<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">MARS DATE 07/01/0001, 09:45:16</span></strong></div><br/>The PA system popped and the faint hum of the active speakers could be heard, then a familiar voice cut through whatever conversations were going on in all rooms and areas of the base: "<strong>Attention please This is the base commander. Would all personnel assigned to the Olympus expedition, please report at once to the suiting room. That is all.</strong>"<br/><br/><hr/><br/>In other words, let's get to it...<br/><br/>I am going to allow any player character that wants to, to come on the expedition, alonmg with a dozen or so NPCs.<br/><br/>The aircraft we will be using is a major technological marvel and is the second largest thing in the hanger, after the shuttle. It has a pilot and co-pilot - (See below) - and space for twenty passengers in E-Suits. The cabin is pressurised, but protocol demands that everyone be suited up. Helmets and gloves are not required but must be close at hand.<br/><br/>The hold of the aircraft contains several ground vehicles and a smaller aircraft similar to a gyrocopter, as well as all the scientific equipment and survival equipment - Ridgid-inflateable domes - required by the expedition.<br/><br/>I will allow a week (no more - unless asked) for people to get their characters to the hangar and onto the aircraft.<br/><br/>I will then post the aircraft leaving the hangar and taking off. Anyone not on it by that time has, basically, missed the flight!<br/><br/>I will allow one post each, please, of enjoying the flight (or not), please follow my lead as to what can be seen, heard and felt. I will then bring the aircraft in to land on the plateau at the base of the mountain. Again, one post each for the enjoyment or lack thereof of the landing. Then we put our hats and gloves on and head outside, to set up camp.<br/><br/>Any questions?<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Oh yes... the pilot and co-pilot.<br/><br/>Who wants the job? Louise will fly if no-one else wants to, but I'm willing to let someone else have the fun with this one...