It was quite a good thing that the YSS Genesis had its own internal gravity generation, because otherwise the g-forces from the sudden acceleration as it exited its hangar would likely have turned the crew into a lovely paste. For the engineering crew, they would notice a sudden increase in noise, heat, and vibrations, but, aside from that single faulty pipe (which had thankfully not ruptured during takeoff) everything was working marvelously. By the time Yoko and Amethyst arrived at their destination, they would find the pipe already taken out of use, as the thruster it fed was not currently needed, making their job that much easier.

For the rest of the crew whom had a nice view of what was going on outside, it was only mere moments from the departure to the arrival at the Genesis' designated testing ground. Already, it seemed to have passed its first test, as there didn't seem to be any leaks or major faults, the ship had not exploded, and all the crew on board were perfectly alive and well.

"Well, that seems to have gone smoothly" Rikou cheerfully pointed out, seeming to enjoy the feeling of being in command. "Helm, please proceed to tests eight through fifteen" the young Neko ordered, once again referring to Seth, whom, again, only nodded his confirmation that she was performing properly. Rikou quietly giggled at this accomplishment of her own, placing her hands together happily.
"Well, Masami, everything appears to be proceeding correctly. I think I can handle the bridge on my own, so, could you please make a round of the Ship and make sure that everything is going properly?"

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"Well," Sierra began looking at her datapad once more for confirmation, "it seems that our first task once the initial tests are done will involve acquiring something large from the asteroid belt nearby, and we will need a Power Armor team ready to attach it to the ship for transport, so, could I ask you to form a team of Armor pilots who are ready to do some EVA work?" The apparently busy Junior Executive hammered away at her datapad again for a moment before looking up at Shinon again. "Oh, right, I will brief you and your team fully once you've assembled them, I'd like to meet you all down in the hangar in about fifteen minutes, if that's okay?"

Mako watched the screen with raptured interest, her new home was now moving through the stars. Well at least heading for the stars. She looked up from to screen to see that most of the folks she was sitting with had moved on, so with a few smiles and good byes she headed off to her cabin to get a little nap in before anything important that she would be needed for came up.

Yoko's heavy breathing was, somehow, not overwhelmed by the myriad of sounds emanating from the ship's engines and untold subsystems. "Ha! Finally...finally got you...hea..." she panted, finally letting go of the heavy section of plasma conduit. The two women had pushed and pulled the thing through the maintenance tunnel to the noise of screeching metal and grinding gratings. And somehow, the plasma conduit was unscratched.

Thank the metamaterial-what'sits in the coating.

After spending a moment to catch her breath, the engineer wiped her brow before explaining the next steps. "Ok, we just gotta unseal the section of pipe by unscrewing the rings holding them togetha, then work the pipe clamp leavahs - watch youa toes though, yaknow?" she called out to the other engineer with her.

"It'll drop like a rock if youa not careful!"

"Roger that ma'am that won't be problem." Shinon replied and had to forced herself to not bow to Sierra. She was glad she will finally have some purpose. Not to mention she will get to test her team. Shinon turned away and walked to table where Mako sat. Mako already left though. Shinon sighed and took out her communicator. She opened line to Kin Nakamura.

"Nakamura-heisho. We got a little EVA mission to do." She called him. "Get whole Power Armour team in the hangar please. Ten minutes." This was going to be fun.

Blue-haired yamatain started running to catch Mako. "Tani-hei... ehh I mean Tani-san, hangar ten minutes. Suit up we got work to do!" She said to her subordinate.

Shinon made haste as she walked to her room to get into her work uniform, grab her NSP and get into the hangar. She wondered what will they pick up. It probably won't be that big if Impulse-clad PA team would be enough to get it.

Turning and almost toppling over Mako smiled "Yes Ma'am I'll be right there let me grab my pistol," Bowing quickly she raced to her room. digging through her stuff she grabbed her NSP and race down to the hanger to start donning her Armored Suit.

Once she finished getting it on she moved around the hanger bay to get used to it, it just wasn't the same as the Mindy's that she learned in. When the Ten minutes were up she stood to and waited for the rest of the PA team to show.

Kin immediately responded to Shinon's message with a lazy-sounding "Yes Ma'am", but despite the sound of the response, by the time Shinon had arrived in the PA bay to change into the Impulse assigned to her, Already most of the PA team had been assembled and were likewise donning Power armor. Kazako, Sinclair, and Nova-heis were all present, Kin was nearly fully suited, and Shiori entered just behind the Shoi. Mako's mad dash had made her early, but it was not long before the rest of the PA team had showed up next to the overeager Santo Hei, likewise waiting for further instructions.

