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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: End Reflections

[identity profile] redheadcarrier.livejournal.com 2009-11-18 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Asuka is there. She feels she at least owes that much to B5. However, she's dry-eyed throughout the entire thing. She didn't know any of the five thousand who perished. She never will. And in the end she doesn't care about them - they're abstract, a number. Something she can't truly put a face on. Something she can't bring herself to feel sorrow for. She grew up in a world where half the human race was wiped out before she was born. Three billion dead. Five thousand is a drop in the bucket.

However, B5's coffin does get a tightening of her expression, a tensing of her body. It's too late for her to say or do anything and for some reason she feels guilty; she hates herself for feeling that guilt. So, she just stands and watches it all go by.