Aki Kimura

[Tenacity]

Aki sighed sleepily as she finished compiling the Pakhet's systems analysis report and sent the file back to high command. The admiral had quite subtly hinted at a future promotion by giving the task to her and not the ship's commander, but she wasnt sure where that promotion would lead. A new ship? 'True' command over the Pakhet? Not like she didnt already have that, Eisen left most of the ship's operations up to her already.

She was a bit unsettled by the thought of another promotion however... it was never something she truly looked forward to. Promotion meant change, and change was hard to deal with. After all, each new rank brought along with it the added weight of additional responsibility - it was already difficult enough conducting assault operations on the houses as a sub commander, more weight was likely to crush her.

Still, there was always a bright side to promotion as well... more liberties, more luxuries. Order captains and commanders had complete control over their vessel for all intents and purposes... they could request specific personnel to crew their ship, or request for specific equipment to be installed by the Order shipyards. Captain Eisen had not taken much in regard to those luxuries... the Pakhet had an excellent chef, but other than that was kept to the bare minimums - a true warship in nature. The beds were hard and cold, the showers were small, free space was severely limited, many of the lower ranking crewmen even had to share bunks - Only Eisen and Aki were given full sized crew quarters to themselves.

Thinking on that, Aki stretched out on her bed and fell back to sleep. Only two more hours till she was called to command duty.

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