Orange Team Onward!

[voidtreckermods]

Arrival

Their flight path makes sure they are well out of the way of both the battles taking place and they get to the shield station within an hour as long as they fly quickly.

There are no enemy ships around but it is clear there has been an attack, the shield disk itself is damaged and there seems to be no power in the station.

Once they dock they will be met by some technicians who quickly explain the situation.

Help is needed everywhere. The power needs repaired, the shield needs repaired from the outside, there are injured technicians who need medical care. There is a small med-bay available.

Maintenance

Once the initial crisis is dealt with it is a case of keeping up with things. A patrol is needed to guard the station from other attacks, there are four shield stations in total and so the voidtreckers may chose to split themselves once things are a little calmer.

Keeping up the shields is an almost constant job, especially with the attacks. Once one thing is fixed it seems another thing is down. The maintenance itself is very technical but there are parts that can be done by the unskilled as long as they have direction.

Comments

[les_magique]

She'll get to the church question in a moment, because Curufin had just hit one of Samata's rant buttons.

"I am absolutely NOT a sorcerer! I am a wizard! I was born without a drop of magical talent in my veins, but through careful experimentation and a WHOLE lot of math, I have determined that magic is not a divine power it's a force of nature! It's possible for ANYONE to manipulate it if they know how!" She said, with a certain amount of passion. "When I get back home, I will keep on teaching other people how to be wizards, and within a generation, we will have made sorcerers obsolete!"

[so_dark_a_road]

"Oh, I see. I was distracted by the semantics. A sorcerer and a wizard are very different, then, in your world. I respect your efforts to determine the origin of magical powers. The people in my world would agree with you -- that magic is not in fact a divine gift but a force of nature. You seem very sure of this, and very passionate about it. I admire that passion, and your desire to be a teacher of wizardry."

[les_magique]

"Just...so we know where we stand. I promise the math checks out." She has it all in her spellbook, which was sitting on the table by her physical body. "I actually made up the word Wizard myself. It's based on an old word for 'wisdom', because we use our minds to master magic, while sorcerers simply have it in their blood. I was surprised to learn that the word exists in other planes of reality!"

[so_dark_a_road]

He nods. "I believe you. Although I would be curious as to how the math helped you figure it all out. I know some math, having studied modern engineering. You thought up the word wizard yourself? Nice. Ah, I see. The wizards are the intellectuals of the magical world, whereas the sorcerers are merely the ones who use magic by intuition. Those words do both exist on other planes of reality. We have both words in my world."