[h2]Captain John Lockman[/h2]

John had been at his station when the ship exited from it's jump. Practice at least making him somewhat competent in how the ship maneuvered. The manual at least helping him where he stumbled. So for the initial approach he was to busy focusing on his particular portion before he joined the conversation.  
[quote=@InfamousGuy101]

“We should say refugee vessel next time or humanitarian contact. Something that doesn’t sound like we’re here to plant a flag and start measuring their farmland.”
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John gave a snort at the engineer's advice. 

"Because nothing says trustworthy like fleeing desperate people with only a ship to their name." The piloted commented as je nudged the vessel into an orbital plane.

[quote=@Dyelli Beybi]
"This seems weird to me.  Our transmitter and receiver are not broken so the failure to communicate is on their end," she pursed her l, "I'm in favour of going down anyway and seeing if we can talk in person.  If they shoot at the shuttle we'll know they aren't friendly."

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John turned around in apparent horror. His shuttle was a next generation assault shuttle. Which meant hits job was to be shot at. On the flip side however he had spent most of this journey repairing it. An endeavor he did not want to repeat given he was already maintaining the thing. 

"I just fixed the Kestrel. You can't just send it down to be shot up!!!" He protested to Velia.