The post of the month award of November 2003 goes to:
Vincent Raposa, playing ActFo Ellie Charlile.
Date of the post: 19-11-2003
ActFO Ellie Charlile
(USS Atlantis - Briefing Room - 2391.03.17, 2134)
The large, briefing room had remained void of person's only for a moment after Ellie had closed the comm-link to all of the specified officers. Within a few minutes Lieutenant JG Jomorr entered the room.
~ First in.~ Ellie mentally noted as she tapped further upon her PADD. A sleepy message from Ensign Deante Tuinte had filled her ears before Mr. Jomorr had entered the room. He sounded as if he may have been sleeping, in turn causing Ellie to feel a little sorry for the young sir...but when duty calls, so does Ellie.
Lieutenant JG James Raynor was the only officer she awaited a response from.
The young Ullian made his way towards Ellie, glancing up she smiled friendly at the officer. Standing she extended her hand and the two shook in a friendly manner for a moment.
"Good-evening," he said as the two broke the embrace. "Lieutenant JG Jomorr reporting as ordered, Sir." He concluded. Ellie stood up in mock authority, smiling and gestured for Mr. Jomorr to be seated. The two sat down.
"So," Ellie decided to start a friendly conversation while awaiting the arrival of the other two officers. "How are you finding your niche on the Atlantis?"
At last the remaining two officer's arrived and had seated themselves. Ensign Deante Tuinte looked a little disheveled after being awoken. Ellie could only inwardly giggle.
"Welcome," she began. "And sorry," her gaze was directed towards Ensign Tuinte, "for getting you assembled at such a late hour, but the situation has been warranted where your assembled skills are needed."
She took a breath and sat back in the chair comfortably. "The Captain has asked that I assemble your three departments so that we may work within one as a group. The reason for this is a wavering feeling he is having about this diplomatic mission and I cannot say that I disagree." Ellie smiled at all as she swallowed.
"To settle this feeling it would be beneficial if we work together and figure out everything we can about the Draysian species. It is difficult to go further into this territory, seeing what they did to that disabled alien vessel, and trust them. We know nothing about them and that is what makes this even more dangerous then normal. Generally we have some understanding of a hopeful inductee species. But, with the Draysian's," she paused. "We know nothing!"
Ellie looked around the room and smiled, "I need you three to assemble your departments and start to find any information on this particular species and their interaction with others around this sector. Find out anything you can, look in all resource databases about their history, present, and near future. Find out any biological information you can find, and find out everything you can about their tactical and security methods." She said looking at each officer. "In short...find out any damn thing you can. We're blind here people...and I sure as hell don't like the dark!"
"Mr. Raynor," Ellie spoke softly. "To go a little further on your own research I would like your team to formulate any tactical plans that could benefit us if the situation between the Draysian's and ourselves dissolves. I want options people...we need options. Any questions?"
