because you know how dare I get upset over that and yell at him about it when he basically slaps me upside the head with their relationship when I voice my concerns. At that point I was done talking with that jerk for the night and left. He tried some sappy line about wanting to start a family with me still. I AM NOT A SLAVE GIRL! I will not shut up and be some piece of property he can procreate with while he has a relationship with another woman, no matter how stupid he thinks I am and that I will bye his lies about them just being friends. The worst part is even after all of this I still care about him. I can't even bring myself to hate him. Given how fragile he is I even called up Jill after I stormed out and told her, Li probably needed someone to talk to." Aria stopped and looked up at the roof shaking her head clearly agitated.
"Why did I let him in? Why did I trust him? Why didn't I learn from highschool? Loves not something for me. I feel it, and give it freely but everyone else just sees an Orion, they just see a sex object. No feelings no need to care about me, I'm just an animate sex toy. That's all I am to them I guess. I wish it could be different." Aria sighed and wiped a few budding tears from her face. "I don't even know what, im going to do when I get back home to the pilgrim. Moving back in with Li definitely isn't happening, and the longer this goes on, and the deeper he digs the hole every time he tries to talk to me... I think its over between us. The real question though is what happens after that? Between my break down after that telepathic attack, the Li thing, and the chattering rumors everywhere I go maybe its time for me to leave, I don't know where to." Aria sighed, "I wish I had someone to talk to but Val is always busy, and well Ilya isn't the type who would want to talk anyways. Val probably wouldn't want to be weighed down with my emotional baggage anyways even if she wasn't busy, that's why I haven't even tried to organize a girls night in awhile. Being alone all the time is hard, but I guess I've had enough practice being a loner growing up that I can manage. At the end of the day my own Mother didn't want me, why would anyone else? Why do I keep expecting a different outcome when I let someone in?" Aria sat on the end of her bed buried her face in her hands and began sobbing uncontrollably for a few minutes before she managed to compose herself enough to tap away at the padd and end the recording.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Nov 30, 2017 2:15:25 GMT -5
Aria paced around her room in PT clothes which were clearly drenched in sweat.
"Computer begin log recording. So lets see if I make it farther into this one than the one I started last night. We ran into a weird anomaly last night. Some sort of radiation that had the effect of making everyone... Emotional. I've been on such a rollercoaster lately that well I think I handled it pretty well. But we had people getting into fights, professing love to one another, a leering Ferengi who tried to buy I guess my hand in marriage stuff like that. It was... Strange. Eventually a simple shield modulation fixed everything." Aria sighed and continued pacing.
"After that is when things went bad. Li decided to talk to me again. He um admitted that him and Jill had... Yeah. All this time where I doubted what was right in front of me, and he blamed me for seeing things that didn't exist. He lied to me. Him and her. It was all a lie the vows, the I love only you non sense." Aria paused to wipe her eyes which were tearing up again, "I TRUSTED THEM! I TRUSTED HIM!.. And he thinks a simple sorry is good enough? A simple promise of, 'hey wont happen again.' Really? When he's didn't even take his duty." Aria sneered, "of marriage seriously? And then he said that Val talked to him and that she knew. I was sooo mad about that. I thought it over while I slept last night. Maybe he didn't mean you know like this whole time she knew and just didn't tell me about the affair. If she did know this whole time im done because there is no one left on this ship I can trust, only pain and people who don't really care about me. Why seriously why? Whats wrong with me? Why am I so awful that no one wants to be with me? I married the first guy I... He was in training to be a priest for Pete's sake before he joined starfleet but he cheated on me with a co worker I was pseudo friends with or at least friendly with." Aria sighed.
"I don't know where to go from here. Li wants to just go on like before. I don't think I can do that. Not now not after all of this. Maybe if he had you know not tried to play innocent and blame me for months now. I just. It hurts to say this but I don't think I can trust him with my heart again... Plus he will probably be happier with Jill." Aria slumped some at this.
"I should." Aria sighed, "I should probably talk with Jill about this. I've avoided her throughout all of this. I guess I'll go do that after this." Aria sighed again, "I did learn a valuable lesson though. I spent the last few years driving out the self doubt, and fear I have, letting people in, internalizing all the things me and Arin used to talk about in our sessions... That was a mistake. Computer end log."
