09-06-2015, 04:40 AM
In twenty minutes, she had moved through at least twenty buildings. It was impossible for her to understand the prices of everything, more so the reasons why all these things existed in the first place. Well, aside food, food was always a nessecary contribution to life, and shelter, with these two thoughts running through her mind there was a settling in panic. Where was she going to sleep? More precisely, how was she going to find such a place? This Tier was coated in rich, advanced skyscrapers, to her mind that meant expensive, prices she wouldn't be able to meet in a years worth of money back in her origin universe. And how about getting home? She was still alone in this universe. with no single idea where to begin.
"A base of operations..." She thought to herself, walking through the crowd. "Too many armed guards watching. I need a place more unknown, less populated...What of the other tiers?" Yes! There were other Tiers, she remembered now, Tier 3, Tier 4, those were places where she could find some abandon warehouse to set up in. Or maybe a room in an abandoned apartment complex, it was perfect. She began to push through the crowd, walking in her own direction with actual inclination to reach a conclusion and to stop asking questions. Confident, she moved up to another one of the maps, seeming more degraded than Tier 1's, but shimmering in the public space with all sorts of buttons to press. With a few odd looks from the public, Tier 3 appeared, and the red lights appeared on the map. She knew just where to go.
But it still wasn't enough. The holographic pictures of Tier 3 were littered with monitoring, less guards on the rooftops for sure, but it wasn't enough for her to find something abandoned. Skipping through, she reached Tier 4, which still had some form of monitoring in place. "This is a police state..." Kalli muttered to herself, coming to recognize the Empire's cameras and soldiers, there was little comfort in the recognition. She clicked on Tier 4 and moved on her way, moving through the crowds and heading into a gritty, abandoned elevator-like room with the sign "Tier 4 Departure" on top. Little people dared approach, and those few whom were around seemed to be stormtroopers at the least.
The elevator doors suddenly sealed, the elevator itself beginning to push downward as the metal grated against metal, it continued to move steadily with the hum of engines outside. After five minutes of waiting inside the elevator, the doors opened once more, revealing a landing pad crowded with arrivals and those who were leaving. Vehicles lifted off, others landing, some big, some small, others painted in graffiti. There were tunnels ahead, holes in the ground as well, leading downward. The entire place seemed to be nearly in another dimension, surrounded by smoke and black, with the wall across from the pads and elevators leading to hundreds of tunnels. Metal, steel, puffs of factory smoke, was it even safe to breathe?
"Tier 4, leaving for Tier 4! You, you called down the elevator, get on in." The yellow vehicle hovered, the driver a man in his fourties, looking irritated and tired. The door next to him opened, motioning to Kalli to enter. "I don't got all day." He yelled out, the hum of engines somehow not drowning out his nearly raspy voice. Kalli hesitantly approached as the man grumbled, the door soon closed as she entered and the man pulled a lever, turned a dial and pressed a few buttons in what Kalli could only see as a random order. The air blew into their faces and the vehicle was off, suddenly blasting down oen of the tunnels, taking a downward spiral, moving up, taking another downward movement...
"I have no idea why you're going to Tier 4, but seeing as you look confused as hell, I'm not surprised if you don't have any credits to pay me with." Other vehicles screamed past, driving around in the tunnels, Kalli staring at them baffled at how there wasn't any collision before talking to the driver. "I don't have any credits, and what do you mean by "hell"?" the question only irritated the man further, but he didn't show it, taking the Prime as a pitiful soul. "Well then I get paid enough to drive through this shithole...Right, I've met your kind before, Prime right? Fresh out of the water? New fish to the scene? Well lemme describe something to you. Coruscant is a horrid place."
The car suddenly took a turn left, passing right under a massive truck-like craft that beeped it's horn. "Stormtroopers shoot you, the gangs shoot you, or you end up died by the lack of shooting. 'Cause you'll only get paid to shoot. I don't know why you're going to Tier 4, but the gangs have a good hold there, fucking killers demanding tax on any land they can grab. You finding a place to settle down and die?" The man finally finished, asking while looking through the window of his taxi-like craft with a plan expression. The tunnel growing slightly dimmer as they began to pass degraded signs saying "Tier 4" on them. "I'm looking for a place to hide, somewhere to call home here." Kalli replied plainly, looking out the window with a worrisome expression.
The man laughed, taking out a rolled up paper with one hand on the wheel. Putting the paper in his mouth, he used the off-wheel hand to grab a lighter, lighting it, and blowing a stream of smoke out the window before putting both hands on the wheel again. "You're gonna' find a lot of good real estate...That is sarcasm by the way, in case you didn't know. Anyways, you know what I suggest? Find a place called the East Sign Bar, cute little thing in the midst of all the hell. Mm, good drinks too, but they'll probably drop something in yours to kill ya'. If they don't kill you, well...Lets just say I wouldn't want a body like yours." The craft started to speed up, the dial behind the wheel flickering as a door began to open at the end of the tunnel, vehicles nowhere to be seen.
"Here comes Tier 4, the projections in the sky show a night time, at ALL times. Again, don't trust the bartenders." The vehicle began to slow down, slipping through the opening gate and revealing Tier 4. The night letting the neon signs and old buildings show themselves, windows lit with yellow lighting, flickering with shadows of people. "Why should I trust you?" Kalli asked, looking at the man as he vehicle began to move toward a landing pad above an abandoned alleyway.
