<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1em;"><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1.35em;">Aura Minal</span></strong></span>  <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1.35em;">Outside Cyrochamber</span>  <br/>(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/chachi9/ch/aishwarya_rai_006_hucv-1.jpg)<br/> <br/>Aura allowed no emotion to reflect in either her body or her face as she waited for the Captain's address.. She simply stood beside her Personal locker and waiting in a relaxed stance with her arms crossed behind her back, and eyes looking forward. The pose, while reminiscent of an at ease military personal, was anything but. Aura's brain thrummed with activity. Thoughts flitted like humming birds vying for a drink from a Mimosa tree.<br/>"1. check on status of all planetary zygotes. <br/>2. Activate largest most sensitive and sentient to smallest least sensitive, least sentient.<br/>3. Initiate rapid growth testing.<br/>4. Set up planet side task fors..." As she was ticking off her fourth task, the Captain began to speak. <br/> Aura was puzzled when the Captain started his address by addressing two women standing next to each other by the cyrochambers.  While she had been mentally running down her roster, she had been paying attention.  She did a quick playback of the last few minutes.  No, she hadn't missed anything.  Yet here was the Captain seemingly giving answers to the exotic, dark haired Miss Minari, and the cute human, Miss Ibara when she hadn't heard any questions or comments.  Then she remembered hearing someone discussing during preflight that the Captain was an augment. "Ah, she thought, augmented hearing. I will have to make sure to study the man to learn what other parts of him are augmented.' Aura stared directly at the young Captain; she could not help but think that for a human so young he was very self contained and matter-of-fact', and not moving her eyes so much as to blink, she gave her full attention to what he was saying.<br/>She quickly digested the important information. Her heart raced when the Captain spoke of a failure in Agriculture, but settled a bit when he mentioned the terraformer. Still, she mused, 'Not good. If any radiation makes it to the zygotes, the consequences will be disastrous, chromosomal mutations that might not show up right away, but will in future generations, radiation toxicity, failure to thrive, the list was endless."  Bitting the inside of her bottom lip, Aura couldn't wait to check her systems. A niggling worry attached itself to the back of her mind; it would not be calmed until she had checked all of the animal systems herself.  And now, the loss of a terraformer would set them back months of work. Aura made a mental note to double check on the status of the terraformer as soon as possible--they could not induce zygote acceleration until they were sure of a quick viable food source for the animals.<br/>She popped her head up when she heard the Captain call her name. She raised one eyebrow and gave the Captain a slight nod of her head, when he stated, 'The Veterinary team would appreciate her "expertise..."' The one area where Aura did feel a confident leader was in Veterinary Sciences. Her fingers itched to be at productive work bring animation to her beloved creatures. Although she had to hide a secret smile, 'So like the military,he <strong>did</strong> have to state the obvious? Of course any of her staff would be anxious for her arrival, as head Zoologist, she had the key code to the animal zygote storage and  animal studies labs.</span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1em;">Rather quickly, the Captain finished his debriefing.  <br/>'Ten hours? Aura's mind began to again swirl with duty lists. Yanking open her locker, she pulled out her white plastitech lab coat, and pulling it over her tunic. She kicked off the deck slippers and eased her feet into white plastictech lab boots. Turning, she gave a smile to the two women standing near each other, and strode off to her labs, staff and most importantly her animals.</span>