Flight & Flying [Tuesday, June 9, 4th period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was checking his chrono, then his comlink, as the students arrived. "Today we're flying capital ships," he said, flicking his hands toward the screen set up in the corner. "Specifically this or the first minute and a half anyway capital ship. It was called the Invisible Hand and when I was flying it, half of it had already broken up in the atmosphere, the rudder that steered the ship had been in that half, and the thrusters weren't firing enough to stop us. The equipment was also set up for a species other than human and I couldn't read the controls."

Anakin had landed anyway. He was just that good. There wasn't a pilot in a million that could replicate what he'd done.

"Since I was working under rather...strained...circumstances, we'll do something a little easier to live through," he said. "You'll have the entire ship, and the back half will be on fire. The controls will be set up for your species and you'll be able to read the controls."

Yes, he thought that was cutting them a break. Anakin was odd. "Begin!"

Comments

Sign in [June 9]

[sith_happened]

Like you've just watch Anakin land half a ship that was ON FIRE.

Re: Sign in [June 9]

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose Hathaway

Watch the historical footage!

[sith_happened]

They lived the Star Wars, Ted! Yes, you can tell it's Anakin. He just looks a little younger.

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[momslilassassin]

Ben gaped. He knew, abstractly, that his grandfather had been a great pilot, but that landing?

He wasn't sure if his dad could've pulled it off.

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[bitten_notshy]

Jack was gobsmacked by that landing and wanted to see it again, just to see if that would help him understand how it had been done.

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[weetuskenraider]

"I crashed into Coruscant in something on fire once," Tahiri mumbled at some point when she wasn't too slack-jawed from boggling at the footage. "Wasn't that enough?"

So it had been a much smaller something on fire. And it had actually been kind of fun, now that she thought about it. Still.

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone clapped and whistled at the end of the video. "Do it again!" she cheered. "That was awesome!"

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

Jon grinned when it was over and wondered if it would be a good idea to ask if they could see it again.

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose stared as she watched the landing. She was good (not at flying) and reckless as hell, but that was just ...wow.

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne barely understood what he was watching, that's how amazing it really was.

Practice run

[sith_happened]

Figure out how to move a really kriffing big ship. It's 1100 meters long. It's not going to turn on a credit.

Re: Practice run

[momslilassassin]

Ben sat in the pilot's seat, glanced over the controls and took a deep breath. He'd seen beings keep the Anakin Solo flitting through the stars but this wasn't his area of expertise at all.

"Um," he said coherently.

Re: Practice run

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri didn't even get as far as the pilot's seat before she was doing the bug-eyed gaping thing.

"I think I'd rather have something with a cognition hood . . ."

Re: Practice run

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

At least the controls were easier to understand than the ones on an Asgard mother ship. Or one of Thor's.

Didn't stop him from crashing. Repeatedly. Almost like he was doing it on purpose.

Re: Practice run

[bitten_notshy]

Jack eyed the instrument panel dubiously, then, very very hesitantly, started adjusting the controls to launch the ship.

It shuddered forward six inches or so, and he looked up to Anakin to see if he was doing it right.

Re: Practice run

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone scrunched up her nose. Well, it wasn't exactly configured for her species - she hadn't thought to bring her drugs - but she was originally human (even if she hated admitting it) and human-oriented controls would work fine.

"No neural interface?" she asked anyway as she settled herself in pilot's seat and started a checklist of her instruments. "I bet if you did a direct linkage, you could improve the response time, even on a big girl like this."

Re: Practice run

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"How the -" Rose touched the controls almost hesitantly. She sat in the pilot's seat with a frown and reached for them again, trying to push the ship forward. With the power of her mind. Sadly she wasn't a Jedi and so it didn't work, Rose.

Re: Practice run

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne took a seat at the controls and trusted the Force to guide him.

He managed to turn the climate control up to a warmer temperature. That was about it.

Crash into the planet!

[sith_happened]

Although Anakin'd rather you land...

Re: Crash into the planet!

[momslilassassin]

Ship on fire and heading into the atmosphere. All the readable instructions in the galaxy didn't equip Ben to deal with this kind of a problem.

Which was why the ship crashed into the planetary shielding and exploded three different times (and in three different ways, Ben learned from his mistakes) before he finally gave up.

Re: Crash into the planet!

[weetuskenraider]

Never let it be said that Tahiri didn't at least try to steer the ship. She gave it her best effort, but she still had issues handling a starfighter, let alone a gigantic kriffing capital ship by herself.

She tried, and crashed, four times and didn't look terribly unhappy about any of them.

Because it was fun.

She was a little bit crazy.

Re: Crash into the planet!

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne gave up after three crashes. The only time he seemed to make a real difference in where the ship landed, he accidentally crashed into one of the ships trying to put out the fires.

Talk to the TA!

[sith_happened]

Hi, John!

Re: Talk to the TA!

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John was around, not so sore as he could have been, and completely planning on crashing a baby shower later if the professor didn't stop him.

Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Ask for a ride to the baby shower!

OOC

[sith_happened]

My canon is so broken.

Re: OOC

[weetuskenraider]

And still hasn't coughed up spoilers so far as I can tell. >:(

*TURNS THE INTERNET UPSIDE DOWN AND SHAKES IT*