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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]

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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[firstrebel]

Yes, there do seem to be a lot of newcomers. A lot of whom aren't familiar with space travel, too.

So what kind of flying did you do back home?

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[geonomy]

At home, we can't travel in space like this just yet, but I'm an astronaut. I was trained to handle a big shuttle with a team alongside me, kind of like having my crew with me! And before that, I've been piloting private planes for about seven years or so.

[Which, man, he so wishes their technology was Star Wars-age to fly in space so much easier, but gotta make do with what they got.]

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[firstrebel]

Astronaut. That's a cute word for it. I like it.

[ Hera smiles. ]