Shannon walks over to the living area, and lays out on the soft couch, propped up by a pillow, and powers the datapad down, before powering back on, and as it boots back up, it briefly displays a black screen, for a second. She guesses the datapad OS and BIOS is coded in MSL (Manticorian Shell Language), which she'd learned during reverse engineering Manticorian tech, and presses a key combo before typing a command to print the source code to a text file, for later viewing, and leaving the shell. The computer finishes booting up, and Shannon views the app selection. There's a text editing app, a chess app, a real-time multiplayer war strategy game that she recognizes, a camera app, a settings app, a ereading and files app and a remote learning app.

Shannon goes to the remote learning app and is unimpressed by the choices of computer classes, and opens the syllabus for the Computer Programming 101 class. This is too easy. She figures out how to do a coding placement test. She takes it, and passes with flying colors. This is way too easy. It says that she's going to be in Computer Programming 102, if the instructor's okay with it, but she needs to write the instructor a note to explain why, and that she has the skills for harder classes, but she's only allowed to test out of one level of a class.

She drafts the instructor explanation note in the text editing app. The profile of the instructor says she's a female RMN tech-savvy officer, who's teaching this in her free time, and is of the peerage.

Hello, Your Ladyship,

I'm writing you this note to inform you that the placement test placed me in Computer 102 because I can't test any higher. I'm taking this class as I've been into tech for a long time, and I'm trying to not go insane from boredom. Do you cover software development in this? Thank you for teaching this.

Thanks, Shannon Foraker

She saves the draft, and opens the text file of the code, starting to read through it, and making notes, before eventually starting to fall asleep again, this time without nightmares. She doesn't try to go back to her bed, and instead puts her datapad in sleep mode and closes her eyes.

Several hours later, everyone else gets up, and finds Shannon asleep on the couch, and alerts Admiral Tourville. Admiral Tourville takes a picture of his blonde tac witch out like a light, her datapad on the floor next to her, before Shannon wakes up.

"What happened, Shannon?"

"Couldn't sleep, so decided to go find myself something to do. Then, got back to sleep after working on some stuff for a while."

"What happened? A nightmare?"

Shannon nods, before replying, "I need to write the instructor a note asking for approval to take Computer Programming 102. Does this look good? I know she's of the peerage, but not what rank."

"Yes, Shannon, that looks good."

"I wrote this at 3-something am, so I was just checking."

Shannon sends the message to the instructor, before getting ready for breakfast.