Audacious Space Traders
1st Opening: TRY UNITE! by Samia Rankajima (Megumi Nakajima)
“Definitely, my Crest Eagle is much faster with Samia Rankajima!” Kaelis cheered with glee as he pushed the freighter through a loop-the-loop, surfing the rainbow-tipped subspace waves as he went. A nudge to the left as the music grooved on; and the Crest Eagle barrelled away from a gravo-spatial blip caused by a passing star in real space.
“The girl in the orange jersey is amazing,” Kaelis sang along at the top of his voice as the avatar morphed costume to green skin-tights.
“When she takes it off, she can become anything.”
The navigational computers making recommendations, Kaelis put Crest Eagle through more fancy flying, and yet never straying from the calculated safe path.
“In search of her precious feelings, she can dive to the bottom of the sea.”
The Crest Eagle nosed down as her pilot looked up, admiring the other Crest Eagle reflected in the randomly-colored event horizon Kaelis was blitzing past.
“The surge of her emotion can turn the opposition to mist!”
[Lovely, lovely...]
This leg of the journey corresponded with a rough patch of stars in real space, a plotted route in hyperspace lancing straight through several nebuli. It was the equivalent of trying to shoot through layers of swiss cheese, the Crest Eagle was the bullet as the space folded by several points of intense gravity wells created the walls. Sometimes the alleys got so small, there’d only be meters of clearance on all sides. A tiny graze would smash the ship and its contents into quarks; only a lunatic would fly through rather than around here, let alone do it manually.
But Kaelis always was crazy. And when he’s got Samia in his ears, he’d do anything...
“Complete!” The young Binville cheered together with the holo idol as the Crest Eagle blasted free into wider hyperspace – a relatively empty patch in real space.
[Live your life! Rewrite destiny and soar!]
“Fly... away! Oh and fly... today!”
Kaelis sang while letting go of the flight stick and letting Crest Eagle coast dead center of the rippling tunnel. He spread his arms wide as he did like a gliding falcon, imagining that there was nothing around him, just him, his wings and space-sheering speed. All that running, shooting, retrieving, hacking, it was to pay for this scenary.
All Kaelis ever wanted to do was to fly faster, higher, and further than ever imagined.
[If its dangerous to laugh at your foes as you advance...]
“Now this is living eh, Jumbo?”
His expressionless friend kept mute while observing the raving colours before him, arms crossed over chest and safety harness. Kaelis kept his grin as he resumed control. Clearly, Jumbo was enjoying himself too.
[Burn brighter and,]
“Fly... away!” Kaelis and holo-Samia chorused together.
“Try unite! Tonight!”
As the music died down, the navicom beep a tune and throttle down on the motivator. Space around the freighter slowed its throb and straightened into star-speckled black as the Crest Eagle darted back into real space with that dull whomp.
[Lovely, lovely...]
As the blue sphere of Tau Ceti’s Morningstar filled his view, Kaelis rubbed his hands together with glee.
“Time to collect the booty!”