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Letting out a resigned sigh, she found a clean edge and set down her coffee cup on it. First things first, she just needed space. Lab 2 wasn’t much better, but if she could at least get some room to get things laid out, anything had to be better then where they were today. Pushing up her sleeves, Heather grabbed the first case and started carrying it across the hall. 1 down, only probably another 100 to go.

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

The Sojourner was currently quite empty overall across the ship. In total there was probably only about 9 of the expected 55 or so crew aboard, this including Grace. The ship was still mostly in low power mode but according to logs was fully serviceable and ready to roll. Once Grace had gotten some of the tables clear and packing foam and crates cleaned up the lab took more shape. All of the consoles were on standby of course small blinking lights here and there indicating the power switch or ‘resume’ switch.

It was as Grace would be pausing for a second in their work when suddenly the localized lighting flicked out casting her into almost total darkness........

GM CockRoach

When the lights went out, Naomi froze in place. Her eyes blinked and saw nothing. Immediately, her hand dipped down to her waist and her dangling trinkets jingled. Among them was the long handle of a torch. Her thumb pressed the button, the end illuminating the darkness into a familiar sight. A breath of relief pulsed through her lips.

She thanked a fellow officer for suggesting she keep one hooked to her belt.

It swayed from side to side, monitoring her surroundings. With a cautious step, she began to continue down the stretching hallway. It seemed like the outage was centered in the labs and anyone within risked being trapped unless they had a light source.

“H-hello?” Her tongue stumbled over her words, echoing off the walls and down the corridor.

The hairs on her neck rose as fear surged underneath her skin. Naomi paused and took a deep breath, forcing away the sensations.

“This is not a horror film. Stop being a baby.” Naomi chided herself.

-ENS Naomi D. Locke, Sci

So far no one replied to her call, just the muted creak/groaning of the ship settling was heard in the silence beyond the life support system’s running. Then there was another muted distant spark from somewhere down the corridor where the lights were still on in another section.........then they too winked out, looking up and down the corridor line for the deck both fore and aft resulted in the same darkness welcoming here....

This went on for another 5 minutes in full, before a flicker from all the lighting heralded the lights return! Over a ship wide comm alert, a nervous toned male voice spoke, =/\= Uh sorry errr everyone. NC Binny here, I um....I may have you know accidently nudged a main line power cable wrong, looks like I blew out some lighting near the science labs on D deck....err well then while I was trying to fix that I tripped over another wire here in the maintenance area and well that then blew out the rest of D deck! So uh yeah if any of you others aboard here with me stubbed your toe or something I’m so sorry but everything is fixed now yep! This is uh totally not a sign of us having a space alien coming to find us and kill us and implant eggs in our chest nope nope! =/\= The rambling and nervous NC said.

Finally in the background another voice spoke picked up by the comm unit, =/\= God dangit Binny! Stop your stupid rambling and get that panel back in place! Word came up the new Captain is coming aboard probably soon this evening, you want them to see their new shiny ship in the dark after just being cleared for shipping out!? God! =/\= Said an annoyed woman’s voice.

=/\= S…sorry NLt Hash! =/\= Said Binny then the ship wide call ended.

GM CockRoach