oh captain my captain

[nocawsforconcern]

Who: Enna and you!
Where: Network, and then the kitchen car!
When: Imagination 15, morning
What: Enna claims the captaincy.
Warnings: Summaries of the mission, including death and injury!

[The ICPs on the train will all start up, showing Enna's face, looking uncharacteristically serious. And she seems to have figured out the ICPs much better since her last time.]

Cawww... That mission was a mess. It sucked. For a lot of reasons.

[She sighs, folding her arms, her cloak wrapped around her.]

Hi. If I haven't met you yet, I'm Enna. Gienah Alchiba, captain of the Argo Minor. But call me Enna. Or Captain, 'cause that's what this is about.

When we were fighting the bad guys, I called myself the captain of the Voidtrecker Express. That was mostly to make myself a priority target, 'cause I'm the one who had the unbreakable shield. But I meant it, too. A crew this size needs a captain, so I'll do it. 'Cause, that was awful.

We need to make sure this won't happen again. Not just so that we're more prepared, so we can fight through anything, but we need to be careful about who does what. Someone in the group I was in killed one of the bad guys after they were already pinned down. I dunno who that guy is, but that's not something I will allow to happen again.

[She takes a minute to gather herself again, figure her thoughts out as she rustles her cloak.]

I need to know what all happened on this mission. What groups were where. Please report in with what you know of what happened on this mission, what you did. If you know anything about who those enemies were, that's important, too. We can't keep sailing blind. If we get another mission like this and we're any less organized, we might not have anyone survive.

I'll be at the.... There's no helm. Caw. Okay. I'll be in the kitchen car. Come report to me there. I'm going to start making plans for what to do next time.

[The video ends. She didn't even punch the ICP this time.]

(OOC note: This is not an OOCly enforced thing, this is just Enna's own actions. You don't have to acknowledge or obey, the train sure won't. Replies are gonna be assumed to be in-person unless specified otherwise!)

Comments

[nocawsforconcern]

Arrows... Okay. Do we have a smith on board? The heads are gonna be the hardest part. Caw. Getting wood and feathers from whatever world we end up at next should be easy enough, but metal and forging it...

[nocawsforconcern]

[Enna isn't one to respond to ill wishes or sarcasm. She doesn't really care.

But she's also... very literal minded. And dense.]

Cats are easy to move around though.

[nocawsforconcern]

Caw?

[She just pauses, squinting. It takes her a moment to decipher what Eight means, and then-]

Caw... You mean, am I doing a mutiny? Nuh-uh. There's no captain so I'm not doing mutiny, I'm filling a gap.

[nocawsforconcern]

Why wait? It needs to be done, and I can do it. No one else has to do anything except report.

[blue_ice]

[ He reaches into his bag and pulls out a SCA similar to theirs, but not in any of the familiar colors. ]

A few of us received a strange signal on our SCAs on the 9th. As we approached it, our communication with the rest of the crew was cut off, and we were ambushed by robots. That signal led us to a small downed voidcraft and its captain, Halo.

She was under attack by robots and already badly injured. Those who were combat-capable fought to hold the robots off, our healers did their best...and I stayed to talk to her. She's the one who told us about the threat the miners posed, they'd downed her ship when she tried to stop them.

We couldn't save her...but we learned she was from the same home world as our train, that we should've remembered receiving training...and when she died, she left this message behind.

[ He hits play on a final message from her, with a few answers. ]

[redarrowqueen]

I'm ok for now but we just need options for unusual weapons. Besides me there is only a handful of archers I think.

[laurefindil]

[Glorfindel comes to see her in the dining car. He sits down, waits a moment for his cup of water to heat up in his hand, then dunks his tea bag in it.]

Hello, Enna. While announcing yourself as Captain in the heat of battle to draw the enemy's attention is an admirable action, I cannot agree with your decision to do it here and now.

First, the Train is not without leadership. Myself, with 5000 years of being a Captain, and others on the Train are taking an active hand in helping everyone.

What happened on the planet. [He takes his tea bag out and sets it aside, then adds milk and sugar to his cup.] I have led armies to battle in wars that some would say are uncountable. Though, trust me, I have kept count, and I know the names of every one of my allies and enemies who have died. What happened on the planet would not have been avoided if we had a 'captain' in charge.

