A New Power

[Super Girl]

Kia lets out a cheer as the ships engines surge with the new power, driving her back into her seat. With this much power, she could punch out of the gravity well of the planet and set up a distress beacon at center of the system, the place that 99% of hyper jumps were planned to go, just to avoid the very problems that the Dawnsprinter would run into. "Great work Aasan, not sure what you did, or why you did it while we are in mid-air, but it was a stellar job." the scoundral congratulates the scout. She rules out telling the settlement that they would be there in a few minutes, not liking being dismissed for a second time in less then half a day.

"Come on up here Aasan, take the copilot seat, we'll be there in less then 5 minutes." she tells him over the intercom. Grinning tightly, she waggles the ship a bit out of the pure joy of flying again at more then a snail's pace. This speed, this was her baby, the Dawnsprinter that she had fallen in love with. After a minute, her antics settled down, and she watched the ETA swiftly count itself down to nothing as the ship roared to a stop over the settlement and the area that Miera had told her to land in. She made a quick loop over the landing area, to make sure it was clear, and then cut power to the engines, easing her down smoothly on her repulsorlifts, til she settled softly on the ground.

Kia spent a moment smoothing out her sleeveless bodysock and clipping on her gun-belt, tying the bottom of the holster to her thigh. Between the belt, the holster, and the lightsabr clipt opposite of the holster, it and the body sock did a very good job emphasizing her figure. She winked at Aasan as she hit the landing ramp control.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Aasan had rubbed his skull idly while trying not to think too hard. After returning to the cockpit, he couldn't help but admit that he wasn't even completely sure what he'd done, but it had worked, and in the end, that was all that really mattered.

Once they were down, he pulled on his own belt and holster, and checked his breath mask one last time. With a bit of a worried feeling, he stepped up to follow Kia down the ramp, simply nodding to her to lead the way down since she seemed ready to do it anyway. He'd learned a thing or two about humans in his years, but sometimes, the eagerness of the young of any species still was beyond his grasp.

 

[Guest 11456]

Adrial Strogg : Female Human Sethi Consular 3

Adrial nodded to Master Pannar and went to go rouse the other two. First she headed to Kal's quarters and found the young Sethi still asleep. She shook his bed. "Kal! Wakeup! It's almost lunch time." Without waiting for him to get moving she is heading out of his quarters as he is starting to stir. "Meet at the cooking area." Next she goes to find the new arrival, Jorran. She finds him just outside the meeting hut looking up into the sky. As Adrial is about to ask what he is looking at, she sees the ship fly over the camp. It is the first working starship she has ever seen. She starts running to the cooking area while yelling over her shoulder. "Meet at the cooking area!"

 

[Angcuru]

"Get up, it's almost time for lunch and Jorran is waiting for you to begin his training." Miera nudged Arais, who was sprawled out on their bed. "It's not like you to stay abed this late."

"Bah. It's also not like you to be so energetic." Arias smirked. "You try sleeping out in the wilderness for three days straight before coming home to such a vigorous welcome." He stretched, and scooted over to sit on the edge of the bed, pulling Miera down next to him.

Miera cuffed him upside his head. "Are you referring to me, or the vornskr attack? Don't answer that. Anyway, that Kia girl will have her ship here in a few hours and Orran's gotten lunch ready, so get dressed." She took his clothes from the edge of the bad and shoved them playfully in his face.

"Oh, wonderful, and I'd just gotten used to this planet." Arais dressed, making sure to secure his lightsaber to the small clip in his robes that held it in place hanging between his shoulder blades, beneath the outer cloak.

"Would you like me to send her away, instead?" Miera teased.

"Don't be fooling around, woman! You know I hate this place. It's always hot and humid, you can't stay outside the gate for more than fifteen minutes before something tries to introduce you to it's digestive tract, and every day it's the exact same thing for breakfast lunch and dinner." Arias complained as he smoothed out the creases in his clothing. "I swear, the first thing I do when I get off this miserable planet is find the nicest restaurant in the galaxy and get a private booth where it's colder than Hoth in the winter season!" He paused for a moment. "Well, maybe not that cold, but still pretty damned chilly."

They stepped out of the large hut just in time to hear the Dawnsprinter shoot past overhead before coming back and hovering down to the ground not far from the fire pits.

"I thought you said she was going to be here in a few hours." Arais said.

