Difference between revisions of "Summary:Starsight"

[[Spensa]] enters the [[nowhere]], and sees the eyes, but they aren't staring at her, they're staring at whatever is screaming and not her. She comes to back in her flight's room on board the [[Weights and Measures]], and she and her flight leave and head to a dock where their boxy starfighters[[starfighter]]s await. She looks out the window to see a polyhedral megastructure the size of a space station, which [[Winzik]] refers to as a human-built [[delver]] maze. The flight gets in their starfighters, stark white triangular wedges of steel designed for flying in the vacuum of space, as well as the larger kitsen battleship. Spensa, [[Morriumur]], and [[Brade]] receive interceptors while [[Vapor]] pilots a sniper and the [[kitsen]] have a larger battleship with stations for the whole crew. Spensa suggests that Vapor should be flightleader and she leads the flight through a preflight checklist and a couple of basic maneuvers. After this, Winzik comes on over the general line and projects and animated video, overaccompanied by 200 year old footage of the pilots'[[Acumidian screens(createddelver]] bydestroying the Superiority'splanet many[[Farhaven]], animatorsover andthe graphicpilots' designers)screens to show the pilotsthem what they can expect from a delver itself, as little is known about the delver maze, accompanied by 200 year old footage of the [[Acumidian delver]] destroying the planet [[Farhaven]]. The video ends, and Vapor informs the flight they've been instructed to head to certain coordinates and await their turn in the maze.

[[Vapor]] leads Flight[[Flowers Fifteenof throughNight's Last Kiss Flight]] towards the [[delver]] maze at a slow pace, explaining that the drones have been repurposed to throw themselves at pilots to imitate the flying rocks present in a real delver maze. The flight heads into a room with a couple drones,; [[Brade]] zooms ahead to try to deal with them herself, [[Morriumur]] shoots wildly at them, [[Hesho]] and his crew are relatively OKokay, but Vapor is distracted giving orders to the crew instead of picking off stragglers, and [[Spensa]] is accidentally shot at by Morriumur. Spensa patches through to Vapor via a private comm line and tells her that the flight need to work on the fundamentals of flying as a unit, so Vapor appoints her as assistant flightleader and tells her to carry out the drills, as she has clear military experience. Spensa berates the flight for their mistakes and incohesiveness in a way that would have made [[Cobb]] proud and orders them to undergo fundamental flight formation exercises for the rest of the day. During a break, Vapor asks Spenaa if she wants to join her on an expedition through the delver maze without the drones turned on, just the two of them, the more rational pilots in the flight.

[[Vapor]] and [[Spensa]] enter the [[delver]] maze, with deactivated drones, and they reach a large chamber with writing on the wall. Flight Command informs them it is a copy of the pictures pilots who have really been inside delver mazes have taken. Spensa realizes she recognizes the writing, she saw it on the crashing [[C-137-KJM orbital shipyard|shipyard]] back on Detritus, which [[M-Bot]] told her washad an [[C-137-KJM orbital shipyard| orbital shipyard]] with "added delver training facility." Flight Command asks Vapor and Spensa if they want to turn on some of the other functions of the delver maze, namely the hallucinations, which are projected on the canopies of their ships. Spena and Vapor consent, and they begin telling each other what they see so they can determine what is and isn't real. At one point deeper into the maze, Spensa sees a shadow in the corner of her vision and asks Vapor if she saw it. Vapor says yes, which means they aren't alone, so Spensa asks Flight Command what's going on. Flight Command tells them they are still learning about the facility themselves, as it was the humans who built it, so they don't know all the goingdetails onsof insidehow the maze and there well and truly could be something inside the maze with themworks. This creepsspooks Spensa out, so she convinces Vapor to head back to the rest of the flight with her. On their way back, Spensa sees herself, Spensa, not [[Alanik]], reflected in the metallic eall of the maze and momentarily enters the [[nowhere]].