Hope this doesn't step on any toes.
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Sabre Fang
Dakota
Quote:The Lunar Fox202*, Somewhere in the deep black of the Sol System_______________________________________________________________
Bored.
I was bored, Vanessa and one of her Mad friends had shanghai'd me into taking them out into the black of the system. Something about trying to filter out some odd signals away from the Earth-Lunar mad house. So here I lounged in the Lunar Fox's cockpit with the gravity field off. One foot hooked under a console to keep me in place as my tails flicked lazily under me. Most of the ship's system where offline except for the really important, like life support. With everything off there wasn't much else to do but watch the stars and the sole planet shine. Something about it kept eating at the back of my brain.
Frowning, It's awfully bright.
A flicked tail brought the NAV systems back online as I used my anchor point to swing around to it. It's holo display springing to life and a flash of fingers brought up the Sol system overlay.
"So what planet are you?"
I searched the overlay and found none that matched the planet shine I could see.
"Computer bring all systems online. Run diagnostic of the NAV system and then compare current reported location to all visible light landmarks via external cameras."
Settling to the deck as the gravity field returned to and a muted "HEY!" echoed up from the vehicle bay.
Foot steps sounded on the gangway, but went mostly ignored as my hands flew over holo keyboards. The four docked sensor drones deployed themselves from the bow of the Fox. They spread out in a circle around the ship with on board camera's pointed at the planet shine.
Van stormed into the cockpit. "What the bloody hell mate? We nearly had the signals isolated.." Then paused at my focused attention on the displays. Her gaze swept across them in confusion. The other mad had finely made his way up to the cockpit. He noticed how I was lining all the cameras together and focusing them on one point in space. Voice hissing from a implanted voice box, "A improvised distributed telescope array?"
Not even bothering to look up as the image started to come into focus of a bluish-green planet, "Planet shine where there shouldn't be any!"
"Bloody fuzzball, that's earth."
I Jabbed a finger at the NAV's Sol system overlay, "Earth is over there, this is in front of us and none of the other planets line up with it."
There was a pause, ".. oh shit."
Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota
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