<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7a/AlineMineiro01.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Petra Sabio (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=339078.msg16082563#msg16082563)<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>The 11th of March, 9am (GMT)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Aboard a shuttle en route to the Odyssey<br/><strong>Content:</strong>First approach to the ship<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Any abord the shuttle<br/><hr/><br/>"That I am quite frankly rather intimidated by that bioware ahead of us - which is a rather unusual experience, for me."<br/><br/>The Norça liaison's English carried the sort of impeccably British, clearly enunciated, yet hard-to-pin-down accent one might hear from a BBC newsreader, though her tone was definitely one of wry amusement - a sentiment matched by the smile into which her lips quirked.<br/><br/>"It is unquestionably a beautiful creation.  And yes, I am fully aware that it is a hybrid structure rather than 'pure' bioware - which makes it seem a little less daunting.  But, speaking as someone who till quite recently considered herself au fait with the state of biotechnical research... it is still rather stunning to behold.  It reminds me more of some of the Qin-assisted arcology crafting I have seen, than it does of anything that was presented as a space-faring vessel when I was growing up."