8-217: Merchant Freighter Spanial – Cargo Hold

Prrri enters the Hold, still in vacuum, and begins undoing the restraining straps on the Hopper.

He says he fuelled it up during Green Shift so it is ready to go.

Lia can pick the Hopper up using the cargo crane, open the external doors and place the Hopper just outside the Spanial in open space.

Karmen has sent the Spanial’s current movement vector to Lia’s console, but it’s really an fyi, Spanial isn’t under thrust so it shouldn’t really affect Lia unless she has to do some real navigation.

She will need to seal her suit, enter the Hold through the inner airlock, and get up to the Hopper, now floating about 25m above the floor of the Hold past the open cargo doors.

The Hold is in zero gravity and vacuum.  Light is whatever Lia chooses – there are variable brightness white lights or red lights. 

As a reminder, the Hold is shaped like a cylinder, with flat ends as floor and ceiling when the ship is under thrust.  The doors are in the ceiling above her.  The dimensions are about 20m high and 10m in diameter.  The doors when open make an 8m square hole in the middle of the forward end.  

Her suit boots and gloves have Gecko stick on them that can stick to certain areas of the Hold.  The boots are on by default and the gloves off, but that is easy to control for someone with either Vacc Suit or Free Fall skill.

Prrri is inside the Hold, standing next to Kort’s container, his boots gripping the Hold floor.

I note Lia has Vacc Suit, but doesn’t have Free Fall, so I assume she’s not used to working in Zero-G.

How would she like to proceed?