6-025: Merchant Freighter Spanial

So, feeling somewhat at a loss perhaps, Lia goes for a wander.

She walks around the habitat ring to the door opposite the Control Room, opens it to reveal a corridor with a ladder well off to the left and further down, an elevator on the right.  Both lead upwards to Engineering and the Cargo Hold above her head.

She calls the elevator and it arrives smartly.  She enters and it takes her up to the engineering space, a narrow, cramped, multi-layered area full of machinery, a compact workshop area and parts storage lockers.  Passengers can depart the elevator onto one of three platforms in this area.  Gregar, the Chier Engineer is a slim, reserved, and slightly socially awkward man.  He and his assistant, Prrri, a male of the Felline, have their heads together over some piece of equipment.  Lia senses an interruption, no matter how well-intentioned, would not be welcome, and leaves them be.

She rides the elevator further up to the cargo hold, where it stops.  She cannot continue into that space without a Vacc Suit, although the elevator ends in an internal airlock designed for access.  The space is lit with only dim, red running lights.  She activates the whites and peers through the airlock observation window at the containers filling the cavernous cylindrical space.  The large cargo bay doors opposite her view port are closed, as they should be in space.

She turns off the whites inside the bay and descends again in the elevator, returning to the Habitat Deck.

She exits the elevator, turning to the right, going through the end door – the telltales and the fact that it opens indicating the Hangar is currently pressurised.  

Inside, the sleek, streamlined shape of the shuttle rises above her, its wings tucked back for carriage aboard the ship.  Its aerodynamic shape in contrast to the frumpy cylinder-with-a-box-on-the-side that is the Spanial.

The door to the shuttle stands open.  As he is not visible in the Hangar’s work area, it is likely the Kwint is inside.