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driftfleet2016-02-05 10:48 pm
two_jedi_sticks) wrote in driftfleet2016-02-05 10:48 pm
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Who: Jaina
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: There's a new engineer joining the Bishop.
When: She might manage to wait five minutes after the latest shuffling.
The layout of these controls don't make any kind of sense. Not by any scheme I've seen on a ship, anyway.
[Yep, there is a teenager with her device propped on a nearby console, leaning elbows on another while she peers at it, intent. As she goes, she nearly taps buttons and levers, behaving enough not to actually muck with anything.]
It's not like snubfighter controls. Believe me, I know. But if this were anything like a Corellian YT-series I'd expect this to handle pitch, and...that should be yaw. Are the thrusters strictly forward? Maybe there's a z-axis control.
[These are all incorrect, and she seems to understand that. She chews her bottom lip, distracted with thought, before she finally turns her head to look directly into the camera again.]
How universal are the designs on these ships? I'm on Bishop, and there's a few things I can peg as customizations, but not too much. I've got a feeling I should try to learn as much as I can. Especially if I'm going to have to open a few of these panels up after a while to make sure it keeps working correctly.
[Admittedly, part of that feeling is the simple fact that regardless of the circumstances surrounding her presence in this fleet, she is stoked about learning the intricacies of a new style of ship.]
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: There's a new engineer joining the Bishop.
When: She might manage to wait five minutes after the latest shuffling.
The layout of these controls don't make any kind of sense. Not by any scheme I've seen on a ship, anyway.
[Yep, there is a teenager with her device propped on a nearby console, leaning elbows on another while she peers at it, intent. As she goes, she nearly taps buttons and levers, behaving enough not to actually muck with anything.]
It's not like snubfighter controls. Believe me, I know. But if this were anything like a Corellian YT-series I'd expect this to handle pitch, and...that should be yaw. Are the thrusters strictly forward? Maybe there's a z-axis control.
[These are all incorrect, and she seems to understand that. She chews her bottom lip, distracted with thought, before she finally turns her head to look directly into the camera again.]
How universal are the designs on these ships? I'm on Bishop, and there's a few things I can peg as customizations, but not too much. I've got a feeling I should try to learn as much as I can. Especially if I'm going to have to open a few of these panels up after a while to make sure it keeps working correctly.
[Admittedly, part of that feeling is the simple fact that regardless of the circumstances surrounding her presence in this fleet, she is stoked about learning the intricacies of a new style of ship.]
video;
There are some minor modifications depending on the ship, but as far as I can tell the basic controls are all the same. Have you also noticed there's no hyperdrive yet?
[ Because boy, let her tell you how much that bugs her. ]
Hi, I'm Hera. Pilot on the Golden.
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Jaina Solo. Nice to meet you, Hera.
[Hmm, hmm.]
The hyperdrive could be a problem if we want to get anywhere. It's not uncommon with a carrier ship, though -- kind of like how TIE fighters don't have hyperdrives. They get scrambled from star destroyers or bases when they're needed.
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[ Is she a little bitter about that? Maybe. No matter how little direct supervision they have, they're still captives here. ]
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[Jaina's made a TIE hyperspace capable before, and it sounds like she has the right augmentation to start working out the mechanics of the local tech. It might be ambitious, but Jaina would rather try and fail than wonder if she could make it work.]
The next problem is where we'd go. A hyperdrive isn't enough to get us between galaxies, and we don't have any mapped routes to anywhere I would know.
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There's also the issue that apparently if we get more than a certain distance away from the rest of the fleet, we automatically get ported back - somehow.
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First thing to do is sweep the ships for tracking devices. I'll see if I can spot some parts that I don't recognize as part of normal systems. Then we have a better picture of the ship's capabilities and why they aren''t working the way people need.
Think we can convince some people to go along with putting the ships through their paces, too?
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[ Good luck getting that augment out. ]
But I'm not adverse to a little healthy experimentation with the ships.
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[Woah, there's a scary thought. She really, really prefers the talk of piloting.]
We could get a race together. That's something anyone can get behind.
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[ She laughs. ]
You know, I've been lecturing everyone not to joyride the shuttles lately, but if we have a few qualified people interested in racing, I don't see why not. The problem is the number of unqualified pilots in the fleet.
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Because that's what it's sounding like.
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What I do know is that there are plenty of people here with pilot augments who have never flown in space, because they're from pre-spaceflight cultures. So they shouldn't be doing it until they've had proper training with someone who is qualified, regardless of what knowledge has been put in their heads.
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[Yes, Jaina assumes the answer to her question is a yes. After a speech like that, why wouldn't it be?]
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