Re: Brief Bickering ArgumentdaaayumMay 13 2009, 09:12:13 UTC
"I don't have a problem. You're the one all bein' cranky and then acting like you're afraid someone else on the playground is gonna steal your toy truck."
She jerks a thumb towards Worf.
"I just met that guy today, and he's some alien dude possibly old enough to be my dad, and you're going all green-eyed monster on me."
Detachment ProcedurescityshipMay 13 2009, 19:29:00 UTC
Stacy's voice intones:
||Initiating Detachment procedures.||
There was a tremendous shudder and the artificial gravity cut out. It felt as if the entire Obs Deck was drifting.
That was because that's exactly what it was doing. As it slowly rotated through space they could most likely see the rest of the ship through the windows, and long umbilical cord that connected Obs Deck to it.
At first, it seemed like there was a sheer wall there, but as Obs Deck pulled away, they could see that it was in fact the ship.
And it was huge.
A long, shriveled thing, it was like a diseased organ, made of what looked like mottled, wrinkled flesh, gray in some places, green-gray in others, and black most of all. Bulbous pods, glowing faintly in the void, were clustered along the surface of it, like eggshells illuminated from the inside.
Still, its eerie appearance was dwarfed by the sheer size of it. It was bigger than a city--to those that had traveled through space already, it was easy to see that it was bigger than the average-sized moon.
Re: Detachment Proceduresspartanjohn_117May 13 2009, 20:20:23 UTC
The Chief gives a low, appreciative whistle at the sheer size of the thing. He tries to recall anything bigger that he's seen as he lets himself drift to and catch hold of a wall. The only thing that comes to mind is the Halo constructs and the Ark where they were forged, all of those easily larger than Luna.
Exploring all of that was going to be... difficult.
And it also reminds him of the Flood. Nice.
"I'm going to hold on to something, I don't know how this tub will handle a re-entry," he says, a heads-up-this-might-not-be-fun to the others. He's looking out for them already, if any of them could potentially get slammed around in here and injured before they're even groundside it'll make things that much worse.
Entering AtmospherecityshipMay 14 2009, 09:00:16 UTC
||Preparing to enter atmosphere.||
They get a glimpse of a massive...cord, shielded with energy, still connecting them to the ship proper, like an umbilical cord. Then, over the windows shielding lowers down and up, meeting in the middle, like eyelids, and sealed and all of a sudden, there is a sudden bumping, then a lurching, and then bumping again, like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond. It shakes them only slightly from the zero-grav, but they do feel it.
||Please keep in mind you will be experiencing some turbulence|| Stacy says politely.
There is lurching again, and then...the sudden feeling that they are plummeting to the earth at several thousand miles per hour--while still floating into the air. It's almost like they were being tugged slightly at both ends, and the air in Obs Deck starts to heat up.
||Entering atmosphere|| Stacy's voice cheerfully came in their heads, unaffected by the roaring of the friction trying to burn away at the hull.
Re: Entering AtmospherecrazychangerMay 14 2009, 12:03:37 UTC
Blitzwing is giggling insanely (as usual). He doesn't even seem to mind the zero-g and the sudden turbulence. Then again, he's probably felt worse. In any case, he seems to be enjoying himself.
Re: Entering Atmospherebrainy_botMay 14 2009, 13:04:08 UTC
Brainiac 5 manages to get himself over to the wall before they start to hit the atmosphere, but as it seems like the closest person is giggling insanely to themselves, he's not sure if this is exactly the best position.
Unfortunately he doesn't get a chance to move elsewhere, as next thing they experience turbulence and his sensors indicate a rise in the air temperature. While he'd rather sulk near the wall concentrate on possibly important data, like the strange cord attaching them to the ship, there's the other crew members to think about, and he turns back to make sure no one needs a helping hand. At least if someone does, he's perfectly able to pull them to safety without leaving his own place - one benefit of having limbs that can extend much further than those of humans.
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She jerks a thumb towards Worf.
"I just met that guy today, and he's some alien dude possibly old enough to be my dad, and you're going all green-eyed monster on me."
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||Initiating Detachment procedures.||
There was a tremendous shudder and the artificial gravity cut out. It felt as if the entire Obs Deck was drifting.
That was because that's exactly what it was doing. As it slowly rotated through space they could most likely see the rest of the ship through the windows, and long umbilical cord that connected Obs Deck to it.
At first, it seemed like there was a sheer wall there, but as Obs Deck pulled away, they could see that it was in fact the ship.
And it was huge.
A long, shriveled thing, it was like a diseased organ, made of what looked like mottled, wrinkled flesh, gray in some places, green-gray in others, and black most of all. Bulbous pods, glowing faintly in the void, were clustered along the surface of it, like eggshells illuminated from the inside.
Still, its eerie appearance was dwarfed by the sheer size of it. It was bigger than a city--to those that had traveled through space already, it was easy to see that it was bigger than the average-sized moon.
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Exploring all of that was going to be... difficult.
And it also reminds him of the Flood. Nice.
"I'm going to hold on to something, I don't know how this tub will handle a re-entry," he says, a heads-up-this-might-not-be-fun to the others. He's looking out for them already, if any of them could potentially get slammed around in here and injured before they're even groundside it'll make things that much worse.
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They get a glimpse of a massive...cord, shielded with energy, still connecting them to the ship proper, like an umbilical cord. Then, over the windows shielding lowers down and up, meeting in the middle, like eyelids, and sealed and all of a sudden, there is a sudden bumping, then a lurching, and then bumping again, like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond. It shakes them only slightly from the zero-grav, but they do feel it.
||Please keep in mind you will be experiencing some turbulence|| Stacy says politely.
There is lurching again, and then...the sudden feeling that they are plummeting to the earth at several thousand miles per hour--while still floating into the air. It's almost like they were being tugged slightly at both ends, and the air in Obs Deck starts to heat up.
||Entering atmosphere|| Stacy's voice cheerfully came in their heads, unaffected by the roaring of the friction trying to burn away at the hull.
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Then again, he's probably felt worse.
In any case, he seems to be enjoying himself.
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Unfortunately he doesn't get a chance to move elsewhere, as next thing they experience turbulence and his sensors indicate a rise in the air temperature. While he'd rather sulk near the wall concentrate on possibly important data, like the strange cord attaching them to the ship, there's the other crew members to think about, and he turns back to make sure no one needs a helping hand. At least if someone does, he's perfectly able to pull them to safety without leaving his own place - one benefit of having limbs that can extend much further than those of humans.
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Cassie was trying hard not to throw up.
Breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth, steady on Cass.
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