BDM|RNC-Brynhildr Bridge Log - LAB 66B ARCHIVE Wrote:SESSION LOG [TIME STAMP REDACTED] - AUDIO TRANSCRIPT AND LOG TEXT ONLY - BEGIN
Technician H. Gruber: "Director, I wasn't told you'd be on board - what can I do for you?"
Director K. Siegfried: "I'm just here to talk to an old friend. How is he doing today?"
HG: "We're finishing up our maintenance and backup cycle after this week's sortie. There was some unusual dopamine spikes when we first hit the nebula, but synchronization rates and combat performance held within acceptable ranges throughout operational time."
KS: "Excellent. I'd like a complete report sent to my terminal as soon as it's complete. I can handle the resuscitation cycle from here - I would like some privacy, so please take the rest of the day off."
HG: "Yes sir, thank you."
Technician H. Gruber disembarks to Schatten Berth.
KS: "I apologize for not visiting more often - with the war finally concluding, there's been more work playing politics than coordinating a civil war."
TERMINAL: You have your duties just as I have mine. We both know our lives and time ceased to be our own once we joined the service.
KS: "Yes, of course - but that doesn't mean we need to bear it alone. How are you?"
TERMINAL: I will admit, the novelty of being a glorified brain in a jar in a warship has worn off quite some time ago. My only human interactions are with my technicians who find working on a ship that is also their commanding officer a little disconcerting - and people over the local secured network before they find out who I am.
KS: "I can only imagine."
TERMINAL: To be fair, we were never all that social. Even before the integration.
KS: "No, I suppose we weren't. If it's any consolation, people view the Director in a similar fashion. There's the usual sycophants, sure - but the majority are so worried about doing the smallest thing to warrant disappearance."
TERMINAL: Yes, I remember similar circumstances when we were Flotillenadmiral.
KS: "It was easier to slip out from the personal guard and get around unnoticed back then. Now, I can't even visit our favorite cafe near the university without our security detail finding out and clearing the entire city block "for my protection," they say."
TERMINAL: Hilde must have hated that.
KS: "She would have."
TERMINAL: Ah. We haven't found her yet?
KS: "No. As far as I can tell, she was arrested in the first months of the coup. I was under house arrest then, and you were in mothball. We have a taskforce to locate and repatriate all those who have gone missing, but there are just so many and..."
TERMINAL: I understand. She would not appreciate special treatment. I'm sure we'll find her soon enough.
KS: "I owe it to the both of us to make sure she's safe."
TERMINAL: Indeed.
KS: "I fancy a pleasure flight."
TERMINAL: Where would you like to go, Director?
KS: "It's just us here. We have no need for formalities."
TERMINAL: Very good. The Sigma gas clouds were absolutely beautiful when we flew there last.
KS: "I'm detaching the umbilical and clearing us for passage out of the Westerwald. You are in control now."
TERMINAL: Let's touch that horizon. SESSION LOG - END
