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Welcome to Coruscant! [Friday morning into Saturday afternoon]

Anakin couldn't stop a smile from crossing his face as the Temple transport flew closer to their final destination.

When the planet finally came into view, he called the flight students to look out the window.

"Welcome to Coruscant," he said, pointing. "We'll be landing in a few minutes. Strap yourselves in, please."

[OOC: ~~Oh, the OCD has barely begun, my friends...~~ Play away! Coruscant and it's merry minions are open through Friday for your convenience...]

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Zero-gravity canyon run exercise in manuverability. The weapons are turned off for this. An average pilot can get through it in ten minutes.

A Jedi can do it in seven.

Anakin set the course record at five and a half.

Marie wasn't interested in dying in a spaceship crash on another planet. That would be really hard to explain to her parents.

It took her about 16 minutes to complete the run.

"Nice work," Anakin praised.

Jude was very, very nervous. Simulations were good, but they were like video games. They can be reset if you crash. This . . . well, he would be reset if you believed in that reincarnation stuff. Needless to say, he wasn't on the top of his form and cleared the course a hair under ten minutes and by the end his hands were going to be hard to detach from the controls.

"Nicely done," Anakin said, his pleasure evident through the transmission.

This was what Peter had been waiting for. With a real ship in a real run, his spider-sense was active. Combined with his enhanced reflexes, he'd probably be able to manage this well.

And sure enough, he managed the exercise in just over ten minutes. Ten wild minutes where he nearly crashed a half dozen times. But almost doesn't count.

Anakin let out a low whistle. "You fly like me," he said. "I think there are a couple of Jedi with grayer hair now than when we took off." He laughed. "Good job."

"Thank you," Peter said proudly. "It comes from only having a vague idea of what I'm doing when I'm doing it and relying on my refflexes to keep me alive. That's worked out for me so far, so why change a winning formula?"

Anakin laughed harder. "That's exactly how I do it, too," he said.

Zack...didn't crash.

Sure the paint on the fighter was horribly, horribly scratched. But he didn't crash.

Anakin let out a slightly shaky laugh. "Cutting it close there, weren't you?" he asked.

Taking off his gloves before starting the course, Bridge manages to finish in just over nine minutes.

"Good job," Anakin said with a small smile. Not that Bridge would be able to tell that because of the comlink and the slightly vast amount of space between them.

Enhanced senses and reflexes, combined with the excitement of flying in space for the first time, meant that Alec sped through the course in a little over six minutes.

If he'd been grinning any larger, he might have hurt something.

Anakin let out a low whistle. "Careful, there, Alec," he teased. "The Jedi might not let you go home--you've just managed to beat most of them on their own course."

"Hey, they've still got you," Alec said, smirking. "I'm just making the most of this, since it's a one-off"

Anakin was quiet for a moment. "Yeah, they'll get me back in a few weeks. Until then, they'll have to suck it up."

Anakin couldn't resist any longer. He was in a non-simulator and he hadn't gotten to do any real flying in months.

He raced through the course, spinning, weaving and coming within centimeters of scraping the sides of the ship.

When he reached the other side, he was five seconds over his course record.

He gave a satisfied grin. That had felt great.

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