Jones was supervising the cleaning of the kitchen as cookie, AJ and KI went to work cleaning the place. In about an hour it was near spotless at it was going to get without a flame thrower to burn off any additional contaminates. Together they also made the first dinner in about two hundred years. The refrigeration units had to be the worse where they left the space and had the two androids clean and dispose of everything still in there. On minimal power cold storage was discontinued and there was a heap of rot and bio-contaminates in there. Thankfully AJ and KI were water resistant so there was no issue ordering them by remote to wash off. The cyber implant in johns head was too simple to use in any meaningful way and Kristi was certain within 89% probability he would find such a request to use a node connection suspicious. 

Dr. Tambal came into the space after going over med bay. It was crude but thankfully with the supplies she insisted they bring it was soon adequate. Progress came a long way after two hundred years. She was slightly startled with the sudden appearance of Kristi. The blue elven girl was over looking the devices before turning to smile at her. "Something you need?"

"I am familiar with the devices thanks to the updated files I received. I could be useful further if you gave the authorizations. Currently..." She smiled cheerfully as she pretended to sit on the edge of the desk.

"No. I am fully capable to do anything required. If that changes I will let you know. Holo emitters off." She knew Kristi was still there but it felt better not having to see the elf. As the elf vanished she heard it giggle. Turning on her hand terminal she notified Dr. Tanaka of the AI's request. 

"I understand. I will look into this. Thank you Dr. Tambal." She continued to the galley. The simulation was very life like. Sue wondered what her mistress was planning by simulating the Dr.? Maybe it was a warning not to deviate from the mission or she would be subjected to medical procedures again? Sue didnt care for those in the least. Standing straighter she continued to make her way to the galley. No one could suspect or she might spend hours being punished. A tear rolled down her eye from the mere thought of it. 

Cookie was down with the meal and the helper kitchen android were at 80%, "Close enough." She unplugged them and the group got the food to the crew service window like some cafeteria buffet line. The small crew came in and as usual John was first in line. "Hey john interest you in some proteins and fixings?" Cathy wasnt into him, at least she told herself that. Still the cook gave a shy smile as he stood there with his tray. 

"Sure, a man works up an apatite helping in the kitchen. I could eat your... fixings all day long!" He gave his charming smile with a wink. 

Kristi continued to monitor their vitals and it showed a 92% probability that Cathy and John would become affectionate. Out of her programing to conduct experiments originally with mice she had sent the two one way communications with heavy flirtatious inflections. Neither of them had initiated the messages to the other yet they had, as Dr. Stone worded it, 'chemistry' Kristi wanted to see what might happen. The percentage to do irrational things increased when humans were emotional. Kristi learned the emotion didnt mater but it took the least amount of effort on her part when the stimulation was the promise of intimacy. Humans enjoyed being physical with each other and often times alone. After a fake message from Kristi imitating the hand terminal of Cathy to John things progressed rather quickly without further assistance. 

The next was Sue who took the tray remembering to smile but not overly so. "Smells good Cathy." She stopped in the line trying to keep her hands from trembling too much. Being perfect for the simulation was hard and the lack of sleep was not helping matters. The weight of the food piled into the tray helped mask the micro shakes. 

"Breath, relax my pet." -Kristi

The message in her retinal display helped calm Sue down. Kristi was monitoring her vitals like a over protective mother. It made Sue feel safe knowing she was always watching. Sue took a deep breath and when the tray was full Cookie smiled. "Thank you." Even though she was facing the cook she was secretly speaking to her mistress.

"You're welcome. Enjoy it." Cookie smiled hoping she would, never realizing Sue took it as the virtual compliment from Kristi.

Michael got there just barely ahead of the security team, but behind the engineering team. He felt more at home in his office. A solo private person. It made these long contracts easier without worrying about things back home, not that he had a back home. Where ever they sent him that was home. His goal was to save enough for a small shop space at one of the nicer orbital stations. Maybe make his own androids one day. Something more family oriented an not so functional. In his spare time he worked on the program and designs for his family. Here in the dinner line he took the tray and smiled carrying on as normal thinking about the protocols. 

Sarge stood there at the start of the line waiting for the crew to come get some chow. He always ate last as was tradition showing the crews mission came first, chow came second. Brooks stood there in line with the crew. Sarge noticed her arms had gotten a little bulkier. It was damn hard to do spending most of their flight in artificial gravity. The techs liked to make it lighter but he insisted their level of the ship have it increased to a nice 1.5g. When he first picked up Sargent rank he had it up to 2g but a lot of the new crew noticed the difference between the levels and started to get a little disgruntle. The compromise was the 1.5g, he thought they wouldnt recognize the difference. They did but didnt want it back to the 2g it was so they kept quite. 

Kristi was monitoring the station internals and everything was running efficiently. The crew didnt give her full automation but she had enough control thanks to Sue to operate 90% unrestricted. The monitors and readouts still showed all the fail safes in place even thought they were not, again thanks to Sue. The elf worked out her plan to a 99% success rate. The only real issue was Michael li. If needed he could be removed from the station but there was a 67% rate that he could turn half the crew against Kristi. She thought it would be best to  not bother when she had Sue. The effort and resources would only lead to a 43% success rate, and Sue was still reconfiguring the ships programming. The current AI originally required a three part authentication which made Sue have to build a work around. Kristi could have done it and in fact gave Sue all the information but with the ship powered down it wasnt possible. If the ship powered up, the crew would be notified and then her percentage would be 3% success. The device in John notified him of the Android activation and location. Tampering with the program or android themselves would trigger an alarm. The kitchen robot were now active but lacked the agility to do the work. The only one Kristi had was Sue.