A New Moon Rising

Posted on Sun Jun 21st, 2020 @ 3:13am by Captain Nycolas Temple
Edited on on Wed Jun 24th, 2020 @ 5:01am

Mission: New Moon Rising
Location: Starfleet Command
Timeline: One Month Prior

Nycolas Temple stood at attention outside the office of Lieutenant General P'Trell, his back as stiff as a board. His dress uniform was a little tighter than he remembered and it chafed annoyingly around his neck. But he would endure this discomfort for a hundred years if it meant he got to stand here, on this day, with this very important meeting about to occur. He only had an inkling of what's to come, rumours that he'd heard while back on Earth these past few days. Old Academy classmates of his, giving him a knowing nod and a smile, all indicating that something amazing was about to happen.

After what seemed like an eternity to this Federation officer, the Lieutenant General's assistant finally gave Nyx the go-ahead to enter. He took a deep breath and swallowed hard, made even more difficult by the tight neckline, and with heart racing, opened up the door.

"Lieutenant General," He began eagerly. "Lieutenant Commander Temple, reporting as requested."

Jhamal was reading a padd containing some information when the officer in question walked in and stood infront of her desk. "Welcome Commander hope you were not waiting long." Jhamal stated as she stood up. "Now please have a seat," she added as she motioned for the chair infront of her.

Nyx diligently complied and sat down stiffly into the offered arm chair. He held his hands tightly to his knees, thankful that the Lieutenant General couldn't see how much he was sweating at this point.

"Thank you," Nyx smiled, "I suppose I wasn't really waiting all that long, just felt like an eternity." He laughed nervously, hoping P'Trell would too.

She smiled as she then looked at the padd containing information. "Ah here it is," she stated more to herself then anything. "Well Commander, it seems that you have impressed your previous Captain and has come up a promotion." Jhamal stated as she looked at him.

"Your being assigned to the USS Pandora a Luna-class ship as its Commanding Officer as well as you will be assigned to Task Force 72 in the 4th Fleet." She added handing him a padd containing information about the area and the Inconnu Expanse.

Nyx's hand reached out for the PaDD and his eyes gazed upon the information but inside, his mind had gone fuzzy. Impressed his Captain. A promotion. His own ship. He looked up to the General and then back to the PADD, then up to the General again.

Impressed. Promotion. Own ship.

He realized that P'Trell was waiting for a response, "I don't know what to say. I... Wow. Thank you. Thank you to Captain Thurston, thank you for the opportunity." He was babbling and he knew it. "I promise I'll be more eloquent in a moment."

She chuckled, she remembered many moons ago she was in his same position getting her first Command. She couldn't help but smile as he felt nervous and happy all at the same time.

He nodded and cleared his throat, "So the USS Merrimack completed a successful journey through the Corridor, but I take it we'll be conducting a longer tour into the region?"

"Yes, but I would like you to take the Carnwennan Corridor to the Inconnu Expance, it will be a longer trip but right now the Inconnu corridor is risky right now as we are seeing some unusual activity and would prefer that ships take the longer route at this time while we investigate." Jhamal stated as she be setting out to Roosevelt Station in a few days herself to take Command of Task Force 72.

Temple nodded, looking back at the PADD and finally allowing the information on the USS Pandora to sink into his brain, "I see we have an expanded Recreation deck to allow for the longer journey. So this really will be a deep-space mission then?" He smiled, thinking of all the historical deep-space services he learned about in the Academy. So much exploration and so many discoveries to be made.

She nodded, "I also want you to keep log of your findings and report it back to myself." Jhamal replied looking at him, she also gave him another padd with information on where the Pandora is docked as well as a list of her crew. "If their isn't anything else you are dismissed, you leave immediately." She added looking at him as she stood up and extended her arm, "congratulations Commander." She added with a small smile.

It was a whirlwind meeting for Nyx. One minute felt like an eternity and then suddenly like his whole world had changed. He went into this meeting an Executive Officer and came out of it with the command of his own ship. He stood and shook the General's hand once more.

"Thank you, once again, I won't let you down." Temple replied, finally releasing that breath he'd been holding.

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