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22 Jan 2022Johnny Rico Jr
>:// Initializing... Personal Log #1 >:// Connecting...
>:// Clearance Level... Omega - X-Ray
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"Well, it has happened. A dream I never thought I would achieve has come true. After years of service to the Federation and key political maneuvering, I have been made Rear Admiral. Rear Admiral Johnathan Rico Junior... quite like the ring of it. Dad would be proud, he never quite broke Chief before he voyaged off into the void in search of riches. I don't know about James however, at the first chance that he could... he was boarding an Explorer's ship to take a journey into the black. I think he would've been at least happy for me. Enough of dwelling on the past and looking to the future.
I have been promoted to RADM and with that assigned a ship of status and merit for the position, a Corvette. Fresh off the line. Current orders are to conduct patrol operations with the Fifth Squadron under the Seventh Fleet. Meant to deter pirates throughout the sector... pirates. Should be fighting Thargoids, or hell even the Imperials. Orders are orders. I am told that the ship’s name is the Dauntless. She also has some experimental modules that we are meant to test, suppose that’s how they can justify sending a warship to wipe out pirates. In my command I was given several supporting vessels, gunships and the like. My Executive Officer, one Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Thompson, a career military man from a long line of traditional military family. He was assigned at the same time as me so it seems we both will be learning the new vessel together. Previously he served aboard an Anaconda on the fringes of the territories keeping the Imperials at bay. Certainly a man of his experience and talent is welcomed aboard my vessel.
Currently we are assigned a crew of relatively new officers and enlisted men. My navigation officer, Ensign Sarah Robinson. Communications Officer Lieutenant Alexander Smith. Finally Weapons Officer Ensign Aden Williams. The rest of the crew is a string of Petty Officers, Midshipmen, two Chief Petty Officers, and Warrant Officer Sherman Morin along with his wing of fighter pilots. All in all a solid crew for a worthy ship. The Dauntless is in good hands. Speaking of the Dauntless, she should be underway in the next few hours. Leaving the Sol drydocks and meeting with the Seventh, from there she’ll be dispatched per the Admiral’s request. Until then. RADM Johnathan Rico, signing off.”