Target Practice

Posted on Mon Sep 5th, 2016 @ 11:57am by Lieutenant Commander Tyler Vorran & Major Alexandria Somers

Mission: Brave New World
Location: Phaser Range
Timeline: 2 days after arrival 14:00hrs

Griffiths, received a surprising communications from Lieutenant Commander Vorran, she had not met him yet, so this would be a first, but then again she had a plan to integrate her marines more into the day to day running of the station duties, so getting to know the regular fleet officers was important. She arrived at the phaser range and as she entered, a voice greeted, her, she had to allow her eyes to adjust to the dimmer light before she could spot Vorran.

Tyler stood on one side of the phaser range where there were dozens of brightly colored spheres flying around. Tyler took a shot at one with his type 2 phaser, a loud beep indicating he missed it. "Guess I'm a bit rusty."

Walking forward, she pulled out a Phaser pistol, it was a present from a friend of hers, a Major Alexandria Somers, who was currently serving at the Gaia Colony. The Phaser operated on the same principle as the Phase Pistols of the mid 2150s, it had two settings, stun and kill. It was molded into the form of a Desert Eagle pistol; it had some weights installed making it seem as heavy as the real thing. The only thing it could not simulate is the recoil effect, the Pistol was as close to the real thing as one could make an energy weapon.

She stood on the second spot and allowed the computer to register her there, she readied the weapon "well when you rarely use a pistol, one does intend to get a bit rusty there" she said looking at Vorran with a smile. Her imitation Pistol was safe to use on starbases and ships as it had the same effect as that of a standard phaser, Naomi tired to fire a real desert eagle once and found it was a handful, but she liked this phaser variant, it was custom made for her.

"Computer begin, level one" Naomi said as one light orb moved about, she took aim and hit it dead center, the next few levels were easy enough and she hit all of them, but when she got to the same level as Vorran, she did miss some orbs. "So Commander, what department do you work in?" she asked as she did eight shots, only six hitting their targets.

"I'm the new flight instructor at the academy. Believe me I'm much better at hitting stuff with a ship's phaser array." Vorran replied as he shot at the orb flying past him.

As an orb came at her she shot it then straight onto another as she answered "with me its the other way around, I am a much better shot with a personal weapon than I am in a shuttle. So why did you want to get a posting on 332? I mean we do not have it easy out here, oh sure there are long periods of calm, but our recent conflict with the Sourjourners reminded us all that we are out in the sticks" Naomi asked.

"My fiancee and I were posted on a ship that patrolled near Klingon space. Starbase 332 may be the sticks, but its is a much better environment to start a family. I served on Farpoint station for a period of time so this won't be my first time at a Starbase." Vorran replied as he shot another one of the glowing orbs.

Taking a few more shots and hitting everyone, "that is interesting, this is the first posting where I am not constantly in a battle it make for a refreshing change I think" Naomi said as she ducked as a glowing orb zoomed over her head suddenly "what the hell!!!" she was upset now and with a two handed grip she aimed up the shot at the fast moving orb and at the right moment shot, it vanished and she gave a feral smile "buzz me will you!!" she said complaining to the now vanished orb.

"Nice shot. Not one I would have been able to make." Vorran said after watching Naomi dispatch the target with ease.

Looking at him and nodding her head "thank you, reflexes are something I have honed over the years, if you ever want to learn the basics of a quarterstaff I could teach you them. It takes some years to fully master the weapon, but I am qulified enough to tech the basics, so if at some point in the future, contact me and I will be happy to show you the basics" she said with a smile.

"A quarterstaff? That could be interesting." Vorran replied wondering how many bruises he would have after practicing with one.

Griffiths looked at him and smiled "I will only teach you the basics, the rest is intuitive, you will need to learn how to use your legs also and it will quicken up your reflexes should you encounter melee combat in future" Griffiths said as she shot some more orbs which had sped up to her current level, currently she had to concentrate on them, until her quota sounded and the exercise was over, she reholstered her weapon and looked at Vorran.

"Well that was fun. I will let you know about practicing with a quarterstaff." Vorran said as he put his phaser back in it's holster.

Nodding her head "Indeed it was, will let you know on that, with things happening as they are we have sometime, also getting settled in and getting to know all the things on this base usually comes first, so I will be seeing you around Commander" Griffiths said.

With a parting smile she left the shooting range holstering her side arm as she left the range.

[OFF]

Major Naomi Griffiths
Marine Commanding Officer
14th Marine Battalion SFMC
SB 332

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Lt. Commander Tyler Vorran
Senior Flight Control Instructor
Academy Adjunct
SB 332