https://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=SIM:Ens_Eric_Da%27Pan:_Make_sure_you_clean_up_around_your_well&feed=atom&action=historySIM:Ens Eric Da'Pan: Make sure you clean up around your well - Revision history2024-03-29T00:57:19ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.1https://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=SIM:Ens_Eric_Da%27Pan:_Make_sure_you_clean_up_around_your_well&diff=77705&oldid=prevFractalconfusion: Created page with '{{breeman_sim |Ens. Eric Da'Pan, Tyriden th'Dani |Eric Da'pan and Tyriden discuss the harsh tutelage of Mrs. Courtney at Starfleet Academy |(Ship's Library - …'2009-12-12T06:52:55Z<p>Created page with '{{breeman_sim |<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Eric_Da%27Pan" title="Eric Da'Pan">Ens. Eric Da'Pan</a>, <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Tyriden_th%27Dani" title="Tyriden th'Dani">Tyriden th'Dani</a> |Eric Da'pan and Tyriden discuss the harsh tutelage of Mrs. Courtney at Starfleet Academy |(Ship's Library - …'</p>
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|[[Eric Da'Pan|Ens. Eric Da'Pan]], [[Tyriden th'Dani]]<br />
|Eric Da'pan and Tyriden discuss the harsh tutelage of Mrs. Courtney at Starfleet Academy<br />
|(Ship's Library - USS Independence-A))<br />
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<B>Tyriden:</b> Oh, I am sorry to intrude. I did not expect to find anyone in here at<br />
this hour. <br />
<br />
<code>::</code>It was a mild intrusion at worst. Eric had been thinking back on his friend<br />
back at the university of Olympus Mons but that, like all memories, could wait<br />
for another day, another occasion. He looked up to see an Andorian staring down<br />
at him, his antennae perked and directed toward his head. It was a tad<br />
overwhelming but come on. He was just responding to instinct. Not having<br />
antennae himself, Eric had to resort to being an excellent conversationalist in<br />
order to learn about the people around him.::<br />
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<B>Tyriden:</b> What are you doing in here?<br />
<br />
<code>::</code>Eric chuckled slightly, wondering that himself.::<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> Just reading. ::Now it was Eric's turn to do a bit of scanning.:: <br />
What brings you here?<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> I am the new Science Officer, Ensign Tyriden th'Dani lor'Vetra... <br />
<br />
<code>::</code>Eric smiled and sincerely hoped the man didn't expect him to address him with<br />
that lengthy name. Still, people were proud of their names and it was nice to<br />
remind them that you remembered them.::<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> You can call me Tyriden if you like. I just reported for duty earlier<br />
today. <br />
<br />
<code>::</code>Well it wasn't exactly an explanation as to what he was doing in the library<br />
but that was okay. Eric could work with this. Actually, he could work with<br />
anyone whose mouth was moving.::<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> Really? Welcome to the Independence, ensign. I'm Eric Da'Pan. I just got<br />
here myself. <br />
<br />
<code>::</code>Smiling, he stood up to shake the new ensign's hand and then asked again,::<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> What brings you here?<br />
<br />
<code>::</code>It was an open question. For all he knew the officer would interpret it as a<br />
question about why he'd joined starfleet or maybe why he existed. It was cool<br />
to ask open-ended questions because it made it a lot more difficult for the<br />
other guy not to get engaged in the conversation. Would he show himself as a<br />
dark person by giving some existential answer? Would he take the literal route<br />
and make you fish a bit more?::<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> I want to read up on simulated gravity wells. My team may need to<br />
recreate one to test a hypothesis... I notice you are also a Science officer.<br />
<br />
<code>::</code>The literal route. Fair enough. And gravity wells.::<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> Gravity wells? Oh yeah, I'm a science officer. What do you need to<br />
create a gravity well for?<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> It is regarding the electrical discharges. We are currently analyzing<br />
the computer readings from Cmdr Cody's console... <br />
<br />
<code>::</code>Eric thought about that a moment. Talk spread fast among the scientists<br />
aboard. He'd known about the incident with Commander Cody a while now but he<br />
had been more occupied with analyzing the latest reports from a probe deployed<br />
out to a nearby globular cluster.::<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> Why are you reading about stellar nurseries, Ensign Da'Pan?<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> I did my doctorate in star clusters. They're a bit like stellar<br />
nurseries. Just thought I'd use my off duty time to catch up on reading in the<br />
field. Hey, where are my manners? Have a seat.<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> Response?<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> I could give you a hand constructing a gravity well if you'd like.<br />
<br />
<code>::</code>It was a bit late now for Eric to come up with some really good conversational<br />
moves so maybe he'd wait until later. Who knew, maybe Tyriden would be up for<br />
some work on a simulator together.::<br />
<br />
<code>::</code>He fell into the cadence of his first year physics instructor back at the<br />
acedemy, almost mocking her. She had been almost irritable whenever the topic<br />
of simulated gravity wells came up. "Now every time I teach this lesson," she<br />
had said, "the students forget this one thing!" He'd known what was coming<br />
because he'd studied simulated gravity wells during his astrophysics education. <br />
"For crying out loud, purge the surrounding area of all other possible<br />
electromagnetic readings for the best results. People always forget this and<br />
then I have to re-teach the lecture to them every time after they detect a<br />
supermassive black hole in a region of space with nothing more substantial than<br />
a few dust particles. It's always the same."::<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> The trick is ::He began, falling almost mockingly into the cadence of<br />
the instructor at the acedemy:: to make sure the surrounding area is purged of<br />
all other possible electromagnetic readings.<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> Response?<br />
<br />
<B>Da'Pan:</b> Haha, you remember that too? Yeah the one I had was hilarious<br />
<br />
<B>Tyriden:</b> Response?<br />
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Ens. Eric Da'Pan<br />
<br />
Science Officer<br />
<br />
USS Independence-A<br />
<br />
as simmed by<br />
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Lt. Jg. Kevin Breeman<br />
<br />
CSO<br />
<br />
USS Independence-A<br />
|Getting into more detail about Starfleet academy and some of the interesting teaching methods that are used there.<br />
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