@Taricus: "Kraahk yeah!"
*Opens up the landing ramp via remote.*
"Well, here goes nothing!"
*Walks up the ramp.*
"It's just like I remember it!"
*The inside of the ship is moderately roomy for a spacecraft of its size. The ramp leads up into a basic cargo hold, with a bulkhead at the far end.*
*Walks over to bulkhead and presses a panel on the wall beside it. The bulkhead opens, and I slip through, going into the rest of the ship.*
*On the other side of the bulkhead is the a short hall which ends in a door which leads to the common room. The walls curve up to the left and the right, and everything that isn't part of the floor is strapped or tied down A ladder in the middle of the floor leads up into the control room for the ship, which consists of a crash couch with various controls in front of it, and a detachable VR helmet designed to fit some kind of alien. I take disconnect the helmet, and opening a hatch in the wall, rummage around for a while. I pull out one designed to fit my head, and plug it in. I place the alien helmet into the wall opening.*
"Well, Let's get going!"
*Sits in the crash couch and straps myself in, puts on the helmet, and starts using the control console. There's the an almost imperceptable hum as the toroidal habital portion of the ship starts spinning. The ship slowly lifts off the ground, and starts accelerating.*
"You may want to get back to the common room. This is going to be a little bumpy, and once the drum gets spun up, it's gonna be a little disorienting to move from Zero-G to 0.5 Gs"
*Starts speaking in some dialect of Torikan, apparently getting clearance for the surface-to-orbit launch.*
((The Obsidian produces artificial gravity the same way the discovery did in 2001: a Space Oddyssey, by spinning a portion of the ship to produce centripetal force.))