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After a while, Alexsandr regained his composure and calmed himself. He couldn't show to be a shaky leader. He decided to play gwent with one of the other crew members.

After winning and losing a few games of Gwent, Alexsandr decided to augment the ship a bit. He told a crew member to tell Zerick that the Captain has given him permission to start reviewing the ship's systems for any flaws. After issuing the order, he went straight back to playing Gwent.

The bartender came round and gave Aria her water. She thanked him and sipped from it, and requested some crackers to go along with the drink. Her stomach was still slightly upset and she didn't want to be too hard on it, especially after her earlier martini.

In response to Hendrik's question, the explorer spoke up first. "I hail from Talvias - strange little place, in all honesty. Confusion everywhere, all the time."

After blitzing through the manuals for his equipment, the thought of all the officers getting to know each other but not him troubled Zerick. He got up and tried to walk out of his room but bumped into a crewmember as she was about to knock on his door.

Zerick stood tall and straightened his uniform. "Ensign."

"Sorry, sir. The Captain said to tell you to look for flaws in the ship systems."

"Very well. I'll get started soon."

The ensign saluted and walked off.

That's gonna severely cut into my social time, he thought. Oh well. Can't be helped. He then began navigating the corridors to the officer's lounge.

"Commander Tomalek to USS Wintreath.  I have left the IDW Aggressor and am travelling preparing to dock.  I request that the ventral shielding be powered off to allow entrance to the docking bay.  Over." 

This assignment is going to be very interesting, Tomalek thought. 

"Don't be alarmed by these humans when you first meet them," he told his fellow Vulcans assigned to the USS Wintreath by the Andromedian Committee on Intraregional Development, "They might have emotions and act quite irrationally, but they are generally quite motivated and rather unconventional thinkers."

Alexsandr was informed the Artificer arrived and was requesting permission to enter.

"Allow him to enter already, we don't want him waiting out in space! He's on the bloody list!"

The crew member then proceeded to allow the ship on board.

"Tomalek to Wintreath.  We are proceeding to enter the main shuttle bay." 

After entering the shuttle bay and disembarking, Tomalek and his contingent of fellow Vulcan engineers prepared to enter the main ship. 

"Does the Vulcan delegation have permission to come aboard, Captain Erikson?"

"Of course. You may come aboard."

"Thank you, Captain.  Subcommander Solen, bring the additional supplies to a cargo bay, then meet me in engineering with the rest of the team.  May I commence work on stabilising the FTL drive immediately, sir?  We Vulcans generally do not enjoy the idea of spending time in stasis, as it is a generally inefficient use of time." 

Tomalek tried to conceal his dislike of stasis under the guise of inefficiency, but he sensed that the Captain didn't really buy his excuse.  Well, even if you don't buy the excuse, I'll still commence work on the warp drive.  Just don't put me in stasis for forty years.  I didn't volunteer for this to spend eighty years sleeping.

"Vulcans do not like stasis? That may become problematic, if one dies of old age, even if you are a Vulcan. But, working on the systems while one is in stasis might be useful... Sure, you may work on it, but it might be very difficult. It's highly unstable and we might not have the supplies to fix it."

"I'm from Alcubierre, an island of the Democratic Empire," James said. He then excused himself to use the toilet.

James decided to check the news another time before they left. He saw the headline, "VON ERIKSON FAMILY EXTINGUISHED BY MILITANT SOCIALISTS." Well, that certainly complicates things.

James returned to the lounge and sat back down. "Seems like our captain's entire family has been destroyed by terrorists," he told the others. "Might want to be careful."

Aíne Hiwat has finally arrived to the ship in a small ship.  He is late baccause the launch in his Nation was delayed by a unusually early in the year blizzard. He video hails the large ship from his little capsule seemingly haveing barely gotten out of earths gravity.

Greetings dear brothers, may Belenus have blessed you today. I request entry to the ship, I am Aíne Hiwat MD your medical officer. *shows identification to the camera.

A crew member responded, "You may proceed to the shuttle bay and board the ship"

He maneuvers into bay. Aíne Hiwat puts his few personal objects away. After quickly introducing himself to the rest of the crew. He asks everone to come in for a medical checkup before the voyage begins.

Commander Tomalek entered his quarters for the first time after a long day of work in engineering.  After unpacking a few of the bags that he had sent to the ship a few days before his arrival, he went over to his computer desk and began an entry. 

" Commander Tomalek Personal Log, Day of Embarkation on Wintreath Regional Starship USS Wintreath. 

Today has been rather fascinating.  I have met the rest of the engineering staff, and a large percentage of it does not include the other Vulcans that I brought with me.  Although I have reviewed the files of the other engineering members, I saw them personally for the first time today and I am relieved to find that I have not been disappointed in any of them.  One of the more prominent non-Vulcans on the engineering deck is Zerick Chase who, although rather inexperienced in the field, comes highly recommended from his Academy class and might be the most curious person that I have met.  I have already had a few interesting conversations with him, and believe that he will be useful when implementing the modifications to make the FTL "Warp" drive more stable. 

In other news, the ship's physician, Aíne Hiwat, appears to be rather illogical.  He is religious, and that may be a point of friction with the Vulcan contingent of the crew.  I have given him the benefit of the doubt though, and have scheduled my medical exam tomorrow afternoon. 

I shall now attempt to socialise with the crew, for I believe that is the best course of action in order to better integrate into the crew, and I have instructed the rest of my personnel to do the same.  End Commander Tomalek Personal Log."

Let's see if the other departments are going to be as stellar as engineering now, shall we? Tomalek thought as he proceeded to exit the room and walked toward the mess hall.