Onward and Beyond (Arisa Yune)

[Ryan]

The ship rocked and rattled as she broke Jedha's atmosphere, leaving the dust bowl of a planet behind her. A young man dressed in traditional monk clothing could be seen strapped into one of the passenger seats. His eyes were closed and his hands clenched tightly against the harness. This was the first time Jue Yaun had left the planet and his stomach was playing war with in itself as the young warrior monk tried his best to control himself, calm his nerves and overcome the new experience through meditation. He was mumbling rhythmically to himself, a mantra of the devout. "I am one with the force, and the force is with me!" said over and over.

Jue had never in his existence that he would leave Jedha and the guardians of Whills. He was told he was gifted with the force and one day someone would come and take him far away for higher learning. This was many years ago, seems the force worked in strange and slow ways. The guardians in the mean time had trained the boy to be a humble warrior, a defender of the faith and preacher of the force. He was taught martial arts, staff fighting and the use of the lightbow... a weapon handcrafted by the monks themselves.

"Iam one with the force, and the force is with me!" the ship rocked again, but this time the rattling ceased afterwards and seemed everything went quiet. Jue risked opening his eyes. He could see the woman that had encouraged him to leave with her. She was a Grandmaster of her order, the Silver Jedi. He had studied her ground side, she was attractive and close to ten years older then he was. Seems the force manifested fast and graced her with immense ability. When he thought of grandmasters, he thought of the master of his order. A old man, strong but leif and wrinkled with age. Assumptions should not be made, was a lesson he knew yet somehow fell trap to.

The gravity felt different on the ship. He felt lighter then he ever had. This new quest in his life has already been altering and they are only a few minutes into it. Jue's brown hues locked into the Grandmaster's inquisitive gaze a he used the strength and comfort she relayed through them to steady himself before speaking. "Apologies, my first time!"

[member="Arisa Yune"]

 

[Eugen Aker]

Jue was a nervous wreck the whole trip from the surface to space, radiating with anxiety as he continued to intone the same phrase over and over in what she assumed was some kind of coping mechanism. Arisa struggled to keep a straight face, keeping her eyes focused on her console as she guided the ship upward. Everyone handled their first flight a little differently. The first time she had lifted off from her native planet of Plexis for her journey to the original Jedi Academy on Coruscant, a youngling Arisa had been whooping and hollering in joy, happy to escape from poverty for new opportunities with the Jedi. Despite the demands of her duties as a Jedi and a soldier, she still liked to believe she enjoyed a blessed life.

"It's alright," she said, matching his voice level with a shout of her own as she reached out to give him a pat on the shoulder in assurance. "I'll dial up the compensators."

Most pilots typically traveled with their inertial compensators set around 95% in order to safely experience some feedback while accelerating at hundreds or thousands of gees at once. Arisa herself had just pulled a 1,200g maneuver with the rapid near vertical climb. An easy time for her, a Jedi Ace, but probably a bit much for her new friend beside her.

Acceleration was done, but she set the compensator to 99% for sublight travel. It should have now been smooth riding for Jue from that point forward.

"Okay, we're clear from the gravity well of Jedah," she explained. "I'm now going to engage the hyperdrive, so heads up."

With a flip of a switch, she initiated the hyperdrive motivator to accelerate them to lightspeed and beyond as they burst into the ethereal dimension of hyperspace. The rust orange backdrop of Jedah and the dotted black depths of realspace would be replaced with long shafts of blue lights and vortexes.

[member="Jue Yaun"]

 

[Ryan]

"Thank you Grandmaster Yune!" His soft voice humbly projected his gratitude towards the attention to care she had taken with him. Turning the inertial compensators up to alleviate the motion sickness the young monk was experience was a gesture of kindness that showed great strength in her character. Unfortunately he wished his stomach would repay her kindness with aggreeable compliance. There was a moment that Jue thought he had the sickness under control, the was right up to the moment the hyperdrives kicked in. Another experience he had not had and far too soon for his body to objected too.

There was a quick desperate look in Jue's face before he turned his head to the right before regurgitating his breakfast and lunch all over the seat next to him. That was embarrassing but unavoidable. A few more heaves and the contents of his stomach was empty. Tears swelled his eyes involuntary as he gasp for air in recovery of the violent and grotesque actions of throwing up. He wiped the remnants around his lips off with the cuff of his sleeve before righting himself up in his chair.

Hes eyes caught the elastic streaks of light zipping past the port side view ports. He had read about hyper travel and new that those were stars elongated as they traveled at the speed of light through the galaxy. What a sight to be had.

He looked over to the mess he had made and seemed he needed to make another apology "I am sorry......." He took a deep breath in, righting himself with the current motions he was experiencing "If its safe, i will unharness my belt and clean the mess up!"

[member="Arisa Yune"]

 

[Eugen Aker]

It looked as though her solution for Jue came much little too late, vomiting right in the cockpit as the freighter jumped to hyperspace. Quickly, space would begin to reek from bile and the contents of Jue's earlier meal. It was a good thing she had decided not to employ real-time astrogation during flight, as she wouldn't have been able to attend to Jue while manually navigating the ship at superluminal velocities, and acquired skill the required supreme concentration.

"Ah, it's fine, we can move around she said," unbuckling herself from the seat. "The ship is traveling on autopilot on a predetermined route. Sit tight, I'll be right back."

She would disappear for a couple minutes for the lounge, then return with a bucket of soapy water, microfiber cloths, and a small clear bottle of pink liquid.

"Take a couple capfuls of this," she said, offering him the bottle. "Bismuth subsalicylate, an anti-acid that helps with nausea. When you're feeling better, you can start to wipe down the seat."

She set the bucket and cloths down next to soiled seat in question, then plopped back into her seat to toy with her phone for a bit. As usual, her inbox was full of personal and official messages, but she ignored them for a bit to just play a simple little rhythm based game as she kept an eye on Jue's progress. She didn't really like doing much of anything while in transit through hyperspace, finding the extra-dimension a nice refuge from the many problems of the galaxy.

[member="Jue Yaun"]