Mission 01: Recovery [Briefing]

[cityship]

The Meeting is interrupted.

There is a resounding mental alarum that sounds through the ship. Nearly "deafening." Lights flash from places for extra emphasis, making it impossible to ignore.

||Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention, all personnel...||

They can hear it through the meeting bubble and Jaime drops it.

It's entirely likely that she won't stop repeating the announcement until, well, everyone reports to Obs Deck. The mouth in the huge statue opens, revealing a screen. On it, the dossier for the mission flickers into display, understandable to every person there. Smaller copies of the dossier appear in holographic form in front of everyone.

The planet's stats, right next to a rotating picture of it, marled blue and green, are as follows:

Planet Designation: Earth-534A342Z
Status: Terrestrial, H-class.
Non-sentient life: Extensive flora and fauna.
Semi-Sentient Life: Yes.
Sentient Life: No.
Water: 82% of the planet's surface.

Climate: Similar to Earth's Mediterranean climates/desert climates in some areas. [Click here for cultural equivalents for non-Earth cultures.]
Landscape: Varied. Lightning storms plague the plains and mountain plateaus. Tectonic upheaveal.
Air: Normoxic concentration: 28% oxygen, 62% nitrogen, 5% xenon, 5% trace gases, such as hydrogen, krypton, and argon.

Air Pressure: 14.543 pounds per square inch.
Sky: Blue with orangeish-gold clouds (clouds ride rather low in the sky due to gravity being stronger and therefore reflect the colors on the surfaces of the plateaus.
Sun: A class M5V, a red dwarf star.

Warnings: Wildlife and plant-life can be hazardous.

Mission: Track escape pod vessels with the scanners provided. Manually activate recovery processes. Return to Main Planet Pod.

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Following that, there is a table displaying the escape pods--they looked like little bugs or maybe giant beans. Something between plant and insect.

||Attention, podmates. Attention.||

Apparently Stacy wants their attention.

||It is critical that you pay attention at this time.||

Comments

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[mapquest-titan.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah?! You mean the ass I apparently don't have?"

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Yes! I will knock you on your nonexistent ass!"

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[playsin-traffic.livejournal.com]

Tony is clinging to a wall nearby for dear life, "If both of you don't shut up, I'm gonna go Crinos and kick both your asses! Jesus Christ!"

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Please do! Save the rest of us the trouble," Kate grumbled, likewise trying to breathe and not puke as she clung to another wall.

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[goddamnwingman]

"We do not have time for this," Nightwing snapped, defaulting to his 'Titans leader' voice. "I don't care what your problem is with each other, but shelve it until we're done and back on the ship. We have a job to do right now. And while none of us are happy about having to do it, you are not going to jeopardize the safety of everybody else on this mission with your inability to play nice for a few hours."

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

Leela glares at Cale, but shuts up and looks away.

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[cowsquirtdrinkr.livejournal.com]

"I'd suggest putting them on different teams them once we get on the ground, but that thought's probably already running through everyones heads."

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[doctor-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

"Do we even have a choice about the teams we're in?" Jean asked, making a swimming motion with her arms and effectively moving herself toward one of the walls. Even her stomach was churning a little bit with all the turbulence.

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[governmentninja]

The turbulence didn't bother him much; not with as many times as he's jumped out of a plane. The rise in temperature had him a little concerned, though.

"Stacy didn't assign any in the briefing. And its not like she'll have much control over us in the field." Something that they could use to their advantage, possibly.

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[asluciferfell.livejournal.com]

Javert, unfortunately, has just discovered that he becomes motion sick in these situations. It had never come to his attention before, but at the moment he's pressing himself into the wall he's anchored himself to, looking rather pale and displeased.

"How much longer are we going to be in this thing?" He asks, loudly and wretchedly.

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[godimgood.livejournal.com]

Geoffrey, meanwhile, was taking Chief's advice well to heart and clinging to the side of the ship as he would to life itself.

He's fairly certain that's precisely what he's doing.

Unable to close his eyes - too terrified of what might happen - he fixed his gaze on Chief's helmet, forcing a wavering smile of thanks.

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

Paco looked queasy too from where he'd attached himself to the wall.

"Not gonna sympathy puke. Not gonna sympathy puke. Not gonna...oogh."

Re: Entering Atmosphere

[cityship]

And just when it seems they could only slam into the ground and shatter into a million pieces, they suddenly and lightly, stop.

Gravity slowly kicks back in until it's nearly normal--on this world, it's not much different than the ship. It might be enough to make a few of them faceplant, though not hard enough to cause any serious injuries.

||You may exit the ship now. If you are not wearing your suits, please take one of the armbands provided in the bin near the doorway, or else you will not have a personal translator.||

A door opens slowly, to a little hall and a ramp beyond, and normal sunlight spills in, somewhat redder in color than many of them are used to, but it's still sunlight.