Nikos was all about the ship he should fly. Back at the alliance flight academy they were teached the very basics about the common ship designs, it's good to know just in case of a critical failure. Nikos on his behalf studied a bit more than just the basics. He is totally into little space crafts and wants to know every little system so he knows what the ship is capable of. Some may think Nikos is a bit crazy by pushing the machines that much, but he thinks about himself as brilliant. Nikos always tries to go 150% to act as efficient as possible or get extra adrenaline. That caused not one, not two but several mechanical problems while optimizing his settings for the ship. These were technically against the standard protocol but when did Nikos cared about the protocol? To give a short example, he wrecked two engines, jammed one cannon and overheated and fried the small shield generator in his Interceptor back at the ‘Vendigo’. Whenever the mechanics back at the alliance battleship ‘Vendigo’ had Nikos interceptor for maintenance they knew he couldn't be far. Nikos did a damn good job in supervising and annoying the mechanics working on ‘his’ ship. He never really had a reason to be around while the mechanics fixed his ship but Nikos did it anyway and asked a lot of questions while he was there. There was this one time Nikos annoyed the mechanic so much that he needed to be super careful about the engines since he adjusted many settings by then, but the mechanic snapped at him and he was thrown out.
As soon as Wrench hits her head Nikos asks with a caring voice "Is everything alright?" but Wrench just waves that off and continues talking.
The mechanic explains what she is doing and Nikos is more than grateful to listen and even assist her in fixing the issue. After all, he wants every little issue fixed on the ship. He always cares about the machine he flies. The pilot does not know the difference between some tools because Nikos is clearly no mechanic, so he grabbed the wrong tool with high confidence he grabbed the right one, but he definitely knew what Wrench was talking about the issue itself.
So after Wrench explained the tool she actually wanted he thought //Dang it, well why does somebody need so many different tools? Okay on the other hand there are many different types of navigation consoles.// Shortly after Wrench closes the panel and Nikos starts to answer the mechanic.
"You know as a pilot I want to know what's wrong with my ship. I do know we may have differences in expertise but I studied some of the more common ship designs and as soon as I knew I would be sent here I looked up the ship design of the lullaby." explains Nikos with a calm voice. “I just want to make sure that you know that in fact I do know what you were explaining. We would not want our engines to overheat at some point just because an AI gets its priorities wrong don't we?" By that he reminds himself about the ‘small’ arguments the pilot now and then had with Captain.
Nikos clears his throat slightly and leans casually against one metallic panel in the hallway. "Also, I like to know I can rely on every inch of my ship. Just in case I do some more of a drastic movement with the ship.” The young pilot added casually.
”Anyways, I just came from the regular 8 hour system check at the bridge and before you ask. No this little temperature fluctuating wasn't to be seen in my diagnosis. But now I have two questions for you. Would you mind giving me a more detailed briefing on how the systems are running and introducing me to Dirtlee?" With the last question Nikos is raising an eyebrow since there is nobody else at the panel and he also knows of no Dirtlee yet.
As soon as he got his answers Nikos wanted to continue their little chat by realizing Dirtlee was a tool ”Oh that- " The young Pilot wasn’t going to finish that sentence, instead he was interrupted by the alarm siren and almost immediately after the ship was hit by something. Nikos instinctively steadied himself with the help of the wall he was leaning against. Out of nowhere he could barely dodge a barrel that came from somewhere in the hallway by squeezing himself closer to the wall. Wrench got knocked down and before Nikos reacted Captain said ”Hull compromised"
”Yeah no shit!" Nikos shouted and was thinking fast. It was more important to get to the Bridge as the actual pilot of this ship, than helping Wrench back on her feet. Maybe he should have actually stayed there, but lucky both wrench and Nikos weren’t that far away. The pilot was already setting off to the bridge as behind him thick blast doors were closing with a loud swooosh. He spun around to face Wrench just on the other side of these doors.
Nikos wanted to open the doors just as Wrench yelled really dull “Go! We’re kicked out of the system. I’ll find away ar-” With another hit that this time also sends nikos down to the floor Wrench was interrupted. ”Go, just go!” Was the last thing Nikos heard from Wrench, because as soon as he was up on his feet again the only thing he saw was steam on the other side of the glass window. He pushed himself from the doors to get extra boost of speed as he heard Captain again ”Losing altitude"
”That’s bad! Really really bad!" Nikos shouted while he was running to the bridge and almost reached the door when suddenly another shot hit the ship and sent him flying to the ground and rolling just by the door.
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