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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-09-22 02:45 pm
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( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

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.
wilder: (stand and watch)

[personal profile] wilder 2013-09-26 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow yeah that forced smile is weird there. But he'll look up when he hears the kid approach, coming out of his own thoughts]

Hey. Finally came up?
chosenfake: (♪ send me strength ; send me love)

[personal profile] chosenfake 2013-10-01 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I wanted to spend as much time as I could... with them.

[He's sad about the restaurant, but that's small in comparison to all the people who will be dying soon.]

Most of them shrugged me off, but it was still hard to leave.
wilder: (stand on the sidelines)

[personal profile] wilder 2013-10-01 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...

[He lowers his sword a little into his lap]

I would've stayed longer, but I promised to help get some people up here. It was...tough, saying goodbye to some of the patients.
chosenfake: (Default)

[personal profile] chosenfake 2013-10-01 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[That's right, Kaneis is a medic. His forced smile has long since faded.]

... I'm going back for them, no matter what. Maybe they won't be the same because we can't really erase what happened, but I'm definitely going back for them.
wilder: (friends huh)

[personal profile] wilder 2013-10-02 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He makes a small "hm" noise]

Got any idea how you'll do that?
chosenfake: (♪ watch them go)

[personal profile] chosenfake 2013-10-03 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaneis doesn't sound convinced. That's okay.]

It'll involve a lot of time traveling, unfortunately. We're going to need supplies to keep living here. On top of that, we need to disable the UE's weapons somehow so they won't be able to fight like this. I don't know if we have that knowledge at the moment... but interfering is the best chance we have.

If we can bring more resources onto the island as a whole, the Exiles will be able to live easier. Maybe the tension that we've been dealing with will lessen, too.
wilder: (dilemma (Sheena))

[personal profile] wilder 2013-10-04 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Look his natural vocal tone is unconvinced he can't help it. But he considers that plan thoughtfully]

Hm...I don't know it that'll work. At least, part of it anyway.
chosenfake: (♪ when all my skies are painted blue)

[personal profile] chosenfake 2013-10-08 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Luke doesn't look offended. He knows it's a shaky plan at best.]

Do you think they'll just find another way to get back at us, or... is it something else?
wilder: (side stand)

[personal profile] wilder 2013-10-09 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...the UE does have a lot of ways of destroying things. And if we could successfully declaw them enough not to attack Exsilium- well, the war would be over. Pretty unlikely, at least for awhile.

I'd...probably go for some way to prevent it by making sure the UE doesn't decide to destroy Exsilium in the first place.