Post by Ensign Mandy Bergin on Jan 4, 2015 18:28:42 GMT -8
Mandy took a deep breath as they emerged from warp a few kilometers from the asteroid field they'd been aiming for. And then another. And another. Part of her knew that this was a sign of trust, that she was only here because Robin trusted her, because she'd proven herself as a bloody good pilot during the war, and before, and maybe even since--not that it had been all that difficult, keeping the new Talon pointed straight in the starstreams, but still--and that he knew she could do this, and do it well.
The rest of her was just terrified at the magnitude of this, at the enormity of what was happening to them. Because, really, none of them were quite ready for a war yet, were they? Not another one. She wasn't. She was ready to spend a nice, long, quiet tour of duty investigating strange power anomalies that would turn out to be perfectly normal, easily explainable natural phenomena.... but no. No such luck was to be theirs.
So here she was, pointing a shuttle at an asteroid field so they could enjoy a glorified scavenger hunt that would, in some twisted way, prove that they didn't want to kill the people of this quadrant willy-nilly. She still wasn't quite clear on the logic behind that, but she was only an Ensign and therefore wasn't going to get much of a chance to ask the Pewdin precisely what they thought they were doing. Her eyes slid towards her companions--Lieutenant Franks, an intense operations officer, and Lieutenant Halsey, an engineer.
"Ready?" she asked, reaching up above her head to flick on the higher-intensity running lights. Not, of course, that she couldn't fly through the field ahead of them on nothing but sensors. It was the principle of the thing. "Might want to make sure your crash belts are secure, I might have to do some fancy flying," she added quietly. The inertial dampeners on the shuttle only did so much, and she didn't really want any of them to go flying.
She headed slightly away from the other shuttle. Spike was on that one, and she sincerely hoped he'd do as spectacular a job as she knew he could. Their lives depended on it, or at least their freedom. Something deep in her gut told her it was probably their lives, though. She hated that feeling. She kicked up the impulse engines, the shuttle headed as fast as she could get it towards the asteroid field. She slowed as they approached closer, sliding in between two of the asteroids. "Alright," she said, sidling the shuttle almost sideways to slip above another floating rock. "How's that list going?"
Tag: @kingshrykull, @ang55elis
The rest of her was just terrified at the magnitude of this, at the enormity of what was happening to them. Because, really, none of them were quite ready for a war yet, were they? Not another one. She wasn't. She was ready to spend a nice, long, quiet tour of duty investigating strange power anomalies that would turn out to be perfectly normal, easily explainable natural phenomena.... but no. No such luck was to be theirs.
So here she was, pointing a shuttle at an asteroid field so they could enjoy a glorified scavenger hunt that would, in some twisted way, prove that they didn't want to kill the people of this quadrant willy-nilly. She still wasn't quite clear on the logic behind that, but she was only an Ensign and therefore wasn't going to get much of a chance to ask the Pewdin precisely what they thought they were doing. Her eyes slid towards her companions--Lieutenant Franks, an intense operations officer, and Lieutenant Halsey, an engineer.
"Ready?" she asked, reaching up above her head to flick on the higher-intensity running lights. Not, of course, that she couldn't fly through the field ahead of them on nothing but sensors. It was the principle of the thing. "Might want to make sure your crash belts are secure, I might have to do some fancy flying," she added quietly. The inertial dampeners on the shuttle only did so much, and she didn't really want any of them to go flying.
She headed slightly away from the other shuttle. Spike was on that one, and she sincerely hoped he'd do as spectacular a job as she knew he could. Their lives depended on it, or at least their freedom. Something deep in her gut told her it was probably their lives, though. She hated that feeling. She kicked up the impulse engines, the shuttle headed as fast as she could get it towards the asteroid field. She slowed as they approached closer, sliding in between two of the asteroids. "Alright," she said, sidling the shuttle almost sideways to slip above another floating rock. "How's that list going?"
Tag: @kingshrykull, @ang55elis