With that Aria walked off to the bathroom to get ready for her surprise visit to Jill's quarters.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Dec 6, 2017 16:57:18 GMT -5
Aria lay comfortably on her couch, dressed in her sleepwear, with a padd in hand.
"Computer begin log recording. So tonight was eventful. A mishap with the hazardous waste containment systems gave us a lot of work to deal with. As a result I've assigned a refresher in their operation to all engineering personnel so that doesn't happen again. Besides that there was some other small engineering problems. But that was all pretty uneventful. Personal side, um that's where the interesting stuff happened." Aria paused to think before continuing.
"I um I gave Li um divorce documents after work and my ring and bajoran wedding bracelet. I feel like a weight is lifted off my shoulders. I mean I was sooo miserable over all of this lately. Life's too short you know. He looked sad and im a little worried about him. But I mean he must not of been too happy either since well, he did cheat on me in the first six months of being married. Its just better this way, I mean it would be like trying to build a house on quick sand at this point. Honestly I think half the reason he kept trying to fix things is he didn't want to tell his parents about what happened. I mean all of them are pretty religious so I don't think they will take it well. But that isn't my problem he brought all of this on himself and yeah. Besides that um well I have some good friends. We are going to have a epic grils night to well celebrate my moving on I guess. That's all I have to say I guess. Hopefully you know things stay on the up and up now. I mean things got pretty dark there for awhile. I mean when we got caught on that ambush where those aliens tried to enslave us and I walked up to them and tried to talk as they pointed guns at me... People thought I was being brave honestly I mostly thought they wouldn't kill a potential slave I mean that's not logical. But I also... Well I just didn't care too much if they did shoot me. I don't want things to be like that. Well bye for now. Remember happy thoughts." Aria smiled.
"Computer end log."
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Dec 14, 2017 1:05:58 GMT -5
"Ugh." Aria sighed as she sat up from her bed still dressed in her outfit from the night before but looking more disheveled now.
"My head." she added as she gripped her head as her hangover kicked in full force.
"Computer a large glass of water. and some sort of pill that's good for headaches... and hangovers." She shakily got to her feet and shuffled to the replicator retrieving the refreshing liquid, downing the mystery pill, and then chugging half the glasses contents in one go.
"Computer begin log recording. So um last night it became official. Me and Li are through. He signed the papers. Then me and Nadine celebrated the end of that nightmare with way too much alcohol. I also embraced my Orion heritage a bit hence the outfit. Looks like him and Jill are wasting no time and are already a thing. You'd think I'd be mad or jealous... But honestly I'm not I'm just glad its over and hes not playing games with my emotions anymore. It would have been better if he hadn't at all but. Well too late for that. So you know what Li, Jill if you see this good luck I hope you find happiness together. Just don't expect me to go to any future weddings or anything like that. So um I think I set up some sort of speaker system and karaoke thing in the bar on the citadel?" Aria paused and shrugged.
"At least I think so. I remember lots of dancing with all sorts of people. Who'd have thought random people would want to dance with a drunk orion dressed in well orion attire." Aria chuckled then looked a bit serious.
"I still haven't called my family. I don't know what to tell them. Merry Christmas Mom, and Dad, I returned you're defective son in law to the bajoran store so definitely no grand babies for Christmas? I guess I should stop putting it off and get it over with. Hopefully he told his parents so they don't try to be all supportive of my Earth upbrining and send cards or presents or something that would be awkward. Oh and I think I might have planned some sort of holiday festivities last night with Val and Ilya but im not sure if that really happened or was a weird dream. I remember Ilya speaking in tongues trying to cast spells or something, and something about her talking about public urination?" Aria deadpanned looking seriously confused.
"But Ilya can be strange and anti social so I wouldn't discount anything weird being beyond the realm of reality for her. Well that's all. Now I just need to get my old name back on everything and hopefully the Captain doesn't get mad about it going back and fourth in under a year. Well bye for now. Remember when things are horrible they don't tend to stay that way for long keep on keeping on and you'll make it through. Computer more water and end recording."
