Aboard the Khonsu

[Big Bison Bessie]

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Commander Hebel raised an eyebrow at the exchange. After wordlessly exchanging glances with the marine towards the back of the room he turned back towards Civil Servant and their Doctor. "Very well. You may keep your equipment. Perhaps you can humor me and keep your weapons unloaded while aboard then." He gestured towards the far side of the room with the dark red blast door. "I imagine you'd like to get to work straight away then. We can save the pleasantries for after you see the ship's systems. Forbes, you can fill them in." The commander lead the way through the heavy doors and out of the docking lounge. The corridor started narrow, but after the next set of doors opened up wide to account for a nearby cargo bay. Through the transparent metal viewports on the wide doors, crew were actively moving and taking aboard several crates of supplies they'd procured recently. Their work was quickly and quietly left as Hebel led the visitors deeper into the ship, through a variety of pressure doors and down through hallways which had that clean and unscuffed look of a ship fresh off the line. Though it was not an uncommon sight to pass a technician working on an open access panel or halfway up in the ceiling working on unseen systems, parts and tools often stacked neatly nearby. "I hope you excuse the mess." Forbes smiled somewhat sheepishly. "We've just about barely got her put together. Almost all of the work on the interior and laboratories was done outside of drydock." She gestured around her. "The uh, there were some sections that were lacking paneling for some time. Though this is uh, sorry, small talk." She cleared her throat and took another long sip of coffee. "We've got virtually all primary and non-essential systems online and fully operational. The sensors array was one of the outliers, as you already know. However we've encountered some issues with our jump drive." The party was led through another series of blast and pressure doors, and once they passed through the security checkpoint there, entered a section of the interior that lacked the vague ergonomic pleasantries of the previous corridors. The engineering section was dedicated entirely to the machinery therein, and the safety of those crew working on it, all aesthetics were out the window for pure function. Jordan Forbes took the lead, and began walking backwards as she led the group herself. "We're using a modified K-4 series Kishiro drive. We've had to make some significant modifications to the magnetic interlocks and power conduits to help make it more compatible with Liberty style power-plant set ups. Frankly, that will make future maintenance on our power infrastructure much more tolerable down the line, despite the headache of setting it up. But, we've run into an issue with one of the paragravitic toroids where it was inadvertently damaged in equipment malfunctions. Which is uh, somewhat embarrassing, I admit."

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