>>6051580“It makes a certain sort of sense, I suppose,” Cdr Matthew Cooper chuckles , “Do any records still survive, or is this just an old family folktale?”
Your Science officer backs you up, clacking her beak in faux dismissal.
“Well naturally I indulged Dallas and tried looking through the old medical records, but of course everything from that time period was corrupted and inaccessible.” She huffs. “I told him that unless he produced the originals we’d all have to assume he was full of hot air.”
“Yeah, and I bet them my last bottle of Scotch that I wasn’t making it up. So to settle this I could really use your help, Commander. You have access to the originals as a Science officer right? Think you can help us out, Sir?” You smirk and roll your eyes slightly, feigning only half-hearted interest for anyone caring to observe.
“I’m sure that could be arranged.” The human nods slowly, a slight gleam in his eye. “But you’ll have to beat Beta watch fair and square first. And when you fail to do that, I think I’ll take the first swig of that bottle myself.”
He laughs suddenly and slaps your arm, holding out a hand to shake. You quickly take it and try not to wince as he grips it tight.
“So what’ll it be?” He asks. “We issued the challenge, well one of us did.” He glances over his shoulder at his struggling Nav officer, still cursing and flailing at the towering Ulveng man holding her at arm’s length. “So it’s your preference on the means of battle — a four-on-four sounds fair.”
You nod and quickly come up with some options that would play to the strengths of your available crew. You turn to converse with your them — the chaos having finally been forcefully ended by a longsuffering Isobel who now has Cleo by the ear and Kiro in a headlock — and come to a decision:
>You will compete in a traditional ship-to-ship combat trial. (Bridge Sim.)>You will settle things face to face in a mock firefight. (Tactical Skirm.)>Your navigators started this, you’ll make this a matter of piloting skill in the hangar sim pods. (On-rails Dogfight.)>You had something else in mind. (Write in) 