- OOC:
- Coporal RK
Vehicle Crewman
Story 1
Vehicle Operator
It had been a long time since RK had been inside a vehicle garage, the last time he was in one was before his last speeder race on Coruscant; He had lost that race. He walked around the various vehicles, speeder's, speeder bikes and cruisers. This was an odd hangar for a Galactic empire, but it was sufficient.
He continued to walk around to the sign-in desk. The different smells of coolant and other liquids filled his nostrils. He had tried to fight it, but he just couldn't. As the smells continued to come, he was back in that garage out behind his old apartment complex, working on his Speeder for the hundredth time, hoping whatever he did would make it faster..
Ah, good times, good times. RK snapped out of the flashback and was back into reality. He stood in front of the sign in desk. Nobody was there. He noticed papers strewn all over, stains covered the floor and parts to various vehicles were laying in a corner.
wow, what... a nice place.He rang the bell a couple of times, hoping somebody would come. No luck. He decided maybe it was almost closing time.
might as well come back tomorrow. He did three sixty on his heel, and turned around to see a man staring him straight in the face.
The man stared him in the face for a little bit then grinned. “May I help you?” The man said.
RK was still in shock from the surprise of it all. “Yea, I need to Sign-in.”
“Ah, your the new guy. Follow me.” The man hadn't introduced himself, but the name tag on his uniform read: G'ut Jusik.
RK followed Jusik into the office , still cluttered with parts and papers. Jusik sat down at the desk before him and turned it on, it took almost five seconds for it to completely start up.
“You have you chip with you?” Jusik asked, holding his hand out, waiting for RK to hand it to him. RK understood and reached into his coat pocket pulling out a small chip held inside a plastic case. The case was blue and was about the size of a datapad, the chip however was half the size and set in the middle. RK handed the chip to G'ut. Who swiped it quickly and shoved it into the computer with one motion.
“Ah, Wraith squad, I used to be a Wraith, good squad, back when Snipes was SL; Who's the SL now, arnaut?” Jusik las continuing to look at the computer screen, typing and entering information as he went. A bar indicated he was downloading the information.
does this guy ever shut up? the thought crossed RK's mind more than once. Jusik seemed like a nice guy, but he could talk like crazy. “Yea.”
“Alright, here's your chip.” Jusik wrote on a piece of flimsi and handed it to RK, it had some numbers on it and a name that didn't look even real. “That's your instructor, give her that paper, she'll know what to do.”
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A smell filled his nostrils the farther he walked down the hall; it was a familiar yet very distant smell, it was almost palpable in it's origins. It got stronger, and stronger; he felt like he was about to pass out, luckily he was standing in front of the door he was meant to be at.
He knocked, but no answer.
what is it about people not being around here? Maybe it had to do with the stench.
“Wait, WAIT!” Someone said on the other side, or was it behind him?
RK spun on his heel and noticed a woman walking, no running, towards his position. He didn't know whether to run himself, or wait for the guy to get there. Whatever he decided he would have to do it fast. To late.
“you must be the new guy. Where's your sheet?” The woman asked. She was breathing heavy, her blond hair was as straight as could be, it was nicely done for a mechanic; she wore the normal crewman outfit, only instead she had a white tank-top underneath and her uniform was unbuttoned. She was stunning, RK had to actually keep himself from staring.
RK handed the piece of flimsi to him. Her hands shook a little as she took it; She looked over it and then stuck it in her right chest pocket.
“Well, your here for repolsorcrafts eh?” The woman said, her voice sounding a little suspicious.
“That's correct Ma'am” RK was starting to stiffen up, he was almost tempted to go into a salut, then again he didn't even know her rank, so he fought it.
“Don't be so formal, call me Christina. Tina, Chris whatever you feel comfortable with.”
“Well then Christina....” A grin spread across his face.
“Shall we continue then?” She said, trying to get things underway. She wasn't strict like most army women that RK had met, she was casual.
