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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Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[the_merriest]

Rikku bounced and sat down eagerly behind the controls. "Can I?" she asked. "It's okay if I can't, but ... oh, wow."

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[sith_happened]

Anakin gave her a long appraising look before nodding towards the empty chair.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[the_merriest]

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Rikku squeed and clapped her hands, and then very quickly cleared her throat and tried to look serious. "I mean. I will totally not screw this up and thank you and oh, dude."

She put her hands on the controls a little nervously, and then nodded. "Okay. I won't speed or anything. Honest."

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[sith_happened]

He raised an eyebrow. "But we will be moving forward at some point, right?"

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[the_merriest]

Rikku blushed. "Y-yeah. Just, uh. Just taking a second here."

She nodded, pretending to check something, and then punched it.

She had meant it when she said she wouldn't speed. So she was trying. She just wasn't any good at ... not-speeding.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[sith_happened]

Anakin's hands hovered by his own steering column, but that was mostly because he was a terrible passenger. "Good," he said quietly. "Watch the monitors more, please. You can't see the asteroids coming up behind you any other way."

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[the_merriest]

"Oh. Right." Rikku looked at the monitors, and tried to figure out how you watched all of them, and also the controls, but the controls stayed in one place and that made it easier. "So those, uh, those are real asteroids, yeah?"

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[sith_happened]

"Yes," Anakin said, moving his hand so that about half of them scooted out of the way of the shuttle.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[the_merriest]

Rikku blushed. "Thanks. Whoa. This is awesome."

And then, feeling a little more confident - hey, she hadn't wrecked so far, and Professor Skywalker totally had mad asteroid-moving skillz - she kicked the speed up and began zooming around.

The adrenaline rush was awesome.

Re: Fly the shuttle: asteroid belt

[sith_happened]

Anakin smiled. "Not a bad stress relief, huh?"