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[[Image:Starbridge(1024x768).jpg|thumb|right|100px|The ''Vajra'']] | |||
In late March 2384, Captain [[Phoenix, Robin|Robin Phoenix]] announces that she is retiring from active service. Starfleet decides that, as an older vessel, the ''Victory'' should be decommissioned, and her crew assigned to other vessels. Among with several others, Aresee is assigned to the ''[[USS Constitution-B]]'', a Galaxy-class ship.[[Image:alexaventu.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Teenage Alexa]]<br> | |||
[[Ventu, Alexa|Alexa]], who had been visiting Aresee on the ''Victory'', agrees to transport Aresee to the ''Constitution'' aboard her personal ship, the ''Vajra''. Once there, Alexa is welcome to stay, as the Galaxy-class is large enough to accommodate families. The ''Vajra'' is stored in the ''Constitution'''s shuttlebay and Alexa prepares to stay with her sister. <br> | |||
Upon her arrival, Aresee finds the ''Constitution'' a hive of chaotic activity - former first officer Commander [[Taboo, Daydan|Daydan Taboo]] is taking over as her CO , and former second officer Lt. Commander [[Yladro, Victoria|Victoria Yladro]] has been upped to the position of first officer. This leaves the 2O spot open, and when Daydan [[Image:taboocrop.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Commander Taboo]] offers it to Aresee, she happily accepts the promotion. <br> | |||
However, the position soon frustrates Aresee, as it carries little formalized duties other than general command support. Her first assignment finds her working with Lieutenant [[MacGowan, Emirry|Emirry MacGowan]], the ''Constitution'' counselor, which frustrates her further, and following her first staff meeting aboard the new ship, she stays to discuss her concerns with Daydan. Daydan clarifies that she is free from a departmental designation, but that she functions as department head for all departments. However, since the ''Constitution'''s operations officer is on leave, Aresee offers to fill in there, as well. <br> | |||
[[Image:Parkslt.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Lt. Parks]]While aboard the ''Constitution'', Aresee makes a discovery that triggers equal parts excitement and embarrassment: [[Parks, Nick|Nick Parks]] is serving on the ''Constitution'', as a lieutenant in its science division. The first meeting is understandably awkward, but subsequent meetings find the two warming to each other again. Indeed, even Alexa, when introduced to Nick, finds herself enjoying his company. <br> | |||
The ''Constitution'''s first mission takes them to [[ma:Angel One|Angel One]], an independent colony petitioning for Federation membership. Aresee is tasked with preparing the reception and banquet for the visiting dignitaries while Commander Yladro leads an away team to the planet's surface. At first, everything goes easily, almost boringly, until.... <br> | |||
After she's completed preparing for the banquet and reception, Aresee heads below to visit Nick in his private lab. This proves to be a lucky move, as a group of raiders from Angel One beam aboard shortly after and dispense a knockout gas through the ''Constitution'''s ventilation. Nick's lab, like the other science labs, operates its own atmosphere reclimator to deemphasize accidents, and the two are spared. However, when they emerge, they find the crew incapacitated and the raiders on the bridge - and now alert to their presence. Thwarted at every turn, the pair head for Engineering, and manage to take control down there. <br> | |||
With ships' systems safe from the raiders, Aresee and Nick head towards the bridge. They're joined by Junior Lieutenant [[Uria, Katlin|Katlin Uria]] and Alexa, and the foursome are able to overpower the raiders, transport them to the brig, and re-awaken the crew. <br> [[Image:Emirrycrop.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Emirry MacGowan]] | |||
Order is restored on the ''Constitution'' and the banquet is to go ahead as scheduled. Aresee, with Nick's help, put on its finishing touches. Indigo Haze, leader of the raiders, is scheduled to attend the banquet, a move which Aresee protests - and rightly so, when Haze attacks Counselor MacGowanin the corridors just before the event begins. Haze is thrown in the brig with the rest of her party, and the banquet proceeds on schedule. <br> | |||
Both the banquet and reception are a success, though Angel One's bid is ultimately denied, thanks in part to its demonstratedly stratified populace - they are invited to try again in a year's time, after the more radical constituents are either granted their own governing system or subscribe to the prevailing system. <br> | |||
Nick receives a promotion to lieutenant commander, and Aresee is asked to sing at the banquet by Daydan, and the resultant high it puts her in forces her to excuse herself from the banquet early and return with Nick to her quarters, where they open and consummate a new relationship. postcoitally, they discuss Aresee's career, Nick's promotion, and Aresee's name change. Aresee decides that one chapter in her life has come to a close, and she returns to using Lily as her first name. <br> | |||
The ''Constitution'' heads for [[ma:Risa|Risa]] following their departure from Angel One. Although both the trip and the relationship between Lily and Nick are last minute, the two are able to find a luxury room at Sunfall, a resort overlooking [[ma:Suraya Bay|Suraya Bay]]. They settle in for a week or two of leave time. <br> | |||
On Risa, Lily is approached by a man named Ven Jemtil, who announces himself as a friend of [[Trenet, Aurelie|Aurelie Trenet]], and a fellow temporal agent. He gives Lily a cryptic warning regarding Nick - no good will come to either, now that they're back together - and departs. She keeps the warning to herself, but Nick finds her behavior towards him has changed and he confronts her. She spills the warning, and he tells her that he doesn't care what's in the possible future, because he won't leave her. <br> [[Image:Constitution-B.jpg|thumb|left|130px|''[[USS Constitution-B]]'']] | |||
Lily is summoned back to the ''Constitution'' by Daydan, who informs her that she's wanted on official business. Once there, he further explains that she's been offered the position as first officer on the ''[[USS Triumphant]]'', a Defiant-class vessel assigned to the [[Ithassa Region]]. <br> | |||
Lily accepts, with one caveat: Nick has to come with her. Daydan agrees to put through the necessary reassignment paperwork, and [[Constitution_Mission_Archive#Shore_Leave:_The_Risa_Beach_BBQ|Lily prepares once again to leave a crew made up of her friends]]. Alexa takes the ''Vajra'' and preps her own departure; she's headed back to Earth to stay with Jarin. <br> | |||
Because Lily is needed immediately, she departs from the ''Constitution'' in a shuttlecraft, after a hasty conference with Nick where the two promise to meet in a week on the new ship. | |||
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