"You shouldn't. I'm just giving you some ideas on where to go. Now get out of my car before your feathers start flying everywhere." The craft hit with a 'thunk' on the metal pad, the door suddenly opening. Kalli got out, sighing as she smelled the rotten air and hearing the distant gunshots, a camera from the Empire focusing in on her as she began to move. The car behind her suddenly lifted off, flying away into the night sky, disappearing into the wall's many tunnels.
"A base of operations..." She thought to herself, walking through the crowd. "Too many armed guards watching. I need a place more unknown, less populated...What of the other tiers?" Yes! There were other Tiers, she remembered now, Tier 3, Tier 4, those were places where she could find some abandon warehouse to set up in. Or maybe a room in an abandoned apartment complex, it was perfect. She began to push through the crowd, walking in her own direction with actual inclination to reach a conclusion and to stop asking questions. Confident, she moved up to another one of the maps, seeming more degraded than Tier 1's, but shimmering in the public space with all sorts of buttons to press. With a few odd looks from the public, Tier 3 appeared, and the red lights appeared on the map. She knew just where to go.
But it still wasn't enough. The holographic pictures of Tier 3 were littered with monitoring, less guards on the rooftops for sure, but it wasn't enough for her to find something abandoned. Skipping through, she reached Tier 4, which still had some form of monitoring in place. "This is a police state..." Kalli muttered to herself, coming to recognize the Empire's cameras and soldiers, there was little comfort in the recognition. She clicked on Tier 4 and moved on her way, moving through the crowds and heading into a gritty, abandoned elevator-like room with the sign "Tier 4 Departure" on top. Little people dared approach, and those few whom were around seemed to be stormtroopers at the least.
The elevator doors suddenly sealed, the elevator itself beginning to push downward as the metal grated against metal, it continued to move steadily with the hum of engines outside. After five minutes of waiting inside the elevator, the doors opened once more, revealing a landing pad crowded with arrivals and those who were leaving. Vehicles lifted off, others landing, some big, some small, others painted in graffiti. There were tunnels ahead, holes in the ground as well, leading downward. The entire place seemed to be nearly in another dimension, surrounded by smoke and black, with the wall across from the pads and elevators leading to hundreds of tunnels. Metal, steel, puffs of factory smoke, was it even safe to breathe?
"Tier 4, leaving for Tier 4! You, you called down the elevator, get on in." The yellow vehicle hovered, the driver a man in his fourties, looking irritated and tired. The door next to him opened, motioning to Kalli to enter. "I don't got all day." He yelled out, the hum of engines somehow not drowning out his nearly raspy voice. Kalli hesitantly approached as the man grumbled, the door soon closed as she entered and the man pulled a lever, turned a dial and pressed a few buttons in what Kalli could only see as a random order. The air blew into their faces and the vehicle was off, suddenly blasting down oen of the tunnels, taking a downward spiral, moving up, taking another downward movement...
"I have no idea why you're going to Tier 4, but seeing as you look confused as hell, I'm not surprised if you don't have any credits to pay me with." Other vehicles screamed past, driving around in the tunnels, Kalli staring at them baffled at how there wasn't any collision before talking to the driver. "I don't have any credits, and what do you mean by "hell"?" the question only irritated the man further, but he didn't show it, taking the Prime as a pitiful soul. "Well then I get paid enough to drive through this shithole...Right, I've met your kind before, Prime right? Fresh out of the water? New fish to the scene? Well lemme describe something to you. Coruscant is a horrid place."
The car suddenly took a turn left, passing right under a massive truck-like craft that beeped it's horn. "Stormtroopers shoot you, the gangs shoot you, or you end up died by the lack of shooting. 'Cause you'll only get paid to shoot. I don't know why you're going to Tier 4, but the gangs have a good hold there, fucking killers demanding tax on any land they can grab. You finding a place to settle down and die?" The man finally finished, asking while looking through the window of his taxi-like craft with a plan expression. The tunnel growing slightly dimmer as they began to pass degraded signs saying "Tier 4" on them. "I'm looking for a place to hide, somewhere to call home here." Kalli replied plainly, looking out the window with a worrisome expression.
The man laughed, taking out a rolled up paper with one hand on the wheel. Putting the paper in his mouth, he used the off-wheel hand to grab a lighter, lighting it, and blowing a stream of smoke out the window before putting both hands on the wheel again. "You're gonna' find a lot of good real estate...That is sarcasm by the way, in case you didn't know. Anyways, you know what I suggest? Find a place called the East Sign Bar, cute little thing in the midst of all the hell. Mm, good drinks too, but they'll probably drop something in yours to kill ya'. If they don't kill you, well...Lets just say I wouldn't want a body like yours." The craft started to speed up, the dial behind the wheel flickering as a door began to open at the end of the tunnel, vehicles nowhere to be seen.
"Here comes Tier 4, the projections in the sky show a night time, at ALL times. Again, don't trust the bartenders." The vehicle began to slow down, slipping through the opening gate and revealing Tier 4. The night letting the neon signs and old buildings show themselves, windows lit with yellow lighting, flickering with shadows of people. "Why should I trust you?" Kalli asked, looking at the man as he vehicle began to move toward a landing pad above an abandoned alleyway.
"You shouldn't. I'm just giving you some ideas on where to go. Now get out of my car before your feathers start flying everywhere." The craft hit with a 'thunk' on the metal pad, the door suddenly opening. Kalli got out, sighing as she smelled the rotten air and hearing the distant gunshots, a camera from the Empire focusing in on her as she began to move. The car behind her suddenly lifted off, flying away into the night sky, disappearing into the wall's many tunnels.