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 Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:30 pm
"Slow down or the port authorities will give you a ticket." Natalia warned as they began approaching the heavily monitored area around the port. The traffic authorities couldn't do anything much about a ship with out an id beacon but the port could just issue him one based on visual once they came in to fill there flight plan.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:31 pm
Bob sighed and did as Natalia said, " well, whatever a ticket is I get the feeling it's a bad thing.....still don't see the reason for all this pomp and fluff....I figure that if you can fly a ship you shouldn't have to worry about silly things like flight plans and take off crap, just link your ship into the planet's computer system and have it calculate your launch vectors....all you would have to worry about is unskilled wannabe's....so....am I supposed to land here somewhere or can you send it to them via transmission?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:01 pm
"Thats fine, I'll handle it." She said then sent the necessary paperwork to the control center. A few seconds latter an automated reply came back.
"Were cleared for take off from pad C-18 in four minutes." She said and set a few more forms when the human occupants of the tower noticed the ship and queried her about it.
"And tower control says: 100c says your hunk of junk wont break orbit." She added with a frown.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:44 pm
Bob smiled and said to Natalia, " tell him I'll raise those stakes to 10,000 credits and that if I lose he can not only get my money, he can hire me on as a free janitor for 5 years...."
As he spoke, Bob carefully piloted his ship to pad C-18. As they flew, he jostled the ship at random intervals to make it seem like it was about to fall apart, and as he did this, he winked to Natalia, " easiest money I'll ever make...."
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:13 pm
Natalia gritted her teeth but didn't comment. It had been three years since her pilots certification and that had been the last time she had left Couruscant. She made sure to use simulators frequently enough that her skills wouldn't degrade but actual flying was a very different thing. She'd missed it without even realizing it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:47 am
As the minutes ticked by, Bob looked to Natalia, " so....any reply on the bet? because I could sure use that money.....and the fact that it would be a good way to advertise my name, if it's in the news that a hunk of junk won ten thousand credits from port officials....well, I figure people would at least know my name a little more...."
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:53 pm
Diz wandered around the citty for a while trying to find a restruant to eat in. after a while he found a small place that seemed nice enough so he entered and ordered a meal. he sat down and waited for his food.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:30 am
Diz's food arrived and he started eating. meanwhile his mind was wandering about and trying to find something to do while he had no missions.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:19 am
Sagetim As the minutes ticked by, Bob looked to Natalia, " so....any reply on the bet? because I could sure use that money.....and the fact that it would be a good way to advertise my name, if it's in the news that a hunk of junk won ten thousand credits from port officials....well, I figure people would at least know my name a little more...." "What? Oh, sorry he agreed and said prepare to mop floors." Natalia said as the sound of Bobs voice brought her back to the present and out of her reminiscing. She had a bad habit of phasing out during flights if she wasn't the one actually piloting. Something about flight just put her to much at ease.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:54 am
Bob smirked and flipped open a small wall-panel next to his control system, " now then, how about we break a few speed records while breaking out of the planet's gravity? if nothing else they'll probably piss thier pants in anger or suprise...."
As Bob laughed, he watched the timer reach zero, and upon that moment he adjusted all the power of his ship to be flowing into the engines, with a minimal amount into the shields to keep the ship from burning up due to friction... during the brief moments of countdown, Bob made a flurry of calculations, his fingers dancing over the key's of his interface, his eyes flickering back and forth as he took in information and adjusted his planned trajectory. From an outsider's view, it would look as if Bob's ship glowed brightly for a moment, as if it were about to explode into a second sun. then, for a moment, there was no sound as Bob's ship not only broke the sound barrier, it blasted it's way out of the Planet's gravity well, easily exceeding 'safe' speeds. To an onlooker it was as if a shooting star was launched from mid air, and instead of crashing to the earth, it flew into the heavens.....
The Bee was in space before the window-shattering sonic boom of it's take-off rocked through the spaceport....it's shields were nearly fully drained in the stunt, and both it's engines and inertial dampners had to have a few minutes of cooldown time, but the first thing Bob did was look over to Natalia and say, " lets collect on that bet now shall we? oh....and tell them that we're in orbit around the planet, and that no, this isn't a stolen prototype or an explosion waiting to happen...." After saying this, Bob Laughed.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:07 pm
Natalia nodded mutely, knowing what something was capable of in theory and actually seeing it down were two very different things. Especially when reality blew her theoretical projection right out of the water.
"Uhm...that will have to wait a minute. There screaming curses at us in six languages right now." Natalia's fingers danced as she quickly filled out and sent a barrage of forms and messages to try and calm down all of the very pissed off officials that were now demanding answers. The ability to type at 120 words per minute was a very handy thing some times.
"You should get a wire to your account in a minute now..." She added as a notice of transfer came through on her datapad, she was still getting some data meant for Bobs, she'd have turn the router on until that was corrected. The man who had made the bet had simply given up and paid he was so shocked by the bee's performance.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:15 pm
Bob simply chuckled and said to Natalia, " well then, we should probably make sure that the people who are so worried know my name, and yours, maybe this display will get us some customers no? if nothing else it will give us a few uh....whatchamacallits.....fans....yea...in any case, I think I burned out the star drive....so...we aren't gonna be able to do that till I have time to build a new one....on the upside the ten thousand should cover the cost and then some...are any of the people cursing wanting reimbursement for broken windows? and if they're going to try and sue for emotional trauma, well, tell them I can give them therapy for free...."
hehe, if I start giving out 'freebies' for so called 'victims' of my actions, I can get my name spread.....soon enough I'll be well known enough to have an actual business in hypnotherapy.....
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:25 pm
After filtering out the screw yous and there equivalents coming in Natalia was still left with quite a few messages to go through.
"No, were okay on damages since the sheilds held but a squib ship is looking to sue us... Never mind, theyve changed there minds." Natalia didn't bother mentioning what she'd said to get them to back off. Translating it from shriwook was a bit complicated since it was a colloquial saying. Squibs being what they were (basically bipedal rabbits who sound like parkies) they wouldn't press a suit too far unless they thought they would win and that they wouldn't have to jump through to many hoops to do it. Or as in this case that the other party would make a some sort of musical instrument from there bones.
"And believe me, everyone in the port now knows your name now Bob." Natalia said blandly.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:40 pm
Bob smiled and unplugged his mental interface helmet, " now then, back to the origional purpose behind this, it's time to test your mental interface, so plug it on in and get in the drivers seat...."
As he spoke, Bob climbed out of the driver's seat and into one of the passenger seats, then motioned for Natalia to take the controls. " it won't take too long to get used to it...I dont think...."
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:31 pm
Diz watched the ship seem to blow up into spaceain amazement. the sonic boom afterwards did little dammage but he was shocked. thinking that was mad cool but shocked.
"what the **** just happened to that ship??????" Diz asked around. the people told him that a guy named Bob did it. "just who is this Bob i wonder...." Diz muttered to himself as he walked into the streets.
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