Flight and Flying

[sith_happened]

"So it turns out that I'm teaching a class on flying," Anakin said, rubbing his hands together and grinning, "which is basically the best thing ever, so I was going through the setting and it has podracing! I did that when I was, like, nine, so it's super easy."

It was not super easy.

"I won't even make you create your own engines," Anakin continued. "A podracer is a tiny, one-being gravity-affected landcraft that gets dragged behind a couple of giant engines," he said pulling up a holo image.. Totally doesn't look like a death trap at all, huh, kids? "It's a big racing sport in the Outer Rim, with lots of bets placed on the winner. Like auto races or horses races, but with more explosions. So I put a bunch of different podracers into the system for you to choose from, then we'll have a race and most of you will probably blow up," he said. "But that's fine. It's not real."

With those reassuring words of wisdom, Anakin waved his hand at the various simulators for the students to pick from.

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AND RACE

[sith_happened]

Anakin, of course, is also participating, and absolutely smokes you all. But he had the advantage of doing this a lot before?

The RNG declares rest of the race winners go like this:
Yang Xiao Long
Jaylah
Peebee
Theron Shan
Sabine Wren
Rufus Shinra
Bobby Drake
Breq

Re: AND RACE

[midichlorianfail]

Theron ended in the middle of the pack, but he hadn't crashed, and considering all the people ahead of him were Jedi, aliens, or able to set things on fire wither their brains, he thought that was a respectable enough showing.

Re: AND RACE

[misshapen_spark]

Anyone who had seen Yang on the speeders was going to be completely unsurprised with the sheer recklessness and dedication to speed she displayed while pod racing, as well as her utter disregard for the concept of 'gravity.' Flying (and fighting) happened in three dimensions, not one, and trying to treat a podracer like a car was both stupid and boring

Mind you, her racer was smoking in a not-good way as she tore across the finish line, and she had to spin it out a few times in tight circles to disperse her momentum before screeching to a halt, but her time was really good and people had shot at her, so Yang was happy.