Welcome To Citadel Station Commander

Posted on Thu Jul 9th, 2026 @ 2:51pm by Lieutenant Commander Meila Tris MD, SFMC, XM, XS, TS, SCS, NSI, TPM, MCC & Captain Eben Traxi & Commodore Ethan O'Donnaghue

1,202 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Welcome To The Caerleaon Sector Captain...
Location: Citadel Station
Timeline: MD00

Ethan had been sat in briefings all day, the new Constitution class ship the USS Avalon was just under going her final checks before She was due to leave dry dock. As Ethan stood from his chair and walked into the lobby, his greying brown hair and glasses remained fixed on his face. He had several crew orientations scheduled for the afternoon, beginning with Lt. Commander Tris, a joint trill medical officer, whose transcripts and service record he had been reviewing. He stood with his padd in hand "Lt. Commander Meila Tris, If you'd follow me please," he said into the room as he stood waiting for her to make her presence known.

Tris followed the Commodore in, looking at him her eyes narrowed, "Ethan O'Donnaghue? Did you serve on the Okami?" she said in the privacy of the Office, letting out a smirk, with her hands resting behind her back.

Ethan was taken aback, as he motioned for her to sit, His mouth agape "I did...Commander I see someone has done there history homework...Unless no...You can't be? Surely?" His eyes focused in on her his brain registering for the first time that the very lady Infront of him, despite her changed outward appearance was his old commanding officer, a lone tear fell from the aged haggard Irish Commodores eyes "Captain Kael...My old friend" he said his hand catching a stray tear from falling "Please, where are my manners please take a seat...Ill have your Tea prepared now" he said as he looked at her "It warms my heart too see you again"

He said as he motioned for the replicator "Still milk, 2 sugars correct?" he said with a wink, the last she had saw him he was a a Junior Grade Lieutenant, now he was Commodore and in charge of the sector "Well I daren't say the crowing litch pin of our operation out here the newly minted USS Avalon will have the finest Medical officer" he said moving back over to his desk and placing the drink in front of Tris.

Nodding for the tea order, Tris couldn't help but be happy, seeing the success of friends. She couldn't help but feel a bit maternal, this was Meila taking over. Getting her emotions in check, she smiled and looked over to the Commodore, "Congratulations are in order I see. Citadel is beautiful."

Ethan smiled looking at her "She's something alright... a far cry from my last posting out in the Gamma Quadrant but its nicer to be in home territories so to speak" he said laughing as he drank his tea "With the mounting situation out here with this "Prophet Harem or Warlord whatever this Romulan wants to call himself. Starfleet needed an old wolf to beat back the darkness and here i am in all my grey glory." he said laughing.

He reached into his drawer and dragged out the pads he had prepared earlier for Her "These Pads Hold Your Duties, shift rotations and Quarters Allocation this one here is the current list of supplies the Avalon's Sick Bay currently holds. I'm 100 percent expecting you to need to requisition more before you guys leave dry dock in the coming days." he said drinking his tea once more, grabbing the card from between pads "This is your bio metric ID card that you can use when on base to get your self into areas most cant get into, etc." he said with a small smile.

Meila couldn't help but smile. Ethan was always protective of the staff that went under him, through out his career. While Kael was alive he continued to watch over the young man, as a Captain, even as a Trill you sense things in people, and it was easy to tell this man would be destined for a great place. "Yes, of course Commodore."

Ethan smiled at her "Its so good to see you even if its in a new body, i can still sense the oldy world in you" he said with a very wide smile "However as a senior member of Captain Traxi's Staff we are briefing all Senior Staff before they get onto the Avalon...This Warlord come Prophet Harem is a problem and I'm going run over some of the finer details with you before you meet the captain and his executive officer" he said pushing the intelligence to the padd on his wall.

"I am more interested in the finer points - the intel and psychological profiles on this Warlord. What are we dealing with, a potential to harm the many or the few. Is it large scale. That sort of thing." she pulled herself back. She wasn't a Captain even though she felt like it sometimes, "From a CMO's purview, I believe studying any intel on this person would be beneficial, would it be possible to lay on my 'previous' Sigma-9 Clearances?"

Ethan looked at her "i think we have a full psychological profile that was sent over from the new Romulan republic" he said as he ta[[ed a few items on an adjoining screen "Your sigma 9 clearances are now reinstated and you can have a broader view of exactly what we are dealing with," he said pushing the information from his screen to hers, "its quite extensive especially his history with the Tal Shiar." he said returning to his screen.

Meila nodded, "Tal Shiar, yes, I have had many run-ins." She sat back in the chair, crossed her legs and listened to the briefing as the Commodore continued, she nodded, and sipped her tea.

Eben looked on and listened, "This guy has all the resources to be a big pain Starfleet's efforts out here...I intended to teach him what the Vulcan hello is," he said as pushed some more info over to her screen, "this the last known location of his Harem of followers that call them selves The Covenant of the New Ch'Rihan fanatical in their zealous loyalty to this warlord."

Meila looked over and nodded, her new Commanding Officer. "How many are we talking in the cult Captain? Hundred's or a small colony?"

Eben brought up the transcripts of the known vessels leaving the sector, "By our last count 100s more leave every day so the numbers jump up" he said with puzzled look "I have no idea what he is offering these people but they are leaving the Tau Ceti Sector by the masses"

"Truth be told, I don't blame them Captain, New Romulus and the Tau Ceti Sector is the Wild West. I recommend we enact Dominion War Protocols, where everyone is armed." Meila was too young for the Dominion War, Tris wasn't.

Ethan studied her "I Happen to agree commander right i think that concludes our orientation." He said with a wide smile, grabbing the padds and level 9 clearance id card that he had just printed, "You are all cleared and briefed for duty Doctor, God's Speed" he said draining the rest of his tea and smiling at his old friend.

Resting the cup on the table and taking the padds, she smiled. Nodding to both the men, she made her way out of the room.

 

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