Five minutes is the maximum. I'd feel infinitely more comfortable doing this with less than a minute of actual operation.
[Edriss mentally shakes herself. What is she doing, letting these potentially hostile people see her rattled? Even if they are honestly trustworthy - and so many humans actually are - acting like a frightened teenager is hardly befitting a Visser.
She straightens up and strides out into the open space. The 'briefcase' goes on the ground, popped open gingerly, and out comes a mechanism which she expands into what looks like a very small Jacuzzi complete with a faucet hanging over the rim of a pool, a trio of various-sized shackles affixed to the rim, and a small generator console on the side. She turns on the faucet and out comes a small amount of sludge. Visser One turns it off again before much comes out at all- no more than a liter, perhaps, which looks pitifully small in the pool.]
This is a substance that occurs naturally in pools on my home planet. If you could take as little as possible for your samples, I would appreciate it. This model only has a very limited amount stored within.
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[Edriss mentally shakes herself. What is she doing, letting these potentially hostile people see her rattled? Even if they are honestly trustworthy - and so many humans actually are - acting like a frightened teenager is hardly befitting a Visser.
She straightens up and strides out into the open space. The 'briefcase' goes on the ground, popped open gingerly, and out comes a mechanism which she expands into what looks like a very small Jacuzzi complete with a faucet hanging over the rim of a pool, a trio of various-sized shackles affixed to the rim, and a small generator console on the side. She turns on the faucet and out comes a small amount of sludge. Visser One turns it off again before much comes out at all- no more than a liter, perhaps, which looks pitifully small in the pool.]
This is a substance that occurs naturally in pools on my home planet. If you could take as little as possible for your samples, I would appreciate it. This model only has a very limited amount stored within.