A New Power

[Galethorn]

Jorran seemed even more intrigued by the hyperdrive's strange properties.

"Well, I think your demonstration showed me more than a stick could have...but now I'm eager to see how it would react to the force..."

Jorran put the fingers of his right hand to his temple and closed his eyes, looking at the hyperdrive with the force, and then (assuming it doesn't have any strange aura) attempting to shift its position a bit.

(OOC: See Force followed by Move Object)

 

[Angcuru]

Jorran's attempt to detect the Force within the Hyperdrive yeilds a complete blank. He can feel objects surrounding the hyperdrive, but once he starts to feel past the strange field, it's as if there is nothing there. He tries to use the force to move it, but it is as if it is slippery even in his attempts with the force. Jorran finds that he can budge it slightly by moving other objects against it, but he simple cannot get a hold on the hyperdrive itself.

 

[Angcuru]

Miera walked in behind Arias, and did a double take when she saw the Hyperdrive. "Nikama, why didn't you tell us that you have a working stasis field?!"

Arias and Nikama looked at her and simultaneously asked, "Working Stasis Field?"

Miera poked Arias on the nose and pointed. "Shiny field around hyperdrive."

Nikama twitched. "How do you know it's really a stasis field? They're just speculation and whatnot, only theory! No one has ever gotten one to work in this manner! This thing is probably just a fluke, something different."

"Shortly before Arias and I...left...the Jedi, there was a report that the Techno Union, a faction within the seperatists, had managed to develop a containment field that slowed the progression of time on its contents to approximately one milisecond per trillion standard years. In other words the contents are completely invulnerable while the field is active." Miera said. "Not that that helps us get it working." She frowned.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Aasan looked to Meira with a curious expression on his hidden features before looking back down to the well protected item, "In other words, you know what it is, but not how it works or how to get rid of it. Wonderfully helpful. I've got a bad feeling it might be easier to build a new one from scratch rather than try to figure this thing out."

 

[Super Girl]

"Great, we'll be getting off this rock about the time, I'm free floating carbon." Kia offers sarcastically. "At least I can take the ship up to space and leave a distress signal at the center of the hyperlanes that head through the system. Then anyone stopping here will at least know we're here. Space is big, but hyperjumps are always plotted to the center of a system, so arrival points should be within a relatively small area, theoretically."

"She should be airtight, I mean the diagnostic would let us know if something was that wrong, but double checking it shouldn't hurt us either."

 

[Angcuru]

"I know what it is, yes. But even though I have no clue how to deactivate it, there must be some way to do so. Techno Union engineers were paranoid about safety. There must be a way to disable that field on the hyperdrive itself." Miera stated. "Nikama, see what you can do. Aasan, please help him with this."

"I would have rather kept this planetary sytem a secret, but there seems to be no other choice." Arais sighed. "Kia, this bouy that you mentioned, go ahead and set it up. If you can, try and block the signal from the Imperials. If not, then we may have an opportunity to capture and additional ship. I'll go along with you just in case. Kal, Adrial, you two should come as well. We will be doing a lot of space travel in the near future, you should start getting used to it." With that said, Arais left the hut and headed towards the Dawnsprinter.

"Jorran, your ship had a working hyperdrive, right?" Miera asked him. "While Kia sets up the bouy, you could do a scan and see if you can find it. Even if the ship was damaged beyond repair, you may be able to salvage the hyperdrive."

 

[Galethorn]

Jorran stroked his beard.

"Good idea...I'll get right on it...but, uh, where would I be scanning from, exactly?"

 

[Super Girl]

"Scan from the Dawnsprinter, sensors are working just fine, and with the ship, we can actually go wherever if you find it, especially if its still in space." Kia tells Jorran. "I am not a fan of piracy in any form, the imperials do help crashed ships, no reason to expect them to be hostile right off the bat Arias." the CorSec hopeful told the master reproachfully. The red head led the other force users to the ship, and through it, up into the cockpit.

"Strap yourselves in." she says, running her pre-flight list, checking for integrity, repulsors, etc, everything needed to fly out of atmo. As she waits, she does a double check of the comms array, checking to make sure that the ships distress beacon was in working order. It was standard operating procedure for escape pods, they set off a distress call when launched, unless disabled, simple plan, wasy to carry off, she could just drop the escape pod with the settlement's coordiates at the hyper point.

 

[Angcuru]

***

Arias climbed up the landing ramp and took a seat in the Dawnsprinter's Rec Room. Although he hadn't been on board a working Starship in nearly thirty years, he didn't feel any sense of excitement or anticipation. He motioned for Kal and Adrial to sit down as well, and briefly showed them how to strap themselves in with the crash buckles.

The quick diagnostic told Kia that all life support / atmospheric containment systems were opertaional.

***​

"Well, we'd better examine this thing while they're gone. They might not be able to find Jorran's ship, and even if they do there's no guarantee that the hyperdrive will be intact." Nikama said to Aasan. "Well, lets get the hyperdrive outside where there's more light."

Nikama cleared most of the junk away from the shimmering hyperdrive, and scooted into a position behind it. "Right, I'm going to try and push it out of here through that doorway. You just make sure to 'catch' it if it gets away from me." He placed his hands on the side of the hyperdrive, braced his feet against the hut floor, and pushed. His hands promptly slipped off of the stasis field, and he fell forward, almost bashing his head against it. In frustration, Nikama kicked out at it, but immediately regretted doing so without thick boots on. "I hate my job."

 

[Super Girl]

Kia nods in satisfaction, currently the only thing wrong with the ship was a lack of hyper-drive, pretty good for having crashed so recently. Just use the credits she was going to use for upgrades for a new one, and get the ship refurbished and detailed, and it would about blow through all the money she had, but with the ship she could always make more.

"Get Ready, I'm taking off," she tells the ground pounders new to spaceflight. She flicks the repulsor's on and raises the ship smoothly until they are 200 meters above the settlement, well out of range of engine back wash, before punching in the sub-lights, sending the nimble transport up hurtling into space towrds the most likely route through the system. A line that would end just outside the Sun's gravity shadow.