After Earth

[Shayuri]

Melara frowns as she waits for gate clearance.

"Don't think I've seen a ship like -that- before. Some kind of optical cloaking or something...did you see that distortion effect on its hull? We gotta get one of those."

 

[Raylis]

"Get one of what?" Micahael asks "stepping" onto the bridge. He looks up at the gate, "I wonder if whoever built that was compensating for something.

 

[Rhun]

Damon's hands fly over the control conole as he sends the commands to activate the jump gate. "Activating jump gate sequence now."

 

[Shayuri]

"Some alien ship...agh, hold on!"

The Gold Greed shuddered again as the drives flared up. It surged forward into the vast skeletal cylinder of the jumpgate. As they passed the first third of it, the weightless feeling of freefall shifted unnaturally forward as the gate rippled and space in front of the vessel compressed into a momentary singularity...then blossomed into the wild riot of eye-twisting colors-that-weren't-colors of jumpspace.

"Here we go..." Mel said with the anticipation of someone looking down from the top of a hill on a roller coaster as the ride inched inexorably closer to the great fall...

Wholly unnecessary commentary, as the sudden sensation of enormous velocity gripped the ship and its crew...again, only for an instant before vanishing as abruptly as it came. Then there was only the calm of zero-gee, and scintillating non-space outside.

 

[Raylis]

"A little warning, perhaps a 'you should sit down' - and time enough to do so -would have been appreciated. Michael's voice sounds from the com once the ship reaches the other side of the gate.

 

[Shayuri]

"Sorry, Doc. When the light turns green you have to jackrabbit, or you can lose your place in line. Best policy when on approach for jump is to strap in and stay that way until you're through."

 

[Rhun]

Damon smiles at Melara's comments. "You'll get 'em trained soon enough," he says.

 

[Voda Vosa]

Cnosos was jointing the bed in the medical bay floor, when the hiperspace jump took place. He flew ofer the bed, hit the wall, and fall on the bed.
"I hate you Mel..." he says by the comm, as he steps up.

 

[Rhun]

Damon's laughter at Cnosos' comment echoes through the intercom, before he manages to mute his own unit. He continues to chuckle at his console as he again checks the sensor system for anything odd.

 

[Blackrat]

Damon goes through sensor-recordings to confirm their sighting and true enough, there it is. You have quality video-material of the strange ship. Who is it and where did it come from, you have no idea though. But the design of the ship seems to match many of the sightings of pre-Burn Earth. This is some of the "knowledge" that persists even in the colonies; Aliens are still imagined as little green/gray men in flying saucers. But you have plenty of time to speculate the meaning of this, the jump to Unity Way Station will take about four days. The sight on your main screen is magnificant. The color outside looks a bit like red, but then again it looks as if there's no colors at all. Human mind wasn't meant to witness these kind of things. Also there seems to be a bit of gravitic pull to where-ever one considers down. It is not much, (you can still "fly") but it disorients you again after you almost got used to z-grav.

[sblock=OOC]Seems you were right Rhun. I had to do some research but it looks like they're actually almost same size. I must have confused it with some other scifi-series.

But to other matters. I will cut to the next gate soon. Nothing special happens during this jump. But I will give you some time to interact with eachother before I do that.[/sblock]