Post by Skyfire on Sept 9, 2007 11:48:42 GMT -5
Skyfire's track steepens, sending in deep into the atmosphere of the planet. At first, it's only thin ionized plasma that catches at his wings, reactive atoms that tear fruitlessly at his heat-shielded and erosion-resistant skin. Then come ionized molecules, heated and stirred by his passage through them, surrounding him in a trail of furiously glowing ions.
Thicker and thicker still grows the air, until whole molecules are buffeted and broken by his passage; thick enough to slow Skyfire with drag, heat his edges with furious friction, build up into a shockwave spreading from just beyond his nose....
Skyfire revels in the familiar heat, in the irresistable hellride through the upper atmosphere. At this point, he's coming in too fast to maneuver in the thick soup of the middle airs; the art was in aiming his course from the first. Now he can only ride the avalanche, surf the tsunami--and he loves it! Loves feeling the searing heat that can't quite reach him through his heat shields--yet could burn him to molten droplets if he miscalculated; loves the feel of irresistable forces gripping him, forces that he's calculated perfectly; loves riding the storm. It's what he was made for!
A blazing streak shoots from horizon to horizon as Skyfire passes high, high above the Autobot's city on his way to his rendezvous with Starscream. As the air slows him, he alters his attitude, presenting his heaviest heat-shields to the air, slowing even further as he plows through the air almost belly-first. The fireball of superheated ions around him blocks all radio communication.
Down and down he goes, slowing until Skyfire judges that he can fly in the lower atmosphere without melting; then he puts his nose down and plunges towards the rendezvous point. Still a little more work to be done with attitude and air-brakes and thrust reversers--too fast, and even his sensors can't make out what's going on on the ground.
// Exiting blackout zone, // he radios Starscream. // On approach vector, your coordinates. //
He doesn't yet mention that this will be a high-speed reconnaissance pass. Anyone else monitoring this channel or holding a blaster to Starscream doesn't need to know it, and Starscream should remember Standard Procedure for an untested landing zone on a new planet. He's very carefully using standard operational jargon to catch Starscream's attention on this.
OOC: That's Skyfire's opinion, anyway, not his player's. Whether or not Starscream should actually remember this is up to Starscream's player
Thicker and thicker still grows the air, until whole molecules are buffeted and broken by his passage; thick enough to slow Skyfire with drag, heat his edges with furious friction, build up into a shockwave spreading from just beyond his nose....
Skyfire revels in the familiar heat, in the irresistable hellride through the upper atmosphere. At this point, he's coming in too fast to maneuver in the thick soup of the middle airs; the art was in aiming his course from the first. Now he can only ride the avalanche, surf the tsunami--and he loves it! Loves feeling the searing heat that can't quite reach him through his heat shields--yet could burn him to molten droplets if he miscalculated; loves the feel of irresistable forces gripping him, forces that he's calculated perfectly; loves riding the storm. It's what he was made for!
A blazing streak shoots from horizon to horizon as Skyfire passes high, high above the Autobot's city on his way to his rendezvous with Starscream. As the air slows him, he alters his attitude, presenting his heaviest heat-shields to the air, slowing even further as he plows through the air almost belly-first. The fireball of superheated ions around him blocks all radio communication.
Down and down he goes, slowing until Skyfire judges that he can fly in the lower atmosphere without melting; then he puts his nose down and plunges towards the rendezvous point. Still a little more work to be done with attitude and air-brakes and thrust reversers--too fast, and even his sensors can't make out what's going on on the ground.
// Exiting blackout zone, // he radios Starscream. // On approach vector, your coordinates. //
He doesn't yet mention that this will be a high-speed reconnaissance pass. Anyone else monitoring this channel or holding a blaster to Starscream doesn't need to know it, and Starscream should remember Standard Procedure for an untested landing zone on a new planet. He's very carefully using standard operational jargon to catch Starscream's attention on this.
OOC: That's Skyfire's opinion, anyway, not his player's. Whether or not Starscream should actually remember this is up to Starscream's player