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Post by Lieutenant jg Ezri Tegan on Jul 17, 2022 9:15:35 GMT -5
Place: Yanda resort colony of Y'Tiria Time: Present
Ezri stifled a yawn. she was not exactly sure how long she had been working non-stop on this project. More importantly, she was not quite sure why she had spent so long on it. The original design called for the addition of modified warp nacelles from a shuttle. That design was quickly scrapped as being too infeasible. The final design was a standard floater with a high output thruster unit and an additional power cell to offset the added power drain. All of this was done with minimal addition of mass. So the design was acceptable. Ezri made the final addition of a quaratum charge as a rocket booster to the design. This would provide for a massive boost to speed for a short duration. It occurred to Ezri that this floater was now essentially a bomb waiting to go off as designed. To make matters worse once ignited the rocket booster could not be disengaged. It would only stop when the fuel ran out. She decided to wear an armored EVA suit on her first flight. After all, safety was paramount. After completing the last diagnostics on the now completed boosted floater, she stopped and closed up the access panel before getting suited up for the flight.
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Post by Lieutenant jg Dacia on Jul 17, 2022 12:40:01 GMT -5
Some distance away, a tricorder beeped and whirred. A pair of glassy brown eyes that never blinked studied the readings for 1.7 seconds. .8 seconds later, an analysis, conclusion, and course of action were made. Fingers pressed against a comm badge attached to a form-fitting tank top eliciting a mechanical chirping noise.
"Dacia to Adagio, I have detected what appears to be a high-powered, short-range missile on the planet's surface. I am proceeding to investigate."
Dacia marched stiff-limbed and double time towards the readings, and when she arrived her head swiveled like a surveillance camera making a note of the equipment present before fixing on Erzi.
"Excuse me, what are your intentions?"
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Post by Lieutenant jg Ezri Tegan on Jul 17, 2022 12:45:54 GMT -5
Some distance away, a tricorder beeped and whirred. A pair of glassy brown eyes that never blinked studied the readings for 1.7 seconds. .8 seconds later, an analysis, conclusion, and course of action were made. Fingers pressed against a comm badge attached to a form-fitting tank top eliciting a mechanical chirping noise. "Dacia to Adagio, I have detected what appears to be a high-powered, short-range missile on the planet's surface. I am proceeding to investigate." Dacia marched stiff-limbed and double time towards the readings, and when she arrived her head swiveled like a surveillance camera making a note of the equipment present before fixing on Erzi. "Excuse me, what are your intentions?" As she was strapping herself into the modded floater Ezri waved off the newcomer and yelled to her, "Stand back! Stand back at least 500 meters!" Ezri called out as she began powering on the thrusters.
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Post by Lieutenant jg Dacia on Jul 17, 2022 13:05:12 GMT -5
Too many variables. Too many questions. If the woman's intention was to launch an attack on the Yandans why strap herself onto the missile? Was it a suicide mission? Or some sort of test for a new type of floater? If it was a test did Dacia have the legal or moral right to intervene in the woman's affairs? Too many variables. Not enough information. Unable to reach a conclusion, Dacia prioritized her own safety and retreated to a distance of five hundred meters away where she watched.
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Post by Lieutenant jg Ezri Tegan on Jul 17, 2022 18:59:38 GMT -5
Once the launch area was clear, Ezri would give the bystander (Dacia) a thumbs up moments before the modded floater took off with an acceleration of 10 gees. The acceleration was mostly perpendicular to her spine so Ezri was easily able to tolerate it. The floater leaped off the small cliff and headed out over open water. People watching from nearby beaches would see a streak of flame shooting across the early evening sky. Dacia on the other hand would not have seen much other than the cloud of dust and flame kicked up by the floater's modded thrusters.
Once out over the ocean, Ezri brought the booster igniter online. After a short countdown, the charge goes off. Moments later the dull thud of an explosion is heard back at Dacia's position as well as more distant beaches.
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Post by Lieutenant jg Dacia on Jul 17, 2022 19:33:20 GMT -5
From deep within the smoke and dust created by the launch, the chirp of a comm badge is heard once again.
"Dacia to Adagio. A high-speed projectile has been launched from my location bearing 161 containing a single humanoid lifeform."
The echoing boom in the distance followed, "Recommending that the projectile be tracked, and medical personnel dispatched to the object's landing point. Dacia out."
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