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<p>There were short speeches from all of the rest of command, all veterans. The head of security praised his efficiency in getting the crew back up and moving when they were injured. The chief justice praised his commitment to treating <em>everyone,</em> not just the &lsquo;good ones&rsquo; on board. The logistics officer jokingly grumbled about just how much of a stickler he was about turning on suit coordinates, which so often degraded during cryosleep.</p>
<p>When attention finally turned to Soot, they smiled and stood, paws clasped behind their back, and said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve known Dr. R since I was a child, and must say that there are few who are as cool under pressure as he is. I certainly do my best, but&hellip;well.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Chuckles around the table. Soot knew they had a bit of a temper.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I will not say &lsquo;thank you for your service to Nanotrasen&rsquo; or anything so crassly capitalist, but I <em>will</em> say thank you for your service to <em>us.</em> We wouldn&rsquo;t be quite as whole as we are without you.&rdquo; They leaned forward and offered a paw to the old CMO to shake. &ldquo;Earnestly, thank you, Doctor. Congrats on being kicked up the ladder to Central.&rdquo;
(Full command, CMO is Dr. R, now nearing retirement, greetings etc)</p>
<p>(Command ethos: older sibling, wants to support the station)</p>
<p>&ldquo;I will not say &lsquo;thank you for your service to Nanotrasen&rsquo; or anything so crassly capitalist, but I <em>will</em> say thank you for your service to <em>us.</em> We wouldn&rsquo;t be quite as whole as we are without you.&rdquo; They leaned forward and offered a paw to the old CMO to shake. &ldquo;Earnestly, thank you, Doctor. Congrats on being kicked up the ladder to Central.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Applause around the table. An extra few boxes of donuts were set out, as well as an extra carafe of coffee for some and Kira&rsquo;s Special for others — it would probably not be a great start to the shift if half of command was sick from caffeine poisoning.</p>
<p>After a few more minutes of amiable chatter and yet more handshakes, Soot called the rest of the meeting to order. It was simply a sharing of tasks for the day, a report on the status of the station as left by the previous shift (new windows outside evac indicating a meteor strike, grime and wrappers <em>everywhere</em> indicating a lack of a janitor, and so on). </p>
<p>They always kept such brief. There was little need for more bureaucracy, when many of them would also be dealing with paperwork throughout the day, and only a few of them found such enjoyable.</p>
<p>It was all part of their ethos, when they worked a command role such as this. They were a leader in some ways, yes, but they were most of all a support. They were an older sibling to the whole of the crew — or so they imagined, as they had been an only surviving child. One of the kind ones. One who might offer gentle ribbing, yes, but one who wanted nothing more than to see them succeed. They were one who helped buoy them up, helping engi with the TEG here, helping med with chems there.</p>
<p>Of all the departments, though, they paid attention to epistemics, the department that tracked the intersection of anomalous events with this world, the one in which they inhabited. Trauma will ever do as it does, and they had no desire to ever let happen what had
(Command ethos: older sibling, wants to support the station)</p>
<p>(Glimmer keeps rising)</p>
<p>(Mantis critted, but revived, talks of hearing lots of mites)</p>
<p>(Throughout, memories of Abby, plurality becoming more evident)</p>