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Jaina Solo ([personal profile] two_jedi_sticks) wrote in [community profile] 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.]
falconing: (well you know what fuck you.)

OKAY DONE

[personal profile] falconing 2016-02-07 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ -- but before han can even begin to comment on that, something jaina said catches up with him, and he's immediately indignant. ]

Which is faster, the ship that managed the Kessell Run in under twelve parsecs, or these hunks of junk?

[ shrewdly ]

Can't imagine, kid, really. No idea.

[ TODAY IS GOING TO BE A REALLY LONG FUCKING DAY ]
falconing: (this is bullshit u know that right)

[Private] yeah well

[personal profile] falconing 2016-02-08 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ -- alright, no, he can't do this in a public feed. he locks it. ]

Before we get around to doing that, what year is it for you? When did you come from.
falconing: ( chewie ) (right hand wookiee.)

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[personal profile] falconing 2016-02-11 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ -- so a good... 15 years. his brow furrows slightly. jaina honestly doesn't recognize that he's fifteen years younger? or maybe -- ]

... that's a word for it.

[ finally, and he settles back into his chair with a frown. he doesn't know, really, how best to handle this, and even though he's figured it out by now -- ]

What's your name?
falconing: (hotwiring.)

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[personal profile] falconing 2016-02-12 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ he is so not qualified to do this, this is so not his division ]

... no.

[ han will tackle the other part in a minute, best to just answer the kid's questions now ]

She's not here. We're not even in the same galaxy, and the star systems don't line up the way they should. There's no sign of any familiar ships, or the rebellion -- but I'd guess that's old news, for you.

[ this is beyond bizarre ]
falconing: ( leia ) (general han solo mofos.)

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[personal profile] falconing 2016-02-15 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's less stories, and more 'we're not on the same page.'

[ may as well be blunt about it, right ]

But we haven't figured out a way to get out of here yet, and it's not looking like that's happening anytime soon.