Mission 1: Past Echoes

With the spacecraft now in autopilot, the 3 staff go about the ship acting busy with examining that the ship is running properly. If the others wish to explore, there are a few rooms to be found.

There is the Cockpit, where a seat is for the main pilot to sit at, two seats for the sub-pilots to compute additional ship functions, and four seats for additional crew to observe the outside.
There is the Main Body, where there is an entrance that is built with connectors to allow docking between ships. This connects to the Cockpit, and all the others rooms. This chamber has additional storage compartments for tools and other miscellaneous equipment.
Sleeping Room has Cryo-pods that can be optionally used. The ship has limited cryo-sleep usages, and so its best used when everybody is ready.
There is the Accelerator Engine House, where only Bob and Thompson has the access keys to.
There is a Meal Room, where a large cabinet stores enough food for about 2 months of travel. A small table and 2 chairs are also there.

Matsuki looks over the controls. While there is an assortment of buttons of which function isn't exactly clear, she is able to tell at most how to steer the spacecraft, and the way to power on or off sections of the ship and its doors.

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Zakk checks out the cryo-pods. There is an instruction manual on operating one in a cabinet along with a number of blue coloured canisters with chemical hazard warnings. Apparently, the Pods are ergonomically cushioned, and there are straps to tie the body down. A number of buttons line the outside of each Pod, clearly for keying in its activation and setting the duration time for cryo-sleep.

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The 3 onboard staff crew answers Jerome about their experience. They had been working for about 10 or 20 years now, on and off of space crafts. Indeed, their first experience of being launched to space was thrilling, but now it has become like having to fly on a plane, except a much more expensive one.

Jake says he had flown 5 different ships before. It was mostly resource transportation to the different growing colonies. He had also transported passengers too, but they were clearly engineers and scientists, instead of seemingly random civilians.

Zakk finds a sharpie in one of the lockers in the sleeping chamber, along with a clipboard with unused papers. He uses the marker to draw a number of skulls and other cool looking images. No one caught him doing so. And even if one of the ship staff were to check on the chamber, they don't have much reaction to the graffiti.

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Jerome is assured that cryo-stasis is safe by the crew. However, they understand that the risk of no malfunctions or other complications occuring is not zero, so if Jerome is still hesitant, he can remain not placed into stasis for the rest of the journey. For safety reasons, one of the ship crew will remain awake with such a passenger, to keep watch on them not to accidentally endanger themself or the spacecraft.

As Zakk fiddled with the controls, he hit the enter key, and the small screen says to enter the pod and shut the door.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" Thompson barks from the sleeping chamber doorway.

Thompson narrows his eyes and walks over to the control pad. With a couple button presses, he cancels the program.

"Looks like you almost wasted one use of the stasis-fluid. You were set to waking up 1 week. Unless that is what you want, I suggest that we handle the inputting of the equipment commands for you folks for now. Also, I had thought you were doing something worst. You could have sabotaged a Sleeping Pod, accidentally or not."

The engineer gave a look of silent concern before speaking. "That does sound disturbing already. I doubt that you could have caused an explosion from misuse, but on second thoughts, if there was a short circuit and the... Well, the worst-case scenario during space flight is the ship itself exploding, so I can't fault your macabre choice of description. I don't know about you, but I prefer my music to relax me instead of being disturbing.

But sure, I'll key in the order for your pod. It seems that your friends are also ready to tuck in for the night."

Thompson seemed hesitant to give a full explanation of the probability of an explosion. He proceeds to set the time to wake up to be when the ship is nearing the destination. This will also be the same for the others when they are ready.