I know it's heresy (of a sort, and certainly in Their eyes) but there are days (and some weeks) when I have my doubts about the Homeship Computers. Still we got through the hanger bay doors all right and then Gaheris let me call the Nexus to have the shield wall relaxed so we could get through. Which would have been all right but Jeronomy was Watch Officer, and he likes to throw his weight about (motsly because he rarely gets to go on-world nowadays what with the Vigil still looking for him about the missing Arimathean Effigy), and Curtall was actually on the board and what that boy has forgotten from last week's training lectures would take more than a week to tell. So it took ten agonisingly long minutes before the shields were finally adjusted correctly. And you don't want to try to go through if they aren't -- it's Unhealthy and the Computers get Very Angry and you wouldn't like them when they get Angry. Then Gaheris even let me do a bit of the steering while he went to get his notes together, which was fun because, again, I'd only really tried my hand on a simulaot (if you ignore me and Golodric and the skunk, but that wasn't my fault, and he did most of it -- till the skunk ... well, it took weeks till the smell ... )
Space is big -- amazingly big. And, while the Homeship is small enough in comparison, when you compare a Smallship to all the immense infinity ... All I can say is, thank the Cosmic Constant for the occasional planet. Must close here :: the binnacle needs another rub up.
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Palinurus again:
Date: 2006-01-31 08:26 am (UTC)Still we got through the hanger bay doors all right and then Gaheris let me call the Nexus to have the shield wall relaxed so we could get through. Which would have been all right but Jeronomy was Watch Officer, and he likes to throw his weight about (motsly because he rarely gets to go on-world nowadays what with the Vigil still looking for him about the missing Arimathean Effigy), and Curtall was actually on the board and what that boy has forgotten from last week's training lectures would take more than a week to tell. So it took ten agonisingly long minutes before the shields were finally adjusted correctly.
And you don't want to try to go through if they aren't -- it's Unhealthy and the Computers get Very Angry and you wouldn't like them when they get Angry.
Then Gaheris even let me do a bit of the steering while he went to get his notes together, which was fun because, again, I'd only really tried my hand on a simulaot (if you ignore me and Golodric and the skunk, but that wasn't my fault, and he did most of it -- till the skunk ... well, it took weeks till the smell ... )
Space is big -- amazingly big. And, while the Homeship is small enough in comparison, when you compare a Smallship to all the immense infinity ...
All I can say is, thank the Cosmic Constant for the occasional planet.
Must close here :: the binnacle needs another rub up.