The screen sprang to life, replacing the somewhat mundane and rather featureless spacescape with a most unusual sight. With the backdrop of a danube class runabouts cockpit appeared a man somewhere in his later years, with hair quite reminiscent of a supernova in shape and starlight in colour. His nose protruded quite obtrusively from beneath unhygienically bushy eyebrows with a set of twinkling, albeit somewhat beady sea blue eyes. Prominent laughter lines were displayed on his face, currently crinkled into a toothy off-white grin as he addressed the people before him. His voice was surprisingly high pitched, nasal and had a note of distraction, as though he were thinking of something else whilst speaking, despite visibly appearing to pay attention
=^= Captain Bill Arlen is it?... I'm Professor Marcus Winters, chief consultant for the holoscape imaging system you're about to test for me. Be a good chap and beam me aboard would you... =^=
Phrased as more of an order than a request, he clearly expected absolute cooperation. His accent betrayed him as an Englishman, possibly from the southeast of that island.
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