<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1em;">Aura had just finished loading the last Animal for testing into her palm unit when the Code Red came blaring over the system, which was quickly followed by explosion. With no need to worry now about about security, she froze the lab doors open and shouting to be heard over the noise, Aura ordered, "Out, everyone to a lifepod, now!" Her normally rich voice, harsh with urgency and command. However, she did not spare a glance to see if they had obeyed. Reaching into her desk, she grabbed a box labeled EALF01, (Emergency Agrarian Life Forms 01). She had, after much discussion with the vets on her staff, chosen a short list of animal zygotes and plant form seedlings. Also the DNA of a more diverse grouping. Each Vet had grimly signed off on the list with the hopes that the items in the container would never have to be used. Knowing that the container still could be useless if they could not reproduce the equipment necessary to properly use the contents, she still took valuable seconds fetching it.  Failing that, she had the few animals in her palmU.  A chocolate lab male puppy, a Bos Taurus or standard Earth Dairy Cow and Bull, the Valuvian Chickens, and the three Ziva Crabs.  Aura sealed the container to her body in the special carrier she had worn at all times since coming to the Animal Labs. She jogged out of her office and began a fast walk to the closest lifepod. The pathway to the lifepod she had been assigned was eerily quiet. A few people milled around, but it was more as though the ship was already dead. If not for the flash of the red lights, and the constant abandon ship message, one would think the ship was. The chills that shot up Aura's back hurried her quick step pace and she was at her destination with one minute to spare. <br/>Peering into the seemingly full lifepod, Aura saw one seat left and jumped through the hatchway doors to claim it. Buckling herself in and heaving a heavy sigh, she waited for the breakaway countdown to begin.  </span>