Captain Nathan Taylor CarterThe Bridge, the Defiance.
"Well that is something I would rather not see again in a hurry. First stop after this, we are buying some livestock to keep the Ragon fed. I really thought it was going to take me for a moment there."
Carter smirked at Thanica’s comment about the lizard creature, a “Ragon” she said, so apparently that was their species name. It was odd, almost sounded like “dragon,” and the bastards looked like them too by all matters. And indeed he agreed they’d had to do something about the being’s seeming hunger, before it ate them in their sleep, if he himself could ever sleep considering the paradigm shift he was experiencing at the moment.
"I think the only reason I wasn't the one getting dragged back to the lair is the fact that it thinks I'm the only one who can fly the ship, and I don't even know if that's true or not!"
Carter got worried for a bit with her comment about flying the ship, on one hand at least she had leeway with Ragon, on the other it was a near bluff. He didn’t say anything other then widened his eyes in irk. His neer muteness wasn’t meant to be in any way disrespectful or a way to show discomfort with Thanica, it was just this whole entire situation, how a few weeks ago Carter was handling
the Destiny and now he found himself part of a mutiny in an alien ship carrying prisoners from extremely different species to his own.
Carter’s previous words where then addressed by Thanica.
"Not to mention it. Even if you weren't a Dhasath, I couldn't just leave you like that, it was... unnecessarily cruel. If anyone on the ship deserves a gag it is probably me." she grinned momentarily before returning to more serious matters, walking over towards the main console in the centre of the room, the one she had been pinned against not so long ago. Now that she wasn't looking like she was about to make an unexpected internal tour of a Ragon's digestive tract, she was feeling a lot more positive about her act of rebellion. Throwing off the shackles of Kiellar command was... liberating, "This is one of four key locations about the ship." she explained, "Here, the secondary armoury by the door, which I know we held, main engineering and the main armoury. Now that we control the bridge though, I can call engineering and then signal the rest of the ship that the matter is settled and there is no need for further killing."
Carter gave a visible smile at the girl’s comment, at least humor was not so alien to him here. It was nice to finally get some sort of cheerful moment no matter how short as Carter too got serious and stepped towards the console with Thanica, he was careful to keep his rifle in hand and kept constant eyes on the two captured crew members. He saw as Thanica explained to him the ship’s layout, at the very least it seemed they had one armory down and having control of the bridge gave them even more of an edge and he was glad for it.
After explaining Carter the situation Thanica pressed on something on the console and she called directly to Engineering as Carter stood by watching both her and the two prisoners, keeping his weapon steady and switching between a calm and a mannered look with Thanica to a more aggressive expression towards the other two. When looking at her it was weird, she looked so human but at the same time didn’t, it was almost mesmerizing to think of it. But Carter didn’t let his mind get the better of him, he had to cover her back given that she was the only one he could trust as well as the one that seemed to have a grasp at what they were doing.
"Engineering, do you read me?"
"This is Engineering." a voice responded, "Who has the bridge?"
"Thanica Vari... is that you Rabaech?" she asked.
"It is. I'm in control of the engineering bay, but I'm not really sure what's going on. Vrondich was supposed to send someone this way with weapons, but nobody has shown up. I can hear fighting. I won't be able to hold the bay if someone with something more dangerous than a big wrench comes in here."
Carter frowned his brow, the words coming through were not good. Even if he wasn’t at all familiar with the functions of this ship he knew just by his profession that any misplace shot could damage the ship and bad things could unfold just by one system going down. He realized they had to take it quick and not risk a clusterfuck bigger than what they already had.
"Got that Rabaech. Stay put, I'll see what we can organise at this end."
She cut off the comms line, turning back to Carter, "Well, Captain Carter, seems Engineering isn't properly secured yet, what do you think we should do?" she asked.
The question didn’t catch him off guard, it was her referring to him as “Captain,” he’d almost forgotten his position before this whole mess, it was weird to finally hear someone refer to him in such manner, but he didn’t let it get to his head for there were more pressing matters, but he did show a smile of gratitude. As he turned to Thanica and looked over to the console and then back at the two crew members the human Captain began to think, think of how to save this situation, what would he do back on Earth in his military days, it was hard to think since those instances were vastly different from now and yet he had to come up with something.
Alas he did, “I reckon we need to secure Engineering before something happens, anyone misplaces a shot and we can say oxygen bye bye.”
Lowering the rifle a bit he scratched his bearded chin, “If there are comms that directly speak to the entire ship we can assert to the prisoners and crew alike that we got control of the ship as you said. Maybe the fires die down, I can go over to the Engineering bay and give one of them weapons over there to your friend Rabash.” Perhaps it wasn’t the best plan he could come up with but it was something. And indeed it was exactly what she did.
Later Carter gesture to Thanica with his head towards the two capture crew members. “What do we do about them?”
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