The new mission pt1

For many hundreds of years in Human history, people practised the dark art of alchemy, which involved trying to make gold out of other materials and chemicals. In the medieval times alchemists were employed by Kings to try and make them richer, and experimented with different chemicals, using pot luck to stumble upon the one unlikely combination that might just create a precious metal. But they all failed.
Hundreds of years later when Mankind started to experiment with genetic manipulation, this became the new alchemy. Scientists experimented by splicing genes together willy nilly, using pot luck to come up with a new type of creature that worked. Creatures that would perform all the tasks that Humans didn't want to do. They created many species of GELF in the process which colonised new planets.
Of course they weren't actually trying to discover gold like the medieval alchemists, although unbelievably they did manage it... but in the weirdest of places...
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Who: Commander Ermantrude of the Govine Herd Empire
Where: Onboard the Govine interplanetary shuttle #11
Commander Ermantrude nudged the controls of her spacecraft with her small stubby hands. She was a Govine, a four legged GELF creature distantly related to a cow. They had small hands on their chest which were useful for operating machinery, and in Ermantrude's case, a spaceship.
Her craft was a shuttle on a routine mission between the Govine Herd Empire's two planets, nothing should have gone wrong.
Except that it did.
In the hold, one of her 100 male passengers spotted a sparking wire a few moments before it blew his head off and turned his body into well-done beef steak.
The rest of the passengers were fine, but panicked. They started charging around the cabin, ramming the door to the escape pods with their tough horned heads.
"Escape!" They shouted. "Danger!"
Govine bulls weren't very clever creatures, in their society it was the females who did most of the thinking on their behalf. The males did have a valuable asset though... in fact they had two VERY valuable assets (more about that later!).
The spaceship spun out of control. Commander Ermantrude's dexterous fingers whipped over the keyboard in front of her whilst trying to keep her hooves firmly on the floor. She isolated the affected circuits and shut them down. There would be no more explosions, but the ship was spiralling out of control into deep space.
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Who: Efof and Davie
Where: Blue Dwarf, near Communications Relay #3
They heard several crewmembers walking their way, and Efof immediately dived into hiding.
"What are you doing?" Davie asked.
"Hiding. They're JMC officers, they might be on the Captain's side. They might arrest us!"
"You look too suspicious." Davie told him. "Just walk normally and nobody will even notice you."
Efof thought for a moment and then walked out in the corridor like normal. They passed several crewmembers who were just going about their daily business. They didn't even bat an eyelid at them.
"I know that guy we just passed." Efof said. "I can't believe he's on Castillo's side. Doesn't he know how evil she is?"
"He probably just doesn't want to get fired. Everyone thinks their boss is evil, they just live with it if they want to get paid."
They passed some security guards, except this time they were noticed.
"Are you Efof Yuwan'Kar?" They asked him.
Inside, Efof's blue heard skipped a beat. "Damn, you found me!" He said, and held out his four arms expected to be handcuffed.
The security officer ignored his arms and just looked at a clipboard. "I heard the Captain say she wanted a navigation officer on the bridge immediately, apparently she just fired one for playing Angry Birds instead of concentrating on his job.
"Oh... err..." Efof said, and started walking towards the Express lift. "I'll see you later then Davie."
He left Davie looking confused, and whispered to him as the guards backs were turned. "Carry on the mission without me!"
<TBC OOC - Davie you can post about this if you want but I also mention you in part 2 of this post. There's nothing stopping you from doing a backpost though of course>