[quote=@Thanqol]"That is a complicated question," the Shogun mused. "Back when I was growing up the stars were mythical spirits that revolved around the earth at the will of the gods. Flight was something reserved for birds and arrows. But then I extended that privilege to musket balls and now I'm here, about to be consumed by the unthinkable conclusion of the forces I set in motion on that day. I... am having trouble getting all of that into a haiku. Maybe it's short sighted of me to hold onto haiku at all. Maybe the same process of technology has ruined poetry for me as well..." she drifts off, voice meandering and melancholy.

Then her eyes shift. "Actually," she says, looking you in a kind of sideways way where she's avoiding exact eye contact. "How far are we going into space? Just hypothetically. Does our orbital trajectory take us past Elysium Spire? You know, the incredibly exclusive luxury resort orbital?"[/quote]

"I think we're pretty close to it at the apotheosis of the orbit? Just need to get up about 22km in orbit and rotate the orbit by 3 degrees or so?" She mutters to herself, going through math as the countdown starts, air container sliding up to rest next to the Shogun.