<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/RAKIy5X.jpg)</div><br/>Ellie-7 facsimilated a sigh of disappointment as Kristina dressed herself and hid the sources of Ellie's fascination, but was quick with a response to her questions. Placing two fingers on her temple, the android began to communicate with the ship's computer. She had no physical need to do so, but it was just an idiosyncratic pose that Ellie had always done, as if to convey that she was on a commlink call. "Hmm. The ship appears to be in order, more or less. Judging by Ladar and magnetograph readings, it appears that the ship was only off point-three-four meters of your calculated arrival point, Kristina. I must say you even have me, impressed with your precision, human as it is... As for time dilation... yes. We were within hyperspace for six days, five hours, and twenty-two minutes," Ellie could continue to the nanosecond, but had learned that saying much more would be wasted on human reckoning, "Pinging the lane buoy, we have been outside of realspace for eight days, three hours, and four minutes. Acceptable deviation, given the amount of travel that this system receives."<br/><br/>That was another oddity of hyperspace... time and relativity get really weird the longer you remain inside and the farther you jump. Most ships, even those with multiple jump drives, only hop one or two lightdecs (light decade, ten light years) at a time. Jumping longer can really swing your time dilation, you might arrive minutes after you left realspace, or maybe twenty years will pass. If you jump -really- far... there were stories about ships that were preparing to embark on journeys and they would receive company communications from themselves that they had completed their tours. Nothing was ever confirmed, no one could name a specific ship or company this had happened to, and the story teller usually had a few too many Nova beers in them. Still, thinking about hyperspace and relativity would give a woman a migraine and a bloody nose from frying neurons.<br/><br/>Kristina's cryosickness was run of the mill... bone deep chills and deep feebleness that would fade as she flexed her hands and feet and pumped her muscles. Next out of cryo was the Captain, Joseph Gorba. He was a mix of German and Russian stock, as such, he was stocky and built like a truck. He always went into cryo naked, said it just didn't feel right to wear underwear or gympants. Even with how cold he appeared to be, Kristina was still treated to a fine specimen of the male counterpart. His legs seemed thicker than her waist, and his arms were easily as large as her thighs. He was a bit on the hirsute side, 'something the ladies could use to hold on with,' He would say. While his physicality was impressive, his demeanor and personality was left a bit wanting. The nature of spacefaring meant that the crew became a family in a way. The time dilation and cryosleep meant that you could be gone for a couple years on tour and twenty or more would pass at home. That was a bit on the extreme side, but it was a real possibility. Captain Joe was Kristina's ticket to becoming a pilot and actually getting a share of the ship, where the real money was, instead of just pulling salary as and ensign. But since he is the captain of the Twilight, and looking over her other crew members, it seems that Joe has created himself a harem. He had made numerous advances on Kristina in the early days, but he's since left her alone.<br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/msjPkpn.jpg)</div><br/>The reason Captain Joe left Kristina alone was the third sleeper, Song Jian, or Jane as she preferred. Jane was a petite woman, about the same age as Kristina. Her hair was always kind of frazzled as if she couldn't get the hair dryer to do what she wanted to do with her hair. She was a bit of an oddity, she was using her time on board the Twilight to study and become a doctor. She still had the same duties as any other ensign, she would perform routine maintenance and haul cargo back and forth with the rest of them. But on these long segments between jumping and arriving at a planetary destination there was a lot of spare time and she used it to read mountains of medical journals and listen to lectures while the ship was in real space. Kristina would often wonder when Jane would sleep in realspace seeing as how she and Joseph often shared a room during night hours with the rhythmic bumping of flesh or something on the bulkhead. It wasn't loud, and could be denied, but if you were quiet, the whisper tap tap tap was there with the rotary hum of the engine below deck.<br/><br/>The final crew to awaken was Irene Vaquero. Irene had a bit of a mouth on her, but being the FNG (fucking new guy/girl) had that effect on people. It was amplified moreso by her being a dark haired Latina with a chip on her shoulder. Despite that, she was a grease monkey through and through, but usually she was working on a forklift or something in the rec room. She was a cargo hauler first and foremost like the rest of them. They could all work various parts of the ship, but the engine, thrusters, and drives usually required direction from Ellie-7 before anyone would touch anything in there. Captain Joe and Irene would flirt, but nothing appears to have gone farther than that. Kristina was sure Jane made sure of that.<br/><br/>It was a slightly dysfunctional family, but nothing that required walking on egg shells. Mercifully, the CS Twilight tours tended to start and end at a Company Terminal more than not and if Kristina ever felt like hopping ship, she could... but she would be giving up her Share by doing so... Options were there for later if she needed them. For now though, she would need to-<br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/7xbzP9K.jpg)</div><br/>"When you got your legs under you, Kris, go check the telemetry upstairs. Make sure we are on course for Prospero." Joe's voice was still a little gravely from being so dry from cryo. "The rest of us will check the cargo hold and make sure nothing came undone during the jump. We'll eat later than usual for dinner time, since we woke up so late today."