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[firstrebel]

Who: Hera
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Golden, if you want!
When: Today.

[ Hera has on her best Concerned Mom Look right now. Possibly bordering on her You're All Grounded Look. Good job, guys. ]

Okay, so, I wouldn't have thought I'd need to say this, but please don't try to fly a shuttle by yourself if you've never done it before. I don't care what kind of augmentation you have; reading the instruction manual isn't the same as actually flying a ship in space. It's not even the same as flying in the atmosphere of a planet - space is a vacuum; there's no air, no friction, and navigation can be tricky.

Let's not have any accidents. If you want to get somewhere, or want to learn to fly, please talk to someone with experience. I'll make myself available for lessons. My name's Hera, and I'm on the Golden.

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[geonomy]

[AAAA IT'S A STAR WAR but. Yeaaah, Clay gets that. He gets that so much that he'll even tag in with a reply:]

I can make myself available for lessons, too, or just someone with experience to talk to. My name's Clay, and I'm on the Vanquish.

video;

[firstrebel]

[ What's a STAR WAR? ]

Hi, Clay. Glad to see some others offering.

[ She's happy to help but she doubts she can singlehandedly teach everyone in the fleet how to manage a shuttle. ]

video;

[geonomy]

Yeah, the shuttles can take some getting used to. And with more and more people coming in...

Anyway, I've been flying the shuttles for months now, I have the pilot augment, and I've been trained to fly ships like this back at home. So I like to think I know a thing or two about this stuff!

[Definitely not as much as Hera. But he is proud of his skill as a pilot.]

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[monolike]

What if [no] we put little reminder notes on all the buttons? Like, 'do not press or you will get spaced'?

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[firstrebel]

I would just say we put up signs reminding people not to try and fly unless they actually have experience with it.

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[monolike]

Got it.

Um, on that note, would you be free for a lesson today? [he wants to go back]

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[kill_switch]

I'd never thought about that. Where I'm from, you grow up around the vehicles; you learn at an early age because it's one of the keys to survival. [Not every world is like that, and although she knows that pilots are the only crewmembers able to fly the ship itself, she didn't think about the trouble that could be wrought with shuttles.]

I have a pilot's augment; I'd be willing to teach what I know for the shuttles if anyone is interested.

[And, you know what, might not be a bad idea to make it mandatory for her crewmates to learn.]

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[firstrebel]

It's not quite as much of a given where I come from, so not everyone learns, but it's also... I guess common sense? To not try to do something so dangerous if you've never done it before.

But that'd be nice. I doubt I could teach everyone in the fleet by myself. [ She smiles faintly. ]

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[kill_switch]

[She smiles back.]

You say that as if people actually have common sense.

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[heresyandlace]

[one smarmy voice checking in--]

I think you're a little late on the warning, there.

Most of us have already been driving them around without any previous experience. Maybe the audience likes it better that way.

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[firstrebel]

Well, as far as I'm concerned, it stops now. I don't care how entertaining it is.

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[heresyandlace]

You must be a captain, then?

[video; BEGIN RETCON]

[imahologram]

[Yeah, yeah, piloting, but there are more important matters afoot.]

Captain Syndulla. I'm sorry to hear you've found your way here, too.

[video;]

[firstrebel]

Um. [ Okay, so how does this person know her full name? ]

Should I know you?

[ Her guard is up immediately, thinking - Imperial. ]

[imahologram]

[Swing and a miss--thankfully. Leia can guess what's going on easily enough, after all the time-related nonsense she's already been through with her parents.]

My name is Leia Organa. You and I have worked--or will work--together.

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[sandhate]

Did they crash?

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[firstrebel]

Not yet. That's what I'd like to prevent.

[sandhate]

You can't prevent everyone from crashing. Just tell them to hit the auto-pilot button.

[Video]

[falconing]

Who died?

[ flatly ]

[Video]

[firstrebel]

No one that I'm aware of. Yet.

[ But really, it's only a matter of time. ]

[Video]

[falconing]

[ SIGH ]

Wasn't anyone from the Huntress, was it?

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[birdsbirdsbirds]

[he usually avoids that involves a You're All Grounded look, but... this guy presses his fingers against the lower half of his face for a moment, before finally voicing the thing he kind of hopes he's wrong about:]

...Say, you haven't recently met a kind of... Spacey, elfy-looking kid with blue hair, have you?

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[firstrebel]

[ "Elfy" is a word that means absolutely nothing to Hera, but the rest of the description is enough - combined with her recent experiences - to not matter. ]

The one joyriding the other day? We've met. [ And she's not especially pleased with him, either. ]

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[onlyburnhotter]

Where do I sign up for flying lessons?

[Yang's pretty hyped about this.]

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[firstrebel]

Right here, I guess, if you want. I'll see when I can squeeze you in.