driftfleet | 001

Who: Ben Grimm
Broadcast: Video Broadcast
Action: Bishop
When: June 4th

Awright, lets get this over with quick.

[ Ben's been loitering for a few days in the Marisva, getting his bearings, read'n up on what he could about this place, but some stuff you only get through good old fashioned talking face to face. Or face to camera. A huge, craggy, orange face fills the screen, all worn and weathered and animate like stone probably shouldn't be. There's a slow blink and a low sigh, the Thing rolling out his shoulders and settling in for a fun series of conversations. ]

Ben Grimm here of The Fantastic Four and Avengers ask'n for a headcount. Who all's here, who ain't, and which version of earth are ya from?

[ It ain't his first rodeo, it ain't even his tenth- it is his second in one of these weird 'crammed in a jaw and hope noth'n blows up' sortsa places though. Seems a bit nicer than Luceti. For one thing: Space! For another: he gets to pilot. ]

And can we skip the 'oh gosh gee you're all big and orange and rocky!' like I don't know. You're in space, you've gotta have seen stranger things than me by now.

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Give it a good beat, maybe it'll do well in the clubs. Somth'n you can really dance to.

Heh, it can be the first beat dropped when the Iskaulit does get one. I'll be sure you're on the writer's credits.

I'm Jim Kirk, by the way, captain of the Tourist. Welcome to the Fleet, for what it's worth.

Where do they get the names for these ships? Bishop, Tourist, Iskaulit. What happened to Thunderbolt or Rockethammer?

If I could rename my ship either of those things, believe me I would. We're supposedly on a reality show, so the idea is maybe to be easy to remember and pronounce. But that's if you believe the reality show theory.

I would want to be Thunderbolt, for the record.

Heimdall's Lance was another good ship name from back in the day. Then again, so's Betsy. Can't go wrong with that.

_{[ Okay, that got a laugh. ]}

I'll be sure to run that suggestion by the Federation back home. I can't wait to meet the captain in charge of U.S.S. Besty.

Hey, it's a good name for a classy lady. Gotta take care of your ship, treat her nice, then she'll take care of you.

So very true. I think you and my head engineer would get along quite nicely, if he were here.

Actually - are you familiar with star ships?

_{[ Cause you're talking like you're boggled by being in space or on a
space ship. ]}

Kid, I was an experimental pilot for Nasa, the Marines, and Reed Richards. I'm more than familiar.

_{[ He lets out an impressed whistle. ]}

Wow, NASA? That's so cool!

_{[ Okay, so maybe he was a touch excited, because NASA was such a big
part of space-history for him, and meeting someone who had been an actual
part of that organization? Amazing. ]}

What did you pilot for them?

Jets, Rockets, whatever needed test'n. If it could fly? I could fly it.

Stars... so, what years were you there? During the moon landing years or later on?

_{[ It's almost like a little kid Ben, sorry, but it's not often he gets
to talk to someone who was there for those formative and important years at
such an iconic institution! He's going to milk it. ]}

I ain't THAT old, kid, Cripes. Post the moon land'n by a bit. Did some good work too up till that radiation thing.

Radiation thing?

_{[ He purses his lips ever so slightly and his brows furrow in a mix of concern and curiosity. ]}

What happened - if you don't mind talking about it, that is?

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