[Paradise-IV] SD 970309.14 - JL - Lt Cmdr Lox, COPS; Ens Cunningham, ENG

[Paradise-IV Logs]

Justin tapped his comm.  "Lox to Cunningham, please join me in Main
Operations." He tapped his comm. again "Lox to Chief Petty Officer Adin,
please join me in Main Operations."  With that he stepped out of his
office and to the main desk-style console that sits in the middle of
Operations.  It was good to be the Chief, people come to him, not the
other way around.

Max was actually already in Ops, back in his corner quietly working on his
various projects. As was often the case he was so engrossed that he had
become  oblivious to the rest of the world and he jumped a bit at the
sound of Lox's voice. He immediately logged off, after saving his work of
course, and walked over to join the Operations Chief. "You need me, sir?"

"Yes, it's time to get some stuff built.  Planning time is done, now comes
the tedious part." Justin pulled up one of the housing unit plans.  "This
is our first one.  It is going next to the new hospital."

"Fantastic, what is our first step?" Justin might have called construction
tedious but Max was looking forward to it.

"We need to get materials on-site for the start of construction, along with
the equipment to reduce the rubble that is there, back into materials we can
re-use."  Justin said.  "I want you on the getting equipment in place part."

"What about industrial replicators? I heard Orion is delivering two. If we
had one of those on site we could use it for just about everything we
need, including recycling the rubble. In fact," Max started typing down the
idea on his ever present PADD as he said it. "We could place it on it's own
rolling platform. We could then more easily move the replicator from
construction site to construction site."

"We have 1 replicator, at the moment.  It will have to do.  The others,
while they are supposed to be delivered by the Orion, won't be ready for
use for at least 2 weeks after they arrive."  Justin said.

"Right, so until then work with what we got. I will gets with Operations 
to requisition the appropriate equipment. What about engineering teams?"

"For now, you get 3 crewman level techs.  There are a few civilians
looking for work as laborers as well, just.. keep an eye on them, and
secure anything you transport out of our compound here.  Too many supplies
have gone missing for us to be careless.  Also, wages will be very low for
the laborers, 15% below standard scale at the moment.  So make sure they
know that before you accept them.  We are on an overly tight budget still.
Someone has been using way too much replicator time and now we pay the
price for it."  Justin wasn't happy.  No, he wasn't happy at all over that
loss of resources to some unknown user.

"Hmm... the low wages will not attract much in the way of quality help,
but I'll do what I can. Sir, if there is nothing else, I'll get right on 
this."

"That's it, unless you find Chief Petty Officer Adin.  If you do, make 
sure that Adin comes to see me." Justin said. "I really hate putting people 
on report."

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Respectfully Submitted

Lieutenant Commander Justin Lox
Chief of Operations

Ensign Max Cunningham
Engineer

Paradise IV