Editing Melody Leigh Haverstaad (section)

===Serving Onboard USS Boudicca===
After her transfer, Melody immediately began overseeing the refit of the USS Boudicca in terms of the Tactical Holographic Systems. She expected to have a full year, but her time was cut short with Admiral [[Robert LoDona]]’s pullout of Starfleet. The refit was rushed, though thankfully her systems were nearly completed by the time the Captain Caladryll Sevant was assigned as her new Commanding Officer and the Boudicca was given a launch date.

As in any war, she quickly set up a rapport with various members of both the Security Department, and now Engineering… in which she was a regular visitor when the Tactical Holographic Systems needed tweaking. She was quickly assigned command of a regular squad when her time was not needed by the THIS, and she took to training that squad with a vigor she had carried from her time at Crewman School. It was a good thing too, because their first mission after shakedown ended up with a forced invasion when the [[psi-ders]] swarmed over the ship looking for fresh bodies to feed on. 

Melody and her team found themselves caught in Engineering, where several pitched battles were fought. She was cut apart several times by their sharp tentacles, and was given a concussion and several burns and broken bones when a plasma conduit was destroyed due to phaser fire. She had to be dragged into a secure area of Engineering and given emergency aid, but even so, it was a close call and she nearly died from the experience. It was partially thanks to Chief Engineer Trevan West, whom she had taken something of a liking to, that she survived the episode. 

Not long later, Melody found herself on an Away Team that was to scout and secure sensitive materials from a pre-contact Civilization. The Prime Directive usually would have prohibited this, but this planet was doomed to be destroyed, the Boudicca had traveled back far in time. In order to walk around freely, the Away Team had to dress in similar cloths to what the natives wore, and Melody found herself wearing the equivalent of a business suit. She still has that suit to this day, she thought she looked ‘sharp’ in it. 

That mission ended up in a bank robbery, because the greatest concentration of the metal they needed to travel forward in time could be found in native coined money. That robbery almost ended up as a disaster, several crewman and officers were killed when military forces stormed the bank/depository and Melody was injured several times. First with a broken cheek-bone and rib during their first pullout to a lower level when she had to jump down the stairs (which then collapsed as she rolled) due to grenades being thrown at her, and then with more broken bones, ruptured ear-drums and a serious concussion when she covered their pullout a second time to the lowest level and a series of concussion grenades launched her down yet another set of stairs.

They were beamed out not long later, though she lost consciousness after she landed and had to be pulled out by Chief Science Officer Maddie Monroe.

She recovered from that mission and was looking forward to a relaxing time when the Boudicca was ordered to stand-to for two weeks to gather supplies on a tropical planet, while the Second Task Force assembled. She did manage to steal a bit of time with Trevan West, including a couple steamy hours well away from any people, but the vacation was quickly ended when they were cut off from the Boudicca and their ground party came under attack and several of their crew members were abducted. 

Melody was made part of the assault team that retrieved the crew members, this time (thankfully) without an injury larger then a bug-bite, and has since spent the last weeks hammering her crew and mentally preparing for what could be their final push into Federation Space.

''... and from here, the mission continues!''