Orbital Spa and Cruise Liner Atlantis

[Stoner_Steve]

OS&C|Atlantis and Luxury Liner Hawaii, Orbit of Planet Hiran
Water Color Sponge
Artist: Gouki Aomori

James entered his quarters a little after 8 a.m. dressed in a full tuxedo, he went to his bathroom and splashed water on his face as he undid the bowtie and jacket. He walked to his bed and collapsed into it while sighing contently. The Grand Banquets were the worst, usually starting 10 and not ending until 6 or so in the morning, this one however had dragged on to almost 7:30 before James finally signaled attendants to start to lure the guests elsewhere about the ship. His neural net pinged him.

He called out loudly to the room with a stern voice "No!". The neural net pinged him again. The ships A.I. nicknamed Apollo was a godsend for the Captain, but also a curse. The A.I. was supplied by OSC, and programmed to make the guests as happy as possible, sometimes at the expense of the crew. The A.I.'s voice filled the room as it overrode his command. "Captain, you are requested on the bridge."

James grumbled, "I'll be in soon."

It was shortly after 10:00 when He approached the bridge bulkhead. His assistant and Guest Services Manager Jane exited before he could get to the door looking frazzled, "I swear to god one of these days I'm going to rip that bloody A.I. outta the wall and eject him into space. Come with me there is a customer issue I need you to smooth over."

As they turned and walked into the center of the ship Jane filled him in. "Mr and Mrs. Johnson, frequent fliers, last cruise they spoke to you about taking a trip to the Hawaii for a few weeks. Speaking of," she checked her watch, "We are five minutes from the end of the play and about 18 hours from the Hawaii. They originally booked an Egyptian Suite but we had a coupling fail about an hour ago and we can't let them stay in a dark hole, I've bumped them up to a Babylonian Suit and have moved their luggage already. Oh, their anniversary is in 5 days according to their paperwork." They turned a corner and stopped next to an exit, Jane checked her watch again, "they will be here shortly" James Nodded as the doors opened

"Mr. Johnson, how do you do, and the lovely Mrs. Johnson looking pretty as ever. I know your anniversary is coming up and when I heard you where flying with us again I took it upon myself to see to it personally that you were transferred into one of our finest Babylonian Suites." He paused for a moment before gesturing to Jane, "This is my personal assistant, Jane, she will take you directly to your new suite."

With some more smiles and handshakes the guests were soon off to their new suite and James was headed to the bridge. When he entered his Executive Officer approached him with a datapad. "Good Morning Adam." "Good Morning Sir, here are the reports from our daily operations conference." "Anything I need to be aware of?" "We are running though our luxury food supply at an unusually high rate, I've already called in a resupply"

James nodded and took a seat in the Captains Chair, "Helm, status"

The Atlantis continued to glide through the blue nebula