>  > Merinn collects her gear from the motel near the starport and boards
>  > the /Akus Moby/.
>  
>  Desi and Merinn meet at the entrance into the ship yards. Each are asked
>  to insert their hand into a security scanner and are cleared through 
> the
>  gate. One of the guards inside hands each of them a small stick on badge
>  to wear and says, "Follow the lights."
>  
>  Sure enough you can see a trio of lights on the deck leading down a
>  corridor.
>  
>  Then with a chuckle and wink the guard adds, "If you leave the path the
>  wrath of god will descend on you...in the form of security robots with
>  no sense of humor."
>  
>  "Have a good night!" he calls after you before sitting down and going
>  back to reading some sort of magazine.
>  
>  The lights lead you down one corridor, then right, and then left down 
> a 
>  row of ships resting in individual berths. Near the end the lights 
> lead 
>  you to a ship smaller than most you've passed.
>  
>  There are several yard workers outside it finishing up with applying 
> a 
>  fresh coat of paint. Up on the nose you see /Akus Moby/...you must 
> have 
>  found your home for the next six months or so.
>  
>  The cargo hatch is closed, as is the passenger hatch on the second 
> deck, 
>  but there is a gangway down near the front of the ship. Looking up 
> the 
>  gangway you see it leads to an airlock hatch on the lower deck. Crew 
> 
>  Entrance is printed above the open hatch.

"Hello!"  Paris, the same youngish-appearing woman that had hung at the Captain's side through the meal and neglected to eat hers the first time around, appeared at a trot down the access corridor from the crew lounge.  "Sorry about that, missed the buzzer."
 
>  > She sets her gear down in Engineering pending a cabin assignment, and
>  > begins running diagnostics and checking the ship's logs.
>  
>  > Where she immediately begins running systems diagnostics to see what
>  > works, what doesn't work, what needs to be fixed, what can wait till
>  > tommorow to be fixed and what can be held off on till a week from
>  > next tuesday.

Paris escorts them to the crew lounge-and gestures to the quarters. "Pick a room--last one on board gets to double up--you get first pick."