<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/T646hbe.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Shassaa Til<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Hangar, Cockpit<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong><br/><strong>Actions (Combat only)</strong>:<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>NA<br/><strong>Wearing: </strong>Flight suit and adapted helmet<br/><br/>The time to launch was upon them Shaassa had spent an hour making sure everything was in order with her new ship, which was probably more than it required. The ship had seen some use, but it was otherwise in good order. She walked around and underneath the Y-Wing, grabbing and shaking parts to check that they were properly attached and rubbing the underbelly of its hull as she walked underneath it. Satisfied, she climbed the ladder and settled down into the pilot's seat, fastening her seatbelt around her before completing her final checklist, shared between herself and the astromech that was assigned to her. After a lengthy exchanged with the droid - it's beeps and boops translated for her on a screen on the ship's control panel - , the ship was ready to launch.<br/><br/>Shaasa bit her lip and cracked her knuckles. She wouldn't admit to being nervous to her new teammates, but it was still her fist mission in the Grey Squadron, and she had the double concern of not getting blown out of the sky and actually performing her part of the mission.<br/><br/>Behind her seat, a blaster carbine as well as her DL-44 in its holster were stashed in the equipment box. She would need those once they landed. She wasn't exactly a soldier - that was never a focus of her training, but the Rebellion didn't have the luxury of having highly specialized personnel, and she knew she would have to pull her weight (light as it was) in the boarding action as well, something she was not looking forward to nearly as much as flying with her comrades.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=310769.msg15163578#msg15163578">Quote from: BlackStone on 12-11-2019, 21:34:40</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> <strong><em>"Grey Squadron, this is </em>Vanguard<em> Actual, you are cleared to launch."</em></strong>.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Shassaa had to force herself to take a deep breath when the order to launch came, as her nerves had briefly gotten the better of her but as soon as it was her turn to launch, what amounted to stage fright disappeared and she punched the required commands into her control panel, causing the Y-Wing to lift itself from the hangar floor, turn, then hover towards the vacuum of space as the landing gear retraced into the hull of her ship. Soon, she crossed the containment field keeping the hangar pressurized and at last, as she thought, she was in space.<br/><br/>She made no effort to repress a smile when the blackness and stars surrounded her, but she quickly regained her focus to keep her starfighter in formation with her squadron as they flew towards their objective.