( 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

[pride_of_amarcia]

It's hard to say. I... I honestly don't know how time works here, so...

[notadamnvampire]

After coming here, I don't think I understand how time works at all. I don't like the idea of letting so many people die, only to shrug our shoulders and say "we'll fix it later". It seems... irresponsible.

[pride_of_amarcia]

But we don't really have a choice. The amount of energy released by the nukes is enough that we can't survive them if they drop, and there's too many to stop with just our few hundred - if we stop one ship, they'd just send two, if we stop two they'd send four... You get the idea.

[notadamnvampire]

It doesn't really make me feel any better. We're clearly losing this war, and fast. How long will we be trapped up here? I don't think they'll bother to come after us up here, at least....

[pride_of_amarcia]

Well, that's something to look on the bright side about at least, right?!

[notadamnvampire]

....Yes. I suppose. [/SARCASM.] I also suppose standing around and moping about all this isn't getting us anywhere. [Time to raise his head, and square his shoulders. There's work to be done.] There's a lot to be done if we want to get this dealt with as soon as possible.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Think of it this way. It's very likely the United Earth are going to think we're all dead.

That gives us opportunities to cause all sorts of trouble we might not have been able to cause before.

[notadamnvampire]

True. That's something we need to take full advantage of. We should stay quiet as possible here until we're more confident in a move against them. For all I know, they might have a space fleet that can take us out if we do something stupid.