adunaphell@shaw.ca wrote:
> ----- 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?
Night cycle.
Eris
Akus Moby
