Snippet #2816004

The second Oberon, the one not at the helm of the ship, asks the one known as Paul if he should awaken the rest of the crew, and is met with a nod. He pushes himself out of the cockpit of the ship and down a corridor and through a door marked CRYOCHAMBERS, which held the remainder of the crew, four Oberon of which two were male and two were female. In each of the cylindrical metal and glass chambers lies the Oberon crewmembers, in an induced sleep, similar to that of the hibernation of an animal. Projected onto their foreheads were three green circles, representing to the live crewmembers that their lung, heart, and brain functions were all normal. The Oberon known as Will Kengor flicks his eyes to assure that each of the crew's vitals are functioning, and then his eyes stop on that of the third pod, containing a male known as Henry. His vitals are green, except for the circle in the center, representing brain function, which is yellow. Unfortunately, this means he has become unstable, and must be left in cryosleep for another 12 hours, with adjusted settings to slowly take him out of Cryosleep. The only problem is that he's their language specialist and had been studying the intercepted signals originating from I-01.7 , and also was their emergency ambassador in case they were noticed by the beings from I-01.7. So Will uses a tablet synched with the ships functions to adjust Henry's Cryopod to a slow awakening, and then uses it to open the other Cryopods containing the rest of the crew. They should be awake in 20 minutes. Will sits with his legs wrapped around some railing to the side of the room, and waits. At the helm of the ship, Paul puts on his red uniform, usually worn on departure or out-of-ship, but he feels that if they meet another species today, he should be dressed in the way the Colonial Union had priveleged him with. He interfaces with his BrainPal, a computer-like interface that interacts with his own brain, and asks 'Scott' as he had named it, what the time of arrival into orbit around I-01.7 would be. About an hour and thirteen minutes at the current speed, was the response. So he just watches the planet increasing very slowly in his field of vision, and can't help but admire it.