[sb118-khitomer] MSNPC Technological Lead Vidya - The Nameless VM
BC Cooper
OOC: I spoke to Matthews before writing this sim and got his okay on the start of the sim and the nickname below))
((Lone Confinement Space, The Thorax, Jorogumo))
Inside the structurally sound walls of the Confinement Place where no light existed and time was an afterthought, there stood a lone figure. Besides the bare chitin that made up the walls, floor and ceiling, there was no food, no water, no furniture, no comforts of any sort. Nothing. Just the lone figure and walls that were designed to keep a single occupant from leaving. The only way out was the chitin door across from where they stood, their back against the wall. A door that could only be opened from the outside. Alone in the darkness, but unafraid. Their fate was resigned to them, as all who shared their DNA. They did not know how long they were meant for this life, but they did know that their time had come and for reasons they didn’t know yet, their time had been extended. Why? They knew what fate befell them and were prepared for its end. The question was, when would that end come?
Some time had passed, but they knew not the passage of time and such thoughts of hunger and thirst mattered little. There was no sound and nothing but random thoughts to occupy one's time. That was until a sound, the brieftest of sounds, ever so lightly, barely above a whisper could be heard from the outside of the confinement space. Who was there? Had their time come? Perhaps they had not been forgotten after all?
((Brief Timeskip. A Corridor, Inside the Thorax, Jorogumo))
How much time had passed since the male had left the technological bay was unknown. They had thus far been seemingly running in circles. They had seen a door or two, perhaps the same door? Whatever the number, none of them had opened for them. Strangely there was no one to stop him. None one they ran into. It was as if the whole vessel had been deserted. It seemed like the corridors would go on forever in this endless maze, that is until they came to another door.
This one was different from the rest. It was nearly invisible among the corridor's endless walls, save for a small crack along a seam running down its length from the top of the ceiling, down to the floor. Examining the door showed what looked like some sort of tiny light that emanated from the center of the seam. A strange alien voice could be heard, that sounded almost female in origin and less robotic than the male's own computer voice back home when the light scanned the male’s body.
Alien Computer: ::bleep:: Access granted. You may enter.
The door slid open from one side. They saw only pitch back darkness, until such time their eyes adjusted to the darkness and there inside was a Velithari. A single lone Velithari. One that didn’t look like any they had seen before.
Velithari Male: ::bowing:: You honor me with your presence my Captain. I am prepared. My tim… ::puzzled:: You are no Velithari. ::beat, bowing:: None may enter save for Captain Rana and the Chief Technological Vidya. How did you open the door?
Matthews: Response
Velithari Male: I know not that you speak? ::bowing:: You are an alien then?
Matthews: Response
Velithari Male: ::bowing:: I bow because it is customary among my people. Yes, I am a male of the Velithari. I have no name as you ask of it. None among us are given names or permitted the honor, save for the few that are chosen by the Priestess of the highest order. You are a male of your species? Yet you do not understand this?
Matthews: Response
Velithari Male: ::surprised:: You have a name? And you wish to gift me the name V-M? As in Velithari Male? ::bowing again:: You honor me with a name alien, yet I do not deserve such an honor.
Matthews: Response
VM: If that is your wish, I will accept it. You ask about my preparation? ::quick thought:: Ah yes my response when you opened my door ::bowing:: I am prepared for the end of this life, as all male Velithari are prepared. My life has no meaning until its end. Only then will my service to the needs of the Velithari be fulfilled among our young
Matthews: Response
VM: I know not of this video you speak of or of this King-log. I am here because I asked a question. No Velithari male is ever permitted a question. It is unheard of for such a thing. Why are you here? How is a male such as yourself here on the Jorogumo alone without an escort?
Matthews: Response
Tags / TBC…
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MSNPC Technological Lead, Vidya
As simmed by
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Lieutenant (JG) Ezra Zerva
Security Officer
USS Khitomer (NCC-62400)
A240101EZ2