nukeit: (aaah I see)
Ellen Ripley ([personal profile] nukeit) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2012-08-26 08:33 pm

[open] space training 101 -- shuttles and general health and safety, oh my!

CHARACTERS: Carolyn Fry, Ellen Ripley, and ANYONE WISHING TO ATTEND SPACE TRAINING SESSION 101
LOCATION: The shuttle hangar bay.
WARNINGS: This is space. Be forwarned. Liable to see language used throughout this log.
SUMMARY: Fry and Ripley kick off the first official session of space training with a review of shuttle safety, evacuation measures, and basic safety tips and regulations for diet, exercise, and mental health while living in space long term.
NOTES: Threadjack like fiends, and tag in action brackets or prose, whatever works best!

The shuttle bay only made sense as a first location for any type of space education because it was large, it was clearly filled with machinery that might have fit in a hangar on Earth, but didn't quite have the same feel as the Earth based hangars, and it was a stark reminder to those on board that their means of leaving (when they had any means at all) was in a smaller version of what they all lived in now: a space ship. Shuttle class instead of Colony Class, but space ships everywhere they looked.

Having five functional ones running since right before the prior disastrous shore leave meant having the technical resources to run people thorugh basics of boarding, securing themselves and others, securing the shuttle itself, and getting back out again should the automatic locks fail. There were a slew of things to go over, and drills to set up and run as long as the people attending stuck with what they'd come there for.

All that after a run-down on basics in staying healthy in space. May they never need to apply the ones regarding existing in space in zero-g, but may they start being informed on precautions to take now.

With Ellen coming in from the lifts with the last of the stragglers, and Carolyn already waiting, Space Training 101 (there had to be a better name, but simple may indeed be best) was about to begin.

[ Mingling Before | Shuttle Procedures | Q&A Session | Afterward ]
20mentholkools: (put on target)

[personal profile] 20mentholkools 2012-09-08 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riddick doesn't say anything in response - she's answered her own question for her, could have answered it sooner if she'd taken the time to think on it. He just tilts his head slightly, could be agreement, could be waiting for more. She was right on everything, of course, but that didn't mean he had to mention the starcharts he'd found on the ships at Strela.]
suddenlycaptain: (what your mind conceives)

[personal profile] suddenlycaptain 2012-09-08 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'd mentioned it being like prison, back on Strela. Fry's never been, but she's beginning to see why people hate it so much. Past the fighting and corrupt guards, past the lack of freedom, it's restlessness. The same walls, the same people, the same routine. She misses flying, misses stretching her wings. Instead she has nightmares and tries to teach people who don't always want to listen.

But she's alive. She supposes that's something... though it doesn't mean she likes this place. Most people want to go home instead of out into this universe. Most people aren't dead back home. ]
No way out. [ She sighs. ] If it's between the universe you know and the one you don't, which do you pick?
20mentholkools: (stay sheltered)

[personal profile] 20mentholkools 2012-09-10 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riddick had called it a prison, but he had also told her there was nothing for him, back in the universe they'd come from. A lot of ghosts, a lot of hunters. The Necromonger armada (you keep what you kill), but he'd never wanted that. There was no home for him, no going back, and he wasn't going to stick around on this ship just on the off chance Ward and Resnik's claims of knowing a way to send people back was actually true.]

You take what you've got.

[Wishing, waiting for more, that only led to disappointment. Or getting fucked over.]
suddenlycaptain: (the snail while he's feeding on the rose)

[personal profile] suddenlycaptain 2012-09-11 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ You take what you've got. Carolyn's got a whole ship of people who can't take care of themselves and a lot of guilt. She doesn't want to stick around on this ship just to disappear and go back to nothing, but she doesn't want to abandon them. Of course, no one knows if the ship is the reason people are actually going back home. She doesn't know what she wants, and Fry hates being crippled by indecision.

One hand runs through her hair, leaving the strands mussed up and not bothering to fix them. ]


Right. [ Part of her wants to ask if he thinks any of these people will survive, but the rest of her is too stubborn to admit that they might not. She doesn't want to die again, and her hand curls around her front, fingers pressed to her ribs. ] Right.