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[goldshirt]

[Jim doesn't address the ship with a hello this time around, instead cutting to the chase, the only warning the somber look on his face and the fact that he's sitting down. he isn't at a desk and there's a dirty scuff mark on his jaw, so it's clear that wherever he's making this broadcast from, it's in the middle of repairs on the ship.]

What happened with the pirates was a tragedy. [a beat] In my own universe, if we could we'd send the deceased back to their home planet for their relatives to handle. Barring that, we would opt for a space burial by jettisoning the body into the stars, whether through coffin or cremation.

[it's a little romantic, especially for Jim, but while he might not personally be very spiritual or religious, he understands that there are many who can't stand the dead being spoken of as just another body to get rid of. he, himself, still sees the dead as people— individuals he couldn't save. the dead deserved respect, because once upon a time, they'd been living and breathing and thinking.]

I know the final say will fall to medical, as it's their facilities that will need to be used in either case— [and he nods, an acknowledgement to the medical staff on board] — but I believe a funeral service should be held and would be good for all of us. A loss of life this huge can effect people in ways we might not initially expect, and we've had losses of our own number that deserve a proper goodbye.

[he's speaking of literal losses, yes, but he's also speaking of the figurative. a loss of innocence was just as tragic as the loss of a life. Kurt's post, speaking of the girl at the end of the play, came to mind, and the loss of Gingersnap was a startling blow for anyone who knew Tyke and her dogs.]

There's an outdoor chapel in the oxygen gardens, should anyone want to make use of it, or should anyone elect to hold an official service. Enterprise, we'll be meeting at Chase's apple tree on the second level at 18:00 hours. Anyone else wishing to attend is more than welcome.

I realize we have our work cut out for us with the jump only a few days away, but we need to remember to take care of ourselves and our own. We're all we've got up here, whether we like it or not. Taking a half hour of one day won't hurt.

Kirk out.

Comments

video;

[bribed]

This for all of 'em, or just the ones that gunned down in the brig?

video;

[goldshirt]

All of them.

[text]

[testgasm]

yes these are exactly the sort of diversions we need how did you know

good priorities keep it up i'm very proud

[text]

[goldshirt]

It's called compassion, Wheatley.

[remember, that thing we talked about before.]

audio;

[rebelled]

The people here are equally as responsible for killing those who boarded this vessel as Ward is of killing those held captive. Do you really expect them to attend a funeral service?

audio;

[goldshirt]

I know those who would. Not everyone is unaffected by it.

audio

[supfirehawk]

You do realize they were bandits and trying to loot the ship, right?

audio

[goldshirt]

There were over fifty people on the Scylla. Regardless of who they were, those are still lives lost.

voice;

[cargojet]

Come Sunday service, I was planning on speaking about these people, our own hardships beside; especially having seen how they lived on the Scylla. That said, it's going to be tight managing everything we need to get done before the Jump.

voice;

[goldshirt]

I think a lot of people would really appreciate that.

[and he does, which is why he left it open. His own service will be short and sweet, and it might not be enough for some people]

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[A bit quietly:]

Can the service be kept non-religious, please? At least in part?

voice;

[goldshirt]

Mine will be neutral, I can't speak for anyone else.

[because Kirk himself isn't a god fearing man. If Bones were here, he'd say his piece, but that was Bones]

video;

[recalibration]

[ clint has no grand notions of leadership—his best examples are of an organization that's more interested in their own dealings than anything else, which is always business as usual—but everything about kirk's address now (and the one he gave before) screams military. clint's familiar enough with military to know the lines between what they actually feel/believe and what they're trained to often gets blurred or ceases to exist. it's not always good, it's not always bad, but it happens. so, he's going to take what kirk says with a grain of salt. better than no direction at all, he supposes. ]

Hope this isn't a if you hadn't been shot by our ship's captain we wouldn't bother sort of situation.

[ grain of salt or no, his comments more downtrodden and somber than critical. because yeah, watching people get shot isn't exactly the greatest. ]

video;

[goldshirt]

It isn't.

[because it isn't to Jim. It was all the more tragic because of what Ward did, that was no lie, and perhaps it's part guilt that makes him feel that this is just as much for himself as everyone else - but no matter how you sliced it, they'd killed dozens of people.

To Kirk, that too was a tragedy.]

text;

[redhotsummers]

I'm sorry. You're gonna have to explain to me how it's a tragedy.

Tragedies are things that couldn't be prevented. Or things that happened to innocents.

Some of our own people who die in this place get less fanfare then you guys are giving them.

Fuck the pirates.

[Someone is pissed.]

text;

[darkholme]

[ this is a mistake, it's a mistake, she knows it's a mistake to answer him, but- ]

I think that's what this is supposed to be, Havok. he said 'losses of our own', too, not just the pirates.

maybe we should have held some sort of memorial for the people we lost sooner, but what with we all just saw on the network.. better late than never, right?

[ she's thinking of Erik, yeah. they've lost him more than once and it hasn't gotten any easier, not really ]

maybe it could give us some closure.

[majestyofthethrone]

At Chase's tree?

[goldshirt]

Yes.

voice;

[ringbearer]

Most won't agree but -- I think it's the right thing to do.
[ a pause ]
Despite what they've done -- I pitied them.

[ pitying and mercy is a big thing in frodo's book, so he's all for this idea. ]
Did many ..of our own die?

voice;

[goldshirt]

Not nearly as many, and in that regard we're lucky.

[jilt]

So we intend to hold a service for those who intended to rob us blind. Is that what's done with thieves in the future?

[cargojet]

'In the future'? When are you from?

[blunted]

Interesting set of priorities you got.

[goldshirt]

Enlighten me.

[northerner]

Aye, their bones should be given proper burial. But you do a disservice, asking the men and women of this ship to pay homage to those would have seen us all dead without guilt and taken from us what we needed to live. Honor our dead. Do not ask us to honor theirs.

[thebreakingwave]

I'd come here to say this same thing.

audio

[cobaltblue]

You were fine up until your last couple sentences. You wanna act like you care about a bunch of pirates, fine, whatever, but trying to guilt other people into joining you? And you're supposed to be some kinda captain back home? Wow.

audio

[goldshirt]

I care about life.

[because Church isn't the first, or last, person to knock his captaining ability, and he doesn't think this stands.]

I care that regulations weren't followed. I care that fifty people are dead.

voice:

[firstofficer]

Understood.

I presume a debriefing will be established after the service, provided the Tranquility is adequately prepared for the jump?

voice:

[goldshirt]

You bet. Though, I think we'll be preparing all week, Mister Spock.

voice;

[lifewithoutrest]

It can be difficult to feel compassion toward those who would see our destruction, but I believe your heart is in the right place.

[There's a short pause, her voice soft.]

For what it's worth, I think you're doing the right thing.

voice;

[goldshirt]

[he's quiet for a moment, if not only because they don't know each other very well, and maybe he didn't really expect her support]

Thanks.

[video]

[circumitus]

[...Rey is not unfamiliar with the concept of burial. She had never attended to that many funerals in her past lifetimes, though what few she does remember. There is one thing that does concern her:]

You would choose to mourn an enemy?

[video]

[goldshirt]

I'm mourning loss of life.