Wes Greaves

This got a snort of laughter out of me.

Welcome aboard!! Its great to see new faces!

Welcome! Its always a joy to see new faces around. I hope you enjoyed the academy!

This is amazing! Love it!

I almost spit out my coffee. Apparently Alieth has been studying her.... alternate timeline... history...?

@Alieth just has this amazing writing sense where she can take a completely benign scene and really make it a joy to read. Outstanding tee-up from @Ben Garcia for this scene as well. I'm loving this so far, and can't wait to see if Cheesecake is going to get the nasty replicator filter or not!

Welcome, welcome! Hope you had fun with the academy class, I know mine was a blast. I'm very excited to write with you both! Glad to have you!

Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoyed the academy!!!

Awe shucks. Thanks guys. I learn from the best, those writers around me!

Man, I'm constantly impressed by your writing and this one came out of no where. What a pleasant surprise. I'm going to have to make sure I get a scene or two at the base of this tree next shore leave.

These are the jokes I come here for. I almost spit out my coffee at the unexpected reference @Geoffrey Teller

You guys are too kind! Thanks!

This has been a fun scene to write and is a nice departure from the action/adventure and dark drama that's been looming over the Thor for the last couple of missions. Just a crew enjoying shore leave together. Amanda adds some really excellent narration to the already excellent writing by everyone else in the scene. Keep it up. I'm having fun with this one!

Beat me to it again! Came to post this. Excellent writing @Meidra Sinir@Addison MacKenzie@Alieth. I thoroughly enjoyed this arc.

Welcome aboard!!! I hope the training class was exciting and fun for y'all!

This was an absolute joy to read . PERFECT mix of silly and serious.

You beat me to it. I came here to post this. We've been building toward a dramatic speech; toward an appeal to decency and logic, and @Geoffrey Teller NAILED it. Bravo. Comparing this sim to the first one where Velos was introduced, it's just a joy to see the arc play out.

Thanks Andrea! I think I've re-read that line a few times now, and it brings a smile to my face each time. I can just see Greaves's face shouting with exasperation at @Geoffrey Teller. Glad you enjoyed it as well!

Awesome!!! I hope you enjoyed the Academy class and I'm looking forward to meeting Awa IC. To both of you, welcome aboard!

Your ship is heavily damaged, but your tactical systems are still at half strength. You were able to destroy three vessels and drive off a fourth with your ship at full strength. The enemy reinforcements are likely to be confident as the smell blood in the water. By prepositioning torpedoes as mines and using armed shuttles to augment your tactical abilities, you'll turn the ambush around on the pirates. A strong show of force and rapid application of violence against the overconfident reinforcements are likely to inflict heavy damage and drive them off again if not outright destroying the force. This will buy more time for the relief expedition to arrive. The option of diplomacy and sending boarding parties relies to heavily on the pirates dropping their shields on all of their reinforcing ships for your teams to get aboard. The pirates may believe themselves to be in the superior position and refuse to talk. Using the nebula to hide is an excellent option, but also relies on a hope that the pirates don't find you. I would prefer to take an aggressive action as a show of force.

Welcome! I hope you enjoyed the class and the on-boarding process. You'll love it around here.

Niiiiice! Welcome aboard! Looking forward to meeting y'all!

Thanks Alieth! This has been a fun scene.

Whole heartily agreed! Responding to this was a blast. Outstanding set-up, and elegantly written.

Welcome aboard!! Hope the academy was a blast.