Landing party duty really changed since Jason first traveled the stars. In the old days you had to pack everything you thought you were going to need. A huge backpack, not to mention the assortment of straps and pouches called webgear was necessary to hold all of your equipment, particularly if you expected to go a long way from the shuttle or were heading in to enemy territory. Nowadays, landing parties tended to pack light now that the transporter had been perfected. At the beginning of this century away teams usually went with the old ‘phaser-tricorder-communicator’ gear but with combadges part of a standard uniform it was now usually just ‘phaser and tricorder’. If you needed something, all you had to do was contact the ship and they would beam it down to your location.

Of course, this wasn’t entirely standard. The away team could get cut off from the ship at any time meaning that they would have to actually put some thought into what they were going to take with them. Next to the transporter room was a weapons and equipment locker for gear that most landing parties would need.

“Grab your gear,” Jason said unnecessarily as he entered the W&E locker. The XO aboard the Archer must have said that a million times and it was now permanently ingrained into his psyche.

OOC: Although I don’t predict anything more that the “phaser and tricorder” combo to be needed (with the exception of a toolkit or medkit for Gould and Royce) if any one want to get clever when it comes to equipment choices, now’s your chance.

Jason Harn, XO