Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Senior Gamemaster) in Graven XII - Engineering

Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineering Officer) in Graven XII - Engineering

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Senior Gamemaster) in Graven XII - Engineering

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Kaia clambered into the front passenger seat of the car, the end of her tail twitching slightly as she crouched. She’d not been in a ground-based vehicle for a long time. Not since leaving home. She was looking forward to the sensation of acceleration that only a car could provide.

Ooc: Assistant CE, eh? Didn’t know that was Kaia’s position! Lol.
- Miriam

OOC: Congrats! Field promotion :P

-Dave

“We are all on battery powered vehicles. There are some rare earths that are not so rare on one of our moons that are quite efficient in battery construction and in both storage and what power can be brought out in the energy transaction shall we say.” Tov sat and put his hands on the wheel. There was a faint hum as it powered up. On the screen on a kind of heads up display could be seen. “Controls are voice operated or off the steering console. It is, as well, self driving.” He spoke into the air. “Map plot and execute to Thermal Station Yekut. Optimum path.” Moments later it drove off with them.
- Tov

Kaia watched out the windows, her eyes flicking quickly from one roadside sight to another with a lot of energy. She looked forward to being able to talk about this adventure with Kiama later.

Kaia, Engineer (aCE, apparently :P )

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Their path took them from the inner city onto a major artery that let them increase speed and soon they were outside the city and traveling through mixed land use. The majority had elements of farming. The hills were either left forested with tall thin trees or had been cleared and terraced for vine like crops. The roadtops were not the usual ‘concrete’ or ‘asphalt’ but had a smoother almost plastic look to them. Already with the vehicle the travel was mostly soundless; there was no noticeable road noise. Tov sped up. Here and there were posted signage defining speed or upcoming turnoffs. With the vehicle on automatic pilot it remained well within that speed range.

“Tell me about your work on your ship,” Tov asked. “What kinds of things do you actually do? Over the centuries some have toyed with automating more and more things to the point that there would be so little for anyone to meaningfully do. In taking this level of technology we have tried to create a balance of efficiency while still allowing the people to be able to pursue the things they desire.”
- Tov

“Well, I do not know about the others, but my duties mostly include crawling into places no one else can reach and fixing small things,” Kaia said with a grin, baring her teeth for a moment. She turned towards the window again, watching the scenery go by. “When I am not doing that, I generally help with other aspects of engine maintenance. And I get to be a bridge officer sometimes. That is the best, because then I know what is causing the problems in engineering,” she said with a cheeky grin towards her DH.

Kaia, Engineer

Tov laughed. “Always nice to know what is going on and be in the front seat of things,” he said. The countryside streamed past them, the vehicle on auto-drive knowing what it was supposed to be doing. He turned thoughtful for a moment. “Forgive me in this next question. Over the centuries we have had to pull back on greater automation and robotics. Furthering ahead with nano-technology is another thing. I would have thought that you would have a much greater artificial intelligence program with robotics and other things that would, well, not require you to go crawling around in small spaces.”

Kaia would notice first, as Tov was looking at her, that not too far ahead on the road there stood a Gravinian girl perhaps about 10 standing in their way and they were speeding toward her!
Wookiee

Kaia let out an expletive that was very much outside her regular vocabulary and began to almost screech. “Computer stop the vehicle! Collision imminent!!” She exclaimed, nearly jumping out of her seat to grab Tov’s face in her hands and turn it to force him to notice the child on the road.

Kaia, Panicky Engineer

“What?!” Tov managed to get out as his head swung forward, eyes wide, helped by Kaia. He grasped the wheel even as the computer was voicing =^= There are no .. =^= and turned the wheel, ramming the brakes. The car screeched and, almost in slow motion came up on two wheels but didn’t stop there, careening toward the side of the road. Automatic systems initiated where the overhead dome snapped up into place as the vehicle flipped and scraped upside down. As it hit a ridge at the edge of the road it flipped, careening end over end. Somewhere in there the dome smashed.

Tov was thrown out, as was Kaia. Wynter was held in his webbing as the car came to rest in a field on its side. Smokey tendrils wafted upward, but, thankfully, nothing was catching fire. Kaia was caught in a hedgerow that helped break her fall. Tov would be found laying in a depression not far off the road.
Wookiee

OOC:
Whoever posts next would come to consciousness first …
Kaia would have cuts and bruises and a broken wrist amongst a slew of bruises.
Wynter would come out of it with a nasty concussion and bump on the head and a cuts along his cheek from the shattered dome, but the safety features of the vehicle had saved him the worst.
Tov would be in the worst shape with broken bones and internal injuries.

Kaia came to consciousness with a groan of pain. Raka were not a resilient or hardy race. She felt bruised all over, and could sharply feel several places where the hedges had ‘broken’ her fall and broken her skin in the process. She could distinctly feel the hot, searing pain in her left wrist that signalled a broken bone and boy, oh boy did that hurt. She reached for her comm-badge with her right hand and painfully rolled onto her side as she spoke. =^=Ensign Kaia to… Manhattan. Vehicle crash. Send… help.=^=

She tried to stand, but everything hurt far too much. Doing a quick check of her condition, it appeared she had gotten off fairly well… only the wrist was broken. She was certain that angle was not natural for a wrist, but at least she was alive. And conscious. The same might not be said for Tov, she realized as she looked at the multiple oddly angled limbs. He was splayed on the ground not too far, at least. She dragged herself over to him, pulling herself up onto all fours and limping over on her three intact limbs. It was easier than trying to stand up all the way.

This is bad. Tov was very hurt. And she had much less first aid training than she needed to have in this situation.

• Kaia