Sat May 07, 2011 8:10 am by Atuna Lemep
*It wasn't more than a few seconds before Atuna returned with a bundle of items under his arm, walking right past Aidan on his way to the ship. The fully customized Flying Fish was Atuna's pride and joy, the fastest corvette in his fleet. It served as his home away from home, and he was almost never home. The ship contained enough hospital equipment to register it as a medical ship, yet boasted the perfect arsenal to stay undocumented as a combat-ready ship. That is, to say, it had only a enough visible weapons (keyword visible) to avoid unnecessary classification as a warship.*
*The boarding ramp to the Flying Fish opened and Atuna nearly tripped running inside. Aidan, ever the curious one, followed briskly after him. Inside, when the sound of his footsteps had died away, the young commando could hear the various beeps and hums of the ship's medical equipment. One particular machine, the one Atuna was trying to operate, was a large bacta tank with several large tubes jutting from the top. Aidan had never seen the machine before.*
"What is that, sir?"
"You know the answer to that question, Aidan. Now stand guard, and make sure I'm not disturbed."
"Yes sir." *Aidan spun on his heel and stood at attention at the top of the loading ramp. Behind him, Atuan began rattling off a list of elements.*
"Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Chlorine, Sodium, Magnesium, Iron, Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Iodine, Selenium, Fluorine...." *With each one, a characteristic hiss or woosh sounded from inside the machine. For what felt like hours, but was in reality a few minutes, this process continued unabated, until finally Atuna and the machine went silent. Aidan turned around to see a man, the body of whom he'd never seen before, floating in the tank.*
"Finally. Now, we just wait. Quietly."
"Sir, who's body is that?"
"It will be Jack Mapio's, here in a few minutes.