( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

[initiates]

Date & Time: September 21st - September 30th, 11:59 PM
Location: The Hold, the Moon Base
Characters: Any/all.
Summary: The Transports are evacuating to the Moon Base. Those on the Moon Base try to settle in and figure out their next move. Setting info can be found here.
Warnings: Talk of nuclear warheads and reference to immense loss of life. Please contact the mods should any individual thread get graphically violent or anything else of the sort.
Note: Use date and location tags in your subject headlines! Such as "On the moon, 23rd onward" or "On the spaceship, 25th" or "down at the Hold, 29th."

The Hold is a flurry of activity, grim faced members of the Initiative group directing supplies and people with the subdued air of people facing their own doom, and wondering at how to process the knowledge. None of the Initiative appears unaware of what will happen; their eyes linger on the Transports, expressions pleading, hopeful, doubtful, or immeasurably sad in turn.

Every eight hours, the space ship is sent back up with a load of people and supplies. The pilots are worked until they can't; the AI stolen ages ago by the Initiative greets and corrals people and supplies at both ends, and in the middle step between.

The network continues to broadcast on narrow channels between the Moon Base and Exsilium, up until the time that all connections are lost, with the carrier located en route to Exsilium. The first airship will pass by without dropping anything, but it's too early to celebrate. At a six hour delay from behind, the second airship arrives, and with it, the dark promise of the Black Code's nuclear weaponry.

The six hour window allows for time for those left behind, either by choice or circumstance, to be pulled to the Moon Base with the successful activation of the Transport Pad. New characters will ultimately arrive with the remainder of those not yet on the Moon Base, all in time to witness the explosive contact of the nuclear warhead with the ground of Exsilium live on satellite.

But until then, there's only the hurry, the silence, and the potential for full out rioting should the Transports spread word to the Exiles inevitably left behind to face this fate.

Comments

[cesar]

[ He smirks, stealing only the briefest glance at her before focusing most of his attention on the screen. ]

Not relief?

[hejhej]

The Initiative is only interested in saving us because we're all part of their plan. The Exiles aren't, but they didn't ask for any of this so they're being left behind.

[Lisbeth was more angry at the idea that the Transports were all truly pawns in a game between the Initiative and the United Earth than the idea of the Exiles being left behind.]

But such is life, hm?

[cesar]

We did not ask for any of this either.

[ But such is life, as she says. ]

Would it have been better to die there, along with the Exiles?

[hejhej]

[Lisbeth takes her eyes off of the screen again to look at him and shrug.]

What's death to us Transports, anyway? They have the capacity to bring us back.

[Unless they decided not to.]

But no, it wouldn't have been better.

[cesar]

We could always go back in time and save them, too.

[hejhej]

Maybe. But how would you feel if you looked an Exile in the fact and knew that they died in the most horrible way?

[cesar]

[ He thinks he wouldn't care, but that's not an acceptable answer to give. ]

Instantly is not the most horrible way.