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This is Major Tom to Ground Control / I’m stepping through the door
WHO: You!
WHERE: International Moon Research Base Project Headquarters just outside of De Chima; and, The Moon
WHEN: Various dates, starting in November but the project will be ongoing throughout December
WHAT: Plans to build the International Moon Research Base are underway! Government, public, and imPort collaboration on the project varies from casual picnic to highly technical science. Visitors are welcome, and everyone involved in the project should, well, get involved! Prompts below.
WARNINGS: Let me know if anything needs it! Also, look, I did my best for accuracy but I am not a Science so. I did my best.
EARTH - Welcome Tent
The most casual and welcoming site of the project headquarters, the Welcome Tent is set up next to a big open field. The weather is beautiful and warm today, and many parts of the project have been brought outside. With so many people collaborating, the interior spaces tend to get more crowded, so everyone’s enjoying the opportunity to work outside. There are plenty casual picnickers here to spectate, but there are also a wide variety of scientists, administrators, and imPorts hard at work on all the varied parts of the project.
EARTH - Warehouse / Laboratory spaces
Most of the more earnest research and projects are being conducted inside the adjacent warehouse, office, and laboratory spaces. If you signed up to work on the project in some capacity, you will have a dedicated—or perhaps shared—workbench and all the components and tools that you need. Considerable government money has been spent in outfitting this project, and every imPort involved has been personally considered and accommodated. The moon base is being built in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, so work on your projects and help out on the projects of others! Even moral support is much appreciated, and many of the imPorts who had enthusiasm but not skill have been given jobs as assistants or caterers.
EARTH/MOON - Porter Access Area
The Porter Access Area is the most carefully guarded and restricted area of the site. If you step through the Porter here, you’ll be on the Moon—which could mean instant death if you’re not protected by powers or a space suit. But the dock area around the Porter is lively with people in and out of space suits. The construction of the International Moon Research Base is being carried through the Porter in pieces, which means that all pieces have to be small enough to be carried through, and there are many, many pieces to transport. Lively coordination is happening all around. If you have a project, maybe you want to make sure that it’s transported with care. If you don’t have a project, maybe you’d like to help out as a Porter for a bit? You’ll be carefully coached on how to put on and maintain your space suit, and then you’ll be able to help transport cargo from Earth to Moon. They’ll load you up pretty heavily, but don’t worry—your burdens will become much, much lighter the moment you step through into moon gravity.
MOON - Building Site
Once you’re through the Porter, either in your space suit or with other power-based accommodations to your health and safety in this harsh environment, you’ll be on the surface of the moon! Keep in mind, the surface of the moon is has no atmosphere, and is incredibly hot in sunlight and incredibly cold in the dark. You’ll want to attune your equipment and force fields accordingly.
The view is stunning. The building site is laid out under the glow of the full Earth above, and the barren, silent landscape of the moon stretches out on all sides. Without atmosphere, sound does not travel, but fortunately all of the space suits are equipped with radios with an array of channels, so your conversations on the moon can be as public or private as you please. Construction is happening all around, assisted by small cranes and some robots, and there’s relatively little direct oversight on this side. If you were allowed through the Porter to the high-security Building Site, it’s assumed that you know your business.
WHERE: International Moon Research Base Project Headquarters just outside of De Chima; and, The Moon
WHEN: Various dates, starting in November but the project will be ongoing throughout December
WHAT: Plans to build the International Moon Research Base are underway! Government, public, and imPort collaboration on the project varies from casual picnic to highly technical science. Visitors are welcome, and everyone involved in the project should, well, get involved! Prompts below.
WARNINGS: Let me know if anything needs it! Also, look, I did my best for accuracy but I am not a Science so. I did my best.
The most casual and welcoming site of the project headquarters, the Welcome Tent is set up next to a big open field. The weather is beautiful and warm today, and many parts of the project have been brought outside. With so many people collaborating, the interior spaces tend to get more crowded, so everyone’s enjoying the opportunity to work outside. There are plenty casual picnickers here to spectate, but there are also a wide variety of scientists, administrators, and imPorts hard at work on all the varied parts of the project.
