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date & time: au! matrix with: @curiouscalculations where: somewhere in open space
Stars peer from the window, the vastness of the sky jumping out in front of them – where there was once static, there is now clearless. Eliana tightens her grip on the controls, ready to fight or flight should they encounter enemy forces, but with no one on sight, she lets go. There is no one, nothing around. It’s just her, the stars and the planet below them.
And, of course, DATA. “We’re clear.” She speaks to the microphone and sets the ship on auto-pilot, a piece of metal looming in the open. Finally, she leaves the control room and walks to meet her Android, the only company she can rely on when she’s this far away from home and land. And yet, he is just an Android, no matter how much she sometimes forgets it, no matter how much she wishes that was not all he was.
“Do you have the mission plans?” She looks him in the eye, partially as an habit, partially to see if the hue of his synthetic eyes changed at all since last time, before dismissing that thought altogether. If there was something there, it was out of reach, at least for now, and now wasn’t the time to dive into philosophical debates. They had a mission to do. “Let’s go over them one more time.”
DATA rested in the space provided, his empty gaze consumed by a continuous analysis of the ship’s functions. Vulnerable in the vastness of the stars with only two members manning a ship advanced enough to be considered still functioning by the military, DATA knew that numerous threats loomed beyond their sights.
A voice, familiar in its designation assigned to his frequent partner Eliana, rang over the speakers. He paid no mind to her interruption, choosing instead to maintain the blank composure of his default settings when preoccupied with a task only he could see in his code. It was not until she physically approached him that he was forced to bring some form of alertness to his previously blank eyes.
He nodded as an answer to her inquiry. This mission was not complex in nature; in fact, DATA would dare to classify the directions as simple if he was awarded the ability to do so. They were to approach a planet Wrotham had yet to obtain diplomacy with and retrieve a sample of a chemical element that thrived in excess beneath the planet’s surface. Such an element, experts within various research departments had touted, would allow the government to enhance their efficiency in the building of their weapons. DATA did not concern himself with the government’s intention for the mission, only the orders that commanded him to complete it.
“The planet’s coordinates have already been sent to the control room,” he said, his voice empty of any emotion concerning their mission. “Defenses of the target planet remain unknown; but we are not to alert the local planetary authorities to our arrival, classifying this mission as covert. Upon arrival, we are to locate the mines housing the target element.”
“The chemical we aim to extract has not yet been classified by the government. They require you, a hybrid, wear the required safety gear when extracting the new element.” His gaze danced over the various suits lining the wall of the ship; some with the intention of war and some with the intention of safety – this mission would only require the former if everything went according to plan.