Re: Arkadia/Vilis (0407 - E446845-6) Date: 230-1107 11:50
The paperwork is all in order, so far as Tylen can see. The quantities and descriptions of the goods to be collected match the markings on the containers. He drops the ramp, with its characteristic screech, and signals for the cargo handlers to move in and start work, shifting the containers, using the trolleys and raw muscle power.
Slowly, so slowly, the containers start to roll out of the hold.
The driver grins at Tylen, "Shouldn't be too long, I think. An hour. Seventy-five minutes, tops." He steals a glance at Yas. "Who's that then?"
In her quarters, making sure that everything loose is safely secured or stowed away, Shui hears the squeal of the ramp, and knows that the last obstacle to their mission is now being taken care of.
Saskia moves around Engineering, resisting the urge to make last minute tweaks and adjustments. The ramp is heard only dimly here, but it's a sound she knows well, and has never been able to stop.
Strings of course data and vector calculations flow across Conrad's panel. With a natural eye for the details, he bounces the best choices over to Jago's console, only to update them moments later, to allow for orbital motion of Arkadia, and the two giants.
Jago studies the courses, overlays them, and picks out the ones that he likes best. Some look a little odd at first, until he notes that perhaps a slight, unexpected deviation here saves a couple of hours there, or means that their approach to one of the giants will put them in the shadow of a moon. Conrad, it seems, knows what he's doing.