Ens. Mylas Bosko - The Precious Memory of Collection Entry #8

[Jalana]

((Deck 4 Personnel Transporter, USS Constitution-B, a short while ago))

 

While waiting for the rightfully suspicious transporter chief to perform the seemingly excessive amount of clearances and verifications they’d required before allowing Bosko to beam down to Hermes Station to rendezvous with Lieutenant Shimisi, Mylas decided to indulge in a bit of sentimentality. 

 

It was something he tried to limit himself to indulging in only during periods of high stress, but being sent on his first-ever assigned task on his first-ever starship during his first-ever mutiny seemed like it certainly qualified. Also he felt like he needed to be doing something narratively, and he had no flashback experiences on the Constitution to draw upon, nor understanding of the situation at hand to think about, so he did this instead. Just so he could be doing SOMETHING.

 

From his uniform trouser pocket he produced a small portfolio of soft leathery material - a lovely printed and extruded vellum substitute that was exceedingly durable, in soft wine-red, the color of profit. Embossed on the front cover, in Zibalian script (similar to the ancient Iconian alphabet but of course much more marketable), in the lower left corner of the cover vertically, indicating great significance was a phrase that translated would read PRECIOUS MEMORIES.

 

Inside the book was a simple soft-touch screen, with a matte finish and a nostaligic glow to it, and a tap brought said precious memories to the fore.

 

Not of his family or anything, of course. That was silly. He remembered them just fine without need for any special devices. No, this was for something important; in here, lovingly categorized and beautifully cross-referenced, were high-resolution holo-images of every piece in his collection, with short descriptions. 

 

Bosko collected a great many things, but his specialization was probability tokens used for gaming; specifically dice, and variations thereof. Almost every culture on  almost every world had some variation of a thing to throw or flip or drop or spin to generate random numbers analogically. He looked through a few of his favorites now, just to calm down.

 

Gaming Collection Entry #8 - Azziz Organic Icosahedron - This beautiful specimen appears to be a standard 20-sided polygon, useful for a number of games, rituals and probability exercises, unique in particular because instead of being a carved or engineered geometric shape, it is a small organism, similar to a crustacean, whose carapace has been formed into the standard 20-sided geometric shape. The small entity within the shell appears to be asexual, and have no particular instincts aside from a desire to feed on dust mites and other micro-organisms commonly found on flat surfaces in inhabited areas. Requires a minimal supply of base proteins to survive in storage. (A feeding schedule is included in the note). The image is one of a pearlescent almost jewel-like 20-sided die with the nacreous look of an oyster shell, with 20 tiny almost translucent tendrils emerging from the bottom.

 

Bosko barely had time to properly admire his little living die, one of the top 10 prides of his collection, and to remember that he had to make sure to feed and polish the little guy soon before the transport chief was finally satisfied with Bosko’s status as Bosko and not, seemingly, a bloodthirsty mutineer, and sent him down to the station. The Zibalian pocketed his book of precious memories as the cocoon of light wrapped him up.

 

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Ensign Mylas Bosko
HCO Officer
USS Constitution-B NCC 9012-B C240110MB2