Newbie Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

Meet n' Greet, smell my feet, gimme something good to eat! Unfortunately, the newbie meet and greet takes place the same time the command staff is congregating, so they might be a little late to the party.

But the crew is there to welcome the newcomers and explain their situation. At the end of the milling and spilling about, the command staff is going to start a general meeting to apprise everyone of their situation and discuss their next course of action:

Getting off the damn ship.

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"That's... space," Roxie says with a little bit of a shrug. "Sort of. I think we're traveling superliminally at least sometimes."

Her gaze is drifting somewhere up and behind Sheik's left ear.

[redeyes_andblue]

"Superlim... no, never mind, I am not sure I want to know," Sheik says with a weak smile. This is well outside his area of experience; even Zelda seems somewhat lost.

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"Faster than light," Roxie offers. "It's completely impossible, but apparently it's decided to happen anyway."

[redeyes_andblue]

He smiles faintly, even if he's not sure why things aren't supposed to go faster than light. "I'm used to the impossible. At least that is familiar."

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

That... provokes a little bit of a smile from Roxie, too.

"By all the rules of physics I know, to speed something up to the speed of light would take an infinite amount of energy, so getting past it would take more than infinity, and that's just..." She makes a kind of 'this place is ridiculous' look.

[redeyes_andblue]

Sheik isn't sure what's worse - entirely new worlds with entirely unfamiliar laws of science that are nonetheless getting rather broken, or the fact that Zelda is actually managing to follow it.

[That makes sense - to move anything, you need to apply some energy - like shooting an arrow. The more energy you put in, the faster and further it goes. So to move anything near the speed of light - which I shall presume is very fast indeed - you would need vast amounts of energy, even more than, say, the energy it would take to control the Triforce, which means that this place must have unimaginably huge amounts of it, and --]

The problem with Zelda being a disembodied presence in his head, Sheik decides ruefully, is that no lungs means she doesn't have to stop to draw breath.

Tuning her out, he nods distractedly at Roxie. "I see," Sheik murmurs in a way that suggests he actually doesn't.

Hey, he's only just found out that planets go around suns, not vice versa.