Loretta sat at the console, scrolling through the people that there was in storage. Occasionally she'd pause at a face and look at how calm and peaceful they looked. They could truly be asleep, if she swiped her hand on the right hand side of the screen the persons whole identity came up before her. At least the parts she was allowed to know, from birth date to any medical conditions they may have had before they were frozen. At the bottom of the screen their current core temperature and status appeared, not that she really needed to check it. The moment someones vitals changed she got an alert directly too her and her team. The rest of her time revolved around simple maintenance, the sole reason she had spent time learning the skills needed to be a medical doctor. She wasn't a surgeon by any regards but she could broken bones, cuts, head injuries and illnesses. Hopefully they wouldn't experience many other problems on their voyage into the depths of space, ironically unlike a large percentage of the crew she was somewhat looking forward to the actual take off.

Yes the moment the ship left the ground humanities destruction was all but confirmed, but she missed being in space. Ever since the Three Day War she had spent far too much time on a planets surface. Though with the fact that her home was destroyed, it wasn't that surprising that she had spent so long on a planet. The Ark itself was her home now, there were no doubts about that. She had spent more time than nayone down in the cryogenic vault preparing it, improving it and eventually packing people away into storage. She had seen more crying mothers, fathers, daughters and sons than she ever cared to see again. It still tore her heart that [i]her[/i] family were up there, in the fleet 'defending' Mars. She could hardly blame them, they were always stubborn. It's where she got it from, they were born in space and they'd die in space. They weren't ones to shy away from a fight when work needed to be done.

[i]Why did they need to be so...[/i] She controlled herself, having herself feel this way wasn't going to help anyone. She had a job to do and she was going to do it. As the PA came on she listened to the Admirals speech and just nodded, if she had the weight of the well... Ark on her shoulders he had it worse. She had to look after all the 500,000 souls in cryo-stasis yes. Though he had to look after all of them, and all those that were awake.

She did not envy him.