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Jan 21, 2018 20:47:14 GMT -5
Aria jogged down a picturesque tropical beach enjoying the privacy of the holodeck She was simply dressed in a top that looked more like a glorified sports bra and a pair of running shorts. As she jogged barefoot through the sand she looked deep in though.
“Computer begin log entry.” Aria only slowing her pace slightly to compensate for the extra effort of speaking as she jogged.
“So things have been kind of awkward on board lately. Li and Jill are definitely a thing now and tend to avoid even being in the same room as me no matter how big and crowded it is when off duty. It used to bug me but you know what I don’t care anymore. He is a cheater and she knew what she was doing. So when he cheats on her gets caught then cries like a baby I won’t have any sympathy for either of them.” Aria paused getting back into her breathing rhythm as she thought about what else to say.
“Oh back on the Citadel I actually had the Captains of the Adagio and Gigantes offer me positions on board their ships if things get too awkward on Pilgrim. That kind of made me feel better. I mean I figured they wouldn’t have even have heard of me.” Aria smiled slightly.
“Oh speaking of being heard of I think I am encountering the negatives of Boyd’s show. It’s either that or a bunch of guys have like newly single sense or something. Since they have been nicer than normal since the divorce. At least I don’t see as many hushed whispers every time I walk down a crowded hall. But hey it’s not as bad as high school I just need to have thick skin.” Aria paused again breathing in a steady rhythm as she continued on down the beach.
“What else. Well Serris has kind of ticked me off at the moment. He asked for some help on a project. Nothing new there I’ve been supportive of him working in engineering on his project and getting engineering assistance for like his whole time on board. So I said sure right, I just need to read over his proposal first. Mind you this is right before New Years and um I’m chief engineer on a starship... Yeah so between my regular work load and enjoying shore leave I haven’t finished reading up on that. Oh my gosh the look he gave me was like I crashed a shuttle on his puppy or something. Not all of us are so underworked we can wander off for half of every shift with no one noticing.” Aria rolled her eyes before continuing. “Oh yeah we ran into that Campyhr species again. They banged us around a bit and managed to take some crew from another ship prisoner but we won. I missed most of that because I took a pretty good blow to the head. But afterwards I got into a argument with some people over it. I think we should try to reach out to them diplomatically. Obviously if they want slaves they are a mercantile people right? So we should try to find someway to create a trade deal that makes us more valuable as partners than adversaries. The response I got back was they are slavers we can’t make deals with people like that. Of course then Li and Jill started whispering probably saying unpleasant things... but anyways really? The federations goal isn’t to interfere with other civilizations internal dealings. I mean heck we made peace and strive to keep it with the Klingons and who knows how many billions of sentients they have murdered after provoking a fight so the houses can vie for honor by slaughtering outsiders instead of each other. Or how we have found peace with a multitude of other races we once fought with. This isn’t even our galaxy and to be arrogant enough to think we can come in and beat the locals into acting like Federation members won’t lead anywhere good. I dunno anymore it seems like we are stuck in constant war, heck for most of my lifetime we’ve been at war. The Klingons, the undine, the Iconians just to make a few. I wonder if maybe starfleet has had too much mission creep and all those shiny warships and Admirals that came out of the dominion war and Klingon war are a bunch of hammers who just see nails everywhere they look. Heck half the time I’ve been on this ship it seems our mission isn’t exploring but getting into or supporting some fight somewhere.” Aria sighed.
“Hopefully I’m just being pessimistic because I’m a little angry. It would be nice to you know actually use this ship for what’s its designed for exploration and not play undergunned warship constantly. Time will tell. Anyways I’m going to get a massage before my scheduled holodeck time is up. Bye for now. Computer end recording.”
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Jan 28, 2018 16:02:03 GMT -5
Aria kneeled in a somewhat contorted state as she worked on a panel in a Jeffries tube while consciously positioning herself so that should any unexpected company come along her skirt wouldn’t fail at its mission of maintaining her modesty.
“Computer begin log recording. So we are back at the Citadel for the moment. We had a nice meeting with some brass about some things. Looks like they might try diplomacy. As hard as that may be with these scyrthai. I hope I said that right. But basically the hostiles from the camphyr. I’m pretty happy about that. I put my two cents in during that meeting who knows if it will work or if we end up in another slugging contest. But at least they are willing to try something else.” Aria paused and smiled.
