engineering_made_easy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
engineering_made_easy) wrote2013-06-11 06:58 pm
engineering_made_easy) wrote2013-06-11 06:58 pm
Crash landing in nowhere-land!
This emergency evacuation was very typical of Enterprise in that the chaos all happened too quickly for Priya to even gather all the details before she was thrust out into Space. Everything on that ship went a mile a minute, she'd learned to be quick on the uptake for that reason but even this time.... she had kind of half an idea what was happening. Alien ships had appeared, enemy Klingons, and fire broke out between Enterprise and one of the Birds of Prey. Negotiations were passed back and forth between her father, Kirk, and the Klingon captain... but it was all a trap. They'd only been buying time for Enterprise to be still while they sent a massive bomb over. The rest happened very quickly. It detonated, Priya had only enough time to yell before it exploded, killing dozens in the process and sending even more into the vacuum of space.
The officers gathered their wits and the ship was sealed off, cutting off the holes in the hull so no one else was sucked out to their death. But quickly the Klingons made their desires known. Hand over the T'hy'la child or face certain death. The klingons knew what Priya was, that she wasa symbol of hope for New Vulcan and that she was living on this ship with her parents. They wanted her prowess for the Klingon Emprire and Priya was of half a mind to become their prisoner and escape on her own, if it would bring peace to the ship.
But again, things were happening fast. Her father headed with her to the transport bay, allowing her to believe she'd be allowed to become their prisoner... but instead, he'd forced her into an escape pod and the ship, crippled after the bomb went off, spat her out to the nearest planet while cloaked. The escape pod burled to the planet's surface at such a speed it sank into the soil ten feet when it came to a halt. From there... Priya climbed out... and looked around at a vast grassy field.... with nothing and no one in sight.
The officers gathered their wits and the ship was sealed off, cutting off the holes in the hull so no one else was sucked out to their death. But quickly the Klingons made their desires known. Hand over the T'hy'la child or face certain death. The klingons knew what Priya was, that she wasa symbol of hope for New Vulcan and that she was living on this ship with her parents. They wanted her prowess for the Klingon Emprire and Priya was of half a mind to become their prisoner and escape on her own, if it would bring peace to the ship.
But again, things were happening fast. Her father headed with her to the transport bay, allowing her to believe she'd be allowed to become their prisoner... but instead, he'd forced her into an escape pod and the ship, crippled after the bomb went off, spat her out to the nearest planet while cloaked. The escape pod burled to the planet's surface at such a speed it sank into the soil ten feet when it came to a halt. From there... Priya climbed out... and looked around at a vast grassy field.... with nothing and no one in sight.
no subject
He hesitates a moment, brow furrowed, at her request. It's not that he won't tell her about where he's from, but he wishes to keep certain things back and he's not even sure that he can convey everything well in a language that still felt very alien on his tongue.
"Nim is big houses." He means a city. "Big street, big rocks, big priests. Hunting and money. I will find way to help you there."
He doesn't think much to Nim, and it's clear in his expression that he holds little fondness for his home.
I'm sorry this is so late!
Big houses... yes she understands. Big rocks? Like statues? Big priests... the government? Hunting and trade were the major markets.
"Are there other places here? Is Nim the only city? Do you not like it much?"
she wondered a bit
"Are your people oppressed?"
no problemos
His smile becomes a little twisted, bitterness underneath the show of good humour he tried to keep up for her sake. He didn't want to scare her, but there was no point lying to her when she'd see the truth as soon as they got inside the walls of the city.
"My people are no more. The few there are exist as slaves, we are property and nothing more."