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re_alignment_logs2013-01-06 10:12 pm
angleofscience) wrote in re_alignment_logs2013-01-06 10:12 pm
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So I'll reach up to the sky [closed]
WHO: Jetfire, Liege Maximo
WHERE: A solar system a fair distance away from Cybertron. YAY.
WHEN: Around now.
WHAT: Jetfire's been stuck IN SPACE for a week due to the modifications Liege outfitted him with to break the barrier the Lambda creates around Cybertron so he could take readings of the Lambda. Said "in space" was a solar system too far away to quickly get back, but Jetfire's been working on it, okay? he might need a lift, though.
WARNINGS: None.
A week ago;
It had been absolutely amazing and gratifying to finally be able to break near-orbit and get beyond the barrier the Lambda created. Jetfire was aware of the dangers, though not all of the things that might happen from approaching what was basically not just the origin of, but like the Badlands magnified.
It was a bad idea, it wasn't safe, it wasn't fair to... particular people to put himself at risk. However...
They needed more data on the Lamdba, and Jetfire was made to reach escape velocity, to break gravity and go into space. What happened, though, wasn't any effect from the Lambda. Instead, approaching the pulsing, unpleasantly lit space-time anomaly on a wide vector just shortly after breaking through and getting beyond the limit he had been able to reach before, navigational and positional equipment suddenly disagreed on where he was, plus something else and...
He wasn't sure what happened, but suddenly he was just... elsewhere.
Elsewhere in a system with fourteen planets of varying size and make, spinning in their orbits with three suns as their center.
He knew he had to land and take stock of the situation, so he chose one of the stable ones, one of the ones which were on the close-end to the sun of its carbon-standard habitable zone. Later, Jetfire would decide it had been a bad idea, because that planet was a veritable jungle.
Plants everywhere, of all sorts, everything growing so the eye (or optic) could literally see it. The only reason he'd stayed on that planet after confirming everything was all right but the modifications would need... well, modified, was the fact that there were plants and thus fruits and they had organics back on Cybertron, and it would take long enough to get back on his own that he could take a brief advantage of the situation, right?
He still regretted staying as he figured out what he could and couldn't take with him. Seeds germinated within minutes, whether in air or buried in the planet's soil, taking a whole plant had it growing even more madly, probably because of the suddenly-limited subtrate available to it, and it bloomed, set spores, or whatever and then died within hours. Jetfire also found he couldn't really stand still anywhere, as any number of plants found a vertical, warm "pillar" an excellent place to grow up on.
After he'd realised he'd had to take fruits, because for some reason, as long as the seeds were in the fruits, and as long as the fruit wasn't crushed or otherwise destroyed, the seeds within didn't germinate, there was the issue of finding fruits that would hopefully be edible for humans. Jetfire had reasonable information to go on, but not as much as he'd like...
In the end, before he left, he'd at least gotten something more than probably-edible fruit from the solar system; both that planet and one other were liberated of a few rocks, plus soil from the unpleasant jungle planet, for the future seeds. It hadn't been easy to find something to keep all this in, but a few empty energon cubes plus some primitively carved containers from large rocks which he weren't going to keep were put in his cockpit.
There was nowhere else safe to keep them, even if it wasn't a pleasant thought. What if one of the fruits broke and the seeds started to germinate?
Now:
That thought occupied a shameful amount of his thoughts while he navigated towards the outer edge of the solar system, having located Cybertron but knowing it'd take... longer than he'd want, longer than he was comfortable with to get back.
He didn't have any choice, however, because he doubted there were any help to be gotten. His comms didn't reach far enough, and the Link was, understandably, dead.
WHERE: A solar system a fair distance away from Cybertron. YAY.
WHEN: Around now.
WHAT: Jetfire's been stuck IN SPACE for a week due to the modifications Liege outfitted him with to break the barrier the Lambda creates around Cybertron so he could take readings of the Lambda. Said "in space" was a solar system too far away to quickly get back, but Jetfire's been working on it, okay? he might need a lift, though.
WARNINGS: None.
