Light-Years Away (Open RP)

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((Sorry guys! Newborn puppy I and my roommate are hand raising... sleeping when I can. Anyway, I'm okay with starting as soon as possible, so what I'm going to do is make the first post :) ))


River
River walked through the small tribe of Hydrian's that followed his rule. He greeted his people, waving to them with a smile. Still, something felt off today. He couldn't pin point why, but it was almost as if the pressure in the air around him. Ignoring the weird sensation River continued to walk, making sure his people felt secure and safe.

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Camile Alvarez
Camile was terrified. All around her the ship shook and rattled. Her hands clutched to the seat belts, praying they didn't snap and send her flying through the ship. She bounced in her seat as the ship shook again, the belt straps pressing tightly to her chest. She was terrified the ship was going to crash... terrified they were all going to die.

Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

Klara fought the urge to close her eyes as they hurtled towards the planet's surface. As the engineer on board, she was sat in the pilot's seat so that in the unlikely event something happened to the autopilot she could attempt to fix it, which meant she had a front row view of their descent. Fear and exhilaration coursed through her in equal measures, which was probably just right for this once in a lifetime event she thought, before correcting herself - it was a once in humanity's lifetime event, never mind her own.


Alexios

Alexios was out scouting the edges of Terian territory when he spotted the strange light in the sky. He scrambled up a nearby tree to get a better view, where he spent a few seconds staring at it before he realised that it was getting bigger; that it was heading towards them. As quickly as he could, he dropped back down to the ground and ran back to the tribe's base, patrol forgotten.

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Rain
Rain watched as River made his way through the tribe, as she watched she noticed that he seemed different a little stressed even. Sighing Rain jumped down from the tree she had been lounging in, and made her way over to River.
"Rain." she said giving him a slight bow. "Is everything alright, you seem a bit stressed?" she asked a bit concerned.

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Journey
Journey was at the edge of Arians territory, he was hunting trying to find something for him to eat. Since he was in such low ranks in the tribe he had to find his own food. Sniffing the air he noticed a scent that he had never smelt before as if there was a new species.

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Arsen
Arsen was on the way to see her father the chief of Fyrians, for she had felt a strong and powerful fire that she had never felt before. No one else seemed to have noticed, or if they did they were not showing it.
Finally, Arsen found her father, he was in a meeting with other respected members of the tribe. She guessed they were talking about the powerful fire as well. But she would have to wait till the meeting was over to see what they were really discussing.

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Ripley Tuck
Ripley's heart was pounding with excitement, as they landed. "So, who's ready to check this planet out?" she asked as she unbuckled and went over to the computer to see if they needed to wear a space suit. The computer made a noise making Ripley smile wide. "No need for suits, so come one everyone get to it!"

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Xavier Simmons
Xavier sighed as he looked over at the other passengers in the ship. Unbuckling he grabbed his bag before walking over to stand by Ripley. Turning back around he looked at the others, knowing how scared they were even though deep down Xavier was excited he was a bit terrified himself.

Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

As the other passengers started getting to their feet, Klara quickly ran through all the external diagnostics systems, finding out as much about the planet they'd landed on as possible. Once that was done, she turned away from the console to join the others, so eager to get outside and explore that she started talking in Russian, although she soon realised and switched to English.
"Да, я очень возбужденный! Sorry, yes, let's go!"

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Roedanya
A low, continuous rumbling like thunder that started out as nothing and slowly began to crescendo echoed around the valleys that Roedanya currently inhabited. It was a sparse, unforgiving land, but it was also land unclaimed, and therefore the sort of land that the Terian could call home -in a fashion. The rumbling was a mystery to the lone Terian, who had never heard anything of the like. It kept growing and growing, louder and louder, and she sat listening for some time before she ever saw anything.

What she saw was even more curious than the rumbling, honestly. It started out as a speck and grew in size, and soon she could see that it was silver. Next, she noticed it was made of some strange reflective material, and lastly, she noticed that its direction seemed to actually be towards her. Roedanya quickly moved off a ways, watching with rapt attention as the strange thing finally made it to the ground. It left a hole in the earth big enough for a small tribe of Terians to live in -she winced at that- but seemed to be more or less intact some distance away.

Then a most curious thing happened. She had thought the silver thing might have been some sort of living creature, but it stayed still, and from it, something else emerged that she couldn't quite see very well. Glancing around quickly, Roedanya soon found some large patches of grass and brush, and flattened herself amongst the plants, creeping forward until she was close enough that her only slightly obstructed view was at least close and clear.

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Pharonin
Pharonin honestly wasn't exactly sure why he had been asked to attend the meeting. Usually, these things were restricted to the elders and their chief. Nothing about him had suddenly changed over the course of the night, and he couldn't imagine the meeting changing him either. Yet, there was no apparent reason for his attendance, and his suggestions hardly seemed helpful to the others.

Most of the elders wanted to leave the mysterious fire alone unless it threatened them. A few others thought it should be investigated, and a bare handful suggested seeking it out and destroying it. Pharonin hadn't really liked any of the options, so when his opinion had been asked, he'd suggested maybe finding it and harnessing its power for the good of their people. The suggestion hadn't been well-received.

Thus, the Fyrian felt that more than anything, time had been wasted by including him in the meeting. So he felt his general bad mood was warranted as he was finally released from the torture and exited the room he'd been holed up in with a bunch of cranky elders.

"You should talk some sense into your father," he informed Arsen as he found her waiting nearby. "My being included in any sort of meeting seems to be a giant waste of time, especially as none of the elders particularly like me -or my ideas."

