Zach stood in the high school's leadership room, looking at his
command crew. They were grades 9-12, young, untrained, the crew Zach had to whip into
shape. His first officer and helm officer was Lieutenant Commander Castle, his
operations officer was his cousin, Lieutenant Brandon Mohan, tactical officer and chief of
security, Lieutenant Rolison, science officer, Lieutenant Commander Barbuto, the only
one not from his school, commuincations officer, Lieutenant Jill Moritz, and chief
engineer, Lieutenant Commander Willcott. As Zach servayed them he launched into his
speech. "Ladies and gentelmen, you are the commander crew of the largest, fastest, most
technlogically advanced vessel the world has ever seen. You shold be honored just to
have been thaught of. Now we must get to work. Our mission is to test Lansing's warp
engines. I want you all on the bridge at 0800 hours tomorrow morning. Dismissed."
*******************
The next day Zach sat down in the command chair. "Mr. Castle, get us out of dock,1/2
impulse." Lansing's engines roared to life. She easied out of the enormus shed that had
been her dock for two years at Fort Leavenworth and headed into space. The pulled away
from Earth and entered space. "Mr. Castle, prepare to go to warp" The tension on the
bridge was heavy. Faster-than-light engines had always been a thing of science fiction,
until now. But this ship didn't just go faster than light. She went 5,000 times faster than
the speed of light or warp 9.2. As the warp engines came to life, the ship briefly enter
transwarp, and left the Milky Way far behind.
command crew. They were grades 9-12, young, untrained, the crew Zach had to whip into
shape. His first officer and helm officer was Lieutenant Commander Castle, his
operations officer was his cousin, Lieutenant Brandon Mohan, tactical officer and chief of
security, Lieutenant Rolison, science officer, Lieutenant Commander Barbuto, the only
one not from his school, commuincations officer, Lieutenant Jill Moritz, and chief
engineer, Lieutenant Commander Willcott. As Zach servayed them he launched into his
speech. "Ladies and gentelmen, you are the commander crew of the largest, fastest, most
technlogically advanced vessel the world has ever seen. You shold be honored just to
have been thaught of. Now we must get to work. Our mission is to test Lansing's warp
engines. I want you all on the bridge at 0800 hours tomorrow morning. Dismissed."
*******************
The next day Zach sat down in the command chair. "Mr. Castle, get us out of dock,1/2
impulse." Lansing's engines roared to life. She easied out of the enormus shed that had
been her dock for two years at Fort Leavenworth and headed into space. The pulled away
from Earth and entered space. "Mr. Castle, prepare to go to warp" The tension on the
bridge was heavy. Faster-than-light engines had always been a thing of science fiction,
until now. But this ship didn't just go faster than light. She went 5,000 times faster than
the speed of light or warp 9.2. As the warp engines came to life, the ship briefly enter
transwarp, and left the Milky Way far behind.