Most of the more earnest research and projects are being conducted inside the adjacent warehouse, office, and laboratory spaces. If you signed up to work on the project in some capacity, you will have a dedicated—or perhaps shared—workbench and all the components and tools that you need. Considerable government money has been spent in outfitting this project, and every imPort involved has been personally considered and accommodated. The moon base is being built in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, so work on your projects and help out on the projects of others! Even moral support is much appreciated, and many of the imPorts who had enthusiasm but not skill have been given jobs as assistants or caterers.
The Porter Access Area is the most carefully guarded and restricted area of the site. If you step through the Porter here, you’ll be on the Moon—which could mean instant death if you’re not protected by powers or a space suit. But the dock area around the Porter is lively with people in and out of space suits. The construction of the International Moon Research Base is being carried through the Porter in pieces, which means that all pieces have to be small enough to be carried through, and there are many, many pieces to transport. Lively coordination is happening all around. If you have a project, maybe you want to make sure that it’s transported with care. If you don’t have a project, maybe you’d like to help out as a Porter for a bit? You’ll be carefully coached on how to put on and maintain your space suit, and then you’ll be able to help transport cargo from Earth to Moon. They’ll load you up pretty heavily, but don’t worry—your burdens will become much, much lighter the moment you step through into moon gravity.
Once you’re through the Porter, either in your space suit or with other power-based accommodations to your health and safety in this harsh environment, you’ll be on the surface of the moon! Keep in mind, the surface of the moon is has no atmosphere, and is incredibly hot in sunlight and incredibly cold in the dark. You’ll want to attune your equipment and force fields accordingly.
The view is stunning. The building site is laid out under the glow of the full Earth above, and the barren, silent landscape of the moon stretches out on all sides. Without atmosphere, sound does not travel, but fortunately all of the space suits are equipped with radios with an array of channels, so your conversations on the moon can be as public or private as you please. Construction is happening all around, assisted by small cranes and some robots, and there’s relatively little direct oversight on this side. If you were allowed through the Porter to the high-security Building Site, it’s assumed that you know your business.
Alphonse and OTA
Al is excited as he finds the Welcome Tent, wearing a jacket and clutching his schematic papers. Even with the nice weather, he had the jacket on, because excitement had given him the chills. He is bouncy and friendly to anyone he runs into. Interacting with the staff, he is often dragged off for one task or another, one question or another, but he will talk to anyone as long as he can!
OMG, moon project!!!
EARTH - Warehouse / Laboratory spaces
And here is where Al works most of the time, memorizing schematics and testing(Or showing off to higher-ups) his powers on nonessential things. Al moves from place to place, helping figure out where his powers can do the most good, and how he can be helpful, here as well as on the moon itself. From warehouse to the office to laboratories, he goes, doing what he can. When not working, he is studying just in case he needs more than basic survival and engineering knowledge up there.
He's always glad to stop and hang out, talk, or consult with anyone!
EARTH/MOON - Porter Access Area
Approaching the Porter Access Area in his modified armor/space suit, Al goes through all of the security with a smile, by now knowing all of the workers' names by heart. He does whatever he is asked to get through. This is where the big stuff happens! His excitement is always visible as he moves forward, usually moving equipment components with him.
He stops and consults, talks to, and smiles at anyone who needs or wants to talk to him, eyes bright with excitement. This is where his studying pays off. A month of doing almost nothing but studying and practicing, from dusk to dawn and sometimes longer, is paying off.
As he steps through to the Moon, he bounces, just a little. Wouldn't do to fly away, right? Right.
MOON - Building Site
The surface of the moon makes Al grin a lot. Not that he doesn't grin other places, but... Moon!!! He wishes Ed was here, really, to see this and to work alongside him, but he is also glad to be accomplishing this on his own, alongside his fellow workers.
His modified suit warms him and pumps air through his system as he walks, moving carefully to the main building area. He stows whatever components he has brought thought, logging them with the person in charge of that, and then looks around to check in with the current work boss, so as to make sure where he should be working today. Where on the moon. So cool.