A week ago;
It had been absolutely amazing and gratifying to finally be able to break near-orbit and get beyond the barrier the Lambda created. Jetfire was aware of the dangers, though not all of the things that might happen from approaching what was basically not just the origin of, but like the Badlands magnified.
It was a bad idea, it wasn't safe, it wasn't fair to... particular people to put himself at risk. However...
They needed more data on the Lamdba, and Jetfire was made to reach escape velocity, to break gravity and go into space. What happened, though, wasn't any effect from the Lambda. Instead, approaching the pulsing, unpleasantly lit space-time anomaly on a wide vector just shortly after breaking through and getting beyond the limit he had been able to reach before, navigational and positional equipment suddenly disagreed on where he was, plus something else and...
He wasn't sure what happened, but suddenly he was just... elsewhere.
Elsewhere in a system with fourteen planets of varying size and make, spinning in their orbits with three suns as their center.
He knew he had to land and take stock of the situation, so he chose one of the stable ones, one of the ones which were on the close-end to the sun of its carbon-standard habitable zone. Later, Jetfire would decide it had been a bad idea, because that planet was a veritable jungle.
Plants everywhere, of all sorts, everything growing so the eye (or optic) could literally see it. The only reason he'd stayed on that planet after confirming everything was all right but the modifications would need... well, modified, was the fact that there were plants and thus fruits and they had organics back on Cybertron, and it would take long enough to get back on his own that he could take a brief advantage of the situation, right?
He still regretted staying as he figured out what he could and couldn't take with him. Seeds germinated within minutes, whether in air or buried in the planet's soil, taking a whole plant had it growing even more madly, probably because of the suddenly-limited subtrate available to it, and it bloomed, set spores, or whatever and then died within hours. Jetfire also found he couldn't really stand still anywhere, as any number of plants found a vertical, warm "pillar" an excellent place to grow up on.
After he'd realised he'd had to take fruits, because for some reason, as long as the seeds were in the fruits, and as long as the fruit wasn't crushed or otherwise destroyed, the seeds within didn't germinate, there was the issue of finding fruits that would hopefully be edible for humans. Jetfire had reasonable information to go on, but not as much as he'd like...
In the end, before he left, he'd at least gotten something more than probably-edible fruit from the solar system; both that planet and one other were liberated of a few rocks, plus soil from the unpleasant jungle planet, for the future seeds. It hadn't been easy to find something to keep all this in, but a few empty energon cubes plus some primitively carved containers from large rocks which he weren't going to keep were put in his cockpit.
There was nowhere else safe to keep them, even if it wasn't a pleasant thought. What if one of the fruits broke and the seeds started to germinate?
Now:
That thought occupied a shameful amount of his thoughts while he navigated towards the outer edge of the solar system, having located Cybertron but knowing it'd take... longer than he'd want, longer than he was comfortable with to get back.
He didn't have any choice, however, because he doubted there were any help to be gotten. His comms didn't reach far enough, and the Link was, understandably, dead.
no subject
The amount of time did not matter, so long as Jetfire returned. Even if he did not, Liege would be able to repeat the experiment with another individual, but that was not something he would have been pleased with. Jetfire had impressed him, in his own way, and he did not have any interest in training another to do what Jetfire knew to do implicitly.
"It is..." Hm. How did one say this? "It is good to have you back." That sounded close enough. "Give my regards to Starscream."
After a moment, he smirked.
"And do be sure to give him one of the more aggressive plants, if he asks for one. Maintaining patience while he nagged me about your whereabouts was no small feat."
no subject
"And, I'll... ah, see what I can do. Not sure how interested he'd be." Jetfire paused, shaking his helm. "I do apologise for his behaviour on my behalf."
Because while he couldn't (wouldn't, shouldn't) apologise for Starscream in general, apologising for how the Seeker behaved when he did so because of Jetfire in some way? He'd at least try.
With another shake of his helm and just the faintest trace of a huff, Jetfire lifted off the ground and steered towards the garden in Alpha Trion's quadrant.