Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26210095-20160919225757/@comment-26347028-20160920171314

Eureka Enderborn wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Eureka Enderborn wrote: Alex stood on the bridge of his former luxury cruiser turned laboratory ship for the elite scientists of the Socialist Republic of New Terra, viewing the star map, plotting the course. On the map he watched as a tiny holographic representation of the SRNT fleet drifted slowly along a dotted line, constantly growing nearer to the star system known as Tau Sagittarii.

"Computer, ETA to the Tau Sagittarii system?"

"3 weeks, 2 days, 14 hours, 28 minutes."

"Well, I've got some time. Computer, run EverQuest 2."

As he sat there playing his game, his mind began drifting back to the past. Playing the game always did that to him. But when his mind drifted into the past these days, it drifted back to a particular time period. The period before the fall.

He had been an actor, a rather successful one. It was always something he loved, but he had a secondary passion: theoretical physics and other sciences. He used to fund various experiments that he found promising, and that's how he originally met Jodie. Then, when she approached him with the specs on the potential end of the world, he joined the attempt without much hesitation.

He had used his conduit to the public ear to get the public more interested in the plan organized by herself and the other scientists. He had donated his own vessel to the project and helped to fool the people into believing they had found a new colonizable planet.

Now he was even happier. Continuing his job as actor while also learning all sorts of new stuff from the other scientists, having become a part-time one himself. Still, the scenario wasn't perfect. As much as it was nice for him, a lot of the rest of the populous found living for so long in spaceships to be less desirable than the alternative.

So, as Alex had suggested, they were heading for Tau Saggitarii, and in the time that had passed he had learned and done much, including a rather happy occurence where the Saviour (though he just calls her "Jodie") had asked him out on a date.

"Computer, where is Jodie Boddice at the moment?"

"On the bridge of the flagship."

"Good. Waldorf, prepare my shuttle."

His butler nodded and walked off as Alex finished his business on EverQuest. Soon, his shuttle was zipping off into their mighty carrier flagship, the RSS Temerity. He made his way swiftly to the bridge, where he could see the Socialist Republic's de facto leader expertly piloting the spaceship. "Computer."

"Yes."

"Let me guess, he told you to not tell me?"

"No, I just thought you'd like it better."

"Ah, it doesn't matter. Set autopilot."

"Yes, ma'am."

Jodie stepped away from the controls, stretched a little, and walked over to Alex. "Yes?" "I came to check on the rest of the fleet, you in particular. Any new and irritating problems arise recently, or has there been smooth sailing for once?" "Well, I've recently been interrupted from my thought train. But if I remember correctly, nothing much of note. We've been running repairs for a while on the engines, and I don't hold much hope they'll last more than another fifty years. That's generous."