Once he knows his assigned action, he is at work, kneeling, drawing his circle, and then transforming a pile of components into a piece of equipment, or a pile of equipment into a larger thing. Step by step, he works, sometimes by himself, sometimes with others. But he is always there to help, if others need him!
porter access area
As he gathers his things, he spots an eager young man with something familiar in his expression. It reminds him of something warm and familiar, and that's enough to compel him to speak.
"Preparing for your first trip through?"
porter access area
"How about you?"
no subject
"It's my first time through. My arrival here was somewhat delayed...but I can hardly believe this is happening. I've dreamed of visiting the moon for years, and there it is. Waiting on the other side. I'll be working on the waste recycle system."
no subject
"Well, then, I'll give you the five-cent tour if you like." Why not? With the others, Al had been involved in building a lot of it. He knew the base as well as anyone, really.
no subject
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he waved toward the porter.
"Shall we go?"
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"And I do hope you'll forgive my rudeness. I'm Dr. Emmett Brown, renewable resource engineer on the project. Pleased to meet you."
no subject
Al grinned wider, shaking the man's hand.
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"Alchemical construction?"
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He spoke without pride, just citing what he was doing, not seeing it as any more important than what anyone else did.
no subject
"That's an extraordinarily useful gift," he grinned. "No wonder you've found your place here. It's good to have you aboard."
no subject
An amazing dream.
Doc Brown - open
After some careful deliberation, Doc has made the decision to carry on with his involvement in the project. He's contributing a specialized garbage compactor->energy conversion system, as well as offering himself as a walking generator for all whose projects may need an extra zap.
He indicates this by wearing a lightning bolt badge on his chest. and he's available to provide any assistance needed.
lunar building site
Years of seemingly impossible dreams, the stuff stories were made of, were insufficient to prepare Doc for this moment.
He stood on the surface facing the Earth for a long moment, bag of parts clutched in his suit's thick glove. In his boyhood he'd dreamed of climbing into a lunar cannon, as an adult he'd watched true rocket launches, and now...he'd merely stepped through a portal to land here. The planet stretched before him, big and beautiful. And he'd never felt quite so small.
"Have you ever seen something so extraordinary?" he whispered into the headset. Doc would need a minute or two to compose himself before resuming his work.
Jacob Taylor, OTA
Jacob can be found in the tent doing three things: checking out the plans for the build site, getting something to eat before he gets teleported into Earth's orbit, and meeting the other people involved in the project. It feels good to be part of this, to be tapping in to the energy in the air. So much of what Jacob does around here involves fighting, rescuing, reacting. Now, he's getting to build something, working toward international peace and humanity's future in space. It's just what he needs after the hellish few weeks he's had, and it shows in the smile on his face as he munches a sandwich while leaning over a design hologram.
Access Area
It's been a while since Jacob was in a space suit, especially one designed by 21st-century standards. His suit is a bright, confident red, with a big bubble visor to give him a grand view once he's up there.
He's almost fully suited up and ready for the Moon, but this last gauntlet is giving him trouble, refusing to click into place as he fumbles with it using the thick, gloved fingers of his other hand. All the other techs are busy right now, so he looks around haplessly for the nearest imPort.
"Uh. Little help?"
ON THE MOON
After four years grounded on Earth, Jacob Taylor is finally in space again. After dropping off his payload of construction supplies at the assembly site, Jacob allows himself the luxury of stepping away from work for a moment and taking slow, bounding, low-gravity steps to the top of the nearest hill of grey, powdery moon rock. He climbs up and stands there silently for a long moment, turning around in a savouring circle as he takes in the vast sweep of the stars around him and the gorgeous blue majesty of Earth above. He takes a deep breath, lets it out, then says to no one in particular:
"Hell of a view, isn't it? Worth the trip."
On the Moon
He shivered, thrilled all over again.
"I've never seen anything more brilliant. It's a wonder to think we live there, somewhere." He's been a proud member of Earth for his entire life, but even the Kaiju couldn't instill the same sense of fierce loyalty he felt to the planet now. He'd never allow them to touch it again.
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"One day we won't just live there," he says with confidence. "We'll have dozens of worlds, be part of the Galaxy. We're helping take the first steps forward right here, right now. But we'll never forget where we came from."
