GrindStone Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 (edited) Jedi Master Ayday walks onto a Republic starship provided to the Jedi order. The lights flicker, and turn on as Master Ayday walks around the ship; inspecting everything, hiting the doors with her hand, KNONK! Then she finds a busted spot on the wall. It's a door control panel that isn't secured. Must have popped out or shook lose. Ayday Says "I don't know, it kind of looks like somone wanted to open it". Behind Ayday on the other side of the engine room; a astromech droid starts laughing "kek kek kek". The droid says in basic "That kind of thing happens all the time" "It's nothing" "Just weld it back". But it sounds like "Beep boop be doop doop" "Earahh, ekk" "Beep beep beep, bop boop". Sparks are flying everywhere, and Ayday is trying to duck her head out of the way so the slag don't hit her in the face. Ayday finishes with the panel, and starts talking with the astromech droid that's asking something about Jedi. Ayday says "Yes" and she heads towards the bridge from the back of the ship. She checks all the rooms along the way. Every door she hits with her hand. BONK! BONK! ... BONK! All the lights on the ship are now on, and there are two other passengers that she stops to talk to along the way. Everything is fine. It's a nice day. There's a strange holocron or datacron on the table in the galley. When she sees it; she walks over, and sits down in a nice chair right in front of the datacron. It's just so weird. Ayday is wondering what it is, and she's trying to figure it out. But to no avail, she leave disappointed again. Ayday checks one last room, and heads to the bridge. She is delighted to find her friend there waiting. They talk about Jedi business for a little while. Then it's time to figure out where we are going to fly next. Ayday picks a destination from the main console, but then makes her way back to the Nav computer. Ayday starts talking to herself. We are at Yavin. Looks like there are a few turns to get out of here. Ayday opens a map, and starts drawing a line in red, and then marking all the turns in a bright green color. Then it's a mainline hyperspeed lane. Ayday draws a really long red line, and starts bending it over the map to get the route. A couple more turns, and she's done. Ayday shouts "TEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED PARSECS!" Ayday's friend lets out a "Urgh" as her shoulders sink down. Ayday does some math, and it will take 6 days to get there. Ayday goes to the main console to begin spooling up the hyperdrive, and shunting most of the energy in the ship into the reactor output. The astromech droid comes in freaking out! "BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEEEP!" and then "Beep beep, kllunk". Ayday says "Yes, it really will take six days to get there. Then the astromech droid starts talking about how it wants to get into the action. Then the droid sounds really sad with beeps and funny noices that sound depressing. Ayday is just laughing quietly to herself while preparing to take off. Once in the air; Ayday sets the reactor on a full burn of the sub-light engines. Ayday hits the ship intercom, all rooms and stowage. Ayday's voice echos through the ship "HOLD ON, WE'RE GOING TO BLAST OFF!" The main console is making beeping noises and lights are flickering on and off. The ship rapidly accelerates to escape velocity. Ayday pulls back on the flight controls, and the ship makes it's way straight up. The front of the hull sort of burns it's way through the atmosphere; everything heats up as debris rapidly oxidizes. The air is thinner the higher up you go; so the heat and flaming debris dissipates. Then the ship begins to accelerate more to escape the gravity well of the planet below. Ayday keys in the burn to the hyperspace lane that is nearby, and then she slams the throttle all the way. The ship then accelerates to roughly half the speed of light (684,931,506 mph) to exit the star system at the jump point just beyond the last planet; which will take about 6 minutes at this speed. Ayday just sits there lamenting the fact that she never tried to make this ship any faster. The ship arrives at the jump point, and Ayday begins shunting power from weapons or shield systems and auxiliary power back into the reactor. The nav computer confirms the route is locked in. Ayday overrides the lock, and pushes the throttle of reactor energy that goes into the hyperdrive all the way forwards. The brightness of all the lights in front of the ship increase dramatically as the ship slips into hyperspace. Then because they were on a backwoods planet; every 5 or 6 minutes the ship stops to make a turn. Ayday turns on the radio to listen to music really loud on the bridge. Ayday says "WE BANG IT!" as she's looking at screens, buttons, and figuring out what to press to make this go quicker. Each stop the ship begins to shake a little bit. It gets really noisy. The ship, space, and time all moan loudly. It sounds kind of like some of the more weird starship engines burning, but it's screaming loud. Then all of a sudden the ship stops, it's all quiet; as the ship just appeared from out of nowhere in the middle of empty space. It's pitch black outside. There's nothing to see but a nearby star. The ship changes it's vector to the next jump. And this process repeats a few times. Left, right, up, left. Then the last jump is on a mainline hyperspeed lane. Ayday stands up from the main console on the bridge, and disappears into the starship for 6 days just living, and trying to find things to do to pass the time. Then six days later; the ship reaches the destination. It's really loud, so everybody knows. It's time to fly this ship some more. Ayday walks in, and sets up a burn for 6 minutes to this planet. Edited February 7, 2023 by GrindStone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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