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Flight- Monday- 3rd period

"Welcome back," Jaina greeted the students after everyone had gotten to the flight shed. "Today we're going to actually do some flying. Simulated flying, but you'll all have to deal with that."

She gave them a quick rundown on how to use the simulator with a reminder that you break it, you answer to Anakin Skywalker, and then began the lecture. "What we're flying today is something at least a couple of you are probably at least familiar with: the X-wing. It's a starfighter, equipped with proton torpedoes, and when I say it's the best it's my totally unbiased opinion and not because I've been flying one since I was your age." Lies. "When you're flying an actual ship, you get your own little assistant called an astromech droid, which looks a little like this."

And then there was a pause as her teaching aid didn't come rolling forward on cue, till she finally said, "Hey, Rowdy, showtime," and a little astromech droid rolled out, beeping something that Jaina was probably glad she couldn't understand. "Rowdy, this is my class. Class, this is Rowdy. He's my copilot when I'm flying, plus into the ship and runs diagnostics and fixes certain things while you're flying. You can fly without a droid, but it's not recommended.

"So what you're going to do today is get in the sim, and you've got a choice of what to do. If you're new and just want to test things out, you can just fly around some empty space today. If you know what you're doing already, or want to chance it anyway, you're going to go ahead and fly through a trench in a space station to try and get a proton torpedo through a two meter-wide hole in an exhaust port to blow the thing up. Have fun with that." Because some things were a classic.

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Like you get to fly this week!

Cade

Karolina Dean

Korra

Atton Rand

Karina Lyle

Evan Sabahnur

Victor Mancha

Topher Brink

Emily Thorne

Ace McShane

Anakin Solo

Ulrik of Denmark

Billy Kaplan

You're totally fine to talk to people while you're waiting for someone else to get out of the sim already.

Karolina was kind of excited, yes. She was used to flying, but not like this. Even a simulation was really exciting.

At least she wasn't bouncing in place too much while she waited?

Flying! Karina did her best to not look too excited but that was a total lie.

She couldn't wait to get to try her hand at it.

Oh, Evan was totally bouncing on his toes while waiting for his turn in the sim. He'd flown before, of course, but nothing like a ship. He could hardly wait to tell his Uncle Cluster about this!

Victor did not bounce. He grinned, and kept looking eagerly toward the sim as he went over everything he knew about aviation controls in his head, but those were totally different things from bouncing.

This looked even cooler than Ben's speeder, which meant Topher was super excited. He wasn't bouncing -- for once, it looked like someone else was more excited than he was; thanks, Evan -- but the eagerness definitely showed.

Besides a small smile, Emily was a portrait of self control. On the inside though, she was kind of scared. At least it was only a simulator.

Ace wasn't so much bouncing as...vibrating in place really fast? She confined the visible bouncing to the single foot that TAP-TAP-TAPPED while she waited with crossed arms for people to GET OUT OF THE SIM ALREADY and give her a go.

Anakin looked like he was so impatient to get into the sim and fly that he might have to be physically restrained if he had to wait too long.

Ever the competitive little sibling, he also looked like he wished he'd brought Fiver along, so he could show off his astromech.

Either fly around and shoot at empty space, or do the Death Star trench run.

How'd you do?

Like Cade wasn't going to do the trench run.

The X-Wing was ridiculously antiquated by his standards, and he was a little rusty on one-man starships (he normally had to, erm, "liberate", bigger vessels for getaways), but there was something in the genes that made him fly straight, fast, and probably way too well not to catch Jaina's attention. Not many people didn't die on that run the first go-through, and while Cade finished up with only one wing, he'd hit his target.

Suck on that, annoying Force ghost of Luke Skywalker. Cade could be like you. He just didn't want to be.

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Atton wasn't a complete idiot - he wasn't going to do something stupidly daring in a crate he didn't know in any way, shape or form.

Didn't mean that he wasn't going to pull some ridiculous stunts in mid-space once he got going with the X-wing, but still.

Evan was going to be flying around empty space today, since he really was a beginner. This was so very not the same thing as his rocket boots, after all, and he wasn't actually all that great with those, either.

At least in empty space, he couldn't crash-land!

It was her first time flying ever (except for, like, flying in planes and things), so Karina took her time in the big empty space to get used to the controls. She didn't get a whole lot of moving done, due to her caution, but she felt good about her progress anyway.

At least this wasn't her first time in a simulator. There was that.

Victor suspected he could have done the trench run if he put his mind to it, but he decided to start with the empty space just to give himself a feel for the controls without the risk of crashing. The 'Frog wasn't much like this thing at all, and even on that he was a second-string pilot.

Starting off easy turned out to be the right choice. By the end of his turn, he was trying some fancy high-speed barrel rolls and loopty-loops.

It was empty space for Emily, mostly because she had no idea of what she was doing. And because it looked kinda pretty? A few minutes into the hint and she was already getting a bit daring, though. This wasn't so difficult.

Empty space: flown.

Empty space: shot at.

Trench run: attempted.

Trench wall: fireballistically caromed into.

Air: punched with two enthusiastic fists.

"...Can I go again?"

Was there any question whatsoever about whether Anakin was going to try the trench run? Not kriffing remotely; that wasn't any more of a question than whether he'd try his best to show off even if he knew perfectly well that Jaina was a better pilot than he was.

Okay, maybe he spent a few extra minutes in the sim to geek out over the differences between his older XJ-model X-Wing and this one before he got started. That was kind of genetic. Once he'd done that, though, he settled behind the controls and launched himself right into the trench run. How hard could it be? He'd heard the whole story from both Dad and Uncle Luke so many times he'd lost count.

By the time he was done with the run it was a good thing he didn't actually have Fiver along, or the entire class would be getting a thoroughly immersive crash course in astromech profanity. If it'd been a real snubfighter, he'd have his S-foils stuck in the open position, two laser cannons slagged, a badly cracked canopy, and coolant and fuel lines leaking. Let's not even discuss the state of his inertial compensator, either.

He'd hit his target, though, and he was pleased about that.

Right, so. Flying around in empty space was all well and good, but Ulrik was the kind of guy who'd strap a bomb to a stick and row himself into ramming distance of a warship. Of course he had to try the trench run.

He would've made it, too (albeit not in terribly good condition), but for a tilt he didn't manage to correct until it was too late.

And Rowdy.

And I put the right day on both classes this week! \o/

I want cookies for not pointing out that Monday is not Wednesday, because I sympathized so much with wanting it to be Wednesday that I thought it would be cruel.

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