<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>(Security Chief's Office, in route to Lousie Cotter's Office</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Wing Commander Louise Cotter &amp; Mission Execitive Officer Stefan Versatile </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Settling into Office, meeting with Louise and Stefan</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>Moving from: Maintenance Block (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148833.0)<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Laura had discarded the environment suit as soon as it had been possible to do so. The cold didn't bother her... much... she had trained in the middle of Norfork harbor in January, so some near freezing air was a small concern for the tough minded woman.<br/><br/>She took a deep breath as she settled into the chair and chuckled as she saw her breath mist in the air. Although the seat was chilly against her rear, even through the BDU's that she wore as part of the security team's uniform... navy BDU's with a web belt that contained her weapon, taser, latex gloves and handcuffs. She had worn the same general outfit for more than 13 years now and it felt as comfortable as her lovers arms.<br/><br/>She looked around the bare office, with it's wall displays with it's capabilities of viewing any of the numerous camera's scattered through the complex, schemetics and even, if she needed it, a tactical display of 50KM around the settlement. It was really the only thing that disrupted the walls... for now...<br/><br/>She warmed up the computer display and entered the security codes, changed them and set the upload that would contain the records of the population and the MMC (Mars Military Code) that would act as laws until the council established their own set... the MMC had been a think tank's idea of what the colony would need to maintain safety and order in the early days... overall, it was crap but Laura kept that to herself.<br/><br/>She had just finished the upload when she recieved the summons and keyed in, "On my way Boss."<br/><br/>She rose and making sure that the system was secure... she would have to make sure that her second and third watch man had access to most of it, but that was a "later" job. She left and climbed the stairs up to the 1st level; never pass up the chance for exercise in a gravity that would allow her to nearly jump from floor to floor!<br/><br/>She waved at the girl in the reactor control room as she passed and strolled up door. She knocked and waited for the invitation; she had spent too long in the military to even think of simply walking into a superior's office.<br/><br/>She heard the signal and slipped inside. She saw the suit... she got a creepy feeling from Stefan, so he was a suit... and nodded before coming to Attention, "Commander Hicks reporting Ma'am." She couldn't help but wink at Lou though.