aithinkthereforeaiam: (blue)
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!
oncearanger: (answers)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-07-20 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'll always be so cheerful it irritates you?

...I hope so.
imperfect: (better days)

[personal profile] imperfect 2013-07-21 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ed gives him an odd look, not really comprehending.] Hey, don't make fun of a guy when he's in pain...
oncearanger: (answers)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-07-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry!

[He stops and leans against the wall of the shuttle.]

What is it that's hurting?
imperfect: * (eyes shut)

[personal profile] imperfect 2013-07-22 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[He scowls.] Doesn't matter. Don't mind me. You go ahead and gawk at whatever you were planning to.

[With that, he gives the strap an almighty yank - mostly out of frustration, since it gets him nowhere.]
oncearanger: (side-eye)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-07-23 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Billy gives Ed a doubtful look at all that strap-pulling.]

Are you all right there?
imperfect: (don't you start)

[personal profile] imperfect 2013-07-23 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Just fine, thanks for asking! [At least all the snarling brings a little colour back into his face.

He can't keep it up for too long, though. He lets out a prolonged, pained-sounding sigh.]
Geez, I should've thought... Well, no. Fifteen hundred years down the line, why the hell wouldn't I think they'd figure out how to do better than any stinkin' old airship...?
oncearanger: (worried)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-07-23 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Billy frowns a little]

You didn't like the airship?