I'd been aboard for a week, and I could already tell that, whichever ship was featured on the recruiting posters, it was somewhere else in the fleet.
The doctor was a drunkard.
The marines were unprofessional and uncontrollable.
Two of the pilots were raw rookies, still learning how to fly their fighters. The other one wasn't comfortable enough around them to train them properly.
The comms officer was skilled, but more interested in her appearance than her job.
The tactical officer ... okay, the tactical officer and the helmsman were damned good at their jobs.
The XO was a stickler for regulations, which on this ship meant he was a laughingstock.
The captain was a goofball.
But one look at the ship's battle record told me that he was the same kind of goofball I was.
Despite everything, I think I could learn to like being aboard the Soyokaze...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The doctor was a drunkard.
The marines were unprofessional and uncontrollable.
Two of the pilots were raw rookies, still learning how to fly their fighters. The other one wasn't comfortable enough around them to train them properly.
The comms officer was skilled, but more interested in her appearance than her job.
The tactical officer ... okay, the tactical officer and the helmsman were damned good at their jobs.
The XO was a stickler for regulations, which on this ship meant he was a laughingstock.
The captain was a goofball.
But one look at the ship's battle record told me that he was the same kind of goofball I was.
Despite everything, I think I could learn to like being aboard the Soyokaze...
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SpoilerRob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012