<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>Standing inside the airlock of the Maint. bay</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> With the rest of the PC's and NPC's.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Delegating authority and observing.</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Laura stepped through the airlock and set the crate down with the others. After checking a section of the hull behind her, leaned back against it. She would of loved to of crossed her arms, but the bulk of the environment suit was too bulky for it. Still, she could do what she needed to do just fine. She listened into all of the frequencies and watched the crowd of people as they got organized and listened to the department heads/officers performance. She would have to report on all of it later, so it was best to take some time and observe them in action. Just because they were on Mars and listed as colonist did not mean that you got out of military service... it just took a different set of duties.<br/><br/>She was also working up a memo in her head to send to the Colonel requesting a series of SAR exercises in the coming days to get them dialed into the emergency procedures that she wold find as one of her duties.<br/><br/>Laura switched to the all frequencies setting, something that only a select few had access to... security guards, the command staff among those few. "May I have your attention please. We should have power within the next few minutes. We are asking everyone To remain in the hanger area until Colonel Cotter returns and the colony can be declared safe to enter... Do not open your environmental suits until you hear the all clear; the interior has been sealed, but 30 years of inactivity may well create more than just bad air... the internal temperature will be too low to allow free movement for a little while yet... Thank you for your attention."