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Just prior to P-day, Zen was a bright young student with an interest in computer science and programming. With good grades, a supporting family, and connections within the Navy, he soon found himself in an internship program that would mold him into being the type of person the Navy needed. It wasn't the sort of career he had seen himself entering into, but the opportunity to pick up valuable experience and travel around on the government's dime seemed too good to pass up. Becoming a promising member of the Naval Air Research Divison, he would continue to hone his skills surrounded by very sharp individuals. Without being tied down by a family, when the opportunity came to join the crew of the USS Leviathan, a deep ocean weapon testing vessel, he immediately signed himself up. | Just prior to P-day, Zen was a bright young student with an interest in computer science and programming. With good grades, a supporting family, and connections within the Navy, he soon found himself in an internship program that would mold him into being the type of person the Navy needed. It wasn't the sort of career he had seen himself entering into, but the opportunity to pick up valuable experience and travel around on the government's dime seemed too good to pass up. Becoming a promising member of the Naval Air Research Divison, he would continue to hone his skills surrounded by very sharp individuals. Without being tied down by a family, when the opportunity came to join the crew of the USS Leviathan, a deep ocean weapon testing vessel, he immediately signed himself up. | ||
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As fortune would have it, Zen was selected to join the crew of the USS Leviathan and was soon adjusting to life aboard the ship. Sailing out from one of the naval bases in California, he would be out of contact with a few of his friends and loved ones for a while. There, he would continue to work with computers and design simulation models based on the live data other groups were feeding the team he was on. He would be kept busy with plenty of work, up until the point when the world was shaken by a catastrophe of unprecedented scale. | As fortune would have it, Zen was selected to join the crew of the USS Leviathan and was soon adjusting to life aboard the ship. Sailing out from one of the naval bases in California, he would be out of contact with a few of his friends and loved ones for a while. There, he would continue to work with computers and design simulation models based on the live data other groups were feeding the team he was on. He would be kept busy with plenty of work, up until the point when the world was shaken by a catastrophe of unprecedented scale. | ||
Revision as of 05:38, 7 November 2019
Just prior to P-day, Zen was a bright young student with an interest in computer science and programming. With good grades, a supporting family, and connections within the Navy, he soon found himself in an internship program that would mold him into being the type of person the Navy needed. It wasn't the sort of career he had seen himself entering into, but the opportunity to pick up valuable experience and travel around on the government's dime seemed too good to pass up. Becoming a promising member of the Naval Air Research Divison, he would continue to hone his skills surrounded by very sharp individuals. Without being tied down by a family, when the opportunity came to join the crew of the USS Leviathan, a deep ocean weapon testing vessel, he immediately signed himself up.
As fortune would have it, Zen was selected to join the crew of the USS Leviathan and was soon adjusting to life aboard the ship. Sailing out from one of the naval bases in California, he would be out of contact with a few of his friends and loved ones for a while. There, he would continue to work with computers and design simulation models based on the live data other groups were feeding the team he was on. He would be kept busy with plenty of work, up until the point when the world was shaken by a catastrophe of unprecedented scale.
