sith_happened: (Anakin: best at what he does)
Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] sith_happened) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2009-06-09 12:51 am
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Flight & Flying [Tuesday, June 9, 4th period]

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!"

Re: Talk to the TA!

[identity profile] missed-the-gate.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
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.

Re: Sign in [June 9]

[identity profile] guardianborn.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Rose Hathaway
weetuskenraider: (ZOMGwut Surprise)

Re: Sign in [June 9]

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-06-09 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Tahiri Veila

Re: Sign in [June 9]

[identity profile] kestrelswolf.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Image
momslilassassin: (Ben: zomg!)

Re: Sign in [June 9]

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-06-09 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben Skywalker
momslilassassin: (Ben: gawking)

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-06-09 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
bitten_notshy: (quite put-upon)

Re: Sign in [June 9]

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2009-06-09 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Jack Priest
bitten_notshy: (always on guard)

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2009-06-09 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
momslilassassin: (Ben: uh oh)

Re: Practice run

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-06-09 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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: Sign in [June 9]

[identity profile] death-of-hope.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Anemone
weetuskenraider: (ZOMGwut Surprise)

Re: Practice run

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-06-09 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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 . . ."
weetuskenraider: (Um - Rubbing Neck)

Re: Watch the historical footage!

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-06-09 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.
weetuskenraider: (This is My Bitchface)

Re: OOC

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-06-09 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
And still hasn't coughed up spoilers so far as I can tell. >:(

*TURNS THE INTERNET UPSIDE DOWN AND SHAKES IT*
momslilassassin: (Ben: I have a hood!)

Re: Talk to the TA!

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-06-09 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben sidled up after he'd finished crashing the expensive capital ship into the planetary shielding (oops). "Going today?" he asked.
momslilassassin: (Ben: Ben says "um wtf")

Re: Crash into the planet!

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-06-09 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
weetuskenraider: (Looking Over Shoulder)

Re: Practice run

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-06-09 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yuuzhan Vong," Tahiri corrected instinctively -- give her a minute and she'd feel bad about correcting him, "but yeah. It's . . . less confusing."

And more, in some ways that weren't directly relevant to attempting to fly a ship. A huge ship.

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