Alexi Hesith
Oct 26th, 2003, 04:00:41 PM
The Valorum College, University of Gall...
The auditorium is packed; two hundred academics (mostly students) are crammed into the tiered seating to hear the guest lecturer speaker: Alexi Hesith. He is sitting on the platform at the front with the Principal and the Chairs of the Galactic Studies, Politics, and History Faculties.
Alexi Hesith is lean, of medium height, with grey hair and blue eyes. He is emmaculately dressed in a black suit, accented by a white shirt and pocket square. In his hands he holds a data disc.
The Principal rises and moves to the lectern to address the audience. "Students, staff, allumni, and guests welcome to the first of a series of open lectures to be held this month. Tonight we our guest speaker is His Honour, Alexi Hesith: Gall's Senator in the New Republic. A graduate of this institute, Alexi Hesith..."
The Principal goes on to give a brief [sic] summary of Hesith's carreer. His academic credentials draw some distainful looks from one or two of the more eletist in the audience- his degree was only a 2:2- how dare he come to lecture us! Hesith sit through all this with a polite smile on his face, one he often uses in public to cover boredom- or nerves.
"... so it is with great pleasure that I invite Senator Hesith to take the lectern."
The audience claps politely as Hesith rises to shake hands with the Principal, before approaching the lectern. It is a slender affair bearing the University's seal, a small set on controls is built into it, as is a cup holder for a glass of water.
"Thank you, Principal Greiger. And thank you all for comming tonight," his voice is quiet but commanding, with the clipped tones of the upper classes, "Tonight I have been asked to talk about the events referred to as 'The Catarch Incident'. It began with a mining operation on the asteroid belt near Gall..."
The auditorium is packed; two hundred academics (mostly students) are crammed into the tiered seating to hear the guest lecturer speaker: Alexi Hesith. He is sitting on the platform at the front with the Principal and the Chairs of the Galactic Studies, Politics, and History Faculties.
Alexi Hesith is lean, of medium height, with grey hair and blue eyes. He is emmaculately dressed in a black suit, accented by a white shirt and pocket square. In his hands he holds a data disc.
The Principal rises and moves to the lectern to address the audience. "Students, staff, allumni, and guests welcome to the first of a series of open lectures to be held this month. Tonight we our guest speaker is His Honour, Alexi Hesith: Gall's Senator in the New Republic. A graduate of this institute, Alexi Hesith..."
The Principal goes on to give a brief [sic] summary of Hesith's carreer. His academic credentials draw some distainful looks from one or two of the more eletist in the audience- his degree was only a 2:2- how dare he come to lecture us! Hesith sit through all this with a polite smile on his face, one he often uses in public to cover boredom- or nerves.
"... so it is with great pleasure that I invite Senator Hesith to take the lectern."
The audience claps politely as Hesith rises to shake hands with the Principal, before approaching the lectern. It is a slender affair bearing the University's seal, a small set on controls is built into it, as is a cup holder for a glass of water.
"Thank you, Principal Greiger. And thank you all for comming tonight," his voice is quiet but commanding, with the clipped tones of the upper classes, "Tonight I have been asked to talk about the events referred to as 'The Catarch Incident'. It began with a mining operation on the asteroid belt near Gall..."