Liftoff goes… well, both ships achieve escape velocity, you can say that much for it. Between the Corona’s shaky liftoff, the Empress’ steering issues once in flight, the outriders quite literally gunning for docking space, the satellites trying to keep them down, and the tachyon-induced hallucinations giving all the synthetics and cyborgs problems, it’s a bit of a faff.
On the Empress,
Jade seems to be acquitting herself nicely as captain.
Lapis is certainly keeping busy, what with everyone coming to her for systems checks and repairs; eventually she
devises an input filter that can at least dampen the hallucinations, though it doesn’t stop them entirely. Plans are underway to get a schematic to the Corona.
Ridic gives his all to keeping the girl flying - good thing Diabolins don’t need sleep - and poor
Citrine’s a mess, between the guidance the ship’s sails need and all the imaginary alarms.
Valosi does… something to ease the load on the engines; whatever it is, it works, exhausting her in the process.
When
Kyan gets some down time from active navigating, he has a look at his tachyon data, and finds something as interesting as it is ominous: the patterns the tachyons are coming in are
a little too neat to be a random space-weather event… Later in the week, he
closes in on it: The tachyon storm isn’t just a storm, it’s information. Information about what, exactly, is still unclear.
After a run-in with one of Lapis’ bots proves to be a fruitful use of Orange magic, Phillip decides to try
talking to the Empress directly, which nets him some very interesting information. Late in the week,
Citrine does something similar.
MEANWHILE ON THE CORONA:
Bela deals quite ruthlessly indeed with the attacking outriders and boarding parties, and
Pearl has her hands more than full trying to keep the engine together.
Luci introduces anyone on the bridge during liftoff to Vodyanoi swearing.
Souji (Okita, that is),
Zand and
A-Lie try to hold their own amidst the tachyon-induced hallucinations.
Brose attempts to break up a fight that isn’t in fact happening.
Zoe’s outrider docks, and she takes a well-deserved break.
Well,
at least Ryo enjoyed liftoff.
The Wolf-Bear of Doom, on the other hand, is rather less impressed.
Braig puts out an alert to the investigators about the hallucination problem, as his clockwork eye from Nova Venezia is giving him trouble. Fortunately, for now at least, the folks on the Corona and Empress are still in touch via the network. The fact of Hajime’s accidentally passing Ryo off as his son comes to light (great job, Lord of the Bugmen), and Cassandra identifies the winged flamey figures present in some of the hallucinations as Starmovers.
WEEK THREE
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