“Oh and they have assigned another ship to join us so Pily won’t be exploring alone now. Officially they are supposed to be our bodyguard kind of but ansecond set of sensor arrays and some additional labs and scientists for our people to collaborate with should be fun. Also their um I think chief of security? Anyways he’s this hulking muscular Orion. I um talked with and had drinks with him and his deltas after the meeting it was nice.” Aria smiled and blushed.
“He’s... I don’t know. I mean I’ve spent so much of my life around humans and haven’t known many Orions so it’s different. I mean it’s like someone chiseled him from marble. Or hmm I dunno a old copper statue left to the elements so it turned green.” Aria smirked.
“You can definitely tell he works out unlike a certain wrinkle nosed jerk. Speaking of said W N J I know I should be getting over it all like water off a ducks back but I don’t know I still get angry when I think of that. I mean all the lying and then the emotional manipulation where he would cry like a hormonal teenager dealing with rejection for the first time. All while he cheated on me not to mention how fast they got together after it was all said and done. I bet if I took him back they still would have been fooling around on the side.” Aria huffed at that.
“But enough about lazy, whiny, W N J’s. I wonder if all Orion guys are built like this. Plus I mean I’d like to get to know this guy better but at the same time Mr. W N J was a reminder that most people are not worth having a relationship with and that when most people say, ‘I love you.’ They don’t actually mean it they just want sex. Especially when you are a member of a species that has a reputation for that sort of thing. So I don’t know where any of this is going, and while I’d like to feel loved again I’m going to be a lot more cautious and slow about things in the future. That’s all for now. Bye! Computer end log entry.”
With that the recording stopped and Aria applied her full concentration to the task at hand once again.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Apr 21, 2018 16:27:39 GMT -5
Aria flopped onto her bed still dressed in her duty uniform only having managed to strip of her shoes and socks on the trek to the bedroom.
“Computer begin recording.” With that she sat up slightly to look at the nearby consoles monitor to make sure the camera angle wasn’t anything uncouth like an upskirt angle in her current position. Once satisfied she flopped back onto her back not caring if the audio quality would suffer some from her current position.
“So I just realized it’s been over three months since I did one of these. Time really does fly. Since it’s been so long I’m sure I’llforget some stuff. So if you are a future historian watching this I’m sorry for two reasons. One that you are having to resort to watching my logs for primary source info and two that I am definitely going to leave things out.” Aria paused smirked and shrugged for a moment which from the angle of the camera just showed her bare feet and calves as well as the bed slightly moving for a moment.
“So um lots of downtime recently. Not much progress on rescuing the kidnapped crew members from the Argentina. I think there were two major battles since my last entry. The first was the attack on the citadel the other was the battle of Bajor. One went well the other... well we lived and won but at a high price. The fight at the citadel was pretty straight forward and we did well. The one at Bajor was a cluster. They will be rebuilding Bajor for years maybe decades. Basically the tzenkethi start invading and they are packing protomatter WMDs. We intercepted them as they advanced on Bajor trying to blow it up. We as in Pilgrim not the whole fleet where tasked with attacking a dreadnought. Yeah a science vessel against a dreadnought... yeah. So we brainstorm and then the call comes to try Serris’ maneuver to get a team on board to disable the ship. While we are getting ready the Argentina was hit by a protomatter weapon and delt a mortal blow. So it was just Me, Jill, Val and some security personnel. We targeted a primary eps junction to start a feedback pulse to knock all their systems offline and put a nice big hole in them. It worked even though my sloppy use of the dreadnought’s transporters to drop us right on top of our target after getting aboard almost got people hurt. This isn’t even the crazy part after disabling that huge ship they just up and surrendered. Then all heck broke loose.”
