<div class="floatleft">(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h242/jenna_sheffield/Elliquiy/MarsColonyHeadshot.png)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Dr. Katelynn Royse</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>EBA Preparation Suite</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>The Whole Gang</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Getting suited up</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Katelynn sauntered into the room, nose buried in her tablet as she checked over the base's systems status one last time.  Her pad had many other features that would be useful out in the world....which was why she wasn't planning on going anywhere without it.  As head of the engineering section, she was responsible for every piece of equipment in the place....especially those that LEFT the base.  So she would go along and make sure everything worked as it was supposed to.  "Hey everyone.....This...is going to be exciting.  First time getting out and about, huh?  See the neighborhood first hand.....rather than through the lens of an orbiting satellite or a robotic rover!"<br/><br/>She put her pad down on the bench and pulled open the locker that had her name stenciled on it.  Pulling out the contents, she sat on the bench and took a few minutes to go over every square inch of her suit.  The last thing she needed was to decompress out there.  Visual inspections were always a good idea....but she also did a quick diagnostic via the onboard computer...which came back all systems green.  She smiled and started unhooking the separate parts and began to laborious process of getting into the thing.<br/>