It is, actually. We used to call them hyperdrives, so the term isn't entirely unfamiliar to me.
[ He's also heard Poe and other people refer to it by that term, so he's all the more used to it around here. ]
Yeah, I get what you mean. [ He nods. It's not often he gets to fly a shuttle either, though he'd wager a guess and say he did it a little more often than Hux, before coming here that is. Here, he does it every week, almost every day. ] Well, if you feel like giving it a try while we're out there, just let me know.
[ For now, he revs up the engines once they're both securely strapped in, opening the shuttle bay doors and flying the shuttle past them at a slow speed at first. With the inertial dampeners online, though, Hux shouldn't feel any acceleration, even when he does pick up speed eventually. ]
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[ He's also heard Poe and other people refer to it by that term, so he's all the more used to it around here. ]
Yeah, I get what you mean. [ He nods. It's not often he gets to fly a shuttle either, though he'd wager a guess and say he did it a little more often than Hux, before coming here that is. Here, he does it every week, almost every day. ] Well, if you feel like giving it a try while we're out there, just let me know.
[ For now, he revs up the engines once they're both securely strapped in, opening the shuttle bay doors and flying the shuttle past them at a slow speed at first. With the inertial dampeners online, though, Hux shouldn't feel any acceleration, even when he does pick up speed eventually. ]