fandomhigh | Spaceships 101- 1st period- Week #2

Jaina was standing in front of the flight shed's simulator when the class arrived, a holoprojector set up next to her. When everyone had finally showed, she said, "Welcome back. And your reward for showing up again today is that you're actually going to get into the sim today. Most of you don't have experience with the kind of craft we're dealing with in this class- and before anyone gets offended that they've flown this or that, there may be idiosyncrasies between things from my galaxy and yours, that's all." She knew how pilot egos could be. "And because of that we're starting a little slow, with a passenger transport."

She hit a button on the holoprojector, and a blue hologram of about medium size appeared in midair before the students, slowly showing a 360 degree view of a shuttle. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Lambca-class T-4a shuttle," Jaina told them. As she spoke, the image changed every now and then to show what it looked like with the wings folded up into the landing position, resembling the letter A. "It's been in use for about fifty years now, transporting passengers, troops and cargo between Point A and Point B. It's equipped with a hyperdrive, and just in case, it's got weapons: both laser and blaster-cannons. Normally this thing flies with a crew of six, but it can operate with a skeleton crew of one, which is what we're going to be doing today."

Shutting the projection off, Jaina ran through a detailed explanation of how to work the controls in the simulator, and specifically how the controls for this ship worked. (Without visual aids, sorry, Anakin.) "Your objective today isn't difficult. Take off from the starting point, and get to the hangar bay door of the cruiser in front of you. Feel free to play with the weapons if you want, but only when you're far enough from the cruiser, please. We generally try not to hit other ships until they're firing on us, especially not friendly ones. Take off, fly, park the ship in its berth, that's all. If you need help, or if you want to try something harder, let me know."

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Like you think it's still Monday.

Calvin

Bobby McCallister

Tahiri Veila

Asuna Kagurazaka

Ben Skywalker

Bobby Drake

Cally

Shane Ghooseman

Leia Organa

Momoko Akatsutsumi

Listen, pretend you're listening, ooh and ahh over the holo, what have you.

Momoko had been afraid she was going to have to suffer through one of those totally slow freighters again, and was very happy to see she wasn't. And the fact that it was used to transport troops meant it could probably go pretty fast, right?

Fairly easy one here: Take off from a dock, fly across empty space into an open, waiting hangar and park yourself down in a spot. How'd you do?

Ben slid easily into the seat, checked over the controls and then asked, "Can I have something a little harder?"

Brat.

"I knew you were going to say that," Jaina told him, prepared for this. She took a minute to set the program, and said, "Now you get to do it with a squadron of attacking TIE fighters between you and Point B. Happy?"

He beamed at her. "Very. Thanks."

Generally speaking a shuttle as large as the Lambda-class probably shouldn't spin like Ben made it do, but he didn't get hit by the TIE fighters between Point A and Point B.

Ben wasn't as good as the rest of his family--yet, anyway--so taking out the entire squadron was still beyond him, but he'd hit the first few ships with enough accuracy that the rest of them decided they had better things to do than mess with a shuttlecraft.

"That was astral," he declared.

Tahiri hadn't ever actually gotten to fly one of these before, so she did take her time going over the controls first. Look, she could still in theory crash-land the thing even with such a simple task, but . . . yeah, okay, she doubted that.

Which did not mean she wasn't incredibly careful about parking . . . and paying a ridiculous amount of attention to landing the shuttle so it was precisely centered in the parking spot.

She thought she was a few centimeters off. Hmm.

Bobby slid into the pilot's seat and performed the given task easily enough (though his start was a bit wobbly), despite the fact that he looked as if he hadn't slept recently. In fact, if he hadn't been sleep-deprived he would've remembered to do a better job acting as if this were all completely unfamiliar.

Very different from what Cally had been flying when the world turned upside down on her; the hyper-drive seemed to be the equivalent of Time-Distort, and none of Auron's small craft had anything like that kind of speed. This was bigger, as well; the shuttle she'd learned to fly was designed to carry six passengers or so, not be crewed by that many.

Still, the instructions were simple enough, and she was good at following those, even if she didn't have a real pilot's natural feel for the controls. There was more power under her hands than she was used to, so her take-off and landing were a bit jerky, but successful, on the whole.

Asuna started the flight and thought she did fairly well but her landing was a little shaky. "Wow, I really need to practice that, at least I didn't crash!"

Leia had managed to fly one of these from Kashyyyk to Alderaan. This was a snap.

Goose was able to complete the task relatively well, even though his landing was slightly off.

Momoko got into the seat and took a few minutes to go over the controls, then took off. Having already flown a number of different ships from the same galaxy via the sim, she had a relatively easy time of it, just piloting through the empty space and then 'parking'.

She may have been humming a bouncy J-pop tune while she flew.

Only one person at a time, so feel free to talk amongst yourselves while you wait.

He was supposed to do this for real? Bobby tried to catch his breath, reminding himself that it was just a simulation. It wasn't really a spaceship.

It was working some of the time.

Momoko saw a familiar face!

"Hi again!" Oooh. Was he okay? "What's wrong? If you're afraid of heights, don't worry; it's totally not the same feeling, being in space."

"I'm not afraid of heights!" Bobby said quickly. "I want to fly! It's just - different."

"It is!" Momoko nodded. "Piloting in space is totally different! So, if you know that, then what's wrong? You don't look excited at all!"

She's around before, during and after class. Pretty much all the time.

Raise your hand if the day off is going to totally throw off your sense of time!

*RAISES HAND*

On the other hand, when Friday sneaks up on me so quickly it will be a pleasant surprise.

On the other other hand, when next week seems so long, it will be disappointing.

Spaceships 101- 1st period- Week #2

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