Ensign Leran Perax - A Moment to Reflect
Peregrine Falcon
(( Secondary Holodeck 2, Deck 10, USS Constitution-B))
((OOC: this is my first attempt at an introspective/internal monologue sim. I hope it is satisfactory))
Perax didn’t return to the group immediately after closing the comm channel with First Officer Ch’Nilmani. He walked along the worn smooth knee high stone wall until he felt like he had enough space to think, then he sat down on the wall and faced away from the group.
The grayish green grass rippled in the wind and there were scrub like trees with some fruit dotting the grassland and a small grove of tall trees on a far grassy hill. A few wildflowers broke up the monotony of the seemingly endless grassland hills.
oO it’s beautiful, but not very exciting. You get the sense nothing really happens here. I wish we had arrived when the civilization was still alive. That might have been worth telling the Symbiosis Commission about. Oo
He immediately felt a little guilty. After all this was a first contact situation, but it was also a first contact where he felt useless.
oO What good is it to be contacting a newly discovered species when communicating is only done through someone else. Oo
Perax sighed. He had defied his parents’ wishes, and joined Starfleet, and had to face things, like weapons training, that made him uncomfortable during the Academy. His first mission, discovering a sentient rock that he couldn’t actually talk to or learn from directly, he just couldn’t imagine interesting a bureaucrat back home on Trill.
After a few more moments of silence and thinking how unfair the universe was. He got back up and began walking back toward the group.
((OOC: I’m splicing back into the sim with others))
By the time Perax returned to the rest of the group they had worked out the logistics for answering questions from the creature.
Applegate/D'Sena/Tejan/Kvash: response