Walking down the hall I wonder how the meeting will turn out, hell more than anything I wonder what the meeting is even about! What with everything happening I couldn't sleep much when I got back to my dorm, Just laying there I went over my night, thinking about all the crazy things that had happened. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't help but believe all that had occurred was fake.
"It's almost like a third-party decided my life was too dull and threw a wrench into it just to see what happened." Thinking aloud as I continue on my way, a few people look at my with odd glances. -I know right, even I think it sounds silly-
Arriving at the entrance to the hall I notice a guard standing to the side, a student currently talking to him. As I get closer I hear some of the conversation.
".. is closed today, any and all classes originally being held here will now be held in different rooms." Pointing to a piece of paper he continues. " Each class and its new room are listed here." Stopping there he doesn't say another word.
The student looks at the schedule and start rushing back my way. Passing by me I hear him grumble about how far he'll have to walk, "Stupid girl just had to be sick.. wouldn't have missed class if not for her." Feeling a bit disturbed by the way he said that I try to put it out of mind as I reach the guard.
"Hi, Doctor Fargrove told me to come to Meeting Room 2 at eleven. Although... He didn't tell me what was for what reason."
"Name?"
-Ahh, how stupid of me to not mention my name..- "alsius Frey sir. I don't know if I will be on th.."
"You're free to enter." The guard interrupts me before going back to looking imposing.
"Okay, thanks?" Not expecting an answer I open the door and head to the room I was told to go to.
Before the door closes I hear what sounds like a muffled "Your welcome." Thinking the delay was kind of late, I can't help but wonder if he'd been thanked at all for doing his job.
-Well, I hope he's at least getting paid to do that. Probably kinda boring..-
Opening the door to the meeting room, I notice as all everyone in the room quiets down for a second as they look to the door to see who entered. Seeing it's just a most of them go back to what they are doing with a few looking on in interest a few moments longer before going back to what they were doing. Looking for Thomas, I hear my named called out from the right.
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"Ahh, Alsius. I'm glad you could make it. I think you are going to be really excited about this one!"
"So, what exactly is this all about anyways Thomas? Considering you needed the whole hallway cleared I'd say it has to be pretty important." -Maybe I'll actually get some answers-
"Come now Mr. Frey. what fun would that be if I told you. Just sit back and enjoy. Speaking of which it looks like you wont have to wait for long." Following his line of sight I see a man walk out from a door opposite to where I came in from.
"Good morning, I'm glad all of you could make it here so early. I know a few of you were up quite late working and appreciate you being here. As you all should know we will be testing the new drive that has been in development. We have run a few small tests with it and believe it is ready for a bit more. We plan on running a 2 day circuit around our solar system to do a bit of a stress test on it." Stopping up to here, the man gives everyone time to digest what has been said.
-A new drive? One that can go around our solar system in two days or less? That's insane!-
"Doesn't it take at something like 11 days to do that with a light-speed engine Thomas?" Confused, I Whisper to him.
Just nodding his head at the man, he stays silent.
"now then, you should all know that this is going really easy on the new tech but we want to see how it reacts in short jumps so before and after each jump we'll be collecting and going over a large amount of data to see how well it runs. As this is still pretty new a lot of tuning is going to be happening, but we believe that we are almost to the point where we can place this on every ship we can, allowing us the ability to travel to places we have never been before. Most of the preparation has been done. The date to start is still tomorrow so make sure to be at the launch site at noon with your things."
Looking at the man I feel my excitement rising! From what I can tell they managed to create a warp drive and it can make a trip around the solar system a lot faster than 2 days. looking to the man I wait for him to continue.
"As this is still an expedition out into space, we will be required to as always be geared and ready for any situation that might occur so make sure you have your suits with you as well as any weapons you are cleared to have. This shouldn't be in any way shape or form dangerous but showing caution is why we have had so few accidents. I know you all have been waiting to do this for a while so I'll end this here, thank you."
A short applause follows the end of the speech before some begin to leave, as others start to discuss things correlating to the project. "I hope the testing will give us enough data to safely verify that we can travel more than a billion Km per jump. I know why they put that precaution into place but st.." "You see that kid come in with Thomas? I'm surprised it isn't h.." Zoning out their conversations I turn to Thomas to start my own.
"does this mean I get to go with you to test the Warp Drive?"
"I expect to see you tomorrow, you'll have a lot of work to do assisting me with what I am doing. We'll mostly be directing people in engineering and making sure the system is running correctly but other than that it should be an easy trip."
Looking to Thomas I can't express my gratitude for this chance. "Thank you, I appreciate you giving me this opportunity. I'll try to not let you down Thomas." I give Thomas a quick hug. "I need to make sure my suit is in operable condition and my PDW is in working order. See you tomorrow!"