It's not usual for Jacob to feel this swell of sentiment. But where Hermann is experiencing a new frontier in leaving Earth, for Jacob it's more like a homecoming. He spent most of his life away from the homeworld back home: aboard ships, space stations, colonies. Even confined to a space suit, being up here feels like freedom to him.
Hermann (and Newt), OTA
Large parts- too large to carry through a Porter- were strewn across the field. Hermann walked around them, phone in hand and trailed by a hovering camera drone. Short commands directed it to take in different angles, perform x-rays of the equipment, and transmit information to his phone. Occasionally he'd stand still and after a set period of time, an object would disappear in a flash of white numbers- and always with the same self-satisfied smile.
"QB, forward the dimensions for that piece to my laptop. It's a bit too large to tackle without an equation..."
B. EARTH - Warehouse / Laboratory spaces
He was most at home in a laboratory of course, moving around it much as though he'd been doing so for years. His signature chalkboard took up most of his space, with just a desk with his laptop and a chair besides. Most often seen squinting at his computer screen, then writing furious lines of numbers and letters in long strings of equations in white chalk. QB the drone AI would read out requested bits of information in a voice that was surprisingly human-sounding, and perhaps even familiar to those who knew his namesake.
C. EARTH/MOON - Porter Access Area (Hermann + Newt)
Cane in one hand and Newton's hand in the other, Hermann declined carrying up any parts to the budding Moon base. He practically vibrated in place, Drift alive with excitement and the impending realization of a long-held dream. He'd seen the moon's surface through his drone, but actually being there would be something else entirely.
And it was. The moment they left Earth's gravity, the sudden sense of weightlessness as he materialized up in space, accompanied by a wash of cold before the suit's sensors kicked in and stabilized the internal temperature, was nothing short of awe-inspiring. The base was nothing yet, and the surface of the moon was much like a barren wasteland. But the dark, endless stars, the knowledge that he was truly, really here overcame him with a sudden emotional surge of tears and sniffles.
Truly the worst possible time to be wearing a space suit.
D. MOON - Building Site
Once he'd recovered however, Hermann was hard-pressed to stop grinning. Feeling much like a child waking up on Christmas, he wanted to touch and look at absolutely everything. The realization that the reduced gravity meant his cane was less necessary made just walking that much more enjoyable. He bent down with more ease to wave a hand over the moon's surface, sifting fine dust that floated away between gloved fingers. It was beautiful and wonderful, and he'd never had a happier day in his life- save perhaps his wedding.
When he finally wanders back over toward the construction site, it's with an utterly content smile, certain that this was exactly what he wanted and where he should be.
"When the base is completed, it's going to be difficult to want to return to Earth."
no subject
When he heard a familiar signal, he approached.
"It's...not something I ever thought I'd see either," he whispered through the radio, hovering a short distance away. "These were my childhood fairytales, and here we are."
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But this wasn't his dream to get choked up over.
Still. That inky black canvas above, the emptiness of space, the dusty rocky soil beneath his boots... Regardless of how it formed, this chunk of space rock was their closest companion and the only one Earth had set a living body on yet in Newt's lifetime. Newt knew the history and the cost to get here. A small step for man in the name of discovery. His dream this was not, but the significance was not lost on him...especially with Hermann's wide-eyed wonder glowing in his mind.
Nothing to make you more aware of your own tears than to see them floating off your own face.
"My fairytales about space included more little green men." Any cheekiness was lost amid the awe in his voice.
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"Sadly, we have only the ones we brought with us," Doc said gently, not entirely in a teasing mood. "But here we are. An impossibility made reality. I'll get to work...in a minute, perhaps."
Really, he never wanted to leave this spot. The view was beyond compare.
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He cleared his throat and straightened up a bit, turning toward Doc.
"I couldn't resist, the moment they said we'd be able to come up here. There's some time yet to wonder before the base really begins to come together."
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"I imagine it will be much more comfortable to observe the earth from here once it's completed. Think of the views from the observatory...no, I don't think I'll wait long at all to get started. But this is quite the fun place," he smiled at them.
It was an important bonding activity for the couple, that much was clear.