Aria paused for a moment to coalesce her thoughts before continuing. “A huge swarm of hurq ships swarmed out of Bajor who knows how long they had been hiding there. You’d think someone would of found some of them during excavation for construction over the years but nope. So then we get beamed back and are fighting for our lives trying to join the ever dwindling fleet protecting DS9. We reused a tactic sort of similar to the one we used on the undine dreadnought at the battle of earth. There we used a blown off nacelle from another ship as a big kinetic weapon via the tractor beam and some superluminal acceleration with the warp drive. This time we just grabbed the evacuated hulk of the Argentina and used it like a plow blade straight through the swarm. During that they somehow got inMe and Li actually rigged the charging systems for the shuttles to work in reverse and drained all the shuttles in the bay completely like little emergency batteries to get that to happen.... we are definitely putting in a safeguard to prevent that but allow that feature in the future so I don’t have to spend days replacing primary power cores on shuttles. Anyways after we get there it looks like a Alamo moment. Like we are all going to go down fighting together. But we where saved by the dominion of all people jumping in. The funny part is I joked about that with Li maybe a minute before it happened. So we won and we have been stuck at the star base since then waiting. Doing repairs and a little upgrading. Oh and both battles are kind of jumbled in my head at the moment but one of them some sort of telepathic weapon was used on us where we were stuck living out our fears. It was horrible And I don’t want to get in detail about mine but um some of the crew took it pretty hard. I’ve seen enough over the years on this ship that I realize it was just an unpleasant illusion. But Serr... some crew seem to be taking it more like a prophesy or probable outcome instead of a nightmare.”
Aria stretched out some the bed shaking and her toes splaying for a moment being the only sign. “So now that we have that out of the way onto personal matters. I um. I finally forgave Li. Then I did something stupid a few days ago. That handsome Orion from the Argentina, well he survived. I got talked into making a move. But considering he never noticed me beforehand even prancing around like a schoolgirl with a crush in swimware unless his buddies pointed it out I should have known better. I got the it’s not you it’s me speech in response. That hurt my pride some. Then there was the pseudo date with Collins.” Aria smirked and shook her head, “ that ended weird too but he’s happy about the result so I’m happy for him. Then last night I kind of had an epiphany. I still have years to enjoy myself if I find a guy I find a guy if I don’t.” Aria shrugged the bed shook slightly, “I mean worst comes to worst of in a decade or so I’m still single I can transfer to a starbase find mister right and start a family. I’d like to meet him sooner but you can’t force things like that. And I don’t want a repeat of Li. Plus I think I was just feeling lonely and I um think eustress is around the corner... so probably some hormones. Hopefully we aren’t doing anything major for um when that really kicks in so I can take two days for sick leave and people just think I had a cold. Besides that... Hmm oh I think me and Serris’ relationship is on the mend. I think he finally got it during the last battle that a) I can’t just make major changes to ships systems and reroute power from essential systems to try a plan he just pulled out of thin air without authorization b) that in those situations we are too busy in engineering to go over endless theoretical plans and c) it’s not malice based when I get terse when I’m busy and just say no. Ironically I think me yelling at him in the thick of it all might of helped. We even had a good talk about his theories tonight. Speaking of tonight I had so much fun. I had some food and went dancing like I just didn’t care with a new science officer reassigned from the Argentina, and a science officer from the protector. I didn’t even know I could dance like that it just felt so natural. Apparently there is a fan forum about our ship as a result of the imbedded reporters and I guess I’m popular? So I guess me shaking my butt is probably out there for all to see. Sorry Mom and Dad.” Aria laughed.
“Well that’s all for now. Have a good one. Computer end recording.” With that she began stripping off cloths and tossing them aside before falling asleep not even bothering to crawl under the covers.
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Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on May 30, 2018 16:38:53 GMT -5
Aria flopped on her daybed/couch in her living room glistening in sweat and still wearing her yoga pants and sports bra from her earlier workout. She simply lay for a bit before pulling her legs up to peel off her shoes and socks. Even a vigorous run hadn't calmed her down following her confrontation with Valkriss. With a sigh Aria sat up and grabbed a padd she had left laying on the couch. She tapped away on it until she was satisfied then adjusted it so it captured a picture of her sitting. Her blood was running hot and she needed to vent. To the point that she didn't care that the footage would be of in her less clothing than she was usually comfortable with in a public record.
