Launch

Entry posted by Ekejen Luish · August 6, 2016

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[Announcer] Welcome to this special edition of the Meonesian National Post...

[Anchor 1] Hello, and welcome to the Meonesian National Post TV Network.

[Anchor 2] It's 6:55 am here in Meonesia, for those of you watching abroad. We bring this special edition to all of you, because in only five minutes, the MTS Impossibility, the flying city, the biggest flying craft ever made by Meonesia, and one of the biggest moving objects ever made by humans, will be launching.

[Anchor 1] We take you now to Altim Uyraq, covering this exciting moment.

[uyraq] Thank you, and welcome. Behind me is the official countdown timer for launch, which is T-4:32 and continuing to count down. Now, this will actually be only the third time a Meonesian craft will have launched into space.

[Mission control] Tee minus four minutes remaining.

[uyraq] Yes, as you heard, only four minutes until this giant disk you see in front of you will launch. Now, I've got some notes from the heads of Project Indespaqet, including Altim Indespaqet, who was on about 45 minutes earlier, but anyway... The MTS Impossibility will be traveling to a system where they have found three planets that could possibly sustain life. This system is about 1,923 light years away... there was an error in the last P.I. post, it turns out the ship will be going over 78,018 times the speed of light. So, it will take about 9 days to get there, they'll spend six days at each of the three planets... and then come home. The journey will take about 36 days or so.

[Mission control] Tee minus three minutes remaining.

[uyraq] Wow, it's just so exciting to be here on this historic moment. Now, after the ship takes off, it will head for the Bermuda Triangle, where a "wrinkle" in spacetime was discovered. It will then shoot off towards the system, the TBeWY-Prime System.

[Mission control] Tee minus two minutes remaining.

[uyraq] Alright, and now, only two minutes remaining. We have a quick call with main pilot Vaqal Meqrast.

[Vaqal] Hello! Hello, everyone.

[uyraq] So, two minutes remaining. Are you... scared? At all?

[Vaqal] Between you and me, I'm always scared.

[uyraq] You are on national-- no, international television.

[Vaqal] Right, exactly. But about the flight, I am quite scared. No object of this size has ever flown through the Bermuda Triangle Wrinkle. And, to be fair, no object has entered and came back. Although it is nice to know the cause of the mystery of the Triangle.

[Mission control] Tee minus one minute remaining.

[Vaqal] Sorry, but that's all the time I have. We're leaving in a minute, you know. Heh, heh.

[uyraq] Well, thank you Vaqal, and good luck, to all of you.

[Mission control] Tee minus fourty-five seconds remaining.

[uyraq] 45 seconds...

[Mission control] Tee minus thirty seconds remaining.

[Other mission control person] All systems check.

[Person in ship] All systems are go.

[Other mission control person] Activate launch pad sound suppression system.

[Mission control] Tee minus fifteen seconds remaining.

[Person in ship] Activated.

[Other mission control person] Final rockets check. All rockets go?

[Person in ship] Affirmative.

[Mission control] Tee minus ten seconds... nine... eight... seven...

[Other mission control person] Ground launch sequencer is go for Main Engine start.

[Mission control] Six... five... four... three...

[Other mission control person] All engines start.

[Mission control] Two... one...

[Other mission control person] Engines ignition.

[Mission control] Zero!

[Other mission control person] Liftoff!

*Bottom of ship suddenly erupts as engines shoot the ship upward*

[Other mission control person] All engines status?

[Another mission control person] All engines functioning.

[some other mission control person] Begin rotation.

[Yet another mission control person] Rotation is go.

*Ship begins turning back down and becomes level with the ground as it heads for the Bermuda Triangle*

[uyraq] Alright, and we're going to go to Paul Luaq who's near the Wrinkle.

*Ship suddenly shoots at full speed and in a few seconds vanishes into the horizon*

[Paul] Thank you... the ship is going to be approaching soon, and when it does, here's what'll happen. It'll shoot at full speed towards the wrinkle, then it'll make a quick manuever at the right time. It'll begin going upwards, but it'll only go up a few feet before it's momentum continues to pull it towards the wrinkle, where it'll vanish and shoot up at over 70 thousand times the speed of light. And hey, there it is now!

*Ship appears off horizon, and in only a few seconds is in front of the camera. It makes the manuever as he says, before suddeenly disappearing in a huge blast of light*

[Paul] Alright, well now we're going to go to mission control.

[Mission control person] SUCCESS!

*Everybody in the mission control jumps up and cheers and stuff*

[Anchor 1] Well, as you heard, the jump to hyperlightspeed was a success! Computers on board sent a message milliseconds after the jump, and it just arrived... it was a success. The city in the stars... is now in the stars.

[Anchor 2] Not literally, of course. We don't want it actually in a star.

[Mission control woman] Success party at my dad's place!