Nico got started on the custom Shuttle, equipped with the widest variety of sensors that she could manage, as well as the experimental propulsion system that had been sent to them by the research team.
There was nothing about it that seemed to be overtly dangerous or flawed, and it had already been tested in their home layer of space, so she had the data that said that building and activating it here would not lead to any sort of untoward reactions.
It was only when the experiments started that they were going to get into uncharted territory and possibly immense amounts of trouble with the Alliance.
"How is it coming along?" Khan asked as a pair of Hunter Suits carried in the sensor array that they were planning to load into the Cargo Bay.
"Pretty well. I'm not completely sure I've got the alignment of these systems right, but once I've finished the assembly, we can start running diagnostics and doing some final optimizations."