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River
River turned to rain, giving her a shielded smile, "Something just... feels off," He said softly. It was then that he noticed a flash of silver in the sky. Looking up he watched with wide eyes as an object landed on their planet. He turned to one of the tribe's soldiers, giving orders to guard the people before running toward the object.

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Camile Alvarez
Camile gave a sigh of relief as she finally stepped on solid ground. She hated the trip, hated the ship, and wanting nothing more then to get as far away from it as possible. She stood on the outskirts of the others as they grouped together, not really one to just join in on conversations with strangers.

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Rain
Rain saw the terror in River's eyes before he ran off. Curious she ran after him before she felt something hit the planet as she felt all the water vibrate from the impact. Her heart pounding in her chest she ran a bit faster as she knew that this was what River was going after.

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Arsen
Arsen watched as Pharonin walked past her confused as to why he was allowed into the meeting and she was not even asked to join. "Hey wait up!" she yelled as she ran after him, catching up with him easily. "They were talking about the powerful fire that seemed to just come out of no where weren't they?" Arsen asked.

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Ripley Tuck
Ripley looked around. "It looks like Earth." she said flatly. "I was kind of hoping for a change of scenery. Well besides the four moons in the sky." she said making everyone look up at the sky. "Who's in charge here anyway?" Ripley asked wanting to get things started.

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Xavier Simmons
As soon as Xavier stepped out of the ship he was oblivious to everything except the planet and the sky. Especially the sky, he couldn't get over how beautiful and different the four moons were if they were even moons at all. A million things began to run through his mind. Would it get dark on this planet for him to be able to see the stars, how was he able to still see the moons with the sun up, is there more than just four moons because the sun was still up and they were unable to see them?

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Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

Klara followed Ripley and Xavier off the ship, rucksack slung over her shoulder and toolbox in one hand. She couldn't wait to explore the place, although the rational part of her said that they should set up camp before anyone went wandering off.
"According to the computer, there are four distinct types of terrain so maybe the other areas will look alien," She informed Ripley, turning in a slow circle as she spoke so she could take in the view in all directions.
"Regarding who's in charge, I guess we should take a vote?"

(Shouldn't the humans know each other already? Or are we saying something like there wasn't time to meet before the mission and they spent the journey in cryo-stasis?)

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Ripley Tuck
"I hope you're right." Ripley said as she looked over at Klara. Maybe it would help if we tell each other what we specialize in to help with the voting. I guess I will go first. I've been in the army for four years and I specialize in combat. Ripley stated before looking on at the others.


Xavier Simmons
"Astronomer here." Xavier said as he raised his hand, finally coming back to reality. Even though all he wanted to do was study everything about they sky here on this planet. Keeping his eyes anywhere but up he tried desperately to pay attention.

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Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

"As you might have gathered by now, I'm an engineer," Klara offered. She didn't think she was the person to lead the group, although she'd step up to the plate if the others voted her in, but she'd happily give advice on the practical side of things to whoever was chosen.

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Ripley Tuck
"Well, Camile what about you?" Ripley asked, wanting to be on the move already. "If there is any sort of life on this planet they are going to know we are here soon enough, so we need to get a move on it."

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River
River turned to see Rain following him. He slowed, frowning a little, "Rain, you should go back. I don't know what we're running to. I'd rather not have one of my citizens hurt."

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Camile Alvarez
Camile jerked her head up, eyes wide. She'd been standing in the back, trying not to bring attention to herself. Still, now that everyone was staring at her, she had to speak, "Archeology and Paleontology." She shrugged, "Which leave me out." She definitely didn't want to lead.

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Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

From her initial impressions, Klara thought that Ripley seemed to be the obvious choice. She came across as a natural leader, and her military experience would no doubt be greatly beneficial to setting up the colony. Seeing as the rest of the group hadn't come out of the ship yet, Klara suggested, "Why don't the four of us do some reconnaissance while the others are getting ready to move out?"

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Rain
"Something landed here and I want to know what it is." Rain stated as she began to run as fast as she could.

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Ripley Tuck
"I vote Xavier then. For he may be able to help give us some sense of direction." Ripley stated as she looked around not sure if she even knew which direction they were in.


Xavier Simmons
"No way! I vote Ripley." he said glaring at her a bit, for she was the one who was in the army and he had barley even left his lab, let alone lead a group of people around an unknown planet.

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Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

"I vote Ripley too," Klara added, before digging in the pocket of her rucksack and pulling out a small handheld device. Once it was calibrated to the planet, it would be able to lead them back to the ship from wherever they ended up, as well as help them map the area.
"I can help with navigation though. This is basically a digital compass and GPS."

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Ripley Tuck
Ripley sighed. "Fine. Let's go this way." she pointed in a direction as she looked a Klara waiting for her to tell them which way 'that' way was. "Grab your things, we may not be back to the ship for a while. We will leave in ten." She stated as she looked around the area trying to see if there was any type of life out there.

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Klara Dmitrievna Volkova

Klara poked at the device until it began feeding her coordinates. She saved their current location so they'd be able to get back, and then started scanning their surroundings to gather data.
"North is... that way," She announced, pointing in a slightly different direction to Ripley.

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Ripley Tuck
"Is everyone ready?" Ripley asked a bit annoyed that they had not left yet, staying in one spot for too long made her nervous.


Xavier Simmons
Xavier thought for a moment going over the list of things he needed. Finally he nodded. "Yes, I'm ready I guess." he said as he looked over at the others waiting for their response.