Ophelia walked up to the window and looked out at the stars. She remembered being a child back on earth looking up at the stars; they all seemed so distant then. Now she passed new stars every day. She had worked hard to reach her position as a reverse engineering specialist; unfortunately it had left her with little time for romance.

Ophelia had spent the last month traveling with nothing more than artificial intelligence for company. Luckily she had plenty of work to keep her occupied on the journey. The autopilot was set and she had seen ‘everything’ before.

Ophelia decided to just dive into work and not pay any attention to the travel. Suddenly the vessel started to shake and feel unstable. Ophelia rushed to the helm to see what was going on. By the time she got there everything was back to normal. She checked to logs which revealed nothing out of the ordinary. It struck her as odd, but she had lots of work to do, so she returned to her workstation.

At 7:00am Ophelia woke up, happy to see that she had finally arrived at the isolated planet that she had been assigned to work on. The planet was almost completely devoid of sentient beings.
There were only a few workers on the planet, mainly researchers like her, trying to figure out what advanced civilization had once inhabited the planet.

Once transported to the surface Ophelia, not wanting to waste time, headed straight for the structure containing the device she was to work on. It had been a long journey and she had not had the luxury of a mirror or a decent bath. She was happy to know that the structure had functioning facilities.

Ophelia took some quick readings of the device, and retired to a bedroom assigned to her. She decided that she could review the information she had gathered while taking a bath.

She took off her utility belt, and removed her boots. Her uniform was not very comfortable; she was happy to take off the stiff jacket of her uniform, she felt a nice breeze caress her skin. She had not felt this comfortable in a long while. She continued to take of her pants. She moved into the bathroom where the jet filled tub had been filling with water. She was surprised to find that the outdoors that was filled with fragrant vegetation was not the only pleasantly scented things on this planet. Even the water had a scent, a fresh rose scent. Now eager to jump in she removed her bra, and felt very liberated when the cool air swept over her very shapely breast.