Username: padparadscha
Name: Peregrine Juniper
Gender: Female
Color Choice: Purple
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Peregrine walked among the forests she had created only a few days prior and grinned. It's been a while since she did this good of a job.
She spoke into her headset, "Bring me up, Marvin." And then,
if one were to have been watching her at this point, it would seem to them that Peregrine had suddenly stopped existing. What had actually happened, of course, was that she had been teleported back up onto the spaceship where she had lived and worked for the past 13 years of her life.
"Welcome aboard, Peregrine. Has your job gone well?"
Asked Marvin, the AI controlling the ship.
"Indeed it has," Peregrine said, walking over to a window to look down at her work from above. The local creatures of this planet would no doubt be confused at the sudden drastic change in their ecosystems, but they'd be no less confused than at a small rock which was in their path when it hadn't been before.
Another kalon walked into the room. "Peri!"
She exclaimed,
"You're back early! Did something happen?"
"Nah, my job just took less time than we anticipated. Nothing too major, don't worry, June." Peregrine paused for a second, then asked, "So, anything interesting happen while I was gone?"
"Marvin went offline for a couple hours to, I don't know, install updates or something. Otherwise, just the usual."
"I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved that nothing happened while I was gone. Usually it's something ma-"
Peregrine was cut off by an explosion and the ship shaking. "Well, there's our interesting thing, I guess. I'm gonna go check it out, ya comin'?" June shook her head in response. "Alright, suit yourself then."
A while later, Peregrine came back to the arrival area of the ship, and found June looking out the window.
June whistled, impressed. "Nice handiwork there, Peregrine."
She turned around to look at Peregrine and continued, "Anyway, so what was it?"
"Not sure what happened, but our engines are busted."
"That'd certainly explain why Marvin doesn't seem to be functional at present," mentioned June, "but continue."
"We'll probably need to track down
Chi and get him to fix it." Peregrine sighed, flipping through some notes she had written down. "Course, who knows where on the ship he's holed himself up this time.
"Can do," June said, and grinned. "Can you go turn on the backup generator while I'm doing that, then?"
"Mhm," said Peregrine, off on her way towards the engine room. Unless
someone (Chi) moved it again, that was where it should have been.
Peregrine arrived in the engine room and glanced around, looking for the backup engine, to hook up to the head console of the ship. This is exactly when Peregrine realized she did not know how to start the backup engine. She was a terraformer, dangit, not an engineer. That was Chi's job,
working with all that mechanical stuff. In the midst of this, the ship rumbled again, as if something was attacking it.
Peregrine muttered to herself, "Okay, once is chance, twice is a coincidence -"
She heard the airlock open.
"Three times is a pattern." She sighed and looked over to see who or what it was.
"June," she said into her headset, "we've got bandits in the engine room. A little backup might be appreciated, I'm not going to deal with another Epsilon-Terra 4 type situation."
"On it," said June, through the comm line.
"Missy! Who's the captain 'a this here ship?" One of the bandits shouted at Peregrine.
"Look, I'm really busy right now, could you come back at a different time? For example: never."
"Look, lady, we're taking this ship for our own," another bandit said, "so unless ya wanna get tossed into space I'd advise-"
The reason why that second of three bandits had stopped talking was because he had gotten kicked in the face by an extremely angry Peregrine.
"Unless
you want to get tossed into space, I'd advise scooting on back to your own ship and leaving us to our business."
This was, evidently, enough to scare the bandits off. "Kind of a terrible bandit," muttered Peregrine.
It was at that moment that June and Chi, the latter of which looked like he needed a good 300 cups of coffee, arrived in the engine room. "You ok?" Asked June. "I'm not seeing any bandits.
"Yeah, I managed to drive them off. The cowardly type, somethin like that."
"Well, that's good. Now, uh, let's try to get the backup engine up and running so we don't crash within the hour."
"Good plan," said Chi, audibly tired. "I just woke up, but in a bit I'll, I'll fix the main engine.
"Sounds fine to me," said Peregrine, "just make sure that's, uh, before we crash."
"Yep," muttered Chi. At this point, Peregrine decided she might as well get Chi a cup of coffee, otherwise nothing was going to ever get done.
So who is Peregrine? A spacefarer, a terraformer, a bit of a terrible person, and even on occasions, a hero.
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