Editing Vaela P'Tammah (section)

== '''A sample of some of Vaela's posts:''' ==


'''Journeying from the Academy to the Hades'''

Mission: In the Hands of an Angry God

Mission Day: 12

Stardate 2407.03.18

(Beta Seranis System – Shuttlecraft, Living Area – Ensign Vaela P’Tammah – 0832)

~“You want to join Starfleet?” It was more of an accusation than a question from the Andorian woman who sat before her. She was clad in one of the graceful dresses that Vaela remembered from her youth, but in spite of that she seemed older and more vulnerable than Vaela remembered. A sigh that was pregnant with the disappointment that the woman felt escaped from the deep blue of her lips, and she slowly rose to her feet and walked away. Vaela found herself calling after the woman as she was enveloped in the dusk that was falling, but, if she heard her, the Andorian woman did not turn back….~

“Sir?” The voice became more urgent when she did not respond, and was soon joined by a firm hand that fell upon her shoulder and shook her awake. “Ensign P’Tammah?”

Opening her violet eyes Vaela found herself staring up at the grizzled human face of the shuttle pilot she had been traveling with. “I’m awake Crewman Sato,” Vaela mumbled in response, in a voice still heavy with the sleep she had been woken from. “What is it?”

“We’re almost there,” the Crewman replied as his face creased into a broad smile. “We’ll be at the Hades within the hour.”

“Give me a moment to freshen up and I’ll be right out,” the Andorian Ensign stated as she dismissed Sato with a wave of her hand and stumbled over to the mirror placed in the cramped sleeping quarters of the shuttle-craft.

~I look so similar to her~ she mused, as her thoughts still lingered on the dream she had experienced. She slowly traced the same high cheekbones, aquiline nose, and thin face that she had seen in her dream and which she now saw in her own reflection. That moment of reverie, however, was broken when her gaze fell upon the reflection of her tousled hair. ~Well maybe not exactly the same~ she added with a smile as she began to change into her Starfleet uniform.


Some twenty minutes later Vaela found herself seated at the front of the small Type 9 shuttle gazing out at the strange star system the shuttle had entered only moments before. It was almost eight weeks since the Andorian had set out from Earth after receiving her commission to join the Hades – eight weeks of traveling on cramped shuttles, and even more cramped public transports. So that now that she had finally reached the system in which the Hades was reputed to be in, Vaela couldn’t disguise her relief that the arduous journey was over.

“Have you contacted the Hades?” Vaela asked the Crewman seated next to her, suddenly anxious that the ship may have left its last reported location.

“Aye Sir. They’re in orbit at Beta Seranis III and have given us permission to dock,” he replied simply as he punched up the coordinates on her console, gave her control of the small craft and sat back in his chair.

The Andorian Ensign merely smiled in response, as she gently coaxed the vessel through the system on its impulse engines, and towards the third planet in the system. As they drew nearer what had first appeared as a small speck hovering over the planet, grew larger and larger until it itself to be the Hades.

“Now there’s a welcome sight”, Vaela murmured, admiring the sleek curves of the starship as she swung the vessel around the back of Hades and into its upper shuttlebay.

After the ship had safely landed with a gentle thud, Vaela gathered what belongings she had aboard the shuttle, straightened her uniform and stepped out into the Hades and her new life as a Starfleet Officer.