Cmdr Niples "Bird of Prey...Flying high... In the summer sun..."

Vega 22 Space core Combat Station
After the Space core promotional video and talk
 
Commander Niples watched as everyone stormed out of the room after the long boring talk had finished. He looked up to the podium and saw the Admiral that had been speaking to them all.
 
"Excuse me," Seymour said walking up to the grey-haired man.
"Do you know where I can find General...." he looked at a piece of paper for guidance. "...General Tyrrel?"
 
The Admiral gathered his speech noted together and pointed to a door at the far end of the lecture room.
"Go through that corridor and its the last door on the left."
 
"thank you" said the Commander politely and headed through the door and found himself in a lond corridor. It must have been as long as the station itself, with hundreds of doors going off either side.
Unfortunately, the door he wanted was the LAST door on the left, so he started walking.
 
****30 minutes later*****
 
Seymour found the door with the name-plaque "General Tyrrel".
He knocked and waited.
 
There was a whirring sound coming from inside that lasted for about a minute, and then a clunking sound. Then the door opened with a mechanical winding sound.
Niples walked in and saw General Tyrrel. He was a short man, probably because he had no legs.
His entire lower body had been replaced with a mechanical device with tank tracks to obviously move him around. His body was propped upright by a basic chair, which was attached to the tracks on a bulky hinge.
As well as this, he only had one arm, which controled a small joystick on one of the track-arms, probably used to move him around whrn he needed to, like an electric wheelchair.
 
His other arm was mechanical as well, it protruded from his body, also connected to the chair for strength and support. The robotic arm had a nasty looking "grabber" at the end.
 
"Please come in." smiled the General, "make yourself at home."
 
Niples walked in and watched the genaral wheel around him, where he pressed a button on the wall which caused the door to mechanically close shut again. Then the general slowly moved back past the Commander and behind his desk.
 
Seymour smiled politely and waited patiently until the slow moving General reached his desired position.
 
"Now...." said the man, checking his notes. "Commander Niples I presume?"
"Yes sir" said Seymour.
 
"I have your record in the filing cabinet, just hang on a second while I get it."
The general turned his vehicle slowly towards the filing cabinet and began the slow journey towards it.
 
Niples tapped his feet and looked arounf the office while the General made his way there, got the file and came back.
Tyrrel made his way beck to the desk, going about as slow as a Titan Snail.
 "Ahh, Commander Seymour Niples of the mining ship Blue Dwarf."
"Thats correct sir" agreed Seymour, trying to help the battlescarred man out.
 
"Now we have an order form somewhere, we have to give you something don't we?"
"Yes sir"
"I'll get the order form, its just in the filing cabinet....."
The general set off towards the filing cabinet again, controling his machine with the joystick. Unfortunately going very slowly.
 
"You're supposed to send me an..." started Niples but the man cut him off.
"Dont tell me, I'll be there in a minute...."
 
Niples looked at his watch. "Do you need a hand there sir? I can get it for you..."
"No, that won't be necessary.... I'll be there soon..... nearly there...." he reached the filing cabinet, pulled out the file and made his slow way back to his desk.
 
"Ahh, you're getting the new 'Space Eagle class space-fighter'" said Tyrrel.
"Yes sir..." said Niples, thinking that he could have saved 5 minutes by telling him that in the first place.
"Do you want to see it?" asked Tyrrel.
"Yes sir" said Niples excitedly.
"Its in the room down the corridor, it was the first room you passed when you came down here. We'll have to make our way down there..."
 
Niples inwardly groaned, it took him half an hour to get up here, now he had to go all the way back? And how long would it take Mr. Speedy here?
 
"You go ahead, I need to finish something off here." said General Tyrrel, slowly moving towards the door to open it and let Niples out.
 
Seymour made his way down to the room, taking his time as he'd probably have to wait for the General anyway.
 
****45 mins later*****
Niples got to the room and the door slid open on his arrival. General Tyrrel sat there and looked at him.
"You took your bloody time didn't you?"
 
"How...how did you get here so fast?!!" asked the amazed Niples.
"I took a shortcut"
 
Seymour was shocked, but decided to ignore it. He looked at the empty room.
Tyrrel pressed a button on the wall with his robotic arm and wheeled back to the wall.
A large hatch in the floor opened and a second floor ascended, bringing a small ship with it.
The ship was green like a starbug, but it was smaller, and seemed to have a design more like a 20th century plane rather than the "bug" style of the Starbugs. It had wings extending from the main body and cockpit, and pointed energy weapons on the wingtips.
 
Niples was amazed as he started to walk around the small fighter, looking at the two powerful after-burners at the back of the ship.
 
"this is amazing!" said Niples.
Tyrrrel smiled. "And as of this moment- it is the property of the JMC Blue Dwarf."
 
Niples ran his hand over the smooth green paint, and pressed a button on the spherical cockpit. The glass dome lifted up and he climbed inside.
 
Tyrrel smiled to himself ans wheeled into a small room just of the side of this one and looked at the Space Eagle behind thick glass. he pressed a few buttons and the wall in front of the small ship opened onto space.
 
Niples pressed a few buttons inside the cockpit and the engines roared into life. He turned the ship on its wheels and was ready for the first test-flight.
"I wonder what this red button does?" enuired Seymour.
he pressed it.
 
The Space Eagle shot out of the station and into the depths of space, leaving nothing but a burning ion trail in its wake.
 
(Insert Top Gun music here!)
 
 
(OOC- Pictures of the Space Eagle and the Blue Dwarf are up for download on the BD website. A video is coming soon when I get it uploaded. Take a peek!)
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