(open) flight of the concord

[aithinkthereforeaiam]

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!

Comments

[priad]

Well, most of us anyway.

[ Priad has his own methods for dealing with vacuum exposure, mostly involving activating his sus-an membrane and just waiting it out as a "corpse." ]

I will point out that probably several of the crew members here are capable of that feat as well.

[ Not priad, but priad has more prosaic ways of disabling and killing a ship like this. ]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

True. [He probably could if he really tried, but.] Hopefully nobody here wants us dead, though - and if they do, they're doing a damned good job of hiding it.

[priad]

I think we're more likely to die from an accidental crash than an internal problem with the crew.

[ He nods his head. ]

Though I saw a xeno-breed earlier, and I am uncomfortable in their presence.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

...'Xeno-breed'? [Nate does not like the tone of that, being somewhat other than human himself...]

[priad]

Yes, an alien.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[Nate raises an eyebrow - a little cautiously, because that's an attitude mutants face, too] They're no better or worse than us humans.

[priad]

I disagree. Philosophically and culturally, we will eventually come to be at odds with them all. That is why safeguards such as myself were created.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

I can think of plenty of humans who I'm already at odds with, culturally speaking.