Oliver followed his fellow pilots through the ship into the crew quarters. As they walked around the red panda had all sorts of instructions that happened to enter one ear and exit at the other. A night of heavy drinking and hardly any sleep sure helped destroying any attempt at focusing and storing information in his brain this morning. Luckily for the young tiger they soon arrived at their destination, the GEAR pilots crew quarters. The crew quarters where divided into a common area with a small kitchenette and comfy chairs to relax and small chambers for the pilots. Every GEAR pilot had his own private chamber which was a luxury that you did not have during basic training on the base. As Oliver entered the room he noticed immediately that it was small. On his left side was the bunk for sleeping. The bunk was not much more then an elevated bed with various storage compartments under it for clothing and equipment. On the far end of the room under the porthole was a small desk and on the right side of the room the wash and toilet area could be found. 

Oliver placed his bag on the bunk and started to unpack it, putting his cloths and uniform in the lower drawers of the bunk while putting his side arm, holster and 4 magazines of ammo for his pistol in the top right drawer. The tiger never liked to carry his side arm around all day. Most of the time it was just excess baggage anyway so he finds it a waste of energy to carry it around when not needed. As he continued to unpack he came across his most prized personal item, his infroteck Mark IV PADD. A top of the line PADD produced in the south and vastly superior to the PADD's issued by the Landren's defense force. It possessed more processing power, faster memory and better battery life but is more fragile than the standard PADD used by the military. That is why Oliver carries it in a nice red casing. But the most priced feature of the PADD is that Oliver can calibrate its antenna for a large frequency range of radio signals. It offers very good connectivity to The Net. As the tiger was about to connect his PADD to the internet network of the ship the voice of his CO echoed through the hallway. 

Apparently it was time for an inspection of some sort. Oliver sure didn't hope that the colonel would go through his stuff cause the bottle of prime northern Vodka on the bottom of his bag would sure raise an eyebrow or two. Oliver soon left his room to join his comrades in common quarters to form a proper square. It was the tiger's lucky to find himself next to the Jackal who made a remark about new blood and not getting killed on entering the ship. For a moment he tried to remember the Jackal's name, Kradis Topha. Oliver was sure he heard that name somewhere before. Some of the soldiers he went to the pub with once said something about a kradis who was a soldier of the Northern Empire before defecting to Landren. Some tongue's even spoke of him being a spy. As Oliver lined up next to the Jackal he whispered to him. "You're the Kradis Topha who defected the Northern Empire, right?"