Alsatia - "A Place Where Law Cannot Reach"

[Harus]

Rachel was on the Spyglass in her quarters preparing to take her ship out for a spin, though suddenly realized that the battleship itself had landed on what seemed to be a white planet or moon. She looked out her quarter window and saw Eva's ships parked about in random order, then noticed Xii move toward the ship, and enter the Pirate Transport. Obviously Eva had called him to talk to him about things. Rachel shrugged and finished dressing herself properly to fly.

Not but a couple days ago, Eva had procured an Eagle, and Rachel was itching to try it out and see how it did compared to the crap she was flying before. As she finished dressing, she typed into the computer that she would be leaving the ship, and flying around for a while, to inform the on-board computer and Xii if he needed to know.

She walked down the illuminated hall toward the hanger, where her brand new Eagle was parked. She walked up to it, and examined it's bulk, and compared it to the Startracker parked in the back on the hanger. She wasn't sure what Eva wanted to do with that, but Rachel didn't care.

Happy with the way the ship looked, Rachel boarded the Eagle, and slowly launched from the Battleship. For a few seconds she hovered over the ground. She familiarized herself with a few more controls, then decided she was ready to try it out.

She took off quickly, throwing the thruster into maximum, taking off for the skies above them, leaving the battleship in a cloud of dust. She felt like she was doing pretty good, turning, strafing and attempting to be agile in her new ship. Figuring out what it could do better then the other ships she'd flown. After 10 or so minutes of flying about, she suddenly saw the Spyglass pass by her in high speeds. It scared her to suddenly see the battleship take off passed her. She shook it off and kept going with the Eagle practice.

Another 10 minutes later, she felt she was comfortable with the controls in taking off, and flying, now to try her first landing in the Eagle. She flew in not far from where all of Eva's ships where parked, and dropped the landing gear. She was slowly setting the ship down, when she suddenly pulled the throttle back to far and fast, suddenly sending her in a forward dive 10ft above the surface. She didn't know what to do and tried to pull the nose of the Eagle back up, but instead she plowed the nose of it into the sand.

The sand had stopped her ship for her, and the Eagle was stuck in it, several feet deep in the sand. Rachel sighed, and swore under her breath, then looked back out the window, and saw half her cockpit stuck in the sand, and the other half looking at the Pirate Transport. No doubt she knew Eva was watching.

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