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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-11-16 05:28 pm

The Funeral

Everyone's had a chance to recover somewhat, to stop reeling or at least try. Now that people are at least somewhat closer to being on balance again, it's time to say goodbye.

There is a message throughout the ship, one tinged with sadness:

||Attention, crew. Those who wish to attend the funeral services for the crew-mates that died during the conflict should report to Obs Deck immediately. Services will begin in approximately a thirty Earth standard minutes.||

The floor of the Obs Deck shifts to allow lifts to come up through it. Tubes connect from the space there to the hatches that suddenly appear between the windows, giving something of an impression that the closed caskets are missiles about to be shot through a missile tube. The funeral pods themselves have clear round domes in them--some of the people that died more peacefully are visible, looking as if they're sleeping. Most, however, were killed in a way that would make them appear less than presentable, so in their funeral pods only the vaguest outlines of humanoid forms can be made out. Some have entirely closed pods or were vaporized and thus, only have a funeral pod there to represent them.

The ship lurches lightly as it comes to a stop to a random universe, but where it's stopped at is beautiful to behold. They are in the middle of a nebula, surrounded by red and blue plasma. Several new stars burn brightly, here, and they are stopped near one, just short of being sucked in by its gravitational pull. It's a red dwarf, small and faint and new, but its light is welcoming. Here, where the very fires of creation burn, and stars are born is the last place the dead will be sent.

[ooc: Instruction thingies]

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] bostonbeatcop.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Robert stood quietly against one wall and wept. He wept for all of those who he had been forced to kill in order to save the ship, all of those who would never know the truth of their abduction, what had happened to them. Those who had only had a few brief moments of pain and fear before they were taken.

Most of all he wept for his lost world.

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
An Abh Empress came then and laid a hand on his shoulder.

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] bostonbeatcop.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Robert jumped as someone touched him, hurriedly wiped at this tears.

"Ah. Your Highness. I--I didn't see you there."

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is alright. That is a natural reaction." Perhaps a little awkward, but Lafiel was doing her best to be comforting.

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] bostonbeatcop.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"M-Maybe. But it--I don't even know these people." He scrubbed at his face, trying to get rid of the bitter tears. He wasn't used to showing such grief in front of others.

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"They still died senselessly in a massacre we might have been able to prevent. And it is possible you might not just be grieving for them." Her face showed no tears though.