Chapter 5: Rook takes Knight.

Landing into hanger 248 at the appointed time the crew is met by only some of Lady Alyss’ Technicians who go about refuling and resupplying the ship, some make a half hearted attempt to repair some obvious superficial damage but lack the skills required to work with the Eldar craft. An hour goes by without any sign of this new Lord captain, as doubt starts to set in about being in the wrong place the hanger bay doors open up and a lone figure steps in. The figure clad in carapace armour of the most excellent design, still showing the signs of recently removed Inquisitorial paraphernalia, examines the crew and the ship before curse For fraks sake, he said at least the ship would be decent. It looks like the Ordo Zenos has been at it. At least it should be fast and agile by the looks of it. She seems to contemplate for a moment before proclaiming I suppose introductions are in order, I am Rondezvue Ratherdashing, and I’ll Be your captain, at least until I can find a more competent crew... Glancing across the crew her eyes settle on the tech-priest, Val right, have you produced a schematic of the ship so I can at the very least get to know the alien vessel I am to command. What is her name by the way.

Nas raises an eyebrow his dufflebag still on one shoulder as he listens and watches. Dropping his duffle and nods and introduces himself.

"Captain. Nas military liason if need be." he states with a nod.

"Greetings Lord Captain! Yes, I've studied this Eldar bomber as thoroughly as possible and I've attained an understanding of the basics. She's quite a ship, likely to outperform most standard Imperial designs.

"However, she does still possess quite a few secrets that we have yet to unlock. But don't worry Lord Captain, she'll be more than adequate to transport us up to your flagship, which I presume is already in orbit?

"As for her name, we haven't christened her just yet. So if either yourself or Kuros comes up with something, we're just referring to her as 'that Eldar bomber' for now."

"More like Hive nail..." Nas mutters under his breath.

Considering the Eldar vessel for a moment Rondezvue smiles. She is a most wicked and dangerous craft, I shall call her Belladonna, and she will make a most worthy vessel to take us up to the Solanasae, my capital ship. She turns to Nas next, I don’t remember reading about you on my crew report and you look vaguely competent are you sure your in the right place? Regardless a military liaison will be appreciated aboard my vessel as I lack on of those. Finally she addresses Kuros, You must be Kuros then, I’ve heard a lot about your short comings. Perhaps you will serve better as copilot then your records suggest you serve as a pilot. Come show me how to fly my new acquisition! The last part was delivered through a coy smile and a gleeful pressing of fingers.

Val slaps Kuros on the back and says, "You have one bad day and no one lets you forget it, eh? Don't worry buddy, first round of drinks on the new ship is on me!"

Well obviously you’ll be part of my bridge crew, but I’m not the navy, I expect a certain amount of fluidity among my officers. If it makes you more comfortable you can take any of those titles...Rondezvue sits in the throne with confindence, but internally braces, she suspects that this won’t be pleasant.

Fraking Zenos what’s wrong with instrumentation...

Well some of them certainly do, now that that’s done with let’s take to the air!

"Uhhhh...." Without another word, Val sits down and buckles his seat belt.