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List of weird things to happen in the last half hour:
1. Woke up with a nasty charley horse on a Starship that's current blueprints are about 2 years from even being implemented. In a pretty comfy cabin with a bonsai tree. Pretty sure that was supposed to make me feel more at home or something, which, by the way? No.

2. Received messages from the captain of the Starship-that-wasn't, telling me to come to the bridge for a mission briefing. Spent about fifteen minutes wandering around, getting some pretty weird looks.

3. ...Got turned right around and told to come on here once I finally found the bridge. Seriously, maybe I haven't been on any ships ever, but the layout of this thing is completely counter-intuitive. I mean, everyone's seen the potential design and the base blueprints, but come on.

So anyway, yeah. Why am I supposed to be on this site right now and why am I on a spaceship that shouldn't exist? Because if this is one of those pre-teen chat things that they're using to distract me from their nefarious plot to corrupt me to a life of piracy in deep space, then... well, it's kind of working, but still.

And while I'm at it, if anyone in the bay area could let my teachers know that I'm in space and can't take that text for AP Physics, that'd be awesome.

((OOC: Sulu is now 14 (and a half) and is on a spaceship that was only in the planning stages when he was a kid. Aren't all you other kids jealous of him?))

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[third year Luna is third year]

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

How many bay areas are there? Could there be more than one?

...Starship? Does it fly through the stars, or is it a star?

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The Bay area is what people call the area I live in, in San Francisco. I guess other people from other areas have their own bays or whatever, but we had the name first.

...No, it flies through space. Except fly isn't really the right word.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

Oh. I'm from Ottery St. Catchpole, so I can't find your teachers from here.

What is the right word?

[parked]

Where is that? And it's cool, I'm starting to think I'm not even in your timeline.

Propel, I guess.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

England, more or less. How far ahead are you? Can you guess?

Propel through the stars doesn't have the same ring to it. How does it work?

[parked]

It's 2251 - or, it should be. I'm not sure right now.

The ship's engines are sub-light impulse. They use thrusters to adjust the speed of the ship, unless they're going into warp, which is when they use the warp drive. That's figuring that technology hasn't changed much in 2 years.

I'm Hikaru, by the way.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

That's only 255 years away from now.

Sub-light? Is there an over-light?

I'm Luna.

[parked]

Yeah, only.

There's sub-light-speed and then light-speed. Then, warp, which is faster-than-light.

Nice to meet you, Luna. Did you find the stuff you were asking around about?

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. It could be 256 years from now.

Does that mean you'd only find dark there?

Not yet. I'm sure I'll get it back before the end of term, though. I usually do.

[parked]

...What difference would a year make?

No... light-speed is a measure of time, not a measure of luminescence.

Get it back?

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

365 days, usually.

Oh, I see. How do you measure luminescence?

My things, but my earrings most importantly. They go missing every year. People take them, I think.

[parked]

...Riiiight.

Luminescent intensity is... I think measured in candelas.

Why would they take your stuff? That's not cool.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

Candelas. That's a very nice word.

I think they think I'm odd. But I get most of it back by the end of term, so it's not as bad as it sounds.

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Yeah. If I remember right, a candle flame emits something equal to one candela. I guess that's where they got it.

That's tough. They shouldn't bother stealing your stuff for being "odd" or whatever.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

A star must be made of a lot of candelas, then.

It isn't very nice of them, but if I got mad at them, it wouldn't get my things back.

[parked]

I guess. I'm not very good with light measurements, really.

Man, if I got my stuff taken at school, I wouldn't be as calm as you are.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

You study physics. I read it up there.

They're just my things. They'll be back soon. And if not, that'll be okay, too.

[parked]

Yeah, and the measure of luminous intensity is related to optics, which is kind of out of my league at 14.

That's really zen, Luna.

[saneasme.livejournal.com]

What are you learning now in physics?

Zen's another nice word. It sounds very calm.