selvin-9 system mingle

[rebuildyourruins]

Who: everyone
Broadcast: no
Action: Selvin-9
When: throughout December until mid-January

[It's fluff-planet time, fleeters, and there's plenty to do. Snow time like the present!]

* System info

Comments

[stormfist]

[ Oh nice. ]

Hoverspeeder? We have those back home too. Called sparrows. That's what I'm used to. [ Pause. ] I remember those ATVs. Took me some time to get used to the added friction of not hovering, but yeah, you're right. Just a matter of adjusting.

[tempredmental]

Yeah. And feeling like... every single bump. [He chuckled a little, then reached out his hand towards her in greeting.] I'm Keith, pilot on the Huntress.

You ride a lot, I'm guessing?

[stormfist]

Exactly. [ She smiles a little more, shakes his hand. ] Jayden Price. Pilot on the Goldstone.

And yeah, I do. I'm a Guardian - a soldier, in my world. Sparrows are how we get where we're going planetside. ... And my friends would talk me into signing up for races sometimes.

[ Her friends are ridiculous. But she likes them anyway ]

HOW ARE THEY SO MUCH ALIKE?

[tempredmental]

A Guardian, huh?

[Keith started to say something, but then stopped himself. He wasn't sure he could really call himself a Paladin of Voltron anymore, no matter how much the others might insist that he was still a part of the team. He really was with the Blade of Marmora. Still, though...]

I'm part of a group of soldiers, too. I'm guessing the fact that you said, "planetside" means you're used to traveling in space?

I DON'T KNOW BUT I DIG IT!

[stormfist]

Yeah, I am. I'm from Earth. Mm, some version of it. [ One that no one else here seems to be from, far as she knows. ] We're based there, missions take us all through the sol system - other planets, moons, asteroids... wherever we're needed.

Where are you from? Do much space travel?

[ He's got a hoverbike, after all, so odds are pretty high, right? ]

[tempredmental]

I um... I guess I'm from a different version of Earth, then. [He shrugged sheepishly.] We're still mostly just exploring our own solar system, too... just recently sent our first crew out to Kerberos, one of Pluto's moons.

As for me, well... we sort of stumbled on an alien warship that was buried on Earth for like ten thousand years, and it activated for us, and then we got sucked through a wormhole to the other side of the Galaxy, and now we travel all over space fighting against an evil alien empire.

So, I guess I'm in a special situation compared to the rest of humanity. Space travel is pretty normal for me now, but, what we're doing? And how we're traveling around? It's way beyond what anyone else on Earth knows about.

[stormfist]

[ Wow. Well regardless, it's interesting to hear that other versions of Earth are still sending manned missions through the solar system even without the Traveler granting them light or the Darkness trying to destroy them! The rest of it though? Pretty strange. But cool. ]

Fighting an evil alien empire sounds familiar. [ Hello, that's her everyday life back home. ] But a wormhole - damn. Does... that mean you're stuck away from Earth now?

[tempredmental]

Sort of. I mean, we could probably go home, but it hasn't really come up. [Well, it had once, but they had sort of all turned it down after the incident with Sendak taking over the Castle and almost killing Lance and Coran.]

The mission we're on sort of encompassed everything, you know? And, well, if we don't stop Zarkon, eventually, he'll get to Earth, and we'll just be stuck facing him again anyway, but he might be stronger by then. So, it's better we just do what we can to take him down now, and then go back to Earth when it's done.

[If there was anything on Earth left for Keith to go back to... he wasn't so sure, to be honest. But, he knew others would want to go back... Matt and Pidge to their mom, Hunk and Lance to their families... He wasn't sure about Shiro, but it was something to think about another time.]

[stormfist]

Makes sense. As a Guardian, a lot of my missions involve putting an end to specific targets - threats - before they come for Earth.

[ She nods. Gotta do what needs doing, right? ]

[tempredmental]

Yeah. [Keith nodded a little.] Sounds about right.

[He nodded back to town.] Wanna grab a coffee or something?

[stormfist]

Sure, coffee sounds good. I'd say "Race you there," but they'd probably bust us for speeding in city limits.

[ Alas. ]

[tempredmental]

[Keith chuckled.]

Heh, probably.

[He reached up to put his helmet back on.]

Doesn't mean we can't race to the city limits, though.

[He smirked.]