----- Original Message -----
From: "Eris Reddoch"
> 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.
"Feh," Desdaemona grumbles, "hates these automated starports, so ...
impersonal."
> 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.
Desdaemona makes a mental note of each ship in the hanger, it's size,
name and classification.
> 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.
Desdaemona elbows Merrin, "Fresh paint to hide the flaws, why they
always do that?"
>> 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.
>
> Both of you begin work in Engineering...
Desdaemona throws her gear in a corner of engineering and fires up
every self diagnostic system she can access from here and waits for
the data to begin pouring back over the screens.
PTGM - Is it day cycle or night cycle?
Des
