Jumping

"So why are we already in the shuttle?" Sofia's voice appeared in Parsus's mind, he shrugged for an answer, moving his entire combat gear with that motion. "They said we needed to do a fast incursion before the ground forces can lock on us" he said to her through his ARPC, one of its neatest features was the ability to instantly communicate with anyone regardless of where they are in the universe, the only downside was that each commander was aware of what his or her subordinates we talking about, so it wasn't absolutely private conversations. "I think it's a bit of an overkill with the EMP more than negating and ground to space defenses" Sofia said, "But that's not what I mean, why are we in the shuttles already before the Hyperspace jump?", Parsus turned around to look at her, Sofia was a couple of rows behind him, strapped to her place next to Hendrick, he gave her his best I don't know look, in response to which she smiled. "Sofia, Parsus, stop worrying your pretty little heads over this, and go through the mission's phases again, it will do you much better than talking about the command's decisions" Aethelred's voice appeared in their heads, as their Sergeant she was fully aware of their conversation. "Yes ma'am" Parsus replied. But then Sofia continued, now addressing the Sergeant "Athel, don't you think it's odd, the only way those on the ground can hurt us is by calling us names. Their weapons are ineffective against this plate of armour" she said, tapping the breast piece of her armour. "Sofia, you should never underestimate you enemy, I thought it's the first lesson you learn in basic training" came a fourth voice, belonging to their platoon leader, Lt. Freya.

"I'm Fleet-Born, ma'am, the first thing we learn is how not to shit ourselves while trying to do something else." Sofia replied boldly to the platoon leader. "Sofia, I suggest if you don't want to find yourself in the vacuum of space as soon as we begin the drop, you'll find Parsus's example and shut up" said an angrily voice belonging to Aethelred. Sofia's boldness on the other hand, was a hard thing to suppress "It's just my thoughts, I just can't stand the idea of being here during the jump. Jumps make me feel to weird." she responded. "I mean what the fuck is Hyperspace, why is everything so weird when we do the jumps?" She asked. "I doubt you'll get the mathematical background behind this" Freya answered her. "Basically we're moving through a higher dimension that brings the point we're jumping from closer to the point we're jumping to. Everything is distorted because it is distorted, the lower dimensions look funky in higher dimensions, think looking at a circle drawn on a paper, if you change the angle you're looking at it, it will become distorted for each time frame you continue to change your angle of view, that's the plainest way to describe it" Freya said, it was clear this answer didn't satisfy Sofia, but she didn't press it any longer.

"Two minutes to jump" announced the pilot, who happened to be Sara, this made Parsus feel good about the drop, Sara will never let anything bad happen to Hector, who was a row behind Sofia. Parsus sent his brother a See you on the ground message through his ARPC, and waited for the countdown to the jump. As soon as it initialized, he could see his own hand distort and as though appear almost flat. Parsus had hoped he can survive the jump without hurling, he doubted he will succeed.