driftfleet | First Flight [Video]

Who: Kaylee Frye and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Golden
When: September 16th

[The face that appears onscreen might be familiar to some Fleet members- except her hair is brown to Jennifer's blonde, and this gal definitely has a different accent. Also, she looks pretty crabby.]

Okay. So. I barely wake up in bed on this strange ship afore I appear on another one, and all I get for my troubles is a cup of pudding? No "hello, here's a recording explaining everything"? A nice dinner, maybe? 'least it tastes like actual chocolate... [She sighs, then softens up.] I been watching the network a bit, so I'm just gonna skip the part where I demand to be taken home. So, uh, I guess I'll just say hello. I'm Kaylee, I love ships n' engines, so at least I'll feel a little at home here, but other than that, I ain't quite sure what's going on.

ACTION - SS Golden

[As she waits for responses, Kaylee can be found exploring her new home, poking at the various bits of protein available in the kitchen, looking around her new quarters, but she spends the most time in the engine room, enthralled.]

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[Kaylee waved in greeting as she emerged.]

No trouble. I can't promise I'll be able to fix it, but I'll give it my best shot. Workin' on ships is just about the best thing in the world to me.

Really? [That's nice, at least if she's kidnapped she can still do something she likes.] Did they give you an engineering augment? Or did you end up getting something else, since you're already so good at it?

Augment? That this thing they put in my noodle? [She taps the little lump behind her ear.]

That's the one. Some of them dump a lot of info into your head if you need it for your job. Do you know anything you feel like you didn't before?

... well, if that ain't one of the creepiest things I've heard. [She shook her head.] Not so far, but maybe at the right time I will.

It's definitely invasive. Won't hear any arguments out of me. [Sorey sighs and feels back for his own augment just behind an earring cuff.] It's been useful so far since I didn't even know spaceships were a thing before coming here, but it's like handing someone a translation dictionary and expecting them to learn a new language. I'm still floundering a lot.

Whoa, whoa- you never had no spaceships back home? [From Kaylee's tone, she doesn't sound skeptical, just... not really able to wrap her head around such a concept.]

It's hard to believe, huh? [Probably especially for someone who has lived with them her whole life.] Nope, no spaceships. We had seafaring ships, of course, but I'd never been on one before. In fact, we really didn't know very much about the sky past our own world.

Wow... I... I can't really picture that. I mean, I know it took humans some time to have the technology to build ships and all, but that was so long ago...

That's me, ancient past guy. [He gives her a faint smile as they round the hallway corner into Engineering.] Okay, so this is Engineering. Life support hub is over there, engines and core here. Diagnostic panels over there.

Goes to show ya we can take things for granted, I guess.

[However, that subject was gone from Kaylee's mind as she saw all of the panels and engines and was almost overwhelmed.]

Oh, oh, gosh... it's all so pretty...

[Sorey's not sure he'd personally call it pretty, but then again he thinks dusty old tombs are super neato so he recognizes the sentiment.] Is this the first engine room you've seen since you got here?

I seen the one on the Golden, but this one's just as exciting! [And she sounds genuinely enthused about that.] Every ship's got its own story to tell, after all.

You can tell that just from looking at the engine? [Sorey rolls over the tool chest for her to poke around in, if she wants. Go on, get in there. There's totally no way she's a bad or suspicious person; she said she loves ships! And just look how she's glowing.]

[And Kaylee begins digging in the tool chest eagerly.] Well, not completely, but it makes sense, don't it? Every ship's got a different crew and been to different places and had different people workin' on it... if only they could talk in a way all of us could listen to. Now, where's this hiccup you were tellin' me about?

Ah, this in here... [The crawlspace beneath the engine is barely large enough for two people, and Sorey has to point from a distance to show her exactly where he's talking about.] Do you see those moving parts in there? On every fourth rotation, the one all the way on the left catches. I checked for anything stuck in the way but there's nothing, all the way up the shaft. So I think it must be a mechanical error, but darned if I can figure out which part it is.

[Kaylee rubbed her hands together eagerly.]

Let me go take a look at it- I'll be back in a jiffy. [And without waiting for a reply, Kaylee's on her back, underneath the crawlspace, checking out the problem. She'd never been on a ship of this type before, but when had that ever stopped her? And soon enough, she was back, standing back up straight.]

I think I can see what the problem is- something's out of alignment and it's gumming up the whole works.

Is that it? [Sorey straightens up to let her out.] Could you see where? Was it in the same line as where it's catching, or further up?

[Kaylee nodded in response to his first question.]

Same line, so it won't take much effort to fix. Saw it plain as the nose in front of my face. Ah, even though I ain't home, I've still got it. [She grinned as she began digging out a few tools and parts she would need.]

Wow...you're seriously amazing, Kaylee. I've been trying to figure out that thing for weeks and you just took one look at it and found it right away.

Well, thankya for saying so! I've always had a way about ships, ever since I was a little one. It's kinda like they talk to me, and when something ain't right... I hone in on it.

[Sorey rolls the tool chest closer as Kaylee returns to the innards of the ship, crouching near the hatch so he can hand her anything she might need.] So you grew up around this sort of thing, huh?

[And she easily continues the conversation as she works, able to focused on both at once.]

Uh-huh. I worked for my daddy most of my life, til I met Mal- he's my cap'n back home- and he hired me to live on his ship and keep her flying. It was just about the best thing I coulda asked for.

Wow, so right from home into an adventure? That's pretty cool. [Sorey knows what that's like.]

Oh, we had plenty of adventures back home, too. We transported cargo, though not always, uh, the type the Alliance would approve of, if you catch my drift.

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