<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 on the surface between the shuttle and the hanger doors</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> With PC Colonist</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Standing on Martian Serface in Awe</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/><br/>Laura stepped off of the shuttle's ramp and took her first look at another world. It had been a long time coming, but she was both excited and anxious about taking the first step onto the iron rust sand, she took in a breath and let it out slowly.<br/><br/>She watched Louise kneel at the marker, and she knew what the mission commander was doing... they had talked about it in some part during their many hours of pillow talk and... other things... Laura had known even then that her lover would make it back to Mars; but the former SEAL herself hadn't been so sure about herself. What did it mean now?<br/><br/>After a respectful moment for her boss to make her moment of respect to her fallen comrade; in Laura's mind, they always had to be companion, comrade or friend as she had lost too many of them to allow for much more... she motioned to her people, "Ok ladies and gentlemen. You have your orders and know what you're suppose to be dong... head for your post and good luck."<br/><br/>She and the security team were acting, today, as guides and making sure that everyone got to where they were suppose to go, that important things got done and that everything was ship shape. No one really knows for sure what 30 years of wear and tear on the martian surface could really do to these structures and if something happened, they would be the irst to see and report it.<br/><br/>As the 5 orange suited men and women trotted... bounced... off in the low gravity and through the rising hanger doors, Laura walked over to her boss, "We'll get everything up in running Colonel, I brought a bottle of Glen Livett to celebrate when the place is fully up... care to share?" She gave her friend a mischievous grin through the faceplate.