<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6b/Lt_Laura_Alicia_Hicks.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Major Laura Hicks (MSF)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>(Mission Control Center</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Stefan Versatile</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Walking to Science Block</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Laura laughed softly, "In public Stefan... If the proper respect isn't shown by me, then those under me may start showing laspes. I fear there may be enough difficulty between us stiff military types and the civilian colonist as it is without adding fuel to the fire by not giving you the proper honorifics."<br/><br/>She pulled a compact unit from her thigh pocket and checked it's contents before looking back up, "This is a bit old fashioned, but it's a little more reliable than some of the new stuff... it'll tell us who's accessed the containers between the sealing on Earth and the opening here... all of the containers required the right access to open them... We were concerned with pilfering during loading before we left Earth. Once we left orbit, spare parts would be hard to come by and a ot of this stuff has no value outside of the markets back on Earth."<br/><br/>She pressed the lift call button, "Here, it's value is limited as there's no way to profit from it and unless you can immediately use it, it's going to be hard to hide."