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 Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:21 pm
Bob smiles and replies simply, " that's pretty much all you have to do, well, go through the list a few times. but you would not believe how much of a pain in the a** it was to proggram that...in fact, uncle was the one who made most of it, and it took him a few years..."
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:26 pm
"I look forward to meeting him someday." Natalia said then got back to going through the list. She wasn't sure why Bob wanted to program an interface for her but there was on reason not to do it.
((skip forward 2 hours biggrin ))
"Alright...thats seven times for the list. Should I do it anymore or is that enough?" Natalia asked, she was starting to get a little annoyed with the process but was willing to keep going if necessary. After all, it was better to get things done all at once instead of dragging them out.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:46 am
During the two hours that Natalia worked on the mental interface proggramming, Bob continued the removal and replacement of burnt out circuits and processors, by the time she called him, he had managed to nearly finish the process (he built the ship by hand, I figure he can do things a good few times faster due to that)
As he hears her query, Bob pops his head out of the ships interior, " what? seven times you say? that should be good....now you just need practice with the interface, just as I need practice with a normal speeder...anywho, the ship is more or less ready for a test flight....I think..."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:07 am
((makes sense, bob wouldn't be slowed down by 'what the hell is that' moments))
"Alright, we can hook it up for a preflight diagnostic before we move it to a launch site." Natalia said as she stood up to stretch for a moment. Technically they could lift off from anywhere since the ship didn't need help to escape atmosphere as far as she knew but she didn't feel like having to evade the air guard during a learning flight. Or ever really but certainly not until she was reasonably sure she would be able to successfully escape.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:16 pm
Bob nodded, seeming to pick up the vibe about the air guards. he then spoke up, " launch site? how about I take it to space, outside of coruscant jursidiction, and then hand over the controls to you, it's not like you can make the ship self destruct....trust me, I've tried just to test my proggrams ability to keep from doing stupid things. anywho, grab some grub and by the time your back I'll have all the panels and such back in place..."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:23 pm
"Bob, you have to get premission to go above a certain altitude and you can only get it legally at certain places...You know what, food sounds good. We can talk about this latter." Natalia said, pushing the problem aside for latter.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:59 pm
As Bob fixes the panels back into place and awaits Natalia's return, he ponders to himself. permit? what the hell is a permit? lets see.....aunt said that they used to break laws because they did stuff without permits....alot.....so I guess it means that I have to have one of these 'permit' things to do certain things without offending those in power....but why would someone need a permit just to fly thier ship around? I mean, I made my ship with my own hands, with my own parts, with nothing that others owned. so how the hell could they impose a permit on me, especially when they couldn't call it part of the sale cost.....strange indeed.....
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:25 pm
Natalia grabbed a variety of the food options out of her freezer and headed back. She had a heater behind a wall panel in the garage for when she was to busy to leave. She had a lot of stuff built into the walls, why waste perfectly good space so long as it didn't compromise the structural integrity of the building.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:29 pm
As he said, by the time Natalia had obtained food, Bob's ship was fully reassembled. He had even had enough time to set up a portable chair and sit down. With a smile on his face, Bob spoke up," so, whats this permit thing? some kind of scam run by the government I take it?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:37 pm
Natalia sighed and shook her head.
"You get a lift off permit so you can leave the planet safely. If everyone just went as they pleased then it would be chaos and the authorities wouldn't be able to protect anyone in the event of an emergancy." The answer was more complex then that offcourse so Natalia tried giving him the particulars through the link like with the speeder. It was good to practice and would save some time.
"You can look it up on your data pad to if you'd like."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:04 pm
Bob nodded and replied, " I think I get the idea.....so, what say we go to whatever place it is we need and get one of these 'take off' permits?"
if I need to get one of those things every time I want to leave the planet....well, it just seems like such a hassle....
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:02 pm
"A shuttle port since the ship isn't too big. The fee is 50c but I can probably get it waved since were not carrying a cargo. The port guys usually aren't too a**l about it with civilians." Natalia said as she pulled her data pad out and started filling out the forms that would be needed. There wasn't much to fill out but she always kept an updated copy of such things on her pad. It saved time not to have to do it once you arrived.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:00 am
Bob shook his head and sighed, " okay....well, hop on in and work on that as we fly there hmm? I'll take us there at traffic speed..."
After climbing into the pilot's seat, Bob pulls out his datapad and pulls up a map of Coruscant. Next Bob takes a dangling wire and hooks it into one of the 'miscellaneous' data ports. Step 3: Bob powers up his ship and dons his mental interface helmet, making sure that Natalia is in the ship and seated before closing the hatch and setting the map from his datapad to overlay the normal display with an arrow to point the way.
After the preparation is through, Bob says, " now then, let's be on our way...." before firing up the engines and taking off (waiting for Natalia to open the doors of her workshop of course).
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:41 pm
(( xp ))
Natalia sent a remote signal to open the garage doors and another to activate the buildings security system, set to maximum. She wasn't about to take any unnecessary chances while she was gone. The shop would be locked down more tightly then most prisons.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:08 pm
As he flew out and merged with traffic, Bob wondered at the hidden turrets he had seen pop out of the walls as he was taking off. someone doesnt like visitors.....hehe....just like uncle....except he used crippling viruses and worm programs.
The flight to the spaceport was uneventful for Bob and Natalia....however for those in traffic it was a rather unique experience...not only was an escape pod (something that normally has just enough fuel to blast out and maneuver in space) flying, it was out maneuvering people at just about every opportunity....Soon enough Bob realized that the horns he was hearing weren't meant for other people, but for his 'reckless' driving....he of course took it as a sign to speed up. And speed up he did...How fast you may ask? the world may never know...because they had reached the spaceport by the time he was about to accelerate.
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