<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/03/Katianna.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Katianna Molova</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Cooler Shuttle III then Landing Pad</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Shuttle Guards then alone in exit pod.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Arriving on planet</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Her mother and sister sobbing as she was led from court after sentencing, hands bound behind her back…that was the last clear memory Katianna Malova had before waking up aboard Cooler Shuttle III.  She stood and looked at the armored beast before her.  She seemed to be in as much shock now as when her sentence had been passed down.  Her eyes were wide and her thoughts unfocused as the guard ordered her to disrobe.  She stared at the guard, dumbfounded but her head quickly cleared when she found herself practically thrown against the wall and stripped forcibly.<br/><br/>Katianna was already cold aboard the shuttle.  Her ocean covered home world was warm and humid so even the climate controlled shuttle was colder than her liking. The slime bath made it even worse.  By the time she climbed out of the vat she was noticeably shivering.  If she was already this cold, how was she supposed to survive on the ice planet?  Perhaps the answer was she wasn’t.<br/><br/>Katianna looked down at what, for all purposes, was a second skin as the smartex suit congealed. She picked at the opening around her wrist.  “How exactly am I supposed to shave my legs in this stuff?”  It was a foolish and irrelevant question of course, but it was the first thing that came to mind as she examined the suit.  It was easy to ignore the near nakedness of the suit in front of the guards aboard the shuttle.  In their armored suits they could be robotic for all she knew, at least it was easier to let herself believe that anyway.<br/><br/>She offered no resistance when she was ordered into the alcove.  What was the point?  She was about to come face to face with her new future and none of her skill or stealth would be able to stop this.  She glanced out the alcove window but only briefly.  Then she went and sat against the wall of the alcove opposite the viewing window.  Here she let herself dissolve into tears…for her mother and sister…for the life she had lost…and the new reality she would soon face.  After a bit she wiped her tears and tried to reign in her emotions.  It was not wise to show any signs of weakness in prison.  Or at least that is what she had heard.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"You have ten minutes to exit the vessel. If you do so immediately, you will be expected to help your fellow convicts unload and load the shuttle. This will no doubt earn you some favour points. If you are still on the ship in ten minutes time, the ship will lift with you still on board. Please be aware that you will not be allowed back in the ship under any circumstances. This is your only warning. Stay where you are and you will either fall to your death or asphyxiate when we exit the atmosphere.”</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Katianna had not even realized that they had landed when the pod doors opened and the message began.  The frigid air hit her like a solid wall as it rushed into the pod.  It was a weird sensation to feel the suit make adjustments for the cold.  If this stuff was supposed to keep her warm then it was failing miserably and she wondered if the Smartex in the vat was defective.  Of course, who exactly was she supposed to ask?<br/><br/>She pulled herself to her feet and stared out the doors.  She could see some structures in the distance as well as movement just outside.  She approached the door slowly and cautiously, peering out to see what was going on.  She watched a few moments as the prisoners unload the shuttle.  She weighed her options.  On the one hand she could get out and help and maybe, just maybe she earn enough “favor” points to be left alone, or she could stay in the pod and simply go to sleep and die from lack of oxygen as the shuttle departed the atmosphere, the later actually sounding more appealing just now.  “Aww hell I would probably just fall before we got high enough for it to kill me and I would just be left maimed for the rest of my existence.”  Katianna wrapped her arms around herself and stepped out of the pod and got to work, trying to go mostly unnoticed while doing what the others were doing.