[Video] - far above the Haven, with a bit of static

[angleofscience]

[The video feed, laced with static here and there but otherwise viable, shows Jetfire from bottom half and down, his arm angled to focus on what seems to be a little drone plane insistently burning at full throttle a few feet beneath thrusters.

Though, for some reason, unless he's keeping precise time with it (which, in fact, he's not, keeping himself hovering) it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Far, far below both Jetfire and drone, the curve of Cybertron can be seen.]

I was in need of some... er, distraction and can safely say that attempting to leave Cybertron's near orbit at present, without some sort of modification, won't result in any greater harm than frustration.

[Jetfire starts to drift, so hopefully no one watching easily gets vertigo as he makes a circle above the insistently flying drone.]

I did, of course, attempt some preliminary tests before I was given the modifications, but as there was no way to know if pushing too far would result in a negative backlash of some sort, I didn't think it prudent to try to use too much power in attempting to get past the... er, field that currently seems to surround Cybertron.

[He might sound a bit more clipped than he usually does, and, out of view of the down-tilted feed, Jetfire's frowning because by now he's sort of... on edge due to Things. Hence, distraction.

Underneath his feet, the drone plane's engine nozzles sputter, cough and then die as it runs out of fuel, and the feed tilts, aiming back up to show Jetfire's upper half and wearing his outer helmet as he dives down to catch it, the static in the feed as he nears Haven smoothing out.]

Also, ah... Sari, Kagerou? I have something for each of you.

[You would think he's not flying straight down at speed to catch his drone plane, by his unruffled tone.]

Comments

[audio]

[angleofscience]

Ah, no.

There's a field, irrespective of and separate from Cybertron's gravitational pull. If it was merely a question of the gravity well, I and those others who can fly or have access to ships with enough power would have been able to leave from the beginning.

There's been some suggestions that the separate effect is a side-effect caused by the Lambda, which I surmise could be due to the interdimensional energies of the anomaly.

[Text]

[kick_astromech]

[[Properties of unnatural field? Does it cause damage if attempted to bypass?_]]

[audio]

[angleofscience]

[He hums, shaking his helm even if it can't be seen.]

No, as the drone just showed, even when the engines should generate enough thrust to reach escape velocity, the field seems to simply negate it, so no injuries would happen. And whatever it is, it, at least, shows no other physical evidence than the effect it has.

[Audio]

[kick_astromech]

[The electronic whistle that follows in response sounds thoughtful at that.]

[Audio]

[angleofscience]

Indeed, it's somewhat... curious. The issue could partly be remedied if we had, or had access to, equipment that could properly scan the field and the Lambda both, without necessarily sending someone up and expose themselves to risk.

[Which... he's done before anyway. Because it seemed necessary.]

[Text]

[kick_astromech]

[[Curious as to what it is as well, but unfortunately cannot fly without starship._]]

[audio]

[angleofscience]

Hopefully there'll be a breakthrough... or at least some... ah, options available soon.

[A wash of static from Jetfire's annoyed sigh briefly disrupt the audio.]

At the least there won't be injuries merely from attempting to pass through the field.

[Text]

[kick_astromech]

[[Permission to be present/accompany in the next opportunity of testing said field?_]]

[audio]

[angleofscience]

Ah... certainly, if you wish it. An additional set of scanners, with a different origin and probably calibrated differently, if you have such, might be useful actually.

[Text]

[kick_astromech]

[[I can attempt to do so._]]

[audio]

[angleofscience]

Good. If nothing else, differing result or not, additional data is always useful

[He smiles, which, of course, isn't visible, but ought to be audible enough.]

[Audio]

[kick_astromech]

[The droid twitters his agreement to that.]