Lance Daniels<br/>Position: Engineer<br/>Location: Bridge<br/>Tagged: Braxton, Mya, Keri<br/><br/>When Braxton pointed out that this wasn't Alliance Lance huffed irritably.<em>Everything is Alliance, even if they don't like admitting it.</em>Lance was occasionally surprised and annoyed at how Braxton managed to stay so opposed to everything Alliance.  After all, their ship was Alliance made, and it was wonderful.  Still, Lance knew what Braxton meant to say, or should have said, which was that those were military requirements, not commercial ones.<br/><br/>Lance nodded, validated by Braxton's admission that most of the crew weren't trained for ship life, but that brief satisfaction was ruined by his follow-up that Lance was responsible for that.<strong>"My fault?"</strong>he interjected, but Braxton was still speaking.  It was easy enough to stay quiet as Braxton blamed Keri for not wanting to let others sit the big seat on the bridge, as there was more than a bit of truth to that, but he could not say the same for Lance.  He was ready to begin his rebuttal when their only passenger entered.  Lance chuckled, surprised and amused at the passenger serving tea.<em>I guess some people get bored easily out here.</em>Braxton gave her permission and then repeated his point.<br/><br/><strong>"How is this my fault?  Are you implying that you've been trying to hire other engineers but I have been protesting because I didn't trust them to help out?  What kind of disasters have you been imagining I've been imagining?  I've been trying to get our first mate to learn it for months!"</strong>Lance politely refused the mug of tea, but stopped to consider her second offer.<strong>"Hmmm.  I would like an apprentice, but my only concern is that by the time you know enough to help you'll be off the ship.  Where are you headed anyways?  Or are you just renting a room for a period?  If so, how long?"</strong><br/><br/>Another surprise came as Keri reprimanded them.<em>Why does she always insist on working harder?  Does she just want to make sure she can't be fired?</em><strong>"All right, then, forget about more pilots, then.  I'll think about training you, but would really like someone a little more contracted to stay."</strong>He turned to Keri, shaking his head.<strong>"Amazing how <em>now</em> free time is precious to you.  I'm coming.  Just throwing this out there, but if it was lingerie you had to buy I'd move faster."</strong>