<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>Cockpit.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> The flight crew</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Getting an update</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Laura had slipped both the helmet and gloves on at the first blink of the emergency light and began to scan the room to make sure that everyone else was as well. She wasn't ging to have any losses on her first watch on Mars if she could help it.<br/><br/>As the aircraft set down with a hard bump, she unbuckled her restraints and activated her link, "Ok Ladies and Gentleman, we're at our new home, lets start getting things set up. Security, get your backs into it. I want the living domes up in 2 hours... Lets get to work... you can relax once you have a plce to sleep."<br/><br/>With those orders given out, she slipped into the already crowded cockpit, "What's the story Colonel?" she asked, knowing that this was official business and she was maintaining all of the protocols. "We're pulling the cargo off now and we'll have quarters in a couple of hours... do we have a way back home is the question?" There was a back-up comms unit in the cargo, and the progression of assembly had that being secured first as the aircraft batteries wouldn't last forever and they needed to be self contained anyway.<br/><br/>She switched to a private link, "You ok Lou?" she asked concerned, "You did a reat job putting us down."