Var set the tangle drive to heat up, just in case they needed to get out of there in a hurry. She snorted with laughter as the cute but off-limits engineer said something about cutting off the oxygen. "Oh you don't need to worry about them cutting off the oxygen, Brigsie, after all there's absolutely<i>nothing</i>between our ship and their's...!" She wrapped a tentacle around Charlie's neck, like a slimy collar, then walked towards her cabin to 'change', the tentacle slowly unwinding in the mollusc's equivalent of a goodbye kiss. <<Look after yourself, sweetheart>><br/><br/>Once in their private quarters, she pulled the Bruth^ie made skin-suit out of her locker, filled the water tanks from her bed, increased the internal pressure to 50m below ^iv_yne- sea level - different to the pressure on Earth due to gravity and density differences - to check for leaks. Finding none, she reduced the pressure again, at a rate that would leave a human curled up in agony, and headed for the armoury.<br/><br/>Once there, and once it was opened, she pulled out what was technically not a man-portable weapon - the 2m long rapid-fire rail-gun massed all of thirty kilos without the ammo pack that she looped over a couple of tentacles. Her preferred assault weapon had it's on anti-grav field making it awkward but manageable in the ship's "standard" gravity. Awkward for a human that is. For a Bruth^ie it was a matter of assigning tentacles to the various attachment points. She fastened the armoured "bowl" around her head - the only bit of her that was actually vulnerable to damage - strapped a couple of gauss pistols to various bits of herself loaded herself with ammo and headed for the airlock.<br/><br/>As she did she instructed the suit to release an oxygenation tablet into the water tanks. The tablet fizzed and the oxygen released from the compound dissolved into the water along with the salts that perfectly simulated the oceans of her homeworld. The extra oxygen soon reached her gills and gave her energy level a boost.<br/><br/>She arrived at the airlock first, the only member of the small boarding party already fully suited.