#❮ thread: au!dt001 ❯

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date & time: au! matrix with: @curiouscalculations where: somewhere in open space

Stars peer from the window, the vastness of the sky jumping out in front of them -- where there was once static, there is now clearless. Eliana tightens her grip on the controls, ready to fight or flight should they encounter enemy forces, but with no one on sight, she lets go. There is no one, nothing around. It’s just her, the stars and the planet below them.

And, of course, DATA. “We’re clear.” She speaks to the microphone and sets the ship on auto-pilot, a piece of metal looming in the open. Finally, she leaves the control room and walks to meet her Android, the only company she can rely on when she’s this far away from home and land. And yet, he is just an Android, no matter how much she sometimes forgets it, no matter how much she wishes that was not all he was.

“Do you have the mission plans?” She looks him in the eye, partially as an habit, partially to see if the hue of his synthetic eyes changed at all since last time, before dismissing that thought altogether. If there was something there, it was out of reach, at least for now, and now wasn’t the time to dive into philosophical debates. They had a mission to do. “Let’s go over them one more time.”