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He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
Mel eases the ship out of the dock and into the open space without difficulties. You are finally on your way to the stars. It will be almost a days journey in normal space until you reach the Idar Jump Gate. The woman in Control laughs: "I'd bet there's a bunch of things Steve forgot to tell you, but nothing that serious hopefully. His memory just ain't too good. Godspeed on your journey."
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"See you soon, Unity. Out."
Melara settles her hand on the throttle to the main engines and pauses to savor the moment...then pushes the T-stick forward. Immediately the hum of the engines becomes a roar, carried by metal struts and superstructure from the thrusters themselves to the crew compartments. Clearly the ship's thermal cushioning and sound absorbers could use some work.
At the same moment as the roar came the pull. An inexorably force that felt exactly like gravity, only pulling everyone and everything on the ship back towards the rear rather than down towards the bottom. Add to that the fact that the moment the ship exited the berth and was in space, the artificial gravity of Unity station was gone. The net result was the bizarre feeling that the ship had suddenly spun ninety degrees, dumping everyone onto their backs. But it didn't stop there. The Mirp engines were capable of more than one gravity of acceleration, so the pull kept growing in strength, and growing.
And then, shockingly, it was gone. The noise. The shaking. The vicious pull. In its place were silence and stillness and the stomach-wrenching buoyancy of microgravity.
Mel's voice came back on over the intercom. "That's it for our first show, ladies and gentlemen. Come back in...twenty-one hours and forty-six minutes for the exciting conclusion. On course to Idar jumpgate."
Melara settles her hand on the throttle to the main engines and pauses to savor the moment...then pushes the T-stick forward. Immediately the hum of the engines becomes a roar, carried by metal struts and superstructure from the thrusters themselves to the crew compartments. Clearly the ship's thermal cushioning and sound absorbers could use some work.
At the same moment as the roar came the pull. An inexorably force that felt exactly like gravity, only pulling everyone and everything on the ship back towards the rear rather than down towards the bottom. Add to that the fact that the moment the ship exited the berth and was in space, the artificial gravity of Unity station was gone. The net result was the bizarre feeling that the ship had suddenly spun ninety degrees, dumping everyone onto their backs. But it didn't stop there. The Mirp engines were capable of more than one gravity of acceleration, so the pull kept growing in strength, and growing.
And then, shockingly, it was gone. The noise. The shaking. The vicious pull. In its place were silence and stillness and the stomach-wrenching buoyancy of microgravity.
Mel's voice came back on over the intercom. "That's it for our first show, ladies and gentlemen. Come back in...twenty-one hours and forty-six minutes for the exciting conclusion. On course to Idar jumpgate."
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