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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] static-shock68.livejournal.com 2009-11-19 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
"But you shouldn't have had to. You should've been able to wake up naked, covered in slime, and come directly up to me on the Ops deck." he paused. "Getting clothes on the way, of course. There shouldn't have been any zombie crap by then. All of these people shouldn't have been released just to be killed; we should have been able to find a way to help them instead."

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com 2009-11-19 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
"I got saved, and I'm pretty damned grateful. Sometimes you have to look for the wins." Simple and true, the end result was not what they might have wanted, but they could have been a hell of a lot worse.

Re: The Launches

[identity profile] static-shock68.livejournal.com 2009-11-20 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Look for the wins." The sadness was still there in his voice, but the fight was gone. He just...didn't have it in him right now. Not to say they wouldn't have this argument well and proper later, but not here, and not now.

For now, all he did was hold her tighter and mourn.