"I have no love of wood paneling," Lumi said wryly.
He clicked on a few of the buttons, as natural as a typist, long fingers moving deftly and precisely over the foreign keyboard. Menus, each arranged in full colour instead of the usual burning green lettering on black sped by, until he clicked into a section he knew to be maps. It took seconds, but that was both practice and being able to read it all.
"Here," he said, indicating a strangely blank part of the console with one hand and pressing a command with the other. It took a second or two, but a three dimensional map appeared there, shimmering and unaffected by the regular ambient light in the cockpit.
"It's rather detailed," he said, quite needlessly. That much was obvious. It wasn't a mere wire vaguery of a place, it was a fully three dimensional map. It showed hills and valleys, rock formations, a winding river and even strange tree-like structures. "I don't know where it refers to, however. The topography is unrecognisable."
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Date: 2019-05-13 09:13 pm (UTC)He clicked on a few of the buttons, as natural as a typist, long fingers moving deftly and precisely over the foreign keyboard. Menus, each arranged in full colour instead of the usual burning green lettering on black sped by, until he clicked into a section he knew to be maps. It took seconds, but that was both practice and being able to read it all.
"Here," he said, indicating a strangely blank part of the console with one hand and pressing a command with the other. It took a second or two, but a three dimensional map appeared there, shimmering and unaffected by the regular ambient light in the cockpit.
"It's rather detailed," he said, quite needlessly. That much was obvious. It wasn't a mere wire vaguery of a place, it was a fully three dimensional map. It showed hills and valleys, rock formations, a winding river and even strange tree-like structures. "I don't know where it refers to, however. The topography is unrecognisable."