Paved With Daggers

[Zapp]

Chapter One: Meeting The Past

[color=white]Kure Shipyards, Hiroshima system
Present Day

She was seething. At least, she was seething under the very calm and subservient demeanor she had to put up. Sachiko Kondo, new commander of the KNS Kataki, could not afford to make mistakes. Especially not mistakes in challenging the traditional gender roles too much. Sachiko would like to think that she had landed the position as CO of the gunboat through skill, but she knew it was a token gesture by the KNF to assuage the growing unrest against the rampant sexism prevalent in society. A token gesture. Her entire bridge crew was male, and gave her such looks as to make her suspect a mutiny was being plotted.

And, of course, she had had to jump through hoops simply to arm the ship. The engineers on Kure balked like mules being prodded too hard. She had to attain guard status, which took a long time of proving herself.

It was going to be hard for her. She had to prove herself time and again, had to be strong yet appear to be timid... which wouldn't be hard, considering that she was.

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