fandomhigh | Flight club, Imperial junkyard and then some, 4 pm

When the Flight Club members get to the junkyard today, Aeryn's standing in front of an actual ship. Aeryn herself is still looking a little battered, but she's not addressing it at the moment. Just pay attention to the ship.

"This is not a simulator," she tells them. "This is a Leviathan transport pod. It's not a fighter ship, and in fact has no weapons. The Leviathan is a living ship, very peaceful, and is often used to transport cargo or people. It grows smaller ships like this which can help that." She debates throwing in a bit about And if you break it, you hurt it but she doesn't think that's true and doesn't want anyone crying if they do something wrong.

"We're just going offplanet," she continues. "I'll get us up there and down again, unless someone really wants to land us. You can fly around, get a feel for how the systems really work. You don't have to worry about hitting anything, and if you do something wrong, I'll be in the chair right next to you, able to fix it. For those of you experienced pilots who think this is boring? You're back in space, enjoy it. Also, if you need it-" She holds up a small paper bag. "-motion sickness pills."

She leads everyone who's going to go inside, where several folding chairs are set up behind the standard four. Don't worry, Bertam's stuck them to the ground but good. When everyone's seated, she sits in one of the front seats and starts up the ship, taking it off the ground, and doesn't stop until they've reached nothing but black space. The Earth is still visible through the window, though.

"All right," Aeryn asks. "Who's first?"

[They're going to be out in the middle of nowhere. Seriously, you can't crash the ship. You can't damage it by pushing a wrong button. Which is good as that would get them stranded in space or vent the cabin or something and we're not playing that out, omg.
Also we are ignoring the last line in the Wiki. *nods*
OCD is a-~~coming~~up.]

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Aeryn is not letting you crash anything. She's had enough of that or a week.

Evie's waving her arm frantically and hopefully. "Oh, please. Please? Can I go first? Please?"

Okay, get the heart attack over with. Aeryn gestures to the seat next to her for Evie to sit. There's a control panel stretching before both of them. Aeryn's really glad for the both of them part.

Evie sat down, eyes huge as she looked out into space. "Oh, my. Right. Okay. Steering, and acceleration, and brakes--" She carefully touched the braking mechanism. "Eee! Oh. Oh, that wasn't so bad, was it?"

"Don't touch any brakes while in space," Aeryn says. "There's no need for it. Without propulsion you're just floating around anyway. To decrease speed, you just slow propulsion. So. No brakes."

"Right," Evie said, blushing. "So sorry. Cut propulsion." She carefully turned the pod, happily humming as it turned in the correct direction, then said, "Someone told me I should try spins! Is that possible in this craft?"

Re: Take your turn

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"Well, I don't get to go first, but I'd still like a turn," Alec said, grinning.

She gestures to the seat beside her. "Go on then," she says. She's okay with letting him handle this, too. And she's really grateul for that.

He takes the seat, accelerating slowly as he gets a feel for the pod's controls. "So is this one of your machines?"

"As much as they can be anyone's," she answers. "It's from the same place I am, yes."

Alec stares out at the blackness as the ship sails through it, increasing his speed by degrees. "How far away is that?"

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Naomi waited for her turn, she was very relieved that it wasn't going to be like her detention on Saturday.

When the seat's empty, Aeryn asks, "Are you ready?"

"Yes," Naomi nodded as she climbed in.

"Just try steering straight for a while, until you get used to it," she advises.

Steering straight was something that Naomi could do, at least she didn't have to worry about her ship going out of control.

"Duuude. Sweeeeeeet."

Don't let his exterior fool you. He won cookies from Anakin for his skillz at flying stuff.

"Is that good?" Aeryn asks, indicating for him to sit.

"Totally, bra," Jude replied, sitting and starting to look over the controls. Looking before touching. Just in case.

That translates weird, but she's going to pass it off as another weird human thing. "You can start steering whenever you're ready."

Luke grinned. "Please?" he asked before staring off into space again.

Being Force-sensitive in a living ship was distracting in the best kind of way.

"All yours," she tells him. "Take a seat."

Luke sat down at the controls and took a deep breath. "This is a whole different kind of flying, isn't it?" he asked, eyes shining.

"In a way," she replies. "It's slower than a fighter. It maneuvers well, but there's no often a reason for it to do the same thing a Prowler or an X-wing would. Still, it's not difficult."

Luke's hands skimmed over the controls. "It feels different, though," he said. "Kind of a humming in my head." He smiled. "I don't have this kind of a connection with the X-Wing."

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