The Dragons of Arma

Chapter Four

Location: Arma, Xaos Reigns, Sigma-9-1-1

Date: Stoic 4, 1538

Kezaban walks up to me, shaking his head looking around the Arena. "Come on I will show you to the commander's office. All the class commanders share one office. The same is true with the vice-captains." We start walking, Kezaban leads me up to the fourth floor. "While you are a commander, you are required to check in at the office once a day except for the weekends. All the schedules are posted in the commander's office. You schedule your squads and post their schedules in the vice commander's office. It is your vice commander's job to make sure that your squads know their schedules." The lift lets us off into the office. I see a holographic surface table surrounded by four chairs with a holographic surface desk. The entire room is surrounded by windows with a wraparound balcony. Kezaban smiles at me and points to a seat. "Each of us has a chair assigned to us. The desk belongs to Raish Maliut. He is our contact to and from the Headmaster. He does not interfere in our business but does offer advice on judging and referee rules. I will help you go over the first few applications, so you know what to look for. Since you are the only member of the freshman DiCe you can save however many you want to put through your testing. Just keep in mind you can only have twenty for your crew; we will make exceptions if you can find outstanding specimens but only an extra five." He sits in his chair and places his hand on the table "Kezaban DeNide, Junior Class Commander, Authorization 31 Delta-Romeo 247." His hand is scanned and the holographic display springs to life. He looks at me and motions to me "Place your hand on the table state your name your title and a security code you make up but keep in mind it will be your security code from here on out you will use it a lot."

I place my hand on the table and say "Heath Dinester, Freshman Class Commander, and Authorization 42 Delta-Delta-Delta 13." I see the table start scanning my hand. I notice that a hand print appears on every chair around the table.

Kezaban smile and comments "The table will scan you for 30 seconds before it will accept the scan. One of the ranking commanders has to witness this." He places his hand on the hand print and restates his name and authorization. The table finishes and flashes the message Welcome Commander Dinester. I sit down and look at the interface. Kezaban looks at me says, "see the electronic files in the middle of the table? They are applications. The center means that they can be looked over by anyone who has time. Schedules will appear on the left side of your interface. You can sync your calendar to your Percom. Any important information or anything that needs urgent attention will flash in bold. You don't have to worry about any of it right now technically we wouldn't have a freshman commander until next Monday. So, grab a file and go through the applications. You can flick them left right and up to send them to the appropriate commander if it is yours swipe down. Juniors go to your right and seniors across from you." There is a chirp from the table. "Oh, and you should probably say hello to our AI her name is Daio, it stands for Discipline Administration Information Operator. She usually handles everything from reports of fights to Tracking DiCe members. Things like the Applications are handled by us because the headmaster believes that we need work." He grabs one of the holographic folders and starts going through them.

I smile and say, "Hello Daio how are you doing today?" a female voice responds with "Hello Heath, I am doing well today. Congratulations on your early acceptance and promotion. If you need anything, feel free to ask me. You can tap your Percom to any port and say my name and I will respond." I nod "Thank you Daio I will keep that in mind."

Opening the folder, I quickly sort it. By the time that I am done all the commanders are sitting at the table going through their own folders. I look at Kezaban and notice that he is looking through the junior class folder. "Why are there applications from the upper-class students?" I ask