[center][h1][color=Firebrick]Q-T Brackman[/color][/h1][/center]

Q-T was glad to see she was not the only person who was a mess, with Dr Zoe being as dirty as you’d expect a botanist to be on a hard day, or maybe even a good day because Q-T thought that you probably had to like getting dirty to be one, while Acting Chief Engineer King looked like she’d been working in a volcano from all the soot on her uniform, but she did still feel bad about dropping the odd drip of coolant on her the captain’s floor.

[color=Firebrick]”Yes captain, sorry captain”[/color] she replied/apologied to the orders to get a shower, before finding somewhere to stand and waiting while ACE King gave her report, the Ai splitting her focus between listening and compiling her own report from the details Riley had put together while Q-T had been busy swimming in coolant.

From what she heard while skimming through files, things were pretty bad, but it was nice to know that they weren't going to explode, and that she didn't have to worry about the ship, and therefore her, running out of power. It didn't look like they were going to be getting off the ground any time soon if ever at first until the captain pulled something out of the archives that might let them haul themselves back into space. She was briefly skimming this Chang program when the conversation shifted to her next.

[color=Firebrick]”Ah, let me see here”[/color] she said, bringing up Riley’s report again, and displaying a little icon on the side of her monitor that looked like turning pages that indicated what that brief silence was being used for, her kind had learned from experience that blankly staring while doing internal stuff others would need devices for could be very disconcerting for humans, before beginning her own report.

[color=Firebrick]”So. Crew first. We had one injury in the crash, and Jame’s isn't doing to bad according to the latest check in we did with him, so people wise were near fully operational. Equipment is where things get a bit worse. As you know, the more fragile transports got pretty banged up, but our more specialist and, ah, rugged equipment has fared better. The garage and EVA crews that haven't been pulled to ship duty are slowly going through repairs but numbers wise we/they have personnel number suited more for for ongoing maintenance, not retooling half the inventory, so it’ll be a while till all of the softer equipment is up and running”[/color] She explained, giving a rundown of the state of the EVA crews, their status and their gear’s status, before addressing the FTL drive and aborted expedition situation.

[color=Firebrick]”For the drive, EVA teams are at your disposal acting chief King, especially for anything like that coolant leak. I’m not really familiar with FTL drives, but if there's anything like radiation leaks or other artificial hostile environments being generated by the damage, we’ve got the kit to endure that. Otherwise, if you just need more hands then we’ve got those to spare,”[/color] she spread her four hands out as a little joke to go with that last, before hesitantly making a suggestion regarding the outside world.

[color=Firebrick]”Also if I could make a suggestion? While the drop-ships may be out, there’s some gear on hand that can do some of the scouting you wanted without distracting the engineers from the FLT work… or even taking EVA people away from helping out now that I think about it. We could put out some high altitude surveying equipment,”[/color] basically fancy weather balloons when you came down to it, [color=Firebrick]”to give us a basic idea of the world we’re on, and maybe, depending on the atmosphere,  get us some star maps that could let us work out where it is. We could also send out some pu-”[/color] she caught herself half way through using some slang and coarse corrected to call them [color=Firebrick]”- terrestrial scout drones to check out the area around us, give the security team info about what kind of alien life they might need to ward off. Plus get some seismic readings, bacterial samples and other data we can use to make sure we’re not going to have anything unseen ruin our days while we’re working.”[/color] 

[color=Firebrick]”Both would eliminate some unknowns and give us some peace of mind about what’s out there, which I think would be both useful and, ah, also good for moral?”[/color] she certainly wanted to know about where they were, and she expected a niggling curiosity/concern about the world beyond the ship’s walls was something everyone was dealing with, so it would likely be nice for them all to have some peace of mind regarding that big question mark.