[Luke laughs, still joyful.] We won't catch on fire! [If they die today, it'll be from a crash, duh.]
[Luke begins depowering the repulsorlifts, trying to get them some momentum from the drop and pull of Amissis-Re's natural gravity wells. The reason why speed matters in space is because you can't use gravity to cheat and go faster; you're only as good as your engines. Planetside, though, you're really only as good as your breaks. You can freefall forever, but if you can't stop, well...]
[Luke has crashed plenty of skyhoppers that way. Which is to say: Luke is no adrenaline junkie. Speed is his choice devotion, though. He swings the carrier left, right, left again-- familiar motions from the speeder on Tatooine, since the idea's roughly the same-- and eventually gets enough momentum to spin them upside down. They're close enough to the clouds that they disappear within them for half the loop, and everything goes shadowed and grey.]
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[Luke begins depowering the repulsorlifts, trying to get them some momentum from the drop and pull of Amissis-Re's natural gravity wells. The reason why speed matters in space is because you can't use gravity to cheat and go faster; you're only as good as your engines. Planetside, though, you're really only as good as your breaks. You can freefall forever, but if you can't stop, well...]
[Luke has crashed plenty of skyhoppers that way. Which is to say: Luke is no adrenaline junkie. Speed is his choice devotion, though. He swings the carrier left, right, left again-- familiar motions from the speeder on Tatooine, since the idea's roughly the same-- and eventually gets enough momentum to spin them upside down. They're close enough to the clouds that they disappear within them for half the loop, and everything goes shadowed and grey.]