Flight and Flying, Monday, May 23, 2016

[sith_happened]

Anakin was back in front of the flight simulator, sipping coffee. "Welcome back," he said. "Hopefully your weekend was less eventful than last week's."

"And if not, tough, because today we're dealing with freighters," Jaina told them. "You're going to get to see my dad's ship, which is a YT-1300 freighter, complete with hidden compartments and plenty of other not-extremely-legal upgrades, including weaponry. It's a great ship, but unfortunately it's also approximately three hundred years old, and is constantly in need of repairs."

Anakin's cough only sounded a little bit like "piece of junk." Really. "Sometimes that's the ship you can afford, though," Anakin said. "Most people don't get a brand new ship as their first one. So today you'll learn to fly a ship with some...quirks."

"Do what you can, and good luck. You're definitely going to need it." Jaina was so helpful.

Comments

Sign in 5/23

[sith_happened]

Unimpressed.

Re: Sign in 5/23

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka Tano

Re: Sign in 5/23

[goforthe_optics]

Tali'Zorah

Re: Sign in 5/23

[omgnochecksyet]

Eric Bittle

RE: Re: Sign in 5/23

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

Frank Doyle

Re: Sign in 5/23

[notfinnyet]

FN-2187

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[notamascot]

Kaylin Neya

Explore the Falcon!

[sith_happened]

Poke at the hidden compartments! Play weird space chessdejarik! Get a look at the engines, weapons and lightspeed set up. None of which will be breaking.

Cough.

Really.

Re: Explore the Falcon!

[snipsnspecks]

Huh, Ahsoka didn't think it was possible for a ship to look less spaceworthy than the Twilight. (Her own was more of a barely mobile scrapheap than a ship, so it didn't count.)

Re: Explore the Falcon!

[goforthe_optics]

. . . yeah, no, don't mind Tali going all over the entire inside of the ship, scanning things with her omni-tool.

She kept up a constant muttered stream of "Is that . . . wait, but . . . I didn't . . . huh," and things to that effect, generally in a kid-in-a-dextro-candy-store tone.

Look, there were some ships left over in the Migrant Fleet from when the quarians had left Rannoch three centuries ago. The Falcon was hardly a piece of junk by Tali's standards, although after the Normandy, well . . . everything kind of paled a bit in comparison to that ship. That poor, now-destroyed, she-didn't-want-to-think-about-that ship. Besides, a freighter was much more what she was used to than a fighter craft.

So. Falcon. Pretty neat, really.

RE: Explore the Falcon!

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

Frank was having trouble figuring out where the cocktail station was. And if you told him there wasn't one, he would call you a liar! Look at the place! There had to be a hidden panel that was the perfect spot to mix a drink.

Fly the Falcon!

[sith_happened]

Through an asteroid field! These things show up a lot more often than you'd think.

The Falcon is a lot bigger than either the X-Wing or the TIE fighters, so it's going to take a bit of finesse to learn how to spin it correctly.

Re: Fly the Falcon!

[snipsnspecks]

The ship handled better than Ahsoka thought it would, which was handy considering the asteroid field and all.

She turned the power to the deflectors up anyway, just in case.

RE: Fly the Falcon!

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

Frank just started spinning essentially at random and without knowing quite how he started it. He got through the asteroids with surprisingly little damage, although that is a very important qualifier. There wasn't a hull breach, but the exterior had much more characters than it did before. Like dents and scratches and a large rock stuck in the side.

...What's That Alarm For?

[sith_happened]

It's the Falcon, so something's bound to go wrong. It's part of the ship's charm!

Time to do a quick check! Is it the shielding? The hyperdrive? The oxygen?

[OOC: It's totally the hyperdrive, but take your time figuring it out!]

RE: ...What's That Alarm For?

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

"I do not care for this space dance music," Frank noted. He couldn't find the radio to change the station, so he just listened to the screeches and boops.

Talk to Anakin and Jaina

[sith_happened]

They love to talk!

RE: Talk to Anakin and Jaina

[solo_sword]

Jaina did love to talk!

Sorry, no, complain. Jaina loved to complain.

OOC

[sith_happened]