http://howling-alone.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] srwug_alpha_rp2012-04-20 12:29 pm
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Bastions in the Sky

[On the deck of the Chalice, Alexei stands and looks up as several shadows are cast on the deck. They're far away, but one can make out the sight of 5 aircraft, massive in size and shaped like stealth bombers. Although such a shape would make Alexei panic and head to the Wahrheit to counteract, he seems oddly complacent. He's just staring up at these colossal machines, almost as if he was staring off into space. Care to bother him?]
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[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Are those League planes? What are they doing here?

[identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
They're just flying a path that was designated 10 years ago. Always on a straight forward path, never stopping.

[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose they'd stop for trade if we called them?

[identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
No, they won't. As I stated, they're designed not to stop for anything. It's something they've been doing for a decade. They have their own people to take care of, after all...

[He finally averts his gaze from the sky.]

You remember the Earth Cradle?

[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't there personally. But I read the records.

[identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The same concept as the Earth Cradle, but in the sky. They're just called the Cradles. 20,000 people in each of those ships. 100,000 people total... The League keeps their activities away from them. Should everything fail down here, they are the last hint of humanity left. The League does whatever it takes to keep those birds flying...

Whenever I see one, I'm jealous...

[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. I didn't know the League has such projects.

I don't envy those people, though.

[identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a trapped lifestyle. They're given everything they need to survive, but they're under constant surveillance and can't leave. It's a price to pay to be among the last humans to fade away.

I'd take that over piloting the Wahrheit any day...

[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-20 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Safety is more important than freedom to you, huh?

[identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com 2012-04-21 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Skyes, you've been down here. You've seen the hell. They don't have to deal with that up there... They have little freedom to leave, but they have freedom inside of their own contained space. It's like a gated community... in the sky.

[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-21 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Not saying it's a bad choice. Just not wht I'd pick.

If I had to choose between watching the world burn from safety and desperately fighting to prevent it, I'd go with the latter. Hell, I already did, in my SECT days.

[identity profile] howling-alone.livejournal.com 2012-04-21 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That's one way to look at it, but we have the bodies for fighting. We push them to prevent the world from burning. Some don't deserve that. That Gainer kid got roped into this. He could've just been on that Exodus and not cared, but he got involved with us.

But I can see that... that's what we're here for, right? We do our part, they live comfortably without a care.

[identity profile] mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com 2012-04-21 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. All the kids on this ship deserve to get some semblance of a normal life. I want to make sure they get at least that.
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