Octavius squinted as his mind ran over the next several courses of action he could take, many of them would have him court-martialed. "I.." He began. Cutting himself off before he said something he'd really regret. "It's all in the report you'll see sir. You're right too... I need to be elsewhere."
Tobias sat at the desk wondering what an actual security chief would do in this situation. On one hand if he let it go, then he may have a chance of patching things up, but if he did that then the crew would see him as weak. A security chief cannot be seen as weak, it just doesn't work.
Not knowing what to do Tobias wrote up the events with Mr. Mirwald, covering both of their actions. He formated it as a disciplinary report, one addressed to the acting captain, but he marked it so that it would NOT be sent to the captain at this time. Tobias then began a short message to Mr. Mirwald:
"Chief Petty Officer Mirwald, please give your attention to the attached report. I have chronicalled your behavior towards an officer. I would also like you to notice I have detailed the actions that I took that by my own admission wre inappropriate and may have sparked some of the responses that I recieved from you. You will also see that this report has been marked as unsent, and I do not intend to send it at the present time. I want for us to get along. I want for us to work together and serve this crew to keep them safe." Tobias said in a calm and sincere tone.
"That being said" Tobias continued, now switching to a firm voice "You may have seniority, but I by definition out rank you. I will not tolerate this behavior any longer. I will no longer respond in kind, I will act my position and deal with you as an officer should. This report will be the first thing that I send should there be anymore outburts. I am not a hard man to get along with, I have read your service file, and I hope that I can count on you, but if not, I will do what I have to do. I will offer you two options, and only two options, negotiating time is over. the first, I will be in the mess every evening after duty shift is over, out of uniform and prepared to discuss our differences outside of our ranks, or two, you come to my office and we start over as if we have just met. It is your call, but the pettyness is OVER." Tobias said, putting a near dripping amount of venom in the last word.
He could only hope that the Petty officer would listen to the message around other crewmembers. he wanted this to be over, and he hated having to make such a macho move just to make a point.
"Computer send message and report to Mirwald, Octavious priority one" Tobias said. He spent the next hour reviewing mission reports and ship reports.