Eucharis was finally repaired. Those who had volunteered were aboard, and those that had not were left on the station. Taisa Hanako sat in the captain's seat, a pensive look on her face as her golden eyes ran over the latest information from SAINT on the control panel in front of her. The images were redundant; she could see everything in her mind. Sometimes Hanako felt she the line between herself and the ship was becoming blurred.

With a brief mental command, Eucharis went to light speed, traveling via stealthier subspace methods rather than the faster but obvious hyperspace. The red-and-gray gunship was now in its own little reality bubble, moving towards its target: a seemingly ideal place to catch an NMX squadron.

Her hand went to her phone and she dialed the main intercom. "All hands, please ensure you and the ship are prepped for starship combat when the time comes. I encourage everyone to make backups as well."

Sune was manning the Science/Sensors Station on the bridge. At present he was reviewing the data on HX-13, while the station performed a self-diagnostic test of the various sensor systems. Despite the fact that the system had been charted by Hanako back in YE 30, there was not a lot of information available.

He looked up briefly when the Taisa made her ship wide announcement. The only thing sketchier so far on this mission was the details provided by SAINT.

Other than the fact that the Freedom was lost we have no real information. We can presume that the ship went down on the habitable world only because its the only place for them to survive this long. But what of the NMX, if they have a presence in the system, then how do we locate and communicate with any survivors or prisoners. he thought.

Turning towards the center console, "Ketsurui-Taisa, Sensor and Countermeasure systems are operating within normal parameters." he said as he got up and walked over to Hanako.

Softly he said as he leaned close enough so that he could speak softly, "Is everything okay Taisa?"

After the brief recent interlude of calm, Konoka knew quite well it was time once again to prepare for the next inevitably following struggle. As such, she was in the MedBay, checking over her kit, when Hanako's announcement came over the intercom.


Sighing, a brief smile of serenity played across her lips. "In the end, it wouldn't feel right were I not always assisting or cajoling somebody into this kind of preparation. Backups, it is, then."

Bright green, vivacious eyes flickered towards the doors of her workspace. In a moment, she'd be assisting somebody....which was all she'd ever felt the need to do, really. Assisting was a part of her, always would be. However, "assisting" wasn't always the same-it wasa vague concept, after all. But then, so was Life. And as a medic, life was what fell into her small yet capable hands. She was glad she'd volunteered for this-asissting others would fix any lingering doubt she had in her optimism. Optimism, after all, was necessary these days.

She wasn't dead anymore, after all. To that end, she'd made the choice to handle her own first, this time. She'd argued about ythis with Sune, once, actually. At the time, she said crew were always offered assitance before meics themselves. It was importance of crew well-being, of course.

But since last mission, Konoka had had more oppotunity to be lost in thought than lately, and she'd realized something. if she didn't keep herself here, and present, and less of a spazz, who the fish would take her place in assisting crew well-being?

She sat up, determination in this filling her...with what, she wouldn't pay attention to now. It didn't matter...hope. maybe?? But soon her station would be full of needy crew.

"Hopefully." she sighed. "Hopefully, this daredevil crew will make sure they make time to assist themselves!!"

Unlike the people on the Yss Freedom, her crew wouldn't get lost. They would need the "freedom" to carry on, after all.

Takeyus hands moved across the console as he doubled checked the reactor; he didn't want to risk anything going wrong on this mission. Everything appeared fine to him, power flow seemed stable, and that the reactor was running smoothly.

Though he glanced up at the ceiling; having heard the Taisa's announcement, he had already gotten his backup earlier, more so out of concern about the family matter he had and the risk of possibly losing all that he had already discovered.

Looking back down at his console; he went back to monitoring the ships power systems.

Kumiko was still down in the Engineering bay, working at one of the consoles there, making sure all of the repairs and updates to systems hadn't produced any oddities in the systems. She planned to go and get her back-up done shortly before they would make the entry back into the system where the Freedom had gone down. With the reduced crew, everyone needed to be sure that their stations were running as they should, especially engineering.. "Bridge, this is Engineering. Everything looks fine from down here, we're good to go."

Junko looked around the Mainspace and smiled widely. The sight of two fellow engineers at work with her and the knowledge of a third engineering officer being aboard just about made her dance an impromptu jig of excitement at having such a large complement. She supposed she ought to have noticed the situation before, but the stress and distractions of combat or damage control had always seemed to cause her to overlook that.

She moved over to her station, pulling up repeaters of the displays her colleagues were monitoring. It wasn't that she didn't trust them, but any good engineer wanted a second pair of eyes watching her back. Nodding in agreement with Kumiko's transmission, she turned toward Takeyu. “Since we have a little time, why don't we run a power systems stress-test. I'm a little worried, given the speed of the repairs, and the capacitors seem to be a perennial failure point. With any luck we can have any problems nipped in the bud or at least off-line before entering combat.

Nika had stationed herself at the usual Starship Operations Station. Though Hanako had taken the helm to send the ship into hyperspace, the Jôtô Hei had been keeping herself busy checking the interfaces of Eucharis' offensive and defensive capabilities.

"Weapons and Shields operationally ready Taisa." Nika nodded as she opened up the power system status, "Power distribution stable as well." She mentally thanked Charisma for the details and turned to the Taisa, noting that Sune was there.

"Taisa, with your permission, I'll head to the med bay for a backup." Nika sent a mental request to Hanako, hoping that she had not intrupted anything.

Takeyu glanced over his shoulder upon hearing Junko's concern. "Roger that Heisho," he said and started bringing up status displays on the ships capacitors and also on the Aether Geneator. "Ready here Heisho," he said.

“All right then,” replied Junko. “Bring the transfer rate up, but don't redline anything yet. Keep an eye on the primary capacitors and I'll watch secondary. If anything spikes, flag it and kill the test.” Waiting for Takeyu to start up the procedure, she reconfigured her screens to display a full schematic view of all secondary capacitor systems. She very much hoped that between her piecemeal work on the system over the past months and the recent yard work the last of the outdated capacitor and coupling blocks had been removed. The last thing she wanted was to have to go back up into Power Systems to perform damage control, cutting out another slagged unit.

"Roger that, starting stress test," he said and made one final check on his monitors. "Increasing transfer rate," he typed in the required command and focused on the primary capacitor. Though he also briefly checked the generator before turning his attention back onto the main capacitors.

"Primary Capacitor appears fine, will increase transfer rate at your command," he said and kept his eyes on the capacitor.