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A I ([personal profile] aithinkthereforeaiam) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-07-17 11:18 am

(open) flight of the concord

Date & Time: 1200 Island Standard Time
Location: Exsilium, Warehouse 13
Characters: All boarders and pilots and staff listed here, and everyone else to come and see!
Summary: The space shuttle has finally been fully restored, and now the Initiative has cleared it for a practice flight out past the exosphere. The flight is a success, thus guaranteeing future goals brought around by the Transports rewriting history to reshape the present.
Warnings: None at the moment. Space excitement!

There's a sense of excitement almost strong enough to taste for people waiting past the safe-line, watching for the space shuttle liberated by accidental chance from the United Earth. She's been refitted and reworked by countless hours of labor intense love from Transports and Initiative members alike, and today, she's finally ready to reclaim the skies.

With the flight path chosen, and the cloud patterns promising no heavy rain or turbulance in the lowest level of the atmosphere, or the one right above, everyone is relatively confident this will go well.

And if it doesn't... they'll deal with the fallout.

Yet today is not a day to mourn failures. Today will be a day of success -- and to each person strapped in on the space shuttle herself, it will be a flight into the skies to remember. For the four hours the crew will stay in rotation with the Earth from beyond her exosphere, memories will be made, champagne knock-offs will be had back on Exsilium, and absolutely no potty breaks will happen up in the skies.

Let's ammend that earlier statement: there is one failure. That failure is the sonic toilet, but in the face of every other challenge, to only have the toilets break down is nigh on miraculous!
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[personal profile] autocratic 2013-07-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ever since Coby had expressed interest in going along this trip, Saber had been more reserved than usual. Sitting next to him, her flashy, clearly expensive looking crimson ballroom dress made her stand out among the other pilots and attendees. The only part of her that didn't match the overall color radiance is the sullen look on her face as she has her arms crossed over her chest and watching the other boarders with an almost irritated look.

Despite being from ancient Rome, the novelty of space travel is as interesting as reading the morning paper. Before coming here, she was in a spot on the moon, fighting a digital version of the Holy Grail War. The scenery of stars is beautiful, but all of it just made her wish she could meet Hakuno again. It really isn't helping her mood on this trip, but since Coby insisted, she followed anyway.

At least she had no need for toiletries. Poor bastards. ]