Outward Bound

Shakedown cruise of alqubierre drive ship

Using "exotic matter", which has a component in a fourth spatial dimension that gives it an energy equation of E=mc3 ( 7500PwH/g vs 25MwH/g), thus having the energy capable of powering an Alqubierre drive (and an EM drive for endpoint navigation).

Crew is nude, avoiding clothes cleaning, chairs are self-cleaning/sterilizing

exotic matter discovered by odd spectrum reading in an asteroid; further scanning with tunable array caused asteroid to explode, creating em pulse with energy of sun. Careful research found a specific em frequency caused destabilization of material. generation of em pulse lent itself to useful energy production (in much smaller doses!)

characters:

main (gay couples): it/backup engineer monitoring systems gardening/hydroponics

environmental/medical navigator

secondary: engineer captain