[h2]Captain John Lockman[/h2]

[quote=@InfamousGuy101]
“If the shuttle gets clipped, you’ll want someone aboard who can slap a quick fix on it before we’re stranded planetside. And if they blow us out of the sky…” he shrugged, flat and jaded, “then at least I can say I died helping instead of sitting up here watching the food stores drop.”
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"You ain't touching my bird." The pilot was rather vehement in his statement. His tone broking no argument.


[quote=@PrinceAlexus]
“Do we have a drone… or something? Not filled with us?” Ren asked, hoping for the yes and expecting a no. Due to everything automated and other systems got looked at pretty carefully if they became too smart or quiet, she thought. Useful. 
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"I didn't see any drones in the aviation section... and I tore that place apart." John's foray into fixing his bird had involved him shifting over the aviation section in detail before he had eventually deduced his parts weren't among them. But he didn't recall seeing any drones. 

Which meant that his ship was the sole way up and down from the mysteriously comm silent world in front of him. 

Which meant [i]he[/i] was responsible for their safety to and from the ship. 

Joy...

He couldn't see a way out of this short of straight up desertion. He would have to figure out something on the fly then. 

"Guess I'll go pre-flight the bird then." He locked the console to his biometrics and made to stand. Stretching as he extracted himself from the crash webbing.