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!
shelkethetransparent: (I am not afraid of you.)

[personal profile] shelkethetransparent 2013-08-01 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[The redhead gives a nod at the offer, and perhaps the barest of a smile, but then...]

...Astrophysics. [Shelke shifts.] I've never even heard of that.
unkindness: (explaining things)

[personal profile] unkindness 2013-08-02 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It is the study of the physical characteristics of spatial bodies. What they are made of, their behaviors and interactions.

[That's about as simple an explanation as she can give.]

My posting aboard the starship I am from is Astrometrics officer. I interpret computer data in order to chart the space surrounding our vessel so that we can traverse it quickly and safely.
shelkethetransparent: (What's that?)

[personal profile] shelkethetransparent 2013-08-03 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
A science we had absolutely no need for. [Shelke shifts.] More things I know nothing about.

[Frustrating.]