“Yes let's”
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“I understand you used to be a Speeder Racer, so you know the basics.” RK was awe struck, how she knew that he didn't know, he was going to ask regardless.
“How?”
“Ohh, I keep read the files, It gets dreadfully boring around here, very easily.” this time a grin spread across her face.
They walked down to the landing platform. Millions, or what seemed like millions, of repulsor craft vehicles lined the ground.”How do I choose?” He said, sarcasm in his voice.
“Oh, were not actually going to drive any of those... where going to use that for your first lesson.” She pointed to a little metal box in the corner it was cylindrical in shape only it had more of a Cockpit look to it.
“a simulator?” He was puzzled, it showed.
“Yea, speed demon , where not going to let you drive one of our most expensive vehicles until you
prove you can.” She had an evil look in her eye. RK caught himself staring again.
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Images sped by him as he sped through the terrain before him, it was nothing but a blur of black and illumination. He didn't know how to control this specific type of speeder, but something told him he should have waited to.
“Alright hot shot slow down, this isn't your average racing speeder.” Christina was communicating via commlink. Her voice sounded a lot different over the radio, bur he could still understand her.
He didn't know how to slow it down, he only knew how to speed it up, luckily this was a simulator; Christina had already stopped him dead.”now before you go off speeding like an Di'kut again.”
she knows Mando'a, impressive. “Alright, so what do I do.”
“Alright basics, this is a Q-1600 landspeeder. It's common among many civilians in rural areas as well as many large cities, due to it's full cover and 260 kilometers and hour speed. I don't know if you'll run into one, but it has all the basic controls that you'll need. First, you know where the accelerator is at, but to refresh your memory it's along the steering column, however there is a accelerator on the floor as well.” Her voice faded away.
“Sounds easy enough, now why couldn't you show me this in non-active model that's not running?” RK asked.
“Because, your going to drive this one, like a civilized person so that you can get used to it.”
“Stupid simulators.”
“Anyway, now onto the brake, it's on the floor to your right, you also have an emergency brake lever to your right. Now that you know how to go and stop, slowly accelerate; if you look to your right in front of the Emergency brake there is a speed controller, it increases the speed manually, if you don't want to have to worry about pressing the accelerator to hard or to soft, if you want set it now. If not, go ahead and drive I will continue to explain as you go.”
this can't be that hard, it's a simulator, if I wreck all I will get is a shock and a slight rumble from the thing. He pressed the accelerator slowly, it started off. The images on the view screen started to move, slowly,m but they increased quickly. “Wow, this isn't that bad.” RK commented.
“Alright, now if you would look a the board in front of you it displays a few things you need to know. It has your speed which is measure in Kilometers, it starts at one and goes up to two hundred sixty, on this model other might actually go faster. To the left of that one you can see one that shows your power, it let's you know whether you can keep going or your going to stop. And to the right of the speed meter there is a heating measure, it tells you whether or not the speeder is about to blow, just in case you've been driving non stop for no reason.”
While Christina explained RK stared at the illuminated, digitally-animated meters. They were put right in front of the controls. It looked so real that he could have just touched out and felt everything around him, even the images of the landscape looked real.
“Alright, the tour is almost complete. Look to your right. There should be a radar screen right above the speed controls.”
He reached out and touched it, he could only feel the smooth outer layer of the simulator, it actually made him feel like he was living in a dream, but he still followed Christina's orders, while still trying not to run into anything.
“It tell you ahead of time if you may en up running into another speeder, It also has other HUD items that you can select, like you can access the holonet, and other stuff you may need. Well, that concludes are tour I will let you mess around with the simulator while I figure go finish something. Happy driving.” The comm went dead and RK could here metal clanking outside the simulator.
This could be interesting.- OOC:
- Passed. Looks you caught most the spelling/grammar mistakes. And good job, the first one of any spec is usually the hardest in my opinion. I guess I'll take over grading your specs until Rogueboy gets his exams done with, so PM me when you get a new one up.
