Flight and Flying [Thursday, August 23, 3rd period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was waiting for the students on the top of the apartment building in town, leaning up against a Lambda-class Imperial shuttle.

"Welcome to the Virgo," he said with a small smile before giving them a quick rundown of the general specifications of the ship. "It's twenty meters long and is generally used to ferry soldiers or cargo back home," he said. "It's also equipped with a hyperdrive--which we will not be using--as well as two forward-facing double laser cannons, two wing-mounted double cannons, and a rear-facing double laser cannon." He met each student's eyes. "Which we will definitely not be using. We're going to do a quick swing around the system here--we won't go out as far as Pluto, but since it's not a planet any longer, I doubt it will be that offended."

He waved a hand towards the ramp. "Come aboard."

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Sign in [August 23]

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Re: Sign in [August 23]

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River Tam

Sit and chat!

[sith_happened]

Anakin, after shooting Rory a small smile, opened a closet to reveal a stack of Space Trooper outfits.

"These are not at all necessary," he said, focusing for a moment on his son, "but I know some of you are a little worried about actually being in space. We're completely safe in here, but if you feel like being extra cautious," he left the "and looking like an idiot" part unspoken, but it was in his tone, "feel free to suit up."

Re: Sit and chat!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River looked at the outfits and decided against putting one on. She smiled, thinking that Simon might have, though, just to be on the safe side.

Re: Sit and chat!

[jedi-qui.livejournal.com]

Qui-Gon raised an eyebrow at the suits, wondering if Anakin had gone out of his way to procure the ugliest he could find. "I may think twice before putting that on even if there was a hull breach."

Re: Sit and chat!

[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam stared at the outfit for a moment, having never seen anything like it. He decided he wasn't going to wear one.

Re: Sit and chat!

[likethegun]

Sam had given in to the propeller beanies, but the outfit seemed like a bit much.

Re: Sit and chat!

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled at the weird-looking uniforms. Hey, even the Al Bhed hadn't gone for anything that ugly.

Oooh, look, Earth!

[sith_happened]

Anakin took the shuttle up into space himself. Not that he didn't trust some of the pilots in the group, but he trusted himself more.

"Before we begin taking turns flying the shuttle," he said, turning the shuttle around so that the Earth filled the viewports, "I wanted you to see what where we came from looks like from out here."

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Like any inhabitable planet Earth was beautiful from orbit. She'd also seen it recently from the moon, but that didn't mean it wasn't still pretty.

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco had seen the Earth from space before, but at least this time his life wasn't in immediate danger, so he was enjoying the view, for once without any comments.

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[jedi-qui.livejournal.com]

It really was a very pretty world, Qui-Gon thought gazing at the planet.

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam had seen pictures of the Earth, but never like this. "Wow." It was beautiful.

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Never in his wildest dreams had Johnny ever imagined that he'd actually get to leave the planet. Going into space was something for astronauts and people in TV shows; no way would a roving lower class hick like him every get the chance to try it. He pressed himself up against the ship's window, and watched in amazement as they really left the ground behind and shot up into space.

He could help but break into a wide grin of amazement when the shuttle turned to give them a good view of the Earth. It really was a beautiful planet.

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[likethegun]

Sam had to stare at how pretty Earth looked from where they were. It wasn't like he got to see this view all the time.

Re: Oooh, look, Earth!

[the_merriest]

Rikku shivered. "It's beautiful," she murmured.

She wondered if Spira was this pretty.

It probably wasn't.

Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[sith_happened]

If Anakin doesn't think you're ready, he'll sit you back down, but if you have experience flying in space already, he'll let you have a go through here.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Asteroids! River grinned and reached for the controls. Wash had never let her fly Serenity through an asteriod belt.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone was, as usual, running her fingers lightly along the various panels and humming to herself as she waited her turn.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[jedi-qui.livejournal.com]

Qui-Gon reached for the controls, sure that somewhere Master Dooku was shuddering without knowing why.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Rogue wasn't sure if she wanted to try actually flying the shuttle, but she figured Anakin would be a better judge of her abilities than she was.

Fly the shuttle: empty space

[sith_happened]

There's a lot of empty space between planets, fortunately. If this is your first time up in space, here's the place to try flying. Way, way far away from anything you can hit.

Way, way far away.

Re: Fly the shuttle: empty space

[imcalledandros.livejournal.com]

Andros decided that he would fly in empty space since he figured that it'd be very hard for him to get killed this way.

Talk to the TA

[sith_happened]

Who Anakin kept watching like she's going to disappear out from under him.

It's incredible, really, that he still hasn't learned how to let go.

Only not really.

Re: Talk to the TA

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory was there with coffee and cookies as per usual, listening much more attentively than last week.

Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Before he brought the shuttle back down to Earth, he stood in front of the students, eyes serious and hands tucked into the sleeves of his robes, Jedi to the inch.

"She can't hear us up here, so let me make this absolutely clear. Stay out of Umbridge's office. Stay off of her radar. It's not backing down, it's not letting her win, it's being smart. She is using her wand and she is trying to kill people. She just picked the wrong one on her first attempt." His lips were pressed together so hard they were white around the edges. "This isn't a game. This isn't a test to see how fantastically great you think you are. You stay. away. from. her. All of you."

Anakin's idea of a pep talk left something to be desired.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River nodded, being in complete agreement. She was not going back to Umbridge's office. It would have been nice to have been able to hold on to the kitten plate as a trophy though.

OOC

[sith_happened]

You guys have been great! Thank you.