<div class="floatleft">(https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/star-trek-discovery-featurette-pike.jpg)</div><strong>Name</strong>: Captain Decimus Courcel (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=309788.msg15070492#msg15070492)<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Bridge><em>USS Avenger</em><br/><br/><strong>Condition</strong>: Healthy (No Stress, No Injuries)<br/><strong>Attributes:</strong>Control 11 | Daring 11 | Fitness 8 | Insight 7 | Presence 11 | Reason 8<br/><strong>Disciplines:</strong>Command 5 | Conn 3 | Engineering 2 | Medicine 1 | Science 2 | Security 3<br/><br/><strong>Talents:</strong>Bold: Command, Supervisor, Call to Arms, Cold Reading<br/><strong>Equipment:</strong>Uniform, Tricorder, Communicator<br/><strong>Notes</strong>: N/A<br/><br/><hr/>This part was one of the experiences Decimus loved about being in Starfleet, the departure from dry dock for a new mission.  Decimus had nearly eighteen years under his belt since graduating the Academy.  His first two deployments was always on standby and never on board the bridge.  It was the second ship he served on, the<em>Ebonee</em>, in which he served as lead helmsman and thus on duty when the ship pulled out on her mission.  In the various voyages since then, Decimus was always a member of the primary shift bridge crew, either as helmsman, tactical officer, and the last time as the executive officer on board the<em>Lexington</em>.  This was a new first for him, and likely the more intense and memorable of them all, with him in the "big chair" as it were, the Captain, and not just any routine deployment, but the first one of a new ship laid to keel.  A memorable deployment for all.<br/><br/>Decimus heard the well wishes of Space Dock, turning over control to them and Decimus could not help but smile, almost like a little kid on his first flight.   Oh yes, this was indeed<em>fun</em>.  While Decimus was trying for even and professional, but he could not keep the sheer joy out of his voice as responded.<strong>"Comm, please do pass along our thanks to Space Dock and tell them they are invited to the after party when we eventually return for some refit or other dock yard issue.  Also pass along to all senior staff mission brief at 1000 hours.  Unless engineering spiked the reactor, and the construction crews messed up, we should be well under weigh by then."</strong><br/><br/>Decimus then turned his attention to the forward stations, among the more critical of starship operations and why they were routinely placed in front of the command chair.<strong>"Helm, while some of my more seasoned peers might be jaded and be a bit loose with departure protocol, lets do this one by the book as it were.  Maneuvering thrusters till we are clear space dock, then bring us up slowly till we are at half impulse to the warp limit of the system.  Navigation, plot us a course for Starbase 10, warp six once we are clear for warp operations.  Lets make it so."</strong>