Planet Yamatai
Star Prefecture
Temple of the Stars
25日 9月 YE 39
With a slow evenness, Eden stepped onto the ladder that delved into a slow gradient of pale to dark blue that soon seeped into pitch darkness. Her hands gripped the tops of the durandium ladder and the cold of the alloy seeped even through the thick experimental cold weather gloves to her palms.
She shook her hand and cursed, "Kuso...!"
Absent-mindedness was the only excuse for not already having her pain receptors off. With her back to the open crevice between the carved cliffs of ice, she blew out into the frigid air and looked across the sheet of ice at the Project Star Princess crew and personnel that had come along for this mission. The Kaiyō II had been nowhere in sight for the past week of training exercises and lessons in the finer points of glacial archaeology and snow safety that the crew had undergone at the homey town of Ralt. As for the mission specifics, they were only briefed to Taiyou Hoshi and Eden. The crew knew this and also knew they were to be briefed themselves within the half hour, once everyone was below the ice.
The black and hime cut haired Nekovalkyrja began stepping down the ladder and before she was able to go down the entirety of the way, she noticed Hoshi's hair whipped and flew about around her and could have easily been a new stealth variant of Kagayaki's Hea Gel as it was being flung by the racing winds. The icy hair blended in so perfectly, it made the deep blue of the experimental cold weather uniform seem to be a standout piece. Hoshi, meanwhile, made herself available while still remaining at the shuttle's landing zone to make sure everyone followed in Eden's wake. She double checked everyone had their NSP secured in holsters and that diamond survival knives were on their person.
Around them were no mountains, no other apparent crevices, nothing but the Raccoon that everyone had filed out of that was now lifting off. Eden took one last long look around before tucking down below the ice.
Star Prefecture
Temple of the Stars
25日 9月 YE 39
With a slow evenness, Eden stepped onto the ladder that delved into a slow gradient of pale to dark blue that soon seeped into pitch darkness. Her hands gripped the tops of the durandium ladder and the cold of the alloy seeped even through the thick experimental cold weather gloves to her palms.
She shook her hand and cursed, "Kuso...!"
Absent-mindedness was the only excuse for not already having her pain receptors off. With her back to the open crevice between the carved cliffs of ice, she blew out into the frigid air and looked across the sheet of ice at the Project Star Princess crew and personnel that had come along for this mission. The Kaiyō II had been nowhere in sight for the past week of training exercises and lessons in the finer points of glacial archaeology and snow safety that the crew had undergone at the homey town of Ralt. As for the mission specifics, they were only briefed to Taiyou Hoshi and Eden. The crew knew this and also knew they were to be briefed themselves within the half hour, once everyone was below the ice.
The black and hime cut haired Nekovalkyrja began stepping down the ladder and before she was able to go down the entirety of the way, she noticed Hoshi's hair whipped and flew about around her and could have easily been a new stealth variant of Kagayaki's Hea Gel as it was being flung by the racing winds. The icy hair blended in so perfectly, it made the deep blue of the experimental cold weather uniform seem to be a standout piece. Hoshi, meanwhile, made herself available while still remaining at the shuttle's landing zone to make sure everyone followed in Eden's wake. She double checked everyone had their NSP secured in holsters and that diamond survival knives were on their person.
Around them were no mountains, no other apparent crevices, nothing but the Raccoon that everyone had filed out of that was now lifting off. Eden took one last long look around before tucking down below the ice.