Organic Starship at Starbase

Posted on Fri Nov 21st, 2025 @ 3:09pm by Captain Remy Johansen & Lieutenant Commander Eirly Andersen & Lieutenant Commander Xalanth
Edited on on Fri Nov 21st, 2025 @ 3:09pm

891 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: Side Plots
Location: Barisa Prime
Timeline: Present Day

Xalanth smiled to himself as he stepped out of the connection tube connecting the Astrea to the star base dock. Everything was in order. Shore leave timetables written up, crewman grumbling dealt with and all the weapons secured and logged. Now he just needed to get the captain's DNA code for the padd before he could sign the orders off.

Seeing a small crowd of Starfleet personnel the security chief walked over looking up. As he did so the sight before him made the breath catch in his throat. The vessel docked in the section above them was one the lizard hadn't seen in a very long time.

Instead of the sheets of metal the ship above them was a mix of dark crimson carapace, light pink flesh and black tusks. What's more judging by the faint sound drifting through the bay it appeared to be singing. The tune a deep almost whale like tune speaking of a home long lost never to be seen again.

He smiled. It wasn't often you saw one of the organic star ship's that had allied themselves to his people this far from his home world. Seeing the captain and lieutenant commander he walked over to the pair. " Quite the site isn't it." he said looking up at the creature from the stars.

After a lot of scheduling and rescheduling later on, Eirly had finally managed to get a time right to catch up with Remy and they'd decided to go off ship for it. There was a time and a place for her to discuss her recent health issues but she had decided to put it off a little while longer so that Dr Blackstone could be there as well. Seeing Xalanth was an added bonus for the day.

"Hello, Xalanth," Eirly greeted him with a smile before taking a look at what he was referring to. "I agree. It's definitely something you don't see every day, but I think we're definitely one of the lucky few to be here to witness the grandeur, wouldn't you agree?"

"Nice to see you as well Eirly and yes he is an amazing sight. You should see his mother. She's almost as big as one of the federations Valkyrie command carriers. " The red security lizard said looking up at the organid.

"What are they doing here?" Remy asked. "Do you know?"

"Judging by his size, he's a juvenile, so most likely he's hauling cargo. " Xalanth said, gesturing to the bio ship's rear. " See the spines along the rear. They'll become organic phaser banks in a few years. "

"Do people travel on board? How do they? Who decides how they develop or do they just know?" Remy asked. The Federation had hardly any information on the species, and as a scientist she was innately curious.

The lizard nooded. " They have an internal instructor capable of carrying a crew, even have internal organic computers that the crew are capable of controlling. It's very wet and humid, though. As for how they develop, even they aren't sure. They know they were created and have some degree of order in their development, but by whom or why they're not sure. They know the Yor didn't build them though."

He ran a finger along the side of his head with a look of slight irritation. " Urgh, that hurt. Guess they weren't kidding about how much it hurt if it didn't activate regularly. "

Eirly looked at him, confused for a moment, "What just happened?"

"I have a bio implant in my head that allows me to connect to them and he's sent me a dat package. Very odd looks like they are delivering a classified cargo to a commodore Adonis Booysens. He's head of the altha centary academy isn't he?"

"I'm actually not sure," Remy admitted. "Could be. What kind of classified cargo could he be having delivered, and why are they telling you about it? They did affirmatively just contact you, right?"

"I believe someone forgot to take me off the Dragonian fleet systems when I was declared KIA." Xalanth guessed. " I could go and ask about it if you want Captain."

"If you don't think it would hurt anything..." Remy's brow furrowed in concern as she considered their reasons to be hyper vigilant, including the recent sabotage on board Astrea. "I don't want to invade his privacy if it's something personal. But... yeah, if you can find out if there is anything we should be concerned about, let's look into it."

"Will do, Captain. Now, if you don't need me for anything else, i'd better make sure the ship's shore patrol is ready." The red lizard responded.

"Please do," Remy replied with a smile, giving Xalanth a nod of approval. "I appreciate it."

Xalanth nodded and turned and headed away toward where the small number of officers on the shore patrol. Time to go to work.

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Lieutenant Xalanth
Chief Security Officer
USS Astrea


Lt. Commander Eirly Andersen
Second Officer
USS Astrea


Captain Remira Johansen
Commanding Officer
USS Astrea

 

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