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readingredhead ([personal profile] readingredhead) wrote2006-11-07 06:27 am
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Stuck...

Okay, so I'm writing this for me to understand how I want the next part of my story to go down, as they say. Kes is onboard a shuttle meant to take her to her friend who's already up at college. But the shuttle's going to get taken over by "space pirates." My problem? I don't know why these people are hijacking a silly little insystem shuttle which has to travel in real space and time because it doesn't have a warp drive anyway! But, here's a list of ideas...

--- the hijackers are stupid and don't realize that the shuttle lacks a warp drive -- their effort to take over the ship is just really inept.
--- they're terrorists
--- they're representatives of one side of a planetary civil war being fought elsewhere -- they hijack the ship because the leader of their opposition is going to be onboard and they want him dead or as a hostage
--- they're doing like pirates used to do -- take all the money and run
--- they are just about as out of ideas as I am

On a (probably) unrelated note, my left lower eyelid has been twitching for the last few weeks.

[identity profile] comment5.livejournal.com 2006-11-07 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
+1 for inept space pirates.

Argh!

[identity profile] cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com 2006-11-07 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Or maybe they want Kes. Kes' parents are movie stars, right? (Maybe I'm dillusional). Or maybe Kes has something in her blood/ something special about her that she doesn't know yet.

[identity profile] readingredhead.livejournal.com 2006-11-07 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
*That* would be pretty sweet, but I think it comes in later -- right now, no one knows that she's gone yet, so no one's looking for her. Maybe in the future of the story, though.

[identity profile] cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm...