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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

[monolike]

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

Video

[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.]

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

[firstrebel]

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

Video

[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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[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.]

video;

[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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[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.

[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

[sandhate]

Did they crash?

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[kill_switch]

[She smiles back.]

You say that as if people actually have common sense.

[Video]

[falconing]

Who died?

[ flatly ]

[video;]

[firstrebel]

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

Should I know you?

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

VIDEO

[firstrebel]

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

[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.

Video

[firstrebel]

[ She laughs a little. ]

Maybe, but in my experience, setting expectations helps with that quite a bit.

[Video]

[firstrebel]

No one that I'm aware of. Yet.

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

[sandhate]

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

[firstrebel]

[ Ugh, timelines. BUT - the name certainly rings a bell. ]

Senator Bail Organa's daughter?

[firstrebel]

Do you trust most of these people to use auto-pilot?

[ Because teenage joyriders don't use auto-pilot. ]

[sandhate]

[ shrugs ] We're not flying that fast.

I trust my own skills to pilot away from a potential crash. And unless they're being particularly stupid, I doubt that'll happen.

[firstrebel]

You can trust yourself all you want. What I don't trust, are the rest of the people here - not without training.

[sandhate]

Alright, Hera. You have a point. Do you have someone in mind or is this a general concern?