When Shinon approached, Kin asked her "Ma'am, do you know anything about our mission aside from it being EVA work? Excuse me for saying, but I'm not sure why a Power Armor team is needed for testing a starship, aside from security reasons. Do you think there's already been some threat to the ship?"

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Aboard the Bridge, Rikou's console received a notification that a shuttle was approaching; it appeared to be a Star Army shuttle, rather than one of the Origin shuttles. Indeed, a moment later, another notification popped up, informing her it was a Kuma shuttle which had been assigned to the Genesis; the roster showed it to be carrying only a pilot, some medical supplies, and hygiene products for the crew- Mundane items that hadn't received a high enough priority to make it through sector Seven- These were all fine, except the Pilot- As the shuttle was assigned to the ship, that meant the pilot was a member of their crew.

"Masami, could you head down to the hangar to greet the Shuttle? And please fetch the head of Security. I think I would like to guide them in, if that is permissible." The second inquiry was directed at Seth, whom again simply nodded, confirming that she was in her rights to do so.

The young princess spoke to her console, sending an audio-visual hail to the shuttle's pilot.

Kuma Shuttle

Sitting in the cockpit was a silky white skinned NH-29 Neko named Lina Yusentia, the girl was glancing at her controls, watching her speed and ensuring that she wasn't approuching the ship that was ahead of her to fast.

She was surprised, the original intent was to wait for the ship to either get back to base or dock at the closest station, instead she was ordered to load up a shuttle with supplies and transport them to the Genesis.

Thus here she was, in space, near her next duty station with a shuttle full of juicy supplies and her mind pondering if there were any raiders or pirates - or worse - NMX nearby.

As she listened to the message, she checked the shuttles hold to ensure that the message she would send would be correct. Once she was sure of the cargo, she responded.



As the Neko waited for a response, her ears twitched slightly in anticipation for her new journey and hoping that this journey doesn't end like her previous one...

Amethyst whiped her forehead with her sleeve and simply nodded, grinned then set to work on the pipe.
Nudged up close to it so that she'd easily catch the weight with her full strength.

As the section came loose from it's thread and rings, Amethyst was still grinning and quiet, the noise did not bother her, nor being up close and cramped in a buncha tunnels.

"Just like a heart... so close you can feel it beating" she said quietly to herself after which the pipe slid out of the last bit of ring.
Quickly Amethyst pressed her shoulder underneath her end, supporting it with her two hands as well. "Gotcha!"

Shinon walked into hangar and saw that her team was already there suiting up. That was good, they were supposed to be there sooner then Shinon herself. Almost made her little proud. Proper SAoY soldiers. When Kin approached her, she gave him a nod of greetings, listening to his questions.

"All I know is, that it will be something large from asteroid bell, we will fly by and that we will be attaching it to ship most likely. Miss Merkur will be here in few minutes to brief us." Shinon explained what she know about this little mission to Kin. "Other than that it will be good practice for us. We need to get used to Impulse units and working together."

"As for why we are on the ship," she said, looking young man in his eyes. He was Heisho, that meant that he either knew people or had a lot of experience and earned his rank. Shinon is going to need someone like him. "As you know this prototypal ship, being launched for its test. It will most likely have some new technology. Also Origin has technology almost as advanced as we do, and this was joint-project. This ship has to extremely advanced. Now if I were NMX overlord and I would hear about this, I would want this shipt, but since this ship is flying in far from enemy lines, I would have to sneak in to get it. To do it I would have to either use one small ship that has chance of getting it, or using parasites and infiltrate Yamataian or Nepleslian vessel and that get us. If they know about this ship that is. We are all trained Yamataian soldiers and as this is Yamataian ship we will be guarding it with our lives. I do not know if there is already threat to this ship, but if there is one we need to be ready. Does that answer your question Nakamure-heisho?" She answered in lengthy way with smile.

Yoko grinned back at the engineer at her remark.

"Yea, but if it beats too hard oa fast, we go kaboom!" the head engineer replied. As her side of the clamps came undone, she did her best to catch the heavy, heavy object and slow it's fall, dropping it down onto the floor decks without denting or otherwise damaging anything. She then began shoving the expired plasma conduit away. "Same times, if it stops, wea goin nowhere and might choke in a few houas, yaknow? It's a balance kinda thing," She added, resetting the base of the clamps so that they would act as a kind of shelf they could lift up and place the new conduit on.

"Ok, on threes, we lift it, oh kay? One...two...THREE!"