The client for our first mission is Helion Core Works. They are a company/research firm that is seeking to develop technology that will create or modify planetary cores and their respective magnetic fields. Progress has a functional core and magnetic field so I believe they are testing new technology here. Our job is to log all the data we can from the core samples they deliver to us. Time to break in the lab!
The core samples were really heavy and we had to use dollies to get them to the lab. Mo helped with data collection but I believe geology is not an interesting subject for them as they mainly joked around while logging numbers into the system. Alleria was no where to be found after helping bring the samples to the lab. She said she was going to run diagnostics on the bridge and to call her when the samples needed to be brought back to Helion.
Drlprl however was just as interested in getting his hands dirty as I was. He showed much interest in the core samples. He smelled them, tested their hardness, color, cleavage, searched for fractures, ran magnetic cycles and I even caught him licking a sample at one point. I jokingly told him not to eat the sample because it was property of Helion Core Works. Drlprl then apologized profusely until I was able to explain to him what sarcasm was.
Overall, it was a great first day in the lab.