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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1315627" data-attributes="member: 515">Swann rubs a hand across his face, thinking, as he watches Martha examine the safe and her hand computer. He turns to Argent and the others. "I’m not sure, but I believe this safe maintains an airtight seal. Which means one of two things. One, if the former captain didn’t open it after the bug got on board, the air inside shouldn’t be contaminated and it should be OK to open. "Second, if the former Captain did open it up, then if the bug got inside, it’s probably still in there. The decontamination process probably didn’t kill it. "Once Doc gets here, I’ll ask his opinion on whether the bug could still be alive in there. But to play it safe, I think we should be wearing sealed vacc suits when we open it up." He glances at all the others’ faces and smiles. "It’ll give us a chance to practice those decontamination protocols Doc taught us this morning." Saro walks into the cabin in time to catch the last bit of conversation. "Yes, indeedy it will. Since we have no solidly reliable information on this bug, we can’t be sure if it would or would not survive inside the safe, if it got inside at all." Doc thinks for a minute, "If we can close off this cabin and route the outbound airducts through a filter, then only the people inside the cabin will have to don their suits, and that would greatly reduce the chance of the bug getting loose on ship. Otherwise, we should only attempt to open it in a vacuum, which does seem to kill it, whether it be in the airlock, or by opening the entire ship to vacuum." Martha’s examination does reveal that the safe is securely welded to the floor. The safe could be removed with tools onboard with about a day’s work. Argent seems to be weighing things carefully. He looks at Vargas and asks, "Vargas, what are your thoughts here?" "Other than blowing it out the airlock, you mean?" he asks, cracking a grim smile. "I think all the bases have been covered; get the Doc to weigh in and then crack it while in vacc suits. I tell you, this Kraven Lines must be some operation if this ship is any sample." Argent pauses as if in deep thought for a moment, looks from Saro to Vargas, and finally says, "I think that, all things considered, we might as well play it safe on this one, if you’ll excuse the pun. We’re in no rush to open the safe. "Unfortunately, Doctor, this ship is a tramp far trader. This cabin is not pressure tight at all, and I think that we’d be violating the hell out of all of the procedures that you taught us if we open it in here. "Martha and Swann? My guess is that you can, perhaps with Darishun’s help, get this safe unwelded from this floor and into one of the cargo locks. We can then evacuate the air from the lock and open it in the lock. It would mean quite a bit of time in vacc suits for you, between the time to get the locks open and then enough time to make sure that the vacuum has had its effect on any possible spores. "Then after we have a look inside, we can see about blowing it out the airlock, Vargas. "I still want to see inside this thing. I don’t want any more surprises if I can avoid it. With our luck, we’ll find a bottle labeled ‘ACME Death Pathogen: Use sparingly’ inside the safe," he adds with a rueful smile. "Meanwhile, why don’t we see if we can help the others with that inventory."</blockquote>

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