10-24-2015, 01:41 PM,
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Kunanaki
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
On the way to Alice's quarters he remembers something. He pulls out a thing that looks like a pen. It was something the professor gave his crew so they could keep in contact. After looking it over he stops and starts to carefully examine it. Lights come on and off as he pushes buttons on it. Then he tells the pen "I'm not sure if this thing is working correctly, Alan, but if you can hear me stop playing around with your "toys" and get ready to go outside. We are helping Alice get some of her work done. Meet us at airlock AA-23. Hope he heard that. Silly contraption, why not just ..." he starts to mumble something as he continues headed for Alice's quarters. Holding the "pen" the rest of the way there.
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10-24-2015, 05:03 PM,
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
All her life, Alice had loved the smell of the mech bays and fighter hangers. The sights and sounds of the whole thing often called out to her. But she knew that this life wasn't for her. Skipping from conflict to conflict for the sake of cash just wasn't for her. Despite all of the draw of this world, her heart and skill rested with science. Since the first day she arrived on Tharkad as a child, she found a love for the clean world that was science. There was a sense of order to this world that her chaotic childhood had lacked. No, her draw to the dirty conflict filled world of the merc just wasn't for her.
Alice nodded to the young pilot, "We need a ride over to the Observatory station. I have to get my things from my quarters there to complete work on the Ark."
She smiled at the pilot, "would you be so kind to take over there?"
She turned back to Captain Thorchan, "Can I ask you something? How long have you been a Merc?"
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10-25-2015, 12:29 PM,
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
"Sure," said Jake, the pilot. "Right this way." Unerringly, he navigated towards the hanger where his Mark VII shuttle was stored. Several minutes later, they arrived and he triggered the cabin's door remotely, climbing up the ladder into the cockpit, waiting for his passengers to join him aboard the shuttle.
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10-25-2015, 01:01 PM,
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Kunanaki
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
Thorchan looked at Alice. What is it about him that everyone asks him that? He usually puts it out to just random small talk. Over time he has gotten use to the idea of "small talk". Someone once told him that the polite way to deal with "small talk" is to respond with short answers. So he just smiled at Alice, tasseled her hair a bit and said "Long enough, babe. Long enough." And continued to walk with her.
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10-25-2015, 03:08 PM,
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
Lyona looks up as the door to her billet opens. She is surprised to see the Captain and listens to his instructions. When he leaves she looks up at Kyle "I guess this will have to wait until we get back. Time to earn our pay."
She gets up from the computer, removes the drive and places it into a small pocket in the sleeve of her shirt. Walking over to her bed she grabs her jacket and tool belt.
Putting her tool belt on, she tightens it to fit her waist. Throwing on her jacket she bends over and grabs her backpack.
Walking over to the door she looks at Kyle "well are you going to need anything." She heads out of the door and heads down the hall way.
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10-26-2015, 09:44 PM,
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Kunanaki
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
Thorchan gets in and listens to her story while he buckles in. As he adjusts his seat he says "What we are born with or without doesn't matter. Those Inner Sphere gurus think that because you are born in some great house that you are automatically some great super solider. Ain't that right, sonny." He pokes Jake in the shoulder, laughs a little, then continues " Some Clanners believe the same thing. But that is why you have to EARN your bloodname. Otherwise your just another solider in the military. So it sounds to me like your just a baby bird that got separated from its flock. Is that it? Or are you actually trying to BE someone?" He takes one last puff from his cigar, blows it out the door. He then pulls out a knife from his boot and cuts off the end of the cigar after putting it out on the knife. When he returns the knife to his boot he looks straight at Alice making sure both his eyes make contact with hers.
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10-27-2015, 09:05 PM,
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
Thorchan just looks away and out the window and says "Honey, you don't want to know about the Jade Falcon from me. I was raised to hate them. Most everyone in the universe did. Inner Sphere and Clanner alike." He turns and touches her shoulder "Look, if you want to find out the truth of who the Jade Falcon are, ask them. Not even Jako here could tell you anything first hand. All I can tell you is what it is like to be a Wolf, just like Jako here can only tell you what its like to come from the Inner Sphere." He lets go her shoulder and looks back out the window and says "You want to know where you came from? Great. I think that is wonderful. But don't go picking flowers in a minefield." He looks down for a moment, hits the back of the seat in front of him and yells out "Dammit! Where is everyone?" Then unbuckles his seat belt and goes outside the shuttle to pace in front of the shuttle craft.
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10-28-2015, 08:48 AM,
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RE: Chapter One: Deep Space Music
Jake yelps a bit when he's poked, looks embarrassed, and begins busying himself with pre-flight systems checks, calibrating his neurohelmet, and generally running through everything he needs to do before the flight. Soon the reactor is warmed up and ready, and he's just waiting on Thorchan to get back in, and for everyone else to arrive, before he takes off.
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