Medicinal Exobiology
18 May 2022Kezika
Kezika sat in her ready room abord the Kirkbride, staring out at the star speckled sky somewhere between the core systems and Colonia. Her shipyard crews were working on transferring the specially modified frame shift drive from her Orca, Aristarchus into her Asp Explorer, Asura Gate.It had been ages since she had actually explored using Asura Gate, however it had been the ship that she used in her early days as a CMDR to race out to the Asura system as a challenge. Generally, she preferred her Orca, however this particular excursion called for a smaller landing profile. Some of the various lifeforms she sought grew only in very rough terrain parts of planets.
The excursion was part of a research project being undertaken by C.E.A. Psychiatric Institutions Ltd. to research into the possibility of sourcing medicinal compounds from extraterrestrial lifeforms. It was also partially Kezika’s own long-time curiosity to explore into the far northwestern edge of the Mily Way Galaxy, which was why they were flying out in that direction.
A voice interrupted her thoughts as it came over her ready room speaker, “We have transferred the frame shift drive and surface scanners as requested and ship is ready to depart at your convenience Patron.”
“Thank you, I shall be right down,” she replied, getting up from her chair.
Mag-boots weren’t particularly needed now due to the carrier parking itself angled so the massive gravity of the sun was below it at the correct distance to create 1G of downward force in the carrier.
Staff cleared the landing pad in the hangar as Kezika approached and made her way onto the ship. Once everyone was clear she had the ship raised and detached from the maglocks. Carefully she swung the ship back over near the concourse, lining up her cockpit with the window of the carrier’s crew bar & lounge where her staff waited to see her off.
With a quick salute Kezika spun the ship and boosted off, initiating the jump to the next system once out of range of the carrier’s mass lock.