the hazy days of deep space

Posted on Wed Jan 11th, 2023 @ 4:53am by Lieutenant Julius Mack

Mission: The Good Ole' Boys
Location: apparently starbase 40

ON:

::mack realizes he has been sitting at his quarters station but not really seeing anything. vaguely his vision clears and he is sort of face-down at the station. his forehead aches slightly. ::

(holy crap, I thought I just got some sleep a coupla hours ago. i hope I didn't pee my pants.)

::goes to the loo, and finds there really wasn't anything to get rid of. which would seem...strange...if he was asleep at the wheel for a while.::

"computer, what time is it?"

=^="twenty-one thirty-five hours, fifteen seconds at the tone. BEEP. "=^=

"ummm...what day?"

=^="unable to provide data. security access required."=^=

"so I don't have the security access to know what goddam day it is?"

=^="i can only carry out orders according to appropriate access levels"=^=

"I guess that means it isn't the same day that I fell asleep"

=^="no comment"=^=

"can you at least tell me who denied me the access to know what day it is?"

=^="sorry lieutenant, no."=^=

(I guess this is what is meant by the phrase "field demotion")



=^=" mack to genno. text only. your eyes only. genno, do you happen to know what the hell is going on?
I can't even find out what day it is. I am thinking I have been in some kind of stasis. Other crew might have
been too. Do you know anything about this? Mack out.=^=


::mack continues to scan and confirms that they are indeed nearby to some kind of starbase structure. It is
not however of any technology he has seen before.::