ten_fwd_meme | TEST DRIVE #15 - Holodeck and Ten Forward

001: Where were you a minute ago? Well, you aren't there anymore. Instead, you're standing in a very large, dark room lined with yellow. There are doors at either end of it.

Here's where things get a little choose your own adventure-y. You could:

1: Approach a console filled with buttons, located a few feet away. Press one, and it'll let you out of the room. Travel down a long hallway and you'll be in Ten Forward, the Enterprises' entertainment lounge. Have a drink, mingle and try to figure out why you're here.

OR

2: Maybe you just muttered some vague request under your breath. Maybe you wished aloud you were somewhere else. Or for help? If you did, might be in a fire station. Muttered something about killing whoever dumped you here? Surprise - you're in a slasher movie!

Though they're confusing, these visions feel about as real as they can be. And guess what - other people can experience those fantasies with you, as if they too were really there. How ever will you escape? Or do you want to?

[OOC: Welcome to the Holodeck! If you choose this option, whatever your character chooses to say out loud will cause a virtual reality program to load and play. While your character feels as if what they're experiencing and seeing is quite real, they're purely living through the latest and best in what he Enterprise has to offer in entertainment. Make sure to detail what your character's fantasy is, so that those threading with them will know how to react.

Open til next month's test drive!]

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There is both joy and sorrow at that. Sorrow that she isn't there to see their first steps, to hear their first words, to send them off to school... Oh, but such joy as well. All she ever wanted was the best for them. A soft breath is exhaled, although she knows by now it isn't needed. "Thank you, Master Yoda."

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She does, trailing behind him like a ghost- quite literally. She is still learning, but the basics she has discovered. "It is a ship called the Enterprise, which belongs to a United Federation of Planets. An entity called Q is given credit for bringing us here. It-"

She pauses. "It seems to defy most rules. I've spoken with Master Kenobi, and he has yet to experience what I have."

"I- there is some he already knows." Everything? No, certainly not everything. Yet she had been confused to be here, confused when she had spotted him. The last she had seen him was there in that medical bay. She had thought, perhaps, he might know something but she had found out that he didn't.

There is something in his words that does have a thought popping up in her head. Padmé knows she has nothing to return to. She is dead. She isn't blind as to what she had arrived in, knowing funeral customs well enough. "No one has addressed that issue, about what happens to those who leave."

She can feel his gaze on her, although her own eyes remain looking out in the vast expanse of space. They are very Jedi words that he speaks, and a Jedi she never was. Human, as plain and simple as that. "Can- can you still feel it here? The Force?"

She doesn't know it's ways, yet she is surprised by that. Padmé doesn't press, as she knows that Jedi have always tended to hold information close, but she would have thought dying would have changed some things. She isn't living, so what does that mean.

Even still, Padmé will admit that there is something calming about the Jedi Master. Even the appearance of Obi-Wan had done that. But as to his meditation, she does provide, "They will assign you quarters to reside in eventually."

That is true. Most things are human sized, and even any children that she has seen have been taller than Yoda... There is a part of her that could point out that it should give him ample room to meditate, although that seems slightly rude. "Perhaps something could be done. They do have some interesting technology onboard."

That does make her pause. She hasn't seen one on board, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Anyway, the technology they have does seem comparable to their own, but slightly different. "I think parts might be able to be replicated?"

"Some, yes. Information can be viewed on some of the terminals..." Which has turned out to be quite handy and given Padmé something to occupy her mind with. "The starship is called the Enterprise- although it has some other classification with it."

In truth, that hadn't really stuck in her mind. "And it is manned by a crew who are part of The United Federation of Planets."

Just how far would her beloved Republic fall? Perhaps far... although hope is not lost. Things do change, but sometimes they can change again. "I've only read a little so far, although it seems to hold a variety of different planets with different species. But, more like the latter."

"Some have spoken of conflicts that they have had in the past." Although past is the key term there. She can't really speak, having only been aboard a short time. "Their history is accessible, although they also hold by something called the Prime Directive."

"It's like a code..." She still has a copy of it back in her guest quarters that she shares with Jadzia. "It's a guide as to the principles of the Federation. I suppose simply put, noninterference with other cultures and civilizations, especially those who are not spacefaring."

Of course it seems that Q doesn't follow this at all.

Her lips purse slightly, as the sting is still there. A man she had respected so much... Yet dwelling on that would accomplish little.

"On this ship. I've heard that they do dock at places, and you can visit? But the people onboard do handle the situation quite well, especially considering they have no say in who suddenly appears aboard their vessel."

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