An encounter generates a ship plus story

When I was in grade school, third, fourth or fifth grade I don’t remember which, our teacher was pregnant and had the kid right at the mid year and we had a sub the rest of the year. Sister Margret-Ann she was the only long tern sub that was available and the general school district had to accept her. Everyone’s grades dropped significantly during her reign. She wore the traditional long black and white habit every day. No one liked her as she was mean and militaristic in how she treated us.

Yesterday my part-time girlfriend Jewel and I were at the grocery store getting some eggs as I had been promising to make my barbecue four egg omelets for her. We had everything we needed except the eggs as we were talking about something or other. I can’t remember what it was now.

And low and behold who sneaked up on us. Sister Margret-Ann she didn’t look as if she had aged a day, as she looked to be in her late hundreds then and now. She scolded me about still playing with my egg cartons with my head in the clouds that I should have settled down and had children, I should keep my head in this world and blab… blab… blab…

I wasn’t listening any more as I was trying to prevent Jewel from beating a Nun to a pulp. I had tight hold of Jewels and the other hand over her mouth. She was ready to ring the Sisters neck about what the Sister was saying to me. I gave the cart to a store worker that is a member of our group telling him I would make it up to him and guided Jewel out of the store. I ended up throwing her over my shoulder walking her to the car.

So you understand some of this Jewel grew up most of her life as an orphan in a Catholic orphanage. She won’t talk much about it but she was not treated well by the Nuns there and harbors some ill feelings about her time there. She had to make do with much of whatever she could scrounge up to survive in her life. I met her shortly after my medical discharge from the Navy. She was just out of High School then struggling to live I took her in so she could go to nursing school. Jewel comes and goes as she wants she is around more than she is away.

After leaving the store we went to another and got what we needed and had our omelets for dinner. By now Jewel was in a foul mood that most would not like to be around as she was angry at men and Sister Margret-Ann.

It took me a while to think about what Sister Margret-Ann was talking about. Then it came to me. It had been nearing the Easter weekend; it was something like a week away or two down the calendar. We were given items to make a decretive carrier for Easter eggs. There was a cardboard or foam twelve egg carton, cardboard tubes, dozens of plastic eggs, pipe cleaners and colored tape and what not. Some just decorated the carton and painted the eggs while one made a decorated egg getting out with legs and arms, and another had made egg spiders crawling out of the carton. That project was my first space ship I made like that.

So in honor of Sister Margret-Ann I give you the Egg Ship One. Jewel liked it. Between the two omelets she ate and this, they put her in a better mood than she had been in.

Egg Ship One
Class and Type: Large grade A Class Freighter
Commissioning Date: 23rd century

Hull Systems
Size: 2
Length: 45 meters
Beams: 10 meters
Height: 5 meters
Decks: 2
Mass: 30 metric tons
SUs Available: 325-625
SUs Used: 457

Hull Outer <8>
Hull Inner <8>
Resistance Outer Hull: 6 <6>
Resistance Inner Hull: 6 <6>

Structural Integrity field [1 power/10 Protection/round]
Main: Class H (Protection 40/60) <14>
Backup: Class H (Protection 20) <7>
Backup: Class H (Protection 20) <7>
Specialized hull: Atmospheric Capability <2>
Planetary Capability <2>

PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
Crew/Passengers/Evac: 6/12/50
Crew Quarters
Barracks: Houses 4 crewmembers <1>
Spartan: 1 <1>
Basic: 1 <1>
Expanded: 0 <0>
Luxury: 0 <0>
Unusual: 0 <0>

Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [4 Power/round] <8>
Reserve Life Support [2 Power/round] <4>
Emergency Life Support (12 emergency shelters) <4>
Gravity [1 Power/round] <2>
Consumable: 1 years worth <4>
Food Processor Mark III [3 Power/round] <5>
Industrial Fabrication unites Mark VI [4 Power/round] <5>
Medical Facilities: 4 (+0) [4 Power/round] <20>
Recreation Facilities: 2 (one gym, one small lounge) [2Power/round] <12>
Personal Transport: Jefferies tubes [0 Power/round] <2>
Fire Suppression System [1 Power/round when active] <2>
Cargo hold: 500 cubic meters <1>
Locations: amidship
Escape Pods <1>
Number: 10
Capacity: 2 persons per pod