If you want to help guide and protect this crew, I fully support that. Please, come to the upcoming council meeting, and voice your concerns.

I do agree though, we do need to have a more organized healing team. The presence of the saboteurs, the first time we have encountered such a thing, caught them by surprise. We have been diligently upgrading their equipment, and the supplies of healing items which we encourage everyone to carry, but if people [yes, he is talking about you, Eva!] refuse to remove themselves from battle, forcing them to do so against their will, makes us just as bad as those we face. We need field medics.

[He then sips his tea and waits for her response. Captain to Captain.]

[unholyandbroken]

At least let people recover before mass finger pointing?

[unfavorableinstigation]

[With great power comes great responsibility; Nita can relate, more than a little.

Once Enna asks her question, she cuts off right away.]

It's- I don't think I heard what it was called, but the world miners shot it down.

I... don't think there was enough of it to bring back. Must've been a one-person shuttle, too; no other bodies.

[And she feels sorrow; not acute sorrow, but Enna can perhaps pick up on Nita's sense of it being a great tragedy - and some of her guilt for not having been there to help in the first place.]

Or, if people did go back, they haven't said if they've found anything other than Halo's SCA.

[Which she's seen at this point, though not necessarily the contents of it.]

[nocawsforconcern]

[Enna listens. She thinks, listening.]

I've heard that story before. Not it, but one like it. A sailor who was shipwrecked by a storm ended up on an island that he'd never heard of, and the people there had never heard of the world.

[She draws her cloak around herself, rustling it.]

... I think she might have been wrong. It's not... other voids. Or whatever. The power to erase memories, erase worlds, do all of that...

What if someone used Horologium's power, instead? Just... reached back into the past. And destroyed that world, or stopped it from ever forming, thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago.

[nocawsforconcern]

Caw.... What do you mean 'unusual'?

[nocawsforconcern]

[Enna has to take a moment. She looks at her hands. Wiggles her fingers.]

... I'm not pointing fingers at anything?

[She curls her hands into fists- Not in a threatening way, or anything even remotely hostile- She's just, putting her fingers in a way that can't point.]

[unholyandbroken]

Just an expression.

[redarrowqueen]

Not all of use use guns and swords.

[consider8]

[That makes sense... only.]

Are you one of the leaders for red, orange, or blue?

[She knows her two leaders: Glorfindel and Roland, but the other three are a mystery to her.]

[nocawsforconcern]

[Enna listens. She doesn't have tea- She's just got some water. It's enough.]

I don't agree. I can't call myself a captain in battle, and then pretend I didn't mean it later. If I'm to call myself it at any point, I gotta be up to it at all times. So that's what I'm doing now.

[She draws her cloak around herself as Glorfindel talks.]

If there's leadership, then we need to be sure that every group has a leader. Who can stop people who go out of control.

"Forcing people against their will"? I don't think so. Captains need to be obeyed. That's how it works. A Captain has power and authority, because they also have the responsibility. Everyone's lives and happiness are the Captain's duty. So if the Captain tells someone to fall back, then they need to do so, because otherwise the captain can't do their job. Power and responsibility are the same thing.

[nocawsforconcern]

I heard about the SCA from Big Coat Guy.

[She means Kaiba.]

I heard about her, and what she said, but... The ship was beyond repair? We can't get anything else from it?

[nocawsforconcern]

I use knives and a shield right now.

[nocawsforconcern]

Expression.... Caw. Like words that are cheese but not cheese 'cause they're words. Okay. What's that mean?

[nocawsforconcern]

I'm on Red. But I dunno about any leaders. So I am now I guess.

[redarrowqueen]

Archery and hand to hand are my partial.

[unholyandbroken]

Placing blame in the heat of the moment.

[consider8]

Then would it not be a mutiny if you did not have a leadership position and suddenly become the leader of the leaders?

[Or would that be an uprising?]

[nocawsforconcern]

I do hand to hand, too...

Well. When I have Hercules' power I usually just use it and kick enemies in the balls or the eyes.

[nocawsforconcern]

Cawwwww....

[This got complicated. She's thinking, though it looks like her head might be overheating.]

I don't think there is a captain, though. I dunno what leaders we have. But they need a leader, too, 'cause the mission proved whatever they're doing isn't working.