"Computer begin log recording. I feel like everyone has gone crazy on this ship except me!... I guess I should explain that. So an operative from the mirror universe kidnapped our Serris replaced him then sabotaged our ship in a effort to steal Serris' research for who knows what. And guess what? Everyone else seems to be cool with it. The Captain, Valkriss, T'Ghor. Pretty much everyone... This lying untrustworthy jackass... pardon my language. But he kidnaps our Serris and everyone is like 'oh but poor poor kidnapper.' Seriously? SERIOUSLY!?" Aria stood up and began to pace clenching her fists.
"I liked Serris sure we where butting heads a lot there before he got kidnapped. Sure he is arrogant and has a bit of a ego and seems to put his research above every other concern but he is a fellow crew mate and I'd even say a friend before the head butting. This spy kidnapped him and put him in a hellhole where who knows whats happening to him. I've been there before I've seen what they do to people. I'm lucky it didn't end up happening to me. Being raped and tortured and a lab rat for unethical inhumane medical experiments. But hey lets feel bad for the kidnapper? What? I mean you have got to be kidding me. Then when I bring up how ridiculous it is that they are bringing the kidnapper around the ship, treating him to a feast in the mess hall, giving him a little tour, im the bad guy. Where is the loyalty to one of our own? So then while that jerk is waiting for his meal to stuff his smug little lying face. Valkriss comes over to talk to me. I bring up how unacceptable this all is and you know what she does? She says something about it being preferable to coddle a prisoner to get information than show them the back of your hand. Or something like that. Like I was suggesting we backhand, and slap around the sawed off spy." Aria paused clenching her jaw and shaking her head as she let out a guttural growl.
"Really? Shes supposed to be my friend but she thinks since I don't think its appropriate to bring a known kidnapper and saboteur and spy to the mess hall to have a grand old time that I am advocating beating him? What the heck? To make it better at this point, the blue turd walks up and starts trying to butt in. Like I care what he has to say. So instead of screaming I try to excuse myself and leave. Whats my reward Valkriss gets mad orders me to wait for her outside, then when we are out there she basically orders me to not publicly have an opinion on all this bull... stuff. So yeah. That happened. Who'd have though Li would be the only person to try to see things from my point of view. Yeah the guy who didn't care enough about me after taking a vow to love and cherish me forever to you know keep that vow and not screw someone else. Yeah he's the only one who understands why I'm mad." Aria stopped pacing and flopped back on the couch.
"Lets talk about this mirror Serris. He says he came here via transporter via a beacon he doesn't know how to reproduce and that he didn't bring with him. So that means he had help beaming him here and providing him with the device, yet no one else seems to care about this network that had to help him out. Heck it could all be a plot by the terran empire to get that information delivered to them on a silver platter. He kidnapped one of our people and put them in mortal danger oh and sabotaged our ship and was planning on stealing information from us. But hey I already mentioned that. Oh and he wants us to violate the prime directive and help start a all out war in another universe. I get it its horrible over there... But that doesn't mean we blindly trust him, or violate the prime directive. Plus his whole blah blah it will be unicorns and rainbows if you help me stuff. The publicly available information what little there is on the mirror universe is pretty clear. Sure the terrans are jerks and enslaved everyone else... But a few decades ago it was the other way around with the other races enslaving and exploiting the terrans, and anyone else they could get their hands on. If we violate the prime directive and even if this guy isn't lying and sending us into a trap we are just tipping the balance to a different regime of enslavement and genocide. Plus it just all seems so convenient. He's complained about how oppressed he is there but he has access to all sorts of empire battle plans and tactics... Do they not have OPSEC in the mirror universe?" Aria paused and sighed.
"Oh wait im not supposed to have a opinion on all of this or be critical of the not a tour, tour that they are giving him. Hey maybe next we can have a serial killer sneak on board hack up a few crew members and then we can throw the killer a surprise birthday party! You know because reasons. Cause that's about as outrageous as things have been on board lately anyways. Whatever I'm done. Computer do a search and redact anything that's classified before posting this. If need be forward it for manual review, because at this point I don't care anymore. My best friend has already yelled at me over this and insinuated that im in favor or torture for being critical of this, so its not like seeing any of this would make her think any less of me than she already apparently does."
Aria frowned as she reached out and tapped at her padd ending the recording, before getting up and heading straight for bathroom. Maybe a nice long soak in the tube would put a dent in her mood after her venting.
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