Propulsion Systems
Warp Drive Nacelles: Mark 2 <20>
Speed: 1.9/2.9/4.9 [1 Power/.2 warp speed]
PIS: Class E (6 hours of Maximum warp) <10>
Special configuration: Embedded Nacelles <8>
Impulse Engine Type: two Type 2 (.25c/.5c) [2/5 Power/round] <5 x 2 = 10>
Location: Aft
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power/ round when in use] <2>

Power Systems
Warp Engine Type: Mark III (generates 130 Power/round) <43>
Locations:
Impulse Engine[s]: two type 2 (generate 8 power/engine/round)
Auxiliary Power: 2 reactors (generate 5 Power/reactor/round) <6>
Emergency Power: Type A (generates 25 Power/round) <25>
EPS: Standard Power flow, +50 Power transfer/round <15>
Standard Usable Power: 146

Operations systems
Bridge: <8>

Computers (pre-duotronic)
Core: [1 Power/round] <1>
ODN <6>

Navigational Deflector [6 Power/round] <8>
Range: 8/15,000/40,000/125,000
Accuracy: 6/7/9/12
Location: forward ventral

Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power/round] <20>
Range package: Mark V (Accuracy 4/5/8/11)
High Resolution: 5 light-years (.5/.6-1.0/1.1-3.5/3.6-5.0)
Low Resolution: 12 light-years (1/1.1-3.0/3.1-8.0/8.1-12)
Strength Package: Class 5 (strength 5)
Gain Package: None
Coverage: standard

Lateral Sensors [5 Power/round] <10>
Strength Package: Class 5 (strength 5)
Gain Package: None
Coverage: standard

Navigational Sensors: [5 power/round] <10>
Strength Package: Class 5 (strength 5)
Gain Package: None
Probes: none
Sensor Skill: 3

Flight Control Systems
Autopilot: Shipboard systems (flight control) 1, Coordination 1 [1 Power/round in use] <4>

Navigational Computer
Main: Class 1 (+0) [0 Power/round] <0>
Backups: 2 <0>

Inertial Damping Field
Main <4>
Strength: 5 [3 Power/round]
Number: 2
Backup <2>
Strength: 3 [2 Power/round]
Number: 2
Attitude Control [1 Power/round] <1>

Communications Systems
Type: Mark IV [3 Power/round] <12>
Strength: 4
Security: -1
Emergency Communications: [2 Power/round] <1>

Tractor Beams
Emitter: Class Beta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <6>
Accuracy: 6/7/9/12
Lactation: aft

Transporters
Type: Personnel [2 Power/use] <12>
Pads: 4
Emitter/Receiver Array: Personnel mark 5 (20,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class E (strength 5)
Number and location:

Type: Emergency none

Type: Cargo [1 Power/round] <9>
Pads: 100 kg
Emitter/Receiver Array: Cargo Mark 3 (18,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class E (strength 5)
Number and location:

Security Systems Rating: 2 <8>
Anti-Intruder System: [1 Power/round] <2>
Internal Force Field [1 Power/3 Strength] <2>
Science Systems Rating: 1 (+0) [1 Power/round] <7>
Specialized Systems: none
Laboratories: 1 <2>

Tactical Systems
Egg gun <4>
Type Equal to a sling shot
Damage: no damage [1 Power]
Number of Emitters: (up to 1 shot per round)
Targeting Systems: Accuracy 6/7/9/12
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: bow
Firing arc: 120 degrees
Firing Modes: standard

TA/T/TS: Class Alpha [0 Power/round] <6>
Strength: 7
Bonus: +0
Weapon Skill: 3

Shields (Forward, Aft, Port, Starboard) <10 x 4 = 40>
Shield Generator: Class 1 (protection 200) [20 Power/shield/round]
Shield grid: Type A (25% increase to 250 Protection)
Subspace field Distortion Amplifiers: Class Beta (Threshold 66)
Recharging System: Class zero (60 seconds)
Backup Shield Generators: none
Auto-Destruct System

Auxiliary Spacecraft systems
Shuttlebay(s): none

Enjoy in the humor that it is meant to be.

The part I find weirdest is that this nun recognized you.

The sad thing is I look like my Dad at this age and my daughter luckily looked like her mother. The Nun knew where I was working for years as she and the other Nuns would walk on the other side of the street from where they lived to the church. The strange part is I am in another city now and she found me. I don't think she ever liked me or any of the guys in class.