Location: The Momentum
Notable Equipment: Jedi armour, various items
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Sakadi Marathi Sinvala
Taliya Kassell
Elryn Freestar
Mathieu Brion
Yenna
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Training with the Soler Navah meant that his capacities within the realm of force based sense was particularly honed. But even Mathieu's senses weren't as sharp as those of the Jedi Master. A creeping sense of danger did enter his mind but it was far too vague to act on. His eyes darted to the Lavender hand as it reached for the hyperspace controls. For the briefest of moments, he wanted to question Sakadi's sanity. Of course they would be in danger if she was going to pull daredevil stunts from the co-pilot's seat. Instead of focusing on her, however, he shifted his attention to the ship controls. If she wanted them all dead - they didn't stand much of a chance now that she were already at the controls. All he could do was to trust in her like he always had and try to make the best out of the situation.
When they exited hyperspace, he realised why she had done what she did as they raced towards an asteroid belt far in the distance. Still rocketing towards it at a furious pace, he followed her suggestion and pulled his own controls far back and to the side. Mathieu always liked joyrides. He liked the feeling of racing forth at a high speed with the power that only a starship could offer pushing him forth. He liked to think that he was good at staying calm and collected in those situations - that he was a responsible pilot and that he didn't put anyone in danger. This, however, caused his heart to race and adrenaline to pump. Before they stabilised or crashed it was impossible to tell whether they'd survive or not. Regardless, they wouldn't have to wait for long before the destination was reached.
Fortunately - they did stabilise. Albeit with an ugly impact against a rock in the planet's belt. A sigh of relief was neither appropriate nor something which he could afford as he focused fully on ensuring that they didn't die. Mathieu did take evasive manoeuvres and tried to align the ship with the direction of the flow of the outer part of the asteroid belt. It was the only advantage of being in the belt rather than the debris field outside of it - the belt was more predictable. Still, danger was only the beginning of the description of what they were doing.
It wouldn't be long before Sakadi left after mentioning the destabilised Coaxium. Mathieu didn't bother looking to the panel to confirm what she conveyed. Instead, he concentrated on not being smashed by the spacerocks which he desperately had them weave between while looking for an opportunity to 'switch lanes' and bring them closer towards the planet's surface.
There was a shift when Eleven took the co-pilots seat. He made expert use of the secondary systems which gave Mathieu the chance to catch his breath. It even gave him time to realise what was going on. The Kiffar was way too young to be this skilled at piloting which meant that the force had to be with him. And perhaps that he had inherited some of Cassie's capacities. If the situation had been less pressed, nostalgia would have surfaced but instead, his focus remained on their survival.
It was becoming increasingly evident that Eleven was doing the heavy lifting. Muscle memory, intuition - they boy had both and it sure appeared to make up for his lack of experience and training.
"Passing the controls to you" he said, giving the boy a bit of a warning before he flicked a switch by the pilot's controls which disabled his own control of the steering of the ship - two people controlling a vessel in a situation like this was bound to end in disaster. They needed their most adept pilot to do the actual piloting and in this case, that was El.
"Ship is yours" he spoke quickly while shifting his attention.
For Star Destroyers and other massive ships, blasting asteroids before collision was a viable strategy. For a small freighter without the same massive armour and shields, it was simply suicidal since the massive amounts of smaller debris that would stem from it would pose a much greater threat than one single avoidable piece. With that, Mathieu redirected power from the ship's weapon's systems to its shields to make them slightly less vulnerable.
Knowing that a certain degree of tampering would be needed in order to stabilise the Coaxium, he took measures to isolate it from the ship's main energy grid in order to minimise the risk for sudden, uncontrollable and unexpected bursts which could affect Eleven's control of the vessel. He pressed a button and spoke over the ship-wide intercomms
"Coaxium has been isolated" he trusted Sakadi to get the gist of what he was saying.
His work never seemed to end as he soon spotted the two asteroids which the Clone undoubtedly wanted to squeeze between. In Mathieu's eyes, it looked a bit too narrow. And the fact that they seemed to be spinning made as they made their way around the planet made the idea even more risky.
"Girls" he said, long since having released the intercom button ensuring that it would be clear that he spoke to Yenna and Taliya.
"High ask, but try to slow those asteroid's spinning down when we go through." It was a high ask indeed - for the two objects were rather massive and moving at a high speed - just like them. Still, if anything could be done to up their chances of survival, it needed to be done.
Finally, his focus went to Eleven. At first, the necessary information that the force and cloning might not bring
"Don't push her too hard before the Coaxium is stabilised." He had talked with some sense of authority so far - perhaps he had been hanging around on Chaussidier's bridge for too long and lead a few missions too many. But now, for this last bit, his tone softened. He was speaking to a friend. Or, at least his friend's spiritual successor. It was the one who was truly going to be put to the test
"Relax. Believe in yourself. Trust in the force. I have faith in you."