"Okay people, listen up!" yelled the S1 over the loud chatter in her transport. "We're about to board the YSS Destiny, a deep space exploration and colonisation craft. As I'm sure you all know, we are part of the engineering detail sent by Nova to maintain the ship, alongside star army techies!" She paused, smiling slightly, "And if you're NOT an engineer, you shouldn't be here!"
The other engineers, including Karin, groaned at the horrible attempted humour, and went back to their gossiping. "Karin, Sem, could I talk to you for a moment?" Said the S1, Taeli Marr, as she edged up beside the two S2's through the crush. "Of course!" replied Karin, Sem nodding, and followed Taeli back to the raised section of the room, where the crowd thinned out. "You two sure you feel up to this?" murmured Taeli, speaking as quietly as she could. "I know you both did well in your tests but... there are better suited to command in this family."
Karin frowned "If we didn't think we could do it, why would we have accepted command?", closely followed by Sem's soft "yeah!"
Taeli smiled as the transport shook, beginning it's docking procedures "Oh, no real reason. Just wanted to know, is all... Mostly because you two seem to prefer talking than giving orders." Raising her voice as the transport clunked down inside one of the Destiny's vast bays, she yelled "All right! Everyone form up behind your leaders! That's Karin, Sem, Tarly and myself... c'mon, hop to it!"
The disembarking Yamataians stared around the huge docking bay in awed silence, broken only by Sem's "Woah... and to think they've still got a third of the ship to build..." Karin murmured "Yep...", then raising her voice in a call to her group, she followed Taeli toward the distance entrance to the rest of the ship - "Hurry it up! you wanna see your quaters today, or next week?"
(as a quick OOC)
Engineer Info
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S3 - Support 3rd Class
S2 - Support 2nd Class
S1 - Support 1st Class
SC3 - Support Command 3rd Class
SC2 - Support Command 2rd Class
SC1 - Support Command 1rd Class
The NovaCorp Yamataian Engineer Corps is organised into "Families" and "Houses". Karin is part of the Marr family, Zephyr House, as are Sem, Tarly and Taeli. The houses are organised into squads of four, the S1 leading the first squad and the others lead by S2's. Each squad consists of its leader and five S3's.
The SC3's control five houses each, forming a family. SC2's control five SC3's and SC1's control five SC2's, bringing the total number of engineers (At least in the NovaCorp Yamataian Engineer Corps) on board the Destiny to 3000. The SC2's and SC1 do not technically belong to a Family, but are referred to as "uesama" (shogun) house.
The other engineers, including Karin, groaned at the horrible attempted humour, and went back to their gossiping. "Karin, Sem, could I talk to you for a moment?" Said the S1, Taeli Marr, as she edged up beside the two S2's through the crush. "Of course!" replied Karin, Sem nodding, and followed Taeli back to the raised section of the room, where the crowd thinned out. "You two sure you feel up to this?" murmured Taeli, speaking as quietly as she could. "I know you both did well in your tests but... there are better suited to command in this family."
Karin frowned "If we didn't think we could do it, why would we have accepted command?", closely followed by Sem's soft "yeah!"
Taeli smiled as the transport shook, beginning it's docking procedures "Oh, no real reason. Just wanted to know, is all... Mostly because you two seem to prefer talking than giving orders." Raising her voice as the transport clunked down inside one of the Destiny's vast bays, she yelled "All right! Everyone form up behind your leaders! That's Karin, Sem, Tarly and myself... c'mon, hop to it!"
The disembarking Yamataians stared around the huge docking bay in awed silence, broken only by Sem's "Woah... and to think they've still got a third of the ship to build..." Karin murmured "Yep...", then raising her voice in a call to her group, she followed Taeli toward the distance entrance to the rest of the ship - "Hurry it up! you wanna see your quaters today, or next week?"
(as a quick OOC)
Engineer Info
-----------------
S3 - Support 3rd Class
S2 - Support 2nd Class
S1 - Support 1st Class
SC3 - Support Command 3rd Class
SC2 - Support Command 2rd Class
SC1 - Support Command 1rd Class
The NovaCorp Yamataian Engineer Corps is organised into "Families" and "Houses". Karin is part of the Marr family, Zephyr House, as are Sem, Tarly and Taeli. The houses are organised into squads of four, the S1 leading the first squad and the others lead by S2's. Each squad consists of its leader and five S3's.
The SC3's control five houses each, forming a family. SC2's control five SC3's and SC1's control five SC2's, bringing the total number of engineers (At least in the NovaCorp Yamataian Engineer Corps) on board the Destiny to 3000. The SC2's and SC1 do not technically belong to a Family, but are referred to as "uesama" (shogun) house.