James Justice
Charting new Paths
James was reclining on his bunk in the captain's quarters. He looked with dull brown eyes at his datapad. What was he looking at? Girlish pictures? Booze? No, his family. Pictures of his two daughters, son, and Anara were all he had going for himself right now. The moment the spacer realized what kind of monster he was becoming he sent them away. It was better this way, he reminded himself. It was better that they didn't learn his darkness, that they latched onto someone else who would be better than him--an example they could follow. They had made it this far without him, they would make it again.
Onboard were his most trusted crew, and only them. His inner circle had become incredibly tight these days, and for the better. This mission, this cargo was of utmost importance. The hold was loaded with weapons, food, and building supplies. The most direly needed objects for Soceras. Rumor was that there had been a number of vessels beginning to disappear along the route there and James could only surmise what that meant--pirates of the most professional degree. He would handle them later, but for now, he had to bring relief to his people. He set the datapad aside and sighed, looking up at the durasteel bulkhead.
Suddenly the ship jolted in a mad lurch. Klaxons began to sound as the lights flashed red. The alert was the worst kind, they type that ever spacer feared the most--sudden, rapid hyperdrive failure. The spacer wasted no time as he lept from his bed to the bridge a few feet away. Auxilary sirens began to roar; power failure, reactor core melt down, lifesuport breech. The lights began to flicker as the gentle rock of Miss Fortune's engines turned into an earthquake like series of buckles and rumbles.
James bent over the controls, quickly slamming buttons and flipping switches their chances of staying alive were quickly dwindling to next to nothing. He powered up the auxillaries, there was still just enough juice in the whole ship for one last move--one that might save their lives--or doom them all to an eternity spinning head over heals through hyperspace.
"All crew brace for emergency hyperdrive shutdown," he shouted over the P.A.
His palm rammed against a blue blinking light and the Miss Fortune lurched into realspace. James was sent flying over the console. His head rammed against the view port, rendering him unconscious. As he fell back onto the ground, a planet came into view. It was massively huge, the pull of the Force upon it was undeniable and foreboding. But the crew had more important things to worry about. The engines had burned out and their heavy cargo carrier was still being carried toward it at a breakneck speed.
OOC:
OOC Thread here
Goal: 200 posts.
Order of events: land on world, survive the locals, claim it as ours; get off the planet.
[member="Lady Kay"]
[member="Thraxis"]
[member="Stardust"]
[member="Gavin XIII"]