Spectre preperations

After a interesting communique from Commander O'Conner from the Artemis requesting persmission to transfer Summers decided to get a hold of his XO and Senior Staff to find out how things were going. "Captain Summers to Spectre Senior Staff, please report to the Briefing Room in 30 minutes for a situation update on the ship and your departments, Summers Out"

Daniel headed into his office shaking his head in wonder with a slight sigh as the doors hissed shut behind him about the upcoming mission and its possible endings, he tried not think on such things often but this one was a bit too close to home for him. He sat at his desk and gathered his data for the meeting and headed to the briefing room.

The captain's voice through the comm system caught Rogers finishing up his walk about through the Spectre, checking off readiness of the multitude department heads and their stations. With a sigh, David entered the final tally in his PADD and holstered it in its place on his left hip, then left deck C in the upper weapons pod via the turbo lift.

"Bridge",

As he was about as far away from the bridge on deck one as he could conceivably get, the lift took nearly five minutes to thread its passenger down and through the ship. Eventually, David felt the slight stop of teh turbo as it halted and the doors swishe dapart to reveal the spacious Akira bridge, bustling with activity by the delta shift currently manning the helm of the battle cruiser. Although normally the Spectre ran on a three shift rotation, David had instituted the fourth shift for the upcomming fleet mission, feeling it a necessary precaution to reduce the hours each shift served before rotation. He saw no need to burn out the crew this hectic, fast paced action portended.

Nodding tothe lieutenant currently sitting in the centre chair, David crossed the bridge and entered the short hallway toward the briefing room. Pulling his PADD again from its holster, he approached the rooms doorsand they slide apart to admit him. Captain Summers sat in his customary seat at the head of the curved table, and David nodded a greeting and took his accustomed seat to Summer' right, placing his PADD on the table before him.

"I think we're as ready as can be Captain", David smiled.

After a few moments O'Conner joined the meeting. Quickly taking a seat. "Good to see you again Captain" He replied before nodding to Rodgers. "Commander."

"Engineering is ready for a normal battle, sir. If we expect the need to fight in the horizon itself, we will need another hour to collect the supplies for backup deuterium reactors."

"Very well Mr. O'Conner get on it we should have that much time, Commander Rogers this is Commander O'Conner our new Chief Engineer and since you are more than qualified I would like you to be the Second Officer as well."

David nodded at the young man in a friendly greeting, but wondered what had brought the man back to the Spectre. Regardless, David was sure he would find out soon enough even if he had to encroach on Captain Summers good sense to do so. As executive officer, he wondered what the executive officer of the Artemis was doing being dropped into his lap as the Spectre's chief engineer. He trusted Summers' decisions, but as an engineer himself, he tended to look at the department as his own, no matter who was chief. Bur beside all of this, David made a mental note to peruse Commander O'Conner's file.

"Welcome aboard Mr. O'Conner. Good to have you. I will, of course, notify Lieutenant Shar Noor of your arrival. He has been swamped with getting the ol' girl ready for the upcoming mission with our flagship along with battleing a case of Andorian shingles. Needless to say, his steadfastness to duty is very, uhm ... Andorian."

O'conner smiled and nodded. "Of course sir. She will be ready to play with some Kilingons."