Cargo Bay
Chieko made her way over to the ramp, uniform straightened up, hat on head, and took up position to Hanako's left. "Shosho," she acknowledged, before pulling out her science scanner and taking trace element readings. The young scientist was eager to explore, but she wanted to do this properly, and make the Empire look as least terrible as possible.
The purple fluid was tempting to check however, and the way that the black ooze made itself over into something reasonably solid - the academic, impatiently in her mind, tagged them all as things to want samples of. Chieko's hard earned patience was being tested with the sights outside the ship; but wait properly she did, if only just to keep from looking bad in front of the captain.
The resident who came to greet them, on the other hand, made her eyes grow wide and jaw drop to the deck. The strangeness was something to behold for her, and in itself, a reason to be there. Chieko, however, did not move, as her dropped jaw slowly morphed into a smile of sheer excitement.