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Who: Crew of the First Breath & Visitors!
Broadcast: Video: First Breath/ Open To The Fleet!
Action: On the First Breath!
When: Right after the shuffle.

[First Breath Only]

This is your captain speaking. Apparently. I'll try not to give any orders you don't want to follow - key to a good commander, right?

We should establish a chain of command. Talk about goals. And maybe see if we can manage fancy uniforms as a ratings stunt.

[Fleetwide]

So. How seriously am I supposed to take my new rank?

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You get the nice bed, first of all.

Great. How about a fancy hat?

[So very facetious.]

- Ah!

Captain.

There are rats in the - they look a bit like rats, anyway.

Where?

In the ventilation. Is there a place to get a cat in this fleet?

I don't know. What size are the ventilation ducts? if we have the tools we can handle the problem manually.

Too small for me. I can make traps, but a cat would be better.

You have some mechanical engineering skill? Or is that just the augment?

...I'm - I was a blacksmith. A swordsmith, mostly, but I could make most anything someone needs.

It doesn't seem useful here.

Forget the skills. The mindset, that's useful. Look at a job and think of the tool to solve it.

So. I'm your captain; but our other crewmate is a woman. I'm not going to pretend we're a military operation by any means, but. Are you going to have a problem knowing who to listen to?

[ A hesitation. ]

Do you know why you were picked instead? Is it is just how things are done here?

[ He can adapt. He can. ]

At a guess, both of us have command experience. I'm not sure if I have more than her. Maybe more experience with small units? Or the administration isn't fond of her.

So it could be anything.

You have the title. I just - you're so young.

Seventeen going on seventy.

We depend on each other here. I'll do my best.

Me, too.

It's strange to - to know all these things. Like magic.

[ Hey, you, kid. Have that lady you were talking to on the Marsiva suddenly behind you. ]

Only take it seriously if you want to keep it.

[ She is a queen, after all, and she's been captain both here and at home. ]

I... wouldn't mind.

You feel up to being First Mate?

I'm still adjusting myself.

But you're right. A problem, a tool to fix it - and always understand the metals.

Metallurgy's never been my thing. Chemical analysis, maybe. Some strain analysis.

The metals make the difference.

I don't doubt it.

Every made a frisbee? Or... a pie tin?

A pie tin, yes. [ He doesn't know what the other thing is. ]

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