Teamwork

“The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team.” - Phil Jackson

The sweet bass sound of the Strip Miners felt good, the vibration just wrapped around the pod and made her body move like a cradle moved a baby. There was a strange peace she usually found in a good mining operation. Maybe it was the order, predictability and all sorts of boring things which sometimes soothed Thanagherion’s mind, maybe it was the fact that all pilots tended to relax and just let loose: no tactics, just friendly chatter on the comms and that was a good life.

Moira would just say it was her way to ignore the crash from the constant adrenaline high which her assistant often told her she was addicted to. She would strongly deny it, but maybe she was right. It didn’t matter either way.

In a fleet like this the usual experience was reversed. Every time a few serpentis’ frigates showed up, she couldn’t help thinking the last thing that went through their heads, other than drone fire, was a very loud “OH CRAP!” which was enough to make her laugh inside her pod. It was a night out having drinks at the local pub, picking fights, just making harmless fun of each other.

It was amazing to see how many people had shown and just how committed everyone was to a very simple project. It was always nice to feel like part of a functioning whole, instead of simply contributing with whatever she could scrounge.

She mused on how much she used to hate the result of these mining ops, from the lone miner perspective and yet, from an organized fleet member point of view, it was a show of efficiency  and the end result of an empty asteroid field was amazing. The comms came through clear and rowdy in her mind, while everyone repositioned to get to new asteroids, all those actions masterfully coordinated from the Orca Class industrial ship, which stood watch over that cosmic ballet of ships and lasers.

When she finally docked she couldn’t wait to see the result, to see how much of a difference the team had made.