"Well, over the comm she did sound like the typical young, impatient sort." Miera said as they headed over towards where Adrial was waiting for them..

"Traits that I'm willing to ignore if she can get us off this rock." Arais smiled broadly.

***​

The landing ramp of the Dawnsprinter touched down smoothly, letting a rush of hot, humid air into the climate-controlled starship interior. Kia and Aasan descented down the ramp into the center of the village, where they were greeted by three figures.

A tall, handsome man with a well-trimmed brown beard stopped several paces in front of Aasan and Kia. To his left was a very short black-haired woman, and on his right, an attractive woman of average height with amber hair. Both woman wore lightsabers at their sides, though the man appeared unarmed.

"We had expected you a bit later, Kia. Lucky for you, you've arrived just in time for lunch." The woman said with a smile.

 

[Super Girl]

Kia allows the motion of the lowering ramp to carry her to the ground, not even the jolt of the ramp coming to a stop fully extended made her lose her balance. The former academy candidate smirked down at the group gathered to meet her and Aasan. She tossed her head and her red hair settles back around her shoulders, it was the kind of personal motion that could get very annoying very quickly if repeated. Kia smiled and stepped off the ramp, her hand travelining to her lightsaber when she sees the two women wearing their own sabers. "I guess you weren't kidding about being force sensitive," Kia jokes, looking at the older of the women.

She extends a hand to Arias "Kia Obscura, Captain of the DawnSprinter, now lets see what we can do to get us all of this wonderful planet you've discovered." She brushes the white locke of hair over her temple up and behind her ear to keep it from her face. Standing a step from the landing ramp of her ship in a skin tight body sock, with a hand on her light saber, she looks every bit like a heroine from some insipid romance holo-drama.

At the mention of not being expected so early, and the mention of lunch, the force sensitive girl just shrugs, "Aasan is a tech wiz, he got Dawnsprinter up from 2% to 100% sublight while we were in the air. Look, I don't have enough for everyone to make it a habit, but I have enough meals for everyone to have a one, well, maybe not if you came here on a Star Destroyer, but anything smaller, and I should have you covered. Climate control too, if you want to get out of the heat and humidity for a bit to talk about what you offered earlier..." she says the last more hesitantly, the Sethi Master might be able tell that it came from what she had said about Jedi Hunters.

 

[Galethorn]

Jorran chuckled when he saw a dent on the front of the Dawnsprinter--with bits of russet-brown paint in it.

"I thought I had seen the last of the Umber Dart when it exploded in orbit, but you brought some of its paint with you just to cheer me up."

He seemed to notice Kia finally.

"You seem a little young to be ramming older mens' ships out of the sky...but you made it here just fine, which is more than I could have done at your age.

He grinned.

 

[Angcuru]

Miera was just about to speak when she noticed something oddly humorous.

The red twi'lek child had shown up and was tugging on Aasan's pant leg. "'Scuse me mister space man. What's tha' thing stuck on your face? D'you need help gettin' it off?"

Miera covered her face halfway with her hand, not sure whether to laugh or apologize.

 

[Guest 11456]

Adrial Strogg : Female Human Sethi Consular 3

Adrial is speechless. She never really imagined she would ever see a working starship and now here one set before her. She stands and waits beside Master Pannar trying to remain cautious. But inside she is jumping up and down.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Aasan smiled under the breathmask, his attention suddenly drawn away from the others(and the lightsabers). With a slight grunt, he knelt down and rested a hand gently on the child's small shoulder, "I require it to breathe, little one. Believe me, I would take it off if I could."

He didn't get up, though, and instead simply looked up to Miera, "I am assuming you are the one on the comm, yes? I am glad there is a settlement here...wherever here is. Though, I must admit, I have not seen so many lightsabers in nearly thirty years."

 

[Angcuru]

"That won't be necessary, Kia. We already have a meal prepared, and the climate isn't so bad once you've gotten used to it. And yes, Aasan, I am the one you heard over the comm." She gestures towards a semicircle of wooden benches near the fire pits. "Please, sit. We have much to discuss, but first, we should have some food."


Kal was startled out of bed as the Dawnsprinter shot past overhead. He hurriedly donned his robes, and just remembered the grab his lightsaber before dashing out of the hut. To his surprise, everyone was gathered near the fire pit and a large metal...thing, and seemed to be having lunch. Kal quickly took a seat, hoping that his teachers wouldn't notice his tardiness.