William, for the second time in less then an hour, felt blood rushing to his cheeks. Captain. Cap. Tain. He ran the word through his mind, hoping he might have miss heard. F*cking idiot.
"Ah, Captain." He said, not trying to salute this time, wanting to not humiliate himself again. Looking sheepishly at Marci, he gave a sort of awkward smile, a little unsure of what to do or say.
"I....Ummm."
He turned to Yori, in hopes of salvation. "So, where we headed to next?"
Yori went to her omni tool and went to check the time "Well By now I hope most of the Staff is aboard at least for now. And the Andromeda is within the window of Launch. So unless the 'Captain' wants to view other parts of the ship We can Take off"
"Aw...," Marci made a bit of a disappointed sound. "I mean, YAY!"
Marci would miss the guns, but hey, there was a ship to launch. She turned to William. "That Captain thing, you don't really need to let people know that too much."
An ironic statement, since it was probably a good idea for everyone on the ship to know who the captain was.
"Let's go ahead and fire this thing up. I plan to have our launch be exciting! William, you just stick right next to us."
Yori Chuckled, "Exciting eh? Well we are going to be the first Alliance Ship to reach beyond FTL and chart our course for the Andromeda Galaxy. So We do have a party planned If we survive" She said it with a cutsie Straight face.
"Yes...well...there is that. I like my parties and let's just leave it at that. Okay, who do we boss around here to get this thing moving?"
"Well no need to boss it around," Yori activated her omnitool activating the Ships AI "Though Unlike the old Normandy The Andromeda is equipped with a Fully Automated AI that runs Every function of the ship. Made her my self, Though she will pilot mainly through the FTL and BFTL Jumps, She has A much Higher responce time than Any pilot in the Alliance or Known Species within our own galaxy, with a roughly decimal of .000000000009 nano second of a Responce time, along with Piloted Software which feeds to the flight deck team to Give them a heads up on her trajectory and Possible flight paths. Though I did use the Hannibal Software as a reference along with what ever tweeks that where made to it by Cerberus.
Marci looked slightly disappointed.
"But then, who's going to argue with me? And tell me things like, 'The engines can't take it anymore, Captain!' What do I punch if the drives fail?"
Contemplating a minute, Marci then said. "Tell me there's at least a throttle lever, right? Something I can 'throw' to 'full speed'? We're going to need to add a few things if they aren't already there...."
Yori laughed loudly causing a echo in the hallway, "Oh cap, They Do 'indeed' Are apart of the ship. But this Aint the 20th Century's 'STARTREK' This is the realworld. But that doesnt mean you dont get a Throttle. its only up in the Cockpit."
"All right, well, let's see what's up there before I start worrying."
Marci walked in the direction she guessed there'd be a bridge. Then she thought out loud. "Wait, there's a cockpit? Not a bridge? Or a cockpit and a bridge? You better lead the way because I am sure to go the wrong place."
Another couple of crew passed by as they walked. "Hello!" Marci greeted again, rather casually, but this time with a salute flung in the crew's direction.
"heh... I think we should have you do a Grand Speech before take off. Dont you Corpal?" She gave William a sly look. As she lead them up to the bridge
"It would definitely be...interesting." He gave a small smile at Yori, having forgotten his earlier embarrassment and feeling a little more comfortable around the two.
The idea of Marci, a women who William would have described as 'eccentric' to say the least giving a speech to a whole ship would be an entertaining experience.
"Speech. Yes. Right!" Marci said, as if she'd forgotten about it. "We better work on that on our way up. Don't want to show up unprepared. You both can be my sounding boards, since I see you both know what you're doing."
Marci didn't know exactly where they were going, but Yori would make sure they got to wherever that was, the bridge, the cockpit, the...whatever. She started practicing.
"Ladies and gentlemen....of the starship Andromeda....good day! We are about to embark on our maiden voyage to the...Andromeda galaxy. Far away. May the wind be strong at our backs...and....may space part before us...we will hold together...a crew united as no other...to boldly go where no one has gone before....How's that for a starter?"
William looked over at Marci as they walked, giving her a odd look.
"That sounds...familiar. Ah well, sounds dramatic enough to me, very inspiring!" He paused for a second before adding, "Kinda getting the impression we might not come back from this 'voyage' when you say it like that but apart form that it's fine."
The doors opened to the flight deck/bridge.
Marci didn't take but one step in and say, "Okay, where's the audio thing at to make the big announcement?!"
Then she started looking for it herself.
Yori pointed at the big red button "That one Captain."
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