<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6b/Lt_Laura_Alicia_Hicks.jpg)</div><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Lt. Commander Laura Allecia Hicks</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Maintenance and Engineering Section</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> With all of the other PC's</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Greeting Louise Cotter and awaiting with others</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Laura saw the lights flicker and then brighten above to their full brilliance at about the same time that consoles and other diagonistic systems began to flicker to life. She noted that most were green, a few yellows and reds, but nothing, she deterimined that would be life threatening. She heard Lou's call and cicked to the command line only, "Mic061 to Mic066, We have lights and air flow. We're waiting on you colonel to crack the inner door... the honor is yours." She smiled then and moved to the airlock to make the official transfer of authority.<br/><br/>She watched with some impatience for the airlock to cycle from red to green, and lifted her arm in a crisp salute that didn't quite make it as her eyes took in lou's face... her unhelmeted head, and chuckled softly to herself... Lou had style, that was for sure.<br/><br/>She finished the crisp salute, "Colonel, the Conn is yours. Would ou do the honors of inviting us into our new home?"<br/><br/>With the formalities done, she undogged the latches of her helmet and pulled it over her head. She took a deep breath of the cold air and wrinkled her nose cutely, "I hope that the scrubbers can clear out the rotten egg smell or no one is going to be eating for a while."<br/><br/>Laura motioned her friend forward to the closed hatch that led into the rest of the facility, "After you Ma'am."